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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
Watchable, but dissapointing.
Honestly, I expected more - especially once I learned that Guy Ritchie was involved - however, this film...it was just lacking in some way;
The intro was great, but from then on the film just seems unable to focus on a genre, on a feel, or on its plot and I'm not sure how exactly to describe it - perhaps some studio meddling?
For example - you get Freddie Fox, who played very convincing antagonist in "Slow Horses" to play Fleming, and he has, what - 2 lines in the entire movie? The unnamed radio-operator had more plot weight than Fleming's character, so why even bother including him - it all seemed rather pointless...
It's the same thing with Kambili - they spent 15 minutes of the movie on the matter of getting him and his men on their side only for him to do.. nothing? His men shot 5 mortar rounds, one got wounded and that was it; And the plot used his tug-boat...despite there being two other tug-boats... That whole plot-line just went nowhere, just so that Henry Cavill and Kambili can say goodbye to each other at the end. A meaningless goodbye, as neither character has any development whatsoever during the movie.
Also, Til Schweiger's character is also somehow supposed to be scary, because the movie... hints at him torturing people for a combined 20 seconds? And between that he is a complete doofus who gets easily manipulated and lied to? I'm sorry, but that just doesn't cut it.
There's a fine line between making a serious action-drama movie and an action-comedy, and it seems that Guy Ritchie was the man who knew how to tip-toe on that line perfectly, making for some spectacular pieces in the past.
But the "Ministry..." just ain't that. It just seems like a shame to gather such wonderful and famous actors and then make complete slop of their work.
Rebel Moon - Chapter One: Chalice of Blood (2023)
Somebody please tell Zack Snyder to stop making movies!
Please!
Please stop subjecting us to this nonsense! Think of the children! (:D)
First of all, Zack Snyder, really - you start your movie out with a verbal version of Star Wars rolling opening, then immediately switch to your main character having the time of her life... plowing the dirt?
Secondly, you get Djimon Hounsou and he has - what - all of two lines?
Thirdly - the main character is an experienced war fighter and all around grown woman, and she gets duped by gypsy-king Charlie Hunnam, after seeing that he's basically an ...obviously untrustworthy character? Of course, this betrayal manages to fall flat on it face, as there is a total of 25 seconds of relationship-building between these characters.
The CGI was bad, the characters undeveloped, and apparently nobody on the set of this 90 million dollar movie has never EVER heard of the phrase "show, don't tell" - and half the movie is narrated?
The only thing I liked was the costume design. Not the guns though. The guns were extremely stupid-looking and were obviously a 40K rip-off.
DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE, those are to hours of your life, that you will never get back!
The Creator (2023)
A visually pleasing disappointment.
10/10 about the art, architecture and overall aesthetic style. I personally loved the long-barreled Kalashnikovs, which were ridiculous, but still awesome.
Other than that, this movie is threading dangerously close to being a complete snooze-fest - it's simply boring - it does not manage to create any sort of tension at any point, and the development of a relationship between the main characters, just... simply rings hollow.
The inner world of the Protagonist (hehe) is just... somewhat absent, or lacks consistency - based on the flashbacks, which could have been a nice Act 1, he has much reason to hate the bad guys for whom he is working undercover, and to have switched sides much earlier - it is entirely nonsensical that he has engaged in the undercover mission to get close to Maya only to get to her father, yet falls in love with her - yet she forgives him just like that for this betrayal?
Not much of a development of the "bad guys" either - it's just "uSa bAd" and that's it.
It feels like three hours of footage have been cut from this flic, and the remaining two have suffered greatly. Soundtrack also seems to fall short, complementing the cinematography in the complete failure to create any kind of atmosphere.
The more I think about it, the more I see how this is a well-made CGI package for extremely lousy writing, yet this film could have easily been an utter masterpiece of philosophical drama.