We're here because of you (The Ritual 2017)

 

 

 

143.

The Ritual

 

 

 

 

7/10

 

 

 

Another Scream Unseen thank to Odeon Cinemas and this horror film is set in Sweden as a group of four friends take a trip to commemorate with fallen friend. It contained only one actor that I knew from 'Green Street' and that's Rafe Spall. I think I seem one trailer on this film before stepping into this experience and it seemed ok but only time will tell. It seems like it could be a cross between 'The Blair Witch Project' and 'Severance'. Will this leave us running for the doors in a good or bad way?

The story itself revolves around 5 lads who are planning another trip away, as they are growing up and living their lives, maybe it's time to stop the drinking trips. Robert fancies doing a walk on the border of Norway and Sweden, for a bonding trip and experience. After they leave the pub, Luke doesn't want the night to end, just as much as he doesn't want to go walking, so fancies popping into the shop for some vodka. Robert follows him in and as they are grabbing a bottle, some armed men are robbing the place, Luke hides and Robert gets confronted and evidently killed, with Luke just cowering. Fast-forward to Luke waking up in a tent, walking outside and the other tents are slowly getting up too. The lads have travelled to Robert's idea of a holiday and lighten a memorial for their friend. None of them are that happy to be freezing and tired but as they head further on, the pathetic friend twists his knee and they need to head back. The walk is too far though the obvious storyline take place. The need to head through the forest because it will be quicker. Bullshit. Nothing is worth going through a forest for. They come across the normal stuff, that a horror film churns out. A deer's body, hanging from the trees, fresh and still bleeding, putting doubt into the gang as to whether to head back the way they came. The leader and only guy who understands the compass, wants them to push on and in the rain and night, they find an abandoned, wooden house. Taking shelter, they aren't too happy when they find symbols carved into the walls. Phil, another friend, heads upstairs and finds a torso made of straw, with antlers for arms. They all instantly think witch. They agree to sleep there for the night anyway and all end up having a nightmare. The leader has one that causes him to piss himself, Luke has one about the night that Robert died, the pathetic friend is found screaming in a corner and Phil is upstairs, praying to the torso. Luke has found a mark on his chest, as if 5 nails had been pierced into him as he slept. Luke had heard all sorts of noises in the dark trees. He hides it from the group and they head out of the cabin to see all of the trees now having markers. Freaking out, the lads a scared and decide to head on a path that they have found. The still don't make it out, but instead find some sort of lanterns along the path, that excites them that they have found signs of life. This doesn't stop the gang arguing though as the pathetic one grows some balls and blames Luke for Robert death. Calling him a coward and ending up separating the gang a little. Standard arguments and my guess, these two will have to work together to survive. Luke decides to head up a ledge to have a look for the edge of the forest. Once up there, all he sees is more trees and in the distance, a hand moves from behind a tree. He runs back down for everyone to move out. They end up having to camp, which doesn't end well, as more nightmares happen and their compass reader gets dragged off to his death by some sort of massive creature, which had the ability to gut him and hang him from a tree. It's the usual sequence of a horror fill as each one drops off one by one. Next, it's Phil getting dragged off and hung too.

The two friends, turned enemies, are the ones left, just as I suspected. The find another hut and after heading in, finding some old woman chanting, they get knocked out, tied up and left in a basement. They wake up to some freaky looking people, dressed in rags and looking pretty dirty. The check the two lads and one old woman sees the markings on Luke. She leaves him be and takes the other, screaming and kicking. He's tied up outside and left for something to get him as a sacrifice. He sees his wife walk from the trees and instantly becomes relaxed, but the camera switches and we see some sort of tree monster, on four legs, with two yellow eyes. It carries him, in his state of relaxation, and impales him onto a tree. This sets off Luke into some sort of frenzy, where he breaks his thumb, escapes his restraints and heads for an exit. The sets the big hut he is in, on fire, punches out the old witch, shoot some others and turns the massive monster on its worshippers. He breaks through the fire and runs for the trees, making it to an opening before, for some reason, shooting at the monster with a gun he has picked up. This caused the thing to stampede towards him and as he runs, it finally catches up with him, lifting him up. This thing has left the mark on Luke for him to become a worshipper. He doesn't want this though and ends up running for the treeline to escape. He finally makes it and the monster retreats. The film ends with the lone survivor making it towards a road and a car driving past.

The setting for this film was immense, with the use of the forest and mountainous area, made you feel as if you were on the trip with them. As for the horror aspects, they were pretty predictable but not really a let-down. It was still enjoyable but I think a downside would be that the monster itself was shown too much towards the end. It didn't really have any jump scares and left nothing to the imagination at the end. The film contained some decent humour, which sometimes seems to coincide with the British Horror genre. This humour may be dry, but works very well and compliments the cast. The storyline seems to build up as the film goes on, into a climax that wasn't too expected but still predictable once the ending came to show. We always knew who would survive and finally this guy shook off his cowardly tag and getting this 'Groot on steroids', right in the proverbial ass.

You'll float too, you'll float too, YOU'LL FLOAT TOO! (IT 2017)

142.

IT

 

  

 

 

 

9/10
 

 

 

The most anticipated horror of the year has finally made it to our screen. The adaptation of a Stephen King book, the story revolves around a group of bullied school kids, who join together to tackle a demon that comes in the shape of a clown. Each trailer got better and better, showcases this freaky looking villain that has the ability to play on your fears. In 1990, this book was made into a TV mini-series, which I hadn't seen, but was more than looking forward to seeing this one.

This film has a decently long, run time, which I was always going to be more than happy with because of my love of the horror genre. If we quickly skim through the storyline, it is a pretty non-stop ride with creepiness, disaster and a musical score to compliment the lot.
 In 1988, a boy named Bill is making a boat for his brother who takes it outside, in the rain, to race it down the street. It ends up a storm drain and the audience are 'treated' to our first glimpse of Pennywise the dancing clown. Being a very white with red striped face paint, this all adds to the effect of making him as scary as possible. His moth is full of sharp teeth, with a creepy, angled smile and constantly salivating mouth, Bill Skarsgard has really brought this character to life. Even his eyes possess evil, which roll in different directions now and again. The speech has erratic moments of excitement, which quickly change to dry, abrupt demands and soon he asks if the boy would like his boat back. Once he agrees, the clown's mouth opens emphatically, to bite off the boy's outstretched arm and drag him down to the sewers.

