omsdiver's reviews

Many Polish actions movies are really good. I decided ti give it a try,,, and that was a mistake. With all due respect there is nothing interesting in this movie. The idea of the plot seem interesting at the beginning but the further the action progress the worst it became. The worst is lack of any logic in the developments as well as totally random events that very often has nothing to do with what comes next (or at best very little). The entire movie looks like a collage of separately shot scenes that were somehowe glued together in postproduction. Also the actors are medicover at best. Sometimes you have the impression that they were forced to play or that hey were not paid enough. In general the movie is terrible so it should be avoided.

Well, there is not much to say about this crap. Not the worst of the worst but definitely not worth to waste and hour with a change. I did not have high expectations but what I have seen thrilled me to the bones. Obviously Cage is in big need for money...

No real story, bad acting, even worse effects, cliché dialogs - perfect recipe for Z-class movie. Cage has never been one of THE actors but I can't imagine anything worse than this. To be honest it is difficult to criticize anything as everything is below the lowest level of acceptance. You can't complain about about something that is no existent and Drive Angry has nothing worth of mention...sorry, there is one thing - nice muscle cars. Unfortunately I am not a funboy of American cars so...we shall remain silent on that coffin.

I did not have hopes to see something really good and entertaining but at lest I expected to spend two hours in relaxed atmosphere. Unfortunately it did not happen. There is really nothing I can say about this movie because first of all I do not have a clue what was it about. Sexual problems? Y2K threat? I do not know. You could watch that movie in scene random order and it would not make a difference. You could switch actors - no difference. You could watch it without sound - also no difference. It is like tasteless chewing gum at 10th hour of chewing. I can't say it is the worst movie I have ever seen because I watch it from the beginning to the end. Why? Well I do not know but sometimes when you chew a gum long enough you continues to do it just because you used to and switch of the brain. Control Alt Delete is like that it makes your brain to switch off because of its (movie) lack of any taste any sense and any value.

It is quite difficult to write a review or opinion about this particular movie. It was not entertaining and it was not "deep" in terms of emotional layers, hidden messages and alike. Apart of few pretty landscapes there is nothing memorable abut Valhalla Rising.

I have however strong feeling that director wanted to give us something more than just bloodshed - which by the way is rather miserable - but at the end of the day he twisted himself into willing to tell something but do it indirectly. The result is movie that has no action and no plot or rather plot that is too entangled to be spotted.

The only bright star is Mads. But even he can't win the game alone. I gave 3 stars only because I feel somewhere in the back that...or maybe I am too looking for something that has never existed. The only undoubted fact is that I have been watching this movie be pressing very often "forward" key.

A lot of words has been written so far in relation to Avatar so it makes no sense to write the same again. I fully agree with people who claims that this particular movie lacks innovative plot, subtle script an so on. But who cares?! The sole purpose of this movie was to introduce REALLY stunning visual effects and the purpose has been achieved in 200%. Leaving the cinema I felt like 30 years before when I saw Star Wars for the first time. And I don't care if others claim Avatar is shallow in terms of intrigue.

I made however quite interesting observation. I have scanned through opinions of people who rated Avatar 0 of 10. More then 30% of "worst" opinions has been written by people who did it for the first time. Another 30-40% has been written by those who previously have written maybe 3 or 4 opinions. It was also quite interesting to see what kind of movies they referred to. I have found maybe 2 or 3 persons whose attitude was quite "stable". They had also write quite negative opinions for other SciFi movies - well I can understand that. They do not like this kind of art. I have found however one person who knocked me down. He has given Avatar a 0 score and at the same time rated Transformers at 7 or 8. With all due respect Transformers are in every aspect inferior to Avatar. Special effects - fine but Avatar is a class for itself. Screenplay - give me a break. Transfomers are so childish, infantile I couldn't bear some parts of it. And finally actors. Avatar is not outstanding if acting is concerned but at least there are no superheroes like MacGyver able to defeat a huge army of adversaries with a lighter or swiss knife.

