Paris can wait

This film ... was not my cup of tea. I'm not saying it was bad. Although I think if it had been exceptionally good I would have enjoyed it despite the drama/romance genre. I can, after all, enjoy such films as well.

This, however, it was pretty average. Not terrible, but not good enough to make me feel it was worth my time. Perhaps I was not its target audience, but I feel that in a good film we can relate to all kinds of characters.

I found nothing relatable in this. Nothing. I didn't really like any of the characters. I couldn't relate to any. The main lead pissed me off, because I would have done everything completely differently that her and as a result her actions irritated me. I don't watch a lot of romantic drama and yet nothing about this felt particularly fresh.  Once again, I can't say it was bad - there were some cool visuals, some neat ideas, a lot of nice food. I just didn't like it.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Honestly, I didn't expect to love it as much as I loved the first part and went into it thinking:"Ah, I bet this won't be as good as the first one." But really - I think it was pretty much just as good. It was - similar. I even liked the callbacks to the originals, the scene that was the same, but the outcome was different. It was clever.  Sure, they used some famous people like Elton John purely because they can do that now with the first part having been successful, but I don't really mind.

I was skeptical about them bringing Harry (Colin Firth) back and how they would do it, but I think plot-wise it was just plausible enough and didn't feel like a huge cop-out. And really, the film doesn't hold very well without him. He is just an amazing actor. Julianne Moore was really great too.

Fun, enjoyable watching, the plot was pretty cool too, it had some tropes, some things you could expect, but it was a fairly clever jab at the US president at least.