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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
nice flick
The movie contains a lot of great action choreography and decent cinematography.
What misses to be a great movie is that the actors are kind of soso and the storyline is so thin you can look through.
It was entertaining for a while, but after about one hour it was plain boring to watch. All these assassin codes, the rituals and behaviours become pretty dull when you watch it again after you have seen a lot of this already in the first two parts.
Based on the plotline it's pretty predictable that in part 4 the organsation itself will be John Wicks major target ....and then there will be great action choreography and decent cinematography .........and everything else pretty much as in part 3
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Maximum mediocrity
This film was too long.
The dialogues were boring and formalistic
Overall it represents the maximum of mediocrity.
It felt pretty much like when you eat too much candy.
Willkommen bei den Hartmanns (2016)
waste of time
Sloppy production with a couple of nice jokes (but those seems to happen more by accident). A poor attempt of story telling to a subject that could have been been quite interresting. It's obvious that the director was not capable to wrap his arms around the story which speak a lot for his lack of talent. Also most of the actors performed far below their normal level.
Overall a total waste of time.
Skyfall (2012)
Skyfall = Great Entertainment
To edit the standard formula in a rather radical way may not be very welcomed by the Bond purists but for me it worked very well. The film is superbly directed by Sam Mendes. The cinematography is fantastic (only for this it's worth to watch the film) and the story well beyond the most Bond movies in the last 30 years. Especially to give a little bit of an inside view into Bonds own history was a really great idea. The cast performance was absolutely outstanding. Besides the main Characters Judy Dench, Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem my favorite was Albert Finney – only with his presence he almost stole the show from everybody else. I didn't miss the gadgets but loved to see the DB5 in action again. What I enjoyed most were the many little reminiscences to 50 years Bond movie history and to setup the movie more like a drama rather then a thriller. And still there are plenty of thrilling moments as well as a couple of brilliant small and very funny dialogs in the film. Overall this movie holds the one promise where many recent mega-productions fail – to be top level movie entertainment (in all parts and aspects).
War and Peace (2007)
Boring to the bone
Sometimes I wonder how it is possible that movies like these (free of any inspiration) find a producer. Either do it for real or just leave it. But please stop serving these half baked cookies with far too much icing. To me the movie looks almost like a persiflage. The directing is a clear disgrace of the book. Obviously the director had no idea how to handle this fantastic story. The cast acts like they all have swallowed sticks. The living dead upper class in 19th century Russia - awful. Somewhere in between there is some Army stuff but it is neither close to anything like Austerlitz or Borodino. Tolstoi has deserved something else then a cheap costume soap Opera. And the people who watch it have deserved better too....an absolute waste of time!
Clash of the Titans (2010)
G.I. Joe goes Underworld
Watching this new version of a 1980s classic movie I was hopping for a similar gripping story line and some fantastic special effects. The story is lame (to call it shallow even would be some kind of compliment), the actors are everything but inspired (Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes are a total disaster)and the special effects somewhere between boring and so confusing that you can hardly watch it. And in between the lines you find G.I. Joe fight for whatever propaganda - trying to take the watchers for fools. This movie was the worst big production I have seen in many years and easily qualifies for many many Razzies. Overall a superbly annoying waste of time!!!!!