I love HOC. May dig it out!!
The Empty Man (2020, David Prior)
This was recommended to me. More fool me. After a decent prologue, this leaps forward in time to a seemingly unrelated storyline of a missing teen. A mysterious cult hover in the background. At a bum numbing 145 minutes, I felt there was a reasonable 100 minute film here without much loss. All power to 20C Fox who gave this guy his head. Sadly he cannot write a third act, so pulls out the cliches thick and fast to cover this up (unsuccessfully). An oddity.
Recommended? Hmmmmmmmm. Great opening, but it flounders severely. IMHO.
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