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The Best Offer (2013)

10/10

Don't read this , Just watch ...." Less Is More "

8 August 2022

The film story is about "Virgil Oldman" an old aged bachelor auctioneer well known for his pricise, the art expert got a phone call by a young heiress "Claire Ibbetson" to hire him appraise and sell some works, But Miss Ibbetson never meet anyone in person for many years and that is because her fear of open spaces and distances. It is the main plot of the movie, But I can assure you that is only a scratch on the surface.

The film's script and the screen play are the most powerful side of the movie...it is very unique and have it's own character, On the other side the Directing of movie is elegant, the mix of accent English accent with the Italian camera OMG it is so so great, the last quarter of the movie was paintings not scenes. The performance of Geoffrey rush is outstanding, How he expresses...How he speaks ,he is really an amazing actor. To be honest I'm not a good listener to the musical sounds in the background,But the soundtrack in this movie makes you listen to it, it goes straight to your heart.

Overall I loved this movie. My final words for those who didn't watch the movie, Don't read about the movie, it isn't a marvel movie or a sequel to do a homework before watch it. Just watch, The less you know about the story the more you enjoy the movie.

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The Outsider (2020)

7/10

The closure can be the life saver

25 February 2022

Warning: Spoilers

At first, I know nothing about the series, But I was interested especially When I know it is a crime series produced by HBO I predicted to see something like The Night of .

When I see the mystery of the crime I got more interested hopefully to see a logical investigation not just rely on paranormal reasons , I wanted to see how Ralph - the detective - will solve it out. By the time they me justifications and to be fair I couldn't see a logical answer as Steven king made it so difficult and even impossible to solve this case based on physical facts. El coco - the shape shifting creature- was represented in unconvincing way, the show makers depended on re-create crimes have a big similarity with Terry Maitland's case and I Considered it a lazy way to convince the audience with " the ghost thing " and for clarification I didn't read the Stephen king's novel I review this series with no preset background.

After like 5 or 6 episodes I wasn't satisfied about the all series and I became pessimistic about the closure, But the last 3 episodes was really the life saver every thing changed 180 degrees ,All the base down was shown in these episodes, Knowing that the monster is hungry and there is an open buffet - the festival - for him and our characters must take a serious action was a very good sequence and kept me excited.

The acting performance was very good I like Ben Mendelsohn, Julianne Nicholson and Cynthia Erivo performances. The cinematography was remarkable. The last episode soundtrack was amazing.

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Attack on Titan: Deceiver (2021)

Season 4, Episode 11

9/10

What a sentence!!

21 June 2021

" I want to become a person like her." This sentence is befitting the final goodbye of a hero.

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Army of the Dead (2021)

7/10

It is not enough to be a good movie

22 May 2021

Directing & Cinematography were good....the action was great story line was good ......the acting was good.... zombie style was very normal....combining between robbery movies style with a zombie one was amazing.

The intro was Mastering Exposure, to mix between the sound track and the movie intro to make unique exposure you must be Zack Snyder or Quentin Tarantino

at all, Army of the Dead is a good movie ,but to be a good movie isn't enough ,Especially when the audience have great expectations about it.

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The Courier (2020)

9/10

The Courier deserves more fuss

21 March 2021

Story line: Our story starts in 60s, in the shadow of the Cold War a letter from Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) an agency of the Soviet Union received by M16 stating the concern of Penkovsky about world safety and his anxiety about a nuclear war, So Emily Donovan (Rachel Brosnahan) a CIA Agent reached out to MI6 Agent Dickie Franks (Angus Wright) , who recruited British salesman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) to be their spy.

The Review: the directing in this movie was remarkable, the Director "Dominic Cooke" did a wonderful work in this movie ,Although there are similarities between his dinner scene and a famous episode of Westworld ,but it is okay. He also Succeeded in Attracting viewers' attention during the whole movie, I was never got bored....from first scene to the last one.

The Cinematography also was nice. It reflected the general atmosphere of the 60s.

All actors really did great performance especially Benedict Cumberbatch , He did a great performance in this movie. Remember sherlock, imitation game ,current war and now The Courier, these are his genre of movies he was created for. Jessie Buckley did two great scenes and of course Merab Ninidze was amazing in the film.

I think this movie is more like 'inspired by' a true story not "built on" ,I felt that the writer added his touch to the true story.

The point is The Courier deserves more than that. It is really great movie. I am Surprised that it didn't make much fuss.

