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All the Old Knives (2022)
New spy thiller
An entertaining film that fits as a spy thiller. I could describe it as calm, but I don't want to get misundertood, it has a good narrative pace, you don't get bored and there is always information being revealed closing the gap to solve the mystery, but if you are expecting action then it is the wrong movie. Chemistry between both main characters was awesome, so good that it actually tells a love story while explaining what happened in the past. Surely the ending is going to be impressive for some people, but that intrigue is not going to apply to everyone. I recommend looking for something else to watch or give it a try if you're into this genre.
The Batman (2022)
Great Batman
What an amazing film. After Nolan's success, no one knew what Matt Reeves was planning with this, but aproaching Batman's story from the point where he started being Batman and is young and rookie at his job was a good decision. The story is captivating as The Riddler is a true threat for the hero and the reasons behind his behavior are part of the gray line. The photography and backgrounds are great, the movie is full of beautiful scenes with great power in the framing incluiding characters and scenography. The only thing that I didn't love is that it was a too long great story. I absolutely recommend this film.
Morbius (2022)
Barely interesting.
Morbius
I was barely interested in this film when it finally came out. I think that Morbius is a barely entertaining movie, the characters are quickly developed to get to the climax and there are no reasons for the main villain to be bad, actually, there's no build for Milo, he's bad because reasons. Not to mention that this is a movie about a villain itself, so this make me wonder if producing solo movies for them is as integrating as combining them with spider-man. This solo villains have no porpuse in their world and there's no real challenge for their feats. I had some issues with the last vampire transformation and how it happened too. I don't recommend this to my biutyful gf.
The Predator (2018)
I don't like this kind of action films
The Predator by Shane Black (2018)
Next film in the predator's franchise and next movie in Shane Black's career. I have never been a predator fan and I don't like Shane Black's career except for The Nice Guys (2016) so I wasn't expecting too much.
The movie is about a predator that is stranded in our planet escaping from another spaceship. A soldier found the capsule in which the predator escaped and sent part of his armor to the mother of his son, a kid with autism that apparently is capable to understand alien technology; in his way understanding it, he called both predators to his location and the action begins.
Let's be clear, is an action-packed film with a touch of black humor. The movie benefits of his violent nature to create scenes where they can explode in action; predators killing people in a cool way, using unknown weapons and a massive strength to defeat their opponents, taking in count the dogs that ended like a pure joke. The humor is added by the ex-soldiers that accompanied McKenna through the movie, basing it in the supposed psychological disorders that each one has.
The characters are not good, not developed and annoying. One relationship that I could rescue is between McKenna and Nebraska (the only downed to earth) empathizing with the search of the McKenna's son and pushing the other guys forward. The movie is full of inconsistencies divided between details and general scenes. Some special effects, especially by the end of the film where very bad executed, not comparing them to the rest of the movie and only the thing that could connect or extend the Predator Universe is the final scene, the predator suit, prepared for another movie about killing predators and you know, lot but lot of action; anything else is something irrelevant for the saga.
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
This is better than you expect, much better
Nocturnal Animals by Tom Ford (2016)
Great movie where the plot is a lot greater than it looks. This story is about Susan, an art gallery owner that is married and has a good life, but not everything is what it seems. Susan receives the draft of a book written by Edward, her ex-husband.
To begin with, the story has a structure in three lines, the present, the flashbacks where Susan remembers her life with Edward and the story itself written in the book. Absolutely interesting way to tell a story, definitely is the viewer's job to put everything together, build the story and discover the causes of actual consequences.
The characters are all a great work and are well established for the story. As a character, Susan is interpreted by Amy Adams whose beauty was taken advantage of through the film. Amy's acting skills were excellent, portraying a woman with emptiness in the look, that is lacking of something and help us to develop the character. Jake Gyllenhaal is Edward in real life and Tony in the book; for Tony's character he's a husband and father that discovers the deepest thoughts about life and revenge after living the loss of his family; and Edward, a magnificent character with whom we empathize even when we don't know a lot about him. Michael Shannon represents Bobby, the sheriff that took Tony's case in the book. And finally, we have Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Ray, that animal that took everything from Tony in the book. They all build the story and themselves as the movie moves on, they are developed as original minds and personalities.
