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L'intervention (2019)
Zero Dark 30 budget knock-off
A waste of a good story.
If the facts of this high risk mission are indeed riveting, this film misses the mark completely with insipid dialogues and inept actors. Cinematography and direction are uninspired as well but what really sinks the movie is the writing, the introduction of the characters is really clunky and formulaic, the pacing has long boring lull for exposition, and again the dialogue are never natural, believable or realistic.
The action sequences are the only part of the film that rises to an average level but as the title says it's only a 15 minutes war.
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Self Indulgent
The Hateful Eight is an self indulgent movie. The acting is okay and the dialogues occasionally funny, but the plot is really thin and do not justify in any way a running time that long.
This is the core of the problem with The Hateful Eight: it is long, empty and wears out its welcome. The version I saw was 2h47 and I shudder at the thought there's a 3h07mn version out there.
I can think of at least 2 whole chapters and a bunch of scenes that could have been edited out without affecting the ending or atmosphere, and really The Hateful Eight would have been a better, stronger and tighter film at 1h45mn, 2hours max.
Un plan parfait (2012)
Poorly written, badly directed unfunny comedy
Danny Boon and Diane Kruger are good actors caught in a bad situation: Un plan parfait lacks the most important things in a comedy: a good script, good dialogues and a good director. What is left is a mess, there is often no logic in how the characters behave, there are plenty of plot holes and the whole story doesn't make much sense.
I think it's good to remember that French production companies are heavily subsidized (directly and indirectly)by the French government, because of that delivering quality Cinema is not their main purpose, instead they try to maintain a yearly output that will allow them to claim these subsidies.
The end result is that over the last decade there was only a couple of good French films released each year, and all the rest is, if not shockingly bad, mediocre at best.
Un plan parfait is in this category, a movie made for money, not for viewers' pleasure.