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Kray (2010)
Very good movie but....
Very good film with very good actors, the love story between the protagonist and the German woman is very moving, not at all sugary, two crippled by the war learn to love and respect each other. The scene of the restoration of the bridge for the abandoned train to cross is breathtaking and will remain etched in my mind for a long time. But there are some details that I didn't like. We see a camp where they are people who were supposed collaborators of the Germans. What do these people eat? They fish, they kill animals and eat them, they cultivate but where can you cultivate with so much snow all around, where do they find the coal to run the trains? They don't give us details about life in the camp. Who brings them food and supplies? When the protagonist arrives at the camp there are 2 trains running and he also brings the abandoned train and there are 3 trains. 3 trains are moving up and down the tracks, people are racing, laughing, having fun but what are they doing? They don't show anyone driving the train for serious work eg going to a neighboring town to bring supplies, bring coal, working seriously. The protagonist takes the train, leaves, comes, leaves again, comes again, what exactly does he do? Does he just travel back and forth on the rails? We don't see him doing a specific job. Racing and fun is not a serious reason for running trains. I think the writer should have explained more about life in the camp and the purpose of the trains moving back and forth. Despite the objections, the film is worth seeing, it is very good.
The Road Dance (2021)
Very good movie silly ending
Nice movie but with a stupid ending and I don't mean the mindless happy end at the end of the movie. The problem is the stupid solution the writers came up with to justify how the girl discovered her rapist. The night the doctor raped her everyone was drunk and clearly everyone could be the girl's rapist. But when the girl realizes that the rapist is the doctor because he reeked of whiskey it's silly because anyone who would approach her and reeked of whiskey could be her rapist. It's not a strong evidence of someone's guilt the smell of whiskey especially in Scotland when the action takes place where whiskey is their national drink and everyone drinks whiskey so anyone could be accused of being the rapist. In my opinion, the identification of the rapist should be done by other elements, e.g. A button from the doctor's clothes, his watch, an element belonging to the doctor. It would be even more dramatic if the doctor himself approached her and told her that he was her rapist and asked her to forgive him. But identifying the doctor as a rapist because he reeked of whiskey is absurd and comical. The writers should have worked on it more to come up with a more plausible explanation of the identity of the rapist. Other than that the movie is very good and worth watching. The actors were all very good and Hermione Corfield who played the girl was also very good.
Sinister (2012)
Leave your logic outside
The film is great if you leave your logic outside cause if you take it with you then the problems begin. Is it possible for little kids having the power to hang adults from the trees, drown adults in the pool, tie adults and burn them in their car? Not even a grown up man would have the physical power to hang 4 people from a tree alone without help. And the victims don't resist, they don't fight and they are helpless against children. I like horror movies when they are believable but seeing little kids to execute all those killings is something unnatural and unbelievable. And of course I don't like kids presented as killers or demonic creatures. Leave the kids alone.
Looper (2012)
Get ready for a headache
This film is so messy that you gonna get a headache trying to figure out what's happening. But the real disappointment is Bruce Willis. His participation was totally unnecessary. First there is no resemblance between Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis and the viewer never see these 2 people as the younger and older self of the same person and second of course is the big question "why Joseph Gordon-Levitt didn't play himself the two roles (young looper and 30 years older)?" If Joseph Gordon-Levitt had played the two roles (young Joe and old Joe) the whole film would be much more interesting and believable.
Retfærdighedens ryttere (2020)
Stupid film
It's so easy to figure out when there's a bomb in a train and the bomb explodes and when another train without a bomb comes and falls on a moving train. Was it so difficult for the police to distinguish the explosion of a bomb in a train from the simple collision of two trains without any bomb exploding? The explosion of a bomb would leave different marks from the marks of a two trains accident. Therefore the following violence and blood was unnecessary and stupid.
The Lost Symbol (2021)
Amateurs and careless
The film was shot without care and attention. I started to see it but when I saw Peter Solomon whom had been kidnapped him and had cut off his hand with that unnatural cover covering his supposed lost hand and his ambutated arm was the same length as the other arm, it was so fake and amateurish that I laughed and I stopped to see it. Is it possible in 2021 that they will not be able to shoot convincingly a scene with the hand amputated? I remember I saw a film with Marion Cotillard (Rust and bone) and she had her 2 legs cut off and it was so real and convincing that I was wondering how did they shoot the scenes showing the cut off legs.
