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a Flight Risk hey Dante are you able to
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describe the film for me oh my God uh my
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my my one liner for this movie is um cap
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fear on the
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plane yeah okay so here here's what I
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wrote in my review um from the maker of
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a Braveheart a heartbreak uh sorry U
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heart I going to say Heartbreak Ridge
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but I know that's not uh from the okay
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so from the maker of Braveheart
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apocal uh The Passion of the Christ
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comes a movie about three people on an
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airplane uh let me grab my notes here
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so
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uh let's see hey V for a
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second okay so H this is me being
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prepared
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this this also make for a great clip uh
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okay so directed by Mel Gibson uh the
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movie stars Michelle dackery as meline
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who is a US Marshal uh chasing after a
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key witness in a mafia trial that
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witness being Winston played by toefer
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Grace uh Winston has hidden himself out
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in the outskirts of
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Alaska uh and through the uh the
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intelligence and the Ws of meline uh she
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finds him and forces him to testify
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against the the mafia leader uh the
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thing you should know about her is that
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she is a disgraced US Marshal she's been
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at the desk for several years and this
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is her chance to prove herself once
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again that she belongs in the field so
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uh she captures Winston they hop a plane
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from their location to Anchorage Alaska
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and then on to New York for the trial uh
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the problem is is the pilot of that
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plane has been murdered by Daryl played
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by Mark Wahlberg and Midway through the
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flight they realize that he is flying
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them off to Nowhere uh and that he is
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planning on killing them and uh and
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through a battle and a scuffle and
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thankfully with a a trusty taser mine is
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able to subdue Daryl uh but now they are
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lost in the middle of nowhere and have
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to find a way back to Anchorage without
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getting killed uh what are your thoughts
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about Flight
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Risk you know I'll say this man as kind
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of uh wild as app performance was from
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Mark
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Walberg man that was a crazy performance
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man like I I didn't know like part it
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kind of felt like an SNL skit in some
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parts but honestly it's a fun movie it's
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like a really it's it's a it's a
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entertaining movie like you go there and
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it's intense it's intense it's it's
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there's there's suspense right um and
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you're right it's about three people on
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the airplane and shockingly uh it keeps
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you compelled man like toe for Grace is
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hilarious uh in this movie man and
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playing the playing the kind of guy that
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he should be playing um I I thought the
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actress was a
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little okay I I wasn't really stld on
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her performance um I I I only know her
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from D Abbey and uh I think she was in
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boy kills world right uh yes yeah so
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like I think those are the only two film
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things I know her from and uh she's okay
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but I I feel like I don't know she was a
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little wooden they could have went with
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a better actress I don't know but
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overall it's a fun movie it's a fun
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movie man my my GCE with her aside it it
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was fine
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uh you know what it's one of those
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movies where it's kind of like you know
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your home for Thanksgiving and you know
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you just get a movie for everybody to
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watch together with the family and even
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though it's not a family
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film but you know what I mean but it's
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that kind of movie where you're just all
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together and you're watching a movie
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together like it's it's a
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yeah it's it's a decent film to be
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honest with you like honestly like I
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wouldn't feel like I wasted my money if
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I went to the theater to watch this yeah
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it's kind of like if you're hanging out
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with your friends for Thanksgiving this
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is PARTA yeah yeah something like that
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uh yeah to me it was a fairly standard
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Thriller uh there was nothing really
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wrong with it I you know I think
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Michelle dri who plays mine she's more
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or less the straight person in the movie
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uh contrasting the the kind of the wild
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and crazy
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uh co-stars um Mark Walberg Mark Walberg
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makes a uh incredible decision to shave
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his head for a single joke in the First
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Act look they you've seen in the trailer
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you see it in the picture here uh his
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his cat flies off and you realize he's
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bald the audience laughs and it makes
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zero difference for the rest of the
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movie which tells me Mark wber is so
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into a role he will shave his head for a
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joke
