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A-X-L (2018)
6/10
Number 5 Lives 2018 Version
8 February 2019
Pretty much the same, just more mature, better special effects but a lot less soul and personality and ofc a nonsense plot much worse than the original. overall cute but seriously the mix with transformers should have been avoided
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The Last Ship (2014–2018)
1/10
The good, the bad and the ugly
8 December 2017
The Good: The Premise had potential. Supervirus, LAst Ship, what else to Say.

The Bad: The Story itself is between borderline insane to boring. Nothing makes much sense and is stretched out for no good reason into the oblivion.

The Ugly: Well starting with the Main Protagonist our captain who is simply the absolute wrong cast. Nobody buys his badass Warrior image he steady pretends. I cant remember seeing a worse choice for a ship captain in TV or movies ever

The Effects: are a bad joke. Seriously you can find better stuff on youtube, made by Hobbyists. Its like watching a cheap 90's TV show

The Realism in fighting and tactics is another bad joke. Has nothing todo with anything remote realistic despite they pretend to know what they are doing, their communications are most of the time spot on.

The Insults: No matter if a NATO Partner or the Russians, nobody wins against that tiny ship. Last season even a whole fleet looses, running into them like a mindless video game AI with suicidal tendencys. At the End America prevail and save the world not once but twice in a matter of a few seasons

Bottomline: Pure crap and we need negative stars raiting
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1/10
as a garfield fan iam disappointed
12 March 2017
In short it was awful.

I understand that the target audience is for children (even tough the strips aren't really) so i could life with the silly part.

but main problem here is, thats not garfield. its a orange cat with a little resemblance with garfield who likes lasagna and thats about it.

also about the plot, from all things that you could have done something totally random was chosen that never made any sense.

sorry if thats for children then the parent should sue for possible long term damage of their cerebal cortex. this hole thing is to stupid even for a 4 year old. if you try to make your kid trailerpark ready well this movie is for you.

na sorry... there is no good garfield movie yet and this is one of the worst
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Alien Cargo (1999 TV Movie)
7/10
surprise
8 August 2016
Warning: Spoilers
have to totally agree with kcwells

well i think the only problem of the movie was it didn't really know where to go.

it started like alien but nonono, no space alien horror is coming there (thank god). plot twist turned it into space survival. nice surprise

sadly it couldn't really take of from there. also the key factors - the deceases and the alien cargo still played a minor role, a starting point for the space survival plot.

the plot wasn't very thick. its hard enough to transport the tensions in a space emergency situation, even harder in such a futuristic environment. but in this movie it didn't really came across at all.

thats sad, because as kcwells already said it was technically very good. resonable believable characters - i hate those movies where people are bitten by a zombie and don't tell the group in self denial just to bring everybody in danger - here they act more logic, no they did it heroic

it was a great, not so much happy end, partly uncertain partly certain death and still left not a bad feeling.

sadly the movie was missing atmosphere too.

the alien plot was to quick,not mysterious enough, to much boring space survival... and still i cant rate this movie under 6

to - finally - too good the technical aspects, the actors also deserve 6.5-7. no nonsense just a bit better writing and this could have been a real bombatic movie

and if we consider this one was a TV its even more surprising. a 7 seven to compensate unjustified poor rating, a honest 6-6.5
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Jarhead 3: The Siege (2016 Video)
80s meets modern Warmovie
4 March 2016
Warning: Spoilers
It could have been an 80s Movie. We have our loose Gun/Action Hero, we have our blond hottie that will run around with a gun and fihgt like the bigguys and we have our Villain running around always angry.

The acting is between mediocre acceptable and bad but not awful. The technical aspects are partly not even bad. Seem like there was some serious training involved.

Sadly all that seems to be forgotten when it comes to the actual gunbattles. At least they change sometimes a magazine but it is still those endless rapidfire gunbattles with 30 round mags that hold 200 bullets.

And while the good guys got easy overrun in an heavyguarded and well defended Embassy and die like flys, at the end it turns around. While having close to no cover, outgunned, out manned the terrorists drop like flys.

So the action part is 80s style, but still try to be serious like a modern Warmovie, trys but fails to be realistic.

