What was the last movie you saw...? Part IV

[Charger]

CELL

After a strange signal from people's cell phones turn them into blood thirsty fiends a small group of survivors is trying to safely travel across New England.

John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson lead the Stephen King adaptation by the man himself.

This takes a bit of a new twist on the zombie-theme and adds something of a supernatural element, although the source of the signal is never revealed or explained.

The movie relies heavily on it's two leads but Isabelle Fuhrman's character is the one that I took most notice of. There's a good mixture of action and suspense and many King's trademarks are present.
This does however share maybe bit too many similarites to The Stand, but that's not a deal breaker. The movie only runs about 95 minutes which on one side is good but it does mean that occationally the story moves along bit too fast.

A rather good King adaptation, which frankly though would have benefitted from bit more gore and from a better ending...this one fell bit flat to be honest.


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[Typhon]

Factotum (2005)

A wannabe writer (Matt Dillon) with a drinking problem, wanders around L.A.  He loses job after job and meets a few women (Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei), also with drinking problems.

One might think a story like this wouldn't be very interesting, yet I couldn't stop watching.  Little bits of unintended humor, here and there, were a big help.  8/10

[Typhon]

Operation Finale (2018)

In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann (Ben Kingsley), the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.

Good portrayal of this story.  8/10