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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Decent flick but a bad sequel.
I saw X-Men 3: TLS earlier today and I can't say I was half as pleased as when I saw X1 or X2. The biggest problem the movie has is that it disregards about everything that happened in the previous installments of the movies and just throws a lot of computer generated effects at you without making a lot of sense plot wise.
*BIG SPOILERS* For instance the sudden return of Jean Grey.. her "death" in X2 was rather dramatic and was also the cliffhanger for X3. Well, in X3 she just pops up out of the water after Cyclops got abit emotional. Just a bright white light and *pop* there she is. I thought they could've given it a little more detail/time than that.
Also, what I really disliked was the fact that the director/scriptwriters decided to kill off about everyone who was important in the first two movies. I know this is the last film of the trilogy, but c'mon.. how the hell can any director get away with killing XAVIER in about halfway the movie? How does the director even dare to touch Professor X? Same goes for Magneto, even though I appreciated the irony at the last scene of the movie when Magneto realizes the limits of normal humans. *SPOILERS END*
All by all the flick was enjoyable even though it kinda killed of the franchise. I think the movie would've been better if directed by Bryan Singer cause he probably would've made the movie more in line with the previous two. X3 felt more like a standalone movie then a sequel, which isn't necessarily a bad thing but it is since I expected a lot of Nightcrawling teleportating action, Xavier going nuts ectetera.
6/10.
Fighting Fish (2004)
One of the worst films ever made.
Wow, I just walked out of a screening of "Fighting Fish" because it truly is a horrible movie. This is the "first dutch martial arts movie", and if this is the best they can do, it should also be the last.
It's a story about an ex-triad member who comes to Rotterdam to avenge his brother. Trow in some power hungry son of a triad leader, a dutch girl (oooh, Chinese and dutch people don't mix, don't date her!), and a lot of people who never have acted in a movie before and voilá: "Fighting Fish".
Cheesy dialogs, horrible martial arts (why don't they pretend that they want to hit each other?), boring storyline. Only good thing about this movie is the location (Rotterdam), it was fun to see my own city in a Kung-Fu movie. If you don't live in Rotterdam (or never been there) you probably don't care (so one less reason to see this film).
I didn't expect anything good from this movie, Still it was extremely disappointing. Not recommended for anyone (even for lovers of bad martial arts films playing in Rotterdam). If you are so eager about seeing a martial arts film in Holland, see "Who am I" instead.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Enjoyable Movie..
Gave it a 7/10.
It's a pretty nice movie. Nice CGFX' and the movie does seem to suck you up in it's atmosphere from minute one. A bit too long tho, they should've cut 30-45 minutes from it in my pretty humble opinion.
Johhny Depp was GREAT tho, best thing of the whole movie. Without him I probably would give it a 5.5/6 instead of a 7. Didn't expect him to do this well as pirate, but it fits him perfectly.
I wouldn't call this a very "good" movie, but its really enjoyable. If you are into abit of fantasy movies, you should watch this for sure.
Koroshiya 1 (2001)
Great movie
Only thing in the media you hear about Miike's "Ichi the Killer" is that it has way too much blood and gore which most of the time end up in moral discussions about what should and what should not be censored in movies, in how sick Japanese cinema is ect ect. FORGET THE MEDIA; they're biased. Cast aside your prejudgements and take a look at the movie itself. Experience it, try to understand and DONT FOCUS ON THE GUTS FLYING AROUND.
Story cut short: Ichi the Killer revolves about a psychopath Kakihara (beautiful role by Tadanobu Asano) who seeks (revenge for) his yakuza boss who suddenly has disappeared from his hotel room. In his search he gets a lead to Ichi, a manipulated psycho in service of another (ex?) yakuza person. Their paths cross and yes, it includes a lot of decapitation ect ect.
The story might not be that new and not that great... but the best thing about Koroshiya 1 must be the characters. Every character has it's own remarkable charistics (sp?) which really gives you a look in the minds of those ... weirdos. Take a look at Ichi himself, at first glimpse he seems a perverted psychopath. Take a further look and you might discover that this psycho is in reality a tormented manipulated kid who is the great victim in the entire movie. Same with the cop-who-lost-his-gun (forgot his name), the entire movie he tries to prove himself loyal to boss Anyo but he doesn't get much attention from his peers what seems to really stress him out.
But I ain't gonna give a full character review. Cast aside the bulls*** and see Ichi for yourself.
8/10
Chingoo (2001)
Beautiful Movie
One of my favorite movies. Normally I ain't into all the "friendship" theme movies, but this one has way much more and didn't approach the whole "friendship" issue that... touchy touchy. A must-see for everyone, don't base the movie off the fact that its Korean. Its a jewel really.