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5th Borough (2020)
Don't believe the IMDB rating of this film - It's awful.
I watched 5thB on Prime having seen it was rated at 7.8 on IMDB. It's pretty obvious very quickly that this is down to fake ratings and reviews. A few minutes in I already knew I'd been cheated and so paused the film and came to investigate. Clicking the rating and seeing the 'Top 1000' voters had given it an average 4.4 made more sense. In my opinion this is still too high. I'd love to see the Amazon stats on how many people made it to the end of this film. Less than 10% I reckon. I watched to the end so that I could give this a fair rating... it doesn't get worse, so if you survive the first 10mins, you could make it to the end. But it doesn't get better.
D.A.D. (2016)
Ultimately let down by the ending
Atmospheric film, that creates tension from the start, utilises a number of intriguing characters and keep things interesting despite essentially a single set. The 'twist' ending is a stretch to buy into since it's highly improbable a 9-year old could have created such characters and backstories. A shame as it devalues the previous 85mins - The film would have benefited from an ending that didn't try to offer explanation, letting the audience create their own or ponder the possibilities.
The ending itself is a neat idea, and had the film utilised simpler characters together with some interspersed illogical / seemingly impossible events, would have made a satisfying conclusion.