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Black Box (II) (2020)
4/10
Thin
22 March 2023
Very. I mean, VERY thin. First, it's not very bright. It's a topic we've seen in many movies, but as far as I'm concerned, it hardly makes any sense. I don't mean to spoil it for anyone, so I'll just say it's one more variation on the "possession" topic, with everything you usually see in that context.

It's not badly acted. All protagonists are decent, especially good old "Mrs Huxtable", Phylicia Rashad, returning from the dead and as good as ever. Child actress Amanda Christine is also surprising. Photography is particularly good, it seems to me, for a Blumhouse production (usually feels like video, but not this one).

But the narrative, outside of being silly, is so simplistic, so empty. None of the characters is really explored in any way. We need to accept everything we're given without any explanation. None of the relations between the characters is articulated and the dialogues are terribly shallow. Moreover, it's boring! So boring! It takes a long, looooonnng while to get started and when it finally does, it's silly. You don't find anything redeeming either by persisting to the end.

I give a 6 for entertaining flicks, a 5 for entertaining with reservation, a 4 for a mediocre film. I'm not sure this should reach a 5. If I could, I would have rated it 4.5 or something such. But given how many absurd 8, 9 and 10s seen in the scores, here, I rated it a 4 in order to confer a slight measure of justice to that dithyrambic portraiture.

In my book, it's a relatively bad one. If not a total loss of your time, well, something close to. I wouldn't recommend it.
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All Eyes (2022)
6/10
Really original, which has become so rare nowadays
21 March 2023
It's a small movie, for sure. But I really liked it. The nicest aspect is its originality. You haven't seen this story before, it's not a rehashing of two dozen movies you've seen before. It can be read as a metaphor of human pain and loss, but you are trapped by the narrative from start to finish. It's a nice small flick!

At the moment I'm writing this review, it is scored 5.4. It pretty much reflect what it does worth. I personally put a solid 6 on it. I found it entertaining and fun. Don't think you'll get great special effects, here, people flying all over the place, explosions, explicit gore, Godzilla-like creatures crushing cities, etc. Yet, it's well shot, the photography is nice with deep colors, it is well played through and through, and at the risk of revealing too much, you have a decent mix of heartfelt moments and action. A very decent film.

For reference, I score 6 for entertaining; 5 for entertaining with reservations; 7 for VERY entertaining movies.
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Nope (2022)
5/10
I wouldn't say "nope". Rather something like "maybe".
16 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This is a movie with a lot of means. Good budget, obviously, some CGI, some special effects without falling into gratuitous eye-catching trickery. But honestly, it's not worth the money. The story is simple, even simplistic, the narrative lacks cleverness and originality, there's nothing captivating, nothing to get enthused with. On the contrary it is sooooo long, so slow. None of the characters is interesting, none has any kind of substance. Relations between them never gets beyond evocation.

Oh! It's well shot. It has many fun moments and is pretty entertaining after all. But it's much too long for what it says or what it tells. I had the feeling a good budget was lost on a pretty ordinary project.

I'm not sure about the acting. Was what we see really what the director wanted? None of the actor seems inspired. They all seem pretty bored themselves.

You have the feeling a few ideas, difficult to produce, were put together as best as the production could without really having much to do with each others. It's an eclectic mix that leaves the viewers perplexed.

So, It's not a bad film. But it's neither very good nor very entertaining. To me, 7 is for very entertaining, 6 for entertaining, 5 for entertaining with reservations. That's where I would have this one, at 5 (I'd give it 5.5 if I could). It's not a loss of your time. You might enjoy the two hours you spend watching it. But it's not a great flick by any stretch of the imagination.

I loved "Get Out", from the director, Jordan Peele. But I was tremendously disappointed with "Us". I hoped "Nope" would be as good as "Get Out", but it's not. Far from it. I get to wonder if Peele is really as good as his first film seemed to indicate. I tend to think not, at this point. But I still hope he'll prove me wrong with the next one.
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The Dry (2020)
5/10
A good one
16 February 2023
It's a good film, interesting from beginning to end. Well told story, very well acted by all protagonists, lead by a very solid Eric Bana, as usual. It's not a thriller. It's quite slow and the narrative is relatively complex, with many characters and story lines. The first half is in fact so slow that you wonder where it's going at some point, but it picks up just when you start to tire. The second half is a bit more exciting, you get into the different possibilities offered to you and your level of anticipation increases.

