Alex Flood

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For 32 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 78% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 16% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 12.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Alex Flood's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 78
Highest review score: 100 Past Lives
Lowest review score: 40 Black Adam
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Alex Flood
    Gladiator II
    If you loved Gladiator, it’s odds-on you’ll enjoy this too. It’s got all of the same exciting bits – swordfighting, rousing speeches, nasty poshos getting what they deserve. The problem is that’s all it gives you. You want to feel like you’re watching Maximus lift off his helmet and deliver that iconic monologue for the first time again. You want the thrill of a core memory being unlocked. You want to know you’ll be quoting Mescal’s lines to your mates in the pub for the next 10 years. Gladiator 2, piously respectful as it is, can only offer a faded memory of that experience. There was a dream that was Rome – and this is kind of it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Alex Flood
    A Haunting in Venice
    Saving the day this time isn’t Poirot, but the city itself which Branagh captures in all its decadently crumbling glory.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Alex Flood
    Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
    Dead Reckoning’s spectacular finale does well to bring things back on brand – seriously, the closing action tableau is as impressive as any you’ll see – but by then most will have stopped caring because their heads hurt.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Alex Flood
    Extraction 2
    There’s a bit of perfunctory plot to get past – Rake has repressed guilt involving his ill son and ex-wife that needs resolving – but character development is not this film’s strong point. In fact, it’s often baffling.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Alex Flood
    Cocaine Bear
    There’s already talk of a sequel, Cocaine Shark, and the cast have joked about getting jobs in the Cocaine Bear Cinematic Universe. So maybe it doesn’t really matter if Cocaine Bear is average, as long as it has both cocaine and bears in it. And we can most definitely confirm that it does.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Alex Flood
    Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
    At only 88 minutes, Tournament Of Champions is a super-quick shot of adrenaline – too short to grow boring, yet meaty enough to feel like value for money.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Alex Flood
    Black Adam
    But even the fun moments are overshadowed by the writers’ constant need to over-explain each plot point.

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