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This looked very promising. And right from the get go their is a certain tone of melancholy but in a good way. And the plot as contrived at it is seems interesting enough. But there are two things that are unfixable. One is to suffer through that dialogue. It has been a while since I heard that wooden, that unnatural, unfunny and blend dialogue.

Second thing, sorry to say is the lead Stephen Jones. I do not believe him. His acting feels very deliberate, very unnatural. You can basically see when he is going into "drama" mode. Overall it feels to me for an attempt do deliver emotions rather than having them.

To end on high note. The female lead seems very capeable but she can't fix the dialgoue and she needs a better counter part. Also props to the set design. This could have been something but sadly it is a missed oppourtiniy.

Quote: "There is life and death, but it is the in-between that counts". Cute line. Doesn' really make sense though. Since life is the in-between. It should be: you are born, you die and it is the in-between that counts. There is point to that. The quote doesn't make sense, the movie doesn't either.

The worst thing of this movie is that it doesn't service its good actors. This movie got Tommy Lee Jones who makes the most of his part. Ben Foster as plays Ben Foster but at that he is always great. Their father and son story was the only thing good buried in the crap around it. Jenna Ortega has just a presence that can't be denied. She tried hard to make her cliché character work.

They are all three fine in this movie but absolutely nobody can fix this mess. This movie has no idea what it wants to be. It tries to be a heist movie, a character drama, a comedy and a thriller. Add to that that the structure is completly off. Instead of the usual 20 Minutes it will take one hour and five minutes until we get introduced to the problem, the conflict, to what this movie is actually about.

Since it is two hours long the second act which should make two thirds of the movie is now crammed into the second hour.

Because of these two problems you can see this movie getting worse with every minute. Making the last 30 minutes feel like a montage or make them feel like they were cut by three differend editors. Movies need a strong start and a strong ending but it also the in-between that counts.

This is a movie without any characters, with a simple revenge plot and every killer cliché you have seen ever. It is John Wick without the action.

95% of the movie is Fassbender driving, flying and preparing killings and then do it all over again, accompanied by a redundant voice over by himself. This movie goes against almost all rules of filmmaking but it could never anger me. I never thought this is a bad movie because there is nothing bad in it. It literally feels like you are watching a robot and so you don't care enough to call it bad. He is a killing machine but thankfully people are not yet ready to spend two hours to watch a machine do stuff.

I use to love this movie when I was a child. Coming back to this years later after watching Creed 3 I gotta say this movie is ridicioulusly bad in every sense. It actually makes Creed 3 which I thought was very mediocre look like the godfather.

You know when the trainers scream at the boxer during brakes that they should breathe? That is what I was screaming at this movie. I have never every seen a movie that cramps so much plot in so little time. Major things happening but you will get no time to digest it because already the next major thing is happening.

The dialog is painfully bad and corny, the cuts are way to fast and to many the characters are just stereotypes and even the fight scenes I have seen better choreographed in other Rocky movies. I will give that movie exact one thing and that is the training montage in the snow. But it is no mystery why I loved this as a kid because it as simplistic as roadrunner cartoon.

I rarely watch movies anymore. In my livetime I have seen so many that only if something looks really intersteting to me I will sit down and watch it.

My god I am so thankful I picked this one.

This is one of these movies that can't be explained by the plot. A dad and hir daugther go on a vacation, they do some stuff, she befriends a few teenagers. Thats it. Or is it?

No its not. Everthing heere is in the subtext. It is in little moments, little interactons. You will get hints but you will have to fill in the blanks which is what makes that movie stand out. It has layers, it will make you think not just when you watch but afterwards as well.

Paul Mescal already prooved with "Normal People" what an amazing actor he is. How natural and real he feels is mind boggeling. Frankie Corio playing the kid is one of these "how can a child be such an amazing actress" moments. For me this is the movie of the year and at least a oscar nomination for script and both leads.

Had this one on my list for what it feels like eternity. This movie has 4 different titles!!! So to spare people time you will find it on youtube and that will be the only source you will find.