It even has some slightly critic undertone about politics and agenda of the government, same time it ends up in a bug hurra marines are the best. And of course our Loose Gun turns out to be the superhero that saves the day...

All in all a weird mixture, not really entertaining but also not too boring, something you shouldn't think when you see it and you wont after you did.
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Limitless (2015–2016)
3/10
It don't know what it wants
19 November 2015
First of i have to agree that the Opportunity was wasted here totally. Why taking the premise of Limitless and turn it just into another cop series.

Then it doesn't really know if it should be serious or a comedy. Its trying to be both and fails. Most of the Tiem the comedy part is more like the humor of an 13 Year old.

Even if you want to make it such a cop series a more serious and darker approach would have fitted the premise. But this is just ridiculous.

Not only it becomes boring the way he can solve everything, its simply plain stupid. Like guess a password on the first try just by seeing a wallpaper. So not only he can comprehend, connect and remebr everything, he also relay's on plain stupidity of his targets.

And its inconsistent. While he was able to do spiderman like stuff in the first episode this ability's just plain vanished and he become a helpless little kid just trash-talking himself out of anything.

No you cant no aspect here serious, like what the FBI is willing to accept from their asset. But then again its still to brutal for a comedy. Every episode people die, people get shot, strangled, fight for their lives, and still its a world where everyone is a plain idiot while our hero is a super genius also not really solved is where the FBI get the pils given that the supply seemed to be very restricted. also it doesn't seem anyone knows about that drug but the FBI has a file on it? Hell in reality they need months to discover new variations of drugs and only when they become popular enough.

Nothing really makes sense, the scripts are mostly illogical and unbelievable even with the premise of limitless.

no really expected something very different and iam surprised if we see a second season. then again stupid TV seems to prevail
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3/10
Another example whats wrong in this industry
3 August 2015
When you make a remake you should not do it completely differently. This isn't Madmax, its something different and something new. The sad part is that they simply use a classic to sell it.

Even worse, instead of saving money and make it simpler, they overdone it.

More effect, more crazyness, overdoing everything and everyall. Just Pump in Effects, Pump in more and crazy ideas.

BUT never ever think about writing a smart script or get good acting.

And thats the hole Problem nowadays. Movies today are too much of action, too much of effects, to much of dumping money but they are empty. They have no soul, so they become irrelevant, yet even boring despite massive spectacular action scenes which seem to never end.

This movie is the best example for that.
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Taken (I) (2008)
7/10
Good Movie but missed Chance
24 July 2015
Lion Neeson as Operative, who would have thought about that. He really Nailed the Role and its his Performance made this Movie.

However i see here a big missed Chance. A more subtle approach with less Body's and smaller Armys to fight him would haven given it a bit more Realistic touch.

And even there only few short Gunfights they are sadly Hollywood like unrealistic. It would have been better to let him slip away from the Factory instead of pumping his Car full of Bullets and leave all Passengers unharmed (even tough also Rifles where hitting it there badly)

Also instead of legions of Bodys, a more believable Reaction by the other Characters would be less Painful to watch. Almost any other Character here acted between odd and super duper stupid.

This is a shame because that Movie had a potential to be a Masterpiece. Its till above Average, specially for that Genere, but still.
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3/10
Why just why?
20 April 2015
This Movie is a perfect mirror for Hollywood these days.

They replace Acting and scripting with CGI. They would rather waste Millions and Millions in special effects instead of doing an actual good story.

This movie got so much going on that it became just boring. The hole story is a senseless plot of nonsense, with a few really funny ideas in the middle and .... thats it.

And we are not talking about scientific accuracy, no this movie is more fantasy than scifi anyway. Its just nothing made any sense, not the base story, not the characters, not even the harvesting, no really nothing add up, hell it doesn't even connect the parts of the story to each other very well.

The acting is mediocre at best. The CGI is well made but way to much. instead of interesting space battles you get overwhelmed with so much that its just plain boring and you might just fall asleep.

Nope iam sorry but this fantasy crap is just mindless, soulless waste of a lot of money and even worse waste of audiences time. they rally should pay peoples time back plus interest.

its getting a 3 for good technical aspect but mainly because there's still worse out there and if you cant sleep well just play the action sequences in a loop
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Interstellar (2014)
8/10
One of the best Movies and still ....
16 March 2015
Warning: Spoilers
First of many aspect of the Movie are well made and its defiantly worth watching. But it has it really deep scripting flaws and i want to stick with them.

