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American History X (1998)
Poverty breeds violence and violence breeds more violence...
I had seen it before (decades ago) and when I saw it again today I had some troubles getting into the story. Why? Because I felt it didnt reach the dramatic heights it should have reached with this kind of subject matter of racism...
The bad: this story of a violent racist skinhead (Edward Norton) suddenly turning into a decent exemplary citizen who starts to love the race he used to hate is rather unbelievable. This doesnt do the credibility of the story any good. But that is not the worst criticism I have...
More bad: what's really not to like for me personally is that they open with a killing and they close the movie with a killing and neither of those killings really touched or shocked me because the direction just isnt reaching the dramatic heights needed for this kind of dramatic storyline. That's a bummer!
This aint the masterpiece it could have been. I blame the direction. It is still worth watching though for several reasons, one being that it is excellent at portraying the many different thoughts of people who hate others for their race, nationality or religion.
Not the best at drama, but excellent at portraying racism in detail.
Adam Sandler: Love You (2024)
30 minutes would have been better (instead of the 75 minutes which got me bored)
The bad: it lasts too long, it just does, 30 minutes or even 45 minutes would have been perfect, but I got bored after a while, because after the 10th s)*t and s*x joke they started to sound the same.
There is no dramatic arch in this performance. Heck no, it's just random s*x and s(*t jokes. NONstop. NO story. NO message. That's okay but you better make sure those s*x jokes are really good then, but unfortunately they were more of the kind of jokes teenagers would make. Can be fun for once or twice, but not for 75 minutes on end.
This material must have been an actual debut performance because Adam Sandler was constantly laughing about his own jokes, up to a point that it became embarrassing becausing he was laughing harder about his own (s*x) jokes than the audience.
Not any good? What was really to like though was hearing Adam Sandler play the acoustic guiter, the bass guitar and the electric guitar. This guy can really play! I am not kiddin'. He can not sing though, he sounds awful, but that's only contributing to the comical effect of his short songs which are basically long (s*x) jokes.
For sure this is definitely not the greatest stand up performance, but not terrible either. Should have been cut shorter though, because I got BORED.
Hulk (2003)
How many words do I need to use to describe this movie? Only 1 word: BORING.
Deep sigh... what we have got here are a bunch of great actors, a cash load of money and they came up with this?!
The bad: director Ang Lee is known for his exquisite dramas. Putting him behind the wheel was NOT a good idea, because now it aint either an action movie, nor a great drama. Bummer.
ENDLESS talking scenes, ENDLESS sentimental stuff, ENDLESS waiting for some action and when it arrives it looks SILLy.
What a flop. What an expensive waste of time and talent. Who decided it would be a good idea to put Ang Lee as director for such an American blockbuster movie? Whoever it was he lost a lot of money because this movie flopped at the box office and for good reason!
Beware: the sequel is rubbish as well, although a bit less painful and boring than this edition.
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Underwhelming...
I had seen it before and I knew something was off with this movie, but I had forgotten what. NOW I know again...
The bad: there is little action and when there is action it looks merely okayish but is never really thrilling. THAT is a problem, because....
More bad: ...without solid action the dialogues and the characters have to be true to life and interesting, but they arent. I really dig Edward Norton, he is a terrific actor, but even he could not inject credibility to his character. All the characters are stereotype cardboard characters. NOT interesting.
It lasts too long. It aint thrilling. And the characters (despite the great actors) fail to impress me. Really underwhelming take at making a Hulk movie...
Blink Twice (2024)
The story aint credible. The casting is done wrong. And there is a total lack of real thrill.
So many great thriller and horror movies have been made in the past and this movie feels like a failed copycat, because it simply did not spook me out in the slightest. On the contrary I got bored...
The bad: for me personally the casting was a total misfire. Simply the wrong actors for the parts. The leading actress wasnt bad, but she didnt impress me either, rather lukewarm performance. Then there is the miscast of Channing Tatum who usually is the good guy, but now has to play a mentally disturbed vicious dude and it just does not come across as credible.
More bad: there is a certain mystery at the start about what will happen, but after 45 minutes the action starts and it is just rather silly and not really spooky at all.
Who cares that this is Zoe Kravits debut? It's not a terrible debut picture, but simply a misfire. Definitely not recommended.
Ribolbeo (2024)
Slowburning character driven portrait with excellent direction and build up of suspense.
Leave it to the South Koreans to make yet another solid crime drama. They are the absolute masters of crime IN THE WORLD. I am dead serious.
