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AKA (2023)
Low cost action movie
Extremely boring and action-not/so/great-action movie. Plot seems theft or copied from other thousands of low cost action movies. More than two hours to represent a story which could be cut at least as less as 40% of time. After 45 minutes I started to be annoyed and switch to browse my smartphone, giving the movie a chance to revive, but no way and I abandoned after yet another poor night action-scene at 1:15. Thinking about the very beginning of the movie, everyone could realize that the movie is not so serious: the hero is captured and put in jail , where he meets a woman, after that he escapes, he goes out killing a carnage of at least 10 men, then he returns inside and kills the woman, then I ask: why the hell he doesn't start killing the woman as soos as at the first gun is collected, to then escape from the jail ?? LOL. Antway it's a pity because I consider the guy, Alban Lenoir, a very good actor, but I don't see him in this suit, 'cause he seems like a Jason Statham poor French clone. Eric Cantona great, as usual.
Le patient (2022)
Well is this a thriller ?
Wow After watching the first scene of the massacre and knowing that the guy was the only one present at the crime scene and that he was the only one not shot but with a knife wound, well then after 15 minutes I guessed everything and I was done. Is this really a thriller or a psycological movie, or something that could drive the spectators, or transmit thinking trying to understand or solve the mistery?? None of that. Just a movie with a flat plot, an ingenuous way to represent a banal mistery, where the actors are boring too, nothing special that could make the movie taking off.. no emotions, no passion, no show, no surprises (come on is the guilty himself- guy a surprise??). No thank you this was too naive...
Diabolik - Ginko all'attacco! (2022)
Just Ok, just sufficient
As a real fan of Diabolik (I still hold the first 690 original set of comics books), I can say that I preferred the first movie, this second episodes ok has the same noir/comic slow action which is good, it brings a new actor as Diabolik (vote: 8) and I say he is perfect, cute guy like in the comic books and the eyes and the face reminds the original character, Miriam Leone again as a perfect Eva Kant (vote:8) .. but what is missing: ... the refuge is the same as in the 1st movie, too many shots are on Ginko (we have to digest actor Mastandrea with his Roman accent.. vote 5.... and Ginko was a cute man in the comics!), then a catastrofing acting by Monica Bellucci (vote 3 for me ... the actress is the anthitesis of the high class of Altea...). The overall rating is just as flat as a six.
7 años (2016)
What a useless movie
At the beginning the movie is intriguing, with a group of persons who seem to hide something, then trying to give explanations of the situation, the an interesting conversation that reveals details to try to figure out what's hided and how it will evolve. A one room location movie, which is always difficult to digest, therefore the movie seems to flow with a good acting by the 5 protagonists, but then what happens at the end?..... nothing. Absolutely. Is this the way to treat the spectators? There could be a shocking end, or a big surprise, for example... the money floating to the bank and the receiver (one of the four) suiciding and all the money lost. That's just an example of an original end! Therefore my rating is crashing from 6 to 4, just because the end is too corny.
Wheelman (2017)
A movie garbage
The actor is ridiculous
The plot is just fried air
I suggest you to ask for your money back (If viewed in a cinema)
Otherwise try to ask Netflix or your movie digital platform to give you 1 or 2 cents back (which is the value of this movie)
Now the point, because I spent more than a hour to watch this rubbish, who is going to give me back my precious time ??
Another point: I should have read that the movie is just 1 hour and 22 minutes, the shortest movie in the world mmm... how is that possible that a movie is so short ? Easy answer: because they didn't have ideas on how to extend and give some thrill to it, they filmed this movie just because they were bored.
Blonde (2022)
Goodbye Norma Jean
They crawled out of the woodwork, And they whispered into your brain, They set you on a treadmill, And they made you change your name... And it seems to me you lived your life, Like a candle in the wind... we should listen to the song by Elton John to keep in mind what really happened to Marilyn and realize the importance of this movie: fantastic acting and images by Ana De Armas, sad but true and very well represented story of Marilyn, strong impact on our minds, to underline how the beauty of a woman can be exploited by the business, by false love and... by the person herself: her sad counsciousness of being fatherless and not be able to give and receive true love. Goodbye Norma Jean.
