By the gods Knowing is a goshdarn dumb movie. It’s a beautiful movie, it has a couple brutal action sequences and the acting is fine… so, everything should be go for an enjoyable time right? But no. The plot is completely nonsensical. It’s like two different drafts were just haphazardly merged together at some point. [...]
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Star Trek – Where many movies have gone before?
So… Star Trek huh?
The first trailer caught my eye a couple months ago, and I sorta knew I had to see this. I’m not a huge ‘Trek fan, but I do love the scifi and there’s just something about spaceships I can’t resist.
So I went to the cinema. And… no I wasn’t feeling it. It’s [...]
Outlander
Surprisingly, Outlander was a net positive experience. It starts off great, with an alien-ship-crash-landing-on-Earth sequence. But it then quickly shrouds itself in an unmistakeably lowbudget aroma. There’s a bunch of vikings, all the fancy tech is lost, wackiness ensues. All told I figured I was in for a teeeerrible movie after the first five minutes.
But, [...]
Elite Squad
I totally recommend Elite Squad. Five stars, 10/10, the whole nine yards.
It’s a gritty police story set in a grim part of Rio de Janeiro, telling the tale of BOPE, a militarized special operations police unit that raids drugdealing slum areas. And it sure doesn’t hold back showing the tragic parts of human nature. It [...]