2025

Synopsis

A Danish ship is stuck in the ice trying to reach the North Pole when the crew finds a wounded man. Pursued by a being with super human strength they take him back to the ship. While recovering the man, revealed to be Victor Frankenstein, tells his tale.

Frankenstein grew up in France as the son of surgeon and his wife in an unhappy marriage. Closer to his mother than his father, he becomes obsessed with surpassing his father as a surgeon when his mother dies while giving birth to his brother William swearing to conquer death.

Synopsis

Dillinger Systems (very evil) lead by Julian Dillinger and rival fun guys ENCOM (very good) headed by Eve Kim are looking to bring digital entities into the real world, however for reasons never fully explained the lifespan of these entities are only 29 minutes before they suffer an agonising death and are returned to their digital existence.
Kim searches Flynn’s old systems for the permenance code, snippets of software that will allow digital entities to exist beyond the 29 minute limit, while ENCOM’s ambitions seems driven by altuistic motives such as solving food shortages, Dillinger Systems desires the permenance code for a different reason: Digital super soldiers.
The Master Control of the super soldiers is is Ares (played by Jared Leto) who is sent to get the code from Kim. However Ares have a fatal flaw: Emotions, and when Julian orders him to kill Kim to get the code, he switches sides. His second in command Athena gets promoted to Master Control and lacking the scruples of her predecessor goes at it with a gusto that suprises even her creator.

Synopsis

Leonardo DiCaprio is a washed up ex-revolutionary with a daughter he had with a fellow revolutionary who walked out on him. 16 years later military man (Sean Penn) with his own dreams and ambitions to join a white supremecy group call the The Christmas Adventures tracks them down and mayham ensures.

Impressions

Leonardo DiCaprio continues to impress as an actor. The film was bleakly funny. Definitely worth a watch.
Thematically it feels a little too on the nose politically, especially in the beginning, but as the film progressed it seemed to make a point out of both the revolutionary group and the white supremecists being a bit clown’ish.