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1999

★★½ Rewatched 23 May 2025

This is just one of those ones where nothing about it is for me, despite iring the effort and recognizing the time it came out. Lots of dodgy late 90’s CG, awful awful, *broad* jokes that I could guess while they were happening, basically no surprises at all for me. But the adventure genre is probably the number one hardest to pull off with budget, scope, and writing scripts based on travel and mcguffins. It’s hardly the worst of those,…

2025

★★★½ Liked Watched 19 May 2025

Shining, ecstatic moments of music and design, compelling character actors, sprinkled among an unfocused and slow story. The inciting incident of the film comes much much too late in my opinion, and the fun of a getting the gang together sequence could’ve been truncated without so many scenes that simply gave more information and back story (a real personal peeve of mine in place of good character behavior). 

It’s overstuffed with themes, and I can’t help but feel that if…

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1967

★★★★ Watched 22 Nov 2021

Stoic, patient noir that lingers on the repetition of police procedure and navigating Paris. Really excellently directed, though after a while I crave a real character to cling to instead of a string of hits and evasions.

2006

★★★★ 1

This time around it was a little cute for me- didn’t hit like it did when I was 18, but god damn the Ulrich Mühe performance is one of those deep, soulful ones you only get so often. We lost him too soon. Embodying both the chilling questioner and the man falling in love with art for the first time. One of my all time fave performances.

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