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Collateral | Netflix Limited Series | A British mystery with more drama than thrills.

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Collateral (2018) , is a  new four part limited mini-series that was made by BBC and presented to the rest of the world as a Netflix Original. We were thoroughly intrigued by the trailer which promised a lot with the stellar cast. The 4 episodes of this mini series occur over four consecutive days. They have tried to address too many issues in this short mini series, which in my opinion might have muddles the waters a bit.  Carey Mulligan  as DI Kip Gillespe,  Jeany Spark  as Major Sandrine Shaw,  John Simm  as MP David Mars and  Nicola Walker  (one of my favorite mini screen actors) as a gay clergy were stellar in their roles.  The series has bits about the pains of a homecoming soldier, the desperation of the refugees fleeing from their terror riddled home countries, drug abuse amongst young mothers,  LGBT acceptance amongst the English clergy, rank abusing Army superiors and the immigration stance that has ravaged all ...

Mute | Netflix Original Movie | Barely watchable futuristic thriller.

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Netflix has pretty much everything about the future sorted out and ready for us to witness.  Mute  follows the story of  Leo Beiler ( Alexander Skarsgård ) who is a mute bartender who goes in search for his missing girlfriend (Nadiraah- played by  Seyneb Saleh )  and  Skarsgård  is probably the only good thing about the whole movie.  The story is set 40 years into the future in Berlin, which is filled with immigrants where all cultures collide. I had read somewhere that the film took the makers 10 odd years to complete and the end product did leave you with a lot of questions and ‘meh’ moments. Paul Rudd  , too put in a pretty good shift as one of the two cocky American surgeons who makes quick bucks by sewing up mob henchmen who get injured in ‘the line of duty’. The first few minutes were intriguing and as the story evolved I was left wondering what the end game was.  The plot is predictable, dialogues uninteresting and...