Reviews

It's quite funny to read so many derogatory reviews by Imdb users about this movie. Once seen it's obvious that they write it from a political agenda or from a very limited interest in entertainment movies or, worst, from a racist or sexist point of view. I don't think that Black Panther is the best superheroe movie ever (The Dark Knight or The Avengers or Spiderman 2 are better from MHPOV) nor the most funny (Guardians of the Galaxy or Thor Ragnarok or Deadpool would be) nor the most entertaining (here the list could be longer including some of the previous titles I've mentioned) but I think that it could be considered the most serious take for a superheroe mainstream movie. The beginning of the movie with the not much subtle message of Wakanda First! and how this evolve for the main character along the story (whose end of evolution is certified in the first extra scene after the main credits) clearly tries to send a message to the trumpists (and probably a lot of them are reviewing very low the movie) Also it tries to send a message of reconciliation to those that want to revive the ala "Malcom X" ideology or revanchist actions (here one has to think about the riots caused by some judicial decissions when police officers killed some black people or due to the move away of Southern symbols) portrayed by Killmonger. Probably some machist and alpha males (maybe a lot of them lovers of the macho image that superheroes use to portray) could feel that a so equal depiction of women and men as Warriors (yes with capital!, leaded by Nakia and Okoye) or scientists (the perfectly seized and restrained funny Shuri) or whatever, threatens their comfort zone. It has a good story and as well structured as a perfectly narrated story has to; the hero has to suffer a change and it happens thanks to the lesson he learns from his antagonist. The perfect simbiosis of the two faces of human personality by the hero and his opposite. Naturally this is a Marvel and Disney movie and these companies are not going to create a manifesto or a propaganda film hence they don't dig in those topics as an independent movie would do. Killmonger character lacks of a wider development and the talent of Michael B Jordan deserved it and the myth of Klaw in the comic books is roughly severed in behalf of the narrative but despite everything I think that being an entertaining production it offers much ideas than we are used to and as much as expected in terms of joy and fun.

GOTG 2 is a genuine entertainment and right now the best blockbuster of this 2017. I don't know whether it's due to contract issues or creative decisions but Drax has more funny moments than Rocket and it works quite good to me. Tender nice and the most surrealistic moments with Baby Groot and adventure and non solved sexual tension between Gamora and Star Lord. The first half of the movie it seems that there's not a main plot or a super-foe like Ronan in the first movie but once the subplots seem to come to an end the plot thickens and I think it won't disappoint anyone.

Probably the most noticeable lack to me is the soundtrack. I think the playlist for the Awesome Mix Vol 2 is not so good as expected despite having themes from ELO, Sweet, George Harrison or Sam Cooke (and not his best song IMHO) but the rest is more disputable.

Don't miss this movie if you want to pass two hours and a quarter of joy and fun.

....you have to accept 'em despite its failures or better move on.

Spoilers!!!!

The best you can do is to take a seat and have fun and not try to find answers to the long list of questions that this movie will cause to you.

Also whether you look for good and high level screen writing you are in the wrong place. This is just a long ride in one of the most hyperbolic rollercoasters ever (if you've seen the poster you've noticed that there are some cars being pursued on ice by a submarine. Nuff said!) You don't go to see fireworks to hear Debussy or to an amusement park to hear someone recite Walt Whitman in the jump & smile ride. This is not Moonlight, or Manchester by the sea nor even La la land. This is an spectacle, an action movie franchise and you get what something like this is worth.

This is an universe where physics follow different rules to ours. I don't understand why they aren't considered sci-fi movies because there're at least four or five scientific-technological creations that can't exist in our reality.

Yes. It has two Academy Awards winners. But remember that Charlize has done Monster but Mad Max too. And Helen Mirren can play the Queen but also Red 1 and 2. By the way, both are quite good in this one. Helen Mirren just appears twice but great both times.

Major spoilers!!!

The prologue is a perfect clue of what expect in terms of hyperbolic screen writing. A long scene with a lot of classic F&F action that barely contributes to rest of the story. Just to remind us how much charismatic Dom is, to introduce us to a character that is going to appear later to do something that any Helen Mirren's thug could have done, and to relate Dom with kids when he is cheered as a hero by a bunch of brats just because there's something related with parenthood along the movie. But finally is just a scene to start the engines on.

Maybe at the end you'll wonder what has happened with Owen Shaw. There's no answer. Or how has Dekard released his brother. There's no answer. Or.... better I stop here.

Don't blame Universal, F Gary Gray or Vin Diesel after watching the movie. Blame yourself if you go to watch it not knowing what a F&F movie is after 7 previous releases. This is what it is, and you have to know exactly what is.

Take the ticket to your ride, void your mind and enjoy. Paul Walker in our hearts.

****WARNING SPOILERS****

The same sky is an interesting TV show but sometimes quite predictable. It's true that the authors unveil the (supposedly) shocking twist in the last episode (by the way, here in Spain the series has been divided in six episodes one hour long each episode) of the first season but you can guess it easily since the second or third episode. When I was watching it I thought it was going to be a mini series and all the plots were coming to an end and I discovered there was going to continue in further seasons 45 minutes into the last (and sixth) episode. I've liked it but I don't think it's so interesting to make it last more than one season. I admit that there were some story lines that I didn't understand (Why should we be interested in knowing anything else about Emil once his mother has died? What's about that eager informer from the factory?) and at the end I got that these are going to be story lines for the second season. I'm not sure whether I'll be watching it once the second season will be released because I haven't found it so thrilling to wait a whole long year but if you're interested in revisionist European TV shows based in actual events or historic periods maybe you should give it a chance.