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and so you know you know what's crazy
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for like and maybe I thought it was
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going to be a different movie than what
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what it was I I seriously thought like
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he had he was wearing a mask like it was
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like it was going to be a fake you know
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person under it was another person under
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the face but no he just shaved his head
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I'm like oh okay that's that's what
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we're going with cool yeah and you know
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and this is you know the I I like it as
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a thriller because it's fairly solid
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where it take it puts three people in a
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situ situation and gives them limited
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resources and then they have to figure a
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way to save themselves uh the idea that
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this plane is lost in Alaska is a is a
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huge uh huge plot point in this how are
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they going to get to Anchorage Alaska
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when Daryl is subdued not willing to
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help you hopes you all dies and now they
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have to figure out how are we going to
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get back to uh to a single City uh in
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all of
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Alaska uh then you know there's the
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fights you know you have a limited
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amount of weapons I I think for the most
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part the the plane was empty except for
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a tool kit and a first aid kit or yeah a
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tool bag and uh so now you have limited
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amount of items you can use to to figure
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this thing out use a gun you could you
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could probably you you'll puncture
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through the thing so like they couldn't
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they couldn't really use a gun yeah and
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yeah or yeah and you know topher's
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character says shoot him H and there are
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consequences to shooting someone in a
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plane uh the other thing is the Mark
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Wahlberg character is a vicious killer
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uh his goal is to kill the other two uh
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while meline her goal is to get Topher
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to uh to Anchorage alive and not kill
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anybody in the process you know she's
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bound to certain laws and rules of being
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a US Marshal and so you have this
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Dynamic constantly swirling uh yes he's
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bound but you know what happens with
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criminals who are bound in an airplane
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and you have your two main characters
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distracted uh at some point he gets his
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way out sorry to spoil it but this is
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again a standard Thriller and you know
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it's G to happen at some point but also
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I think it needs to be said too though
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that even though he's the pilot of the
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plane he kind of doesn't care if the
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plane goes down or not like he he's fine
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with the plane
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crashing yeah um and uh you know and
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then Topher plays basically the
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accountant uh the you know the one who's
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going to take down Al Capone and so he
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has money he can offer and there's
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there's a play in that and then um and
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then the you know I'm not going to spoil
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how she gets help but then there's some
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Shenanigans there as well there's this
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constant feeling of who can you trust
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and who can you not trust and so um yeah
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I solid Thriller I give Flight Risk a
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seven what do you what do you say about
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well and especially just because of the
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fact that man I you know it it probably
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wasn't done on a big budget nope and and
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and honestly I could see this movie
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turning a profit I can see this I can
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see people showing up for this movie so
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Ju Just on just because of that I'll
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give it a solid seven I mean because it
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was enjoyable it was fun it has some
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problems you know it's not the best
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movie I've seen but you know what I I
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wouldn't feel like I wasted my money if
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I Dro 20 bucks to go watch it yeah and
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as a for a Mel Gibson movie it doesn't
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need to make Mel Gibson money it doesn't
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need to make what Braveheart made or uh
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or The Passion of the Christ M it it
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just needs to make a modest return uh
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you know it feels like cuz think I I
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keep saying Heartbreak Ridge I I feel
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like that's not the right title um let
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me get it here
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uh why am I hacksaw Ridge there you go
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hacksaw Ridge that's his last movie
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since this one and uh he is preparing
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for the next uh Jesus movie so this
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feels like uh he's just kind of
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sharpening his skills before getting
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back to the big budget film is he really
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doing another Jesus movie yeah yeah
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watch the Joe r
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uh interview and he talks about his
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preparation for it and Jim kavel coming
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back as Jesus um but the the other thing
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is the fact that it is shot in an
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airplane um you know there you know I I
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do like the way he shot it uh and uh
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there's you know you can tell he's a
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master director because he knows how to
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how to work within the confines of this
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plane and and produce a a thriller
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