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No Time to Die (2021)
This is literally 2.5h long Bond's funeral.
It starts with good action scene and it goes slowly but unstoppably downfall. I guess due to Covid makers didnt make any (more) action scenes, but I don't get why they waited so long to release this lullaby.
This is no doubt the worst Bond movie for 30 years, beating previous leaders like Spectre and Skyfall.
Waste you time elsewhere, I suggest watching window on rainy day.
The Mandalorian: Chapter 1: The Mandalorian (2019)
Weak, thing and cheap on every aspect (!!)
Yeah, it is cheap. Cheap CGI (SyFy like), thin writing, bland personas with no real character, weak directing. Music is completely derailed from cinematics. Pace is soooooo boring, you could cut half of the episode and nobody would miss any action.
I have a classic (for Disney's SW) game for everyone - count things ripped from old SW movies.
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Well, It isn't (hot fuzz)
It's OK movie but no way it deserves such high score and ran in best 250 movies.
First of all is not quite comedy. It has some funny moments, but also has many gore (!) moments with blood splashing, head decapitation. So overall it is a bit strange mix of police shootings ala Bad Boys or Lethal Weapon, but no way near funny or entertaining, there are also comedy horror, music clip "loud music-super-quick cuts". One moment you enjoy this, a minute later you wander if there were are more than one director in this movie, feel irritated and want to get out of theater. Quentin Tarantino have talent to make action, bloody and funny movie - but Hot Fuzz isn't like that. Cool idea went nowhere, so director threw here everything. It just doesn't work. 6/10
King Arthur (2004)
Awful, boring, absurdal.
Film tries to tell, well, ehm, revolutionary (they claim it's based on new researches), story of King Arthur. Original legend of King Arthur comes from Chronicles of Bishop of Wales, Geoffrey (1136), next evolved in story of Knights of The Round Table by Wace of Jersey and also Chrétien de Troyes whose created oldest complete version. In the movie however there are huge changes. The only common things are Knight Arthur and some friends using round table and living in Britain. Time of action is moved back about 200 years to the folding of Roman Empire. There is no magic (of any possible kind). Well, I have known all of this but hoped (at least) for good batalistic scenes, but was disappointed. They are really bad, desperately trying to copy Braveheart but failing due to lack of skills of director and low budget. Very irritiating thing is 'modern' language and 'demands' of characters which contrasts heavily with claimed historical background. Overall movie is very boring, badly acted with irritiating dialogues. The only thing that kept me from escaping from cinema was hope for good battle at the end. I can only say that there was a battle. :-\. You can waste 2 hours of your life for many other things and not pay for it. Sometimes movie is really bad but there is one or two things you worth seeing. Not in this case. 1/10.
Stara basn. Kiedy slonce bylo bogiem (2003)
Don't recommended
This could be interesting, historical film if made properly, but it definitely isn't. Oldest polish legend is base of original novel. But you see not much of it in this movie and it's not so easy to understand even for polish who know original. Sadly weakest side is actors' play. This is typical curse of every high-budget (as for polish movies - 10-15 mln.$). Best actors don't try to be professional but they think that this is just prize for being best-known people in polish entertainment, so no need to put any effort if you paid part of cast already. Overall - weak, boring and acted poorly. It looks like C-class US production. 2/10. If you want some interesting polish production look for lower budget, but much better made movies.
Equilibrium (2002)
Giant number of flaws mixed together.
1) World without feelings nor culture can't exist. This would be world of robots and keeping stagnation thru all years. To create community under such terror you need some supporters within people (someone should like such world), I don't think that majority could support this. Even if would be true on the beginning, revolution would start quickly. 2) Even if it could exits it isn't in this movie: Main hero has wife (no feelings?), despite efforts there is huge violence in this world - Police, Clericks and their way of "fixing" things. 3) Gun Kata - one of the biggest flaws here. You can't create fighting style based on statistics. You can be good fighter using predictable styles. You can't aim and kill several people unless they are standing and wait for death (as it's in movie). OK they can eventually fire tons of bullets hitting nothing except walls, but not our superhero, which have enough time to reload in-mid of fight. 4) Special effects are joke, if some people see them as better than Matrix are blind or on drugs. Fights here are made of speedied footage (cause of course man can't move so fast that can kill tenths of people keeping alive himself. Well, this movie technique comes from twenties of previous century I guess. This + fast editing. Very weak. Even Bulletproof Monk does it better (and it's the worst movie of 2003 IMO). 5) There is no surprise moment in script, everything goes as it should until end in which of course main hero have little surprise but have to win of course. Acting is average. Only Bale is good and he's "transformation" is presented well, but it doesn't save whole movie. As for action film it's under average. Many Hong-Kong John Woo-style movies are far better in this area. Total rating - 5/10.