I've been waiting this movie for 15 years, since i read for the first time the comic - i hate this new, and pedantic, denomination, graphic novel-, and i've tried to see it like if i didn't know nothing about the story. I enjoyed very much the two previous Snyder movies. Alan Moore is god in comic world as Jon Osterman is god in Watchmen world. I don't dislike Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel or Leonard Cohen. Even i think that Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Carla Gugino are competent players - Jackie Earle Haley is so over all of them, like to compare Albert Einstein with a Science High School teacher. Perhaps that's cause i was so disappointed during all the projection, and so void at the end.

1.- There's no narrative pulse. No energy. No life in the "mise en scéne". Perhaps cause the extreme fidelity with the original. 2.- And the point 1 is the reason that makes you feel the movie is too long (and it's so long) 3.- There's the worst songs selection in whole cinema history. Not for the songs themselves -all great songs-, but for the use of them. Specially erroneous the combination of cemetery scene/Sounds of silence, and Dr. Manhattan-Vietnam scene/Wagner Walkirye cliché. 4.- Matthew Goode IS NOT Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, period. 5.- The living muppet playing Nixon/The Elephant Man.

Sure there are reasons to see the movie:

1.-Jackie Earle Haley 2.-Great Special effects (not Bubastis, the cat genetically modified) 3.-Jackie Earle Haley 4.-The marvelous opening credits. 5.-Rorschach...i mean, Jackie Earle Haley. 6.-To have your own experience and opinion.

Perhaps the kingdom of Moore it's comics and not cinema -except V for Vendetta, do you know... From hell, The League of extraordinary gentlemen, Watchmen,...period?

5/10

In scriptwriting there are many basic rules you must respect to do a good story. One of them it's don't abuse of coincidences. This episode has one after another. I agree that there's something in fiction called poetic license, and it usually take shape like coincidences, but in this episode it's too much.

*Guns that get empty in the necessary second. *A lighter that falls at the feet of a character when he'll need it *A photograph of Walt and J.J. that appears (in a absolutely dark house)just when the killers need to know their relationship. *Wooden doors that can't be open with a gunshot at the lock *Air-condition tubes in a private house that are enough big to let pass an adult (the reason :cause they are old) *A pro-killer that's caught unawares by a ten years old boy's kick (and so hard that he loose his foot and fall down.)

And finally the summit:

* Not just one secret door to let the characters run away from a closed room. When they get caught in the basement with no chances, there's a second secret door to avoid 'em escape in a passage.

Terrible.(And to complete the disastrous episode, John waits till the killer throw down the door and comes in to run away and in a incomprehensible way never has behind him the killer trying to shoot him -even though it's a long corridor).

A sad, shameful, and awful episode that should never been filmed (or written).

Fortunately, The Dead Zone has many other great episodes that let us forget (and forgive) this mistake.

I'm still expecting about The Unit. I think that someone like Mamet should been on to a better product, but i'm waiting to the develop of the series and i hope it will be better in the next episodes. But this episode specially it's the most terrible thing - yes, THING - i've ever seen in whole my life in TV. Sure i have the problem of being Spanish and i can't believe that there's nobody in the designer or production team that hasn't investigate to know that Guardia Civil is not a police corpse that works in city. The only Spanish police that can go after Bob is Policia Nacional. Even that, the kind of hats that Guardia Civil wear in the episode it's of times of Franco - my God, 1975 - and has been eliminated more than a decade. And we are Spanish, not Mexican. Sure, there are not any Spanish actors in Hollywood? But the worst thing is the plot. The storyline of Haysbert daughter is so cliché that make to vomit. But the storyline of Bob should be nominated to Razzies Awards. Hooking with a girl for drugs and finishing with a gay foreigner - and with a strange sensation that this character must to run cause he is gay. If we have make legal the gay engagements!!! -?. Terrible. I think that if the next episode isn't better perhaps i will surrender. Sorry for my English.

I couldn't stop to seen this documentary till its end. I was stuck in my chair. Like once i couldn't stop to seen Oliver Stone's JFK (1991). Instead, there were moments that i have arrived to think that the original title of this one was Peter Jennings reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy of Oliver Stone. The last 30 minutes are entirely dedicated to dismount the Stone's movie theory. That's not bad, sure, but at least Mark Obenhaus does the same that tries to criticize. I miss more testimonies of people that believe in conspiracy theories I think it would done better this movie. In a state of democracy i think it's good to have both versions (Obenhaus-Stone) for make each one his own version. But we must remember that Obenhaus has done a documentary and Stone a fiction...with all the reserves that it means...for both of them.

I'm sorry for the people who defends this movie, but it's a vulgar remake not just of Cage Aux Roussignols, even more than a hundred movies like this one. There's nothing new in the story, nothing fresh in the "mise en scene", nothing archetypal in the characters. The most sad thing i have seen in this movie is how mediocre is the end resolution when the guardian/music teacher goes away from the Fond D'Etang with the children saying him goodbye. The "mise en scene" is so bad that Barratier loose a great opportunity to make this moment very much emotive: the time, the rhythm, the actor direction, everything is wasted. A movie not much better than perhaps hundred more movies premiered last year. It don't deserves the Oscar.(Can somebody believe this movie has get a consideration and not House of Flying Daggers?)