Everything about the book is related to some stages Edward passed through when he was with Susan, ending in a beautiful death of our main character, understanding this as the reborn of Edward. This is why the development of the movie is so interesting, discovering the way Edward is describing his life through Tony, and living how Susan suffers for that, how she realizes what she could have done better and how she is now something that she didn't want to be.
The film's photography is detailed and well illuminated, every scene looks framed and with real colors, something really inspiring. The music is kind of classic and brings an essence of calm and chaos at the same time.
In the final scene and through the conclusion of the movie we realize how unhappy Susan is, in my case, that Edward is not going to assist to their dinner and that the heartbreak that Susan caused on him inspired the book that she's actually reading (inspired in many, many ways).
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Masterpiece in script and acting.
Good Will Hunting by Gus Van Sant (1997)
Well, is hard to say how beautiful this film is. It really is all about the characters and the script. This film is a drama of big proportions unfolding the complexity of human mind and life. The film shows us Will Hunting as a journey to discover the real self of a human with a great gift and a troubled past that is actually stopping him.
Will Hunting is nobody, someone that works cleaning and in a construction work doing nothing really impulsive in his life; but the professor Lambeau discovered him and his potential as student, a young man that come from a dysfunctional family and gets in trouble for fun.
This is where the movie makes one of their greatest movements, the introduction of a psychologist that can handle with Will's defensive position. Sean played by Robin Williams is the soul of the movie, he is in charge of discover Will's inner feelings and in order to achieve that he gets obligated to open up his heart too.
This is where the real action begins, and by action you know what I mean. Is surprisingly difficult to get to someone that can make you think that you were always wrong in 5 minutes. For Sean it took 1 night of repentance and another number of sessions.
The funny is that despite Will looks like a hard like rock person, he's actually weak and is afraid of everything. Sean needed to share what love means to him, what her wife meant to him and what he passed through when she got sick to fully interpret what is life about.
Will's reality is that, as we saw with Skylar, he's afraid of losing someone that he loves, and there are many reasons. He was abandoned by the ones that were supposed to love him the most and fell in families full of abuse and violence
And the only and most difficult thing to do is to accept that is not his fault to actually be like he is, his personality is a combination of the way he reacts to events and the events that he went through. And even when sometimes is not easy, humans are much stronger than you can think.
Talking about the script, is a masterpiece written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, with powerful messages to deliver and a set of words and letter that are not doing anything more than making you empathize with some of the best-developed characters in my film experience.
Ya veremos (2018)
Another mexican film
Ya Veremos by Pitipol Ybarra (2018)
Mexican film, like the other 2 thousand. Now Pitipol Ybarra brought us this romantic comedy about Rodrigo, a doctor that has a child called Santi with his ex-wife Alejandra, an independent woman that is about to get married with her rich boyfriend. But in the middle of all this, they find out that Santi is sick with juvenile glaucoma, so here's where the action begins.
Actually, the movie is not boring, is just that the characters lack a lot of depth.
Santi's glaucoma is diagnosed soon in the movie, so Rodrigo get to stop Alejandra's trip to complete a to do list that Santi made before the operation. In fact, the 80% of the movie is about Rodrigo and Alejandra doing these things with Santi, adding the typical comedy that we watch in our movies (I'm Mexican, by the way).
Not a lot to say, but the dysfunctional family got healed by Santi's sickness.
The movie is full of incoherent moments, you'll notice when you watch it; and the overall film is involved in a predictable story.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
The third part of the terminators
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines by Jonathan Mostow (2003)
Well, we have here the third movie of the franchise, not particularly popular.
This film is like an attempt to continue the story with an economic interest behind, which killed the film.
Despite some good things and details that really wanted to continue the story, the development of it is completely boring. Starting with the plot that is the same as the last movie, is all about sending a terminator back in time to destroy Skynet's future menace and humanity sending another to frustrate Skynet's plan.
About the characters and acting, I don't know if is the script or the actors but any of the characters were engaging than Arnold. John Connor is completely changed from the boy that he used to be in T2, an unafraid and smart kid that challenge the world, the mental change could be justified by his possible future but come on, he would be a world leader. Kate Brewster is a simple vet that got in the middle of the fire, we have to accept that is all a coincidence that she met Connor again; and she is more like a mother than Sarah Connor. Obviously, they both were in different situations. And finally, the T-X, a character with no color, I know that it's a killing machine, and I don't care about her gender but the scenes that she provoked were very random, specially the scene of the destroyer truck.