So sadly they marketed as scientific accurate movie, well not so much. Yes they got many details right and still have massive flaws that it really hurts. Its really sad because that Movie could have been a timeless masterpiece...

So here we go: #1: Radiation. Never mentioned it still our worst enemy in Space. in Fact Its the one problem we cant even imagine how to solve yet while all other problems seem to be solvable in the near future (near like 100 Years). But OK lets ignore that for a moment.

#2: The Timeless planet. Well here it becomes nonsense. You can have 2 forms of time dilation. One by speed the other by gravitation. Well you have to know that the Time difference between earth and space (satellite orbit is 0.0000000001 seconds per Day) So in order to have a 7 Years / Hour you would need massive gravitation. More than a planet could hold or a human would survive, more than we would be able to escape with that little ranger

#3: exploration of planet next to a black hole. Well simple logic if we don't have much time, no scientist would even bother to look a planets next to a black hole. let gravitation aside and the main problem of a stable orbit of a planet orbiting a sun orbiting a black hole (or no sun if orbiting a black hole) and the massive gravitation forces working on such a planet, the radiation would simply burn everything aways from its surface.

simple logic, black holes are very nasty we don't go near them, let alone try to make a living on a planet orbiting one.

#4: why not giving cooper one day to prepare his family. they didn't even knew about him hours ago and now he has only a few minutes to prepare his kids that we be gone forever? this is a major part of the storyline and still makes no sense at all.

#5: on earth they need big thrusters to escape still on the other planet (with even higher gravity) they easily enter and leave with their rangers

#6: air, uhh they found him with almost depleted oxygen. Well but where did he store that much to have enough time to transmit complex data in morse code (which would take endless). still he is breathing and using his tanks so the argument no time in a black hole well doesn't really count does it?

#7: all that tech - and still they have to land to find out that there is only water and only ice? no high resolution cams and radar? you don't examine the surface before you land even you have no contact to the guys landed first?

Those are the major parts i can think of right now. Most of em are major if not absolute necessary parts of the storyline and its sad to make such unnecessary errors.

While i think the idea of trying to understand 5 dimensions in a movie is tempting the end still is a very far and very magical stretch. it just doenst fit a movie which trys to stay technical focused and then drift almost into magic

And even all of that its still worth watching, many other aspects are done great, Matthew McConaughey and all the "murphs" doing great.

most scifi movies of the last 20 years have massive logic problems so the movie can survive its own due of lack of competition in that field. it has great visuals and i personally like the fact that they took their 3 hours to build slowly their story. you can even get a glimpse of the political and social implications of the future which is nice.

still it leaves the bitter taste of an missed opportunity and an even more bitter by the idea that the last of mankind are only Americans :)
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The Equalizer (2014)
6/10
The Good, the bad and the Ugly
17 December 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This Movie has it all,...

The Good: Denzel Whashington, Great Presents, just a few more Lines and a slower Backstory would have been nice. He is Doing a Great Job.

The Sound is Great too, mix well with the Style of that film.

The Filming was very good too. Very Stylish, cool almost understated, the used CGI blend in well isn't to much overstated. This Aspect was done right.

***LITTLE SPOILERS AHEAD (i keep em down i promise)*** The Bad: The Storyline. It doesn't make any sense why after he decided to start his war also a lot of other people, not related to the Mob, crossing his path in a bloody way. Also Nobody seems to bother afterward, he still can visit his old café, living in the same neighborhood, nobody specially not the Police cares much. Also the Action of the Russian Mobster who came to investigate doesn't make any sense. All his actions where for no reason and no purpose.

Also the jumps and almost fast tracks of short story lines made no sense. Less would have been more. More slow calm backstory about his personality and life, less small action plot and more logic would have been appreciated.

Also the complete absence how he is doing his secret spy work isn't really satisfying. He is working like a ghost not only to the enemy but also the the audience. This give the movie a certain character but sadly it was replaced by dull action sequences.

The Ugly: The fighting scenes (some of them). Its laughable how those Mobster with their 50k Equipment even go into a fight, they acted like some lemmings (in the game) not like some ex military mobster muscles.

