I like Stallone, he might be too old for fight scenes and stunts(or should be, who knows how he manages these days?!) but he is one of my all time greats and I am glad he still does movies. So you would think I went in expecting to see Stallone. I was wrong. A team needs a setup, I do not care about any of the characters. The lead Asian man was a nice surprise since I love martial arts movies but his character is like a walking cliche. He does martial arts, meditates etc. It feels shoehorned in to give him weight. His martial arts seem good but that leads me me to the main problem I have with this movie: they cannot keep the camera still at all. Why, oh why is it so hard to keep the camera still? Put the damn thing on a table, the constant movement(AWAY FROM THE ACTION) does not help, it ruins the coreography which seems good, just that I can't see any of it because the damn camera moves so much all over the place. I apologise for cursing but I honestly was really looking forward to this movie, being a Stallone fan but this movie I cannot recommend in any way shape or form. Stick to the first one.
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Jailbreak
(2017)
I like it, but mostly dislike it. Watchable.
1 September 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Minor spoilers below.
While this movie has good fight scenes that you can follow easily it falls short still. Like they go up against a whole room of dangerous prisoners that don't care if they die or not but the main leads still decide to do ground takedowns in the midst of a riot. It makes no sense to me why they'd do that. I've seen this movie compared to the Raid in quality but it's far from it. Or in all honesty, it's a dumbed down version in my opinion. Here's my main issues with it:
The main cast looks way too young. This might just be a preference for me but they look like they came straight out of high school.
The main lead apparently has a super power that makes him op whenever it's going bad for him. Commonly seen in other movies but here it's just out of the blue and without explanation. And I still have no idea why he sometimes can't understand his colleagues but later on he has no problem whatsoever with understanding anyone. Towards the end it's clarified that he came from France to participate in the mission. Quite sure it was briefly mentioned earlier at the start but still.
There is also a woman on the team but she sadly ends up filling some common tropes. At first I figured she'd be on equal terms with the men(not sure if I should've believed that at all now, thinking due to cultural differences and stuff) but to the point, don't go in thinking this gal will get a fair treatment. She starts out by being able to kick ass, but later on she needs to be rescued/protected. She's also about to be raped(supposedly) but is rescued by the male lead.
A bit later into the film the main lead who got just got stabbed in the arm suddenly decides to shut her out of a fight with a "boss" just so he can almost get his ass kicked while she can't do anything to help because she is closed behind a locked gate that the main lead himself closed. I can't understand why he didn't let her join instead, 2 vs 1 would've been better since they aren't exactly safe in a prison full of dangerous criminals. And the boss prisoner is well, a boss, he had the skill to take the two of them on I believe. Not your average grunt prisoner.
And this woman that is on the team suddenly gets to fight the big bad villain in a sword fight. And kicks her ass. That brings me into my final point, they keep leaving each other in the midst of a fight or when a fight is about to begin. Someone just darts off and leaves the others hanging. Not a lot of trust in this group so to speak. And nobody even mentions that afterwards either.
That was probably most of it. I'd say it's worth watching if you are looking for a movie with good fight scenes but it is plagued by some poor choreography decisions. According to me, I'm not a choreographer myself but common sense tells me that you don't go to the ground when surrounded by people and more. But on a whole I did enjoy the fight scenes.
I don't want to be too harsh against the people who made the film but I feel that I need to be honest with how I feel about the movie.
While this movie has good fight scenes that you can follow easily it falls short still. Like they go up against a whole room of dangerous prisoners that don't care if they die or not but the main leads still decide to do ground takedowns in the midst of a riot. It makes no sense to me why they'd do that. I've seen this movie compared to the Raid in quality but it's far from it. Or in all honesty, it's a dumbed down version in my opinion. Here's my main issues with it:
The main cast looks way too young. This might just be a preference for me but they look like they came straight out of high school.