The Fall (2013)
What an excellent drama thriller and investigation
As an heavy reader of the best thriller books (Agatha Christie, Harlan Coben, and so many others etc.) and as lover of movies where there are investigations, psycological analysis, complicated and hard to solve cases, I think this is on of the best I have ever seen in many years.
Actors are perfect, great photography and blood crude reality shown, the story has a low rythm but this is anyway an interesting technique, then a charismatic confrontation between the personalities of the detective and the serial killer: yes after all both are lonely inside their hearts
Maybe yes the 3rd series could have been a bit shorter... hope to see in the future another tv series with detective Superintend Gibson!
Altrimenti ci arrabbiamo (2022)
No please don't
Please remove this movie from the digital archives all over the world, delete any downloaded streaming files from your cache and any copy on hard-disks, forget the actors, trash it to the end, skip the trailer or even any frame on google images... and save and keep with heart the good memory of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, love you guys you are still alive and acting together in our minds.
The Little Things (2021)
Excellent!
***PLEASE READ MY REVIEW ONLY AFTER YOU HAVE WATCHED THE MOVIE*** Wow this is a great one. As stated by the Director: "I didn't want to do a classic thriller where at the end everything is solved, but my movie is a *psycological* thriller, where I did put many *little things* to let the viewer try to give his own explanation and interpretation, about who is the killer". Then this is left to us to try the challenge. Personally I found my own interpretation: my conclusion is that there are 3 possible killers... and each has 33% of probability. But I don't want to leave you like the end of the movie itself.. :) so I explain: like many cases of serial killers in real life, the exact truth is not revealed, or the police is not capable to solve a case.. this is sad but this also the first point why I have appreciated this movie: because it's near to the reality of unsolved cases.
Then think about it: the killer could be 1) Sparma/Jared Leto. 2) Joe Deacon! (Denzel Wash.) or... 3) an unknown killer, who is still free.
Simply ask yourself the *NOT* question: 1) WHY NOT Sparma? Here it'easy: because there are many *little things* that point to him, because we don't like him and he acts like a maniac, right? Then because the two investigators have that obsessed idea in mind. But then: 2) WHY NOT Joe Deacon?? (Maybe because we like Denzel Washington as an actor and we think that he is a nice guy and not a maniac?? He could have been the serial killer of 5 years before, when he killed the 3rd girl because... she could have recognize him... then how come that he purchased at the end an identical red hair clip? Maybe he killed the jogging girl and he personally saw the hair clip. Moreover he tries to accuse Sparma... so he will be free from being suspect . Then the 3rd): WHY NOT somebody else is the killer? Maybe both Sparma and Joe Deacon are honest.. the killer is still there, free, ready to kill, like in many real life cases...
Think about it and hope you will get to the same conclusion.
Great acting by Malek Leto and Washington.
Kateo (2022)
Great action movie
Incredible action scenes, adrenalin all over the story, the entire movie is a one shot camera recording, who cares if the CGI is welding the frames ? Who cares if it looks like a video-game?? Very good entertainment movie, the main actor is great. Why assigning a low rating just because isn't a US movie ? Great Korean production.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Sad but mind thinking movie
This story reflects and punch in the stomach something that so many times happens in real life. Difficult communication between a child and a mother, mental problems of a poor boy left alone in his room and in mind's difficulties, explosion of a non-sense and not explainable behaviour. Then what's next ? What can happen around a life of a person not responsible of a son's insanity? Nothing more than a flat life. Still no response from the son, pure numb as the white final screen she approach at the end... very sad story, but well acting, great photography, movie heavy to digest, I don't feel to rate more than 6.
