Reviews

Definitely not your typical Hollywood movie. This german production gives you a shocking view of what a War really. 0 heroic scenes or amazing fighting sequences here, only honest and good guys (from all sides, german or french) being fooled and sended to a nightmare, and once there obligated to stay, die and sufre without purpose. At the end of the movie you have this feeling of unfairness towards the characters, but is it War fair? No, world war 1 was horrible and meaningless, and this movie reflects it in such a perfect way. The acting felt really honest and enjoyable, and the message was perfectly delivered. We'll see this movie at the oscars for sure.

If Marvel has shown us something in the last few years is that, when they create too much hype for a movie, they deliver and never disappoint us. The only wrong thing about this movie is the scene where the problem is created. Of course Peter has every reason to go and ask Dr. Strange for help, but the very scene where the spell goes wrong felt very forced and just stupid.

Once we left this problem behind, the movie is superb. The fan service is incredible while at the same time delivering it in an incredible way. The appearence of Tobey and Andrew is extremely pleasent while at the same time being very important in Tom Holland's Peter Parker arc. Every scene between the 3 of them is just a love letter to every Spiderman fan!! (including me). Tom Holland gives such an emotional perfomance, he proves everyone saying he's not a great Peter Parker was wrong. Willem Dafoe is just amazing, he steals the show with his crazy perfomance and confirms himselfs as the best villain of the entire Spiderman franchise. Honorable mentions to Zendaya and Alfred Molina perfomances and of course, the bittersweet final is just incredible. I was totally hyped by this movie and i can happily say it exceeded my expectations on every level. Not even Scorcese could hate this movie.

When i first heard about this show, the first thing that came to my mind was Money Heist. And not exactly a robbery with a lot of unnecesary extra seasons. I thought huge budget spend on set, CGI and entertainment while the dialogue and storyline is given to the bunch of guys who knows how to do a lame predictible money maker series.

I gave it a try and after watching the first episodes i started to think that i might made a judgement mistake.

For a moment i was caught in it's mistery, unpredictable events and complex moral issues. You get to judge the competitors while at the same time realize you would probably do the same monstrosity's they are commiting. You see great acting, scenes that make you fantasize abouth the old days in South Korea when all of them where playing these infantile games without their debts, guilt and traumas. Even tough i'm no korean and never been in Korea, i felt nostalgia.

Then, the show starts to have a few flaws in matters of coherence wich you try to ignore to keep having a pleasent experience. And for moments, you do. You try to understand the unnecesary plot about the young police who extremely easily breaks into a secret, dangerous facility runned by a cruel, wealthy organization who seem to have been running this games without problem for at least 2 decades. If that's not enough, the showrunners give you a terrible, incoherent explanation about his missing brother. It's almost like the tape of the series came by mistake with a few Mission Impossible scenes in the middle of it.

There's a few scenes and cliché dialogues that makes you wonder if the series is looking to play safe as another hit in terms of Netflix views, or more as the daring, complex drama that was, at least, what i was expecting it to be.

My other problem was that after 5 episodes i realized i wasn't empathizing too much with the characthers (with the exception of competitor 001, of course).

And then i arrived at the Climax of the series. Episode 6. The moral concept is taken way beyond in this game as competitors pick their closest partner without knowing that they're gonna have to eliminate each other. You get to see the real face of all the characthers and the cast best perfomances. There's a lot of betrayal, hesitation, tension, characther exploration and development, and of course, the heartbreaking endings to each of the main eliminations. It was a perfect ending for Jy-Yeong, Ali and the old beloved 001.

After that perfect episode, you are blown back to reality and the shows continues to fell apart.

1.- One of the more interesting characthers of the show, Sae-Byeok get's fataly injured in the more stupid and meaningless way.

2.- The plot of the police guy confirm's itself as totally unnecesary.

3.- The closure of the games it's no much more than decent.

4.- The plot twist about the old man being the host of the games is just stupid and gave bad closure to a characther who had originally a great arc.

5.- The last scene where the protagonist doesn't take the plane in order to fight against the whole organization by himself?? Am I a watching John Wick or something? What about the daughter he promise not to lie anymore and take care of? It seems like they destroyed all his characther development.

It seems like, this show had everything to be a cult classic and instead preferred to be the popular easy to digest Netflix hit i was expecting it not to be.

Before watching this movie i was very excited, after all you don't find a movie with a cast like this every day. Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman and Kevin Bacon. So you would understand my disappointment when my biggest surprise was not the great plan being perfectly executed. My biggest surprise was that the biggest fault of this film was the acting. WHAT A WASTE OF CAST. Dear good, all this oscar winning legends put together and not a single remarkable acting in the whole movie. They gave the worst characters to them and the better ones to a bunch of nobody's. You realize this when a movie about innocent kids being raped, tortured and mentally disturbed for life do not deliver enough emotion. Of course i felt bad for the kids, but with this cast and this story there should have been tears dropping Down my face and oscar nomitations. This could have been easily a cult movie, instead is a pretty decent movie i'll forget in a few weeks.