I am glad I could watch it now. It is a very sweet story about loss, parenthood, hopes and dreams. This movie will captivate you with two things.

One is the story that is just very well written and just when you think it get's a little dull and repepetive it will add another layer that gives it much more depth and it is no spoiler to say that a lot of things will come full circle at the end.

Second thing that is captivating is AnnaSophia Robb. Her performances in two more recent films where the reason I found this diamond in the first place. There are no superlatives to describe how incredible she is here back when she was 13 years old. She carries this movie with her performance. There is a wide range of emotions that she has to show her and she delivers every time. An incredbile talent.

Go watch this rare diamond of a movie and eventhough it is unlikely let's hope that somebody converts this to HD to have it on a bluray or on a streaming service.

Filmmaking actually has so many rules. But without going into detail a simple one is: Show, don't tell. This movie is all tell and no show which makes it very very hard to watch, hard to get into the emotion and to be more invested.

The director said she left out the crimes intentionally and while I can totally see why you would not show every gruesome detail there is a middle way. "Bombshell" had such a scene where you could have heard a feather dropped in the movie theater and I still remember this scene to this day. Without even one scene we "only" have women telling the reporters what happened. So it is talking heads again and again which is really bad in the craft of film. If it weren't for the great actresses in this movie through and through it would die a slow death after 20 minutes.

This is such an important story but the argument can be made that the way this movie is done, it could have been a documentary. There is nothing added here by doing it as a movie. We could have also seen an actor playing harvey which woulld have given us the opportunity to project our anger on hin. I can see reasons for leaving him out but again it makes it harder to get invested.

At the end the movie finally gets to you a little but is always sad to see when a movie can not be what it should have been and what it needed to be.

I watched this after seeing a feature film "adaption" of that topic with Michael Keaton, Amy Ryan and Stanley Tucci which was pretty solid, also a reccomend.

You should watch this because it raises interesting questions. What is a life worth? How do you calculate that? Is one more worth than another (obviously not). It puts the people in a dileamma. Do I take the save but little money or do I sue and most likely get nothing. These dilemmas make one hour fourty fly by like nothing.

And interesteing documentation from a talented German director. Very odd because here in Germany this documentary isn't featured anywhere.

This a doc about the anti-democratic, racist, hate generating magazin (no not a real newspaper) BILD.

Nevertheless this could have been an interesting look into that medium and actually for the first three episodes it is. Because you see what you would expect. You see cocky, mysoginist argumentative Julian Reichelt and his peers creating stories basically because they can or because they don't like what either a politician or scientist has to say.

It answered my only question: Do they know? They don't! They actually believe that they do a job that would be considered good journalism. They really don't see the harm they do for individuals as much as for society.

After 3 or 4 episodes it becomes pure propaganda. In the first 3 episodes you had at least politicians criticizing aspects of what BILD does and at times there were even internal voices not in line with Reichelts regime. But then you get heroic music while BILD is patting themself on the back for several topics that you never actually see in the medium with the big letters. An interesting question would have been why politicians still tolerate this medium.

I thought this would be just another use of a big name title that never remembers why it was good in the first place. But here everything clicks for simple reasons.

1. You have simple plot and also a conflict between two characters that needs them to evolve.

2. the movie never tries to be more than it is a fun action-buddy movie.

3. Doesn't overstay its welcome: No three hour movie just to collect a higher ticket price 3. Nostalgia: Just the right amount, honoring the original 4. Here the original main character is not a grumpy out of touch annoyance like in Terminator or Star Wars 5. It adds something new: No CGI crap you can feel those flight scenes. They are amazing.

The only thing you can critisize is that it is the Tom Cruise show. But I didn't expect anything else and he carries that movie perfectly.

I haven't written a review in a long time because honestly 2021 was such a poor movie year. And here comes this movie out of left field. I won't even bother to read what the trolls wrote because real critics already recognized this as truely special.

