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American Sicario (2021)
Not sooo bad as stated here.
Just watched it and have to write after years a review again, after seeing all those others here.
Is this movie worth watching? Maybe. Can it compete with the Sicario movies, absolutely not. However the atmosphere of the movie is somehow comparable. Is it an action movie? Nope!
With this type of movies you have to consider that they are not high budget Hollywood flicks. And for that, its watchable. If you expect too much though, you will be disappointed.
Danny Trejo seems to make 20 movies a year now. And like Bruce Willis nowadays, he had maybe 2 to 3 days of filming. Nothing special at all. Same old about his character.
The story itself, if really based on a true story, is not bad at all. And if based on a true story, of course there are not many twists. Duh. Real life is not a hollywood movie.
Surveillance (2008)
Finally watched this masterpiece
It took many years since its release until I finally saw this movie. Its my first review since I think around 10years. Had even to change my name from Julian0922 to this one.
Yet not much out there nowadays worth watching.....
The movie is not for everybody, who likes Avengers etc etc, all colorful, stay away, its not shallow and certainly not dark enough.
For people who want to be put to their seat and are in awe how someone can come up with such a sick story, its an absolute must see. You won't regret it.
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
The beginning of the mess....straight back to Compton!!
...I had to watch the movie since I actually liked at the time some of the music of NWA, especially the title track of the movie. Yet what happened after-wards, after their success, is just a sell out to make a bunch of money with no more attitude than all the others.
And now the movie and it would deserve just one star, yet the music brings back some memories when things could have been changed in a different way than they wanted to. Look at them now, nowadays...thats all that there is to say about the characters of the movie.
The acting is typical for the gang banging crowds nowadays and so it can be seen on every street-corner in major cities and is nothing special and that I mean not in a good way. If that was meant to change things, well Sirs, screw you! The story itself, well I do not know what is true and what is not, but like stated above, in the end it came to make more money than others. What they have changed is just that violence and negativity can bring success, that youths of today look up to them what they could do and want to do as well...THAT is what they have changed and just because Compton is nowadays almost everywhere, does not make this a success in changes, but a success in stupidity. And so it does not matter to me if you become legit than after-wards and make movies about your awful youth and how you can succeed and then make funny movies, like Ice Cube....
So what remains is the music...there was once a dream of a few guys who wanted to change something, what they have changed is to have today an attitude, which became wide spread, for the big buck. Nothing wrong with it, yet don't be surprised when you get now the attitude that you spread and so...please straight BACK to Compton and please try again!
For former NWA fans a must, for people who love the attitude nowadays a must, for normalos who aren't impressed but rather appalled by the success of a negative attitude and the real change they created, a no show!
The Expendables 3 (2014)
PG 13, enough said! (Waste of time)
To make it short and quick, one of the worst Action movies ever and I thought Die hard 4 and especially 5 were bad! The two positive parts are also quick explained, Gibson and Wesley Snipes stick out of the throughout very predictable and lame script and even lamer directing. Somehow everybody of the cast has to get his/her screen time I suppose....
If the movie would have been better with different visuals and more realistic (in reference to the supposed people that are portrait) vocabulary is hypothetical, but the PG 13 stamp made it probably worse than it could have been. Who expects an "80's" action movie will be disappointed due to the lack of "ketch up" and who expects a 2014 Action movie will be disappointed due to the lack of popular stars for the crowd. Although some younger "expendables" were casted (probably for the younger crowd), they made the movie in the end really "boooom"....
(Who wants to have a hint of the probably best scene of the movie, please refer to the buying Art scene with Mel Gibson. He plays a good bad guy, but it is not enough to give the movie more than 2 stars out of 10!) Altogether, a waste of time, sadly!
Cruising (1980)
Pacino and Friedkin at its best!
I understand why the movie was at the time of its release so under "fire", it was simply a "no-no", but today a movie like that should get finally the reviews it actually deserves. Until today there is no other movie that I know of that is made in that scene and I consider it sad, because the potential for a mystery thriller like Cruising is there.
For me personally its Pacinos best work, because you believe what he is playing and see the transformation of his mind, not just in clothing, you buy it and if I think that they wanted, if I am not mistaken, Richard Gere for the role...it most likely would have been a different movie. Well, enough said, I hope that Cruising in the future will become a classic like it is to me. The movie is almost perfect, including soundtrack, picture and story (who ever watches the DVD should maybe listen to that what Friedkin has to say to the story). So a perfect 10 for it, to me one of the best 5 Movies of all time!
Sadly controversy is nowadays the "no-no"!!!
13 (2010)
A very intense 'reality show' for the mega-rich!
I was pretty shocked when I watched this movie the first time, almost sickened, but also stuck to the screen (everybody who is gonna watch this will know what I mean when the "real deal" starts). Sadly I never saw the original and so can't really compare but I guess it can't be much better, or rather much more intense. The acting of Riley is simply great, but also Rourke, who more or less plays himself, and Winstone are very good performances. Statham plays actually only a supporting role. Michael Shannon, plays the "referee" excellent and should be mentioned.
After I watched this movie now three times, the tension is gone, but I can say, if you don't know whats coming, be brave! My GF could not watch it and called it "we must live in a very sick society that people get the idea for a screenplay like that"! And I agree with that! Nevertheless its maybe a very harsh version of a 'reality show' for the mega-rich...
Game of Death (2011)
Not as bad as expected!
I don't understand why people vote this movie so down, because its not as bad as a lot of other Snipes movies of the past and there were certainly a lot. Who likes a halfway decent story is right here, who wants to watch 08/15 action movies, is also right here, just the ones who do not like Snipes because of his tax-problems should not watch this movie and certainly not vote it down, maybe even without seeing it.
The most annoying thing of the movie is the lead female part, sometimes really badly annoying because so predictable and as well the pseudo- hard rock music. Nevertheless to me personally its the best movie Snipes did in the past 5-6years! And so a good 6 on the "richter scale"... ;)