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Utterly crude fifth...which I'm ashamed to say had me laughing several times
On the back of how impressed I was with Sicario I caught Prisoners recently, a more than solid thriller with some good performance and great Deakins cinematography but it you want to see Villeneuve on Sicario like form look no further than Incendies his Oscar nominated 2011 film.
Simply stunning, incredible performances and utterly brutal, the ending is a shocker that you don't see coming, I would say as good as Sicario, although that is undoubtedy my film of 2015 just a pity I never saw it at the cinema.
I'd say Villeneuve for Bond but I think I'd rather see him do something else instead, a bit like Fincher, one of my favourite directors but I'd see either of them doing Bond as a bit of a waste not that I wouldn't be excited at the prospect of either taking the job at some point.
That bridge sequence I agree is so tense and unbearable, Del Toro hasn't been this good in sometime, definitely up there with his oscar winning Traffic Performance and his Tour de force his other Sodebergh team up, the Che Part 1 & 2.
Much rather see Villeneuve return to Del Toro's Alejandro and do that touted prequel. I wasn't that bothered about Bladerunner 2 but on the back of Denis and Deakins back together I'm more than interested now.
He's definitley shot up to near the top for me when it comes antipation of future projects on the back of Incendies & Sicario.
I am planning on seeing it this week.
What a disapppointment this ended up being. It started out quite well, and I was excited. By the end of it all I was just waiting to get out of the theatre. Worst experience in a while.
Basically this is perhaps best described as a poorly conceived cross between Heat and Training Day. It boasts a superb cast of actors, including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson, Aaron Paul, Kate Winslet, Gal Gadot & Teresa Palmer. There are also some interesting gun fights and car chases, but one can tell that something went horribly wrong during the script or production process.
How one can waste oscar nominees/winners like Ejiofor & Winslet on something like this I can't understand.
Not recommended. Wait for the blu/dvd rental.
Similar to Misery, a thriller where a man wakes up after an accident, but can't remember
anything and begins to worry about the woman who claims to be his wife.
fifth? filth? But was it any good - or have we seen all the 'good' bits in the trailer?
Pure, no-nonsense badassery. The final fight in 'Man From Nowhere' and the nightclub shootout in 'John Wick' are 2 of my favorite action scenes of the last 10 years.
Basically " Die Hard" in the Whitehouse. Silly but great fun, watched it once before
When it was released.
However, it just is so much less than it could have been, and that it promises to be at the start. It ends up anticlimactic and doesn't really develop into anything consequential, which is a product of a poorly fleshed out script. I think the cast is wasted too as their characters aren't well developed.
Ultimately, it feels like a poor man's Heat wannabee.
Having said that, it's not a terrible way to spend 2 hrs. I just think my expectations may have been too high given the cast/concept.
Based on a real story of the beginning of Gangster rap, or crap as i think of it. 1/10
You will be surprised, often deleted scenes just extend a film. In this case it changes the film more than one would expect. No worries mate enjoy when you get it.
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The director's cut of James Cameron's The Abyss is another that is far superior to the theatrical release.
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The director's cut of James Cameron's The Abyss is another that is far superior to the theatrical release.
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Agree, I watched that film in the cinema. Been some years since I watched the directors cut, another film I need to revisit.
For those who don't know, this is the sequel to the 2013 box office smash Olympus Has Fallen. It reteams most of the good guys who survived the previous film, including hero Gerard Butler as tough guy secret service agent Mike Banning, Aaron Eckhart as the US President & Morgan Freeman as the VP.
In short, this is essentially a retread of the first film, but this time all over the City of London as opposed to only the White House, as in the first film. Think Die Hard 3 in relation to Die Hard 2 or 1.
Unfortunately, it has none of the inventiveness and creativity of that third Die Hard film to support it, and yet suffers from the same problem of that film, namely the attack scope is too broad imho.
I find these kind of hostage style films work best in one location, preferably claustrophobic.
Using the City of London provides for some interesting location shooting, but defuses some of the tension.
Overall it's not bad, but nowhere up to the standards of the first one. The bad guys are not even half as menacing as Rick Yune (of DAD Zao Fame) in Olympus Has Fallen and some of the special effects are truly awful. The action sequences also lack tension here, in contrast to the first film, which was quite suspenseful, especially during the initial surprise aerial attack on the White House.
Some of the dialogue (never a strong suit with these sort of films) is truly awful.
Having said that, it's not a bad way to waste an evening. Not recommended, but not 'un' recommended either, if that makes sense. Leave your brain at home.
An engaging thriller from Mr. Hitchcock. Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman star. Grant, the handler to Bergman's agent de provocateur[/i,] infiltrate a German spy ring in Rio, just after the war.
Superb. You wouldn't think someone running out of champagne at a party, would be this suspenseful.
And it is one of the major inspirations for the character of James Bond and the Casino Royale novel, according to the Fleming Estate. When I think about it, I do believe the Cary Grant suggestion to play Bond was a serious one.
So the Academy was right to award it Best Picture?