redber Reviews

Ya veremos (2018)

Huh?

[6/10 · 2 September 2018]

Just grab your tickets, take the kids and go in to see Nun because that's entice less fear than the horrific filmmaking and execution of this french Ya Veremos thingy that so wants to be up for Cannes, but so deserves to be rested on your video shelf, the one of 3 movies that never gets touched, cleaned and only gazed at in making the decision, but never drawn in by it's lure. A movie without lure is no movie at all.

The Little Stranger (2018)

i found myself really turned off

[5/10 · 2 September 2018]

Came in with high standards, left feeling shattered, betrayed and completely slighted right in my soul. What in the world were the filmmakers doing? Nothing could be anymore insulting. The Little Stranger? More like the Little Betrayer, and then some. Who else agrees? I mean, how couldn't you? it just keeps asking question after question after question. Make us turn the cheek, raise the left eyebrow and squirm in wonder. The bad wonder, not the good stuff. Such a shame, really wanted this to bang it out of the park, but sometimes it's just people don't know what they're in for. I'm not quite sure what the vision was or the conflict of it's premise. Can someone tell me? It's a little stranger, ok. Anything else. Nope, and so it really made me toss my popcorn early and exit 15 minutes in. Because if we all know one thing about movies, is that they never get any better than where it started. Same problem here that I had with Rogue One. Just not worth the rest of the viewing.

Kin (I) (2018)

The Masterpiece of Our Time! It will En"kin"dle you like nothing before

[8/10 · 2 September 2018]

Kin

What a name, and what a premise. Something extraordinarily flamboyant lingers within the meer pulsations of this endearing cluster. Sometimes you want to turn your leg, other times the armrest feels edgy. This movie gives off a seismic convection that no more hinders what it hasn't already achieved. It's a remedy. A flarity of a show. Other times the bathroom might do, but it keeps you, earnest. What comes next, what comes to the forth. But by the end, you know full well that nothing was achieved and everything failed in the vision it set out to fulfill. And yet, deep down, the feeling promises, a masterpiece of our time. And still have yet to let go and understand why, but that's what makes a good movie in 2018. As we all know.

Sing (2016)

Pass.

[14 December 2016]

If this wins anything for 'best animated feature' I will be livid. "But it has a good message." This movie, along with Collateral Beauty entices the viewer with the theme of naivety and simplistic realizations of inner possibility. We all face our hurdles and discover confidence in our life journey's. If your looking for optimistic life in the upbringing of sizzling positively while seeping in inner doubt, these kind of movies provide a place in the cinema to colour our hearts with enlightenment in a manner of unravelling perception of lightening our views during tough times in reality. But Sing along with Collateral Beauty entice subjects to help dumb ourselves down to not look too deeply into things and face life with singular understandings. There is nothing wrong with this, but it is pushed on the audience like some preachy "I know something you don't" attitude. There is a fine line between confidence and cockiness and understanding with confidence comes discipline and with cockiness comes arrogance. This movie, Sing along with Collateral Beauty and a few others I have seen in this genre conquer the latter, unfortunately.

Incarnate (2016)

Pounce. BOO. hmm

[2 December 2016]

Another week year is almost in the bank for cinema in twenty sixteen. I'm telling you right now. I'm telling you, this is not what you think. Don't be one of those guys. Incarnate is the movie of the year. It's not as scary as it is cinematically engrossing. It's bloody of gushing affects in surreal pragmatic motion. The stills reel you in. This is unlike most horror classics that haunt you till the end of your days. Incarnate is a joyous cinematic endowment.

It's a visual story piece. We've had some pulsating flicks in 'The Peanut Jackal, 'Moonlight' and 'Oh, Jackie' recently. Incarnate tops them all. It isn't quite getting the praise yet because it's a new release, but this is something that deserves a few Oscar nods. Best picture, best cinematography and best supporting actress (Breanne Hill) specifically. Forget about everything else this weekend, buy your tickets early for Incarnate, the best movie of 2016. Keep on eye Breanne Hill, she will make your heart stop.

Reconnect (I) (2015)

A model for short films.

