The Invitation (2022) - Movie Review

Under normal circumstances, writing about a film like this that hinges on a plot twist would be difficult. As much as I gush over the films I like, and trash the ones I don’t, I try and be careful not to get too specific about what happens in the story. The last thing I want is to ruin the experience for someone else, even if it’s with a film I personally don’t care for. However. Seeing as this film has been marketed so poorly that both its trailer, and the first paragraph of its Wikipedia page (not even the plot synopsis, but the full page), give it clean away, I don’t particularly feel like putting in more effort than the people responsible for bringing this to the public. Although, as we’ll get into, that will be a familiar sensation throughout this review regardless.

Army Of Thieves (2021) - Movie Review

Well, after our last look at the story of a charming lead teaming up with one of Interpol’s most wanted on a quest for three mythic items in the world of international thievery, let’s see if someone else can do it better. No, this actually wasn’t planned out in advance; this just happens to have a reasonably comparable story to Red Notice. It is also the second step in Zack Snyder’s planned franchise surrounding Army Of The Dead, serving as an origin story for that film’s breakout character Ludwig Dieter. And it turns out to be just the exposure actor Matthias Schweighöfer needed, and not just as a lead actor.