This movie hoiwever didnt reach the heights of some other classic Korean crime masterpieces, but it was still an enjoyable watch and recommended for the fans of this genre.
Any bad? There is a lack of intense drama, because the supporting actors arent formidable, but merely okay. The leading actress is really good, but not extraordinary good, which is another reason this drama didnt really excell like it could have with different casting. The leading actress was still good enough for me to really enjoy her cool, calm and collected presence though.
What we have here is a typical revenge gangster crime drama without much of the usual violence, because this time around we have got a female leading role and she handles things more with her brain then with bullets. And I loved that. It made this story more credible in comparison to many Western crime thrillers in which female leading roles suddenly have fighting capabilities of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Beatifully directed. Credible story. Great suspense. Doesnt reach the dramatic heights I had hoped for, but still worth a solid 7 stars.
The Killer (2024)
Leading actress is completely void of charisma. Her character is NOT credible (putting it politely). And lots of annoying slowmotion photography.
Director John Woo once (ONCE) made some terrific action movies. But those were the days. Nowadays he is churning out this below average formulaic souless stuff....
The bad: what's most annoying about this movie is firstmost the casting of the leading actress. She supposedly is a ruthless killer, but she looks laughable and she cant give any credibility to her character. She doesnt ooze any danger or intelligence or any charisma. She is just another girl, cast in the wrong role.
More bad: the doves. Oh no, the doves. What's a John Woo without doves?@#! Those frikking doves began to annoy me right from the start.
Even more bad: and there is the completely superfluous SLOW MOTION photography. Walking around in a room? SLOW MO. Opening a window? SLOW MO. Staring at a fish? SLOW MO. This slow motion technique was once skillfully mastered by John Woo, but now it has become a boring annoying gimmick.
NO thrill. NOT even the action scenes are anything near thrilling. What's an action movie without thrilling action scenes? You tell me!
Crescent City (2024)
Not a B-movie, but close to it, which is a shame with such wonderfully gifted actors.
I started watching this for the presence of the ever great actor Terrence Howard and Alec Baldwin. Terrence Howard still oozes cool, but Alec Baldwin is phoning his performance in.
This is not a B-movie, but it is cop movie without cojones, without soul. It's just going through the motions of a below average predictable, boring cop story we have already seen a kazillion times before.
NOT thrilling. NOT suspenseful. NOT original. It's a total nothing burger, that is incredibly tedious to watch.
These actors deserve a better script and a much better direction and production. Definitely to be avoided.
The Clean Up Crew (2024)
Gangsta comedy wannabe. Not even Antonio Banderas could make it worth watching...
I started watching it because of the (allt time great) actor Antonio Banderas, but even his performance isnt enough to make this worth my while...
The bad: Antonio Banderas' character is pretty silly, but at least his performance has got some charm to it. BUT the other (unknown) Irish actors are plain bland and acting way below average. Mind you, better like watching subtitles otherwise you wouldnt understand half of the Irish accents.
NOT funny. NOT thrilling. NOT original. It's a gangsta comedy WANNABE. The Irish arent any good at making movies. The Brits are. But this is an Irish production and it painfully shows. NOT recommended, not even for the Antonio Banderas fans, of which I am one!
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
Not as bad as the 3rd sequel, but still nowhere near as good as the first and the second edition
Definitely better than the 3rd sequel, but still nowhere near as good as the first and the second edition. Sorry for repeating the title again, but this is the most important conclusion.
The good: this LAST sequel has got mor energy (over the top kind of energy), which I applauded! There is MORE action, it is LOUDER, BIGGER and there are MORE jokes than in the 3rd sequel.
This LAST and FINAL edition was a reasonable farewell to the Lethal Weapon series.
The bad: it is still nowhere near as dark and gritty as the first original and it is still not as fun as the 2nd edition. They did their best to make one last effort to squeeze out some material and it was okay-ish.
What's not to like is the superfluous addition of Chris Rock who just did not fit this storyline with his silly character. Jet Li on the other hand was a cool, calm and collected vicious guy, BUT we got to see too little of him.
Not terrible, but certainly nothing extraordinary either. It'll (barely) do for the fans of this franchise.
Doom Scroll: Andrew Tate and the Dark Side of the Internet (2024)
How tech companies' greed empowers controversy: "Being able to flip a switch and affect 400 million people".
I expected a bashing and ridiculing of Andrew Tate and his followers and it is partly about how terrible Andrew Tate's ideas are, but fortunately we get to see and hear fans of Tate as well so as not to make this movie a totally one sided story. Although it is probably best suited for the Tate haters out there and not so much suited for the fans of Tate. Just saying...
