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Alone in the Dark (2005)
Abysmal...
Honestly, I can't be bothered to spend my time writing about this milestone of cinematic incompetence - life is simply too short. What I will say is that, Alone In The Dark succeeds in only three things: 1. It will make you laugh, but for all the wrong reasons. 2. It manages to throw several useless plots into the air but dropping all of them.
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3. It utterly disgraces the classic PC game on which it is supposedly based by being a complete failure in all aspects of film-making.
Doctor Boll, if that is indeed what you are (I'm thinking proctology here), what on Earth are you doing in a director's chair?
Yee dou hung gaan (2002)
Ghosts and recovering from loss...
Good horror film with a serious plot about people who cannot recover from the losses in their pasts. The film builds up very slowly to build character but also produces some genuinely creepy scenes in the third act. The subplot about the landlord (which also acts as a catalyst for the main character) is a little under-explored, which is a shame, but other than that it's a very accomplished film. More Dark Water than, say, Ju-on: The Grudge.
Also Leslie Chungs last film before he threw himself out of a window...a little spooky considering some of the scenes in this film, which are similar.
Serenity (2005)
Pure Cool....Pure Talent.
Firefly was one the best series ever cancelled...great characters, funny dialogue, exciting storyline and all around fresh. Someone at Fox clearly didn't get it...but Joss Whedon didn't give up. Serenity is probably the best film of it's kind since the original Star Wars. It takes a Han Solo type character (Captain Mal), a rag-tag crew of petty but lovable criminals/rebels from "the Outer Rim" type territory (who just want to live life their way and in freedom), and pits them against a fascist core system that could be the Dick Cheney America of the future, personified by a cool but vicious Bounty Hunter. Oh, and yes....there be Reavers too, which are a big part of the story.
The pacing, characters, writing and action is just great. Brilliant one-liners fly from left to right & back again, and the opening pre-credit sequence is the most effective, exciting and economical piece of exposition I have ever seen. It should be taught in film school.
Let's hope they make enough money on the release in theaters and DVD to make the sequels