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Free Zone (2005)
Being called mediocre would be a compliment
I only wanted to see this because Natalie Portman was in it, but it wasn't worth it. This is a low-budget film that pretends to be high concept, to make up for the banal dialogue and empty story.
This isn't an "art film", it's a bad film. Having long drawn out sequences with seemingly no purpose or end, may be a hallmark of "art films" but this doesn't have anything of interest that follows it. This is the Israeli version of Lost in Translation.
I don't like going around bashing films but there aren't a lot of reviews for this film and I wouldn't want anyone going in and blowing money on it, expecting a well written small independent film. They hired a cameraman but forgot to hire a writer.
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
It's over at last
There's no sadness, just relief, the cash cow is nearly dead. Don't let apologists give this movie a pass, it's rotten right down to the core. It's an over-marketed fast-food restaurant, even giving out cheap plastic toys.
What's to be said... the uninspired acting, the childish script and plot, the cartoon and underused villains, the flat directing, the video game design, and everything else that ruined a perfectly fine blank screen. This whole series was about Anakin's turn and it couldn't have been more poorly played than in these 3 films. He based his turn on the worst aspect of the entire trilogy, his relationship with Padme. Did he learn from anything from Ep 2? There's nothing there and this new dialogue seems like its made just out of spite. These movies play out as some strange loner fantasy. It's an indictment on love more than anything else. Lucas' wife must have really burned him when she left.
Who would have thought old Georgie boy could have yet again topped himself in ridiculousness though. Padme doesn't just get killed, no, she just decides to die... and that's it. What more does he have to do to you people, walk down the isle and take a dump on your lap? I've never seen a filmmaker with such complete distain of good storytelling or even basic logic.
The series, like Padme, just gave up. Bravo George, writing yourself into your picture again?