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The Virtuoso (2021)
1hr 50 minutes of nothingness
A friend of mine wanted to watch this movie because he loves Anthony hopkins and was super excited about his new film. I followed along not expecting anything but got so disappointed and bored.
The movie starts with a narration. The main actor is reading an emotionless script as if he was reading an audio book that throws you off so bad right at the start of the movie. Later you realized that this narration had to be added otherwise the movie would be even more dull due to lack of dialog throughout the entire movie.
The main actor looks very attractive on screen and he does a decent job of showing poker face and lack of emotions of a professional hitman but it doesn't help him having a really dull dialog and bad interactions with the other characters.
Anthony hopkins then makes an appearance in that gravesite scene and you could tell from the very first few lines he verbalize is that he is way too old to be on screen. He doesn't show emotions and the scene comes off as rigid, boring and meaningless. I was blown away by that story he told, I mean that in the worst way possible as he rambled on for about 15 minutes in a dialog that is so incoherent and pointless, I was left with a blank face wondering what the hell was that story even mean...its so obvious that he tagged along to the movie to collect a paycheck as he wasn't inspired to even try to act not for one bit. And for the rest of the movie, he only say very few lines, so that gravesite scene was all he had and he blew it up.
The plot of the movie is too predictable, dull and lacks any meaning. The movie through the narration tries to make it seem like the professional hitman knows what he is doing by sharing with us his thoughts and insights about the people he run into, but all those thoughts turns out to be inaccurate later when the movie tries to impress the audience with a 'twist' ending but actually end up throwing the whole thing out the window.
What bothered me the most was the performance of Abbie Cornish, it was so off, was she even trying? It looks like she made the whole thing in one take, got her pay, and got away.
In short, its a really dull movie that I would recommend for you to skip it. Unworthy of your time especially in the cinema. It would be okayish for an afternoon movie at home with your friends.
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Don't believe the hype...
Let me start by saying that the Incredibles (2007) was one of my all time favorite animations, which is why i was so confused about a sequel 14 years after the first one. But given the fact that i really liked the first one, there was no way in which i wouldn't go and watch this one.
I wasn't expecting much to be totally honest, because i have come to realize that sequels many years in the making often doesn't make a good watch, and i was right, i didn't see anything worthwhile. It's not to say the movie was bad, it was entertaining for the most parts, but it was an unnessecary sequel that had many flaws and weren't worth the wait....that is....if someone was actually waiting for it.
The opening scene of the movie was very over the top, it threw me off completely, as it was loud and exhausting to watch...but after that, the pace slew down a bit and i was able to enjoy most of it.
The plot weren't that special too, i was able to see the outcome from a mile away.....surprise surprise, the overly good people are the actual villains.
One thing that struck me the most is that the movie lacked the charm it had in the first one, although the characters looked amazing, the special effects are better and the voice acting is really good, it just didn't feel as charming and as endearing as the first one, maybe it wasn't the movie's fault really, i think that's a natural outcome if you're going to make a sequel 14 years later is that people's mind have developed in such a way that what you did to leave a good impression on them 14 years ago wouldn't work now....specially with all those really good movies coming out in all those years....my point is that, if you're going to make a sequel that many years later, you have to bring something new to the table and not just special effects and loud scenes.
Overall, the movie was entertaining in the most parts and i would suggest that you go out and see it if you liked the first one, but don't expect it to better than the original and don't believe the hype. it's just an entertaining movie, you shouldn't expect more than that because nothing is worth 14 years of waiting.
Ahwak (2015)
Misleading Attempt at Westernizing Middle Eastern Society
I don't usually review comedies, as comedies for me either work or doesn't depending on the likeliness of the actors and if you're in a good mood or not, but i have a special distaste for this movie as it tried to paint a misleading picture of reality. The misleading picture being the overly westernized setup of the movie, that's the bars, the casual drinking of alcohol, kissing and hugging between opposite genders, dancing Salsa in a bar somewhere in the middle east, really? the overly clean streets and the overall western life that never exist in a middle eastern society. they even text each-other in English, never played an Arabic song in a club or a party (Unless the song was by Tamer Hosny), and it was so misleading that it was borderline offensive. Movie production was okay, but again the setup was unrealistic, with actors faces overly saturated with makeup, fancy clothes, fancy cars, and the plot was excruciatingly shallow and stupid, watching Tamer honsy attempts to sleep with Ghada Adel for two hours was too boring and predictable. but i guess it make sense for drooling teenage fans of Tamer who would laugh at every attempted joke but for actual movie fans, this is terrible.
