One Sentence Media Reviews
You think you're reading a really lovely and helpful book about child rearing, and you're feeling quite equipped and inspired to be a great parent, when suddenly it hits you that in order to have patience and grace with your offspring, you must first find patience and grace for your inner child, at which point you realize that Dr. Kennedy has therapized you quite successfully and you feel even better.
You can have a lot of fun in a world with superhero thieves, and even more if your movie doesn’t bother with any slow or boring exposition for more than 20 seconds at a time, so altho this has sort of little to do with the 60s original by the same name, it’s a very entertaining light-hearted action movie romp.
The thing reads like he finished it and the editor told him to punch it up so he went back and tacked dad jokes on to every line he could think of one - I couldn’t get through it.
For a book ostensibly about a war, this slow burning buildup of geopolitical diplomacy, drama, and intrigue detailing British-Chinese relations in the early 1800s doesn’t actually find its climax in battles, but rather in the very dryly funny political maneuverings that led to the war, which I found to be entertaining and ultimately quite worthwhile, altho it was a dense read along the way at some points, and I wish it had detailed more of the Chinese history alongside the British.
I can see why this is a lesser known 60s spy thriller I mean it’s got the intrigue and the atmosphere but it just doesn’t really have the stakes, I think because of a weak plot.
Imagine a movie with 1/4 of the plot of kill bill and also 1/4 of the rizz and you might be asking yourself why would anyone bother and if so we have something in common.
This interesting combination of history, biography, travelogue, and ethics is chock full of useful and mind-expanding information about blindness, disability, and accessibility - unfortunately it’s also meandering, overdone, and long, and needed some sharper editing.