ANd why again was the Mobster hunting the security guard? ***MORE SPOILERS ***

Also if someone get shot in his shoulder, you can really fight with it after, you can simply burn it to close it and keep going, there are broken bones, there is a projectile, that he is fixing himself under a shelf while ex-speznatz with nightvision looking for him .. well sorry that was too much.

The Worst action sequence where that nail pistol can shoot over 20 yards, penetrate (didn't he have a bullet resistant west?) a hole body and go trough.

Bottom Line: This Movie has its Moments and is often beautiful to watch but again and again bad writers ruined it. There would have been potential but it wasn't used. Its still very good watchable only for Dencel himself.
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5/10
Mixed feeling
25 October 2014
I anticipated this one highly, i saw the first one in the Movies as a young one and was really happy to see a remake.

However its a shame. THe Turtels alone would be enough action, the shredder part well OK has to be i suppose but why in Hell we need that over the top stupid action. It was already boring in this never ending explosions and falling , yea falling this movie should be called as the falling, it seems there's a little talking and a lot of falling.

It really sad it had a lot of potential. They got the characters of the Turtles really good but there was not really much of scenes with them other than fighting.

The backstory was made bogus and in a hurry, all of that just drags the premise down.

It could have been better with way less action, classes better and is it really to much to ask for proper writing? really? investing xxx millions of dollar in special effects but only 5 bucks for the book? really?

i still give it 5 because you know its the TMHT, but it deserves more like 1 or 2
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Left Behind (I) (2014)
1/10
A new Deep even for Cage in this Christian Propaganda Movie
23 October 2014
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I really start to feel sorry for him. He once again proofs that he is going to do anything for Money :)

OK lets aside the real questionable premise, this is not only Christian, this is radical Christian. Where Christion Nutjobs go to heaven while decent but not really believing humans beings are gonna damned.

But beside that premise nothing in this Movie makes sense, or is even close to real. Why should Satphone stop working. Why roller(bole don't know in English) suddenly roll with like 1 meter a minute. Or why do have planes an elevator thats allow to go down but not up. and so on ***SPOILERS AHEAD*** other than that the movie don't really bring something. its basically all about a plane who got hit in the air (yea well anti collision systems are not in this movie present).

if you expect Armageddon and action well, not so much. a plane looses half his passengers, get hit by another and humped home. but for some reason no airport is operational even most of the staff didn't disappear and the daughter someone cleans up a field to land on. story end. only the last sentence promise "this is just the beginning"...

*** SPOILERS END ***

So now lets go back to the questionable Premise. First of all i was raised Christian even i consider myself more an Atheist is still leave people to their believe and i don't mind to see a "believers" movie from time to time.

But this piece of Junk is radical questionable Christian propaganda.

It's judgmental by implicating that even the slightest human weakness, the slightest criticism will leave you behind, will dam you. Nothing but regret by the characters for their "sins" even they aren't sins, they are just normal human weaknesses, nobody is f.ing perfect for f. sake.

But be careful, its made smart, its made silent, implicating things, not so much screaming but enough. Read between the lines, not only whats in the Movie but also whats not.

Seriously whoever is behind this piece of excremental those people are dangerous and this is their propaganda.

This is simply Nuts.

To the Makers: See ya in Hell
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Person of Interest (2011–2016)
10/10
Astonishing shift in Season 4
22 October 2014
With Season 4 it the premise shifted dramatically. Its now wartime between 2 entities and very Powerful and dangerous Men with their own vision.

The Result is even better Episodes, each could make it into the Theaters. But not only the way each Episode was presented changed drastic so does the combat. When 2 by Machine Guided Operatives fight each other you have now shootout trough walls and floors (very nice idea) and tactics that work 20 steps ahead.

Its very entertaining but it also gives a glimpse whats possible with unlimited access to private data. even you might think its irrelevant data well, there isn't such a thing and this show present this fact pretty good.

of course it cannot loot all possibility's otherwise there would be no episode. those machines could solve their issues within minutes so the writers have to limit their capabilities within the show.

