Film reviews

The Big Short: 10.0: Inspirational. The greatest film ever made or ever possible to make. Could not be improved.

The Prestige: 9.8: Inspirational. Love magic. Love twists. Great story.

The Wolf of Wall Street: 9.6: Inspirational. Makes me want to get rich quick.

21: 9.6: Inspirational. Love games & conspiring to cheat at games & getting rich quick.

The Social Network: 9.5: Inspirational. Great music as well. Getting rich quick.

No Country for Old Men: 9.5: Really fun & engaging. Little bit dark.

Moneyball: 9.5: Inspirational. Getting rich quick. Using numbers to beat the experts.

The Martian: 9.4: Overcoming adversity. Space travel.

Into the Wild: 9.3: Very exciting adventure & the ending really touched me.

Apollo 13: 9.3: Overcoming adversity. Space travel.

Four Weddings and a Funeral: 9.1: Funny. Hugh Grant.

Into the Deep: 9.0: Inventor. Submarines. Rockets. A journalist goes missing on his submarine. Turns dark.

Ex Machina: 9.0: Futurology. Sentient AI. Turns dark.

Black Mirror: 9.6: So good.

Captain Phillips: 8.8: Overcoming adversity. Sea travel. Pirates. Tom Hanks.

Last Breath: 8.7: Overcoming adversity. Sea travel.

Looper: 8.7: Mind bending.

Touching the Void: 8.6: Overcoming adversity. Mountaineering.

Free Solo: 8.6: Overcoming adversity. Mountaineering.

Intrusion: 8.5: Psychological thriller.

Prisoners: 8.5: Psychological thriller.

About a Boy: 8.4: Funny. Hugh Grant.

Gravity: 8.4: Overcoming adversity. Space travel.

Yesterday: 8.4: Funny.

Snatch: 8.3: Funny. British gangster film.

The Imitation Game: 8.3: About Alan Turing. Geek has uncomfortable social interactions. Relatable.

Limitless: 8.3: Mind bending.

Inception: 8.2: Mind bending.

Hypnotic: 8.1: Psychological thriller.

Inside Man: 8.0: Very clever. Getting rich quick.

Moon: 7.9: Overcoming adversity. Space travel.

American Psycho: 7.6: Psychological thriller.

Fight Club: 7.5: Mind bending.

Sightless: 7.4: Psychological thriller.

Notting Hill: 7.2: Hugh Grant. Funny.

I Came By: 7.2: Dissatisfying ending.

In Bruges: 7.1: Funny. British gangster film. I can normally watch about half before getting bored.

Love, Actually: 7.0: Hugh Grant.

Sorry to Bother you: 6.1: Enjoyable start. Jumps the shark around the bit where the horse-human hybrids enter the story. Unwatchable towards the end.

Shutter Island: 6.0: Can't remember much about it. Emma said I liked it.

Harry Potter: 5.8: Fun and happy-go-lucky. Too long. Sometimes far-fetched.

The Platform: 4.9: Very fun concept and entertaining first half of the story, but the stuff towards the end about "the girl is the message" and "the cake is the message" makes absolutely no sense. Very dissatisfying ending.

The Theory of Everything: 2.1: The Hawk. Physics. Should be good, but somehow totally boring and unwatchable.

Lord of the Rings: 2.0: Too long and boring. Too many random fight scenes without any reason or storyline. Far-fetched.

Forrest Gump: 1.0: Incredibly far-fetched, nothing of interest.