[9/10 · 29 November 2016]

Takes you on a spellbinding and yearning trance into a girl's state of reconnecting. You observe as she does. This is high level filmmaking right here. Simple, beautiful and endearing. What I like about Reconnect is that it doesn't weigh you down with heavy, overbearing material. Robyn Westcott gives such an intriguing performance. This is a master-class short that remains light and genuine all the way through. A breathe of fresh air that feels timeless. It sticks with you, mostly because it's so visual and exquisite.

There is a softness how the camera follows Alexis, allowing the viewer to easily lose themselves in the footsteps of her world. A wonderfully purified collaboration.

Jackie (V) (2016)

Oh, Jackie

[29 November 2016]

A definitive best picture candidate. I assure you it is definitively impulsive. You'd rather guzzle a glass of wine than your regular movie theatre tap soda.

The story of Jackie. Starring Natalie Portman. Who would've known. Such impenitence by the campfire in tranquil. Far and wide. The harking embody is cinematic expulsion of Bogart-Dean partiality's. Such as...

a) the dirty dish (the significance here is in it's unique faults), it flourishes from skyward visions to low bound frequencies. In essence it is cunning and remains.

b) the flagon fled-rising: She was the black swan, but now she ponders in red

c) Kones, 1943.

Nothing reaches the bounds of it's being to the nth degree. Jackie swifts and sonars in i- measurable quantification. Richard E. Grant spellbinds the vitality to the hymnal degree.

Nigh^.

In the end, what my 3 pointers pontificate is the basis of understanding this movie's dialogue. You must surge into the very nature of this movie's community. Once you slightly grasp it, Oh boy does Jackie ever grab you.

Doctor Strange (2016)

A sheering 5.7/10

[6/10 · 27 November 2016]

The ride of your life. Sheering in devastation. Travelling through time and walls of brittle obstacles. Taking you away from reality and gravitating you to the beginner of every video game's easiest level. You forget these are people, you forget this is a real world, you stop believing when everything natural and sensical with humanity is washed away by the flick of a wrist and everything pure about it zeroes in.

The target smash of life itself. The harrowing of fundamental special effects, blazed with furious sponge. It is unrelenting, yet never makes you catch your breathe. You dow to the 2nd dimension of our non-existence. Render, free-style such downloaded futility. Doctor Strange yes. Doctor Strange indeed. Doctor Strange mounts the parable of ismoplasmic incarnations. The dawn of familiarity, taken and re-assumed. Subject down-heave.

Release your embodiment, but be endowed by the literac of the 35 minutes beginning at the 52 minute mark. All doubts will shroud away, but then you will..

Moana (I) (2016)

Jarring

[26 November 2016]

It was going to sell...... Mooooaaaanaaa. Moan. Teardrops of pity. Bells and whistles clambering above and behind. It catches you. Moana is a movie of it's own, that speaks it's own language and reaps it's own wounds. Jarring. The ramifications of this movie, if you didn't know it already was, jellies from the distant aftertaste of 'Frozen' and 'Zootopia.' But this picture, if you didn't know it already was, is meant for Hawain culture, made for that specific statute of sensibility. So it's not that funny, but on a yacht at night, with the stars shining upon thee, without a whistle of wind, but the quiet rest of the open sea, and showing this film, if you didn't know it already was one, being shown on an outside projector, with a tropical drink in one hand and a bloody tissue in the other, then can this movie touch the jolts of my heart. What I am saying is this movie requires a journey for you to enjoy it instead of sitting their with a dried up full bag of large popcorn.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Episkey!

[26 November 2016]

Where or where can you find them? Do you know? Do you?

You can see where it's going as a story, but where do these characters end up? Do you know? Do you?

I look forward to when Tom Riddle gets into the mix.

I must say one thing. Episky! to Grindelwald's haircut. He is the darkest wizard of this time before Voldemort. He is an international criminal, not some boyband one-direction runaway. At least 2 great actor's played the part in this feature. The disconnect haircut that is bald on the sides and perfect-greacy up top doesn't help define his character. Since his appearance is well known, hopefully in the oncoming sequels he changes his look with maybe longer, thicker hair. I have no other complaints about this.

