Blazs91 Reviews

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

Food for the eyes, but not for thought

[4/10 · 15 July 2017]

It is the same old story again: the world of Transformers doesn't know the word, 'peace' (or pace), and this time social ecosystem of Michael Bay's robots is intimidated by a possibly underestimated ancient threat, which has possibly been implanted into the humans' culture. this fifth incarnation of the Hasbro toy franchise is probably the most powerful mix of action sequences and clamorous special effects, which, interestingly, could strike with a decent dose of drowsiness. it lasts two and a half hours, and watching it in IMAX 3D was a total hit for my eyes. however, it was still a traumatizing experience at the same time, because it faces the issue of reanimating the series for the fifth time with the inability of creating a narrative story, which is compensated by eye-catching explosions.

Mixing the elements of human history and the mythology of the Transformers might be a cliché of the saga today, but in this sequel we are kind of pushed to the boundaries of surrealism: Merlin, Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table signifying the base of the main story (not if there was any other thread), by revoking an ancient legend which could signal serious threats to the humans and the Autobots altogether. surprisingly, this issue will be handled by Mark Wahlberg and the beautiful, ever-vulgar Laura Haddock. As the movie aspires to project a coherent picture front of our eyes, it, instead, succeeds to be lost in the introduction of too many characters. It is accompanied by action scenes so amazing which almost reach uncharted peaks, but it would still be more effective if they were a little bit more condensed in a shorter time.

In sum, the movie is visually powerful, a vortex of palpitating and impacting action, which smashes your retina. From the direction point of view, this flick has, again, managed to be admired by the fans of beautifully depicted destruction. If we didn't get enough splinters flying right into our eyes in the 4th chapter, this time we should definitely wear more defensive head gears. However, if you were hungering for more, than one-hour narration of a story which can be concluded in two sentences, followed by a 90 minutes incessant sequence of action blast, then this blockbuster will not be your cup of tea, since it doesn't offer much more, compared to the previous three installments.

Rating: 4/10

San Andreas (2015)

'Los Angeles has fallen'

[7/10 · 14 February 2016]

Frankly saying, I was fairly anticipating this movie to be a new big blockbuster of Hollywood. According to the trailer, I was expecting something close to the mixture of 'The day after tomorrow' and '2012': a movie, which is about stunning visuals with a subtle plot of family issues and mediocre storyline. And my assumptions were right!

The movie tells us an extraordinary story of an ordinary man, played by The Rock. He's everyday job is rescue people got jammed by unfortunate accidents. However, after a series of massive earthquakes in California, his primary responsibility turns out to be save his own family.

If you saw the trailer, you might guess what this movie will provide you: a fair amount of action and destruction. There are not some characters in the movie. The main plot is twined around the scientist, whose mission is to figure out everything about the source of the disaster, and Dwayne Johnson, who is not really desperately aspires to save his family. You might see some character development during this movie, but nothing like what have not seen before. The Rock's performance was actually really good! The only problem was that even though he had some moments of true acting, he did not have too many well-written lines, and therefore, he did not have enough chance to show more of his emotions than his physique. His wife is also a great actress, and the chemistry between these two characters is very satisfying. However, I did not really liked the performance of their daughter, but the scientist, played by Billy Chrystal, was phenomenal! This person was the one, who actually made me scared about the upcoming disaster and feel worrisome about the happenings.

I am not saying, at all, that the movie is bad, because of the weak plot. Actually, I fairly enjoyed it! We can receive some plot complementing the action sequences, which were the main strength of the film. The visuals are really stunning, and we could get a really fair amount of it. However, some scenes are quite near to the impossible, if you accept the fact, that you're watching a disaster movie, it won't decrease the experience, indeed! The movie has some really jaw- dropping moments, and all the visuals are clear, smooth and pure.

If you liked nicely done effects of spectacularly collapsing huge buildings and prepared for a little tension of how an ordinary man tries to save his family, then this movie is for you! This film mainly focused on entertainment and not on storytelling. However, this attribute makes the movie's advantage, which is quite enough to make it enjoyable.

My final ranking is 7/10.

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Furious 7 (2015)

Furious for the 7th time!

[5/10 · 19 January 2016]

Furious 7. This was one of the blockbusters of 2015, in which I was at least interested in. However, I love the full cast, the entire crew, and the name of the director was also really promising for me. In addition, I have had the chance to see a favorite Asain actor of mine, namely Tony Jaa in a Hollywood flick.

Although, all these news are encouraged me to watch this movie, the final outcome was disappointing for me once again. Starting out with the pros, the movie was really well-directed! I raise my hat before the director and the producers (and stunts of course) because the entire movie is well-edited. It is stuffed with a lot of actions, which are rhythmically followed by some more sluggish dramatic scenes, which are really required here IMO. However, the playtime counts more than 2 hours, you won't feel bored for a single minute, and this is what I call an achievement! The acting performance and the chemistry between the actors are still awesome. Just like in the prequels, Vin Diesel is calm and serious at the same time, Paul Walker is the cop, who rarely shows his emotions factually, but still effective, there's Letty, who still struggles with her memory, but we could see a quite good character development in her case, and yep, there's Roman, who still has some hilarious moments. The movie manages the balance between threads of the previous installments in order to entwine them with the current state of the storyline.

Unfortunately, the other members of the crew are a little bit pushed in the background. I would have liked to see more of Tej, and especially Hobbes! However, he was more than bad-ass in his moments, but this cannot be compared to the badassness of Jason Statham, which was more than exaggeration. I do not wanna spoiler those moments, but the way he is sleazy and though at the same time was quite ridiculous for me to take him seriously enough. And the same goes for the action sequences. There were too much over-hyped, close to impossible scenes, which was not attributable to the first few installments of the franchise. The abundance of slow-motions, explosions, gunshots and flying cars were torn me out of the movie and made me an outsider, who was just sitting in the theatre with huge eyes without believing what is really happening n the silver- screen.

All of this would have been excusable for my part if I have seen any trace of an illegal race! Honestly, there were quite a few moments in the movie, where I actually felt from the signs made by Dom, that there could be something like what I mentioned. But it was only a hope, unfortunately. The old, good feeling of the streets has been transformed into an action-packed moneybag franchise by Hollywood.

In summary, this was an average action movie for me. I would recommend it if you wish to pump up your adrenaline level, do not care about reality, wanna enjoy few humorous quotes and see, how the story goes on with the Toretto family. Buti f your desire is to receive something of the old times, then you will be disappointed, because is has long-disappeared.

