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X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Another failure in attempt to create a good action movie
What a waste of time! I expected so much from this movie. As the result, X-Men: Apocalypse is not up to the quality level of most of the X-Men series. It lacks certain style and special atmosphere present in the previous parts.
Bad casting, somewhat ugly and weak actors, flat characters, poor special effects, boring ending, you name it - it's all about this movie. The beginning is promising, but as the movie goes on, the more predictable it becomes. The world's most powerful mutant picks-up ordinary mutants for his team (except for Magneto), later on he can't properly organize good defence. What is Magneto doing in the final battle? Creating some magnetic field for, like, what purpose? Some teenage mutant girl with plain for a mutant ability becomes all of a sudden a very powerful mutant, and Apocalypse all of a sudden becomes weak. It seems more as the script writers ran out of ideas at the end of the movie.
Besides that, the whole story chronically hangs in the middle of nowhere. The time is the 80-s with no connection whatsoever to the past or the future events. Some events shown did not actually happen in the real world, and it's not explained to the viewers how it is supposed to fit in. For me watching the second part of the movie was a total disappointment.
In my opinion, this movie would do nicely only for kids. It failed to be a good fantasy action movie. The rating 7.5 out of 10 is way too high for this below average creation!!!
Avgust. Vosmogo (2012)
What was that?
This movie is supposed to be a patriotic movie about the events happened in August 2008. First of all, it is totally unclear to me, why a Russian movie was shot in a Hollywood blockbuster style. Russian cinema is able of producing its own solid motion pictures without copying foreign movies. Secondly, as seen from the first scene of the movie, there were people able of making good computer graphics involved in production. A young boy imagines a robot fighting forces of evil. The total disappointment is that later in the movie these computerized characters appear so often, that the movie genre slowly deviates from drama and military to family. Many times at the end of the movie I wished that finally monsters disappeared and I could understand what was really going on. From my point of view, it was absolutely unnecessary to include that much computer graphics, it just takes attention away. Thirdly, some events are shown in a very impressive way, but their plausibility is low. Why would Georgians use very expensive missiles to shoot single targets like a bus, a truck, or even people tracking them using cellular phone signal (is that even possible?). Georgian armed forces can't afford that. Before Americans made some investments in the armed forces, Georgia had pretty much what was left from the times when Georgia was a part of the USSR. The scene with the bus splitting into halves could make some movies like "Final destination" look pale, but, again, it looks so unreal! An actor named Vladimir Vdovichenkov played the president. He is a nice actor, with many roles in action movies, but he wasn't the president of the Russian Federation back in 2008! Lots of movies star actors resembling American presidents, why couldn't the same be done in this movie? Fourthly, the boys behaviour needs some medical attention. Frightened, stressed, he doesn't call mom for help, as a normal kid would do. Only when his mother pretends to be a robot (and he pretends to be "Kosmoboy"), he agrees to communicate using MMS messages on the cellular phone. There are some very solid and dynamic combat episodes withing the movie, nicely shot. But that's about it. Overall, this is a very light and not serious movie with annoyingly too much emphasis on computer graphics. I think the director intended for movie watchers to empathize the characters, but the actors play is lame, so I felt nothing. If you want to see a good movie about the 5-day war in August of 2008th, a movie that creates a proper atmosphere, watch Olympius Inferno.