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Wei zhuang zhe (2015)
Thrilling Spy Drama
Excellent series full of thrills, drama, suspense & humor.
The best television drama series I have ever seen.
Triple Frontier (2019)
Extremely Good
This movie was great from the beginning and continued it's advancing greatness all the way through.
The film takes views in the heart of America, to the jungle of South America, and into the mountains of Peru.
My palms were sweating with anticipation most of the way through.
This movie checks every box as a perfect film.
Clearly those who disagree have some sort of cognitive/psychological malformity.
The rating on this film should be much higher, and one has to really wonder if the review boards of flooded by Hollywood bots.
American Made (2017)
Not good.
First of all, the cinematography was garbage. I guess some directors think that it looks good to film a movie as if it were filmed by an amateur using a go-pro. Not only were the camera shots always shaky, they weren't even good. Some shots just seemed pointless. As if some high school first-time videographer was trying out shots that they thought would look good, like putting the camera on the floor. How creative. Not. Also, many shots seemed like they were zoomed in too far, cropping focal points out of the scene.
I personally don't think such camera techniques look good. They look cheap. The idea of a movie is to sink in to it and "forget" you're even watching a movie. Well, this camera person didn't have that concept in mind. Not at all.
Some videographers & directors take big risks trying out unique camera shots, and for some films their experiments work out. But it many others, they don't. And in this one, their unique camera style did not work.
And now going beyond the awful videography, I felt like the writing wasn't even that great. And ontop of that, I felt that the acting wasn't even that great. A real good movie has every cast member fitting a scene. A lot of the characters felt like actors. It felt cheap.
And besides the bad filming, poor-writing & sub-par acting, the movies whole storyline seems to glorify criminal drug-runners & make them look like a bunch of fun cool guys. In reality, that's not the case. The big cocaine dealers are hard criminals.
And furthermore, while the movie doesn't officially state that the CIA themselves were smuggling cocaine, it's clear they were. And for someone spin that as a good thing; pumping hard life-ruining narcotics into neighborhoods that otherwise would have been void of drugs, is absurd. Doesn't matter if they are "funding anti-communist matters". Not only would such tactics be ultimately irrelevant to US taxpayers interests, it in effect destroys US communities.
All around I found this film to be poorly produced & a dismal portrayal of any sort of realism. It's just a big Hollywood cool-guy party where are the characters are hip sunglass wearing party animals having fun swimming in money & enjoy life! There's no realism in the characters; it's absurd.
After one painful hour I left the theater.
I read one reviewer saying "this is Tom Cruise's best film!"
Wow. Obviously their film criticism has no value.
To rate this film alongside Mission Impossible films, Jack Reacher, Edge of Tomorrow, War of Worlds & Oblivion is totally absurd.
Sadly I'd put this film in the same basket as "The Mummy".
The Mummy (2017)
Absurd, anti-science, fictional garbage.
If Tom Cruise is intentionally trying to flush his career down the drain, then this is a good film to start with.
This movie fails on every level.
The script is absolute nonsense. A total insult to science, reality and basic human intelligence.
Some science-fiction might be far-out, but it usually has some basis within the realm of scientific possibility. This movie was just a total insult to science and the happenings within it could never be rationalized with any type of scientific theory.
The writer is just making up total nonsense garbage and the viewer is just stuck along for the ride through nonsense & stupidity.
Besides the total absurdity of the happenings within the film, even the acting, the wardrobe and the scenery feels like a production.
In a good movie one remains engaged and "forgets" that they are even watching a production of actors wearing costumes on fake sets.
This just feels like an all around B-grade film, which should have had Brandon Frasier return to the film series as the lead.
Actually, no. The script should have been burned.
I found myself continuing to watch this film simply because it was so terrible and absurd that I couldn't help but further study and highlight the awfulness of it.
I can't believe Tom Cruise would take on such a ridiculously stupid script.
From now on, Tom Cruise being the lead role in a movie means absolutely nothing and should lead no one to assume that the movie has any worth.
0 stars.
Mei Gong he xing dong (2016)
Awesome movie! Great cinematography!
I really enjoyed this movie. It kept me captivated throughout the entire film.
The cinematography was really top of the line. Some directors take daring chances to use unique camera techniques, and they don't always pay off, but the camera shots & CGI in this movie were done masterfully.
The story was very good, and the fact that it was based on a true story makes it even more of an enjoyable film.
Everything came together for this to be a great movie. Great acting, great set design, great wardrobe, great writing, and great cinematography.
The realist portrait of the criminal underground within the Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia was a real eye opener.
The film takes the viewer through dark back alleys, open city streets, busy shopping centers, police stations, jungles and onto the open water which helps keep the viewer captivated.
Bing he zhui xiong (2016)
Great movie!
Everything came together to make this a great film. All the boxes are checked on what makes a great movie. A crime-mystery thriller set in a wonderful winter landscape to a phenomenal music score that really keeps the viewer engaged all the way through.
A mystery that keeps one guessing up until the very end scene. This film has a powerful story focused around morals, corruption & revenge that has it's audience feeling like they are viewing a classic crime thriller novel come to life.
I wish I could find more films like this. Simple yet captivating.
Highly recommended!