kaintrust Reviews

Damsel (2024)

someone got jealous and wanted to be Daenerys Targaryen

[23 April 2024]

This movie only for 13 yrs girls but in a bad way. MBB literally wanted to be Daenerys Targaryen. Probably she got jealous of Emilia Clarke. Otherwise the ending wouldnt be the exact ending of GoT.

A dragon burns the city to the ground. Very original. I applaud the bravery of Netflix for openly admitting their envy of HBO Max.

Director is a tool that can not guide the actors. Just a tool.

Acting is mainly around the CGI hero dragon. For the love of god people literally get together and said hey lets spend Netflix money to do a childs theater play on a big budget.

1 act is terrible boredom fest. Second act is below average and third act is GoT in a bad way.

Even the end song is Johnny Cash's rip off.

Attack on Titan (2013–2023)

They are just people

[18 February 2024]

Attack On Titan is an anime that successfully brings everything to an epic level. In this cruel world there is nothing what it seems. There is no evil person or there is no good person. As Reiner said, they are just people. Not just in Eldia but all around the globe. Every character has their rights as well as their wrongs. Like in the real world, they live in a world that has a cycle of hatred, discrimination, separation and all.

Hajime Isayama created this cruel but beautiful world. But he add something else in the anime series. He choose to do what no one else choose before. He made a bold, courageous decision in the finale. I applaud him for this mind blowing masterpiece finale.

The epic soundtrack of this masterpiece takes your soul and shakes in different pieces. You want to cry and battle-cry in the same instance. It gives you hope and tragedy in the same instance. You feel pain and sorrow in your diaphragm and ecstasy in your heart. Each song is more brilliant than the other. I literally can not pick a favorite song amongst them because all of them are my favorite.

Hajime, Sawano. Doumo arigatou gozaimasu.

Peter Pan & Wendy (2023)

horrible at best

[28 April 2023]

This movie has nothing to do with Peter Pan. Nothing to do with Lost Boys, nothing to do with art. The child actors are child but it is still obvious that they havent been chosen by their talents, they are at the beginning of their career, i hope they will improve more.

Writing and story was horrible and dialogues were too dumb even for my 8 yrs old and 11 yrs old. Both stopped watching the movie even before the first half. I asked why they stopped, they said it is the same stereotypes that they see every day at their school. And they got fed up with these things to shove their throat. This is coming from their target audience of 8-11 yrs old,

i hope disney is not making money with movies anymore and they basically become a toy seller company. Soon all will be lost. Walt Disney created a great company that butchered to bits by the new generation.

Dont pay stream to watch it and simlpe stayt away from this bore-fest.

Scream VI (2023)

Why the high rates?

[26 April 2023]

This movies getting ancient, pre historic. Predictability is like a light house at dark.

Same old same old thing. The GF killer is completely unstoppable terminator and butchering side characters left and right until the final act and whenever fights against main characters, they are like fragile little girls.

Also it started to insult audience intelligence. So every one shocked main female character pushed another girl at the street, but every one is ok that she teased a male at the nuts for no reason. That was insulting even for a female like me. Stop this toxic females privileges. It gives us really bad images and backlashes will be hard to measure one day.

Another one is instead of calling cops, it is ok to drive half to city to save your friend.

The examples are keep going.

So called twist won't be really a twist, just a minor adjustment.

The actors are really bad enough for you to root for the killers to kill these annoying university students.

So writing bad, actors bad. Movie is bad. I cant understand why it has high rates but hey thats the crazy times we live in.

65 (2023)

i just dont know

[8 April 2023]

Although the trailers looked like J Park on a sci-fi, the writers of this movie made me watch it.

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the writers of A Quiet Place but also for me they are the writers of Haunt too, i liked both these movies and especially Haunt. Both of these movies had great atmosphere.

So my expectations were the same, not so original story but by adding their vision it will be a complete new nuance. Unfortunately it failed, know if the movie would have more action or more thriller or something else it would be good but it was always missing something.

Overall the general idea was a more advanced another humanoid civilization came to earth right before the asteroid reset the whole life. Some how we look like them and speak english.

I guess there was no surprise element as well as being too simple. There were 2 characters and i still felt like the young actress was forced to be there. Maybe they could go a little bit like Riddick with more action or maybe like Jurassic Park or maybe King Kong (2005). I just dont know.