This movie covers 2 subjects: one being masculinity, the other being the power of tech companies.
What interested me the most were the interviews which laid bare the power of social media companies (Instagram for example) and how their engineers can literally flip a switch and affect what 400 million people worldwide get to see (or NOT get to see).
One particular Instagram software engineer (who made Instagram big at the start), said he only worked in a team of a mere 15 engineers, while Instagram was being used by hundreds of millions of people at that time. He talked about his power of being able to influence the news of hundreds of millions of people every day and told about how predictable people were in their behaviour and how easily they could be influenced and hooked by showing specific content.
Will people in the world get to see Andrew Tate that very day yes or no? It's decision was made by computer programmers. 15 of them actually in the case of Instagram. And they wrote software that promoted the vision of Tate with explosive results.
WHY did they promote Andrew Tate's vision and persona? Because it kept people hooked to wanna see more on their tech platform, so the advertisers will wanna advertise on their social media platform more and the tech companies will make MORE MONEY because of it!
Controversy (whichever controversy) is good for advertising power! And therefore good for tech companies profits! And Andrew Tate rose to great popularity because of that particular GREED of tech companies some years back UNTIL it suddenly was stopped. With a flip of a switch!
The other part of this documentary is about why young men were (and still are) attracted to Andrew Tate's ideas and persona. We get so hear several journalists and activists give a social analysis of young men failing to find role models in todays society (often boys from broken marriages without a father). And we get to see a cultural analysis of todays focus on empowering women's rights and their progress, but forgetting about creating and discussing similar norms and values for young men.
Interesting analysis of the power of tech companies and the way we communicate with each other nowaday.
The Union (2024)
What a flop! I am a big Mark Wahlberg fan, but why did he agree to star in this uneventful, lame script?
Mark Wahlberg is a butch, tough and a cool, calm and collected guy. At least he can be! But not this time around. He literally needs a nanny now to learn how to fight bad guys in this "spy" movie! What the what#@!?
The bad: Mark Wahlberg needing an old nanny (Halle Berry) to learn how to fight in order to become a spy? Who is the target audience that is willing to pay for this? The American Nanny Organisation?
BEWARE: NOT a Mark Wahlberg action movie (AT ALL). Because it has got ZERO riveting action and it has got ZERO suspense or thrill. Honestly. It is as tame and uneventful as watching grass grow.
What is it then? It is a RELATIONSHIP movie, dressed up as a "spy/action" movie. What a TERRIBLE idea. And this is a SERIOUS relationship movie mind you, it is NOT a romantic comedy or any sort of comedy (which Mark Wahlberg can be really good at as well).
Disastrous writing. Lame direction. Completely uneventful. WHO would wanna watch this? I fear many Mark Wahlberg fans are gonna be really disappointed watching this! I was!@$
Alien: Romulus (2024)
NO thrill. Cheap copycat! The original Alien from the seventies had TERRIFIC acting performances, this edition has got ZERO!
They have RUINED this movie by casting a bunch of kid actors without any charisma.
The original Alien from the seventies (and the sequels) ALL had TERRIFIC acting performances by wonderful, household, charismatic actors. This movie has NONE of that. What an insult to the Alien franchise!
BEWARE everybody, this looks and sounds like any other Alien movie, they have copied the sets exactly as they were before, but they FAILED to inject supsense, shock and thrill.
The kid actors have taken over and I guess kids are the target audience for this movie any way, but I wouldnt even dare recommend this boring movie to them!
NO thrill. NO soul. NO good acting. Lousy direction. It looks like a cheap copycat of a great classic scifi picutre. What a waste of money. Better watch the brilliant original "Alien" (1979), it will scare the bejeemas out of you! What a terrific classic!
Talchul: Project Silence (2023)
No real thrill or suspense, so why bother watching?
The South Koreans are masters at making riveting and vicious crime dramas and action thrillers. I have been binge watching them for months now, BUT this is not one of those great Korean movies, this is actually below average...
The bad: the special effects look silly. The attacking dogs are meant to be frightening looking, but they actually look laughable, because of cheap CGI. The WHOLE plot of this movie, the WHOLE core of this movies' existence goes down the drain, because these wild dogs look so incredibly SILLY and fake.
NO thrill. NO riveting action. NO good drama or acting. NO jokes. This is quite bad for Korean movie standards. Not a total flop for sure, but way below what they are capable of producing in South Korea. Such a pity!