Boys of Abu Ghraib (2014)
A Giant Slap to the Face.
Being the guy from the other side, i was immediately insulted by Hollywood choice to Capitalize on a tragedy, because in no way, shape or form, Hollywood would respect the victims and show what actually happened. if you want to see what actually happened then go watch a Documentary called "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib", this movie on the other hand was a poorly executed, yet over-dramatic bullshit that never happened with a "Based on true events" sticker slapped to it.
Shockingly, it was the debut movie of the Actor/Director/Writer Luke Moran, who also took the leading role in this movie, which bring the first question, why in the world would your debut attempt at Hollywood picture be something really hard to interpret, because, in one way or another, it has to be a political movie, it has to play it safe and make sure not to insult both sides, and it has to deliver a powerful message about the American policy in Iraq, there's no way around it, however, this movie managed to find a way around it, by doing absolutely nothing.
It's the story of Jack Farmer, an American solider deployed to Abu Ghraib prison for an initial period of six months, after arriving in place, the movie slap you in the face with the poor living conditions of the American soldiers, with no electricity or clean water, and with bombs falling on them the entire time, which is the movie "building up" for what it should happen next, so, after working in motor pool for a period of time, Farmer apply to serve as an MP (Military Police) as to the fact that the prison is understaffed, during this time he develop a good relationship with an inmate in which the inmate told him that he's an innocent man and was arrested during a massive arrest after a bomb went out and killed 18 civilians. three days prior to go home, he receive an order to stay for another six months in Iraq, but with a two weeks vacation to home in the upcoming months, while serving as an MP, he try to defend his inmate friend and offer him food and question the people doing the torture/investigation and get told that "as a solider, he shouldn't think, his job is to follow orders", so, he find himself unable to change anything. the movie cuts days very fast, in a way that wouldn't let you develop a relation with the main character, and it failed miserably to show any character development at all during the entire movie. cuts to few days later, the lieutenant tell Farmer that he won't be leaving for a vacation because he can't lose him and his inmate friend confess after being brutally tortured that he did commit these crimes and he did bomb people, and from there, the movie drops to zero, as they suddenly show Farmer being mean and loud on inmates abusing them and yelling at them, with no decent back-story as what have happened.
The movie is 1 hours, 20 minutes, in which nothing ever happened, the entire movie was about one American solider and one Iraqi inmate, there are no characters in this movie, it might as well, removed the inmate and all you have left is a story going nowhere, you have no idea where the inmate/solider relationship is going, and the movie had little to absolutely no dialog, and some horrible effects, close-ups and flashes poorly executed and overall amateur production value, it was a poor attempt at anything really and it failed to show any value, and we can all agree on that.
However, since i like to dig deeper, i won't give this movie any credit, which i usually do for debut/indie films, not only it wasn't anything about anything, it managed to be even worse than that, because, when that one, honest/innocent looking inmate was shown as guilty, then, that just goes to justify the soldiers actions, it even tries to victimize the soldiers, and show you that when they show compassion, they get stabbed and betrayed, which is downright misleading, and brutally insulting to the actual innocent people who were imprisoned there during massive arrests in Iraqi streets, and to add insult to injury, they show you that even the most decent solider can be so easily brutalized and then get convicted of war crimes for "just doing his job", hell, the movie never addresses the people whose in-charged of the torture, or the people who approved the torture, and it vaguely implied that torture is the best way to get information out of inmates, it even showed so little torture of inmates so the audience won't feel very sorry for them, and even if they did, then showing that man being guilty is a brutal justifications of the tragedy that happened there, seriously, f**k this movie.
Overall, a poorly executed movie with no value whatsoever, and brutally insulting to the victims who were tortured to death in that prison, the movie never achieved a valid point at all, instead it victimized the American soldiers and showed us that torture is the way to go, hell, this movie was discredited by people who served there as MP's who watched this movie and said that it was misleading, so, how bad is it? Insultingly bad.