My final rating is 5/10. Thanks for reading!

Interstellar (2014)

Space Odyssey 2014

[9/10 · 7 November 2014]

Every time I have to judge a movie that somehow could be related to Christopher Nolan's name I feel myself like starting in a handicap position. I'd like to clarify that I've absolutely no problem with the famous director's work, indeed! I admit, that we're talking about one of the most notable directors of our world in recent times. The company of his fans has significantly expanded with numerous new and exceedingly biased people who tend to execute me immediately just because of the fact that I don't consider perfect all the products that can be found in the director's rich portfolio. In addition, Hollywood has made many attempts to sell numerous movies by using the well- know fame of Nolan's name, so his name has become a bit boring to me nowadays. But let's get started!

I don't dare to call the basic story of the movie completely original: The world is on the edge of extinction in terms of the near future, there's not enough food and raw materials for all the existing inhabitants of the planet, which is becoming more and more unviable, so a solution should be found ASAP. This is the concept which has been tried to be used by many movies with more or less success in the near past. But the Interstellar (by utilizing this basic idea) could have implemented an incredibly gripping and eventful series of happenings, that cannot be paired with any other production in terms of quality for almost years back in the near past. The movie supplies the audience with a brief 3 hours runtime, but I haven't been being befriended by the feeling of „when will it be over." The film pushes twists and new facts right after each other into the face of the audience, but I cannot declare any of them as a cliché.

This is the only point I could pick a quarrel. I have catastrophically scant astronomical knowledge, so there were some things in the movie, that I cannot take in completely even now after a long period of thinking hard. Maybe I'm a little weak-minded or my modest proficiency in the subject could be a potential reason for that, I think this movie is far more enjoyable for hardcore sci-fi fans than the remaining portion of the audience. But even with the possession of a little ignorance I can this production a great movie! It's speedy, able to engage the attention of the audience, and it has the amazing ability of generating massive curiosity among the people, so the viewer cannot sit calm till the end while waiting for the outcome (which is brilliant!).

I don't care if many other people will consider me a little g*y, But I haven't seen a movie for years, which could have been able to pull out so many emotions from the people watching it. Love, understanding, devotion, compassion, sense of duty, nostalgia, and the significance of choices between alternative decisions by the characters could set a new milestone for the role-playing games. As supporting my statement I saw many people among the audience sweeping out teardrops from the corner of their eyes. And it cannot be achieved without the actors' unexceptionable performance. Sometimes the writer put the characters in extraordinary situations like keeping the „skype-like" connection between a father traveling in the outer space and his children being left on the Earth, while time is passing disproportionately. These things cannot be experienced in the real life, and they are even incomprehensible enough for the audience not to be able to realize how to react. And by this we're able judge who can be described as a real actor! And I bow down deeply with respect in front of the whole crew.

Genereally speaking, I'm not totally eased with all the female actors. Both actresses, whose characters represent the weaker gender of the main characters were so distasteful for me, that I could've punch them on the face every time they appeared on the silver screen. For a while, it totally seemed that we got two women just to overload emotions in the male characters and their only role is to restrict the main thread of the story. However, by the end of the film I've completely changed my mind about them, and they've become quite likable characters for me. In addition, the story could not have been finished without them, so their existence was extremely important in terms of the plot.

Bonus: I've never thought that there will ever be a movie, in which one of my favorite characters will not be a flesh-and-blood human, but a robot. I especially liked that they didn't hyped over the physical design of the machine, instead it's got real personality. So this piece of metal became a perfect companion for the astronauts, who occasionally had really amusing comments.

The visuals could be compared to Gravity. But in this case not the visual i the focal point of the movie, because it has been build around a fantastic story enhanced with mountains of epic dramatic scenes. In addition, they've managed to choreograph them so effectively that all the tension has come through the screen hitting the audience with vengeance.

The sound was cool, the silence and noise of the cosmic space were totally correct. And there is not too much I can add to the music. It wasn't too creative, but it was totally well-fitted into the environment and the scenes, was able to enhance the voltage or even the joyful moments.

Overall, the movie is great, one of the best I've seen this year! It's outstanding within its own category. It's a must see for sci-fi fans!

Last thought: if the Gravity won 7 Oscars last year, then this one should be nominated at least for the best director, best screenplay, best visual and sound effects (maybe best actor in a leading role- Matthew McConaughey).

Rating 9/10

The Equalizer (2014)

Denzel is great, as always!

[9/10 · 28 October 2014]

Now is the time for us to get a chance of judging a notable actor's performance in a brand new production, which will became at lea, t as classic as the actor in the leading role after a few years, and its name will definitely not sink into oblivion.

Although, I haven't got any little thoughts about the plot, and I haven't seen the trailer either, I'd been feeling myself really excited about movie, because Denzel Washington as one of my favorite actors, who hasn't made any disappointing movie so far in his carrier. And this was the same in the case of The Equalizer. The acting performance is simply phenomenal! Denzel is visualizing the usual figure who probably has been an outstanding but now already retired spec ops agent, what we cannot be bored of. The Oscar-winning actor brings life a character of the same style on the canvas almost every time, but somehow he's still able to show the audience something new. If it's needed, than ha could be funny and humorous, he could be sympathetic and patient, but he could also be very tough and serious if the situation required that. This is the character which is well- known by the wide audience, but sometime he could always produce some new attributes and different nature.

The other actors also performed a flawless job. This is Chloe Grace Morez's first performance when she appeared on the big screen like character seemed to be really natural to me, so that I couldn't have noticed the slightest spark of acting. But I mean this in the good sense. The character's really come to life on the screen.

The storyline is simply brilliant! The very beginning felt a bit sluggish, during the first 10-15 minutes, I would have been thinking that we would get a fairly towed movie. But later the plot will have the ability of catching the audience's attention so hard, that you won't feeling of „when will it end" or „this movie is so tardy" for a minute of the 130 minutes runtime. Around the 40th minute of the whole movie it pushes a so brutally epic scene into your face, what your brain can hardly accept and process. It's a so well choreographed and perfectly executed scene, that usually could be seen only seen at the end of the movie as the finale of the whole production. I've also had the feeling of the movie's ended, because the scene was immediately followed by 5-10 minutes of peaceful atmosphere, but fortunately it's darkened really soon, and the tension kept going on.

