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Tenet (2020)
Ultimately terrible
This is like someone (Nolan) was joking and decided to spend 205.000.000$ on the crappiest scenario ever.
There is honestly nothing worth seeing in this movie. The picture is nice, but far from impressive. The story lacks convincing in every possible aspect and is utterly ridiculous. The originality? If you call stupidity original, then perhaps yes.
Let's see some stuff (if I still remember, since it's been more than a couple of weeks since I've watched this horrible, horrible movie):
1. The scientist invented a weapon that can wipe out the world, and then regretted it, so instead of destroying it, she divides it into several parts (artifacts) that she hides in the past, scattered around the world, and apparently together with the description and instructions describing what it is and how to reassemble the device. Seriously?! That's the best she could do?!?!
2. When people travel through time they need their own oxygen, but only in several scenes do they have the pipes and oxygen bag, while in most others they don't.
3. Things a time-traveler is using move backwards when in the past, but the person moves normally.
4. The highlight is the saying - not knowing is your greatest advantage?!?! Well, it did strike me on more than one occasion the script was written by a complete idiot.
5. One man is collecting the artifacts in order to destroy the world because he has cancer and wants the whole world (including his son) gone with him.
6. The protagonist is supposed to reach a powerful and well-guarded man who lives in a penthouse at the top of the building and whom no commoner saw in a long, long time. Two men get in and out of the place easily and without any problem. Just like that. Later on, the wife of that man (who is actually the one pulling strings) is freely walking among the city market, with less than a minimal number of security guides around her.
7. They can travel in time, but could not organize the final action better, without a terrible and pointless action where so many people died.
8. Eventually they retrieve all the artifacts, then again, instead of destroying them, they decide to hide them somewhere. C'mon!?!?! Why didn't they just killed the antagonist in the first place and left the originally hidden artifacts stay hidden where they were, if the whole point was simply to hide them again?!
There are probably far more ridiculously stupid moments, inconsistencies and gaps, throughout this 2.5 hours long agony of a movie.
There are so many good books in the world, and surely good scenarios - why is so much money spent on something so ultimately bad as is Tenet?!
Love and Monsters (2020)
Childish but entertaining
It certainly could have been better, it's far from great, but it is an entertaining teenage movie and it is very nicely filmed. The effects are great.
Looking forward to sequel.
Hold the Dark (2018)
Promising trailer and then - crap.
The trailer promised a good story, nicely filmed and exciting.
The film itself is slow paced, nothing interesting actually happens, there is no thrill, characters' motivation is ridiculous and stupid.
Guess I've rated it with 4/10 solely because it is still watchable (barely though), and the images in the movie are nice.
Gisaengchung (2019)
OK, cinematic and suspense but not really entertaining
My impressions are following:
- It is quite dragged. (Despite being curious about how everything is gonna end we had to stop and watch the last 30ish minutes of the movie the next day. I was not sleepy, just fed up with watching it.)
- The major flaw in the plot, as I see it, is that 4 extremely capable and adaptable people are living in an basement, starving and struggling to survive. Another thing is that the husband of the first housekeeper would have died starving in the bunker, without even attempting to go out and get himself some food, despite the fact he was not locked in, if his wife had not showed up after many days to check up on him, finding him all weak and hungry. And how did Chung-sook manage to clear all the mess so that the Parks did not notice anything if not when they arrived then when they woke up in the morning?
- The movie has quite a suspenseful plot, nicely done, but asides from that it is just not entertaining enough. And here I found myself divided, on one side really wanting to see what is going to happen, and on the other side just dying from boredom because despite of all of the happenings it is simply just not entertaining.
- As for the cinematography, I liked the movie. It is nicely filmed, nothing spectacular, but fitting and suitable to the plot. I especially liked the flood scene when Ki-jeong is sitting on the toilet, that was hyper-realistic and remarkable.
- Altogether, okayish, I would give it a 7-star rating.
Healthy Gourmet (2009)
Disasterous!
Everything about this show is soo fake and annoying. They could not have come up with the worst concept for a culinary show.
It is additionally worsened by the outrageously long commercial breaks on Fine Living channel.
Luce (2019)
Waste of time.
