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movie review - 6 Underground

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2019.12.15

This is a choppy heist movie by a director who absolutely nails the stunts and visual wizardry and often struggles to capture natural human interaction. And so it is with this piece. There are some flat-out amazing visuals here, such as when a magnet is being deployed as a weapon on a yacht. But the dialog and character actions are difficult to digest and the whole thing has a low signal-to-noise ratio.

Not recommended.

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A lot of people lose the spirit of childhood. Every child has a lot of imagination and you lose it little by little. I don't know why, but I kept it.

—Jean-Pierre Jeunet