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The Creator (2023)
A wannabe masterpiece, which failed on its ambitions
"The Creator" kicks off with a captivating concept, but as it hits the screen, the film loses some of its momentum. The narrative of a world where the USA battles New Asia, inhabited by AI-androids, holds much promise, and John David Washington shines as a Special Forces agent laden with personal tragedies.
Visually, the film dazzles with stunning imagery and an intriguing setting, using New Asia as a metaphor for past conflicts like Vietnam or Afghanistan. However, credibility is marred by uncertainties and logic gaps. The relationships between the USA, New Asia, and the androids remain ambiguous, lacking a convincing threat to explain the conflict potential.
The portrayal of AI-androids, capable of human emotions without clear justification, is particularly perplexing. Although the USA possesses the ability to copy human brains, this technology remains unexplored. These inconsistencies raise questions about the world and its characters. The portrayal of the USA as an overpowering nation is also criticized, as military actions often seem ill-considered, weakening the film's tension.
Overall, "The Creator" falls short of its ambitious goals. Despite its visual splendor, the film fails to meet expectations and falls short of realizing its full potential. The film's pretension and unclear scenario leave audiences with more questions than answers.
Tomb Raider (2018)
Predictable uninpired remake of TV Superhero Show X
I was not expecting much of this movie, as video game movies tend to usually stink. But here they actually had already a quite ready-for-movie story by Rhianna Prachett for the game reboot from 2013. Only god knows, why they decided to skip this draft and replace it by a totally uninspired typical superhero origin. Best comparison is I guess with Arrow Season 1 without the charming and campy characters with some bits of the everywhere beloved Iron Fist.
To show her street smartness, she is depicted as a bike courier and outsmart a bunch of colleagues. So just 30 minutes later she nearly sacrifice her stuff openly to some wannabe street robbers. It also never get really clear why the holding is running out of money just because her dad is not officially declared dead as Lara does not want to sign the papers and prefers to live in poverty. I could go on and on with the stupid decisions, but then I would need to recap the whole movie. In the end it just massively fails, even the final sequel baiting (which I guess already 50% of the people reading this can already guess right now correctly) fails as the movie failed to build any tension for this.
The War (2007)
The War or How the US saw the War
This documentation is well made, this is indisputable. But it is characteristic for US Americans to just see their point of view, skipping everything else. The Second World War was not just USA against Germany and Japan, it was much more complicated. And I expect that a documentation with a length of more than 800 minutes and the title "The War" an all-round view and not just one single view. But I could except this, if at least the documentation of World War 2 would be complete. The war didn't start on Pearl Harbor Day! Europe was until then already two years at war with the Germans winning. But because we see just the American sight, Germany and their Allies just seems weak and it is never clear why the European Countries couldn't handle them themselves. The importance of the Soviet campaign is hardly mentioned. In Contrast the Japanese seems to be the main aggressor of the Second World War. This is maybe true for Australian and US troops, but still Japan was never such a dangerous enemy as the Germans (especially because enough people living in Allied Countries sympathized with the Nazi Regime). It was also no wonder, that Japans aggressive war against China (some people call this the true start of World War 2) from 1937 is also never mentioned.
If the movie were, say, 2 hours long, it would be an interesting insight of how the USA experienced the Second World War. But in this nearly 900 minute version, there are too many flaws, which are not acceptable, at least for a Non-American.