It's a good, very classic crime movie, the type of story you would get in a good police novel. It's also decently shot, very well edited, very well put together.

Now, as I have said, it's not in any way a thriller. There isn't any real action. The characters aren't your regular Hollywood strong, know-it-all heroes with side-kicks to serve them. It's more complex and subtle. Then again, it also suffers a little from this lack of nerves. You have the increasing feeling that the movie was quite long when it ends.

This said, it's worth the watch and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to watch a good crime-mystery flick. I scored it a 5. I think I could have gone up to 6 on a more generous night.
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The Final (I) (2010)
3/10
Awful.
11 February 2023
This is so, so, sooooo boring! It's a revenge movie. You just can't understand why this revenge takes sooooo long to come. I mean, the narrative was there, it could have been thrilling, it could even have been interesting. How can anyone mess this up? It's a simple plot. All you need to do is put it in action, just push the button and it will go on its own. The revenge is in place; set it on. But no. Forget it! They never, ever get to it. The protagonists talk and talk and talk and talk, and then hint at some action but then talk again and talk some more and so on and on and on and on!

This might really be the slowest, most boring thriller I have ever seen! It certainly is the most inept horror flick I've seen, if it comes to horror in itself.

And the attempt at checking all the right boxes is once again, ridiculous, in yet one more movie. And it is so useless! Instead of trying to be proper, why didn't the direction tried to be entertaining? Just a tiny bit of an effort?

Moreover, they had the topic: who's evil, who are the real the bad guys? They could have reversed the situation, play with the possibilities, reverse not once but several times. Not only does it never go there, not only is it so superficial and ridiculous, it doesn't even seem to make an effort to accomplish anything in the end. It's totally devoid of any imagination or talent or resources.

This film is overrated, here, at a bit above 5. Reality is, it's below average, much below. The duration should have been reduced by 20 minutes with the inclusion of some kind of action. On the contrary, it's bad. Oh! So bad!
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The Menu (2022)
2/10
I should listen to myself
30 January 2023
I hate today's movies. I try to watch oldies only, but once in a while, I fail. Once again, I find I should have been connected to my inner kid (isn't it what they say?) who loved movies. A long, looooooong time ago.

This once again checks all the proper boxes. Despite its truly ridiculous topic, its boring and thoroughly unbelievable development (at least from half of it), its sick (not in a good way, not even for horror), convoluted, absurd morals, its puerile representation of wealth (art, dedication, talent, subtlety, taste), I suppose it has the marmalade to satisfy its own type of groupies. However, not a single character arises any kind of sympathy from the viewer. All to the contrary. The dialogues are poor, filled with irritating, antithetic lines and free of any heart felt moment. Sushi would have been proper for this menu, i.e., of course, cold fish. But it does have its contemporary Hollywood taste to it.

I hold as a principle that any moralistic view of people, be it religious or not, is essentially hypocritical, especially in fanaticism. It invariably reeks of onanistic self justification. I don't know why we have to suffer this insistence on virtue signaling today. For anyone who has lived a little, it's just abhorrent.

I cannot understand or believe the score, here. Doesn't make any sense to me. I rate it a 2 because it painstakingly carried me to the end. Don't ask me why. This is terrible. It doesn't worth 2 hours of your life. Don't believe the positive reviews. We should all be kind to ourselves. This definitely isn't kind to anything.
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Follow Me (2020)
6/10
I had a nice time
14 August 2022
I guessed the ending almost from the start. It's nonetheless very well put together, very well edited, full of action and very entertaining from beginning to the end. The acting is not great but still very good for a bunch of more or less unknown, young actors. Photography is very good and you have the feeling of a bigger budget movie than what it really is, I suspect.

I enjoyed it a lot and I can say that, at times, I was captivated with the thrill. A good, entertaining one overall.
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5/10
Sexy and... nuts
14 August 2022
Surprisingly entertaining given the announced topic. It could have fell all over with boring notes and moody development (trying not to give up anything, here - no spoilers). But no: we delve into this woman's psyche and it's fun, it's a wild trip.

