Reviews of the Bosch

I think we’ve reached a new form of soulless Hollywood reboot -the meta-reboot. Where a movie makes abundantly clear it knows how tired we all are of the schtick and throws a big lampshade over the whole thing to give the impression it is a clever commentary on the reboot machine, but is for all intents and purposes no different from any more commonplace attempt to recycle a brand. The Naked Gun  had a few gags towards this theme, but wisely didn’t make it the entire premise -also it was genuinely very smart and funny. Anaconda  does make it the entire premise, and it is not particularly smart or funny. Anaconda  (1997) was not even ever that beloved a movie to begin with, outside of a cult audience that developed around its B-movie silliness -not unlike Tremors . Though Tremors  actually was aware of what it was -unlike Anaconda which tried to take seriously its schlocky effects and schlockier performances. But I guess come 2025 it was one of the few franchise title...

Marty Mauser is a good ping-pong player. His crippling delusion though is his belief he is the best in the world and that he is spiritually ordained for nothing more in life than to play ping-pong, as he openly expresses to two important women in his life, each of whom crave a little more ambition and foresight out of the determined and egotistical kid -an accurate term given his very immature read of the world and reticence to any kind of responsibility. Before going to the British Open in London, he robs at gunpoint the shoe store he works at for his uncle, for $700 he believes is owed him;  he even tells his co-worker to press charges and get him fired, confident he’ll be able to weather any consequences when he comes back a champion. But fate does not see eye to eye with Marty Supreme. Unlike his brother Benny, who released The Smashing Machine  a few months ago, Josh Safdie has had experience as a solo director, albeit only for his debut film The Pleasure of Being Robbed ...