deangelised Reviews

T-34 (2018)

Unexpectedly good action movie

[10/10 · 22 February 2019]

This is an 80's type action movie with modern special effects. Generally, I am sceptical about Russian movies, they are mostly art house types. This one is an exception though. Everyone who loves a good action with heroes who has no superpowers but are supercool would enjoy it. I loved it. Nowadays it is rare for me to say that, but I really loved it. Please watch it in a theater or on a great screen: cinematics are awesome.

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Boring for adults, fun for teenagers

[1/10 · 3 January 2014]

About 75% of the movie consist of sexual content and consumption of forbidden substances. When I went to see it, I hoped to see another "Aviator" or "Catch me, if you can". Unfortunately, this movie is not even close to any of mentioned masterpieces. The main character is an ordinary control freak, who is constantly anxious and tortured by the fear of losing control and tries to remedy that by sex, drugs and booze. Teenagers will be happy to watch something "Hangoverish" here, but for a responsible adult the main character would look despicable and offensive. If you are a teenager, you should see this movie for sure: you will catch a lols and fun. If you are a grownup man with a sense of responsibility, this may be plainly boring for you. And God forbid you from taking your wife to watch it together.

Lady Kung Fu (1972)

Authentic martial arts

[10/10 · 21 June 2013]

This movie is a pearl which I hungered for a long time. While the plot is quite simple, for a modern day viewer it may contain some really unexpected twists. But we watch martial arts movies not for the brilliant plot, do we? I myself learned hapkido in Korea for a year and this movie brought to me a sweet nostalgia. Although, sometime I was not very happy with the choices of the heroes in their styles, and some greatly effective counter- attacks was never used, but in this movie you can see a variety of skills taught up to the third dan of the black belt. This movie gets 10 points from me, because these are really authentic hapkido. However, there is some important for me mistake in it. It is said in this movie that hapkido is an ancient Chinese martial art. It is entirely not true. Hapkido is a very recent (beginning on the XXth century) Korean martial art.