The ending is a bit easy and therefore, disappointing. But only the very end.

In terms of cinematography, it's pretty well made. Photography is good, so is the editing. But it falls a bit short. It's a tiny bit... raw, a little thin. It shows its small budget through the manner it's done, imo.

Actors are good. It's a sexy flick you tend to follow with interest all the way through the end. Personally, I liked it. It was a good 90-something minutes. Really enjoyable. I rate it 5 a bit unfairly. I think it's probably worth something closer to a 6, but it does fall short of it. (6: entertaining; 5: entertaining with reservations).
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6/10
A lot of fun
14 August 2022
Fun, efficient, very well put together, never a dull moment. It is somewhat told like a cartoon book or an illustrated novel, which fits the narrative. I suspect that it was a concerted effort in editing. Actors are good, are slightly overacting at times, almost taking the characters to caricatures, but once again, it fits the narrative. The main protagonist, Kevin Corrigan, is perfect in the role. Also a lot of fun to see Karen Black again, although her character is not well defined.

Yet, everything considered, it's a very good little movie, fun, well made and entertaining.
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High-Rise (2015)
8/10
At the risk of looking like a terrible snob, here, I'll say this one was misunderstood
14 August 2022
Those familiar with architecture will immediately think of Modernism and the influence of Le Corbusier, with his dream of almost self-sustaining structures that could, by their very design, create happiness. Le Corbu hated the spontaneity of city life and especially the streets, which he felt were kind of claustrophobic corridors. Following the XIXth century idea of a cité-jardin, he meant to gather the expanding populations of the neighborhoods in centers that would be the buildings themselves. Brutalism, with its use of concrete, complete this dream with the erection of extreme high-rise structures.

In the US, these would be the "projects" which, like the most infamous of them, Pruitt-Igoe, were soon known as absolute dystopias, and many were slow by slow destroyed in the subsequent decades with many debates and much turmoil in the respective city administrations responsible. In the UK, it would also be Ernö Goldfinger's Trellick Towers, the promise of a life in the clouds, suspended way above the hysteria of the streets. All the products of this architectural utopia became experiments in sociology, micro-groups, micro-societies that largely exposed the raw behavior of the ultimate social animal.

Ben Wheatley, with an amazing cast, offers us a multi-layered metaphor along these lines in this film, with a delightful look at the mores and practices of the late 60s and 70s.

At times, the movie seems a bit long, but the meaning exploited by Wheatley is so rich and interesting you never get bored or disinterested. Given, it's a tiny bit cerebral and the viewers are required a bit of knowledge of the past to fully enjoy it. But it's honestly a small jewel of a flick. And obviously, he manages to do it with a restrictive budget. The actors are great, all amazing and perfect in their respective roles, some of them unrecognizable, so good their performance is.

This is not just entertaining. It goes much beyond. It's a deeply meaningful movie that raises as many questions as it evokes puzzling and sometimes disturbing observations and issues gathered in the recent past.

I guess at this point, I should make clear that I am not a bot, I am not a part of the production, I am not a friend of anyone involved. I am just a reviewer that really, truly enjoyed this film. It is so different, so magnificently superior to the junk we are so regularly served these days! I really loved it and I would recommend it warmly to anyone. I'm rating this a 8, but I would have gone to a 9 if the already good cinematography had been better. But I think Wheatley would have then needed a bigger budget. Otherwise, this is so well made, so intelligent, so fascinating that I could not help being conquered as a viewer.
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Storm Warning (2007)
2/10
Absolute cinematic garbage
10 August 2022
You read the reviews and you really wonder... This is so boring, we've seen this an almost infinite number of times and always better made, better acted, better planned. From the start, it's so unbelievable you get discouraged by the incompetence of the crooks! It's not possible to be so bad at doing evil, is it? How can any of this be believed?

And the male "good guy" is so characterless, boneless, faceless, lifeless and ridiculous! Why is he there at all, if not as a terribly scripted sidekick?