The villains are popping up right after each other in the film, and we constantly have the opportunity of getting know the bad guys taking their place higher and higher on the hierarchy of the underworld. Marton Csokas has the ability of representing the irritatingly arrogant and disgusting right hand of the mafia, who's dealing with all the dirty affairs of his boss. But almost everybody will like his character despite of his repulsive nature, but because of the excellent acting performance.

I also bow down before the writer, because the dialogues are so funky and fast-paced, what I think I haven't experienced for years before. Danzel's usual humorous style against the good guys could prevail as effectively just as the usual condescending, and efficiently argumentative style against the bad guys. He could even twirl the minds of the most elusive and dodgiest criminals effectively by the play of words, so that they could react with only silence, big eyes and open-mouth.

The restrictions on age in the film is completely legitimate, because the fighting scenes are made so brutal and expressive, that hey hit the screen with true vengeance. I've almost felt the pain when I heard the cracking of an arm or by the sight of a knife slicing through a limb of a lucky man. The camera work is not the most appropriate in every single moment, because there were some hand-to-hand combat scenes where I could have barely seen what's really happening and who's actually hit who. But there is not any bigger (and other) mistakes in the whole movie at all that I could take into account. Denzel tries to get to the Russian mafia totally alone, which could sound totally crazy and incredible, but somehow the movie could present the happenings in a more or less realistic way in front of our eyes, so that we can totally accept this fact.

I don't want to spoil the plot and overall essence of the film, because it's far more pleasuring to realize it by ourselves by seeing the whole production.

Overall, the movie is great! In my opinion it could smoothly deserve the movie of the year title, and I'd dare to risk a couple of Oscars. Although the movies of this kind are unfortunately not often welcomed by the academy. Shame on them! Nevertheless, I would recommend the film to almost everyone who has the ability of enduring the brutality on a serious level. And for the fans of Denzel it's a must-see masterpiece!

Rating 9/10

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

Rule the dragons again!

[7/10 · 21 October 2014]

Watching an animation movie in the cinema is always a challenge. It's always difficult to get my friends to sit in the theater, because there is a widespread misconception among people nowadays that these movies are especially made for children. But this is not true of course. For example if we put all the Pixar movies or some productions by Dreamworks and Disney under the microscope, than we can certainly say (even with the eyes an adult) that we really liked that!

The situation is the same with How to train your dragon 2. At first glance the movie might seems to has been made for children under the age of 12. Buti f we are determined about watching the whole thing, we could certainly realize that plentiful adult content is stuffed in it too. Fortunately the movie doesn't try to feed us with the so over-hyped, usual and stereotypical „love conquers all" slogan. Instead of that, it tries to put other basic and important human values at the canter, such as the significance of unity, cooperation vs betrayal, ties of friendship, belonging somewhere, how to convince an other man about your opinion by the arguments of reason, etc. The particular strengths of the film, is that these things are never been said directly by any character, we can sense the hidden massages by their actions and dialogues. So the movie was not made for a specific age group, but it has the ability to target all the consumers, regardless of age. Both children and adults would definitely find their own little favorite and lovable moments.

The film is a perfect sequel of the first part. Even the opening scene stars the movie very pleasantly: Hiccup riding his dragon equipped with its mechanic device (in order to be able to being controlled) meanwhile they discovering more an more new areas where they haven't had the opportunity to get before (without dragons). For me it had a little funny effect, that all the vikings take piggyback rides on their own dragons, but the animations have been drawn so nicely and accurately, that the sight was absolutely said to be correct and acceptable. Let's speaking of sight! The imagery of the film is fantastic! In today's world, when almost every little need of the consumers are satisfied to the extent, that put their threshold almost above the clouds, it difficult to show them something on which their eyes can stuck. However, in this film the wonderful landscapes, beautifully created characters, the creatively choreographed flying scenes are each tore my chin down to the ground. It was a long time ago that an animated film has been able to take such an advantage of the technology, which it was made from.

The first part of the movie in 2010 has become one of my favorite animated movie, that made me very curious about the sequel. Has it worthed waiting for so long? I can not really decide. The film is excellent as a sequel, perfectly continues the main elements of the first one. Those who haven't seen the first part, won't be able to understand all the essence of the interaction between the characters. But if we talking about characters, I must mention one thing: personally I couldn't wait to see Hiccup's next adventure, that how he will pick up the fight against the majority's will, what further discussions he'll has to take with his father, and what kind of further relationship he will keep with the other youngsters, who we got to know from the first movie. But unfortunately I had the feeling that they've tried to make the movie so monumental, that the characters have become a bit superficially developed. Hiccup and his father were the focal point of the first movie along with the night-fury of course. Here, however, the characters in the supporting roles were somehow more interesting for me. For example, I loved listening to our pudgy friend as he was saying all the nerd things about the beasts, or as the other kid was always being about saying or doing something bad-ass in order to impress one of the female members of the crew. But Hiccup wasn't so engrossing character like in the first movie, pity for him…

Somehow I couldn't really care about the villain of the movie either as a I should have. We get a brief background story about why he's become so evil, but somehow he just seemed so impersonal to me. He doesn't have any engrossing feature, that could have drawn my attention to him, because he just has kept yelling and shouting and waving a stick with his thick arm.

I had a bit deja vu feeling by the prospect of the colossus dragon (called the alpha). But when an other one climbed to the screen from the depth of the villain's army, than I just sat in the theater totally confused. Why they wanted to copy this element so violently from the first movie? This was not one of the great features why so many people has become infatuated with the prequel. Maybe I'm the only one who sees it as a problem, but I didn't really like that huge bastard in the first movie either (I don't know why).

Overall, the film is able to provide great fun for everyone, and your age doesn't matter! It has some funny parts, serious points of interest, sentimental scenes, and all of these are spiced with great imaginary. For me it was not as great experience as its predecessor, but nevertheless i't gifted me with a really good 1,5 hour.

Rating 7/10

Deliver Us from Evil (I) (2014)

A fine mixture of drama, horror and crime

[7/10 · 16 October 2014]

The movie narrates us a story about a cop trying to catch a really crazy-minded killer. Eric Bana plays the role of the protagonist, who is an ordinary cop, who has the luck of experiencing many crimes that has supernatural smell. But his character doesn't believe in God and Evil, even if he could experience some change on his mental being. The story will get complicated when he'll meet with a committed and confident priest, who's intended to help him.

We got tension, drama, fear, excitement, exorcism and many other things stuffed into one movie. This makes a little problem, because some of these elements are just simply lag behind the more „important" ones, like the tension. They tried to involve the family drama with the protagonist's wife and daughter, which we could have seen so many times. Fortunately the movie tries to focus on the investigation thread, so the family quarrels don't flood the film.