8 months have passed and school is out for the summer. Bill and his gang of misfit friends are run upon by the local bully. After this, Billy heads home to work on looking for his brother, who he still thinks is alive. His parents don't offer too much support, so he recruits his friends, to help with the search. Back around school though, we have already seen a girl, who is trash talked by others about her social life and an overweight loner, who bumps into her and instantly feels and attraction. This loner, Ben, heads to the library for sanctuary but is quickly freaked out when he reads about the town's history of tragedy and unexpected disappearances. He ends up encountering a headless boy in the lower levels, one that he has just read about. He escapes, only to run into the bullies and then flees once more, into the Barrens, where Bill's group are searching. The realise he is hurt, so head into town to patch him up. One of the bullies thinks that they are in the sewer pipes though, so heads in and meets an untimely end, down to some zombie looking characters that call his name. So far, each one has had an encounter with the evil presence. One has had a creepy picture come to life and attack him, another has a leper follow him home. The main one though is Bill, who sees his dead brother run around his house. He is standing down in the flooded cellar, calling his older brother to 'float' with him, as we see Pennywise rise from the water and run towards Bill is a very freaky scene. Beverly has litres of blood shoot out of her bathroom sink, that only her and the 'loser club' can see. Even her father doesn't notice. Later that day, they see the bullies beating up another guy, Mike, who we got introduced as a young farmer, with the inability to kill some sheep. Since then, he too has had a nightmare encounter, which involved see a place burn down and hands trying to break through a door to escape.
The gang decide that action needs to be taken, otherwise they will always be looking behind them. IT only comes once every 27 years until it has had its fill, so they are limited on time. They watch a slide show, detail their plan, sewer systems and story behind the events, just before the slides start being controlled by something else, the clown pops onto the screen and then escapes it. Finally, escaping this brief encounter, they head to a rundown building in which, the well that IT appears from, is built. The gang head in a and quickly get separated. Each one facing their own fear, Eddie breaks his arm, while Pennywise gloats about killing Georgie. The gang and mainly Bill, show that they are not frightened of this monster. He preys on fear and when the gang fail to give in, Beverly impales the clown, through the head, with a steel bar. Back outside, we are met with the usual cliché of the gang breaking up after arguing. Some want to move away instead, whist only two now want to kill Pennywise. A few weeks later, Bev fights her abusive father, only for Pennywise to turn up and abduct her. When Bill hasn't heard off her in a while, he heads to her house and finds a message from the clown, painted in blood. The Losers Club regroup and head to the house to save her, abseiling down the well. Mike stays up top, to be the last down but Bowers the bully has turned up. This guy, by now, has killed his father after being brainwashed by the clown. He is there to turn his attention on the gang, but Mike gets the better of him and sends him down the well to his death. Beverly wakes in the clown's lair, down the sewers. She sees a pile of decaying circus props, and a stage, which opens up with fire, music and Pennywise randomly dancing along. She looks up to see many, many children floating about, linking to the, 'You'll float too' line. She is exposed to the demon's true form, whose mouth opens up to show hundreds off teeth and at the back of the throat, two small, bright yellow lights, which send her into a catatonic state and floating up to join the others. As the guys enter, she is restored to normal by a kiss from Ben. In the background, Bill sees Georgie again, but he knows that it's the clown in disguise so doesn't hesitate to shoot him in the head. As he lays on the floor, the clowns arms start stretching out of the little lad's body, along with the legs and soon, the clown is in full show. He takes Bill hostage and offers to spare the others if he can just take Bill. They reject this and everyone start attacking the clown. It transforms into each person's fears, but they all defeat their own in a brutal battle until the clown is made to cower down another well and out of sight. This is a bitter sweet victory, as Bill must now accept that his brother has died.
As the summer and the film itself ends, the gang are sitting at a river side and Beverly tells them all of the visions she had whilst floating. She seen them all fighting the clown as adults, so all declare a blood oath, that they will come back and defend their small town in the years to come. A musical montage shows each member leaving the grassy area, one by one, until Beverly and Bill are left, who share a kiss before the screen turns to black. The title 'IT' pops up, along with the words, 'Chapter I', stating that this is only the first movie to come. At the end of the full credits, we here Pennywise laughing, giving us what we already knew. That the clown is still alive.
Everything about this movie was clever. The 27 years thing carries on, after this movie was released 27 years after the original. I had been waiting for this horror since seeing the first trailer and it didn't disappoint. Although it wasn't downright scary, it was creepy, disturbing and held a comedic undertone. This was thanks to the cast. Each of the kids were totally different and each one was great. We had the female, the carer, the leader, quiet one, worrier and sarcastic asshole, who was my favourite. Each one, had to fight through their own fear in order to work together and survive. This was the same for the audience, who may have been scared at first, but as the movie went one, got more used to the clown, creepiness and the scare factor lowered. I'm not sure that this was intentional but with the great plot, acting and filming, it would be cool if this was slyly intended. I had never seen the original, or had the pleasure of reading the book but I can only imagine that this movie did both proud and although it was a longer horror than normal, I cannot wait for the next instalment. What I need to know next is where the clown actually came from!

Act your race (Patti Cake$ 2017)

141.

Patti Cake$

 

 

 

 

6/10

 

The film that won massive claims and a few awards at smaller film festivals but is this film worth the watch? A film centred around a female rapper trying to make it to glory, with the struggles of her home life and downtrodden hometown. This could go one of two ways. It could simply be a female version of 8 Mile or never be on the same level. Will it be set for stardom or choke when it gets centre stage?

Surely, it would be dreaming of being on the level of 8 Mile and that's just how this film starts. Focusing on the storyline first off, we have a female, dreaming that she is walking through the clouds and out to her audience, as she begins to rap. She wakes up and we see the same person that introduced her to the stage, is a focus of her bedroom posters. She is clearly focused on imagining her life away from where she is right now. Her mother is a washed-up singer, divorced and sleeping around with any man. Her nan is living at home with them and seems to have an illness, probably brought about by chronic smoking and she has a part time job at the local bar. The film gives up a few credits along with images of this growing up, each picture changing when there is a beat in the music. Her friend, an Indian lad who works at the local pharmacy, is trying his best to get their name out there, get gigs and all with the intent of making it huge. They sit on a car bonnet, from their home town, looking at the big city across the water, hoping one day to make it. He bangs a beat on the bonnet and she finally begins to rap along. Back at her bar work, her mum walks in all dolled up and jumps on the karaoke. Patti watches with interest and listen to all of the lyrics, which can be linked with the details to their lives. The scene cuts to the mother being sick in the toilet and soon Patti and Jheri are heading to a small gig to see some local rappers perform. The act after them is an African American, who plays a hard rock song about people being sheep. This guy is called Basterd and after the show, is very reluctant to talk to Patti about his music and rides away on his bike. From the trailer, we already know that she will work with him on her music so that's a bit of a spoiler.

