vit-onderka Reviews

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

biggest letdown ever :(

[2/10 · 11 December 2014]

Movie is so bad it made me write a review!!!

There is only one strong moment in this movie and it is the White council fight in Dol Guldur. This is epic and somehow similar as the books.

Otherwise the movie is complete failure and it rapes Tolkien's book. 1. Tauriel and Fili subplot is so out of place that people in cinema exchanged stares. 2. Whole script is written by a five year old. It just doesn't make any sense, many things needed for plot appeared out of nowhere - bell, chamois, Orc command post and so on. How armies from around 100 miles got to the mountain in one day... 3. fight sequences are like from matrix combined with really bad computer game. choreography and lucky accidents are extremely unrealistic. Ninja Legolas made some people in cinema burst into laughter (and me to tears of desperation) 4. The movie isn't based on book. It isn't even loosely based on it. It is like World War Z - only the title and few scenes are the same.

Sorry for my English, I just had to get my frustration out...

Kajínek (2010)

not a blockbuster but nice movie

[6/10 · 30 November 2012]

As a Czech I can have a sober perspective on this movie. Petr Jakl did stunts in American movies and is eager to make an American movie of his own. This unfortunately results in some overly dramatic and/or hardly believable moments. Anyway it's true that in 90s after the fall of the communism was our country like wild west full of corrupt cops and whatnot. We may never truly know whether Kajinek really killed someone and it's important to say that this movie is just another European thriller, not a real life story. The quality of the movie is OK, given the fact that it was directed by a former stuntman. The cast is good and if you don't expect a Nolan style quality, you will be somewhat entertained. If you like it, I would recommend you another movie of this era - Sametovi vrazi.