Change Your Image
donfuan
Reviews
Contagion (2011)
No point, not focused.
"Contagion" fails on two points, which are utterly important ones.
First: It has absolutely no point at all.
If you break the story down it is "a global epidemic breaks out, a cure is found, the epidemic is over". Now i'm not even remotely competent in writing, but my guess is, if you would show something like this to your teacher, he'll send you home and say "do this again". There is no climax, no surprising plot turn.
Second: There are way to many protagonists.
The only one that really interested me was the Kate Winslet plot, but she dies fast. The Fishbourne plot could have had potential, but doesn't get enough time. The Damon plot was just bad and the Cotillard plot nonexistent. The whole thing frays out like an old t-shirt.
We could have had a film that focuses on the global epidemic and the strife of an high ranking government official, the global epidemic and a father-daughter relationship or the global epidemic and the fight against it from a low ranking official at the front-line. All of that could have potential to make a decent film out of it, but instead it touches all of these and leaves you clueless as to what this whole thing was about.
Eastern Promises (2007)
The Godfather in... not too good
Another film jazzed up, and i ask myself why.
Sure, the camera, the editing, the sets, all nicely done, but the story is one seen a hundred times and thus pretty boring.
The accents. Vigo does it pretty good, but please never again cast Armin Müller-Stahl and that french guy as Russians, you could easily hear where they really come from.
Most importantly: the ending. Oh please. They're taking blood from the no. 1 Boss of Russian Mafia in London to see if he is the father of a new born child given birth by a 14-year old. AND Scotland YARD DOESN'T PROTECT THE BABY????!!!! That was so stupid i could have thrown things at the screen.
Mr. Cronenberg, we are not stupid, you know, we just want to see good films. This one wasn't. OK is the maximum.