After the show, the rappers from earlier are having a battle in a petrol station's car park. Patti gets chucked in the middle and the first thought is that she will choke. After a few cringe worthy seconds, she actually lays down some bars and impresses, but this isn't a good thing. Danny, the main rapper starts to get personal, but fair enough, she hits some back. She humiliates him so the guy simply headbutts her. A cop shows up and splits up the crew, Basterd can be seen in the background too. She doesn't grass up Danny and when the cop sees her ID, she realises that he knows her mother and that she was very talented. He wasn't to give her his number because he needs a singer for his band. Patti clearly gets on with her Nan more than her mother and this is a theme throughout. Patti and Jheri get a gig to record some music but smoking weed ruins the plans and they head home. Next Patti spends the day with Nana. Her mother has already had an argument with her and after a bit too much wine, tells her daughter, that she was a mistake. Patti and Nana head to the graveyard and again, Basterd pops up but this time Patti follows him. Nana is outers, so she follows him through a tunnel know as, 'the gates to hell'. She comes across a wooden hut and straight up walks in. Basterd is there, looking shocked at the intruder, obviously. She has already called Jheri to meet her there and in he walks too. Basterd ends up kicking them bout out after Jheri acts a bit of knob. Patti pleads for him to make music with him and they do, even with Nana waking and adding to the track as well. They call themselves PBNJ. This is clearly their initials put together but will they add lyrics to accommodate peanut butter and jelly?

Patti makes it home and sees a cop car outside, figuring that her mother has another DUI. No no, the copper is there to serenade her mother. On a lighter note, she is offered a new job with a catering service. My first thought would be that some sort of huge gig will land on the same day as her first shift or something. She first works a Jewish ceremony, where she speaks to a well know DJ, who she hands her CD over to, hoping that this fellow female, will give her the light of day There is soon a montage of her burning herself out through, work and the need to sell her CDs. Even Danny got one. Suddenly, things take a turn for the worse and Nana gets really ill. Maybe she's going to use this extra money that she has made to pay the hospital bills. She lands another job with the catering company and this time it's in her favourite rapper's house. She finds her way down to his room and raps from behind, so that he doesn't see her image. She is an overweight, white girl, which won't go down well with this guy. As she walks towards him, there is sort of heavenly music, maybe indicating that this guy is her saviour. It doesn't turn out that way and he insults her, causing her to leave and the boss fires her. The trio have a gig at the local strip club but Patti's head isn't in it. She storms off and goes to clear her mind. At the same time, her mother is performing with the police and gets too into her roll, falling off the bar and spraining her ankle. She now becomes chair bound, just like Nana. Patti get to the hospital to find her mum sitting in the empty bed. Nana has died, her one friend in the family. Things aren't going well, with the copper leaving the mother, Patti getting fired and then quitting her job at the bar when one of the locals takes her raps onto the mic and reads them mockingly. There is the usual scene of the gang splitting up for a while, which will inevitably end with them back together by the end.
Patti and her mother are back home and Patti's phone rings. The mother is sitting slumped in the chair, as the Nan once did. She looks depressed now. She instantly thinks, that with the bad luck she has had recently, that it is someone winding her up. The caller tells her that she listened to her CD and she liked it. She has entered Patti into a competition and it turns out that this person is the DJ that she handed a CD to when working at the Jewish party. She asks her mum to come and watch her for once. She finally has her confidence back and heads to make amends with her friends. She walks to them like a music video or dream with offset colours and music playing alongside. First is Basterd, who she catches, just before he sets off to leave the city. Her reveals his real name before becoming her love interest as the two get down to the naughties. She wakes up to find her has gone and then heads to the pharmacy. Reconciling with Jheri, he finally agrees to work the competition. He also lets her know that he knows that her and Basterd have a thing going on. Patti goes for one final boast of confidence at her Nan's grave. There, we are reintroduced to Basterd, now going by the name Bob. He's gotten rid of his devilish look, piercings, contact lens, cut his hair and seems more at peace. He takes Patti to his mother's grave and tells her all about her. As Patti gets home, she notices that her mother has chucked out a vinyl that she once made in a band. They head to Newark for the completion and her once idol is up in the viewing section. We cut back home and the mother is looking at old photos of her daughter, picking up a necklace that says Kill P and also the ad for the competition. Patti is impressed by the other rappers but finally it's her turn, this won't be the moment that she chokes. She is seen in the toilet, in kind of an 8 Mile scene, knees weak, arms maybe heavy? As she beings, we see her mother walk in and it's too obvious that she will sample her mother's song. She does and smashes it. Even her mother joins in on the mic for the part she once sung years before. The two finally become more connected and although Patti doesn't win, there is still the feeling of a happy ending. By the end, the performing trio are back at their hangout spot, which overlooks the big city. Once again dreaming that one day they could make it, with the radio playing, the female DJ that entered Patti actually plays her song on the radio and we get to here Nana's voice once again. 
That was a bit of a predictable one. The film wasn't really original and could follow any sort of conventional, underdog story regarding singing. The film cries of a typical youth wanting to chase their dream, getting shot down by the establishment, only to be able to rise again through the hard work and can-do attitude. Yet again, it seemed like a cry for feminism, as seems to be the trend right now, with this underrated white, heavy set girl from the suburbs, trying to go against any sort of stereotype in this narrow world of music. Although the film didn't really have the usual happy ending that could have been expected, there was a sense of triumph by the end.



I'm just going to assume that you're all Criminals (Detroit 2017)

 

 

 

140.

Detroit

 

 

 

 

 

8/10

 

 

 

 

A gripping drama based around the events, that were, the 1967 Detroit riots. The film is going to show the actions of some rogue police men who respond to the sound of gun shots with retribution on their mind, rather than justice. The timing is around the civil rights movement and a story involving three murdered African-American men in a hotel, this film has a decent running time and along with an all-star cast, will this movie live up to the hype or simply be history?