In the end it was a good opportunity with advanced weapons against a planet of dinosaurs but it was a complete miss. Was it the acting, was it the directing i dont know.

After i watched this movie this was the only answer i get to myself.

The Legend of Vox Machina (2022– )

way way more better than League of Legends

[23 March 2023]

Yes i said it. This is exactly what a great adaptation looks like. Season 1 didnt grow on me that much season 2 especially towards the end of the season it became one of the best adaptations.

It was a great idea to finish some episodes with a boss fight and gaining.items after defeating the boss. Literally i dont know if i watch an action or just playing myself.

This show shows once more that people who has passion can make greater jobs than the people who are just popular get super hero roles.

I was not so much of a fan but now i became one.

The series pretty faithful to the origin and the story telling is excellent and goes to fantastic directions one after another.

Action is incomparable. Cgi 2d everything is great. Unlike some cringy super hero movie jokes, this one actually makes me laugh. Most of them are either unpredictable jokes or done with a great style, so i laughed most of them.

Keep up the great writing, directing and voice over. I wanna see the upcoming episodes. 10/10.

Creed III (2023)

worse than Rocky V

[6 March 2023]

Up to this day Rocky V was considered teh worse movies in the Rocky-verse. Actually i also enjoyed Rocky V. It didnt finish in a ring but the characterization of Don King and a real life Pro-champ boxer Tommy Morrison gave a nice nuance.

Anyway now it is Creed 3. I like the first one a lot, Creed 2 was one of the best movies in Rocky-verse for me. But this one is the worse Rocky-verse movie. In fact there is no single Rocky movie soul in it. And you miss Rocky heavily in each scene. And it is not because of the nostalgia but because of the utter-mess. I mean why they kicked Sly out of a very brilliant on-going business i dont know.

I feel like too much corporation greed destroyed creed and Rocky soul.

Direction and writing was so blunt, no emotion of characterization. It is one of the you-already-saw it movies.

Acting Michael B Jordan sometimes hits and sometimes miss. I liked his performance at Black Panther 2 but here he was just without any specific direction.

Drama is exactly the copy cat of Creed I and II. Nothing new. I dont even know why they made this movie. After the hype will be over people will see the true product and give different credits.

Project Wolf Hunting (2022)

take some notes and grow some b**** Marvel

[25 February 2023]

That movie was great. It has every kind of action. Gore, blood, hand to hand fights, blood, people has nowhere to run, blood, few good guys fighting against a lot of bad guys and a monster, oh did i mention blood. But imagine by gazillion times. Officially 2.5 ton.

I didnt had so much idea before watching this movie and i checked the trailer up to some level and i decided i might like it and better not to look more, half way through i was thinking the movie had explained and showed everything and i was curious what else can i watch more. Well plot twist it just got any better, thats a super hero type of movie i like to watch.

But hey if you are one of these PG-Marvel super hero movie fans, and gives 10 stars for them better dont watch it. It is not for children.

Sick (2022)

nothing to add new or original

[25 February 2023]

Sick is written by late 90s early 2000s legendary slasher writer Kevin Williamson and directed by John Hyams.

I know both of their previous work and i was so impressed to have them together under Blumhouse.

Movie started like Scream movies which was normal for Kevin's movies i guess. Kind of his signature and i was tempted to see more.

But it started to make no sense towards the mid. And a potential great home invasion movie ended up being a cliche Covid era slasher.

I knew from the beginning the direction will go there but i was hoping for some other surprise, well the surprise is there is no surprise.

Direction was good for this manner until the very middle but the second you understood whats gonna happen and it is Kevin Williamson movie, you will get everything . Almost a scream copy cat.

About the acting, well they were the most unlikeable characters and made dumb choices. If there wouldnt be any plot armor, they would be dead less than a minute. But god helps you with a plot armor so you can fight against god himself. I wanted every character to be dead in the end. Attackers, victims, girls, boys no matter who was it because i was so bored and i was wishing finish it up already.

I will try to remember this movie until the mid part as a home invasion movie. Like The Strangers: Prey at Night or You're Next. Otherwise it is less than likely movie.

Infinity Pool (2023)

why there are too many high rates

[17 February 2023]

The movie started interesting and kind of original. It created curiosity and had a good pace. Then through the mid part maybe the writers changed with others or they got bored or maybe movie executives made unnecessary pressure. I dont know. And it went down-hill b-type movie. Actors also couldnt catch up with this fall and their interesting characters became annoying and childish. And we finalized this messed up thing with a lazy writing, unexplained ending because even the writers couldnt come up with a idea to conclude things.

