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Safe | Netflix Original | Harlan Coben played it safe on this one.

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If  The Five  ,  Sherlock  and  Dexter  did not intrigue you enough to give it a go at the new   Netflix  Original  Safe   , i doubt anything would.  Harlan Coben’s  sticks to the generic formula that worked so well in The Five and is a pretty interesting watch. It, however, does not follow the upward trajectory in terms of entertainment factor as in the case of ‘the five’.  Safe is set in suburban British gated community where all the main characters of the story live.  The story gets rolling when a girl goes missing from the community.  In typical Coben style there are a few other characters, all with their own share of secrets that form the crux of the story. In the end everything is connected, some less convincingly than others. After a brief hiatus,  Michael C. Hall  returns as the main character  Tom Delaney  , a widower and parent of two kids in Safe. Unlike the weird neighborhood serial-killer  Dexter , here he is on the run searching for his missing daughter. The brill

Deadpool 2 | A love story for the families, NOT.

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Deadpool 2  was one of the movies that we were waiting for since it was announced. We did manage to book tickets for the first day. It sure did deliver what it promised. It's an ode to the content of the script and comic timing of the actor that  Ryan Reynolds  is. There was not a single dull moment in the entire movie and yet it was not 'breath-taking' or 'out-of-the-world' by any means. The story line is hardly something to applaud but the dialogues and scenes make it interesting.  I would go to the extent of saying that it is a movie spoof through and through and yet it is so original that you laugh till you cry !  Pssst..It has the best ever mid-credit scene of any marvel movie.  *** NO SPOILERS*** Deadpool  dies or does he ?? Its not a spoiler if I leave it as a Open ended question ! Morena Baccarin should have had more screen time. But hey, it is not her movie - so I guess I cannot complain. Josh Brolin  ( Nathan Summers  /  Cable ), turned out to be noth

Anon | Netflix | Another decent futuristic thriller

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A dark, futuristic Sci-fi thriller  Anon  sticks to age old streamlined story telling.  Anon hinges on the idea that anonymity is a thing of the past and that its impossible for anybody to get away with a crime as both the perpetrator and the victim both have every single second of their life available and recorded for the officers of the law. What you see is a digital footprint in itself. Everything is pretty much an open and shut case before the investigation even sets off ! Then, however, things go for a toss when you no longer can believe what you see. Yes, Anon pretty much deals with the hacking of the human mind. Sal Frieland  ( Clive Owen ) is a detective who investigates murders and is pretty good at it. Things change when he is called into a crime scene where the last few moments that a victim had seen through her eyes was what the perpetrator saw through his/her eyes. A series of such murders and a chance encounter with a anon, led the investigators to believe that a lady