I can't find words to express how bad and boring this film is and I won't even try. The very high score it has here can only be explained by a lot of Aussies voting or a lot of the members of the production itself. This is terrible. DO NOT BELIEVE the good reviews and save yourself from that awful 90 minutes you could spend watching this...
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Reeker (2005)
4/10
Meh...
9 August 2022
Sssssss! It manages to keep you in a state of woken sleep such that at around the halfway point or the 2/3rd mark, you ask yourself: "What is this all about? And why is this soooooooo boring?" It's kind of a slasher, but you have the feeling it's... you know? A PG slasher, or something such. Really not convincing... FX are poor. Actors are not bad, but it's far from enough to save the picture.

In the end, it's not very good.

I rate 7 for very entertaining; 6 for entertaining; 5 for entertaining with reservations. This is a 4 to me. It's average. Even mediocre. The ending is something we've seen in countless movies, but it's relatively well delivered here. For that, I'd give it half a point more if I could.
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5/10
He's so real we've seen him many times before
9 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Depiction of schizophrenia under pretextual horror. It's not horror indeed.

I just saw another flick with the same topic yesterday, "The Black String".

"Daniel isn't real" is well made and well played by all actors. But it is too conventional and rips off too many of its pieces to some other movies.

The double personality theme, Jekyll and Hyde, good and shy vs self assured and evil, the Nick Twisp/François of "Youth in Revolt" and many more is also heavy déjà vu, and doesn't sit well with the general topic the movie is trying to take. And in the end, it doesn't reach any goal: as I first said, it's not horror, it's a mediocre depiction of mental illness and it's only relatively entertaining.

I gave this a 5, but it does deserve half a point more for the quality of the production and the decent acting, imho.
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5/10
Not bad, but as thin as a sheet of paper.
9 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Decent depiction of psychosis. Not horror. The last segment is ridiculous, added to leave some kind of doubt on the whole narrative. Logically, it has nothing to do there.

Well done, well lead, well played, although Frankie Muniz seems quite uncomfortable at times, and quite uncharacteristically.

Unfortunately, a bit thin. Since it isn't a clinical description but a flick, not sure anyone would want to be entertained with this.
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Shuttle (2008)
6/10
Overall, it's worth the watch
9 August 2022
Unbelievable, suspenseful, very well made.

The characters' actions-reactions are not credible and the narrative isn't either.

But it's still a good one. I would recommend it to friends. It's a good thriller.

But at times, it seems more like Halloween or these "supernatural" slashers, where the evil character keeps getting up despite being killed over and over and over again. In other words, the suspense is a bit overdone. Too much peanut butter on the slice of bread, trying to chew on it with a dry mouth, if you see what I mean.

But despite the exaggerations, it keeps you on the edge of your seat, so it gets the work done. A solid 6 in my book.
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The Bay (II) (2012)
6/10
Very impressive
9 August 2022
A real good director gives that video-type movies an upgrade with this one. It's very entertaining, very well edited and put together. You see what a great director can do with small means. And it's very impressive.

I would have given a 7 if it weren't for that precise reason: it's obviously a small budget film. But my score of 6 is unfair. This should be a 6 1/2, and more generous hearts will most probably rate it higher.
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Slasher (2016–2023)
3/10
1 year ago... I was happier
7 August 2022
What? 1 year ago? 1 year ago what?? 1 year ago from this or from that? You have the feeling the floors are covered with banana peels and you keep slipping from one end to the other of that screen, hurting yourself every time.

The characters are all absolute caricatures. It's not just silly, it's grotesque! Yes, I know: as the title indicates, it's a "slasher" series, and you shouldn't expect anything subtle. But at such an extent of ridicule characterization, It completely spoils the narrative. You just can't get in! You just don't care about any character and even less about the narrative.

I've suffered 4 episodes and I'm done.

Beside, the woke pushing is making me sick. I tried, with Netflix. I must have started to watch 10 or 12 series. I'm done. I'm unsubscribing. So much trash you just can't handle it. When good stuff is the absolute exception, you might as well abstain from subscribing.
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Prey (I) (2022)
1/10
Why bother?
7 August 2022
In many instances, with these big Hollywood productions, especially Disney productions these days, it's not even worth reviewing. It's such utter, unspeakable garbage, so poisoned with politics, so totally indifferent to entertainment, so fabulously contemptuous of the viewers that it's no use commenting anymore. It's just mind boggling. Such is the case for Prey.