Godzilla (2014)

BANGING EPIC Lead by THe Best ACtor Right Now

[10/10 · 9 May 2014]

Horrifying. Terrifying. My childhood fear of an enormous dragon or nearby-dwelling monster, shaking our hearts with a dreadful roar. Yeah, it's here. ANd I love movies focused on delivering an experience for the emotions. That which you fear you are drawn to by excitement. And this is one you sit in the chair, knee-jerking through the previews. Once it begins. You're in for an adventure. Movies are adventures as songs are too. With rhythm & melody executed to capture our emotions & connect with our senses. Godzilla truly is the picture that does this. Lead by a powerhouse actor Bryan Cranston. This guy is unmatched right now, & only maybe by Daniel Day-Lewis. Wouldn't that be a scene. He is a true actor you look up to & him in this film, with this kind of emotional impact. It's even more terrifying.

We've been in 2012 hangover mode having two summers, being 2013 and now 2014, run by blockbusters that merely dance our $500 million, after year by year Harry Potter-Dark Knight bangers hitting billions & joying excitement into moviegoers worldwide. We need a movie like Godzilla as we creep into another era of banging epics. It's certainly the epic we deserve.

Divergent (2014)

It is upon us...

[1/10 · 18 March 2014]

"I don't want to be one thing, I want to be good, honest, & kind." It is here. Like kids waiting for cookies in the oven. The moment of truth has come. From the beloved book by Veronica Roth, Hollywood has their grasp on this baby, diaper inside out. So how was it?

I always wanted to see a 60s, 70s stylized sci-fi, Pink Floyd inspired. Unfortunately, the style nowadays settles with fake, eye-rolling & desensitizing teen material, separating young people's appreciation with good cinema for this. So where does Divergent fit in? Come on, where doesn't it? This is the epitome of modern-day, 3-week cinematic hit, & forgotten two star snore on a Sunday afternoon 2 years from release on Shaw. Yeah, the acting, the story, & the vision here is flat all around. These actors will get their fame & clinch a lifetime spotlight in Young People's magazine, & TMZ laughs. So it's another wretched teen blockbuster. The look of this dread, it's disgusting & destroys my palette.

I believe a Juno-quirky teenage styled flick, fused with an intense sci-fi is an interesting conception. However, the game plan & execution results show. Now Imagine a Rainbow, Pull-n-peel licorice, if each peel was a different color & was pre-pealed, & each peal defined a film genre, you'd have the layout for Divergent.

It's not free nor comfortable. To satisfy hormone-confused teens, they heavily coat it with held-back character interactions & motivations, never reaching or exploring above or below the norm. Maintaining teen-equilibrium content of an awkward nature, which in itself is awkward, with one somehow managing to free themselves & enjoy that in an unbelievably grand fantasy universe as it's backdrop. Tis unmixed, left to dry. Too afraid of doing or even trying. It remains a scattered vision not knowing what it is, forgetting what it is, & leaving asking the critic's swear word: why?

There's a big twist. I read the book, & it is a rhythmically flowing experience filled with page-turning thrills and emotion. The film, which many passion-lacking productions exploit easily, breaks down the story to so many different visions, it's as if several directors manhandled the project. The story was compromised in the process. Nothing was clear nor soothing or enduring. Every 5 minutes I felt I needed to re-engage myself because the music went off the page too often to care.

It is on the verge of a Broken Picture. Maybe that's the vision, a new revolution in cinema we are yet to settle with. Maybe this picture is ingenious in every way. You'll have to go see for yourself, if you dare to tread such sociopathic material. Be my follower, Diver.

Need for Speed (2014)

Boom Boom Boom!!! A Rot Arcade Game Having a Stroke

[13 March 2014]

Aaron Paul rocks the road. The pit releases irresistible farts of movie fluff in eye-rolling forms. Need for Speed is the failing satisfaction of the crappy one-person racing game that you play in the arcade before the movie thats rotted there since the 80s, wastefully worth 4 fake gold coins. Popcorn is enough at that point. It's dry, and wet. Seamlessly. Nothing in between the crust. Hollow, yet no echo of residual substance in depth. Yeah, get along with this experience, & you'll tolerate any "jippy" racing game you've under come & broke the wheel with. There's a market for this, and it's outside the auditorium hallway, beside the concession, over by the rot-lounge of an untouched arcade graveyard, chiming sounds of in game, electrical aneurysms, that was made by those who are dead and the dead keep it. Unfortunately it's dead years old & past revolution with the kitchen nightmare attempts across half the cinemas in America to relaunch the arcade areas. About 3 years gone. Need for Speed? There is no need for speed and there hasn't been a need since the late 19th century & yesterday when the overly-impatient, brainless, anxiety ridden driver cut me off to get to his movie 30 minutes early. If anything, there is un-need for speed.

