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Bron/Broen (2011)
After Season 2 it's a different show
Season 1&2: 8/10
Season 3&4: 2/10
Here's why:
I really love the dark tone of Scandinavian cinema.
Season 1 was brilliant, pretty realistic behaviour of the police, when they made errors it was mostly believable. This is something I absolutely miss in most crime movies/shows.
Good acting, nice interwoven story, pretty decent cinematography, music a little bland.
But all in all a really good and engaging show that kept me watching.
Saga was also played very believable and I was happy that the creators did not try to get cheap laughs out of her personality, nor did they shove some diagnosis in your face. She was just herself and it was up to you, the audience to think about her if you decided so.
Also the cases were really shocking because the creators showed the reasoning behind the murders and acts of terrorism. You could often feel why someone killed someone else. To me this is most shocking, because you learn something about yourself. You explore your shadow as the psychoanalyst Carl Jung would have said.
This all changes right in the beginning of Season 3.
Saga gets a new partner and they work on a case in which a lesbian is killed who opened a school that teaches that there is no biological difference between men and women.
The new partner doesn't like the idea of teaching kids such things.
But Saga, who is supposed to not care or even understand other people's wants and needs suddenly uses politically correct language and talks down to her new partner because she doesn't.
The cinematography was the same, the tone, the acting was good as usual but I immediately noticed the difference and lost interest in the middle of season 3, episode 1.
But I made it through season 3&4, just to get reaffirmed.
The cases of this show have always been (kind of) political. That is not my point.
But there is a line being crossed somewhere between:
1. These people have a political belief, they kill for it, this is wrong.
and
2. These are bad people, because of that they have this wrong political belief which automatically makes them likely to be criminals.
Because of this two things happen:
1. The motif for the murder is immediately clear and a lot of the suspense is taken out.
2. I don't like to be educated by a TV show to which political beliefs are right, that's simply not their job.
Honestly exploring the topic on the other hand would habe been great and refreshing.
Could even have provoked people to think about the themes, but that did not happen.
The show offered a cheap solution and even discouraged the audience to think.
After this, other things I previously loved startet to fall too.
Even moments of Saga being socially awkward where I almost heard the laugh track of the Big Bang Theory which turned her from a likable character a good amount towards a cliche, a punchline.
I don't think persons who deviate in behaviour from what we are used to should be seen as cliches. Rather you should take them for what they are and thank them if they are such great investigators.
I didn't feel the shows creators shared this belief after season 2.
I am not sure what exactly happened between season 2 and season 3 and I don't want to speculate, but it sure didn't do the show any good...
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Lacks every aspect that makes a good movie
The Bourne Ultimatum is a movie with a generic action movie plot.
I am not the biggest fan of pure action movies but I can enjoy some fun explosions.
I will (as respectful as possible) try to explain why The Bourne Ultimatum even fails to be that. I really tried not to be sarcastic but it didn't work at all times...
Also I do not throw around 1-star ratings easily.
I seriously could not find a single good aspect about this movie.
Here is why:
1) Plot
The generic plot that was made up for this movie only makes up about 5% of the movie, the rest is chase scenes. This is not exaggerated. It is easy to forget why Jason Bourne is chased in the first place because the plot is just sprinkled here and there to justify 2 hours of chasing.
And then there is this role of the heroic woman that seems weirdly forced maybe to put a strong woman into the movie.
Last there is the professional killer who doesn't shoot Bourne because he makes him question why he should kill him. This seems like a typical deus ex machina since this is not at all justified by the plot.
Also the 2 last scenes where totally unneccessary, even made it worse. It seemed like this was decided in the editing phase: A cut of one actress with a TV and some edited in news show, then some footage of Bourne in the water when he swam back to the surface and the camera was still running.
2) Believability/VFX
Despite the plot weaknesses the movie could have been fun if the chase scenes and visual effects would have been believable or visually pleasing.
Most of the stunts where over the top, not action movie over the top but in a ridiculous way. This were several certain deaths he survived.
Everything from explosions to sparks looked incredibly fake when they could easily have used real ones. And CGI was also way better at the time.
Also the audience is supposed to believe that the protagonist shakes off local policemen through back alleys in a foreign city. It is as if he was born and raised there.
3) Cinematography
-This can still be used for killing some time so how do we make it completely unwatchable?- must have been what someone said while making this movie.
The cinematographer did it! Every single scene, and this is not exaggerated either, is shaky.
When I say shaky I do not mean simply hand held. I mean that every close up, every computer screen, every little detail and of course every action scene is filmed as if the cinematographer filmed with parkinsons on an old mobile phone.
I might be sensitive but I had to look away a few times because I got a headache from the blurry images.
4) Editing/SFX
Better be safe that noone is able to enjoy the movie: The whole movie is cut as if the editor went cold turkey in the middle of cutting.
Most scenes only last a few frames and they begin and end with a larger camera motion almost every time.
This suits the cinematography well which is not a good thing.
Sound effects are often off timing and sound cheesy/cartoonish.