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The Veil (2017)
Solid "true movie" attemption
All right, it's not a masterpiece. And if you're used to Hollywood super-productions, with incredible special effects, The Veil can only be a disappointment.
But there is more than this, another kind of cinema exists: there's people who, with infinitely more limited means, try to build a story. And this the point where The Veil becomes interesting. We don't find super-explosions and hipertechnological monsters came out from a computer graphic processor: all we got are people in flesh and blood and a story.
Is the plot slightly confused? Yes, it's true.
Can any of these actors be nominated for an Oscar, today or in the future? Absolutely not.
Is there a poverty that most often leaves you astonished? Very true.
It would be simple under these conditions to bet everything on special effects, more some free sex and violence scenes. Instead, the director has chosen the hardest path: making a real film, in a true ambient, with sensible dialogues, and a story that, if not original, at least is tangible. Instead of another miserable SyFy's style production, here's a movie. Even with all its flaws (and there are many), I think the intention must be rewarded.
Interstellar (2014)
Masterpiece? LOLOLOL
I'm not used to write reviews, but this time i must put down something because i had been waiting for this movie, i really wanted to watch it.
Yes, i was a bit surprised reading negative comments on IMDb, but it helped: after that i was a little suspicious, something like "OK, maybe it's not a masterpiece...". Anyway, let's give a chance and go to the theater.
12 meters screen, Dolby 7.1, popcorn, nothing is missing, turn off the lights and let's start.
. Special effects: they're OK, nothing amazing but they're OK. But that's the good part. Now the rest.
. Plot: childish. 5 minutes before you know what it's going to happen, always. And holes everywhere.
. Dialogues: predictable, flat, no humor, no irony.
. Acting: impossible to judge, too damn stupid plot, every actor has 7 words at max to say for every scene. And after the first two hours you struggle to stay awake, no way to judge acting.
. Science facts: hilarious. Probably written by the same child responsible for the plot.
. Length: almost 3 hours, a real torture considering quality.
. Soundtrack: music tries to put some tension in the movie but there are no miracles and sometimes results are even disturbing.
. Final: "How long have we recorded until now? 3 hours already? OK, maybe it's enough, let's finish it somehow, any idea? But a short one, please".
That's all. Mr. Christopher Nolan gave us Inception, a great movie, and now nothing more than a soup: take something from 2001 A Space Oddissey, mix it with several SF movies, serve all together with no virtue, many errors and you got Interstellar.
There's no trace of masterpiece here (as it's possible to read in some comments): Interstellar is arrogant, pedantic, confused, self-indulgent and very, hardly, deeply, terribly boring.
And it doesn't matter if Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon, Michael Caine or Anne Hathaway appear: on the contrary, it's a real waste of talents, we all know it would be possible to make a great movie with this cast.
I'm going to write something that i didn't imagine: avoid it. I took 3 hours of my life and throwed them down the drain. Be smarter.
A Zona (2008)
Avoid at all cost
Portuguese directors do this: they turn on cameras, fix them on a scene and wait.
Wait. Wait. Wait.
The idea is, probably, that sooner or later something will be transmitted to the spectator: art, impressions, the deep sense of life or more. Then we can't forget The Professor, Manuel de Oliveira's style. But not everyone can be de Oliveira. While often in Oliveira's is contemplation, in other's is pretentiousness. A ridiculous one.
So, sadly, most of the times spectator receives a boring sensation, increased by the absence of dialogue and the poor quality of photography. In a Portuguese site, this movie is presented as "the end of the narration movies". And it's true. But there's a problem: if you don't want to tell anything (or if you're not able to), why making a movie?
It's impossible to tell something about actors: they do nothing at all, except moving around slowly. And when they speak (a rare event) you miss most of words just because of a terrible audio (a sin of Portuguese movies). But even this one is not a real problem, dialogues are functional to the movie: boring, no fantasy, nothing at all.
It's sad, but best Portuguese movies are the old ones: '60s, 50's or even before, black and white film. There are good modern movies too: but they are rare, so rare. And "A Zona" is surely not one of them.
Avoid at all cost.
Supernova (2000)
An idiot movie
Nobody was missing a movie like that: there's nothing interesting to see, everything is a deja vu. But that's not all unfortunately.
After 15 minutes you've understood the rest of the plot and your only doubt is: when the characters will discover what everybody else is able to understand yet?
Actors: terrible. They have the same expressions from the beginning to the end. OK, it was not supposed to be a masterpiece, but you pay to watch the movie after all.
Special effects: not bad but we're in the 21st century and the offer here is the minimum required.
The director is doing his job and nothing more.
The plot: as i said before, it's sad when you understand all so early. But it's sadder when you see that the story is full of "holes".
Save your money or, if you're watching the telly, choose another channel. There's nothing to loose here.