This movie was always going to be shock inducing for people who didn't know the story, which includes me. The storyline itself takes place mainly around a hotel but also a theatre as we are introduced to each character early on and their own ideals. The movie begins with paintings telling the audience what events have already taken place and how the white and black people are unofficially segregated in the city of Detroit. Some policemen are obviously sympathetic towards their situation because, although they have to close down an illegal party, they try to do so quietly, by using the back door of the warehouse, in order to hide it from the surrounding public and stop a small uproar. This doesn't work though and things spill onto the street. With the community throwing things at the police, the scene escalates until we are down the police station, which is full of African-Americans and mainly men. The story is carried through with real footage of the riots on day one, two and then real footage of the politicians discussing the matters. Some of the characters are introduced in their jobs, such as Krauss, played by Will Poulter, who is on patrol to stop looters and ends up shooting a man in his back and killing him. Elsewhere, a security officer, played by John Boyega and named Dismukes, watches as policemen harass an African American teenager and heads over to defuse the situation. The other main characters are shown to be involved in Motown group and are set to perform before a curfew is put in place due to the rioting. Fred and Larry, along with the other members of the band, head home on a bus, which is set upon by rioters so the band split up and do their best to get home without trouble. Fred and Larry make it to the hotel where the main story takes place and meet to girls who take them to another room to meet their friends. These friends are pretty rough and soon the pair leave to head to their own room. The men still in the room, see the national guard in the distance. They fire on them with a toy gun, that causes a spark and the noise of gunfire, which causes absolute panic. The hotel is quickly surrounded by the police and a few members of the national guard, until they storm the place and the shooter, Carl tries to run but is gunned down. Krauss then plants a knife on him, to cover up yet another of his killings. Others are rounded up and questioned about the gun and shooter but no-one is talking, which I find weird, because with the actually shooter now killed, wouldn't it just be simple to say it was him? When Dismukes turns up, Krauss quickly tells him about the Carl situation and that he tried to grab his gun. The police are pretty rough, forcing everyone up against the wall, brutally hitting them with guns and then taking them to separate rooms for answers, before pretending to shoot them, so that the others will panic. Michigan state police show up and quickly leave, figuring that they don't want to be involved with what is going on inside the house. The racial levels are shown as the two girls, who are white, are questioned as to why they are with African Americans rather than white men. Greene, one of the men to is staying at the hotel is questioned for being these girl's pimp. He explains that he is a war veteran but Krauss tried to disprove this, even though he is showing his card.

The questioning carries on and there is soon commotion outside, which distracts the police and some of the prisoners try to escape. When they reach a door, they see more police approaching, so head quickly back to the wall. When the police head back in, Krauss lets another officer take a prisoner in for the questioning game but this office doesn't get the idea and shoots the guy for real. Krauss heads in and panics, thinking of the story again that the guy reached for the officer's gun. They need to end this now and set the remaining people free, one by one. They have to come to the arrangement that they tell no-one what happened here. Larry is up first and agrees, he runs out and another police officer finds him worse for wear, so takes him to the hospital. Fred is next, but doesn't comply and is shot on the spot. He's the third killing. A sergeant, who didn't agree with any of this, sneaks in through a window and sets free one of the men who was playing dead.

The aftermath is again racial related. Dismukes is found working in a factory and is taken down the station as a suspect to the murders. Even though he doesn't give the true story, these racist detectives don't believe his story that he walked in on these dead bodies. At the other side of the station, the three policemen are ready to be questioned and Krauss asks them to lie. The other two don't and Krauss tried to escape, only to be caught in his car. Larry is in hospital and the band show up to ask about Fred. The scene is shown through real photos of the hotel, the bodies and the remaining evidence. The patrolmen and Dismukes are now on trial and all of the victims are up to give evidence. The defence lawyer presses them, a lot, about their stories and the racist, all white jury, finds the men not guilty or assault, let alone murder. This is enough to make Dismukes vomit outside. The film ends with more loose ties being sorted. The band get a record deal, but Larry no longer wants to sing with them because the owner is a white man. He instead heads to a church and becomes the choir director. The final text states what came next. Dismukes left Detroit due to death threats, the policemen never worked again, the gun was never found and one of the white girls, is now a hair dresser and has raised a family. As for the band, they still perform and Larry is still with the church choir.

Although this movie was quite long and set in one prime location, it had enough story to get the audience gripped and 'entertained', if that's the right word. Will Poulter is a creepy looking bastard and his sinister, racial intent throughout this movie was brilliantly portrayed. Everyone else didn't really stand out though, even with Boyega and even Anthony Mackie in the fold, neither truly stood out like Poulter. With some of the happens in American right now, it must be a scary thought to think that racial and civil movements are once again rising with the marches or supremacists and views from Trump. It was crazy to watch at times and even unbelievable to think that these were the justice system, failing the people that it was in place to protect. It was very tense and due to the fact that it took place during the night, added even more darkness to each scene. Although I can't claim that it is 100% accurate, this film was very topical and this is an applaud to Kathryn Bigelow on her work for handling such a subject and bringing it to the big screen.

I had this nightmare where we all killed a guy! (Rought Night 2017)

 

 

 

139.

Rough Night

 

 

 

 

5.5/10

 

 

 

I find it so weird that this movie has come out around the same time as Girls Trip. This time it looked like we were about to watch a gang of girls get 'white girl wasted', but the trailer to this one, didn't make it seem that it would be as bad as Girls Trip. It looked the same, but with a Weekend at Bernie's twist. (If you haven't seen that, save it for a rainy day). What do these two female trip films have in common? Friends being united? CHECK! A weekend away for partying? CHECK! A cast of women who are out to make a quick buck? CHECK! Let's party on!

Scarlett Johansson and her mates are in a party and she, along with her best mate Alice, are winning at beer pong before heading home and promising that they will never lose touch with each other. Yea, good one! Ten years later and Johansson's character, Jess, is running for state senator. Everyone thinks she is too uptight and that she needs to loosen up a little. She is engaged to a guy named Peter and at home, when they are trying to relax, Alice keeps ringing her about setting up the bachelorette trip. This guy seems a real soft touch and is already pissing me off. He drives his future wife to the airport a day later and the gang head to Miami for the party weekend. They meet with Blair, who is a lawyer, heading through a custody battle. Alice is a teacher and Frankie is a jobless activist.  Frankie and Blair once had a thing in college and there is clearly a bit on tension between them. If movies like this are still so predictable, these too will end up back together by the end. They land at Miami and Alice pulls out a bottle of champagne and pops is, causing everyone in the airport to scream and panic. Everyone gets this joke but the film needs that it needs to explain it too, just in case. I don't enjoy this obvious need to create humour, by one of the character's dialogue explain it to the viewers.

