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The Hunger Games (2012)
Something like a low-budget TV crap. Sooooo overrated.
First : I am not a dumb teen so perhaps I am missing the whole point... Check my other ratings on other films if you want to check my profile and sorry for my bad English.
Secondly : What the hell ? Why the rating are so high on IMDb and rottentomatoes ?
I usually don't make reviews, but after watching this film... I felt I HAVE to level down the hype around this crap.
First, global plot is full of holes, non-sens and unbelievable pieces of junks. Everyone should agree on that instead of repeating useless excuses such as "Oh the untold things are so much clearer in the books... it so much more believable in the books you should have read".
There a tons of useless characters we don't care at all and that's not even because there is not time or place to develop their backgrounds or to build their "feelings" : lots of time is spend on useless things, even repeating obvious parts while ignoring large interesting spaces...
Everything feels wrong in this film. Bad photography, bad plot, bad rhythm, bad cut... Seriously... I don't understand how critics are so generous.
CONCLUSION : Bad in so many ways. Boring. Useless crap with a plot that could have been easily better developed by amateurish film makers. I don't care if its a good or bad adaptation from the book : It's definitely a bad film.
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
8 with the alternate ending, 6 with the standard stupid happy ending.
Not much to say about this film... Interesting and well driven plot. Rewriting personal history... limited multiple second chances... and without major logical flaws... that's a pretty rare and nice achievement. Acting is good... "episodes" are well cut... The main character keeps on making human mistakes and the empathy works.
All the film is going in the same way and the logical ending is the alternate ending you'll find on the DVD release or on some-online-video-publishing websites with nice search engines.
The standard final non-sens "happy ending" of the film is a shame. A real shame.
I would rate this film 8 with the alternate ending or 6 with the standard stupid happy ending so let's rate it 7 :)
Journal of a Contract Killer (2008)
Not really different... and really not good.
Just a quick review as I still feel this film is a bit overrated. I am a huge fan of independent films, strange films, not-as-the-others films or whatever... and usually enjoy even average killer-related films.
I did not expect much... but this film did not reach this very average level. I saw many better low budget direct-to-TV-or-DVD films than this one.
Dialogs quality is going worse and worse through the film... of course there is no real action but that's not even the problem... characters are empty. We totally don't care about the sad-mother side of the killer... and the four last scenes of the film are so bad it reminds me parodies.
a REAL waste of time I hope you can avoid (that's why I am making my first review on IMDb).