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Escape from Pretoria (2020)

5/10

It deserves more than 5,But.....

30 January 2021

It is a really good movie, But I have seen it before. There is a documentary film about the same story. My problem is the movie add nothing to the documentary, for example Titanic's chose to tell the story of Jack and Rose as a main story then the Story of Titanic ship and that had made a difference. The director used the same frames as the documentary and Even used the same CGI. The writer did nothing Literally ,But the director was able to save the movie but he didn't and the proof is ME. I saw the documentary seven years ago on TV and I didn't remember anything when I have watched Escape from Pretoria until The director and his cadres exposed me everything. The writing of course was the main problem.Go and watch the documentary , it is better than the movie or almost the same.

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Escape from Pretoria (2020)

5/10

It deserves more then 5 star of course ,But.......

29 January 2021

It is a really good movie, but I have seen it before. There is a documentary film about the same story. My problem is the movie add nothing to the documentary, for example Titanic's chose to tell the story of Jack and Rose as a main story then the Story of Titanic ship had made the difference. The director used the same frames as the documentary and Even used the same CGI. The writer did nothing Literally ,But the director was able to could save the movie but he didn't and the proof is ME. I saw the documentary seven years ago on TV and I didn't remember anything when I have watched Escape from Pretoria until The director and his cadres exposed me everything. The writing of course was the main problem.

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Searching (III) (2018)

8/10

There are easy ways that aren't easy

19 November 2020

I loved the way of directing that was so creative and also I like the dramatic story between the father and his daughter. as well The small stories are very good such as her" best friend" and the social media trends, Even the mouse in this film worked as an important tool that I could get the father's emotions from it's the movement , It acts like words for me, But in some scenes I wanted to see the father's face especially when he put a picture in the recycle bin. One of the things that bothered me The coincidence that has played a role in ending the film.

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Paranormal: The Myth of the Curse of the Pharaoh (2020)

Season 1, Episode 2

8/10

Before and After the minute thirty-nine

5 November 2020

The first episode was really nice and promising. I was excited to see the second one, But what happen??! Unconvincing plot. A silly story, I saw this story many times the man who saves the world in last second and become a hero bla bla bla . I lost my hope not in this episode but in the whole series ,Until the minute thirty-nine. My respect to this minute. They (The work makers ) put themselves in front of difficult challenges, The love circle OMG it was very great and unpredictable. Great respect about this.

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Prison Break (2005–2017)

7/10

I watched it recently, not when it released

10 September 2020

I was interested to watch Prison break, but by the time I lost this interest. The first episode came and it was too good, I like how the story begins, Michael Scofield went to prison without any explanation and then they will explain. Until I watched season 2 OMG IT SO BORIIIING. Every problem solve in easy way, So I didn't care about our characters Because I knew every problem they face will solve and it was 24 episodes of boring. Season 3 is the best season for me. Season 4 was very good, but also boring. I loved season 5 it was very amazing with good Excuse not just for making money. One more thing It isn't important, But for those who said Prison break is best series and la Casa de papel (before season 4) is a piece of "bad" they are like the people who says Pepsi is the best and Cola is Undrinkable.

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Tenet (2020)

8/10

Nolan: why are you stupid

28 August 2020

As we used to, Nolan loves playing with our minds. Understanding inception was Ceiling of my expectations But it was the Basement as to Nolan. yes, I am getting why they do that and the dramatic reasons of the movie But It was too difficult to understand the physics that shown in Tenet and there isn't any help given by Nolan, there are many situation to introduce his idea. The Action in the film was really Amazing and unique. Kenneth Branagh did a great performance in the film and I really loved the Robert Pattinson character. John David Washington was so cool in the film. The interconnectedness of the characters was great. Nolan ensured that we can't change the past, but can affect on it. At the end, I liked the movie. My rating for Tenet is 7.5

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The Washing Machine (I) (2020)

2/10

film bla D7k

7 August 2020

I personally watched a long YouTube video in cinema not a movie. There was a big hole between us and the director. The story plot really really sham, I didn't know how the washing machine works and the Answer From the author let Aaida see the book. I observed in scene "quantum physics" so I waited any actor to explain to that to us but nothing happens. Mohammed Sallam did a really good performance and he was only Comedian, who made me laugh. Ahmed Hatim performance and character didn't reach me is he nerd or psycho and This is a writing defect. The movie wants to deliver to us How was 1900s beauty As far as I understand and they did that so badly

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