Beyyle Reviews

Ayak Isleri (2021–2023)

A nice job that stands out

[8/10 · 23 April 2023]

I'm wary of Turkish comedies, I don't usually like them. They're usually too dramatic and silly.

This series said that I am different from its first scene and chose its audience. I like it overall.

But, until the middle of the second season, the two main characters' quarrels and dialogues with each other were funny and entertaining. Until the middle of the second season, then Vedat overdo and turned into a toxic character. It's not nice to watch a toxic character constantly arguing unnecessarily. The series is already 20 minutes. His humiliation of Evren repeatedly turned me off from the show. Of course there will be conflict between the two, but that was respectful before. The bond was broken when one crushed the other and became toxic. Still, I will watch it again from where I left off. I hope they realize this and fix it in the upcoming episodes.

Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak (2006)

Harsh

[7/10 · 22 March 2022]

This is a propaganda film with a biased point of view, although it often makes the right points. In that respect, it's just like Hollywood war movies, but it's quite harsh too...

This time you will see it from a completely opposite perspective of the American view. I don't know if this has been done before with such a big budget and quality visuals. You may want to experience this rare thing and maybe It can give you a new perspective.

It's a movie that was shot under the influence of the "Hood Event". Judging by how agressive the movie is, you can imagine the climate at that time. This incident also takes place in the movie. And the discourse of the American villain(Billy Zane) about the event is remarkable which is quite odd. He deals a solid blow to the motivation of our main character. Zero impact though.

Another thing is, the movie really made some people quite angry. You should watch the debate on NBC when it came out. The presenter is talking about the Jewish doctor (I agree it's a little absurd). But it's the easiest spot to hit the movie. There were a lot of disturbing scenes in the movie though. Presenter said they hadn't seen the movie.

Billy Zane deserves a spot in this review. Without his acting, much would be missing from the movie. He almost stole the role from the main character. It's just not good that the religious aspect dominates his character though. But he was still a good character.

Wolf 2039 (2021–2022)

A little worse than I expected. Let me explain why.

[3/10 · 29 December 2021]

Cheesy special effects welcome you in the first minutes. Thus, it creates a prejudice from the very beginning. But then some of the special effects look confusingly mature. In one of his videos, he talked about a vfx company that he would work with on this project, which had worked on some of the biggest projects in the business. At first i thought, they probably said, "Let the Goodbye Kansas make the difficult vfx effects, we can handle the easy ones here." because some effects stands out. But it seems like they realized that they bite off more than they can chew once they started it. I didn't see the name Goodbye Kansas in the closing credits btw. So I'm confused.

I have been following Alper Çaglar's projects for years. Dag 2 was a 7/10, then he had lowered my expectations with the Börü series 6/10 and Börü movie 4/10.

In 2039, you will notice the "inspirations" from some very famous movies. Maybe it would be more accurate to say it was more than inspirations. He dipped Hollywood's favorite recipes in a little Turkish sauce. But he can't quite do that either. It seems that just making the names in Turkish and shooting the series in Istanbul wasn't enough. Especially he can't handle the dialogues. I even suspect that he wrote the dialogues in English and translated them into Turkish. Because you constantly hear sentences that a Turk will set up different but you are used to hearing in American movies. Dubbing artists try to convey the difference in English language with these strange sentence structures. It's like '' Sonun geldi lanet olasi! '' . But the people in this series are Turkish and their language is Turkish... I don't know if Alper Çaglar is trying to create a unique language and a cinematic universe of his own where Turks speak like an American movie's Turkish dubbing.

Why would you film the same scene where Nick Fury is attacked in Captain America: The Winter Soldier? Why try to replicate a recipe made by the Americans without adding anything different to it? Americans are already doing the best at this stuff. So If I want to watch something like this, I'll go and watch them. At least I wouldn't have watched a cheap replica.

"Now the whole world knows that we have a very secret organization." Uh! Oh! What are we going to do now? The world found out we got a Turkish Avengers and a low poly fake Iron Man.

Jarvis?! Heh! Lame... We have our Kam. His voice is better too (lol it's gruesome).

Those who make science fiction films in Turkey usually add parody and comedy to it. I think it's because they know that if they make a movie that takes itself seriously, they won't be able to achieve it and they will be a laughing stock.

Now we have Börü 2039. It takes itself seriously. But not good enough for that. Even Twitch streamers don't get a white frame when using a green screen, you are making a series... I will take an optimistic view and say Alper Çaglar is really a nationalist and he is not just someone who exploits the feelings of nationalist people. Even after this raw "thing". I will believe he just wants to do something nice, but he can't. But my credit ran out. I can't take more than that. My expectations about the Göktürk project also sank to the bottom.

It's just bad and I am disappointed. I'd like to praise you, but it turned out worse than I expected.

At least, a decent vfx would make this series 5/10. Okay, the script is a hollywood cliché. But what happens if you skip the vfx while getting the cliché script? Börü 2039.

Karakomik Filmler: 2 Arada (2019)

A great drama

[8/10 · 1 July 2020]

I didn't go to the cinema because of many negative criticisms when the movie came out. Now i watched at home. I regret. I wish I had seen it in the cinema. I would like to support.

Since he's a comedian, people want him to make comedy movies all the time. This movie is called "comedy - drama" in IMDB as i see. This movie was shown as 2 different films at the same session (2 movies that are 1 hour long.), so probably the "comedy" was the second movie. I haven't watched the second one yet.

A movie worth watching, with secret references.

