Despite the return of sunny days, the editorial staff of CNET France continues to have its eyes riveted on the catalogs of our SVoD streaming platforms favourites, and we pulled out three rock works that hit us like a slap in the face. And this week, our choice fell on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
This weekend, we’re getting into luxury fanfiction with The Guardians of Justicewe radically change our lives in Black Lagoon and we make the trigger speak in Shoot’Em Up.
What series and movies to watch this weekend on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video?
A crazy superhero series: The Guardians of Justice (Netflix)
Synopsis
To everyone’s amazement, the greatest of superheroes commits suicide live on television. His death will not only upset the fragile balance of power, but also his own team. Because as we know, evil gnaws at each of us, even among heroes.
The opinion of CNET France
The Guardians of Justice is undoubtedly the most iconoclastic production you can find on Netflix. From the first episode, we understand that we have just come across an Unidentified Super-Heroic Object, the scene of all the madness where the only limit is the lack of budget. We joke, even on this point the series does not care.
Because the latest addition to the officially disturbed mind of Adi Shankar (producer of Castlevania on the platform) takes malicious pleasure in chaining anything with unbeatable generosity. The show is a toy box where DC Comics (and Marvel) characters are openly stolen with bad copies of Superman, Batman and company, and we add jihadist white supremacists, robot dinosaurs, Rambo, Mecha-Hitler. .. And that’s just the beginning.
Edited like MTV clips from the 90s with the same saturated, epileptic effect, the episodes will take third-rate or forgotten actors (hello Denise Richards) and have them beat up in fights staged like a video game, tribute to Mortal Kombat included.
The Guardians of Justice is a fan-fiction that proudly displays its lack of budget, while not depriving itself of any (bad) effects until mixing live action and animation. So why is it worth seeing? Because we won’t find anything more fascinating, disconcerting, free (homosexuality, violence, drugs… The Boys passes for an episode of Little Poney next), broke, messy, generous and ridiculous. Whether we hate her or admire her, The Guardians of Justice is an experience to live.
- A trailer that only shows the tip of the iceberg:
A series where adrenaline reigns supreme: Black Lagoon (Netflix)
Synopsis
Okajima Rokuro is an uneventful young employee who leads a monotonous life. The day he is taken hostage by a band of sea pirates, he will realize that his existence is worth nothing and chooses to join this crew of mercenaries constantly flirting with death.
The opinion of CNET France
Black Lagoon is a resolutely action-oriented Japanese anime series. In the same vein as the Cowboy Bebop Where Trigun (also on Netflix) before her, she stages characters with a heavy past, tortured, whose violent actions are the consequence of the dangerousness of the world in which they evolve.
Less fine than the two examples cited, in particular with its somewhat stereotyped characters, the show nevertheless presents an interesting gallery at the head of which we find “Rock”, whose crushed personality will awaken in contact with the reality of the soul. human; and Revy, a damaged woman with a strong character and true heroine of the work.
Black Lagoon is an over-vitamined series that spares neither its action nor its humor while keeping a lot of strong moments in reserve, especially when our protagonists have to face (often violently) their own paradoxes concerning their lifestyles or their ideals.
The design and animation are neat, the story, even simplistic, follows with great pleasure and we remain a little unsatisfied at the end of the finale. In short, without placing oneself in the Pantheon of the genre, Black Lagoon is a solid entertainment to be savored at a hundred miles an hour.
- A rock’n’roll trailer:
A film that piles up corpses: Shoot’Em Up (Amazon Prime Video)
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Synopsis
By chance, the mysterious Smith finds himself protecting a barely born baby from a band of assassins. Unfortunately for them, Smith has a very special talent when it comes to killing. Helped by DQ, a prostitute, he will have to protect the child by eliminating any threat, by all means.
The opinion of CNET France
If you like the worked characters, the density of the story and the richness of the dialogues, go your way. Shoot’Em Up, it’s action, action, and a bit of action in between. The whole team behind it, from the director to the cast, including the director of photography, the editor, etc., has nothing to do with the content or the story. We are not so much in front of a film as in front of a regressive nanar who has only one desire: to play guns.
In this game, the feature film applies effectively to multiply lead exchanges by making use of a lot of imagination. And if you thought a carrot was a harmless vegetable, you’ll soon discover its most unkind use. We often cross the palm of bad taste, but with such pleasure that it becomes almost communicative.
Especially since even if it means having nothing to tell, the film at least has fun showing a lot. The rhythm does not weaken from the first to the last minute and if we prefer Hyper Tension In the same genre, Shoot’Em Up performs its silly entertainment function that just wants to have fun. A series B of action which decided to release all the horses, even the lame ones.
And just for the monolithic acting of Clive Owen, the objectification of Monica Bellucci and the histrionics of Paul Giamatti, the film will have you spending a perfect Saturday night with your friends, laughing and still wondering why you didn’t have it. seen before. Amazon Prime Video, partner of your best parties.
- A trailer that lets the action speak:
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