The action is nothing compared with previous movies and popular action movies, nothing creative that no one will remember.
Despite all that, I like how they finally proceed in this movie to the judgment day, the nuclear war that changed the path of humanity and started the events that started it all.
In conclusion Terminator 3 is an attempt to continue the saga, with a big failure in it, could be that we don't have Cameron directing it, maybe that's what make the substance in the movie. Absolutely not recommended, not even Terminator fans.
La La Land (2016)
La La Land - Review
Year: 2017 Director: Damien Chazelle
La La Land, a musical like I've never heard before. Let's talk about the plot, a novice actress and a frustrated pianist fall in love in California, in the city where both of them try to achieve their dreams. Talking about the introduction, the film opens with a big piece of music and dance that doesn't do another thing than prepare the terrain for what is coming. Mia (Stone) is a charismatic women with the dream of becoming an actress and Sebastian (Gosling) is a jazz pianist that dreams with opening his own club of jazz music. The movie give you shots of chemical in some parts that make us arrive to the scene where they finally meet and the well created qualities of the characters make them fall in love. The development of the film is technically the story of a couple fighting against their own and unique dreams, but the narration through songs and dances transforms the movie into a refined and entertaining production. The pursuit of their dreams border them to finish their relation but knowing that none of them would be in this part of their lives without the other, the scene of the fight in the dinner is good but if there would be something that I won't forget, that is the scene where they meet again at the club 5 years later, they only see each other imagining a life together if only they had taken different decisions. The performance of both main characters is excellent, I'm impressed of how good, humans and relatable characters Chazelle had created. Mia is insecure and strong at the same time while Seb is a man with a deep love for jazz music and always wants to feel that he has the control, even if he doesn't. Gosling playing the piano is fantastic and the way the camera film a dance scene, moving while the character does and the organization of that amount of dancers is amazing too.
Finally, La La Land is a beautiful film about love and disappointment, the story tell us how hard is to achieve yours dreams and how strong the life can hit you. Life is simple until you find the right person, everything becomes more complicated and pretty at the same time. Both of the characters established the foundations of what they are at the end and tell u show important is love to achieve your dreams and how important are your dreams to achieve love. An inspiring movie about the sacrifices that some people do to get that sacred thing called success.
Moana (2016)
Moana - Review
Moana - Review Year: 2016 Directors: Ron Clements and John Musker
Good work from Disney and the directors. I got exactly what I expected, an enjoyable movie with a massage to deliver. Something to take in count is that the movie is a musical too and we have songs here and there. The animation is insuperable, what can you expect from Disney, I remember being in the movie theater and wanted to pause the movie only to admire the backgrounds and the details in the animation, the movie is full of vivid colors and very good character designs. I need to remark the crab scene, a totally beautiful scene. The characters were all good and well developed but at a time I get annoyed by the rooster's jokes, I felt that the 90% of the jokes in this movie were physical, the ones that I don't like very much. It seems that they really caught the Polynesian culture in the movie, knowing well how they are, taking in count that they went there only to make this film. The music is very good, in some parts representing the Polynesian culture and in others the same but with a modern touch. The development of the movie is equal to the hero's path, where a noob has to set off on a journey or overcome an obstacle to become someone, a hero that is needed. The introduction is good, describing why the islands are dying and the journey begins. Get to know Maui, recover his hook and return Te Fiti's heart. The development of the movie is full of funny situations while they achieve their goals with a funny chemistry between Moana and Maui, despite we have seen this kind of relationship in Disney is always funny to watch how the characters deal with each other. One of the major problems that I have is that Moana did some incredible feats, like escaping from Maui's cave and returning to her boat from the pirates. I really liked the final act where she realizes that her ancestors used to navigate and discover new islands. At the end also they reveal that the lava monster is actually the goddess Te Fiti but when she appeared in the legend it was so fast from the time Maui stole the heart and the monster's appearance.
Moana is a funny movie, very enjoyable to children and adults, the stronger points are the visual aspects, the music and the characters but is very simple, just that. A new heroin that needs no romantic interest, similar to Brave by Andrews and Chapman, with a mystical touch and always entertaining.
