felixfrey Reviews

The Man in the Wall (2015)

Movie for dialogue-loving people

[9/10 · 1 June 2016]

Great movie. Very dialogue-based, the whole story develops through words. This fact doesn't make the movie boring or slow but adds to its intensity, since the viewer is always forced to focus on the people in the movie. There is no escape from the human interaction here, the viewer is being left alone with the humans in the movie and their utterances, putting piece by piece together just like the protagonist herself.

Almost all talks are dialogues, it's rare that there are more than two people in the room. This adds to the intensity of the interactions displayed. Well scripted!

It's great to watch the movie in Hebrew with subtitles to feel the Israeli vibe more.

The Blacklist (2013–2023)

disappointing

[4/10 · 1 June 2016]

I won't sum up the plot here, since that was done in the tons of other reviews already.

I've run out of TV shows to watch, so I tried Blacklist and was heavily disappointed. The plot is flat and full of stereotypes: heartless murderers from Serbia, cute American girl abducted by heartless murderers from Serbia, beautiful and always cool detective with a tough childhood outsmarting a whole team of investigators and saving the cute girl, a criminal master mind pulling the strings, the USA in constant danger of evil terrorists. All these points are fine as isolated elements of a more sophisticated plot, but this show just digs out all canonized standard elements to celebrate their reunion. Since it adds an abundance of mediocre acting to this foreseeable structure, it was clear for me that I will not waste my time on this show.