This was the story part

characters (acting) were going interesting until the mid part. Alexander still tried his best to save the show but still can not succeed. Mia Goth is horrible towards the mid and she was just ok at the beginning.

I guess the movie atmosphere catch up with some audience because it might made sense if you are high.

The Munsters (2022)

i have a question

[18 October 2022]

I know a lot of actors, musicians and directors ans so on have some demands for their art in order to be done. It is not just money, it is also makes them feel comfortable and ready to go. I respect that i also respect some directors wanna work with some actors like Tarantino with DiCaprio or Scorsese with De Niro. Because they all are proved their success and collaboration.

So my question, is there any contractual obligation to cast Sheri Moon in order to make Rob Zombie a director? Or wifey got huge strings on him. Why do we need to see her every movie?

Beside from her acting skills, he forces her to act as a main lead literally destroys movies. I got it it worked on devils rejects and the sequels but the rest are horrible.

Please go back to music Rob. And give us hard edgy great albums like hellbilly deluxe.

Hellraiser (2022)

nice reboot

[9 October 2022]

We all afraid when we see rebooted movies gets reboot after being rebooted again. Hellraiser is not a bad one, it might be one of the loyal one to the novels.

The story starts as a reboot so we have to wait until the characters will find out what they are up against with so this part might feel long for the fans who watched and read movies, novels and comics. But still it delivers nice thrill because of the delivery of the atmosphere.

This most important for me was that atmosphere because i knew what im going to watch but movie really delivers almost the first Hellraiser atmosphere, CGI and practical effects used very well to support that part.

The twist is kind of predictable but still the writers and director add some elements there so it still provide us some terror of Cenobites.

Acting was good, not over the top but still actors delivers. I guess everyone was waiting for Jamie Clayton performance. Well she was really thrilling. She was not Pinhead but she was The Priest. For me this part was more important and for my expectation and taste she did exactly what she had to do. She studied the character and made her own instead of trying to copying Pinhead.

I liked the movie overall, seems everyone did what they suppose to do and study the characters unlike any marvel hero actors who never reads a single page of source.

Im in for the squeal if they can deliver the same quality. This one was predictable for fans a bit but was great reboot. Now with a complete start over and good delivery im looking for the whole new series of Hellraiser.

One think i was not sure even after watching 2 3 times the gore amount. Was it enough or should it be slightly more i really can not decide. Make your own.

Speak No Evil (2022)

tried to give a message but still

[24 September 2022]

I got the idea. Its about how modern toxic feminism and sjw culture made men as passive as a kitten in some countries. Still didnt mean to be illogical.

So you see the pictures of this family is doing and you dont take some of them and go to nearby house (there were a lot around) and call police. Or just go to police Probably the crime duo is not even from that neighborhood and nobody realized?

You are getting stoned to death and even if you are pacifist cant you simply run away?

And what do they do with children? Sell? Kill and replace ?

Boring in the beginning and senseless in the end.

I feel sorry for the popcorn that i ate for this movie. Could eat for a better movie.

Goodnight Mommy (2022)

lets not judge unfair, shall we

[18 September 2022]

We all saw the original and we all knew the twist from the beginning because it is a remake and i also prefer original than the remakes but this was not as bad as people says.

MAJOR SPOILERS OF ORIGINAL AND REMAKE!!!!

The original showed extremely subtle way within the 30 seconds of the movie that Lukas drowned but the remake never mentioned what actually happened. So if we wouldn't watch the original, we wouldn't see that part.

So on the remake since we knew Lukas was not real, it was easy to catch to see that mother only looks at Elias and speaks only to him. Even the dumb trailer snapshot of IMDB shows this. She leans over Elias and shows the book to him while Lukas is slightly further.

Now there are also symbols that after the 2/3 part of the movie Lukas never changes his shirt even though it was so wet. So seems like Elias imagination of Lukas getting shallower. But in the end, right after the burning barn, Lukas has new clothes. So Elias memory of him alive got stronger again.

Also in both version mother was an washed up celebrity beauty. With today's standards we can imagine what type of uneducated one-night celebrities' motherhood responsibilities are. Both version had none. And they were also under medication after their plastic surgery so they had their hard times. Add this with a kid that have big mental problems you can see what type of pressure they have.