The finally get to their luxury apartment and have a scope around, finding a room with a sex swing, again, it's obvious that this will play a factor at some point. Before this, they get the key from their neighbours for the weekend. This couple are very sexually active and open to Blair going them. That night, the girls head out for dinner and another of Jess's mates joins them. An Australian called Pippa, making Alice jealous that Jess has a friend that she doesn't know. Pippa is in no competition, but Alice is. Frankie gets her hands on some drugs and before we know it, everyone has their nose in the powder. At the club, the camera seems to shake with the beat and maybe the enhanced heartbeat of the women. Trying their hands at a dance on the floor, until Alice falls after when Jess forgets to catch her because she answers her phone. As for back home, the husband and his friends are having a more relaxed time. They are having a wine tasting and when Jess rings home, he is worried that she is too drunk. He wants her to ring him when she's back at the apartment. Blair suggests that it's time for a stripper back at their place. The continue to do drugs as they wait and finally there's a knock at the door. The guy uses the bathroom before finally reappearing and starting his dance routine. Jess is pretty awkward but Alice figures it's her turn and jumps onto him. The chair falls backward and he smashes his head onto the corner of the fireplace, killing him. The blood spills all over the floor and the girls freak out, leading to an attempt of moving the boy and settling for putting in the sex swing, which I had already mentioned. The husband rigs again and Jess mentions that something went wrong with a stripper and the girls then take her phone off her and break it. They collect everyone's phones, so that no one can talk to anyone and this sends the lads into a panic. The sexes seem to have a role reversal, rather than the usual stereotype that comes with a female around the time of a wedding. They are in a panic that there won't be a wedding, that their suits will have to go back and his friends convince him to drive down to Miami to win her back. He stops at a store for adult diapers and energy drinks in a cringe worthy scene.

The ladies carry on trying to hide the body, but each time, they nearly get caught by a neighbour. They contemplate chopping up the body but settle on taking it out on a jetski and dumping it in the water. Pippa takes the lead, as she is the one to have driven one before. Riding off, and crashing back onto the beach, they realise that the sexual neighbours have a security camera. The only way to get the tape, obviously, is by sending Blair in to seduce them. She asks them for sex outside on the beach, thinking that she can ask for the footage later. After a sex scene, that is off camera, she asks for the video, only to find out that the camera doesn't actually work anyway. After cleaning up the blood on the living room floor, they think they are safe. By now, the husband Peter, has made it to a petrol station but is high on Russian speed pills and gets pulled over by a cop. After clearly showing that he isn't drunk, but clearly a little bit insane, he's let go with a ticket. Making it to a petrol station, but his car being declined, he makes money from two weird guys that he sets up to have sex and exchange drugs with each other.

The girls head out to the beach for a photo together but in the background, you can clearly see the body of the stripper. They put him back onto the sex swing and head back inside to someone else at the door. It's a cop and as he holds Frankie up against the wall, she headbutts him, knocking him clean out. The girls try to pick him up and accidentally rip his clothes off, meaning that his guy is the real stripper. They put him on a bed upstairs and head back down to have the usual argument that comes with this kind of comedy. Jess heads upstairs to get away from the situation after the girls reveals that there was a bridal shower and Alice wasn't invited. She is calming down in the bathroom, as yet another knock reveals two guys, claiming to be detectives and looking for Jay, the fake stripper. Alice answers and admits that the guy is dead. After showing the body, the men claim that he was highly dangerous and it was self-defence, so the girls celebrate that they are finally safe. As they are sitting in the living room, Pippa notices all three of the men on TV, as the news warns about diamond thieves. Before she can alert the others, the men hear the TV and hold the girls hostage, plus Scotty he real stripper, who has now woken up. Jess finds a card in the bathroom, from Alice, who explains how much Jess means to her. She hears the commotion and heads to the balcony to investigate. They are looking for the diamonds and I remember Jay heading to the toilet when he first arrived. He must have hidden them in there. One of the guys heads upstairs and is countered by Jess, with some hairspray, who forces him to handcuff himself to the sink. She heads downstairs and aims the gun at the other criminal, who won't keep still. Instead she leaps off the balcony and tackles him, wrestling on the floor and fighting for the gun, before Alice breaks free, gets the gun and shoots him in the leg. Jess finishes him off with a statue to the head and goes to free the gang properly. The other guy from upstairs has freed himself and is aiming at the girls, ready to pull the trigger. Flying through the door and surrounding windows, Peter drives his car into the criminal, killing him but still with the mindset that his fiancé has cheated on him. They sort it out between themselves, so finally, it's onto the wedding the next day. They have moved it forward and have it at a foam party that the girls already had tickets for. Everyone is finally getting along and even Alice has hooked up with the stripper. The story of the girls tackling some thieves has made it back home and put Jess ahead in the polls for being the state senator. She is asked to come back and work but finally she puts her friends first. The film ends with some after credits of the girls back to their normal day to day chores. Alice finally finds the diamonds and they were in the box of penis shaped pasta all along.

All in all, this film was pretty average. Between the fact that it was so predictable, the need for each character to explain the humour, every time it was present and the cringe worthy scenes involving the men, I'm glad that the film wasn't any longer than it needed to be. It did produce a giggle from time to time but overall, it was just like any other female comedy. It's hard to think why Scarlett Johansson decided on taking this role, when clearly, she is now onto bigger and better things. This seemed like it could have been taken on by someone with a little less stardom and still have been the same movie. For continuity, would someone running for office really take time out to go and party so close to an election?

I was working for the CIA, DEA and Pablo Escobar (American Made 2017)

 

 

 

138.

American Made

 

 

 

 

8/10

 

 

 

 

Another Tom Cruise film, just about when I've recovered from The Mummy. This time it's a little different though. This time it's based on real life events of a pilot named Barry Seal. Surely, this meant that Cruise couldn't stick his nose in regarding changing too many things because the story, would make this film, what it is. It's going to really make me read into more about the Iran-Contra affair and the aftermath of these events. I think Odeon had to cut this from the Screen Unseen a while back, but now it's got take off, so let's see what it's all about.

