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The last of my Thanksgiving week theater watches was Devotion. A movie about America’s Forgotten War, The Korean War. I only ever learned about this war in one class years ago and we spent a very quick class period rushing through it. And sadly, this movie taught me just as much as that one class period. There aren’t many things to learn here other than the names of places where important things happen, how the war started, why the war is starting, and who is involved. I mean hell… this war could have started the third world war if it got more out of hand. What’s crazy is this is Jonathan Majors’s second time in the Korean War and the second time where I still learned nothing about it. That being said, he’s pretty good here, not his best work but even his so so work is better than most peoples. He also has a completely unexplained character quirk. Glen Powell knocks out his second aviation movie this year! I still haven’t seen either Top Gun movie so I can’t compare him between the two yet. But I’m just gonna assume he’s better there. His character is pretty surface level, no digging required to know what he’s thinking. Christina Jackson is really good here, she works really well with both Majors and Powell and really sells the emotional moments. Thomas Sadoski and Joe Jonas (yeah you read that right) are good here as members of the crew, the only two with significant screen time and dialogue at least. Serinda Swan gets to play a pretty good version of actress Elizabeth Taylor. The flight sequences I thought looked pretty good and the action scenes we have look good but they’re both too short and too few. There’s literally only two battles on display and neither of them last very long or even come anywhere close to what we see in All Quiet on the Western Front. Not to mention the music that backs it all up is just generic action music that does nothing for me anymore, most of the music here is generic. I did enjoy the small reading blurbs at the start and end of the movie but the one at the end says nothing about the rest of the war. This is most definitely worth a watch, just wait until it’s streaming. 7/10. -Tyler.
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