Yet, I do feel I need to ad my voice to those of honest reviewers, here. If anything, we need to voice the discontent. It will be covered up and suffocated, because the dices are rigged. As they say, "money talks"... By the number of favorable reviews with scores of 9 and 10, it's easy to see how artificial this all is, and how efficient marketing can be. But it's a shame.

Thank God! There are still small budget flicks. Finding a few decent ones here and there can convince you Hollywood isn't dying.
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The Stranger (I) (2020– )
3/10
Is this written by a nonagenarian?
5 August 2022
Blackmailing a young woman because she escorts? What?! Threatening her to reveal her sexy pictures? How ridiculous can you get? Do these people know Tiktok? Twitter?

Blackmailing people in general with small, moralistic issues? Is this a joke? I've never seen a show so out of phase with the present time. I've gotten through 4 episodes, and I have yet to find anything credible or simply, not ridiculous.

Moreover, several key characters, especially the lead detective character, are so totally obnoxious I really wonder how the producers expected the viewers to feel any empathy for them.

If you could make out of any of this an ethics issue, it might be interesting. But almost everything touched in the narrative is outdated, little morals absolutely no one would deeply care about in this world.

This show is either made by elderly people who have no clue of present mores, or it is only directed towards such a viewership. In fact, it might very well be both... In any case, the torture stops here for me.
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1/10
As so often, imagination and creativity crumbles under the weight of banality
21 July 2022
The first half is good. Original, mysterious, fascinating. You feel you're entering a realm you don't know, you feel something magic will be revealed to you, something spellbinding, enchanting. And then, in the second half of the movie, just what it is supposed to be built to create for you, it just slips down into miserable clichés, mundane themes, sheeple's watchwords and used slogans, unbelievable, flat developments along boring, predictable lines for an utter final disappointment.

Why, oh! Why are they seemingly spending so much energy destroying any kind of creativity? I will never understand.

I will not reveal too much, here. No real spoiler. But it's about bad, evil men. Surprised? And yet, it would take the viewer such a level of gullibility to accept the narrative, such a heedless contentment that the entire construction would seem pointless in such a case.

So, unless you don't care for the development of a film to mean something to the ending, you should really avoid this one.
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Kindred Spirits (I) (2019)
4/10
A movie for teenage girls... maybe...
6 July 2022
I would love for ANYONE to explain to me why (or how? Or howhy?) this flick bare the tags "horror" and "mystery"! The plot revolves around stealing boyfriends, talking, sister love, aunt and niece, how delicate it is to say this or that to someone else, a friend, your mom, your boyfriend, and on, and on, and on, and on! For the entire duration! Mind you, there is one scene that suggest violence, but you don't really see anything!

The actors are former sitcom stars, if I remember properly, and I must say it's good casting, because this seems like a sitcom or a soap opera through and through.

There are two male characters, but they are beyond sidekick status. Pale figures standing in some shadows behind the settings, that we understand are being, to an extent, used as pretexts by the main protagonists.

As to the (other) motives of the characters, they are suggested but all remain essentially undefined, vague, at best impulsive. You see them come and go, without a schedule, without goals, seemingly out of any regularity in their lives any rhyme or reason. I don't think I'll reveal anything by saying that the sister comes back, but we can't figure why she was gone and why she came back, how long she was away or where, if she was as she is in the present of the action or if she changed. There might lie after all, the "mystery" we were promised.

You need a few coffees to get to the end, or either you can sit on a per-arranged seat of thumbtacks.

Outside of that, it is well made nonetheless, and very decently played by the actors, obviously all pros. But I don't think it will satisfy "grown-ups" anywhere...
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Evidence (2013)
4/10
Are we supposed to believe that...
5 July 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Are we supposed to believe that they didn't know how many victims they had?

The problem with the plot is that this should have been much clearer to the investigators than it was to us, the viewers. But they're totally lost and manipulated. Well, would you say, the evidence was tampered with. OK, but when? When did they find the time to go through the process of editing it all? And given the number of survivors, 3 are we told, the viewing of the footage should certainly not have been given so much importance.

