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Proud Mary LR+ LM-

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Proud Mary You didn't see any guns: check. Gang wars: Fall guys. Bad people: check. Downtown Foxy Brown: two-gunning like Leon Lai. Hennessy: must we have these stereotypes? Plot: Not much sense. Needed: cliche-free script. "If you love me": "Let me go." "Don't turn your back on me, woman": "Don't you walk away from me!" Could have been better written by: a Tweet bot. To the rescue: Tina Turner. Special Blaxploitation Scoring: 12" Afros: none. 'Fro picks: none. Nik Nik shirts: none. Leather trench coats: none. High-waisted bell-bottoms: none. Once I stopped waiting for it to get good, I sat back and enjoyed watching it . Wait for network TV, then check it out.

Black Panther LR

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  Black Panther Hot chicks: With spears and shaved heads. EMS: Bad guys; tattoos; superpowers. Dancing: Let the Challenge Begin! Q: High School girl invents sneakers. Let the refugees in: To South Korea? Piper Cub: Seoul => Johannesburg VFR. Let The Challenge Begin II! Fight Scenes: Surreal, stylized, silly. Focus puller: Uncredited. It kept my attention after the first fifteen minutes. Wait for the dollar movies, then check it out. Caveat: I don't really like supermovies unless they're sendups. This one was probably in the upper quartile of the few I've seen. I liked the villain, Ullyses, and kept rooting for him. If they made a movie about him, I'd tough it out and go see it.