Reviews

Most critics don't have the guts to say a bad word about Return of the King because everybody has agreed to agree that this is the best Trilogy ever... Hello! Wake up guys. The first two movies were good, but this third one is just tedious. The fight is cool, but the ending is terrible. The story slows down several times to make place for a corny moment. I almost started laughing (crying would have been better)when the action was stopped so our Hobbits could talk about the Shire, can they please do this after they have thrown the ring in the lava, please. And the epilogue! God, when I thought it was over, there was 20 minutes of corny scenes to follow. Sorry critics, but maybe you should take a look at yourselves, cause if you think this is the best film ever, then something is seriously wrong! The original SW Trilogy is still way better, when Sci-Fi is concerned.

people don't go with the flow, and see this movie for what it really is: pretentious and tedious.

This movie, by the French director Jan Kounen, is not really something most people will enjoy. I was interested in the film because of Monica Bellucci, the angelic actress set to make it big time thanx to The Matrix 2. Why she ever chose to be in Dobermann, is really a mystery to me. The movie delivers nothing but straightforward violence. There is no subcontext and almost no humor. Admittedly, Jan Kounen has a cool style, but that doesn't make this a decent movie. It all feels a little like Natural Born Killers, but without the intelligence of Oliver Stone. Dobermann chooses style over substance and the result is a boring and tasteless hour and a half. Jan Kounen has made some good things too though. His commercials are cool and the short story Le Dernier Chaperon Rouge is visually outstanding. I guess the thing about Kounen is he should stop writing his own movies and concentrate on filming other people's work. Then he could make it big...

check out the mentioned ...Rouge to catch my drift

Jan Kounen's style really shines in this short. The warm colors, the perfectly implemented CGI, the costumes, it's all beautiful. You fall in love with the chaperon rouge (little red riding hood)and her surroundings immediately. Her world stands in strong contrast to the evil undergound laboratory where another chaperon rouge resides. The latter lost her legs when an evil professor cut her to pieces. She survived, killed the professor, but inherited his evilness. She wants to steal the last riding hood's legs so she can dance like she did long ago. A modern fairy tale with a lot of visual flair.

Jan Kounen tells a strange story here. A Mexican artefact turns out to be a vibrator. It actually sounds like a bad porn movie, but rest assure, it stays pretty clean. This short again shows the unique style of Kounen's filming, but is also prove of his bad taste when it comes to his writing. Worth seeing for the visuals...