L'ennemi public n°1 (2008)
Silly movie
I do not understand the enthusiasm and high ratings for a silly movie trying to make a hero an irresponsible sick gangster who confuses revolution with crime. Characteristic is the scene when he beats to death the journalist in the cave calling him fascist while at that moment he is a much bigger fascist. Or when he preaches how bad the banks are and when he leaves the banks after the robbery he shoots the policemen on the street with the obvious risk of killing an innocent passerby. Apparently a collateral loss after the revolutionary act of bank robbery. Personally, I found the hero irresponsible, sadistic, psychotic, sick and greedy and I was happy when he was killed at the end of the movie. It is obvious that the director is trying to make the hero likeable in the eyes of the viewer but I found him terribly disliked.
The Beach Bum (2019)
Freedom means responsibility and wisdom
I saw 20 minutes and turned off the TV. I couldn't stand more of this idiocy. The director and the writer confuse freedom with immaturity and silliness. A man always drunk and high on drugs isn't free. He's just immature and stupid. Now I understand why Gary Oldman refused the role and I think McConaughey was dumb enough to accept it. Some reviewers say that this is freedom and this man lives a free life. A free man is a man mature and responsible who gives all his energy to improve his life and others people lives. A man drunk who falls unconcious on the floor and wastes his days taking dope and having "fun" where "fun" means spending my days without respecting myself and the others isn't free. He's just a child who didn't grow up.
The Road (2009)
Boring and depressing
Boring and depressing. Mad Max is far better. I didn't understand why the father was telling to his son "We've got to go south" or "We've got to go to the coast". They went to the coast and there was nothing there. I first thought that at the coast or south there would be survivor camps or a more organized society but there it was as bleak and dangerous as everywhere around. What's the point of going to the sea or south?
The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
Sugar sugar oh honey honey
Silly movie. The theory that your mind has a magnet that attracts everything you want if you have positive thinking seems to work for everyone even those who don't believe and have negative attitude except for poor Tucker ( Jerry o'Connell). Poor Tucker dares to dream to settle down marry and have a family, he even buys a diamond ring and a brand new Landrover gifts to Miranda (Katie Holmes) but The Secret doesn't work for him and there is no explanation why for everybody else even the mockers the theory works but for Tucker doesn't work. It reminds me of a book The Alchemist by Paul Coelho, a book that sold thousand copies with the same theory "If you want something so much the whole universe conspires to get it" but all those who bought the book and believed the theory soon discovered that the opposite applies "If you want something so much the whole universe conspires NOT to get it".
Der Name der Rose (1986)
The motive is ridiculous
I saw this film after 35 years from its release. I haven't read the book. And believe me I didn't understand all the fuss about it. It was a bad movie and I will explain why. I think Sean Connery was a bad choice. He is a good actor but is too sexy for playing a medieval monk. And his face reminds you James Bond so you've got a clean modern person playing a poor monk who is wandering around according to his Franciscan order. He didn't persuade me. I think a lean ascetic figure would be more appropriate. Christian Slater was talentless. He ruined the film. The second roles were too exaggerated. But the biggest mistake is the motive behind all those killings. At that time around 1300 AD when most monks didn't know to write or read who would murder all those people for a Greek book that is supposed that scandalised the monks to laugh? I saw the film and I was expecting at the end that a big secret would be revealed, a great intrigue. Instead I saw a blind monk behind all those murders because he didn't want the monks to read the book and start to laugh or enjoy life. The motive is silly and ridiculous.
Game Night (2018)
Keep it simple
It wasn't that bad but it was so perplexed and confusing that at the end you didn't figure out what was happening. I think if it was simpler it would be better. Simple ideas with logical storytelling make great films. And I didn't understand the reason why Brooks (Kyle Chandler) was punished with house arrest and was wearing the ring around his foot.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Once upon a time in the zzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Too long and too boring. It starts well with the train robbery but after that stagnates. Its supposed to show the end of the era of cowboy gangs but it's so slow moving and nothing is happening that after 1 1/2 hour I turned off the TV. Boring. Even Brad Pitt whom I always admire as an actor seemed to me a bad actor in this movie.
The Lake House (2006)
What a headache!
It's the first time I write a review. Believe me. But when I saw all those 9/10 and 10/10 I thought I'm stupid. I wondered did I saw the same movie? This movie is so silly that I really wonder how the producers gave their money to shoot this film. Personally I hate the movies which go back and forth and back and forth and this movie goes so often back and forth that you lose any sense of time. And I hate the movies that you must see them second or third time because the narration is so chaotic that you don't understand anything at the first time. And this movie has these two basic mistakes. Chaotic, dull, meaningless.