Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-16 (Saturday)

On Nov 17, 2024 at 11:19:34 AM PST, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Cross (Amazon Prime) - "Hero Complex" - Episode 1 of the new TV series
(based on the novel series) starring Aldis Hodge as detective Alex
Cross.  First up Cross is investigating a controversial death that his
superiors want to sweep under the rug as a suicide, but he's convinced
is the work of a serial killer.  Cross is also being taunted by a
mysterious person who murdered his wife years earlier.  So far, the show
is off to a good start.

I agree. I like it.

I watched the first two episodes of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL on the Peacocks.
Eddie Redmayne stars as the eponymous assassin for hire who's apparently the
Mozart of long-range shots. The show starts out with him assassinating a
German politician by shooting him from over two miles away, which we're told
breaks the known world-record for a long-range kill.

Lashana Lynch plays a MI6 rifle expert who is assigned to help the German
investigation into the murder.

The Jackal himself runs into a few problems when he gets on his dark web
messenging server to collect payment for the German hit and receives the
run-around from the client, ultimately being stiffed and told to f-off by the
client. At the same time, he's offered a massive sum of money from a different
potential client to take out an Elon Musk-type tech billionaire who's
promising a new software app that will be able trace money anywhere in the
world and expose all the shady dealings of governments and business tycoons.

Nice blend of action and detective work, production values excellent, appears
shot on actual locations across Europe instead of the California-pretending-to
be-everywhere vibe we normally get.

Looking forward to the rest.