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movie review - Heroes Wanted

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Kokubunji, 2021.05.20

This is a very uneven telling of the assembly of a "B" team of agents to track down a missing nuclear bomb. Teetering back and forth between satire and drama, it lurches and then slows and generally can't seem to pick a tone or direction. Some of the characters are engaging, and there are a few arresting scenes, but it mostly feels like a committee-driven affair that resulted in mediocrity.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl