"Hypnotic" (2023) Directed by Robert Rodriguez #hypnotic #movies

I was thirty or so minutes into this, Robert Rodriguez’s twenty first feature length release from the directors chair, and I was a worried man. Worry perhaps is too strong a word for it is “just a film” after all, but I did wonder what had happened to the story telling skills of a director I’ve admired since Desperado in 1995. All those long years ago in the halcyon days of the mid 1990’s I went back immediately to his 1992 debut El Mariachi, marvelled at the ludicrous and outlandish From Dusk Till Dawn, then avoided the Spy Kids franchise, adored Once Upon a Time in Mexico (see also Sin City, Machete and Planet Terror) and liked but was not won over by Alita: Battle Angel in 2019. This was also my first opportunity to list the above films and Robert Rodriguez’s on-going cinematic love affair with Quentin Tarantino as I watched Alita with my son at the cinema, the first of his films to receive the royal family assent. No cinema outing this time but I did stumble over his latest release and with Ben Affleck in the lead role and the premise and promise of a “secret government program” I was in.

Then half an hour later I was almost out.

Almost.

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