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Spectacular action movie
Last 30 minutes: pure adrenaline and spectacular action flights. Tom Cruise is never getting old... and as a producer of this movie once again he will crash the box-office.
The Titan (2018)
Absurd and preposterous movie
Ahah! I though at the beginning it was a good space trip to Titan planet (or whatever they call it), with a great DNA transformed team of heroes... then they never took off! All the scenes recorded in a house and in a lab like Frankenstein movie! And the monster at the end is even dangerous, but eventually is just a poor soul (owh!!!) man but with poor makeup (they probably finished the money of the movie budget LOL), and what as a final scene?? A 100% CGI shot!! Ahaha! The vote 3 is even over-rating...
Stretch (2014)
Good entertainment movie
Ahah! Nice one, good story and great acting by Patrick Wilson and Chris Pine, Jessica Alba very cute as always, nice surprise at the final scene! Bloopers during ending titles... wait for it.
Freaks (2018)
The freak of the wasted time
Good idea of plot and interesting at the beginning, then when the mistery is revealed (too soon) the movie stays on a boring line, then turns abruptly to a foregone end, and even to a ridiculous superman and Lois Lane final scene :-0.
Miss Violence (2013)
Women: keep the strenght and denunciate
This is a movie for strong stomach viewers, very important and well act, to show how so many bad men keep women under pressure, do physical and psycological violence hided under their roof, showing how so many helpless women and girls are leaving in silence, without the courage of denunce or even talk. I hope this movie will give courage to women: be strong, you are not alone, report to someone what is happening! Escape from a brutality, someone will help you. Important movie also as a strong message to those men who are worst than the worst human being on the planet: watch out, if you think you are smart and that nobody will discover what you are doing, keep well in mind that soon or later there is justice, despair and final reaction found somewhere at the bottom of the soul, by someone in your house-prison, up to the worst end you deserve, even if you feel so powerful..
Calibre (2018)
Thrilling getting worse if you follow the good or bad...
Two friends. One is a good guy (future father, honest with his girlfriend, he joins his friend even if he doesn't like hunting, ingenuous), the other is a bad guy (drugs, animal and girls' hunter, cinic, cold blood). This movie is the metaphor of what deserves life if a person makes a crime, a tragical error, and tries to walk away without thinking. What is the end for the bad guy: tremendous end. For the good guy? Leaving with ghosts. Then what do we choose to be during our life ? Follow a good guy intentions and the risk of his destiny? Or live straight like the bad guy and fall apart? Just Good movie.
El hoyo (2019)
Message of Christ the salvation not delivered!
Well, watching this movie is "obvious" (the trick word...) that the protagonist is the savior, the messiah, he is a good man, ok, he will drive us to understand the mistery of the levels? Nope! We just easily realize that the levels are the metaphor of the social levels of the society, that the "administration" are the bad ones who rule the world... that humans can drive the salvation through saving a little girl... ok, we easily understand... too easy and boring! But... WHat about "how" the movie displays those messages and metaphors?? Well, just With violence, blood, savage, vomiting and disgusting scenes... just to make audience! This is really a very low level movie. Just copying ideas and far away from the well done "cube"(1997) movie, and just to try to build a similar Squid Game atmosphere, but not really making it! A poor and "obvious" movie itself!
S. Darko (2009)
Non-sense movie
Why dishonor the master-piece excellent "Donnie Darko" movie, stealing the "Darko" word and copy some ideas, to produce such a low level movie and story, just to earn some poor money at the box-office?? It doesn't have sense. Don't waste your time watching this trash.
11:14 (2003)
Very good acting and directing movie
I love these kind of movies, where a time cyclical structure is applied (Pulp fiction is a masterpiece in the genre(, and guess which is the last scene timely speaking? I suggest to watch it to discover it, well done to the director and writer.
Cold Pursuit (2019)
Boring and violent
Absolutely boring movie, no plot other than the revenge, to kill in blood a list of connected people, I don't understand why Liam Neeson continues ruining his image and career which such low level movies of revenge.
