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Fearless (2017)
Dud
The last episode sums it up : a long preparation of a sophisticated bomb that finally doesn't go off (we'll never learn why).
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Who won and why?
The four goes to some actors (Freeman, McKellan, Armitage), desperately saving impossible scenes. The rest is shambles : too many characters who have nothing interesting to do. The movie is, indeed, over after twenty minutes, with Smaug's death.
But this Battle! Technically it's far below the level of the Gondor biggie, and sheer nonsense in itself. The good guys seem to be overwhelmed, losing badly - oh, I get it! they've been waiting for the King to heal miraculously for no reason at all! And lo! twelve little dwarfs with the right spirit make all the difference. But, hey, there's a second army coming! Trouble? Naaah, wait for the aviation (eagles, always there where the script needs them...). They throw some bears at the baddies and here we go.
But apparently, all in all, it wasn't that bad since the town people, who seemed to be massively butchered at the beginning, have survived in numbers.
The movie didn't.
Elysium (2013)
It should be called "Mediacare"
One of the worst "sci-fi" flicks I have ever seen. Give me Transformers 4 anytime. Not only it's childishly silly in its politics, but the plot has more holes in it than a Swiss cheese (which tastes better). Things happen just because, to please the poor scriptwriter (who's also the movie's director - apparently he couldn't find anyone else to shoot the thing). In a "fascist" universe people come and go as they please. There's a whole underground society with the highest technology available. One wonders why they don't use it to cure these poor children. The ships going from Earth to Elysium get shot down or get in, whatever the story needs. A highly trained, clever technician gets hurt in a way a 10 years old child wouldn't. And then we have these heartrending memories of childhood in slo-mo, loads of them, with music, of course. BTW : the score is laughable. And I have never seen Jodie Foster that bad. She's a great actress, but if she can pretend to be that bad, it means genius.