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Wrath of Man

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  • Title: Wrath of Man
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Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham unite for a by-the-numbers revenge flick. Statham stars as a notorious violent crime lord who takes a job as the new security guard for an armored car company that has been the target of several recent robberies, including one that killed his son. It doesn’t take long for the other members of the company to discover H (Statham) is way overqualified for the job and there’s obviously something more to the story of what he’s doing there (which will be exposed slowly in a series of flashbacks that lead to inevitable questions of how blind everyone working for the company is in not recognizing H).

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Obi-Wan Kenobi – Part V

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  • Title: Obi-Wan Kenobi – Part V
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The writing for Obi-Wan Kenobi reminds me of that of WWE who consistently write themselves into a corner and have to write even worse outcomes to break the downward spiral they’ve trapped themselves in only to later complain they had no choice (other than, you know, not making the initial bad decisions that led them into such untenable situations). For Obi-Wan Kenobi the big takeaway appears to be that lightsabers are far less lethal than we’ve been led to believe. In a move that reeks of desperation after the discovery of a huge timeline mistake, Grand Inquisitor (Rupert Friend) returns. Turns out he’s fine. Lightsaber through the chest? Nah, that’s not enough to keep a good Sith down.

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Halo – Homecoming

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  • Title: Halo – Homecoming
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The appropriately-titled “Homecoming” offers stories of both Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and Kwan (Yerin Ha) returning home. While Kwan discovers she can’t really go home again and the revolution she hoped to rejoin is dead, John makes some discoveries in returning to his childhood home as he leads Dr. Halsey (Natascha McElhone) to the larger artifact. While the artifact is the big find, John’s discovery of meeting Halsey before his parents’ death, something the doctor inelegantly sidesteps when it’s brought up, suggests there is much more hidden about John’s past than has so far been revealed. As for Kwan, that storyline continues to spin its wheels, although hopefully Makee‘s (Charlie Murphy) eventual arrival on Madrigal might help.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi – Part III & Part IV

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  • Title: Obi-Wan Kenobi – Part III & Part IV
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Obi-Wan‘s (Ewan McGregor) somewhat half-assed rescue attempt continues in both “Part III” and “Part IV” which includes the series providing some stunning visuals and small emotional moments while also throwing in even more of the problematic head-scratching plot issues that can’t be resolved. “Part III” is notable for the reunion between Kenobi and Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) who easily bests his former master in combat. In a theme which which will continue into the next episode, we see Kenobi has pulled back from the Force in the decade since we last saw him, leading to much of his former abilities becoming atrophied. This of course raises the question of how exactly he planned to teach young Luke about the Force?

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Jurassic World Dominion

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  • Title: Jurassic World Dominion
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The corpse of the Jurassic Park franchise drags itself to the finish line in what is being marketed as the final entry to the series. Let’s hope so. Only marginally better than the forgettable last entry, 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World Dominion weaves in the surviving characters of the original Jurassic Park in an attempt to blind viewers with nostalgia while failing to do anything all that interesting with them.

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