The acting is great. Chapman is perfect for his role and we have to be thankfully that cazivel had his "issues" in the past and was a bit alienated. otherwise he wouldn't be in the show but making only big movies. he could be one of the very big in Hollywood.
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3/10
Is it even possible to make a bad WW2 Movie ?
9 October 2014
I can't remember to have seen a bad WW2 Movie, bad sadly that changed with this Movie.

This isn't much about the low Budget, which iam OK with, it's the Dialogs and the very bad Acting.

Specially the racial Disputes don't seem Real. You simply don't believe the Actors their racial hate and disregard. Its actually so bad that the hole topic is in great danger to become a laughing-stock and thats a shame.

But at the end the hole story looks like that. Nothing makes really sense or fit together, you simply don't believe anyone of them and their behavior is simply unrealistic.

Also the German translations are often definitely off (mostly not much but still).

So no neither the script or the acting works out here. Low Budget or not how hard can it be to write some believable lines, cmon guys who write this piece of processed Food ? I still give that Movie 3 Stars because its trying and I've seen worse so i know i can get worse and i need abit room to the bottom.
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Earth to Echo (2014)
7/10
Its really not that bad but a warning its a found Footage Movie
8 October 2014
Disclaimer.... I should say i watched it with some kids or so ,.. but okok i admit i didn't, i watched it alone. :)

Yea you know some new version kinda of ET, why not, OK its for kids by kids which is often very very awful and stupid but hey i gave it a shot. ----- Technical: So first, this Movie is a found Footage Movie which isn't clear in the Trailer. I usually hate em, but this one is for me between bearable and OK. They made it mostly stable enough to watch it, not to super shaky and often Filmed quiet well so it makes it believable that this is actually the hobby of one of the Kids.

It also has good special effects. Very Good BUT sadly to clean, to you know Disney. But it aplys some really nice ideas you will know what i mean when you see them. ---- Cast: So it was given the main cast are exclusively kids relatively mature. The Acting is between OK and very good by the Kids, but as so often in this kind of Movies awful by the Adults.

but its not their fault alone as you will see below --- Story: ***little spoilers but i try to write around them*** The Story itself, well its kinda ET, actually it is ET, adapted to a new kind of youth society and new kind of expectation of the audience.

However, the Adults - specially the Evil ones - acting stupid. Specially after the Diner Scene (you will know :) Many things didn't add up at all, not even remotely, they simply didn't make any sense.

I don't understand why someone would write such stupidity, its an Insult not only for adults but for every 9-10 year old and above, maybe even below.

The Storyline really hurts the Movie, even there are some nice ideas, they often lack on explanation in any form with a mix of many things and specially behavior by the evil guys which - i cant say this often enough - doesn't make any kind of sense.

However overall its still OK because of the main cast and that alien and this innocent but still not boring action. ----

The Alien: Many Reviews criticize thats more about the kids and not about the alien. Well i wouldn't agree with that. The Alien has a lot of screen Time and interaction - i don't know if more or less like ET but i think enough. Yes the story is mainly from the viewpoint of those kids and a lot about them, but that doesn't really hurt here. Could it be more ? Yes but not a lot more. All together it was quiet OK. --- Verdict: Its very hard to make kind of Action Scifi Movie thats not boring without real violence without getting into much stupidity. I mean how can you make it believable to have on one hand well trained evil adults vs some kids and they still win without making the adults real idiots or moving from scifi to Fantasy. Its not easy.

ET was one of those who really could achieve that.

Sadly this film could not entirely, partly we find this stupidity here to avoid more serious confrontation and keep the story going.

However in other parts this movie does not avoid this and still excellently keeps its peacefully and innocent. Its really sad that they kept this the hole movie, it could have been a real buster. You will know what i mean in the truck-scene :)

So its it a worthy kinda Remake of ET... well no.. almost.. but not there yet. It had some potential but it was wasted on to many story-holes and to bad writing on some parts.

Still worth watching,.. yes.. maybe because of the massively declining quality of films nowadays but it is better then most of the trash we are forced to watch.
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Ife seen better
28 September 2014
on youtube, by amateurs, without a budget.

Actually to be fair, if you look at short scifi on youtube, you will have a very hard time to find something worse.

The Positives Reviews - well they should be charged with fraud. Hollywood needs some sort of jail for Directors and Producter doing things like this. This is not a Movie its a crime against the audience. When its a crime to downlaod Movies it should be making a thing like this.