Börü (2018)

Far below expectations

[4/10 · 30 December 2018]

So, this is a movie for the finale of the "Börü" series. And, it was too bad, even for to be the final episode of the "Börü" series. Even some episodes of the serie was better than the movie.

I was hopeful about the movie. But that was not what I expected. I was almost asleep in the cinema.

Helicopter chase was extremely long, boring and absurd. That Cobra would have turned that armored vehicle into a Swiss cheese in 5 seconds, with it's 1500 rpm gun and with it's 20mm huge bullets. I think the pilot was drunk. No other explanation. Really absurd. It's almost an insult to the audience. Also cgi was bad for this scene.

Dogfight scenes were pretty good. Cgi was great, sounds, dialogues were accomplished. These were my favorite scenes. And the soundtrack for this part was very nice.

Gunfight scenes were not well coordinated and boring. These scenes were horribly awful. I have a suggestion for the director, there are choreograps for this kind of gunfight scenes, I think you'd better take their help. The same goes for the fight scene in the final. It was bad. I'm not a fan of it but, from what i see on Youtube, Bollywood is shooting better fighting or gunfight scenes. No exaggeration... Either it must be realistic, or it should be fun, although ridiculous. It was boring because neither one of them was here.

I really care about soundtracks. Soundtracks weren't wonderful. But they were good enough. It wasn't a minus or a plus for the movie. Just good enough. But it wasn't as pretty as I'd like to listen to.

And same problem continues, the sounds are not well organized. I think the good and well organized sounds are secret heroes that make a movie good. Most of the time, it's hard to notice them. But you feel that something is missing in their absence. I felt that. Sound design. Please work with people who can handle this.

The script was ordinary, mediocre. If we take a few scenes out, it was equal to the quality of a television series. That wasn't the final I was expecting.

And, the final scene was totally a comic sweet dream. I wish we could do that. Those who watched the movie understood what scene I was talking about. My sincerely advice to the director is to stop being a populist.

This film tells what happened that night through a small group of special police unit. But the film was far from reflecting the violence, chaos of that night. The July 15 coup attempt deserves a much more comprehensive film. But Turkey's current political situation will not allow it. What happened that night is still a mystery. And unfortunately it will stay that way for a while.

Wolf (2018)

Done

[6/10 · 1 March 2018]

That's a job far better than ordinary, mediocre, too long and copy of each other Turkish series. Theme, shooting angles, colors, editing, in world-class. But if it was Hollywood, I was going to give it 6. Generally, an average job.

But also there is still some problems we need to talk about it.

But first, i have to say something important. Turks give exaggerated high scores to their films, series on Imdb. Most of Turks are nationalist, I understand. But they need to understand this is an international platform, and by doing this, they damage their own movies, series. Because such a high score creates a high expectation. And of course then the disappointment and worst one, hatred against Turkish movies, series.

Now lets continue.

First one, visual effects, still not even good. There are really no special effects companies that do great work in Turkey? If not, consider other options, other companies. This is a huge problem. The cgi for such a series is incredibly important. There are few scenes that already require special effects and they were awful, sorry.

Second problem. Dialogues. They are not American, they are Turks. I guess Turan and chief was the most natural characters. Others were too much American on their dialogues. I mean, dialogues are artificial. I felt like I'm watching an American movie.

Third problem, sounds. Why are gunshots so low? In general, the gun sounds are low. And i guess gun sounds and bullet bounce sounds is taken from games. They were horrible and incredible artificial. Unacceptable. An element that reduces quality so badly.

Sometimes the music is over the sound effects. In the fight scenes for example, sometimes rising and sometimes decreasing. It's really annoying.

And generally sounds are not well organized. Sounds are the most important factors that determine quality, imho.

So, what I saw from the first episode, it's worth watching. I wonder about the next 5 episodes.

Edit: Now I've seen all of it, 6 episodes. The tempo is low in some episodes. In four, for example. But in last 2 episodes, it was better. Looks like will continue as a cinema film, and i will watch. Not wonderful but good job. I'm more hopeful about movie.

The Mountain II (2016)

It was much better than I expected

[7/10 · 15 November 2016]

I will be honest, 9.9 points too high. There is the influence of nationalism. If you have big expectations, you will be disappointed. If we vote worldwide, this movie 7,5/10 (Ok, OK... Still a little bit of nationalism ^^), but if we vote for Turkish cinema, this movie 9/10. This is a great, and different job for Turkish cinema. Apart from that, it's a classic war movie with some stereotypes, that's all. Don't expect anything different.

Yes, Dag II(Mountain II) a nice war movie. But, don't compare with American war movies that cost 100 million dollar. That would be unfair. Because, Dag II's budget 2.000.000 Turkish Lira, it means ~550.000 dollar. But, Dag II is the best job that can be done with this budget.

Explosion effects can be better but passable(budget). Uniforms, weapons, equipment are real, taken from Turkish Armed Forces.

The movie is starting perfectly. The action is perfect in the second half. The conflict scenes were pretty good.

Dag II isn't like the first movie. The Dag was a struggle for survival. But Dag II a heroic story. Dag II is a different and much bigger movie. These guys are specially trained to kill but they aren't emotionless machines. Dag II shows this very well. They stay in dilemma, do the right thing, or just do your task. It's a tough decision and it can change a lot of things.

I can not wait for Dag III. With a much larger budget, as a bigger movie.

Also, if you want to watch another military movie from Turkish cinema, you should watch "Nefes: Vatan Sagolsun". There is a different, emotional and very impressive theme.