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Ambulance (2022)
No shortage of action, but when it's just to be silly and trendy it's pointless.
Kind of thought that this would be a good movie.. and for the first half an hour maybe 45 minutes it was pretty good.
After that it's just totally unbelievable, silly trendy nonsense for kids really.. everyone's just trying to show how cool they are to everybody else who's doing the same by coming out with trendy one-liners, there's lots of driving action.. cameras swinging everywhere and a non-stopping drum beat throughout the whole thing..
You can tell somebody's worked hard on this in respects of the cinematography.. but it's just... silly.
It's also concerning as well because there's a police officer dying on the stretcher in the back of the ambulance.. to be fair him and everyone else in the back should have already been dead due to being thrown all over the place by the way the ambulance was being driven.. but a certain amount of artistic licence on that one.
But it troubles me that the film on one level is trying to be a serious movie and there are people with real serious life threatening injuries.. but then there's this kind of sick child like humour that permeates through that whilst people are receiving horrendous injuries.. in a serious movie... It's more important that the protagonists maintain an almost constant flow of catchy one-liners to sound.. 'cool'.
I just can't recommend this.. I didn't even watch it all the way to the end because it's over 2 hours and past halfway through I found myself asking myself. .. what am I actually getting from this? It's almost like when you get an inexperienced chef who's trying to be cocky and experiment with putting ingredients together that people usually don't for good reason.. Great cinematography, clearly not a low budget movie.. A few good actors.. but after an initial believable start, it just gets sillier and sillier.
Sorry.. doesn't get my vote.
Maksym Osa (2022)
Kind of really left wondering what the heck just happened..!??
The very strange movie with no werewolves... Just a guy in a suit you on the see a couple of times.
It seems to be some kind of gothic wizards and hobbits type production which is subtitled due to being in another language.
For what it is the performance of the actors is actually quite good but sometimes it's coupled with modern music and your left wondering what the heck is going on,,!??
So if you've got a couple of hours spare then... Watch something else!
It's just a bizarre movie, and at the end you're having to realise you're not going to get the time back..
I like werewolf movies and movies which are worth watching.. sadly this is neither.
48 Angels (2007)
Held out hoping for some redemptive ending
.... I'm afraid that as well and noble the intention.. I found the movie to be pretty much a waste of time.
It covers some very sensitive and emotive topics, And there's nice scenery.. But that's about it.
I would have stopped watching it much earlier had I known what I know now... I was hoping for some profound redemptive conclusion.. and was kind of just left wanting really...
As much as you might feel for the little boy and the story of him having cancer.. I think we've got to still be honest about when a film in terms of delivery, is good or bad.
The acting for a boy of his age was very good.. But as a film to watch and get anything from.. not really.
Harmony Falls (2022)
Amateur college level B movie
Had to buy this to view and off the rating so far was hoping for a really good werewolf flick.. HUGELY disappointed...
All credit to the producers and actors who have tried to put together a movie probably with a budget no more than what I used to buy my first car with.
In terms of a production for drama school.. not bad.
But in terms of an actual movie.. and especially one available to the public and also the you have to buy to watch.. probably one of the biggest letdowns I've ever had in my experience of film.
Details are hardly worth mentioning other than to give you an idea, using the same cheap sound effects throughout, after the first 5 minutes I realised what it was so just skip through to various parts.. really nothing worth seeing. Don't bother with this because you'll be disappointed if you do.. watch something else.