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6/10
A pretentious script that fails in achieving its goal.
4 March 2008
The script relies on several original elements in comparison to other movies about the spiritual search of the main character, like the perspective of the bar waitress, also the emotional evolution of the character is not so sharp and extreme but rather slow (probably too much) and basic, she takes her time to discover and to be discovered, focusing on more simple goals. The worst thing of it, to me, was a total lack of chemistry among the actors. The dialogs, so filled with metaphors that confuse, that do not inspire admiration towards the characters but imbalance for the lack of clarity that makes you doubt if both are thinking the same thing.

Natalie Portman…it made me suffer to listen to her speak with such a decadent accent, representing a trite personage who does not manage to gain affect from the audience despite her tragical past.

It is a good movie, with many good individual elements, a promising script and an excellent cast that, in my opinion, do not achieve the necessary compatibility.
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Desperation (2006 TV Movie)
1/10
I still don't get it, is god cruel or not?
6 December 2006
This is one of the most pathetic tries to make money based on a trademark (Stephen King's).

All the common tricks seen in old-fashioned movies, those that maybe 10 or 20 years ago could produce some kind of fear and surprise on us, well, you will see them one more time. But i can assure you, that this time all you will feel is disappointment. The question is, what can someone really expect of a film based on a Stephen King's movie? Maybe leaving Carrie behind, no serious director can make magic based on god and amulets-based terror, the word god denotes all powerful been, if he is beaten by a human form of life, then that god is just stupid.

Predictable ending, lots of non-sense actions, scenes that seem that will be explained in the future, but that doesn't happen, and all that necessary ingredient to make you laugh in a horror movie.
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