Eric Bana has done a great job, as always. This serious cop role totally fits to him. He doesn't have faith in The Maker so he that's why he doesn't really understand some of the weird happenings around him. He has many cases with possessed people, but he cannot take in that fact. His partner was really bad-ass and he always handled every situation on a cool way. But things started to get a slow turn after he met with a priest several times, and the character development in the movie is really well made. It effectively illustrates how a non- believer adult changes his mind and starts to get faith in The Almighty and The Primeevil. So I think the movie could not boast of a truly original story, because we've seen it before, so there are some clichés of course. But this time all of that is presented in a little bit different way. The whole movie was really dark and sinister. It has the ability of keeping the tension from the beginning till the end. I was really curious throughout the whole production about the outcome. And I haven't regretted waiting for the conclusion.

Beside him, the other actors have also been really talented, especially who had some „evil" roles. Their movements, their facial expressions, and their whole appearance completely ruffled the hair on my back. There was a possessed chick, who has brought alive the creepiest and most sinister and hair-raising character on the screen I've ever seen! Truly! I've made myself sunk deeply into the chair and I grabbed armrest as hard as I could when she appeared on the canvas. If an „Oscar prize of spine-chilling" existed, than she'b be definitely the one who'd get it. Truly guys, I got goose bumps on my nape because of her mere presence.

The biggest mistake of the whole production which annoyed me greatly was the close combat scenes. The fist fighting moments were shot from terrible angles, and it was like they have to shot them in haste, because the short clips were just speeding by, and sometimes I cannot understand that, who slapped who. But it's a too little mistake so it couldn't spoil the experience.

So there is a crime story in the movie, plus we can see a really interesting character development, but it has some very frightening jump-scar scenes worthy for a horror movie (which sometimes were really creative), and got the usual carrier vs. family drama. Sounds a bit crammed, but anybody can find his/her best element. Overall, I've enjoyed the movie. I wanted to see a crime and horror mixture, and I was totally satisfied with what the movie could have provided to me. If you have the same purpose, than give it a try, you won't regret it!

Rating: 7/10

A Haunted House 2 (2014)

Marlon Wayans strikes again!

[5/10 · 14 October 2014]

The movie is the sequel of the last year's well known horror film parody by Marlon Wayans. It could have been guessed easily, because if we were talking about „scary movies", than the name of the Wayans brothers come into everybody's mind immediately. For me they form a duo, only whose face is enough to being seen on a movie poster to get myself excited about the actual production. It was also the same situation with this movie, but the final result has ended up with a medley packed with hard mix of emotions.

Marlnon Wayans is still hilarious for me, and I think it will never change. Overall I consider the movie a really good entertainment, however the notorious comic actor has some really weird moments when he successfully managed to not poorly exaggerate and overdo his role. Sometimes when something was humorous at the beginning turned out to be a vigorous effort by the end, which is often delayed in time. So it felt to me sometimes, that it's primary purpose was to lengthen the runtime of the movie. So occasionally we can laugh on some scenes at the beginning, but after a short time that smile starts to get faded away, even though the scene continues which was intended to be funny.

The casting crew has changed a little bit. For example Wayans has an other girlfriend who is just as annoying on the big screen (and untalented) than the previous one. However, she's a perfect choice for an aesthetic element (most likely it was the goal of her role). The children do not appear on the screen so often, which made me really happy initially, because personally speaking I'm not really keen for the young actors. Buti n this movie, when the young boy was just about showing up for a minute and saying a short monologue, a loud laughter erupted from me. I really rarely say that to a child actor, but I think he did a remarkable job!

In addition, the range of characters extended with a Mexican-style amigo (who plays Wayans neighbor by the way). He's become my favorite after his first appearance on the screen. I was infatuated with listening to his non-sense spiels, and I've just loved him creating more and more amusing sentences within fractions of a second.

Otherwise the funny scenes of the movie were very similar to what we could experience in its predecessor, so if you liked the first one you'd probably like this one about the same. I think they overdid the sex-related gags a little bit. 2 or 3 are even funny, the 5th is not so, but after the tenth the production is about getting really dull and monotonous. However, the film is not too long, so it doesn't leave us enough time to get bored.

Overall, the movie is not worthy for the standard created by the classic „Scary Movie", but I consider it a perfect evening entertainment, if you simply wanna have fun.

Rating 5/10

Thanks for spending your precious free time with reading my review! Hope you liked it!

Joe (I) (2013)

Magnificent!

[8/10 · 10 October 2014]

Joe. That is the movie I consider one of the most interesting one in 2014, starring Nicholas Cage and Tye Sheridan. The film narrates a story about a foreman who offers a job for a 15 years old boy living in extremely poor conditions, who in addition is regularly abused by his father at home, who forcibly cut his hard-earned money all the time.

First of all, I would like to point out that the acting performance in this movie is peerless! Simply phenomenal! Many people consider this movie Nicholas Cage's big return to the silver screen. Honestly saying, during the first half hour of the movie I didn't understand why so many people think this way. But by the end of the film my opinion has taken a total 180 degree turn. Initially the Oscar-winning actor hasn't really over-strained himself. His character was sluggish and had a towed nature, didn't show any special interest about anything or anybody, and the actor smoked more cigarettes during the filming than in his whole life so far. However, by the end of the movie he goes through such an exceptional dramatic character development, which ripped off my chin in wonderment. He's trying to provide help for this youngster, making some troubles so the cops get a bit angry on him, meanwhile he has problem in his personal life too. Colossal amount of the sources of dramatic situations! But the movie combines them very well, and it manges to create genuine suspense.

Personally, I loathe kid actors, but in this case I had the opportunity to see a 15 years old boy on the screen, who's got talent! Tye Sheridan's performance was excellent! In my view, he's got a quite difficult task, because the character he had to represent is the other main theme of the movie (besides Joe). His family problem places enormous pressure on his shoulders, which becomes heavier to carry as he could develop more friendly relationships with more other people. At home, he don't have the tiniest spark of the chance of getting a few praising words from his relatives. Instead of that, his mother is just smoking and not noticing him at all, and his father is behaving like a real a**hole almost all the time.

The storyline is fantastic! The beginning of the movie a little slow and towed in order to efficiently illustrate the poor and peaceful daily life of a small town. And it's very well done in the film! I took pleasure in watching that the workers are able to enjoy each others company despite of their living standard forgetting their everyday problems, and watching the peaceful village life where all the inhabitants know each other well. But this intimate tranquility is broken by the appearance of this youngster with his father.