Evertyhing here works. You have an absolute all star cast where I won't praise one person in particular because they are all so great. The movie plays with genre clichés with race and gender stereotypes, is clever, funny shot beautifully and my god this soundtrack rocks so much. Go watch one of the rare blockbusters in recent history.

It lacks focus in two ways: There is a crime. It could be about that but there just so many subplots that you get the feeling it is about the crime. But you never get a sense of what else it is about.

And that leads us directly into the lack of focus actorwise. This show is pretty good when either Jeff Daniels or Maura Tierney are on the the screen. It is really really good if they share the screen together. But we spent so many time on the other characters which are just not that interesting and honestly are played by solid actors but nothing in the league of Daniels and Tierney. There was a lot potential here. Sadly it was wasted.

So this one of these "oh it is totally not like the original" deals. Naturally, if you watched the original first it is very hard to not compare it. I have no solution for that. But I haven't seen the original....yet. So I can tell you that in a vacuum this is a very good movie, very gripping. I was mostly at the edge of my seat. Gyllenhaal gives it his all. It is just him sitting at a desk and he is so good at pulling you into his world, you feel what he feels. He is one of the best actors we have and he makes this a gripping thriller/drama.

I just suffered through this movie. It would be easy to burry talent free Jaden Smith or the childish simplicity of this movie. But let's go for every negative thing has something positive. Cara Delevingne desperately tries to rescue this awful attempt of a movie and all though it is beyond saving she creates some good moments. It is not her fault.

Let me first say that I have an outsiders perspective. I have never watched a Dune movie before that and read none of the books. I am not even a SciFi guy. But boy did I love this movie. I knew that Denis Villeneuve was bound to do great things when I saw Sicario and Arrival.

Everything clicks here. Great acting by the stellar cast especially by Timothy Chalamet and Stellan Skarsgad. Great world building. You can feel what the "dune universe" is like. Great storytelling especially because there is a lot to explain and so it is exposition heavy but never feels like that.

And of course the visuals. This movie looks absulety amazing. The camera work, the costumes and the set design. Everyhting looks epic. And you never have that flat CGI look like in a marvel or Star Wars movie where you feel like you are watching a computer game or feel like actors talking to a fixed point on a green screen. And the Nolan apprach as I call it. You have main stream popcorn blockbuster topic but it also has different layers and themes. It is not just a bad guy having a MacGuffin to destroy the world.

A great movie that will leave you wanting more.

I think this can only be seen as a metaphor because this "plot" can not be taken serious. For one hour the movie is alright even though is is poorly structured since usually within the first half hour you get what the story is about. Here you got no direction.

At one point our main character will do something unbelievable. I mean that in the literal sense. It is so ridiculously contrived to create drama that it is laughable. At this point it is as if you are watching a whole different movie. It becomes more of a montage and totally falls apart underlined by the unnecessary and pretentious voice over. Sad thing is there was very good acting in here.

It seems like this one didn't get a big audience. Well they missed out. This a fine little drama. Rhys Ifans steals the show as the grumpy and eccentric has been rock star but it also has a strong supporting cast with Juno Temple, Jack Kilmer and Keir Gilchrist. It is a movie about parents and children. Particularly fathers and sons and how the parents screw up the ones their are suppose to love unconditionally. Good performances, nice set pieces and a good story make for heartfelt movie.

Let's get it out of the way first. The movie means well. Its message of female empowerment and equality are obviously important and we need movies to get this message out again and again. But we need movies to do it much better better than Moxie does. It is just poorly done. It is on the nose. Nothing is subtle. The movies tries way to hard. The actors are mediocre, nobody stands out in any way. It is plastered with pop songs in basically every second and most importantly there is no depth to it. This movie never dares to be anything more than a sanitized, homogenized pop culture version of what it should have been, shying away from really showing you the ugly side and the suffering that comes from patriarchy.