The BFG (2016)
The BFG - Review
The BFG - Review Year: 2016 Director: Steven Spielberg
This is not Spielberg's masterpiece but is kind of decent. I think that he made it focusing on children because believe me, is a childish movie. I have problems with the hole movie. To begin they should have shown more about the origin and function of the giants in the introduction, the movie just starts with a giant in a city and you may think that they'll tell you what's going on but they never explain it. Despite of that the introduction show us how both of our main characters ended up together. The development of the movie and the climax is about the BFG's job and how cruel are the other giants that unluckily live outside of the BFG's home. The main problem of the movie becomes to save Sophie from the giants and to prevent the queen about the imminent attack. They show and prove them the existence of this gigantic beasts and they went ahead of them punishing the giants for a crime that they haven't committed leaving them in a super small island with nothing to eat except fruit. The animation is very good and fluent and the characters are well developed, the BFG as Mark Rylance and Sophie as Ruby Barnhill.
I don't really enjoyed the movie because I didn't see the point in the hole problem, the BFG doesn't had a plan after taking Sophie to his country and the only strong point in the film is the relationship between BFG and Sophie.
Dracula Untold (2014)
Dracula Untold - Review
Dracula Untold - Review Year: 2014 Director: Gary Shore
Dracula Untold is an interesting and entertaining movie that won't bore you, the thing is that is nothing more than an action pack based on the mythical vampire. The introduction is well done, explaining where Vlad comes from and why he is the way he is. Then the main problem comes to the main character and getting rid of his son isn't an option so he get the powers of a vampire to save his kingdom. Is totally understandable the decision that Vlad took and the way he transforms into a vampire and the required condition are great. The vampire skills are developed like superpowers and in the first battle I wasn't expecting just him to finish with the Turkish army, I mean, a group of warriors and Vlad being the leader, but anyway. After the destruction of the first army Vlade takes all the people to another edification through the forest where he deals with the problems of being a vampire and tell his wife about it. I really hated the scene where he tries to save his wife from the death, that simply scene when he's flying down is awful, and all this to kidnap his son and unleash his rage against the Turkish. The fortress is destroyed and only some persons survived, so Vlad transform them into vampires to attack the Turkish encampment to finally save his son and in order to defend his son from the other vampires (that he created), he kill them all, so why was that for?. The script is not exaggerated and the characters are well justified, the choreography is good but I'd prefer if Vlad hadn't fight alone, I mean, less incredible. The special effects are good and bad at times with all this stuff of the skills gotten, the nightview, creatures control, batjump, batfly. Photografy is amazing plastering a European essence. I love the costumes especially Vlad's dragon armor and all his designs.
Finally this is a good movie, not to be remembered but to spend a good time. What it offers is action and fantasy mixed with a hero and not a deep story. The death of the wife was an important part only for Vlad but no for the watchers. The interesting thing is that this in not done and the ancient Dracula is back. Also the film respected some original aspects from the story, which is good. Luke Evnas is excellent as Vlad and probably, he'll be back.
Bølgen (2015)
Bølgen (The Wave) - Review
Bølgen (The Wave) - Review Year: 2015 Director: Roar Uthaug
An independent movie from Norway that recently has hit theaters in Mexico. This film tells us Kristian effort to keep his town safe in Geiranger, Norway. A natural disaster themed film where the danger lies in the potential ground fall due to the collapse of mountains to a fjord, in which case will generate a wave of more than 80 meters. The first half of the movie is excellent demonstrating the relationship that the family have, the plans for the future, some of their current jobs and aspirations, as well as the explanation of the constant danger that is monitored by geologists. But deep in the plot, the development of the wave incident is spectacularly created and sustained and the creation of the wave scene causing tension is also amazing. The chaos left behind after the disaster is spectacular, you feel the fear and desperation of people. Something that I don't understand is why the hotel's bus that would take guests safely to the mountain did not come out on time, regardless of Idun's delay, it was swept away by the wave. Should they not be prepared for that?; the hopeful mother for Sondre, who did not hear the alarm, stayed to look for him and to receive the impact of the wave in a hotel bunker, where she ends trapped with his son and a man who goes crazy. The photography and the background are breathtaking, as rarely Norway can be seen in a movie. Finally it became a classic heroism film in which the father sacrifices everything for his family and thanks to his will and luck manages to save them.