Just read the other reviews, and no i didn't see it till the end - i think no one ever did.

Is the cutter still alive or did he hang himself during the cut?

But there's a lus side - the actresses are quiet pretty, other than that - well the only approbate words for this Movie would be banned by censorship on IMDb ...

If you cannot resists watch the trailer it should cure you

stay away from this movie - seriously it may fry your braincells
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1/10
Overrated as usual, they pretend to tryed but never did
28 September 2014
Its really concerning the mount of positive Reviews this Movie got, as it is for all Marvel so called Movies. Even frighning those Reviews stating that this Movie has a Story ... well....

it doesn't, not really.

The Story: They just pretended to five an James Bond/Conspircary like Story but it was far of, with nonsense logical hoops but all that was more like a sidekick. This Movie don't know what it wants to be so you get from everything a little and endup with a mix of something thats nothing.

The Action: is as usual nonsense but at least a bit less as we are used to from Marvel and there where fine funny details in it. But at the end overdoing like Marvel likes todo - well its a comic...

The Acting: Well, there was no real room for such. Specially Robert Redford had almost no lines and his scenes often didn't make any sense. At the end we have a high level cast but wasted their potential.

Bottom Line just another average Marvel crap flooding the cinemas these days, questionable WHY people and critics are so over the top. Only because it became so normal to have no story at all doenst make this script any better. Pretending to have a story doenst make one.
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Lost Time (2014)
1/10
WTF was that?
21 September 2014
To be honest i hate those abduction movies. But for some reason i gave that one a shot, well bad Mistake.

The Story: This Movie doesn't make any sense. Nothing make sense. Not the how, not the why. Not the characters, their behavior, the storyline. Its like a 12 Year old wanted to make an Abduction story and this is the result and no he is not talented. - And yes i could do better - i think most of the viewers could do better.

And just when i thought it cant get weirder, cant get worse, cant be more nonsense - well this film surprises and it gets worse, it gets weirder the end - well don't know how to put this - the worst possible turn around to make it a happy end.

The Acting: Well mostly rubbish and overdoing. Specially the main actress is annoying. Flat stereotype characters, you simply don't care what happens to them. They are overacting, they are constantly hysterical and annoying.

The technique: Well the movie has a dirty look, all actors look pale, Grey, not really dark but also not "bright". The effects are unnecessary but also way below you tube standard. But the real joke are the props, seriously, it just look like crap. And the Music, well no words,.. look at other reviews lol

Bottom Line: Its pure crap. For a thriller you must have at least a little sympathy for the characters, but you don't, you just hope the movie ends as fast as possible and if that means everyone shall die as fast as possible way then so be it.

To be honest i cant even express my real feeling about this Movie without hitting the language filter ob IMDb
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Falcon Rising (2014)
Michael Jai White the Magician
14 September 2014
Lets make it short, the hole Movie is dumb, and embarrassing for people Intelligence, but also embarrassing for Barzil.

Cmon do they really need the American to solve all their Problems in a Day. OK no one promised more than a just Action and the script could have been way worse.

On the Plus side, even knowing the Story, Script and almost everything usually don't make any sense they kept their action part on a good Level.

Good Choerography and nice Reallife Tactics and Movement, some parts rally look like at schooling Video of a Tactic School (hey i said SOME parts:)

of course don't think to much why the Police don't bat an eye when he grabs a gun of the Officers, is Involved in a Shooting with a few Deads and so on... No really almost nothing is in Movie makes any sense storywise...

Still you keep watching? Not only because of the good Action part which sadly Focus a little bit to much on Martial Arts, on in Gundfights to much on Pistols but its still nice. No the main reason is MJW. He alone makes this Movie bearable, without him it may one of the biggest trash sh*t ever, but not only his fighting Skills, he really need some Roles where he can act. He is Sympathetic with an unforeseen comedian talent.

He has something that keeps you in the chair, other than his skills, very likable and i really hope he get in some better movies.