This movie is based in the 1970's and our time frame is set as the Universal symbol changes on the intro, to the one that would have been used at the time. Starting with the storyline, we are following this normal, commercial pilot, on his daily duties. This cuts to Seal, Cruise character, filming himself on a hand-held camera, looking flushed and erratic. He is telling the camera how stupid he has been over the past few years. In the cockpit, he is clearly smuggling cigars for people, as who would check the pilots? This quickly escalates, as he is approached by a CIA agent, who wants him to take pictures in a brand-new plane, whilst flying over South America. His job quickly turns to being a courier to a General that America wants information from on the rulers in Panama at the time. All of this story is carried through with clever animation, showing the trade routes, maps and moments of need to know information. This comes to a new load, when the Colombian drug dealers, the Medellin Cartel, involving Pablo Escobar, wanted him to fly drugs on the way back to the US. With the CIA turning a blind eye to make making an extra buck, the DEA tracks Seal down. He finally tells his wife what his job is, and with the quick camera angles, showing their back and fore, quick dialogue, we are brought into the household. The main guy who gives him his missions, Schafer, warns Seal and sets him up in a new house, along with a massive airstrip, in order to continue with some gun running to the Contras. This is escalating quickly, but the story holds up. It's not missing a trick and very informative, actually enjoyable. We are treated to a montage of their lavish lifestyle now as a family, with the house being expanded, money hidden everywhere they could think of and it just kept on coming. Cruise gives a narrative over scenes like this, to express Seal's emotions and thoughts. After the gun running, the American government want the Contras north of the border, in order to train them properly. Most of them make a break for it and are completely useless though. Again, we see some of the hand-held interviews that Seal gave himself. Finally, the CIA shuts down the job, burns all knowledge of Seal and throws him to the wolves in regards of the FBI, DEA and other law enforcements. He turns into a cocky little shit, knowing that he won't go down for it and low and behold, he's released straight away after making a deal with the White House to prove who the drug dealers are from down south. He makes one last trip and takes the pictures needed but it back fires as the government release them early and put Seal in danger of being killed. Everyone is arrested and Seal, for his part in this, is given community service. As he sits outside the Salvation Army building, a dark figure approaches his car and the screen fades to black with a gun shot. We are back to some of the videos he has made himself and clearly, now we know why he looked so erratic. In his boot of the car he was killed in, the CIA find all of his videos and seize it all in case of being implicated for the smuggling themselves. His wife is back working at the local fast food place, but is still wearing one piece of jewellery that her husband had bought her. The sounds continue after the screen is black, with a crashing plane sound and talking, but nothing more is to be seen.

The cast of this movie is actually irrelevant apart from the lead. We have Cruise, who doesn't suit a guy who kicks ass for 2 hours, but instead is this cocky little weasel, that only wants to get himself ahead. He shows panic, excitement and confidence, all at the right times and was actually good to watch, especially when I wasn't expecting too much from him. You want him to be successful and root for him but is he really the good guy? As for the rest of the cast, they could easily have been changed, as this was all about this one man. The scenes of the planes flying, either alone or in tandem when they arranged a group, was pretty intense. There was hardly any moment in which you could become bored by this as each event was pretty engaging and, at times, hilarious. If you wanted to look for a negative, the film, didn't really show the effects that the drugs have on society, but did it really need to? This movie was about a man who lived, an almost unbelievable life, and what the consequences for him and his family was. 

I am in-car-ce-re-ted! (Logan Lucky 2017)

 

 

 

137.

Logan Lucky

 

 

 

 

 

8.5/10

 

 

A good, old fashioned heist movie from a guy who directed Ocean's 11, the two sequels and such utter garbage as Magic Mike. I loved the first Ocean's film and this film, again, brings an ensemble of cast members to hopefully bring something that is just a cleverly brought together. Channing Tatum, Adam Driver and Daniel Craig look like being our three main schemers, so let's find out just how lucky they are going to be.

Our movie begins with showing the life of Jimmy Logan, played by Tatum. He is with his daughter, fixing his car and discussing his favourite songs. Later, he heads to work and promises to make it back for her pageant. A promise that is hardly ever kept in these movies. Going through his shift underneath the speedway, he's finally called into the office by his boss and limps away for his meeting. By the look on his face, he already knows what coming and is sacked due to his leg. Too make things a little worse, he finds out that he has missed his daughter's pageant. The news is broken to him by his sister Mellie, before he heads of to his ex-wife's home. The ex is played by Katie Holmes and she's from happy. She is clearly shown to be better off than him in her new relationship, with a huge house, many cars and wealthy interior but one side to her is that she is drinking wine at midday. Maybe things aren't the best or she is building up the confidence to tell them that they are moving the family away. He heads to his brother's bar after the bad news and his brother, played by Driver, is called Clyde. Two red neck sounding brothers so far. Clyde has lost an arm in Iraq and is a very dry sort of character. Clearly if these two are going to sort the heist, he must be the brains. Clyde thinks that the family has a curse on them, to which Jimmy wants to know nothing about. A few lads walk into the bar, one of them played by Seth MacFarlene. He is the owner of a British sports drink brand and clearly thinks he is better than anyone else. They make fun of Clyde's arm by making him mix them drinks. Jimmy doesn't like this and a fight soon begins, ending with Clyde exploding their car and Jimmy walking off shouting Cauliflower. Clyde is clearly shocked by this word, but for me, it's nothing more than a little random.

This word was linked to the brothers when they were younger. They would use it as code to commit petty crimes but this time it was going to me on a much larger scale. Jimmy wants to rob the speedway because he knows all of the underground tunnels after working on them. Mellie is also on board for the two of them and Jimmy gets Clyde on board announcing that it's time to break the family curse. The plan is explained through the use of flashbacks and Jimmy working down the tunnels himself and spotting how the transport the money through tubes. The next stop is the prison and a bleached blonde character is walking to the visitor's room. It is only showing the back of his head as to not reveal who it actually is but from the poster and trailer, we already know. They need Craig's character on side because he's an explosives and safe cracking expert. He simply laughs at them but after a while they assure him that they will break him out and get him back into prison, without anyone noticing. He will only work with them on one condition, his two brothers are also involved because he needs more men and trusts no one more. They too are recruited and our next scene quickly sets the whole plan into motion. Clyde gets himself arrested for a minor offence and is sent into the same jail as Joe, Craig's character. At the track, Mellie and the two dim-witted brother of Joe are down to carry on the next phase. In the car park, Mellie has an encounter with the husband of Jimmy's ex, to which she makes fun of his car through sexual innuendoes and homosexual ones too. The two brothers are sent to meet a bear in the woods for some equipment for Joe and this isn't just a code. There is actually a guy, dressed in a bear onsie, with a bag of explosives. Mellie was earlier painting cockroaches and these are stuck down the pipes by here to fill the safe, that way they can act as exterminators and measure the vault whilst inside it. Jimmy goes to gather supplies and is noticed by a girl he was in school with, who now works on a mobile clinic truck. He then bumps into his old boss, who doesn't want there to be any hard feelings but also mentions that work is nearly completed, which means that the plane has to move up a week. This will be the biggest race that the speedway will put on.

