nicroeg73

"Drifters" demonstrates perfectly why Italian cinema is awful nowadays. It is very sad to see that garbage like this is produced in a country which gave us Antonioni, Fellini, Rosi, Argento etc. The movie begins with three friends having lots of meaningless conversations then one of them disappears for half an hour, and the other - our main hero - is boring as hell. And that is the whole movie, this boring guy has boring conversations with his father, with his other friend and last but not least with Asia Argento who has the most interesting role but her figure is also underdeveloped like the script which should have been put right into the garbage after it was written. Finally we get two more pathetic scenes, one is a sex scene (unbelievably badly filmed, by the way), here the crew even manages to film Ms Giovanelli's butt the most boring way. The other is an even more pathetic journey in the city by car where the main boringguy, his father, his father's new wife and Ms Giovanelli (who looks like she has come from a Playboy photo shooting) sing awfully bad, guess what - an Eros Ramazzotti song.

One can rarely see such an awful script filmed - and filmed in such a boring way. Lots of dialogues try to hide the big nothing which was produced here. This is television soap with some amateurishly shot sex scenes, nothing more. Italian cinema, RIP.

Red Sparrow begins quite interesting (and trashy) especially when Charlotte Rampling gets to the screen with a usual strong performance as a Russian spy-camp directress. But after that it is all downhill: the story gets slow and boring, Jennifer Lawrence shows only one expression on her face throughout and her wooden-faced CIA friend isn't any better. Jeremy Irons is wasted, there are lots of plot holes and the scene with the professional killer is extremely silly: if you manage to smash him in the face so that he lies on the ground you DON'T turn away from him. You use your advantage and kill him instantly. What was she taught in that camp for situations like this? And yes, there are good stories about Lawrence how she got naked for a couple of scenes but don't believe the hype: she shows some breasts but the rest was obviously done by a body double. I suggest you watch her in MOTHER! There she is great and that is also a much much better movie than this. Or if you like spy stories watch a James Bond or a Harry Palmer movie.

Poor Ehren Kruger. It had to be very tough for him to see Jordan Peele getting a screenplay Oscar for a script HE wrote originally with the title "The Skeleton Key". But the Oscars have always been a joke (especially in the last 20-22 years) so the so-called "Academy" thought that Peele's Oscar is not only a screenplay Oscar but also an "Original" screenplay Oscar. They obviously had someting against Mr. Kruger. And it is also very sad that a very well written script gets (currently) 6.5 and this overhyped rip-off is 7.7 which is better than Ari Aster's two masterworks, "Midsommar" and "Hereditary" which were the absolute highlights of the horror genre recently. I watched these two and "The Skeleton Key" a couple of times now and still find lots of class in them. Meanwhile "Get Out" is an absolutely average slasher pushed by hype, hype and hype.