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
Lethal Weapon 1 was awesome. Lethal Weapon 2 was still good and funny. But Lethal Weapon 3?
There is only so much you can milk out of a franchise and this third edition was already one too many...
The bad: this 3rd edition is going through the motions. Gone are the vicious and suicidal tendencies from the first edition and gone are the great oneliner jokes from the second edition.
Mel Gibson is phoning his performance in. Danny Glover's jokes are as old as a worn hat. Newly added supporting actors dont add anything.
This 3rd edition should not have been made. It's a dissapointment. It's not a total flop though, it has got it's moments, but I GOT BORED watching it and THAT is the LAST thing I want to feel when watching an action comedy.
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Not as hardcore as the original, but still good fun with a special hurrah for Joe Pesci.
Gone are the sexist jokes, gone are the suicidal tendencies, gone are the cruel torture scenes, this second edition is more toned down, more lighthearted, more geared towards a bigger family oriented audience, but it is still good fun to watch!
The good: Joe Pesci. This guy is known for his many evil character roles in classic mobster movies, but he can be a perfect (annoying and hilarious) clown as well. He really steals the show.
More good: we have got a family theme going on for real this time, with some quite amusing scenes wherein Danny Glover has to survive the pitfalls of family life, like having to endure his daughter starring in a commercial for condoms or like having to endure the whole police squad coming to his rescue when he is home alone sittting on a the toilet with a bomb underneath it.
Lots of action. Lots of good jokes. WAY sillier than the original hardcore edition, but that doesnt spoil the fun!
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Eighties All American Action Blockbuster CLASSIC.
Still stands strong after some 35 years. It was the BIGGEST box office hit of the eighties, it exploded Mel Gibson's fame into stardom. From the same director that gave us Superman!
Any bad? It was the eighties dude! So if you are offended easily, better not watch this first gritty, sexist, macho and violent edition.
The eighties were without a doubt THE decade of the action hero, with Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson. And this movie is yet another (BRILLIANT) example of what a great action blockbuster needs:
1 A glorious cool calm and collected hero.
2 A vicious bad guy
3 Tons of action
4 Great oneliner jokes
All a grownup boy needs in an action movie! Lethal Weapon still ROCKS!
Borderlands (2024)
Not terrible, but certainly nothing great either.
The good: we get to see a bunch of great actors, with most suprisingly a leading role for Cate Blanchett who is one of my favorite actresses, who usually doesnt star in these kind of run of the mill commercial summer movies, but she did star in it anyway and she didnt choose wisely !
The bad: I guess if you are a kid and there is nothing much else to see at the cinemas then this will kinda do. Because it has got tons of action, tons of visual effects, it has got a propelling story with lots of great actors. BUT... if you really want to be surprised and touched or thrilled, then you better pass this movie by, because it is going through the motions of yet another ordinary CGI summer movie.
Not terrible, but for sure nothing great either.
The Instigators (2024)
Great director, great actors, gungho script that is quite hilarious. What's not to like?
From the same director that gave us the original Bourne movie! This director knows how to create riveting action and he does so again with an impressive AND hilarious car chase.
But this very same director has also made some excellent comedies (Swingers) and director Doug Liman's comedies are of the understated subtle kind, which is kinda Casey Affleck's kind of humor as well, who co wrote this script by the way (with some wonderful oneliners!)
This sort of comedy is probably best suited for those who can appreciate annoying whining (casey affleck's role) and deadpan stupidness (Matt Damon's role) . To top it all off we have got a brilliant tough guy role by the ever cool, calm and collected actor Ving Rhames (known from Mission Impossible).
I LOVED this script. I LOVED this subtle direction. I LOVED these characters. Highly underrated. You gotta love this kind of understated subtle humor though, (many dont), but I really had a blast watching this!
Seokjojeotaek salinsagun (2017)
Smart crime drama, with solid acting performances. Fascinating watch.
The good: solid acting performances with fascinating true to life characters, who are quite mysterious and full of secrets that only slowly get revealed to us viewers, which makes for a fascinating and surprising watch, with many unexpected plot twists and turns.
More good: I really appreciate a beautiful soundscore and the music propelled the story forward mirroring the supsense of this smart story, which went over my head during the final. But that didnt make me appreciate it any less, on the contrary, this movie puzzled me even after the very end.