A film about natural disasters, with some good characters and an excellent justification for a predictable plot. Entertaining to the end and maybe a concept of what we didn't know about Norway.
Nerve (2016)
Nerve - Review
Nerve - Review Year: 2016 Directors: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman
Nerve is a movie I expected pure entertainment and was exactly what I found. We have the actuation of Emma Roberts and Dave Franco as main characters, we see the development of a piece of youth limitless and access to a game, technically an app, that make you earn money if you overcome the stepped dares. Our main character, Vee, is a little shy person that under her friend's pressure and a heartbreak decides to start overcoming the watcher's dares, however, she meets Ian in her first dare, the watchers like the couple, both start to make dares together and that's where the plot starts. The dares increase the risk so high that now are out of control and Vee's friend that suggested her the game, Sydney, is in a bad mood by the fact that her retracted friend has gained more visits than her. The development is quite good and entertaining, the movie quickly introduces you to the plot without much explanation. Generally is a movie oriented to the youth however the environment in which it develops could be considered illogical. To begin, the police, where the hell is the police?, all the players go around doing illegal and stupid dares and the officers are a kind of accomplice. Knowing the speed at which the authorities move nowadays, is not possible that they are not aware of the existence of a game that's causing deaths or dangers, there are videos and a precedent in Seattle of this event, they should be investigating and being they who stop the system and not a group of street hackers. I didn't expect that they alone got rid of the entire game with a half-formulated plan. And finally couples get together, Vee with Ian, of course, and good Tommy, comforts himself with the semi prostitute dressed friend, Sydney.
A film with good actions and development, real persons that in some way take the risks of their lives for money and a world of anonymous people that only want to see blood and keep their hands clean.
God's Not Dead (2014)
God's Not Dead - Review
God's Not Dead - Review Year: 2014 Director: Harold Cronck
God's Not Dead its a film that had sold me in advance the idea of a young man and a professor in a debate for God's existence. Precisely, the difficulty of doing this is what piqued my curiosity about how the plot would unfold. What I got is not exactly what I was expecting,the way the young student argues his point sounds a bit absurd, however, how would you argue God's existence?, really hard, but mainly it disappoints me the fact that the professor doesn't argue with atheism but hate to the faith and it's perceived more like an eradicator of the belief. Josh's ex girlfriend attitude planning all aspects of their lives is a bit excessive. Although some people agree that atheists in the film were put as few people values, I think simply they specified in radical attitudes. Finally some scenes were a bit random, like the Muslim's daughter and a too cheerful end in the absurd final concert. A film that for a moment made me reflect on the existence of a divine being who created everything but mixed with riotous scenes losing the sense of the plot. Personally, at the end of the sessions I would have raised to support Josh, not because he had convinced me, but because he really won the argument against the hatred and fury of Professor Radisson.
From a broader perspective, we can say that I'm an atheist, and I can understand that in some way for the believers, all that call probability or random or fate, they call it God, and there is a chance that at the end scientists and believers are seeking the same answer, God as the origin of everything and the explanation to everything.
In conclusion, it's an entertaining film that tries to give a massage that stays on the road.
Tomorrowland (2015)
Disappointig 7
Tomorrowland is an American film of 2015, directed by Brad Bird.
I have to say that I had high expectations about this movie but it was not what I expected. The story starts well and lead you curious but the development was bad, I thought of something more elaborate and deep. They just have a problem and solve it as if it were nothing, defeating the villain (Dr. House) as an action movie. What was Disney expecting creating a movie for children?. An entertaining movie with good special effects but with a poor end. It deserves a 7 for Clooney's performance.
A fantasy movie made for kids, I thought saving the future would be a little different and difficult work. Only my view.
Disappointed
San Andreas (2015)
Good disaster movie, it deserves a 6
San Andreas is an American film of 2015, directed by Brad Peyton.
This film is about how the San Andreas fault is the cause of large and devastating earthquakes between L.A. and San Francisco, and I guess more. This kind of movies remind me to 2012, our main has a family, is separated of his wife (or is in process)and has children so he will do everything to save them. The special effects are amazing, I have to accept, and the plot is enjoyable, only that, but I do not agree with Dwayne Johnson doing inhuman things. The Rock is overexploited. Superficial plot, superficial dialogs. It's a bearable film only to enjoy and never to be remembered.