We'll be keeping our hands in our pockets. One should imagine that Secret Invasion would've won over more critics a few years ago before we hit critical mass with these things but, nowadays, even finger-snippy stuff doesn't quite cut it. God, The Boys literally had a man explode from his penis last season. The edge is soon softened when the chopped finger morphs from human to Skrull, because we can't have too much graphic violence in a superhero series (unless it's The Boys, or Invincible, or Peacemaker, or The Punisher, or…) And the shock doesn't really stick: the MCU is playing catch-up to those gnarlier gore vehicles, after all, so it feels a bit 2021. Look, it's hardly an Eli Roth flick, but it takes you more by surprise because who the hell expected Olivia Colman to go full Hostel? You watch her go up to him, the scissors coming down to his finger, and you're like, “nah, not a chance,” then before you know it his metacarpal's on show and they've gone full LiveLeak. No, no, we know this series is for adults (did we mention that?) because you see the bloody thing come off, leaving bright-red meat where the guy's mouse-clicking finger used to be. The camera doesn't meekly cut away as you might expect of a Marvel, which famously took a decade to acknowledge that sex is a thing and, you know, there's no “Disney” in “dismemberment”. 2006s Casino Royale was not just the first James Bond film after Pierce Brosnan left the. It's a proper laugh, but it's also surprisingly gnarly. The torture scene in Casino Royale could have been much worse as invisioned by 007 actor Daniel Craig.
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