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Of course Nosferatu is one of Mr Eggers dream productions to become true but it does not become necessarily his best productions for other viewers. Nosferatu (2024) very closely follows Nosferatu (1922) in a way it could almost be considered a shot by shot facsimile. Even all the main characters look alike. But were Murnau adds a slight bit of humor Egger's take is dead serious. So dead serious it sucks all livelihood from Bram Stoker's story it's unpalatable. Jump scares are ok in the genre but much of the gore as well as the throaty treatment of Skarsgard dialog is unneeded. The rest of the cast is major but the skills of Dafoe are underused. And the bits on the locals of Transylvania are slightly racist or at least stereotypical but what can be expected from an American director. The one truly amazingly scary scene is the arrival of Orloks carriage Uber collecting Thom Hutter. The directors signature can be felt in the dream scene of the impaling of Orloks in his coffin.

This masterpiece shows where TV series shine and where features fail. A Carré story in the format of a 1.5hour or even 3 hour movie would just have to take so many shortcuts that it will inevitably hurt the story. This well paced production captures all the mystery and action of the original material and perhaps even surpasses it.

Nonetheless the Golden Globe awards including Tom Hiddleston (Best Actor), Hugh Laurie (Supporting Actor) and Olivia Colman (Supporting Actress) are all well deserved as is the formidable pitch perfect performance of Tom Hollander. How magnificent Hugh Laurie is in a less expected role, and Hiddleston as the very suave man he just is, or plays. Go watch this.

I see quite a lot of positive reviews here from younger audiences. It seems dune struck a cord in all born after 2000. Which I guess is a good thing. Calling it the best movie of all time is something else. It means you first have to watch all films of all time to make such a bold assessment. And secondly Villeneuves rendering needs to be something special. It is not.

There has been other and better movies displaying the same story line, scenes and composition. Sorry to disappoint you Gen-Zers or below.

Even Frank Herbert confest himself to be inspired by Lawrence of Arabia. Now this film is one you need to see (no sand worms there unfortunately)

The story-arch and intrigues are also not new. Even cliche. The high-rise hero falling for the lowly dame and ultimately dump her? Nothing new (but Dune 5 will show something different) Apart from the well orchestrated mass fight and one on one fight scenes we have seen way to often this movie has very little to offer. There really is no suprise only quite a lot of wasted talent on Rampling and Walker (those are boomers btw) There is no surprise, no novelty in this movie. It is a boring arrangement of boring repeats. Even Hans went back to a repetition of what we have heard (before Interstallar, that was truy awesome)

If you want to see a movie in the desert go watch Lawrence of Arabia. If you want to see a messias go watch Matrix. If you want to see a good sci fi movie go see, ehm. 2001?