The main lead apparently has a super power that makes him op whenever it's going bad for him. Commonly seen in other movies but here it's just out of the blue and without explanation. And I still have no idea why he sometimes can't understand his colleagues but later on he has no problem whatsoever with understanding anyone. Towards the end it's clarified that he came from France to participate in the mission. Quite sure it was briefly mentioned earlier at the start but still.
There is also a woman on the team but she sadly ends up filling some common tropes. At first I figured she'd be on equal terms with the men(not sure if I should've believed that at all now, thinking due to cultural differences and stuff) but to the point, don't go in thinking this gal will get a fair treatment. She starts out by being able to kick ass, but later on she needs to be rescued/protected. She's also about to be raped(supposedly) but is rescued by the male lead.
A bit later into the film the main lead who got just got stabbed in the arm suddenly decides to shut her out of a fight with a "boss" just so he can almost get his ass kicked while she can't do anything to help because she is closed behind a locked gate that the main lead himself closed. I can't understand why he didn't let her join instead, 2 vs 1 would've been better since they aren't exactly safe in a prison full of dangerous criminals. And the boss prisoner is well, a boss, he had the skill to take the two of them on I believe. Not your average grunt prisoner.
And this woman that is on the team suddenly gets to fight the big bad villain in a sword fight. And kicks her ass. That brings me into my final point, they keep leaving each other in the midst of a fight or when a fight is about to begin. Someone just darts off and leaves the others hanging. Not a lot of trust in this group so to speak. And nobody even mentions that afterwards either.
That was probably most of it. I'd say it's worth watching if you are looking for a movie with good fight scenes but it is plagued by some poor choreography decisions. According to me, I'm not a choreographer myself but common sense tells me that you don't go to the ground when surrounded by people and more. But on a whole I did enjoy the fight scenes.
I don't want to be too harsh against the people who made the film but I feel that I need to be honest with how I feel about the movie.
The Visit
(I) (2015)
Good atmosphere that keeps you on the edge.
15 September 2016
No spoilers present.
First off, I have no predetermined opinion on M Night Shyamalan. As far as I know the only movie I can remember watching from him is Unbreakable. So this will be a review that is based on the movie alone.
The atmosphere is one of the most heavy I have ever experienced in a movie. I felt like I could grasp the tension as I was watching the movie. I don't know what made me feel so uneasy but it certainly didn't drag the movie down. Rather heightened it. I was on the edge of my seat attempting to figure out what would happen next.
Good actors, but I can't help but feel that the kids didn't take note of the warning bells until close to the end. The brother's rapping felt out of place. But it might have been better if it had been presented beforehand. Feels like he just started rapping out of nowhere and you just had to deal with it.
I'm not going to go into detail on the actor's performances apart from Deanna Dunagan who played the grandmother. She was very good and believable in my opinion. I think she stole the show.
The conclusion to the story felt a little disappointing but that's probably because I knew it beforehand. Not sure how else they could have ended it.
But in conclusion: I liked it very much and I'm one that doesn't even like horror movies all that much, but this one was well worth watching.
First off, I have no predetermined opinion on M Night Shyamalan. As far as I know the only movie I can remember watching from him is Unbreakable. So this will be a review that is based on the movie alone.
The atmosphere is one of the most heavy I have ever experienced in a movie. I felt like I could grasp the tension as I was watching the movie. I don't know what made me feel so uneasy but it certainly didn't drag the movie down. Rather heightened it. I was on the edge of my seat attempting to figure out what would happen next.
Good actors, but I can't help but feel that the kids didn't take note of the warning bells until close to the end. The brother's rapping felt out of place. But it might have been better if it had been presented beforehand. Feels like he just started rapping out of nowhere and you just had to deal with it.
I'm not going to go into detail on the actor's performances apart from Deanna Dunagan who played the grandmother. She was very good and believable in my opinion. I think she stole the show.
The conclusion to the story felt a little disappointing but that's probably because I knew it beforehand. Not sure how else they could have ended it.
But in conclusion: I liked it very much and I'm one that doesn't even like horror movies all that much, but this one was well worth watching.
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