We can hardly hear any music in the movie, but those few ones can enhance the tension very effectively. The cinematography is also excellent. The cameramen could have caught all the moments from great camera angles. Great work!

The only think I've found annoying that a lot of actors would have needed a speech therapist, because they are simply not able to speak clearly and intelligently. It was a typical attribute of Tye Sheridan's father and almost all the workers in Nicholas Cage's team. In addition, the minor chief had the unique ability of speaking so incomprehensibly, like all of his teeth have been missing. Furthermore, he made the impression like was constantly trying to create a rap music, by speaking like this all the time: „Yo got somthin' on yo mind, man!?" And it should be understood that while he's been being about saying inarticulate words sometimes even saliva also has been spilled out from his mouth. But compared this to the whole movie is really a tiny mistake!

Overall, I loved this movie. I've been waiting for a long time for seeing such a great production from Nicholas Cage, and now finally I received it! Rating: 8/10

Thanks for spending your precious free time with reading my review! Hope you liked it!

Mystery Road (2013)

Really interesting entertainment!

[7/10 · 8 October 2014]

This film was a pleasant surprise for me among the mass of today's Hollywood productions. The movie is a bit different in its rhythm and mood from as we are expected from its genre. It tries to combine the western and the thriller style, and I think it has succeeded.

The movie narrates a story of a lonely detective who tries to hunt down the murderer of a young girl in the remote and sparsely inhabited territory of Australia. But the movie is intended to be real, and makes a great effort in order to achieve that. It tries to show us the everyday life of a lonesome ranger in a realistic way. Thus, it could give us a totally different picture than the Hollywood action-stuffed blockbusters can provide.

We can hardly see a single gun in use throughout the whole movie, but somehow it manages to attract the attention of the audience. The newer and newer details of the crime are revealed in a nicely right pace. Sometimes, during the interrogation of a person I've already known what the detective's following question would be. But not the teeming clichés are responsible for that (because there were any), but the adequate atmosphere what the movie could have created, because it's able to involve the audience and encourage them to investigate along with the protagonist.

At the beginning I felt the fact a bit weird, that almost every single member of the town were totally unfriendly with the detective, even a few years old tiny kid, who was brave enough to announce without batting an eyelid that he'd take the detective's life. But later I realized, that I wouldn't be really happy too, if a ranger wanted to ask me a few question about a murder. However, not only these people were raw to the protagonist, but the other policeman were pretty arrogant either. We can feel the tension in almost every moment of an interrogation, because the conversations are usually interrupted with awkward silence, because the detective could hardly pull out the valuable information out of the people. That's why the dialgoues are occasionally a bit silly, but there are some moments when they're quite funky and gripping.

Nevertheless, the actors did a fine job, as far as some of them had only little opportunity to prevail on the silver screen. I admit, that it wasn't Hugo Weaving's most outstanding performance, as we could see him acting far better in the Matrix or in The Lord of the Rings. But I couldn't blame him for that, because his character was really obnoxious in this movie. I could have accused him at his first appearance on the screen, like almost any other people in the movie, except the protagonist.

We can hardly hear any music or soundtrack throughout the movie (only one or two), but it simply draws benefits from that, because the movie could create a much more depressing atmosphere int hat way. The film could perfectly visualize in front of our eyes, that the detectives don't have as fast-paced life as we could experience that in the high- budget Hollywood movie, but they are much slower, tedious, tiresome and difficult. The film owns a nearly 2 hours long runtime, thanks to the fact in part, that it has taken up the conventional towed style of the western genre. There are some moment, when we could see the characters looking at each for a quite long time period without moving or saying a word. But it had to be like this! So no worries!

If You'd like to experience a life-like investigation in a realistically implemented environment in the company of a logically built up storyline, than I can bravely recommend You this movie! Buti f You wanna see some action scenes speeding by right after other, and You don't wanna get slowed down, then this movie will not be your cup of tea.

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Red Dawn (2012)

One of the rare moments when a movie could have made me disappointed so hard...

[4/10 · 1 October 2014]

Let's start with the good stuff. There are not so many of them… The initial feeling of the movie is quite reassuring with a typical American genre: boys are playing football, girls are cheering, and after that they occupy the bar in order to chill out, and then everybody goes home to relax, and so on. But not so much later the intimate peace will be broken by a sudden Korean invasion, which was illustrated in a flawlessly brutal and dramatic way. The movie has its nice number of clichés, but near the end it provides us a so sudden turn, that we cannot take in immediately, so it totally reimburses the experience being distorted by clichés.

And now, let's put the weaknesses under the microscope, because there are plenty of them! This movie is incredibly unrealistic! Such things swarming all over the productions that I simply cannot took up.

Chris Hemsworth and his freshly gained teenage transform into a ruthless and unbelievably crafty death squad at a glance, that hardly need any nourishment, because they are so tough. But why would not they be so? Since their number is barely a dozen, but nonetheless they can smoothly annihilate the whole sanguinary Korean army occupying the whole town, who seems not to be really disturbed by that, but only at the beginning, when the Chris Hemsworth killing machine children were totally inoffensive. At the very beginning of the movie the Korean military tried to do everything in order catch these juveniles. I don't know why, but they were so important that the far East enemies rushed through the open streets with their off-road cars smashing everything that got into their way, and they eliminated one of their close friend too. But they gave it up really early. The youngsters take the soldiers down without a hitch, so that the film completely loses its seriousness. But it would have much more potential, and they could have made the movie more enthralling by improving the dramatic tension. It's a pity!

The storyline was not completely right either. At the very beginning the movie draws up the events in an appropriate rhythm, but after a short time is starts to move forward in the story too rapidly, so that we would feel a bit unaccustomed compared to the initial part. So they rushed the movies time-line a little bit.

Too many characters were crammed in the 1,5 hour runtime, whom you eventually will not get to know half as much as you would like to. Some of them have been given too much roles, while the others could not get the chance to prevail, because they hardly can be seen on the screen. Otherwise, the acting performance was quite good, but the only problem was that the actors haven't been given enough time to get their talents and skills coming up to the surface. Furthermore the only realistic and credible character was Robert Kitner (played by Josh Hutcherson), who was at least a bit chilled to the bones because of the happenings, and he was the only one being anxious about shooting people of flesh and blood, and only he could have not been able to master the skill of dealing with a rifle instantly. But unfortunately it only lasted a short time period.

