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Collateral (2004)
Say cheese
After seeing the high average rating of viewers of IMDb, and the promising idea for an original action movie, I watched this in theatre tonight.
After the first killing in the movie (with the guy dropping on the cab), I already got a bad feeling. After some more dialogues it got worse. Yep, another wannabe 'intelligent' action movie, with a few jokes throw in, because we don't want it to be too excited.
Really cheesy 'psychological' dialogues, and some really horrible unnatural flow of the story (the taxi driver seeing the same girl he talked to earlier is on the list (chance of that is like 1 out of 867, 545,124. The guy chasing Tom Cruise himself, why inform the police right? etc. etc.)
I can really enjoy an action movie, but this one really tries way too hard, but it worked for most people i guess?
4 out of 10
El segundo nombre (2002)
Heavy subject, interesting movie
Because of the other comments on this movie, I thought I'd write my review.
First of all, I really liked the acting. It all was very natural to me and every character clearly had something unique to them.
The story is intruiging, and deals with (what it looks like to me) the subject of what people are willing to sacrifice and suffer for their faith.
Also the scenery and environments in this movie really stand out, a sort of dark and foreboding feeling does it show, a bit like Se7en (but less grainy and more 'stylish').
The only thing I didn't like about this movie was the ending. It is very harsh, and offers almost (telling would be a spoiler) nothing positive. 8/10