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The Lost City (2022)
Like a german movie for children
So boring, so flat. I can't believe that they really do things like this in Hollywood, now. What happened?
No style, no soul, no fun, no Ideas. Extreeemly predictable. It actually feels like a low budget adventure movie for children like they do them in germany for the "three Investigators"
The Outfit (2022)
Perfect piece of movie art
Just saw it at the Berlinale and it's a very entertaining little piece of art where every detail is in the right place (or not in the right place if it needs to be) so it's really like the perfect Mystery movie, playing out with a lot of surprising twists and a slow, powerful pace without confusing or betraying the audience. Perfect, subtile acting of the whole cast. Great visual Ideas and a bit of spicy suspense and violence. It's quite so perfect, that it's funny to hear a voice over philosophy about dealing with imperfectionism during the finale of the movie. I am looking forward to see more of the director.
No Time to Die (2021)
Lacking everything a Bond should be
I was really excited and looking forward to see the movie, after having waited for so long.
But it happend like this: During the movie, my girlfriend was worried and asked me "Is everything okay with you?". And I said "Nooo - it's so boring."
Actually I was shocked, how it felt like a mediocre TV show all the time. They seem to be talking and explaining on and on in simple shot - reverse shot manner. No glamour, no fun, no surprise, no fancy wardrobe, no cool production design, no sexyness and no ideas at all.
This movie is not Cinema. And absolutely something different than a Bond, they just put the famous lable on it and hoped it will sell that way.
Waffenstillstand (2009)
Very hopeful attempt
First of all, I have to say, that I am German like the director Lancelot von Naso and tired of the small typical" German talking heads movies". So I really was looking forward to this interesting Idea of placing a German action/road movie story in the post war Iraq setting. But first: it was hard to find a cinema to watch this movie on a 35mm copy, even it was two weeks after the release; so finally, I ended up sitting in a tiny basement theater and was viewing a DVD. And second: I have to admit that during the whole film, you feel that it's a low budget movie. But, on the other hand, considering the 1.7 mio Euro budget it's amazing who they managed to create that threatening 2004 Bagdad atmosphere in Morocco.
The story sounds like a classic: After the US-bombing of Falludscha the village is totally cut off of the rest of the country and the medical help is running out of equipment. An experienced but tired, morphium addict doctor, a young, very engaged female doctor, two buddy journalists and their local driver team up and risk their life to deliver medicine with a small bus from Bagdad. It could have been a very suspenseful odyssey thru the chaotic, vast country but the story never finds it's pace. The acting and writing sometimes changes from acceptable to awfully amateurish. And almost all characters are missing some development ... except for one of them, what makes the movie at least watchable and entertaining in the end.
Compared to other German movies (I rather leave out an international comparison) the editing and camera-work have some cool, cinematic approaches but it also has some negative similarities to other German movies; which is the lack of a certain, artistic style and point of view. It always seems that the filmmakers don't dare to use color correction, sound design and a deliberate visual concept. So everything from storytelling perspective to costume design and dramatic twists seems to be in the middle. It neither works as an action/adventure movie nor as a stylized, reduced, small character study.
But all in all, I appreciate the Idea and risky attempt this filmmakers brought to the screen an I hope there will be more daring German productions like this. I know how difficult this is.