Everybody can hit me on my face (including girls too), BUT Josh Peck's acting was simply nerve-racking for me. During the 10 minutes of the movie we saw his teeth more often than his opened eyes, because amid his blinking he was not able scrape that arrogant smile off his face, which made him look like somebody in half sleeping status and just dreaming something nasty. But when the invasion was about getting started, he changed his attitude a little bit, but later he was about to disappoint me again.

And once again the women! They bring the men to the grave again. In other words (before I get myself killed by the ladies), not only the women are the guilty! Men and Women jointly put many likable characters in the grave, who wouldn't need to die. The only purpose of the only pretty boy of the movie is to rescue the beautiful blonde princess, who does not even know how to grip a gun and pull the trigger (but she will acquire skill instantly of course). But he is certainly more valuable than all the people who passed away for this reason.

Unfortunately, Chris Hemsworth's role is exhausted by playing the toughest soldier who appoints himself the leader of the team. I do not blame the actor, because I loved him in Thor, Star Trek and Rush, so I got to know his talent. But simply there was hardly a short scene when he could have used his acting talent in order to show the audience what he is actually able to perform. The dialogues throughout almost the whole film were painfully simple, they barely squeezed some creativity and genuineness into them. There was only one good train of thought in the whole production which I liked, Chris Hemsworth makes an attempt to motivate the youngsters to fight. Buti t was imitated by the extremely smart and creative character by Josh Peck later, which totally destroyed the originality of that quote.

Sorry for being outrageous and revolting, but this was one of those rare moments, when I had fair expectation toward a movie, which was hardly able to satisfy me. But all of these opinions were my own experience, and you might love this movie, so I didn't intend to dishearten anybody! Go, watch it, and get your own experience!

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

A surprisingly pleasant X-perience!

[8/10 · 29 September 2014]

First of all, I need to clarify, that I barely able to watch any Marvel movie. Not because consider them bad. No! Not at all! All of them are high quality productions of the Hollywood film factory. Despite of that I've seen all the X-Men movies so far, and after watching the First Class I couldn't wait for this one. And it totally worthed it!

The story is well-presented, I was fairly delighted with the whole time-traveling idea. Although there were some loops in it, but I do not want to mention them for now. The acting performance is can said to be almost beyond compare, apart from a few exceptions. Magneto was great and almighty, Mystic was graceful and sexy as hell, Wolverine was pure Wolverine, etcetera, etcetera. We had the honorable opportunity to meet with quicksilver, who I bet is gonna be the favorite character of everybody. He was cool and hilarious, and you would want to spend more and more time with watching him in „real- time" action.

Michael Fassbender just became eligible enough to get a goddamn Ocsar at last! He's just killed his character! Magneto has almost never been so original than this time! I think I'm gonna sit down and write an anthem for him after I finished my review.

The visuals boosted with 3D were phenomenal. Especially I've fallen in love with the chick with teleportation ability. That just has made the action sequences simply so creative and cool! The robots were also well-designed and bad-ass, and this is the movie, in which cannot see a little drop of blood, but the fighting scenes create a so brutal atmosphere, that it could almost hurt us, when we can witness a character's death. The robots are tearing the mutants into pieces and beating the s**t out of them with no mercy. The five minutes long introducing scene was almost smashed my 3D glasses. So the visuals are absolutely great, and they can make us feel the tension and pressure on our shoulders, what the mutants are bearing too.

Is this movie faultless? Nope! One of my main problem was Wolverine, sorry folks! We can him on screen far more than any other (more important) characters, and most of the time he didn't do anything special. I don't understand why the makers of the movie wanted to sell their product to us with Wolverine. They could have done him without him too. This man didn't managed to make any successful conversation, and I felt that his only role was to show his abs and unrealistically aesthetic body in the first half of the movie, because Jackman has never been ripped as hard as now. The dialogs are painfully simple, and movie gets started slightly sluggishly because of that. But it's only a really tiny mistake.

Mystic! She is so attractive and charming, but that's the problem. She was put right into the focal point of the movie, but the primal purpose was to show her naturally elegant physique, so aesthetics again. I bet the male members of the audience cannot take in what really happens when she is on the screen, because the sight of her naked blue body and her extremely cool and jaunty fighting moves. I consider it another tiny mistake, but I must admit that I totally loved it!  Mystics other mistake is that she could be easily manipulated. Her decisions are hardly influenced by the decisions of the other male characters. But why? She could have been a separately intelligent character, who can take things in her hands and manage them effectively.

Despite of the mistakes in the characters, the movie manages them very well. I mean that every character has its own personality, own purpose, own beliefs, which are varying from one to another. And this the secret of the perfect editing! There are several female and male characters, but we cannot consider any of them evil or good. The movie provides the option for each individual member of audience to personally choose who he/she wants to be the good guy and who to be bad guy. All characters are fighting for his/her noble goal, and I've changed my side severally during the story.

Overall, this movie is epic and MARVELOUS! The music composition was excellent, totally fitted into the environment. The humorous moments were hilarious, the fighting moments were savage and cruel, the sentimental moments were emotional enough. So almost every details were appropriately accomplished. All my respect for the crew!

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Snowpiercer (2013)

Another post apocalyptic production, but it is different this time!

[8/10 · 29 September 2014]

Another post apocalyptic creation dropped out by the movie industry. But this time, we could experience something different. This movie is not the typical, produced on an industrial scale, Hollywood action garbage that we are accustomed to. It is different! It has sense, emotions, metaphors and logical storyline.

All my respect for Chris Evans! Finally ha successfully managed to leave the bad-ass Captain America behind, and he was able to depict a character blessed with much deeper emotions. The other actors, without exception, also did a fine job. There are some amazing CGI in the movie, but thankfully it is not stuffed with that. And what you can see is not the nowadays glossy and sparkling, even unrealistic imagery. Instead it is modest, plain, clean and believable.

In my opinion, the movie endeavors to paint the differences between the social classes of the recent times in front of our eyes. And I think, it does really fine. As the poverty-stricken and vulnerable lower- class people taking their journey through the train, we have the opportunity to experience each level of the social ladder. We can face the ugly truth. We can see how the aristocrats live their exclusive and privileged life and how they exploit the poor people.