Nothing in this film makes sense.

The beginning, with the frozen scene is catchy. But the development, until the bus crash, is long and boring. Then, it gets a bit funnier, a bit more entertaining, but we're not seeing much of what's occurring and everything gets so confused that our pleasure is spoiled. It gets more annoying than interesting.

The ending is ridiculous and disappointing, but it fits the rest of this nonsensical and unrealistic narrative. Although somewhat entertaining at times, to the extent I was alluding to and not more, the sum total is an indigestible mess.

I usually put a 5 on films that are entertaining with reservations. But in this case, these reservations are too strong. The entire thing is badly conceived and irritating in the end. I feel generous giving it a 4.
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Possessor (2020)
6/10
Very well made flick
24 June 2022
But it's so difficult to appreciate a movie when none of the characters are likeable. It's definitely the case with this one. You think for the character: "Live or die, it might be interesting after anyways. Or maybe not. In the end I don't care. I don't even care if it ends right on that note".

But the atmosphere created is nice, it catches your attention and you want to go on. The script is intelligent and well directed. It's also well shot with beautiful scenes of the city. You slip in the movie and remain captured to the end.

The topic is not exactly original, but the treatment is, to a certain extent. The acting is good, but not great, except for Christopher Abbott, who literally steals the show with his performance.

So all in all I'll say this is an entertaining movie, well made and interesting, but it doesn't go beyond.

I suppose Bradon Cronnenberg, the director, is the son of David. If so I'd say he doesn't have the sense of concision his father has, with these amazingly edited, right to the point movies. This one is a bit longer and at times seems to be in search of its meaning.
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Come True (2020)
7/10
I was seduced
23 June 2022
Rated this a big 7. Not sure it is worth it. But I was seduced by it all. Despite some redundancy, it really does manage to create an amazing atmosphere of oneirism. The dream sequences are meddled with the supposed scenes of reality in such a way that you don't know anymore if it is dream or reality. The plot line is a bit limited, but if only for this slow, sleep-walking realm created throughout, it is well worth the watch.

The film obviously has a small budget, but it is indeed very well made. I am very impressed with the director and the production crew. Even the score is good. The director, Anthony Scott Burns, seems to have put a hand to much of the production. I'm very interested in seeing what he will create in the future.

This is a Canadian movie. Usually, good flicks from Canada either come from Toronto or from Montreal. This one is from Alberta, for a change. Another interesting aspect to it.

Unfortunately, the ending is a tiny bit disappointing. The writers are not sure how to end it, and chose to create some kind of gathering of endings, or either an uncertain one. They should have set themselves on one only.

This said, I was so seduced by the film that I think of watching it again.
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Bliss (I) (2019)
5/10
The type of "what am I" flick
23 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This is another horror flick that just couldn't decide on what, exactly, it was going to be. A metaphor on artistic creation? Naw! Not at all. Way too childish. A drug trip movie à la Hunter Thompson? I'm not a fan of Thompson, but this is way more absurd and over the top. A pure gore flick, then? Well, although the gore scenes are well made, it doesn't quite hit the mark in that department either. A vampire movie? Yeah! It would make for something new and original in the genre. Fff! No, not really. It just manages to be a half a*s vampiry in the end.

So what is it, exactly? It doesn't know. And you won't either. It's also quite long, pretty boring, unless you're a teenager, repetitive and annoying, most of the time. It's totally hysterical and doesn't manage to make any sense what so ever.

So it's a relatively bad one. This said, it's not badly made, on the other hand. It is well shot, the acting is intense, if not always very good, especially for Dora Madison, who plays the main character. She must have spent a lot of herself in this role. She's giving it all. Most of the others are generally not convincing.

I'm sure this film will find some fans. But I expect them to be gathered among a pretty young audience with underdeveloped brains and little life experience.

Idk about others, but I personally rate 7 the films I find very entertaining; 6 to the entertaining ones; 5 to those which are only relatively entertaining, or entertaining with reservations; 4 to the mediocre stuff. I'm giving a 5 to this one for the obvious know-how of the production crew, and for the aforementioned main protagonist's efforts. But in terms of pure entertainment, I could have gone for the lower mark, personally.
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