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The Beekeeper (2024)
2/10
Worst Statham movie ever made
30 January 2024
I'm sorry for this great actor that better projects are not coming his way.

This movie is just lazy bad. Bad scripting, bad camera, bad dialog, bad actors, bad everything. Even the fights were lazy bad. Even the one liners are bad.

I liked "Safe" from Jason Statham and many other movies, this one doesn't even come close.

Save yourself the trouble, watch paint dry. There's a lot more logic and entertainment in that.

I'm so glad my wife stopped me from paying cinema tickets for this and instead I waited for it to appear online, then I would've really been mean on this review.

I really hope he gets better scripts before he gets too old because I really like Jason Statham and his style of action.
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Taximetristi (2023)
9/10
From tears of laughter to tears of sadness
17 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I did not expect to like this movie as much as I did. It was quite a surprise. Especially since I just came from the airport with a taxi and had a long (and pleasant) conversation with the driver who had an interesting story about him transitioning from football player to olympic canoe and now taxi driver in Bucharest.

I was really impressed by Maria Popistasu and Alexandru Ion. The conversation between the two about capitalist sex had me in tears when he went a bit overboard and she reacted, the look on both their faces made me laugh so hard I woke up my kids.

A few minutes later, Lica trying to connect to his last client by telling him how he lost his love brings you again to tears, this time sad tears.

Yes the story, although sprinkled with funny moments, is a sad one and it is beautifully said and put on film.

My only grief is the movie was so short, I didn't want to let go of the characters so soon.

Congrats to the writers, director and cast!
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Umbre (2014–2019)
10/10
Finally a Romanian TV series worth watching!
29 January 2015
First of all, I'm an avid TV-series watcher. It's pointless to name them all but believe me, I've probably wasted years of my life watching series of all kind.

Second, I just can't believe the quality of this show. Romanian shows are cheap soap operas, cheap comedies or just plain bad cheap stuff for the masses.

It is the first time a Romanian show (original show) pays attention to details such as: - music - lighting - perfect sound - editing and special fx

I've seen the shows other reviewers mention: Breaking bad, The Wire, Sopranos, 24, etc - more than once. UMBRE is not a copy of those shows. But now, in 2015, after millions of movies have been made it is almost impossible to say a new show is totally original so of course you feel the need to compare them.

UMBRE has the Romanian touch to it - the long scenes where all you see is a bit of the normal life of a character - the type of scenes that give you a sense of reality to it. You don't have these in US shows.

The actors do a wonderful job and I don't need more character development, it's not a novel it's an action-comedy show not a theater play.

The slang might be too much for some but when was the last time you spend some time within that social class? When you watch The Wire there are scenes where all they say is "fu*k" for 5 minutes, continuously.

I really want this show to continue - it's a new breed of show in Romania and I want to see this one succeed and other to appear afterward. I'm just sick and tired of shows about communism, Romanian tragedies, telenovelas, etc.
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