I have not seen such o good...perfect movie for a long, long time. On a very rare occasions one can see a masterpiece worth to spend two hours just to see its end. A final shot, last 5 minutes, last scene. This is such a movie. Simple in its visuals, not overloaded with effects, lacking great words and fine speeches. So what is left? The climax of the end. For this I would sacrify another two hours and maybe entire night. It is like watching last few seconds of NBA final with Jordan.

As someone said Eastwood presents a mature art of directing a movie and playing main character. I would say it is even more. He has reached Mt. Everest and still climbing higher.

I would probably never seen this movie but kids have its rights. I have read some opinions before and hoped it will not be a waste of time. Unfortunately it was. It is one of very few movies I would like to forget. The story itself is quite boring and monotonous. Dialogues without a twist. Visual...well, snow, snow, snow and once again snow. For almost 80% of the movie nobody knows what is going on and where it should go. The conclusion is super artificial and being honest ruins completely the movie. The only positive thing about Happy Feet is that my kid did like it, not very much but ... In comparison to Shrek, Ice Age it is a complete disaster.

The movie is absolutely great!!! It contains some weaknesses like quite cheap special effects (attacks of German fighters, explosions,...) but these are not things that made this movie important and great. Some will say it is catholic propaganda but what else can say people that has nothing interesting to say. There are a lot of good and very good movies showing brave people who fought against evil with guns, words or irreconcilable attitude. This one is first I have ever seen where a man is fighting back by humble acceptance of everything what life had given to him. You need to be a Pole to understand life under communist governance and the importance of church and people like Wojtyla.

Some can say this is action movie so the historical background can be treated with certain degree of freedom - and it's true. But for Troy almost every aspect of history (or myth) was neglected. It's screenplay stands in opposition even to logic. But let's start from the beginning.

I can understand that the director could not afford to show 10 years siege but there are ways to shorten the historical time. 16 days (or maybe 17, i did not count) instead of 10 years is for me going to far.

I also cannot understand how the Greeks wanted to breach the walls of Troy without any single catapult or ballast - swords, javelins and arrows are a little bit ineffective against walls. Well, maybe they were counting that the siege will take long enough to discover powder or even guns.

There are also some quite, I would say, even stupid moments. The first one takes place when Hector is leading counterattack after first battle day. Greeks are surprised, Achilles is drinking and probably doing some nasty things but suddenly he appeared and led the attack. After a short fight Hector is killing mighty Achilles, when appeared not to be Achilles himself. I wonder how it is possible that 50 - 70 thousands men (both armies) stopped the battle within few seconds after fake Achilles died. But even more funny is to see that Hector, knowing that Greeks could be crushed, is saying to Odysseus "Come on guy, let's stop this fight and go for a drink or two."

Finally when Achilles killed Hector, being alone at the gates of Troy, no single soldier tried to stop the man who is going to desecrate the body of great Hector, no single arrow was shut, nothing happened.

To summarize the Troy was one of my biggest disappointment this year.

To bo honest I did not manage to go through entire movie but first half an hour was such a struggle. I can't find anything good about that movie to say. If it is gonna be a computer game I would noy play that. If it is gonna be a movie it is too artificial. Poor shooting, poor sound and deplorable, artificial and schematic dialogs. No less no more - waste of time and general stagnation.

Before I rent this movie I have read a number of comments. I knew it was not the "best of the best of the best" of Carpenter's movies. What I saw however was what I did not expected even in my worst dreams. Almost everything about "Ghosts of Mars" is wrong. The music - well I do not like it but if you turn the volume low you can survive. The idea - what the hell is this all about. When the crew unsealed the door the ghosts were fast like a hell. When they are fighting them they are slower than a turtle. I do believe that the fire needs oxygen to burn. If the atmosphere of Mars is low in oxygen so how the hell there is more fire than in Rambo II. And finally the actors and actresses. Every single persons seems to more tough than Arnie itself. The dialogs are so artificial that after 20 minutes of watching this crap I tempted to switch it off. Definitely it is _not_ John Carpenter. Maybe he was ill, had long hangover or the movie was made by his half-brain brother (if he has one). For me it was very traumatic experience.