This story needs a little introduction: it starts out as a romantic portrait of a magician and his beautiful female sidekick, who get romantically involved, but their love doesnt last long (spoiler: only some 20 minutes), because she gets murdered by an elusive mastermind criminal. The magician swears revenge for the loss of the love of his life. Will he be able to FIND the mastermind criminal who killed his girlfriend? And will he be able to find out WHY she got killed in the first place?
Great acting performances. Solid diretion. Nice photography and a beautiful sound score. Recommended for the fans of dramatic detectives.
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
The movie tanked, but the Bond song was one of the best!
I have never seen Sean Connery looking so jaded and blase in a Bond movie. He obviously had had it with his Bond character and was doing this last one just for contractual reasons.
The bad; this Bond is just going through the motions and it shows, because there is NO great scary villain, there is NO gorgeous bond girl and most of all there are NO good jokes to be enjoyed.
Not any good then? The Bond theme by Shirley Bassey was and still is to die for. What power. What elegance. What beauty.
But the song is about the only good thing left of this flop. Thankfully Sean Connery went on to deliver many terrific other movies, but Bond was no more, untill "Never say Never Again" that is to say, which is quite a charming comeback I must say....
Never Say Never Again (1983)
Yes, it is cheesy and looks dated and somwhat childish, but is still undeniably fun to watch.
Only suited for the older generation, who was young enough to have seen it back in the eighties, because I cant imagina any young person wanting to watch this, because it looks so incredibly dated and cheesy and rightout childish that even I (a big Connery fan) had some cringeworthy moments while watching it, BUT...
The good: Sean Connery, Sean Connery, Sean Connery. Even when he is phoning his performance in, even when he has to say these cheesy oneliners, he somehow still has got that unresistable gentleman's charm that makes watching this movie so much FUN.
More good: a great villains role for Klaus Maria Brandauer, who is so gentle, so nice, yet so evil! And (AH!) the always gorgeous Kim Basinger was there as well, with her charming personality!
Still a fun watch, PROVIDED you are above 40 years old and want a trip back to memory lane, back to the silly and extravagant eighties!
Turbulence: How safe is your flight? (2024)
Turbulence CAN kill you!
If you are scared of flying better not watch this! Because contrary to what they have always told us, turbulence CAN kill you if it's a severe form of CLEAR AIR turbulence, which is a form of invisible turbulence that CAN NOT be detected by todays airplane computers.
We get to see the harrowing event (filmed by passengers) of a flight in which a man got killed and dozens of others seriously injured up to a point they needed hospital treatment for over 6 weeks.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel though, because a smart Swiss aerospace company has developed an airplane wing that can counter severe turbulence up to a point that turbulence is no longer a physical danger to the passengers.
Sophie Morgan's Fight to Fly (2024)
Inspiring and uplifting fight for the rights of handicapped passengers on airplanes.
This documentary gives a shocking insight (with hidden camera) into what troubles and even physical dangers handicapped people have to go through when they travel by airplane, something the rest of us all take for granted, but which is a daunting and sometimes even dangerous excercise for handicapped people.
What makes this an absolute must see is the uplifting spirit for the fight for equal rights this documentary is portraying, personified by Sophia Morgan. I had goosebumps all over while watching this because it has got such a great warmhearted spirit of caring for those who are handicapped. And what's even more uplifting is to see and experience firsthand that fighting to make a change can actually make a real world difference! Beautiful!
We get to see the spirited struggle of famous journalist Sophia Morgan who was confined to a wheelchair after an accident as a teenager. She wants to change the airplanes in such a way that handicapped people can travel with the same kind of ease and dignity as anyone else.
We even get to see the American president Biden and vice president Kamala Harris lobby and create new laws that will help provide for space for wheelchairs on planes!
And this change was made possible by these wonderfully passionate and hardworking handicapped activists like Sophie Morgan among others, who made the world a better place to live in for those with disabillities.
Hihgly recommended watch! Absolutely uplifting and heartwarming example of making a change for the better!
No Negociable (2024)
Fun watch. Amusing mix of a kidnapping story and a "how to rescue my marriage" story.
Quite amusing (not laugh out loud funny) lighthearted story about a hostage negotiator whose wife gets kidnapped, with whom he was having serious marriage troubles. Can he save his wife's life?
The good: wonderful characters! The movie starts out with a detailed portrayal of a marriage counsel session with the hostage negotiator and his wife. The relationship chatter and accusations among this couple is quite amusing to watch, but never silly or over the top, which makes this movie stand out in a positve way, because I can believe in the characters and therefore I can sympathize with them easily.
Quite underrated, yet very amusing lighthearted twist on the kidnap genre.