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

The Divine Picture of Our Time

[7/10 · 24 February 2014]

A clear masterpiece of the sunrise. Most pictures are made for the nighttime ritual of popcorn o.d.'s and soda rushes. Not this. Some wink. When a masterpiece is a masterpiece, it's one watched in the dawn of the day and far from beyond enjoyed ... but entranced and deeply inspired, opening of your imaginative soul, releasing and easily creating movies of your own in such simple touch and a stare down, eye to eye, with the majestic yet petite beauty of the world. Not only sets the tone, but really plunges into you. Unnoticed when experienced. Only a whistling excitement throughout. The side-effects will carry on, and plunge to a divinely emotional realm inside the soul. A place without measure, without detection or perfections. It is a place where nothing is everything, and everything is heart-rendering. Hiccups of emotion, from burst inspirations endless. Deep down, one by one, & piece by piece, unravelling empowered moments of the movie in your head. Those are the most unforgotten days in life. Our unfortunate lack of patience and time is shameful. The feeling of inspiration is inhuman, thus unreal and sarcastic in the moment. It's in spirit. And that's what this film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, does. Bow down and surrender, for all and for everything. The journey this cinema bares to reach within us, is the journey of the divine, and is worth more than such time. "All this is true because it rhymes." ...and back again.

Non-Stop (2014)

February Slush & Fresh

[24 February 2014]

Here we go. Buckle and set for the modern Hitchcock flight trip of February. It doesn't throw up fake, emotionless jerks of twitching fear. It sets a personable placement plan, and an electrical current follow through of earthquake subtleties. Unexpected sparks of bottom jiggling terror. That of which you wish you couldn't touch the ground, floating as an untouchable object in space, afraid of sink holes or moles. When you leave, you feel comfortably and gladly reacquainted with the ground and head up, ready for a fresh new look on things. That's what Non-Stop makes you do. A movie about holding the audience on a string over a volcano. It cleans your mind and gives you a fresh start seemingly. That's what February movies should do, and what the best ones do. It's the time of year of slow, eye-opening blossom of exhilaration and ideas. The snow turning to slush, and the sun peaking out a tanning flare. The season's a changing. Those times of year we need movies like Non-stop. It doesn't inspire, nor blow away as blockbusters and Fall dramas do, nor good February movies do at all. It makes you reset, and feel more open, more fresh and lively. You wanna see this year's February recharger. Go see this roller coaster without a buckle.

Adult World (2013)

Offside

[11 February 2014]

A little tenuous. Revering in most segments and flat in, with a still, stiff viewer, hanging on, not initiated to explore the frame of the picture. Yes. It's Offside.

Mangling here and there, forth and backwards. Yes, awkward in it's delivery in sustenance for the viewer. Choking down burnt popcorn is a waste of money when you can watch a gripping picture that has you munching without awareness of what. You're just lost. Deep in the world presented. Here, we are not in the picture. We're outside of it.

Watching a screen of uninteresting images with characters lacking dynamic, and giving typical eye-rolling looks to each other. Yeah, you just want to jolt out of your seat and run in to watch Wolf. But there it is. There's the stinger. It's the anxiety it gives you of holding back, stiffly.

Without consent, without surrender. You stay there until the end. I don't know why. Objectively, just leave. But when your there, you sit. And look. It worked. In a good way? Hardly onside.

Transformers: The Ride - 3D (2011 Video)

Squinty, jarring ride leaving with eyes bleeding from the inside out

[2/10 · 27 December 2013]

Inspired by the outrageously fun Amazing Spider-Man, Transformers the Ride takes good pieces and puts together a squinting experience through a 4D simulation of mechanics on LSD. The box of hell in Universal Studios, could've been put to way better use with a batman or Indiana jones ride. It won't last and I don't know how people can walk out of it with stable eyes and direction. I needed an antidote in the of the Simpsons. The opposite. 2D experience, a stable seat, and smooth fun. The moment you are shot through that robots sunction mouth of hell, my eyes bled from the inside. Now I love universal more than anything, I could live there. It's 98% magic and 2% transformers. Trek to Harry Potter and let your imagination fume, but pass on the headache I'm still trying to recover. Get the message out. People need to know.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

Not for the kiddies, nor for the adults or for anyone ...