When i looked at that way the remake was not bad as people says, it is slightly above average of any remake type of movies.

Actors did good job with the resources that they have. Also it is for usa audience done by amazon. It would be delusional to think such a mainstream company would be as brave as the original for a remake.

One think im wondering is the original casting brothers used their real names. How would it be if Crovetti bros would done the same.

I Came By (2022)

is it the british woke

[10 September 2022]

The movie made by uk with a diverse casting. Just check the cast pictures and with a half brain you can predict who is gonna die and who will survive.

Not only that, you will know who will be the hero. Diversity is the hero.

So i dont know why many people gives good reviews but if it would made american movie and viewed from americans im sure it would bashed to earth.

The acting is not bad, i like uk actors and actresses generally. They are different than american side and they are not trying to do exaggeration acting, instead more natural acting. Which i like it this way otherwise it insults the audiences brain. So there is no difference here, i like the acting from almost everyone.

Storytelling was just ok. A lot of unpredictable things happens and Hugh Bonneville done so natural that gives chills, he is not acting like a psycho aggressive killer. He is more methodical probably of his old age disadvantage but that being said even a low level criminal would give a pause for a crime when they have so much heat on them. So this is where it failed to provide the necessary logic.

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

not sure why marvel fans didnt like

[9 September 2022]

This movie is like any other marvel movie created by disney.

Bad jokes. Check. Even sarcastic joke about stage 4 cancer. Good job disney bad writing. Check.

Bad adaptation. Check.

So what went bad for marvel fans? Some old bad movies since decades.

And no marvel didnt go bad after infinity war or endgame, it went right at the 3rd Blade movie that Wesley Snipes born to play .

But hey nice to see old 13-14 year old market start to grow and they realize how bad is the product. Gives me hope. Maybe after 10 years we will start to see real Marvel movies like how we started with the First Blade movie.

Fall (I) (2022)

Fear of height is at best

[8 September 2022]

So we have a film that starts almost like Vertical Limit. Then we fast forward to 2000 foot climbing and the rest is spoiling.

The story is about climbing disaster but i found rather original to climb a 2000 foot antenna. Although it tried to be a thriller, i was always thinking there are a lot of blue collar people who is doing this type of jobs summer and winter but of course with a better safety cautions and with a real pro equipment.

We have 2 women thinks this as an adventure. Those 2 unfortunately made a very boring acting. Especially a pro climber girl with a chunky appearance is something you wont see.

Directing would be better but i guess he had what he had and he couldnt do any better with the actresses.

The fear of height feeling of the movie was excellent though. I recently started to have fear of height. Before that fear i did wall climbing, parachute and bungee. After i had a situation somehow my brain created fear of height which i realized and surprised recently. That being said some of the scenes really pushed me through the edge and i was really holding the chair like it was my life jacket. It gave me dizziness and even vertigo. Only that part made me gave the movie 5 stars. Good idea of antenna and good vertigo

but i wished i wouldnt bored with acting. Of course it was going to be predictable story but it shouldnt be superficial.

Jurassic World Dominion (2022)

same old same old

[29 August 2022]

Same old cat and mouse play between our heroes and dinosaurs. Doest matter where exactly, it can be a facility, park, island whatever.

If you are a bad guy dinosaurs will attack you and catch right away, but if you are from the main cast group they will circle around you for hours.

So story and writing havent been able to develop at all. Same formula.

Casting and acting was only for nostalgia. Yes it was nice too see old and young generation together but they didnt have a good story to bound them. So it was just based on nostalgia feeling movie.

And of course every jurassic park have to have a trex fight in the end, but this time we couldnt even pick a side because even they didnt have any story to back up with.

How did this movie reach almost to a 1B$ beyond me but nowadays just make a movie with name and marketing so mindless audience floods you money anyway. No more creativity just milking the project.

Samaritan (I) (2022)

lets try again with R rated

[28 August 2022]

The movie was ok for a PG13. But still Sly was really pushing the edge when he was in the superhero character. I guess if this would be a R rated movie it would like Rambo with a super power, now who wouldnt wanna watch it.

The side characters were lower than average. I find the child actors pretty annoying. I mean does every kid in usa has to be an annoying kid to be a kid.

