Enjoyable film up until the climax. It's a silly moment that strains credulity & undoes a lot of terrific suspense.
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Like most people, I'd always seen it included in highlight packages expounding around the great cinema experiences of all time. Surely, my immature brain assumed, it's in there because they fit an incredible number of extras into frame, and the inherent beauty of filming in the desert, right?
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Like Zach Snyder, Denis Villeneuve crafts the cinematic equivalent of brutalist commercial architecture. The difference being that when you go inside his beautifully oppressive buildings, it's an IKEA or a Shake Shack. In Snyder's you get a Hot Topic or a Subway.
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