[2/10 · 23 August 2013]

What's the vision here? I'm sorry I'm a little confused at what's going on & I need a medicentre to referr me to an optometrist. My retinas have been permanently damaged & I need help. Call me maybe at 308-641-222 if anyone has the slightest sympathy to care for someone in & I encourage those selfish-minded people to do something nice for once instead of continuing their satisfaction for eggos which is only a fake emotion, and give yourselves a true feeling of respect & help those who have less than you. And then maybe you all can understand our purpose in this world. Or just keep walking until your hate leads to the cellar of hell. You live the life you want, but if you continue to lead your life the way you are, I feel sorry for you because of your failure to understand & acknowledge life. Your legacy will be a tombstone that people will forever ignore because they are selfish from poor examples, & afraid of the nature of living. Because truly caring for someone is a sustaining emotion. One you'll want & need to have. Please... It's for the better of us...

The Wolverine (2013)

HUgh JAckman was miscast

[5/10 · 27 July 2013]

It was all over the place, the story was pointless and confusing. The setting is extremely questionable. Japan?! It just doesn't go in any an intriguing direction. A weird mutant villain, poorly portrayed and her motivation was lacking any reason. The robot thing was confusing and just doesn't make any sense.

There were a few action scenes that had some laughs, but for the most part it was disgusting action. not genuine at all.

the performance of Hugh Jackman, honestly felt fake. I couldn't see the old awesome, funny LOgan because he wasn't there. He wasn't the character, he was just acting it. with those ridiculously questionable eyebrows and extreme vein problem. I mean it felt fake. i think hes overdue. i mean, its like a jack sparrow sirdeal. overdue. they could've changed actors. why not? they do it all the time with Superman, Batman, and Spiderman 3 of the most iconic superheroes ever. But no, these marvel guys, which half of them i didn't even know until they made movies about them, are untouchable and special you cant change their actors.

The directing was entertaining but it cant hold up this dreadfully incoherent mess of a storyline. i didn't get it, confusing, and a waste of my money. i promised i wouldn't see this because i knew it would be awful. well i saw it because it was a 61/100. better than the hobbit?! okay, shouldn't be bad. another wasted movie.

im done with garbage that i know is gonna be bad. I've predicted every movie this summer so far and i've got them all right so far. might as well go back and see the conjuring, because that was the only really good movie and is the big movie this summer.

Man of Steel (2013)

Ayelet Zurer drops the ball on this one.

[7/10 · 15 June 2013]

The kid who plays Kent Clark whines and has no honour, pride, or respect for his powers. He whines and bitches about having these powers, but he doesn't man up or do anything about it. And that comes down from his mother. This Anakin Skywalker vision for the character is miscast. Whilst the movie has no sense for a main character, there is none. Laurence Fishburne was a complete disappointment. Was expecting him to wave up and take the movie by storm, like he did with The Matrix. Since the aliens look very similar. I was expecting great things from him. Like I did with Tom Hardy in Batman. It wasn't even close. Most 3d movies over the last couple of years have brought you in and do good things. But this one, it, there's some shining bright lights in there that really burn the eye sockets.

There's more boat scene in the trailer then there was in the movie. What happened to that? Hopefully we get some more of that boat action because there's a strong that there are some strong missing elements in the story there. The whole boat sequence needed to add more spice to the concentration of the character because there's so much to dream about at sea. I thought we were getting close to sea monsters and that the bad guy would get involved. There's more time in the city than there was at sea. Which is mind boggling.

Where's this island that this mother figure is talking about? This whole sequence is convoluted and off-track. By the end, you think it's over but it's not. The last hour picked up a bit and the best action I've seen all year 'in a movie.' The guy who played the main character. He wasn't big enough. I don't know, this seems to be a very important character and there's no focus on him and what he deems wise, especially in that scene. All in fall, this is not a surprise "Man of Steel" can't jump he just hits the ground. He's too heavy for his own good.