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Skjult (2009)
Not at all what y'all could expect
Another horror/suspense Norwegian movie. Pretty much the opening sequence shows you events that make you think you have this movie all figured out, and believe me, you will be wrong. Skjult starts slowly and patiently evolving onto a dark, minimalist, very climatic film, which takes you in a descending ride to the characters' pasts and nightmares. And it all gets darker and wronger with every minute, and it's all bad, the story, the main character, his mother, his past and his present. Thumbs up to a very nice entertaining surprise. Finally when it has to resolve, (where many horror movies tend to slip), it resolves being consequent and sustaining the same atmosphere that has been developed throughout the entire film to wrap up a strong offer from northern Europe.
To Save a Life (2009)
Unbelievably poor
This is kind of a typical high school story, and specifically a story about bullying. Acting is probably among the poorest performances I've seen all around. The story isn't exactly focused on the bullying issue, eventually starts jumping around topics, all important topics, don't get me wrong, but way too many, until you reach the point where all that is missing is some kind of terminal illness to be complete and have all the tragedies a sixteen year old could ever suffer; and of course, the movie falls short on truly developing all the topics and questions it raises, and eventually find some sort of closure. It is filled with clichés and common places and everyone is a stereotype. It has a lot of references towards God and Christianity, which is OK for those who believe or find it helpful; but for the rest of us, it makes it really hard to relate to the idea that all your problems could be prayed away and all solutions could be found in God. As for the technicals, cinematography is poor, editing is really poor, "drama" sequences are predictable, soundtrack is obvious teenage soundtrack... In the end the proper definition for me would be that it's not really a BAD movie, the correct term is poor... everything is poor and shows little- to-none respect for the viewer's intelligence.
Zoolander (2001)
The worst movie ever made
I can not believe somebody would make a movie like this one. To begin with, Stiller is probably the worst comediant that has ever lived, he truly, truly sucks big time, though, not all of his movies are horrible. I'm saying this to be clear about the fact that this is not a bad review because I have a personal problem with Stiller, aside from that, this particular movie lacks creativity, lacks humor, has absolutely no script what so ever, the acting is unbelievably bad and has one of the worst secuences in cinema history, which is the so called "modeling duel". I'm simply shocked and amazed about how little something can offer and still become a hit.
Fritt vilt (2006)
Norwegian movie?
I can't help but disagree with the first comment, actually I disagree so much that I decided to write a comment myself. This is NOT a horrible movie, but on the other hand, is not a wonderful movie neither. The location helps a lot, although the acting is at the very least questionable, and the story is quite poor actually, which to me is the biggest problem Fritt Vilt has. The who, how and whys of this movie are not only not explained, but rather out of nowhere, if you know what I mean. Resolutions are not so credible, we should not forget that the characters are in the middle of a mountain, which makes it very unlikely for them not to see something that's coming at them from a couple of miles. I'm explaining this because the movie has a couple of resolutions in open air, where you should be able to see far and wide, and suddenly, out of nowhere, we have someone next to them. Finally, I think that in a horror movie, the first and most important objective should be to scare the audience, therefore, you can not reveal what is hunting this five boys and girls when you have only 30 minutes of movie, because the surprise, the mystery and the shock are gone. Barely a mediocre offer, that's what I can say.