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The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
It feels like a parody the likes of scary movie
I dont know what the writer was smoking.
But it bit must have been strong.
I think they're serious about the plot being actually matrix.
But it feels like they weren't serious at all and this is a parody movie with an extremely high production budget.
Its an insult.
30 minutes in I gave up on this steaming pile of dog doodoo.
Jungle Cruise (2021)
Could have been a new Indiana Jones but
Too much comedy done on the cheap.
It's to childlike. Emildy Blunt was wasted in this flic. She can do so much better as prooven in Sicario. This movie is female Indiana Jones like but has the ratios wrong. 20% less comedy and it would have been 50% better.
Wrath of Man (2021)
Not adhering to the kiss principle
If the world at all was this complicated.
I would be a useless bum.
Yet i got a house and a Porsche, am a rifleman out to 1375 meters in Norwegian fjords, been to the It in Amsterdam, the Queen's in Paris.
Been working in complicated IT for 25 years.
And i can't get to the point of this flic.
The movie is trying to hard to be fancy.
The original Fench movie, le convoyeur was waaaay better.
Free Guy (2021)
It's just Deadpool without the suit.
It's just Deadpool without the suit.
There is zero depth to the characters, which well, I guess you can say that about NPC's in general.
But it don't make a movie interesting. At all.
No Time to Die (2021)
Every new Bond movie, Bond has become worse.
In previous ones he had M die on his watch
In this one, he clearly was not in control of anything
What is Bond if he's no longer in control of things? I'll tell you one thing : Clearly not what Ian Fleming had in mind.
And the prologue.. They used to be short fun unrelated stories that just showed off what he does.
They started screwing that up with Brossnan being tortured by Koreans and coming out with a beer gut
Now it just shows off Craig being doublecrossed, ass whooped and looking like a bum
This is Not James Bond. It's an embarrasment.
The Tomorrow War (2021)
Watchable
Story line is a bit dodgy, they have Time travel, but it's only used as a plot device to set the general movie.. The Time travel isn't used by the humans in a clever way at all. Hell they are even crying about people off the future who will die, when they have 30 years time to develop technology, tactics and strategy.. But noooo. That would make to much sense.
If you get over the sillyness off it all, theres a popcorn movie in there, it's not devoid of entertainment, but it's a tin layer of veneer over a polished turd. The Monsters are made to look very genuinly scary , they are fast, mean and there's a lot of them it has a bit of "Alien meets the Matrix underground robots". It does work well for the action fighting scenes because of the immidiate problem they represent.
But again, there's nothing there that couldn't be fixed with 30 years of Intellectual and industrial output by modern society.
Dune (2021)
Visually great, story and mood is not on par with the 1984 version
Visually great, story and mood is not on par with the 1984 version.
There's to much emphasis on visuals, but the story just doesn't work as well in this 2021 edition.
No fault of the actors, they just had a very tough act to follow.
Script writers, well, they did just a bit to much of typical movie stuff.
Why the hell would people be doing hand to hand combat that often in the space age of the distant future?? Makes no sense to me.
Other wise, it's entertaining enough but it won't be as rewatchable as the 84 version, which is just so much better.
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
It's better then the actual Eurovision SongFestival
And I'm being honest , but then again.. It couldn't be worse..
Still a pretty rubbish movie, awkwardness can be funny in small doses, but to base an entire film on it.. too much too much.
Way Down (2021)
good idea, poor exectution
The basic idea sounds like fun, but then the actual break in is so poorly scripted and done it ruins the entire movie....
Coming 2 America (2021)
WEAK
Title sums it up..
Weak
weak story
weak acting
And suddenly everybody speaks 10 times more African then before.
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
great acting lousy script
Killer line up of great actors doing great acting.
But the entire thing is about as interesting as an episode of the bold and the beautiful
Let Him Go (2020)
It's a nice flowing movie about a simpler world
The scenery and old cars and houses are very nice to watch.
Costner plays a typical role for him, he does it well.
Diane Lane plays a slightly overbearing woman that doesn't know when to quit and the story stews on that basis.
It's an enjoyable movie, wouldn't call it Oscar material in the script department.
No CGI, no fancy dialog or plot twists, it's almost predictable
But it all flows and keeps you watching.
Dune Drifter (2020)
Bantha poodoo
My cat barfs up better looking hairballs then this movie.
Tenet (2020)
This movie would like to be Inception but it's really not
Similar vibe
Similar technical plot
But it just doesn't work the way it did.
John David Washington is no Leo
Robert Pattinson is no Gordon-Levitt
Elizabeth Debicki is no Marion
Dimple Kapadia is no Watanabe
Kenneth Branagh as a Russian villain is very underwhelming
Michael Caine , IS Michael Caine but he can't carry the movie on his own can he?
The cinematics are Inception like but it really isn't enough.
Sniper: Assassin's End (2020)
not watchable
Every sniper movie in the series is progressively worse then the previous one.
I feel cheated for wasting my bandwith and illegally downloading this film
Midway (2019)
action scenes are just to over the top
The CGI is not used subtly at all
There's just so much tracer fire that it looks like they had star wars storm troopers shooting at the sky..
It's just to much macho BS front to back
The script , its written like people would talk today, people in that generation didn't talk like that. Low tanks cslling out, shouting at an admiral that drives by? just plain stupid.
ack ack gunners not knowing thry have to lead thr target? as if they didnt get trained?
Why is it so hard for Hollywood to make a movie that isn't exaggerated? or to have CGI used in a way it doesnt look like a cartoon?
1917 (2019)
story line makes NO sense
Walking in just 2 minutes from an unscaved green scenery to a frontline trench?
