maratron Reviews

Reindeer Games (2000)

Such an underrated Christmas movie!

[10/10 · 11 November 2023]

I am not gonna spoil it but on Christmas there are certain movies to watch like Die Hard, Christmas Vacation and this Reindeer Games. If you like movies such as A Long Kiss Good Night, you will love this. It may not be an overrated Interstellar but is highly entertaining!

The actors are all good including the henchman types. Gary Sinise is really evil in this. It is done in an old school meets new type of action thriller. Of course there are flaws, but it is such a feel good action thriller with a Chrimstas theme it desrves at least a 6.9 on IMDB and not a 5.8 but it is what it is. If you have not seen it give it a shot!

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

The Aspect Ratio of this movie simply sucks

[1/10 · 19 March 2022]

The Aspect Ratio of this movie simply sucks.

Black bars left and right on a widescreen display cannot be the future of filmmaking. Hence I give this 1 Star, I would give it 0 Stars. But like it is I cannot enjoy it. Black bars left and right, Zack Snyder please WTF were you thinking?!? RUINED EXPERIENCE.

Vivarium (2019)

Unfortunately can't give 0 stars

[1/10 · 15 April 2020]

If you have seen this movies trailer you may find it interesting. But it is like a good 15 minute twilight zone episode that went on for an hour and a half after it was done. I guess the star is for good actors and production as they are not to fault. Eisenberg and Poots aswell as the kid were great acting. But with the protagonists frustration so does the viewers. I fast forwarded to the key scenes and to the end. Someone should do a 15-20 minute cut of it and put it on Netflix, as a short it would be great.

Outcasts (2010–2011)

If you hate Dr Who and like SGU you probably will like this

[7/10 · 13 February 2011]

I was positively surprised seeing a Sci-Fi show from the UK ) with such a high production en par with Stargate Universe.

The show is slow at times but the title Outcasts surely fits very well after watching the first 2 episodes.

There are plenty of plot holes and bad dialogue but the high production with nice visuals make more than up for it.

I kept wondering where they filmed it while watching so I looked it up and was surprised it was filmed in South Africa.

As far as the plot goes: It opens up with a spaceship trying to contact humans while orbiting around an alien planet. We learn that people evacuated from earth and went to Carpathia, a planet not unlike the earth. There's a few thousand human settlers on Carpathia now and they do not get along with each other. There's essentially 2 factions: The people around the elected president and the more savage AC's (supposedly clones?). The show has a big environmental and utopian undertone questioning whether the settlers would repeat their mistakes they made on Earth.

I never liked Dr Who with it's slapstick ADD approach and aliens designed by Kindergartens' drawing class, so this show is very welcome.

Whilst seeing it as drama alone I would probably give it 2/10 but intermixed with Sci-Fi I give it 7.5/10 and am looking forward to episode 3:)