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Utvandrarna (2021)
Painfully poor production
This is my first ever single star review... normally I can find some sort of redeeming quality for just about any production, but finally I'm stumped. Perhaps one star for the theme of this film, which enticed me to waste almost 3 hours of my life.
I don't think I've ever sat through anything more tedious and irritating. In fact, I had to leave 20 minutes before the end as it was getting so much on my nerves. The producer and director demonstrated all the competence of a middle school drama class - they couldn't succeed better in creating a more inane and pretentious piece of garbage.
A good start would be attention to detail: there are no prairies en route NY to Minnesota, and no, you can't see the mountainscape of Montana from Minnesota either - even on a clear day. Another tip, native North American tribes don't learn Swedish at school - it's not intuitive that Swedish immigrants would insist at speaking Swedish with them when in distress.
Perhaps worst of all, these incessent out of focus close-ups on the main female character as she babbled lines of self-involved nonsense... that's not drama, that's an indicator of incompetent scene direction.
Fury (2014)
Fell apart
The first 3/4's of this film was fairly well done, with a couple of memorable daramatic scenes. I would venture as high as 8/10, with Brad Pitt's impeccable hair styling pulling it down a notch to 7 (I mean really, he must be able to forsake his on-screen vanity for the sake of a little realism).
At the 3/4 mark the film falls apart into some of the worst Hollywood drivel I've ever witnessed. Watching it was akin to pulling fingernails. 0/10 for this finale is too generous, and an overall review of 3/10 only reflects the value of the previous 75%.
From Hell (2001)
Avoid like Jack the Ripper
There's artistic licence, and there's make-believe. This production picked out a dozen facts and then passed it over to the fiction team to create their own Jack the Ripper parody. Unfortunately, this team seems never to have stepped foot in London and relied on their postcard knowledge of the city to include the likes of Big Ben and St Pauls Cathedral as background images for Whitechapel. So too have they taken endless liberties to misrepresent the historical facts concerning real people in order to establish some semblance of a plot.
Despite all these flaws and errors, the result is still a fictional failure. I was hard-pressed to keep myself awake and endure the childish script, weak direction and poor acting (Depp). I do love the era and nuances of East End, so for that reason alone I raise my rating to 3 stars out of 10.