There wasn't any such scenery within 10 miles of the front.
It would take a full day on foot to get that kind of difference in scenery, in 1917!
Generals in a frontline trench?
Generals that knew who's brother was where at the front line?
Generals that get regular privates pulled for a message running duty, when they had dedicated message runners in WW1?
It's absolute nonsense.
Ford v Ferrari (2019)
crap story
The real story is well documented
yet they had to invent and show things that never happened.
Ken Miles raced Le Mans in 65
films says he didn't
why , it's unnecessary, it adds nothing to the story but incredibility
The movie is full with such nonsense and it sucks
The Irishman (2019)
It's ok, but it's way to long and the characters are just not likeable
Pacino actually was pretty decent this time.
Not his stereotypical Pacino Blast, he did allright.
De Niro's acting range has somehow been limited to a stupid grin and questioning eyes. Suspect that made it easier for the rejuvenation CGI algorythm..
Pesci was low key but did well. Defo not the Pesci power we love so much.
Movie could have been a bit shorter, a bit, well, at least 1 hour ... It dragged on quite a bit.
The cinematics are great, Up to Scorcese's usual standards, very high.
USA of the 70ies is great to see, I bet it didn't look as good back when it was real.
The main problem with this movie, is that none of the characters are likable.. It's not like Casino or Goodfellas where you can somehow root for the guy despite being a gangster..Not this time, Anybody in this movie, could have gotten randomly blown up at any time during the movie and you just wouldn't care one bit. Except for one, who didn't really matter or do anythng, Penny.
It's a ok-good movie, but it is definately not Scorceses best, not by far.
Only a Scorcese fanboy would call this a great movie
The rewatchability is not there.
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
Another dud by Tarantino.
No tempo
no drive
Just a story that isn't going anywhere cause we already know Manson is a nutjob that sends his hippie assassins to kill Sharon Tate and everybody in the house.
And it's not a documentary either.. so it's a dud.
turned it off halfway because it's that boring
Just like The Hateful Eight was boring, and Death Proof was boring.
This movie does not deserve to be titled "once upon a time in..." , it's not worthy of that title because it puts itself in line with Once upon a time in the West... a legendary movie, which clearly this isn't.
The Predator (2018)
started off good but flunked in the end
The beginning was captive, but then the upgrade predatard comes in, and it goes all wrong. for some reason he is bullet proof when 20 people shoot at him, but then in the end takes a pistol round in the face and isn't bullet proof anymore.
Whoever wrote the script is a complete idiot.. as the predator's view is shown, classic red view with computer hud overlay.
But , this predator doesn't wear a helmet... and he has regular eyes, so he's not an android.
Why would he have computer vision if he has no helmet??
Why would the predadogs have similar hair as the predators?
Did a predator a some point get jiggy with his dog? a cold and lonely night perhaps?
When the predator is on fire, the tourettes dude jumps on him to stab him for 30 seconds
Why is he not burnt when the predator throws him off?
Triple Frontier (2019)
Dumbest SF Team in history
Watchable yeah, it's ok if nothing else happens.
But apparantly they got the dumbest SF operators and the dumbest chopper pilot in existence to rip off the dumbest coke overlord in the world.
Things get out of hand and the dumbest SF team lead ignores the chopper pilot about overloading the choppa, then the dumbest chopper pilot ignores engine and gearbox overstress warnings blows up the gearbox and does an impossible crash landing.
Y'all just could have parked the load at the earliest convenience and then gtfo..
noooo plot had to be twisted with some stupid plot mechanics...
but yeah, it's ok for some lazy sunday afternoon
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
1/10th as good as the first one
Poor plot mechanisms, they don't work, they are not believable.
It's just more of the shooting minus the finely built up suspense as we saw in Sicario 1.
It's all so poorly developed, so much loose ends.
And the story line is all over the place, you can see they wrote the script to support the action scenes and a 3rd movie, not the other way around
Miami Vice (2006)
pleasantly surprised
i was expecting the 50th sequel style ripoff ( despite that there never ever was an original MV movie ) , but must say the movie did invoke a similar feeling that the original series did...
Crocket came over like Crocket would have bit disappointed with Tubs, but it's just a minor part
the music , seems OK , and works for the scenes, but for some reason , it doesn't work quite as well as the 80'es music did for the original series... i couldn't possibly even name one song from the movie, which never was the case with the series... you KNEW what songs they used period. i blame that more on the music of this era then the movie maker...
the only other slight letdown was the shootout scene, to many shooters , to many bullets, to dark... that scene should have been toned down to about 55% less of everything and it would have been 110% better...
either way , great movie for 2006 even for an old school MV fan, it was worth watching, unlike some of the other crap they produce these days...
Stealth (2005)
lame
As far as military sci-fi movies goes, this one as pretty lame it's not worth paying for in the cinema, or DVD or anything i quit watching about half way through , fed up with the dinky storyline, and poor stereotype characters...This thing is no Top Gun, it's not Iron Eagle either despite the obvious big budget spent on actors and CGI...the concept could have been better, if only they would have payed some consultants to make things believable...
for one thing , they have the jet do a dive, with full power to accelerate to a certain speed , so a missile can achieve a certain velocity required to impact a certain building...
the so called super jet can go mach 4+ , but for some reason , during the dive, it takes many seconds to accelerate a measly 100 knots ?!?! the pilot then blacks right after pulling out of this dive at break neck speed, and does so while his jet zooms at street level...yet the jet stays perfectly straigth and balanced... wow...
i give up... it's not even worth picking apart...