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuu, :(((((((((((
If you wonder if there can be action movie worse (and more stupid) than worst Van Damme, Seagal and Dudikoff movies, even worse than Charlie's Angels 2 (yes! I've seen the trailer) - watch this! One-man (woman) army defeating LAPD squad in hand to hand combat (high heels boots of course :-\). There is completely nothing to positive to look for in this movie, no good action, special effect, acting (hehe, it's joke here). 1/10 (my first movie with this rating).
Signs (2002)
VERY short (not length)
As in typical Shyamalan's movie script could be filmed in 30 min, movie and gets simplier in every next movie. Some good thrilling scenes (corn field and basement), but that's not enough and sense of final does not at all 'connect' with the rest of the movie (!?).
Die Another Day (2002)
The worst Brosnan's yet :(
I am quite disappointed, it could be easily seen in this movie that Albert Broccoli is no longer with us :( Starting with ugly Madonna's song the rest just keep low level (in typical Bond's standards). With this movie series is going to more (stupid) style of last Charlie's Angels, Mission Impossible 2, etc. than previous movies. Bond has its style of "fantasy" with ironic look, but it's not stupid and such abstractic. "Bad" characters are bad and that's really bad. Although I love Hale Berry it don't act good in this movie, Rosamund Spike does her job well. In overall - it's sad that this anniversary movie lacks so many Bond's things. :(
Road to Perdition (2002)
Big disappointment
I had big expectations after checking imdb rating and seeing Tom Hanks, Paul Newman and Sam Mendes in movie credits. I was very disappointed after watching it. Screenplay is very bad - one of the most predictable of all movie I have seen, characters can't predict simple actions, actions of such characters as Nitty and Capone in confrontation with main character (Hanks) are totally unlogical. Sadly acting of such great people is quite average. It's not ganger movie, not action movie nor family, I really don't know where to classify it. It's very hardly comparable to similar-theme "Leon Professional". Shame Dreamworks - 5/10 (only cause big cast names, without them - 3/10)
Frailty (2001)
Sorry, Bill, not yet.
I had great expectations about this movie as good thriller with surprising plot. Sadly it none of that could be found. Bill Paxton need a lot of learning how to direct movies, especially with children, not to mention scenes when he is acting (and directing). Script is very static in many moments, young actors play bad, others are keeping that level (Boothe is 'good' example of this). Suspense is very weak. Simply nothing interesting, original nor, at last, properly done here, really :-(. 5/10 max.
Liberty Stands Still (2002)
Some people are very sick.
Wesley Snipes plays guy, who does revenge for death of his daughter in school shooting. In his protest against that he wants to kill some people (?) - first one is wife of arms producent, another is drug-dealing cop, TV-journalist, SWAT cops, etc. He threats life of innocent street walkers if they (Fiorentino&Platt) don't do what he wants. I wonder why he doesn't want to kill ammo producer (I think bullet kills not the gun), why he doesn't want to kill school teacher (doesn't secure safety in school), parents of kids that started shooting, maybe next will go city builders, why stop here - let's kill every white who's is living in States, they brought there people from Africa. And every other man who don't want to cry at poor daughter of that psychopath. Our hero kills cops, SWATs, CIA agents, but nobody can't notice his open window; CIA tries to kill Fiorentino, police is silly, every one is bribing another only our holy white (oops, black ;-) angel Snipes with his trusty sniping gun with big silencer comes to the rescue of our bad world. Ouch, I've forgot to mention that st. Snipes is a former CIA sniper :-D. Enough nonsenses - boring script, long semi-true talks, very simplifying story. If somebody wants to reduce threat of easy available guns this is the most stupidest way. I thought that Snipes is more intelligent in choosing his movies.