Good actors, but uninteresting story. Luckily was watching it on 1.2x reproduction speed, so only like 90ish minutes of my life had been wasted in watching it.
Der Fall Collini (2019)
Watchable but not really enjoyable.
The film is watchable, but not really enjoyable. The characters are quite poorly portrayed, their motives unclear, and the plot is lacking a good starting point and has several credibility flaws.
The main character, Caspar, naively takes the case not knowing that he's gonna be defending a man who murdered a grandfather of his childhood best friend, a man who in a way was like a father to him. Despite the overwhelming memories he takes interest in the convict (who, btw, does not speak at all and does not want to collaborate) and does everything in his power to understand him and help him, even if it means he would find out something unpleasant about the man who helped him and supported him so much in every sense. It is extremely unlikely that anyone would act like that in the first place (being compassionate toward and taking a side of a murderer who killed a person you love). Further on, the ways he finds out what had happened are ridiculous. If the murder weapon had not been a really specific gun, Caspar would have never inquired about his client's family (official records of course, since Mr Collini was not willing to talk). Really?! Further on, it does not seem likely that Mayer, who committed such a terrible crime, would be so kind towards a Turkish boy and his mother. Further on, the relationship between Caspar and Johanna is seriously messed up and what are the odds that despite his multiple betrayals (defending a man who killed her dear grandfather, insisting on defending the man whose motives he does not know despite everything, triumphantly publicly disclosing that her grandfather was a Nazi, etc) she would be looking for his attention and a shoulder to cry on. And further on, and further on...
Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
The worst episode of otherwise amazing TV series.
I love GoT and really enjoyed each episode so far. Until this one.
The Long Night was totally disappointing, and predictable.
It started good, I liked the tension you could feel, knowing the death is coming. But from the moment the Dothraki started racing into the darkness everything turned into a total mess. What kind of strategy was that?! Run into a pitch black and unknown with some of your best warriors?! Seriously?!
And that little brat, Bran, Mr Know-all, who has the ability to see through the eyes of animals could not spy on the enemy and say where the generals are, so that the dragons can try to fry them before everyone else dies. Also, knowing their enemy, could he not tell anyone that fire might not work on the Night King?! Was he at all on the side of the living?!
And why were the fire trenches so narrow and shallow?! And that was the only trap prepared. No explosive devices, no dragon stone stakes in the field (considering the dead shatter into pieces when stabbed with it, a field with dragon glass traps would be almost impenetrable).
The battle scenes were not exciting, but rather ridiculous and unconvincing. Everything looked like a monotonous mass of bodies, even the dragons fight was filmed in an unexciting way.
And Jon Snow, the ultimate Mr No-nothing, running towards the Night King when it was obvious that he had no chance to approach him within a combat range?! And then, after he'd been surrounded by hundreds of enemies, he somehow managed to fight his way out?! Really?!
The ending was predictable. It was obvious that this episode can only finish with the death of the Nigh King. And it was obvious that Arya was going to bring it upon him, after her conversation with Melisandre. I did though expect to see her impersonating Bran or one of the Night generals. The "reunion" of Bran and the Night King was quite melodramatic, the long scene obviously leading towards the "unexpected" twist.
There are way too many holes and bad moments in this episode, it's threatening to spoil the whole show. But i don't think that would be the case, so i'll be eagerly waiting for the next episode, hoping that this one would blissfully vanish away from my memory. :)
Wildling (2018)
Good beginning, poor end.
The beginning of the movie was really good and interesting. The story opens nicely, the acting and editing are nice. Even though you've seen the trailer, and you assume what is going to happen, the movie is picturesque and like a fairy tale, really enjoyable and compelling. The first third of it, that is, and that part I'd rate quite highly, even 10/10.
The second part, sadly, is a transition into a teenage movie, with a quite predictable development and cheesy moments, but it's still ok. It could've been done without so many obvious and already seen elsewhere scenes. Liv Tyler was not convincing as a sheriff, she seemed more like a sleepy housewife with a really soft voice and basically zero authority in the town.
And then, the third part is a total fail. The story is ruined, too many flaws in the plot and a really disappointing ending.