There are some negative things (which are so few compared to the positive side!) which I have to mention. There are far too many characters and the movie continuously throwing them on the screen before we could have get the chance to know them. In addition, too many of them dies, and some of them too early. And if one of them went to his/her last resting place, then it would induce three possible emotions in the audience: 1. you would be sorrowful, because you cared very much for the character 2. you would be delighted with it, because you loathed the dying one 3. you would feel absolutely nothing, because you didn't have the chance to get to know the dying character passing away. And unfortunately the last one is far too common in the movie. And by the time we reach the end of the film, when had been forced to see tons of innocent and sinful people breathing his/her last, so that we would almost get accustomed to that. But the death and murders are illustrated on so brutal and shocking way, that it made 100% sure, that there would be some „lucky" people among the audience who would be scared to the bones and shivering while waiting for the final outcome at the end. So I don't consider a big mistake to stuff the movie with lot of „characterless" characters compared to the uncountable amount of positive things that can be realizes by watching this masterpiece.

The positive side totally offsets the negative effects, indeed! Finally a movie which is free from teeming clichés! It hardly has an early predictable scene or even little moment, but it has many surprising turn in the storyline. Plus we can experience some really brilliantly visualized and narrated character developments. The creators did a remarkable job, because the movie is able to manage mysterious items on an excellent way, by rhythmically revealing more and more details. In the beginning I was was stuffed with numerous questions, and my curiosity has been almost totally satisfied at the end. The story left one or two „plot-holes" behind itself, for example how the hell that already dead guy could have stood up suddenly and regain his power immediately and continue his mission; or I think I'd never be able to comprehend how they could get so many cockroaches to produce food. And the whole „we have to protect and preserve the ecosystem, so we have to eliminate a certain percentage of the people regularly" thing sounded a bit weird for me. Because maybe this thing was the major reason for the apocalypse, I guess. But I'm not a biologist, so I might be mistaken.

But never mind! The film is really enjoyable, and when you start watching it, you would be chained into your chair or bed by your curiosity. This is the movie, which could showed us how to make a masterpiece with without gigantic amount of greenbacks. Respect for the crew!

So, this was my own personal experience about the movie. If you watch it, you probably would not agree with opinion, but that's just fine! Indeed! Everybody should see this production, because it can evoke wide array of opinions and thoughts, which can vary in case of every individuals, and THIS is the power of this movie!

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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Tom Cruise in the role of a more or less qualified space marine.

[10/10 · 28 September 2014]

The film wasn't promoted and over-hyped by armies of high profile and fierce marketing campaigns, so I belatedly noticed its only existence. When I first glimpsed the official poster of the movie, it somehow failed to arouse my interest, because by the sight of the two actors posing in the futuristic uniform the first thing which came into mind was that we got the concept of another silly game adaptation, which happened to be Warhammer 40K at this time.

However, over time I realized that the film has nothing to do with the game even despite of the space marine style uniforms. I've started looking after the things and I've conducted a little investigation, but finally I managed to find only a brief and condensed information about the plot. I became eager for more details so I had to sit in the theater stuffed with curiosity. And there came a huge and pleasant surprise!

Thanks to the unique and original story, the splendiferous acting performance, the fantastically choreographed action sequences, the not overacted and exaggerating humor, and many other positive things, the only sentence came into my mind was that „I'd watch it again, and repeat, and again!"

I don't wanna give you spoilers about the story, so the only thing I can say, that I consider it really unique. The „Live, die, repeat!" slogan does not provide too much information about the whole thing to prospective audience, but it's quite enough to throw a spoonful morsel to you, which you can chew on until you gather adequate amount of curiosity to get yourself committed about watching the whole movie.

Let's examine the characters under the microscope. The film could be enjoyable for those who are infatuated with Tom Cruise, and for those who loathe him either, as he gets killed countless times in a row on the battlefield. The characters go through a real development, which was build up properly. We could witness how a weak, scared, left- handed wuss officer become a brave, dauntless and almost fearless butcher, who grinds and slashes the enemy easily with joy. Emily Blunt perfectly embodies the cool and absolutely bad-ass female protagonist, what she could implement in a so unique and amazing way, that it does not gives us the concept of the typical, phlegmatic, annoying, empty-headed, though chick who can humiliate every male characters in the movie with ease. Instead of that we could recognize a real amazon warrior woman while seeing her acting performance. Let's face it guys, that this has been achieved by hardly any women so far! And Bill Paxton magnificently shows us his priceless talent while bringing cynical leader into life. It's a great pleasure to watch!

The battle scenes are totally mind-blowing! You scarcely can see a drop of blood on the canvas throughout the entire movie, but nevertheless the movie throws some so brutally created action scenes right front of our eyes, that we can almost feel the shooting pain in our limbs when we see a character getting injured. I watch the first landing with opened mouth, without taking a small breath, when Tom Criuse has been first dropped right into the middle of the battle. It was almost scary to watch soldiers falling sequentially like little flies.

The film is a spectacular, high quality, and moreover it's an intelligent blockbuster, which can be considered a true rarity these days. In my point of view this movie earned the honorable title of „The Movie of the Year". Everyone should see this masterpiece!

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Maleficent (2014)

Another attempt by Disney to keep its name in shine.

[5/10 · 28 September 2014]

Multitude of mixed emotions were circulating inside me, when I got myself in a comfy chair in the cinema hall, because there was another Disney film on the list. I've read numerous laudatory reviews, so my expectations were more or less positive about the creation. But the result seem to be a bit disappointing (again).

It's well-known, that the protagonist of the whole fairy tale is the „long-expected-to-see" Maleficient starring Angelina Jolie. Websites and internet blogs were excessively flooded with praising comments emphasizing that this movie is the actress' long-expected and notable return on the canvas. So many people sang odes about her magnificent performance, and the echo of the fans' colossal applause thundered through the ether.

However, I do not completely agree with this! I think her performance was quite run-of-the-mill, and knowing the fact that she keeps an Oscar on the bracket, I got myself really surprised, when people point out this particular film. But really, I can understand the poor performance because throughout the whole film there wasn't really an appropriate moment when she had only a tiny spark of the chance of demonstrating her true skills. During the first third of the film we can see colossal forward jumps on the time-line of the story in short time periods, which were not really easy to follow. And the actual real-time events are painfully sluggish, and it was further enhanced by the bored voice of the narrator.

When the film reaches its critical point, Jolie transforms into the thing that she has to. And that is the point when the events get a bit slower rhythm finally. It was kind of a feeling that the writer wanted to process a large-scale story thus making the movie a bit overloaded, because 1,5 hours runtime seem to be too short for this purpose.