But Stunt actions were excellent. You will see there was a very huge amount of stunt team were in the movie. And that was one of the great side.

I gave my stars hugely because of Sly and stunts. I really hope someone will make a similar movie with R Rated with Sly and the same stunt team.

Me Time (2022)

who wrote this

[26 August 2022]

It was suppose to be a comedy movie and when i saw the main cast i was really into it.

Mark and Kevin has some great comedy movies. How bad this could go wrong... well it went horribly.

Jokes were so bad and predictable that even Kevin Hart couldnt execute in a fun way and Mark was complete like a guest star.

I hope they can meet in a better project with a better story that we can have fun and good time.

It is one of these movies that the trailer is better than the whole movie. Netflix really needs to change the movies department. They have only couple of good series and thats all.

I cant say anything for the rest of the characters. Because they were so cliche. Writers tried to make them funny as well and ended up being annoying. Uber driver to get help, really.

They/Them (2022)

official and of Blumhouse

[20 August 2022]

Back in the day Bkumhouse was creative pioneer horror start up company.

Decades later it became pop culture horror movie company with unoriginal ideas.

But now with this cliche movie they buried their legacy. It was neither horror nor interesting. 80s bad, low budget horror wanna be movies has the same quality of this movie

Still Kevin Bacon had his moments in the movie but thats all it is.

Watcher (I) (2022)

booooriiiinnnggg

[14 August 2022]

This is not a slow paced thriller. This is just a thriller that tries to fill the 1 hour. It was predictable from the beginning.

When you see the actors fully, you already who is who and whats gonna happen.

Nothing original or unexpected or well written.

Beast (I) (2022)

The Ghost and The Darkness... not

[14 August 2022]

Up to this day The Ghost and The Darkness is the top movie for me for lion survival movies. What made it so great was the story itself. 2 male lion made a bloodbath in their era.

There was no option for me to compare each other. This movie is not based on real story like The Ghost and The Darkness but still it is dull. I really like Idris Elba's acting in general but even he couldnt save it and in fact he kind of underplayed his role. CGI lion was like a kitten, that made me think all the budget went to Idris and they made the CGI lion whatever left from the budget.

The Black Phone (2021)

Nice original ideas with some small let downs

[16 July 2022]

So I was really looking forward this film as a collaboration of Derrickson, Cargill and Hawke after their great nerve-wrecking horror movie Sinister.

The movie starts slow as usual for horror genre and of course it has the modern era fashion of coming to an age type of horror genre like IT and Stranger Things. Although The Black Phone is a dark movie it can not reach to the level of Sinister. I guess the real reason is we saw The Grabber - and Ethan Hawke's fantastic performance - in a very short amount of time over all. I would like to see Hawke's acting more in the movie. The moments when he was in the movie, he was giving an excellent performance but as I said it was not enough.

The story was pretty brilliant from Joe Hill (Son of Stephen King) but i still had a feeling of something is missing but maybe it was the lack of The Grabbers moments.

Acting from Ethan was great but somehow Madeleine McGraw over-shadowed everyone in the movie by her acting skills. I have a feeling she will be one of the best actress in the future and im really looking forward to her journey. Her resume is already brilliant in my opinion.

Overall good movie, masks were chilly, calls were cool idea but not as much as I expected to be.

The Batman (2022)

Fresh new look

[18 April 2022]

Generally i dont like different timelines or alternate versions but this Batman changed my mind.

It is Year Two of Batman according to narrate. It is the tough times of Gotham. Probably we see a Detective Batman here more rather than action version of Batman. Although it is almost 3 hours movie, you dont feel like that long. The puzzles and thriller of a serial killer movie atmosphere makes you keep going and wanna watch more. The writing and directing was great as a mystery/thriller type Batman. I will be happy to watch the next sequels in the same tonality.

The acting was good but my favorite part was Paul Dano's acting. He nailed as a Riddler. He made him terrifying psychopath serial killer which can easily be the competition of the other terrifying psychopath serial killer who he acts as the clown. I really would like to see him more. He was more menacing than Scarecrow and Ra's for that matter. Great job Paul. You deserved more screen time.

I am not sure why the low ratings probably people can not get rid of Nolan's version Batman but keep in mind that this version of Batman is young Bruce so it makes sense that he is still at his early stage of Batman career. But yes Christian Bale also better actor than Robert imho.

Overall a good movie and im open for the second part with the detective Batman.