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Sep. 18th, 2019 08:28 pm144. Arena, Logan Jacobs
145. Cold Storage, David Koepp
Arena pretends that it's going to be competent urban fantasy but swerves into absurd save-the-world Mortal Kombat wish fulfillment. Apparently there are sequels, each with a number but no name.
Cold Storage is The Andromeda Strain rewritten by a modern action-horror movie screenplay writer. It feels like a novelization of the movie that wasn't made. Liberties are taken with scientific plausibility where a more careful writer could have maintained the speed and action without so many face-palms.
145. Cold Storage, David Koepp
Arena pretends that it's going to be competent urban fantasy but swerves into absurd save-the-world Mortal Kombat wish fulfillment. Apparently there are sequels, each with a number but no name.
Cold Storage is The Andromeda Strain rewritten by a modern action-horror movie screenplay writer. It feels like a novelization of the movie that wasn't made. Liberties are taken with scientific plausibility where a more careful writer could have maintained the speed and action without so many face-palms.