Don't be fooled by one of the most awe full movie posters I have ever seen. Safelight is a cute little story of two underdogs who find common ground. It is carried by Juno Temple and Evan Peters who rightfully so went on two do bigger things. Christine Lathi also gives a good performance. Only the character of Skid totally feels out of place and isn't really needed. You will get some nice scenery and two young actors that even back then showed a lot of promise.

If you looking to do a road trip on the west coast and want to see how that could look this is the movie for your. Otherwise skip it.

The camerawork is great and from there it is all downhill. The acting of both lead characters is so bad that it is cringe worthy at times. The film always get's better when other characters, all women, are with these two men. All the women deliver good performances but unfortunately were are spending time with two main characters that have no chemistry at all and the script fails to give as any reason why these both are actually friends. We never get why we should root for them. Tommy Dewey also is just miscast. He always looks a little devious so he never fits into that character he is supposed to be.

I watched this one after watching the recently released TV adaption. A lot of people complained that the show wasn't like the film. I agree with them that the show is different in the way that the show does everything right that the movie does wrong.

This movie lacks everything. It has no characters. Christiane is the only person that I would say is maybe half a character. We get a tiny glimpse of back story that is it. We don't know who she is what the thinks why she likes the dude or where she comes from. Other people in this movie are basically bodys with names.

We get very little dialogue and when we get it it is painfully bad. It is never about anything. Since the director choose too pick non-actors for the roles except for Christiane F, for whatever reason we will never know, we get the poorly written dialogue badly delivered and if that wasn't enough it is badly dubbed as well even in his own language.

Since we get a a lot of non-actors we get bad performances. The actress who plays Christiane F. Ist alright at best but I don't blame her because nobody could make this character or dialogue work.

What we get is people taking drugs. And the reason the TV Show was so good is because we get actual reasons why they take drugs. We get motives, backstories and characters. In the movie we just get to see mopey people taking drugs. Why? We will never know.

I have never seen an Eddie Burns movie. I hope that is just started with the wrong one here. 1. You know after 5 minutes exactly how this movie will go. 2. Matt Bush is trying and he is ok, but this role is just not for him. Also to no fault of his own his characters is written horribly. 3. You have seen this story a thousand times and 999 times better versions of that.

But the badest thing is that the film is so simplistic as it was made for 6 six year old's. You don't need to get that this guy is not chasing his dreams. You will get told a thousand times. His fiance is not just the wrong partner for him his basically written as a straight villain, her father too. And our main character doesn't really learn his lesson by himself, he is getting told by everyone. Basically other people persuade him instead of him learning and evolving. This was shockingly bad.

As so often I see people comparing it to the book or the film. Stop doing that. There is no obligation to to stay totally true to that. It is called creative freedom.

Now I am born in 1981 in (West-)Berlin and therefore the area around the Bahnhof Zoo was basically the center of the west. So I can tell you they definitely caught the look and feel of the area, even though part of its made up. The "aisle" diagonally opposite of the train station where Christiane walks down to the more shadier area never existed. So kudos the the CGI guys because this way they create this darker place that is down below where all the bad stuff happens. And so the first thing the show does great is building this world in that Christiane lives.

There is a lot great acting in here. The best ones are Bern Hölscher as the pet shop owner, Lena Urzendowsky as Stella, of course Jana McKinnon as Christiane. But even more so Lea Dindra as Babsi. Her performance was incredible and I am still moved days later by it. She is a future star.

Now even though I am German I very rarely approve of the show- and filmmaking from here. But this immediately captured me. It has good actors, good world building, a great score and is visually very appealing. That the story is as gripping as is it is disturbing should't need to be said because otherwise it wouldn't lived on even 40 years later.Great show with a lot of talented young actors

So glad I watched this. This film will make you sad. It will move you not just like regular movies do. It will move you on a deeply humane level. It will make you think about in injustice and incredible inequality. You will feel humbled. I know I did. You will see the abyss of human nature and you will be more thankful for the the life you have. For water, a roof over your head an identity and basically a life. I don't easily throw out the word masterpiece but there is no other word for it.