Right at the beginning of the film we get the other protagonist introduced who will be the primary source of all the further conflicts throughout the movie. BUT! I consider simply outrageous, that we haven't been given any useful information about him, exact that he is related to the original „evil" king. He fell in love with Maleficient, and movie would like to paint a picture of the true epic love and devotion at front of our eyes. But we barley get a little info about the male member of the romance, so it won't brighten up that why they love each other? We won't be able to answer this simply question. And that was the actual point, from when I couldn't take the movie seriously enough.

The story left enough free room for three fairies, who were so incredibly annoying characters, that it's hard task to find adequate words to describe correctly. I don't know if the characters were originally intended to be like that, or simply the actresses played over their roles, but I'd have kicked them in the cheeks every time they appeared on the silver screen. In addition the way that the young teen girl brings to life another protagonist is incredibly stupid and far-fetched. Sorry people, I didn't have the intention to give such poor grade to this movie, but believe the disappointment hurts ME the most…

The film has some cliché either. About the half we have a guess about how it will end. This film again tries to emphasize the far over-hyped basic intrinsic human values. But this is no problem for me, seeing the fact that we facing a Disney. But the movie is constructed in such an awkward way, that after watching the whole screen-play will generate a thought in our mind: „We have already seen it once".

But the movie also got some unquestionably positive attributes. Considering that 1,5 hours runtime motion picture is generously stuffed with vast amount of CGI, it could be purely classified as an animated film. However, I wasn't confused about that for a tiny moment, and it didn't dropped me out of the magical world of the movie, because the computer rendered images are undoubtedly fantastic! The imaginary is so beautiful, that occasionally I could have believed it more true and real, than some actors/actresses' far-fetched and ridiculous performance. So I bow my head before the 3D animator guys! Excellent job!

Otherwise, the movie is mostly managed to be cozy, and it has the ability to enchant the audience, and pull them inside the supernatural land. So overall, the entire film is adequately entertaining, but due to the teeming poor acting and storyline inaccuracy, I only dare to classify the movie mid-range. And I feel so sorry about that! I've been hoping for a real adventure by Disney, but this time I've slightly got it.

Sorry folks for depreciating the movie, but unfortunately this is the ugly truth for me…

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

„The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air."

[10/10 · 26 September 2014]

„The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air."

This is the memorable quote by Galadriel introducing the movie. Honestly, I was in the age of 9 when I could have convinced my parents with the help of my cousins to take us to the theater to experience this marvelous creation of the mighty director bearing the name Peter Jackson.

Above all, I need to clarify that this movie is not perfect. I've never (and nobody has ever) met a movie, which can be considered faultless. Everybody has to admit the fact, that even if we're biased toward our favorite movies, they also have more or less mistakes. But we tend to just simply pass over them. In the case of this movie they have made some mistakes in the adaptation process, sometimes it could became painfully sluggish and depressed, it's runtime is so, that the movie is independently able to create the concept of „never-ending".

BUT! Despite of these „small errors", declaring, that the magnificent and spectacular moments, the deeply philosophical quotes, the inimitable acting performance, the immersive and mind- blowing music composing, the stunning and dazzling visual effects are inappropriate, that is an epic mistake! Peter Jackson completed his quest, and thus could have set a standard by which future movies should be judged and rated.

The story takes place in the magical realm of Middle-Earth created by J. R. R. Tolkien. We can witness how a meek hobbit of The Shire sets out on a perilous journey in the company of his gardener and two of his friends, and how he accepts his fate about facing a world destroyer evil, Sauron, The Deceiver.

I can't describe how fantastic the story is. Tolkien could professionally narrate you a true and touching tale about friendship, cohesion, loyalty, honor, treachery, forgiveness, malice and goodness. All of these attributes and feelings can recognized in different scenes of the movie. They are illustrated by deed of the actors, the soundtracks, the locations and quotes or simple words. This movie represents that if you are small and tiny, you still can become stronger, but in order to that you have to survive many physical and mental trials without fatigue and abdication of your responsibilities. You can find every precious sentimental human values when you watch over the trilogy, and they perfectly spread among the different fictional races. And the way of how Tolkien stirred and mixed these values in his fairy tale, that was the thing, which enabled him to successfully accomplish the creation of one of the worlds greatest and most epic drama story.

But besides philosophy and theories, there are many other intrinsic values that can be perceptible by everyone!

1) The visuals. The quality of the image through the whole movie in mind-blowing! They put so many CGI in the film, but they do in a perfect way, so that I haven't grabbed me out of the movie. I could have totally take the 3,5 hours seriously, because the effects were not over-hyped and over-saturated by preposterous and unnatural colors. They were smooth and soft, but well-designed down to the tiniest details. They filmed most of the motion picture in real, existing locations of New Zealand, and they only filled the empty spaced with some monument or ruins of old destroyed castles. The overall visual design of Middle-Earth was so realistic and lifelike.

2) The performance. All the actors made a remarkable job during the filming. They killed their characters from the beginning till the end. In my opinion, choosing an adequate actor for the role of Aragorn was one of the most critical point of the organization of the whole crew. This character is a major icon of the history of Middle- Earth. But Viggo Mortensen has made the best out of himself, so no worries! Ian McKellen visualized Gandalf in a legendary way. Every time I saw his character, ha reminds me Gandalf and Dumbledore at all. So he made Gandalf not just A Wizzard, but THE Wizzard. Elijah Wood's performance was also surprisingly great. I didn't have too much expectations about that, so I was pleasantly surprised. He could totally integrate Frodo's mental and physical development into his character. 10 points for the Hobbits.

3) The sound & music. All hail to Howard Shore. Since the old, original Star Wars trilogy it has never even crossed my mind, that I would ever experience the „I was chilled to my bones" effect on myself. But the soundtrack is simply magnificent in this movie. Every time I can hear the pure melody, I feel myself being taken to Middle-Earth on the wings the epic music. All the original score is almost beyond epic totally fits the actual occasion happening on the screen. The other sounds are also flawlessly edited. The screeching of the nazguls is still can terrify me even today.

4) The adaptation. I admit that some essential elements and characters were left out of movie, and the story was altered somewhere, but despite of that you can't judge the movie, because it still perfectly bring Middle-Earth to life before our eyes, which is totally the same what you can build up in your mind out of the raw material gained from Tolkien's book. Peter Jackson had to visualize a whole universe, and he managed to succeed. You can find many tiny details in the movie that you can also find in the thick book while seeking through the lines. And this is the key thing, that makes the movie so charming for the true fans, so that it would give your hearth a warm hug.

This is the movie of my life! When it came out, it just simply hit the screen with true vengeance.

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