Back in the jail and Joe has been drinking water from the taps in the jail in order to get himself into the infirmary. Clyde is already working there as a cleaner so the two can now sort and escape route. Joe flirts awkwardly with the nurse in order to get some alone time and a toilet break. As they head to the toilet, the rest of the prisoners have been asked to start a riot, this way it locks down the blast doors and the two schemers are blocked away from everyone else so escape through the vents and head to the wood shop. They have built something to stick underneath a delivery truck and escape. At the speedway, a storm can be seen in the distance. The gang assemble underneath and make it to the pipe room. With each cockroach coloured and put into different pipes, we know which one led to the vault itself. As Mellie picks the convicts up from a gas station, we can see in the boot that there are firemen helmets, surely part to come later. The sun finally comes up and Joe along with Jimmy are walking around the shops inside the track as the two dim-wits are blowing up the electronic systems nearby in order to stop the ATM machines from working. As the actually money stealing is going on, we set a flashback in motion as a kind of montage with music. So many questioned are answered and shows how clever the plan was. She coaxed Jimmy's ex's husband to get a faster car, which she used to pick up the prisoners faster. The ATMs being blown meant taking only cash, to increase the amount they can steal. The purple asshole woman from Jimmy's sister's salon at the beginning who questioned Jimmy's motives. She's used as a scape goat to get the police off Mellie's tail when speeding. In the prison, there is hardly a riot, the prisoners are asking for the new Game of Thrones books in the library and are simply sitting around making idol demands. Back at the speedway, it turns pretty patriotic, as some American movies do. Flags flying, anthem being sang and the race is about to begin as the stealing hits a bump. Clyde's arm is sucked into the machine as the switch is reversed. They all begin to argue amongst each other, as Clyde is worried he is going to take the fall for this. Once, when they were younger, he spent time in Juvie for Jimmy and fears this will happen again. Along with this, it turns out that Jimmy was the one meant to go to Iraq, not Clyde and he would never has lost his arm. Jimmy promises that he will get the arm back but for now, they need to carry on with the removal of the cash. They get the cash into bags, the dim-wits take it out to another truck but the gate is jammed. The smoke from the vault has caused two security guards down to investigate, but they can't find anything, even with some close calls. That's until Jimmy comes and puts it back on the railings. Putting all the bags into the back of a truck, Jimmy makes his way back down for another load but it's time for Clyde and Joe to head back to prison. On their way out, they come across that snobby British guy again, arguing with his driver. Clyde ends up breaking his nose before leaving. The prisoners have started a fire in order to set the alarms off, this gets the fire brigade on the case, just as Mellie picks them up and takes them to the fire station. The outfits come into play as they disguise themselves as the firemen and head back into the prison, the same way they came out. This all seems to go too well and surely there will be something to break this job. It turns out that the thing to break it was Jimmy, he ends up giving the money back! Was this to simply get his brother's arm back? The ultimate sacrifice.

It seems that all is well and Jimmy has even made it to see his daughter at the pageant. She is going to sing Umbrella by Rihanna but as soon as she sets sights on her dad, I know she will change the song to the one they were discussing at the beginning, which she does and wins the competition. Even her step-dad was singing along and her mother had a stern face, which could represent the fact that she knows her daughter needs her father. This lays into a small montage of everyone involved in the movie, passed out on their own beds. The next day and Mellie doesn't want to see Jimmy after knowing what he done to tip them off about the money. Clyde opens a package, that we don't see, but guess is his arm. At the speedway, an FBI agent played by Hilary Swank, is investigating the robbery. Her voice seems way over the top, as she seems to play the bad cop. The Warden didn't give much away, because he didn't want to seem like his prison was weak. But at the speedway, the owner simply tells her there was no way in knowing how much was stolen or retrieved but they still had a decent insurance pay out. The smug British guy, which a broken nose now, blames the robbery on the Logan brother but this is put down to a vendetta that he has against them. With lack of evidence, it eventually gets shut down and you think the movie would come to an end, but no, there is another twist. Joe gets out of jail to track down Jimmy, but Clyde hasn't seen him. Instead we notice that he has a new arm, one that looks very expensive. He said that Jimmy has moved to be closer to his daughter. Back at Joe's there is a moment that he thinks about digging up some money that he stashed before and knew that his ex-girlfriend had stolen. Underneath his tree is a garbage bag of the money from the heist. How is this possible? This film is the gift that keeps on giving and it's time for another montage. Jimmy has a side plan all along, one to through the cops off the scent once some of the money was returned. The gate not working, was because Jimmy had tampered with the sensor so that the gate wouldn't work and when he went back to the pipes, Mellie was there with other black bags full to take out of a different exit. The arm was always still inside the vacuum, so Jimmy took that out straight away and the actual cleaner working there was also in on it. They buried the other money bags in the dump and all of this was shown through a musical montage. Money wasn't only split between the gang, some went to the people who were involved without even knowing. That includes the mobile clinic that he makes a big donation to. At the end, the nurse walks into Clyde's bar as Jimmy is now back for a drink. She is finally a love interest in this movie. It was strange not to have one as the actual sex symbol for males, was the sister all along. He waited a while to resurface and things to die down before digging back up the money. As the camera pans across the bar, we see a woman from behind drinking and her voice is too familiar. It's the FBI agent drinking, still trying to work on the case undercover. Just as we think they have gotten away with it.

This film was a great rollercoaster of a heist film. Just when you think you have it worked out, it turns on you once again and runs into a different scheme. It was clever enough to have one plan, which seemed to work but threw the movie on its head with the thought or surrender and then actually a side plan to steal the money. Each character was too their own and although we are used to brain and brawn, Tatum's character actually brought both to the table without us realising. This was the feature that brought the director out of retirement and he was clearly passionate about it. This was a fun watch but had some points that didn't really work too much as the love interest wasn't shown more than twice on screen and the NASCAR and sports drink side plot didn't work as well and simply seemed crammed in. But to end on a high note, this is easily watchable again, just to take in each clever scenario that played out. It was smoother than many plots of the same genre.