..btw: i always read yea low budget movie, don't expect to much,. blabla... but why is it so hard to not to be so super stupid. Writing a better script cant cost much more. It will cost you the same your actors will just say different stuff and do different things, really no need to insult the audiences intelligence only because it likes sometimes some action
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8/10
Quaaaaack Fuuu
30 August 2014
When i saw the Movie back in OMG late 80s i was a Kid. I just remember that i saw somewhere and AD or Trailer and really wanted to see it. But it wasn't easy. Not like today i really had a HArdtime to get my Hands on it despite the Fact i had a Memberscard of 3 different Video Rentals in my Neighboorhood. Yea TV was awful and renting 5 Movies a Weeks was normal for me :))

I had no expectation's except talking duck and scifi - yea. I dint know it was form comics until today (not a comic fan, never was).

Today, after talking about this movie and nostalgic looking it up i was shocked about that Rating. Was it really that bad?

No it wasn't. I still remember every Detail from that Movie - well I've seen it several times. It was the time of Ghostbusters and past Starwars and it fitted well into that period.

It was funny, a lot of Gags and Fun, enough action to enjoy it but not to much as in today comic movie. The characters where really likable and the special effects where extraordinary for that time and even today some scenes are sill top.

my favorite action sequence where in the Diner - i mean really, wasn't that cool. But specially the Howard character where really sympathetic. however some people say it was creepy with its human eyes. well and it maybe its true not to family kids friendly but also not to R rated for adults.

personally i think its even today worth to view it again. specially it doesn't have that R Factor. maybe iam just tired of all that over violent and sexual movies nowadays and this movie gives a nice break.

Its light funny and then not so light and sometimes even a little deeper moments with a tiny often frightened but brave duck who gives a duck about his odds and never gives up.

Verdict: This move is even better today as a refreshing innocent movie specially for adults with a good not over the top humor.

Kids could also appreciate it but i guess many gags would just miss them, still would have plenty of fun.

The actors well, they are not bad, and hey its the 80s. A time where Hollywood often really had its natural charm of natural people, not the best acts but in my opinion more sympathetic than today
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The Prince (I) (2014)
Bruce need Money
24 August 2014
and hes doing anything to get it.

I have to 100% with hp-anzingers review but want to add a few critics poinits.

It started promising but it turned badly pretty quickly just to go down more and more.

Really this Movie actually gets constantly worse with every Minute as it didn't make less sense every Minute.

The Final Showdown is also the worst Moment.

Beside no Key Element of that Story did make any Sense or the stupidity around everything - Why, in Gods name cant they even get the Technical Aspects right.

Any 12 Year old watching Youtube for 2 Weeks can do better Gunfihgtscenes and i really thought basic gun safety is a standard in Movies. But how are we supposed to believe a role which is supposed to be ex military later prof. killer if he cant even keep his finger of the trigger. - This just as an example of countless Eyehurting things during those scenes.

The Hole Movie is like B Movie Acting, c Movie Story, b Movie Gunsfights and Schoolyard Fistfights.

But maybe i just got it wrong, this is a Zombie Movie where everyone already got their Brains eaten up :))
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Rage (2014)
1/10
What the Hell was that
21 August 2014
Warning: Spoilers
*** SPOILER ***

Alright Accidents happen, even those like in the Movie. Bad cover ups follow too - well not long ago absolute the same happened.

Only Difference in this Movie the Father is a ExMobster who is starting a full blown war.

What i don't understand. Did the Producer had an own crew only to invent logic hoops and story faulty? i mean really, i would take me one full page only to begin with. Like he did a thing nobody can find out ever, burn the car kill all witnesses then keep the gun 30 years - THEN FORGET ABOUT IT then remember after starting a nonsense war costing roughly 30-50 life's including his own and all his Buddy's?

This movie was weird in any way, noting made any sense? maybe even intended as kind of an art movie, you know that kind nobody knows what it was and everyone applauds only to cover that they are clueless and pretend to be very art"y" or whatever you wanna call it.

Serisously neither the story and specially not the acting made any sense. and Mr cage - seriously - was he always that bad?

this is a new deep. i know a lot of bad movies with people who just cannot act ever, but they try, - but this wtf

and Mr glover- why? why you're in there, what the hell ...

but hey Mr cage need money and he certainly is willing todo anything to get it. please give him more movies - no not because we want him on screen but now iam really frightened what would happen if hes not making any money by movies anymore and what he would do instead
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