{"id":34759,"date":"2021-12-11T19:36:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T01:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34759"},"modified":"2021-12-11T19:36:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T01:36:36","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-706","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/12\/11\/belated-movie-reviews-706\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The red shirts had a few bad hours in this one.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Enhanced<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2019) is a muddled tale of a small collection of humans, enhanced to superpower status against their will as children, who are now being hunted by a government responsible for that enhancement.<\/p>\n

And being hunted by something else.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, unlike, say, the TV show Heroes<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2006-2010), not much imagination is on display here. The enhanced humans are faster and stronger, but little else. They mostly want to be left alone; there’s little ambition or mental problems, not to even think about moral questions, brought on by the fact that they at least appear to be superior to everyone else.<\/p>\n

Then add in the ultimate hunter who consumes their souls, and by now, We Don’t Care<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In other words, this is mostly about the fact that dropping a dumpster on lead character Anna not only doesn’t squish her, it barely even phases her. And while it’s pleasant that we needn’t view her mutilated innards, beyond that it’s just a relief that we’re making progress towards the end of this story.<\/p>\n

In other words, this movie is not worth hunting down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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