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Need for Speed (2014)
no logic
This movie has one of the worst scripts ever written. It was really funny to watch so many nonsense stuff from beginning till the end. Cars were OK, but everything else was not. Acting wooden, but I have to admit I like actresses with British accent so Imoden is excused ;).
OK, now some story spoilers...
Plot of this movie was none, it supposed to be some kind of revenge but it fails completely. Script had to be written by 5th grader or less.
Main character Tobey is former racing driver (or at least he has some experience in racing since he had beaten his rival Dino, who currently dates his ex) and he owns garage but times are bad and he has no money to run this garage anymore so he takes 1 job, provided by Dino. Dino promised him 500k for fixing some mustang which should be auctioned for 2 million. Job is done in second and car is sold for like 2.7 million I guess.
Tobey and his fellow mechanic (brother of his ex) are very happy, but suddenly some weird stuff happens. Dino invites them two for a race with his uncles 3 Koenigseggs. They race for their cuts, so if Dino wins he gets Tobeys 500k, if Tobey wins, he gets Dinos 2.2 million - quite stupid uneven bet. Funny thing is that there are 3 cars, so 3rd car is driven by his mechanic/let-me-be-as-cool-as-Tobie-is wannabe who plays no role in this bet... he has nothing to win and nothing to lose, only his life. So Dino bumps his car, he falls down from bridge and dies in burning car. Tobey stops racing and tries to save his friend, but Dino does not care and wins the bet. Tobey is taken by police from crash-scene and investigated. He claims that there were 3 cars and 3rd was driven by Dino, but he cannot prove it, Dino has false alibi and Tobey goes to prison for 2 years.
Next scene: two years later - like nothing happened. Tobey leaves prison and he is hungry for revenge. There is also kind of secret racing event which is hosted by Michael Keaton's character, he is just some former race driver who has his online TV show. He just sits in his lair and manages whole race from that place. He never even left to see actual event. Anyway... prize for driver who wins the race are cars of other drivers. Dino will be at this event so Tobey needs to get invited to revenge his dead friend. So he contacts buyer of that 2.7 million mustang and borrows this car and promises couple millions, because he will (for sure) win that race and gets all those cars. Next day mustang arrives to Tobey's garage with British girl behind the wheel. I'm quite tired with this nonsense so I will fast forward to the finale... Tobey destroys that mustang so he has no car to compete with. Then his ex comes with keys of garage that contains that very Koenigsegg which Dino used to win the race and kill Tobey's friend 2 years ago. So Tobey has new car for free (or so). He came to race, and suddenly everybody know that this car was used to kill Tobey's friend and it is the evidence that Dino kills him (I don't really know how could that car itself proofs anything, but whatever). There are 6 drivers in this race, 4 cars gets totaled and only Tobey and Dino remain. Dino crashes, Tobey saves him from burning car and wins the race. Police arrests them both.
Next scene: 6 months later we see Tobey leaving jail and his British girlfriend waiting him with other mustang, quite same as the one he totaled before. - The End.
Btw, Tobey has also 3 other friends, 2 mechanics and 1 chopper/plane pilot, but they are so unimportant to whole story that they almost don't deserve to be mentioned.
Total nonsense:
Tobey wins final race. All cars are totaled except Koenigsegg which he actually stole from Dino and has no right to drive it. Mustang was totaled too, script writer somehow forgot that Tobey has to pay for that mustang but he has nothing to pay with - all totaled, yet his girlfriend came to pick him from jail with new car, everybody lives ever after and no one cares how Tobey pays his debts.
Moral of this story:
You can get expensive racing cars for free and you are free to destroy them with no consequences. You will get revenge, girl and happy ending. - dream of every 5th-grader
Creature of Darkness (2009)
Just stupid
This movie was so stupid. Unbelievably horrible. CGI was extremely cheap and acting was totally lame.
Stupid alien looked a bit scary on first sight, but they repeated closeup scenes of that rubber mask very often so it just got boring. That alien was so slow during whole movie, but at the end it jumps like a whitetail deer. Also scene where alien sticked axe handle into his cutoff arm was ridiculous. It reminded me Planet terror. It was like "ROAR, I'm ugly big alien and I will slice you into pieces with my artificial axehand!" :D
The guy in with red ribbon on his head was absolutely stupid douche-bag, his role was irritating and he died first, I think director cannot stand that person too. What a moron, nobody liked him anyway, he deserved it. He just blew up two of those 4wheeled motorcycles (dunno how its called in English), and then during argue said "just shut up, I apologized for that".
Girl in white shirt deserved few face-slaps, her reactions to everything what happened freaked me out.
Everyone of these young people made so stupid decisions, like let's kill that alien from your nightmares with javelin to make you sleep peacefully again. Or let's connect these 2 old cellphones with couple of red wires to create remotely controlled bomb because alien does not like UV rays. They also ran from camp and came right back so many times ...it just made no sense.
...And whole story about abducted uncle.... just no comment.
Far Cry (2008)
Not that bad...
This movie wasn't bad at all. It contains some cheesy dialogs, Jacks English pronunciation was kinda funny. Also that evil woman-soldier acted and talked like terminator... with face without any expression.
But... there were nice action scenes, nice explosions and fights. Really good-looking chase with altered super soldier in factory. It contained some parkour elements which seemed pretty refreshing to me.
Movie doesn't look cheap and it surprised me, I was expecting total rubbish.
Considering FarCry game, many elements in movie were taken from it. Humwees with machine-guns, boats with machine-guns... head-shots. But there were no white sand beach and location wasn't like jungle paradise (which could be seen in game). I haven't seen many movies based on computer games, but I think this one is quite good. Much better than TombRaider, which was trying to be very serious. This movie is light, but not much as Postal... which belongs to another category.