This is the land where you're on your own (Wind River 2017)

136.

Wind River

8/10

Screen Unseen with Odeon was back and this time it was the true story

of what it is like on a Native American reservation. I really didn't know too much about this movie, mainly because I didn't know which movie was going to be chosen for us to watch. With two main cast figures of Jeremy Renner, who I enjoyed away from Marvel in Hurt Locker and also another Marvel head in Elisabeth Olsen, this could keep the story intimate and easy to follow. Being based around real events is yet again a plus point for me because it gives me some incentive to find further information on the events surrounding the stories.

The storyline is a simple, yet effective and easy to follow one, that keeps us gripped from the very beginning. With the opening scene of a young girl running through the snow. With the camera showing that she has no shoes on, she's looking back over her shoulder and crying, we don't take long to realise that she is the victim. The next scene also wants us to learn something. Renner's character is a marksman with his sniper, taking out wolves to protect someone's sheep. We delve into this man's life as he goes to his ex-wife's to pick up his son and we can see that he lost his daughter at a young age. He finds the body of the woman at the beginning and we know that he will be emotionally involved due to his own circumstances. When the police are notified, we can see what kind of points this film is trying to make. They have no resources or men in order to patrol this huge area of the reservation. An FBI agent is called in, played by Elizabeth Olson. She plays Jane, who seems out of her depth at first and the case takes a turn as, although this girl was raped by an unknown amount of people, she died through the cold in her lungs. Because of this, is cannot be listed as a homicide, even though everyone knows it should be.

The movie turns on to a bit more action, as the FBI agent and Tribal police chief, head to a drug den to find some answers. They are fired upon by some nervy, drug taking men, who include the victim's brother. Some are gunned down but others and the brother are questioned to a point that they reveal she had a boyfriend called Matt, who was a security guard at the local oil drilling camp. Corey, Renner's character, has been asked to help, they need all hands-on deck. He already promised they victim's father that he will bring the killer or killers to justice. The mother is seen cutting herself in her bedroom as the father is clearly losing his will to live. Corey sees things that others don't, including snowmobile tracks, leading off to the distance. Following them, they find the body of Matt, the boyfriend and this is one suspect ticked off the list but another added to the homicide one. Everyone, except Corey, make their way to the drill camp in order to investigate Matt's place and his friends. Corey heads back up to where they found Matt's body and find further clues. The gang are greeted by security at the camp and a few have cuts, and black eyes. Quickly, they are caught out when they mention that they heard Natalie's body announcement being discussed across the radio. Jane knows that she never mentioned the girl's name at all and knows something is up. One of the officers notices that guards from the camp have their guns out and are flanking the group. Suddenly, a standoff begins and Jane take control of the situation, calming everything down before turning the handle of the door of the trailer that Matt used to stay at. She finds it locked but knocks.

At this time, the scene sends us to a flash back, as someone responds to the knock and Matt crawls out of bed to open the door. It's Natalie and they are clearly in love. Fast forward to them both lying in bed after doing the business and they can hear Matt's co-workers coming close and beginning to enter. Matt gets up and closes the divider between the couple and the group of men. Pete is the drunkest of the group and opens this back up, sits on the bed and constantly teases the two, wanting to look under the covers. This pisses Matt off and he leaps up before hitting him and pushing him back. Things take a turn for the worse as the others grab Matt, before throwing Natalie aside as she lands and hits her head hard. She's knocked and Matt is held down to the ground but as she wakes, as realises that Pete is raping her, in order to teach Matt a lesson. Matt frees himself and beats Pete down, leading Natalie to escape out of the door and this is the point that we know she is running through the snow at the beginning. Matt is turned upon and clearly, this is the moment is he beaten to death.

From up the mountain, Corey is watching on and radios the Tribal Officer's leader to tell Jane to get away from the door but she is hit with a shotgun through the wood. All hell breaks loose and most are gunned down, scattering through the snow and behind the trailer for cover. Jane is saved by her vest and as she tries to reload, a guard takes the gun away from her and the end is near. That's until a bullet sends the guy flying and another is sent through another guard. Corey has his sniper out and is picking everyone off. Pete is the one inside the trailer and he escapes through a window and runs up to the woods, unknowingly towards Corey. Pete becomes paranoid that he is being chased before turning around and getting hit, square on the nose, by Corey and the butt of his gun. He is taken up a mountain and released, to run back down just like Natalie was. But Corey knows that he won't make it either, dying the way the Natalie's father would have thought was revenge. He drops and the film begins to draw to a close. Cory is sitting in the hospital with Jane as she recovers. He then goes to Natalie's fathers house to find him outside with death paint on his face. Corey breaks the news that the case was resolved and the man in question, 'went without a whimper'. Corey sits down with him and the screen cuts to black, with writing displaying that the statistics for missing native American women is unknown because they are the only ones that statistics aren't actually kept for.

The cast for this movie is of great calibre. Renner plays a dry, yet helpful hunter but we also see a vulnerable side to him when he explains to Jane about what happened to his own daughter. Jane is a worrier and green horn in this land, whose character grows throughout and becomes this strong leader of a group in the search of answers. Between all of the side characters, they have their own style, between humour, creepiness and aggression, they all added something. As Jon Bernthal enters the screen, my first thought was that he was the murderer. This guy plays 'bad' very well and it's an easy stereotype for him but when we seen Matt's body up the mountain, we didn't see his face, so it left the option of who is was, open to the viewers. The settings were simple, although probably unforgiving, due to the snow, coldness and the fact that Olsen got snow blindness from the amount of time spent out there.

Overall, this movie was truly gripping and enjoyable. You were instantly thrown into the storyline and not once could you leave or blink, in case you missed a vital piece of evidence. Renner was back to being a lead and took the chance with both hands. The dialogue, storyline and musical score, helped to carry this movie even further and the screenwriters work included Hell or High Water, which is deep in this movie's shadow. Things start a little slowly but quickly spiral through to the end that makes this a really good crime thriller and a very good watch. It leaves you with a sort of satisfying retribution by the end.

http://warningspoilersarecoming.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/this-is-land-where-you're-on-your-own.html?m=1