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Man on Fire (2004)
don't waste your time
The film felt fake. Emotions felt fake.
Mark Anthony looks ugly. The actress playing his wife is no good as a grieving mother. The scene when she is instroduced to Creasy feels more like a porn intro, like she is about to jump onto him and have sex straight away leaving her good for nothing husband behind. Later in the movie, it also feels like she is teasing him.
Questionable morals of the film - making someone commit suicide, that 's not something a Christaian would do.
The girl is ennervating. "I don't buy" the whole Creasy/Pita making friends.
It's a bad film, don't watch it. I give two instead of 1 because Denzel Washington is a good actor, but he cant save this film.
Los ojos de Julia (2010)
average
Let me start with the GOOD POINTS: 1) Good leading actors who acted naturally and were credible. Although I felt that the too much focus was givem to the actress's cleavage. She is a beautiful woman. There s no need to get viewer's attention to something else than her face.
2) Nice, dark atmosphere and surroundings.
3) Feeling of desperation, fear - needed in horror.
BAD:
1) The ending. Too much of a coincidence and twists (blind neighbour's secret - why would she do that, mother-son situation)
2) Mystery man who followed her (Why would he do that? Especially as he couldn't know she was going blind at first)
3) Affair thing - very unconvincing for me
4) Her husband's suicide - not exactly explained. How could this thin man hang him? If it was him? Or why would her husband kill himself? Out of guilt? I don't get that.
5) Lea girl and her weird behavior. Couldn;t she warn Julia just after she went out of her father's house. Why wait and braek into somebody's house?
So, not exactly a good movie, although seems so at the beginning.
The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
much worse than a series
In the past I was a big X-Files fan, so I decided to check out this film. But I got disappointed.
What I didn't like: 1) First of all, the relationship between Scully and Mulder was better left like in the series - ambiguous but never crossing the line. Here they are a couple, which ruins the tension. There is no chemistry between them.
2) Scully keeps repeating herself throughout the movie. She doesn't want to get involved into this, fine, why say that over and over again. It's very boring.
3) The very story is concerned with nothing supernatural. Maybe a bit Dr Frankenstein stuff, but much less interesting. Evil characters are not presented well. There should be some story behind all of this. How this idea of using whole beheaded bodies came into life.
4) As somebody wrote in his or her review, there were a lot of inconsistencies in the story. Why scatter those body parts in different places, why keep the victim's head in the box?
5) Unreasonable behavior - Why couldn't Mulder use the gun instead of an axe or something? 6) Too much of anticlericalism - pedophile priests, priests who do not want to help a dying kid.
7) Unnecessary appearance of Skinner - only to make the audience happy, but it didn't work.
8) Dialogue feels fake.
I do not recommend this film.