Uncharted (2022)
Great action like a... videogame!
I have completed in the past all the 4 uncharted playstation videogames ... therefore an absolute fan of Uncharted world, and this movie is a dream finally coming true. As actor of Nathan Drake I would have chosen a better actor very similar to the videogame character, for example Bratt Dalton.. but Tom Holland in my POV is 75% OK, also Walberg as Sally is 75% ;), great action during all the movie, CGI is fantastic, the shot on the plane and in the air is wonderful, the plot is ok and what is happening is very well taken from existing levels taken from the videogame. I don't understand the reviews that say "unreal things happening (?), some scenes are impossible like the shot of the galleons transported by helicopters.. :))".. Come on guys you didn't get it? This is a videogame-movie, and like in the "real" playstation Uncharted game, everything is possible, the Director is offering us a show like just a gameplay, like in the videogame the main characters never get hurt, the fantasy explodes, so... very well done movie, and let's go for the second episode next year!
The Father (2020)
Impressive impersonation of the illness
"The Alzheimer's symptom initiates with slight memory loss and confusion, but then the symptom ultimately leads to severe and irreversible mental impairment". This is what is written in Wikipedia, and this is what the movie is very well displaying, to let us realize the extreme difficulties of a man (Anthony) approaching the illness, and stimulate our sadness for this fellow old guy. It is very difficult to represent as real as possible the struggle within the mental difficulties, but the movie passes the exam through one of the best performance ever by a unique actor, who has the capability to drive us between the emotions and the compassion, to abruptly but also gently let us feel to be side by side with him, to embrace his confusion, then ending the effort with his last delicate monologue at the end, when the actor goes from serioussness to soft angry, from a bitter smile to a genuine final cry (his tears come from real), he gives up asking for his mom to protect and to fetch him, resigning to his destiny. Excellent Mr. Hopkins.
My compliments also to the Director. The watch is the metaphore of the concept of memory, at the beginning Anthony always worried not to find it, then passing time and fading away from his wrist, eventually losing it at the end. We can notice the movie is shot entirely in internal ambients, to stress and underline the closure of the mind, then the last scene ends looking outside the window, the camera even fades through the glass, to breathe the air and feel the green of the trees, in the search for the peace and the hope to be far from the illness, for our friend Anthony, and for ourselves.
Wrath of Man (2021)
Just good action movie, Statham standard
I was watching the movie with enthusiasm and pathos until the end.. really asking myself how H (Statham) could possibly make of it... then the plot has a hole in it! There is no explanation how H got down in blood after a barrage of bullet, but then we see him safe and sound in the apartment in the final scene... excuse Mr. Ritchie you can't do this just explaining that... after all in a movie everything is possible! Then we go to watch a Marvel movie! Eventually because of this hole and moreover some other little holes in the plot, my rating is going down from 8 to 6,5/7. Anyway nice movie after all.
Diabolik (2021)
Diabolik Diabol-ok !
As a lover of the original comics (I still have the first 690 numbers), I would say that this is a nice movie. The scenography, the locations, the actors, all have a good "noir" style. Whoever is expecting a more fast rhytm of the action and more special effects doesn't understand that this is an entire recostruction of a paper comics, of the 60s, and it seems that the movie itself has been filmed and produced in those years... We realize this when we see the plastic door of the refuge of Diabolik, the masks, and other details which seem rough and simple, when cinematography didn't have yet the CGI or advanced special effects. Then with a slow rhytm action our attention is more focused on the particulars of the scenes, the characters, the single details, as well as we do when we see the designs on paper. Genious. Ginko character vote 3 (actor Mastandrea is not as pretty as the paper character and has a wrong Roman accent..), Diabolik Marinelli vote 7 (just ok, and with the same eyes and height of the original character :), Eva Kant 10 perfect! (The beauty and the charm by Miriam Leone). Ok to find some defects in the movie, but the lovers of the comics will enjoy watching it.