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Hummingbird (2013)
what the heck?
I'm really sorry for everyone who enjoyed this movie, but it's just not what people say it is.
The scenario was plain awful. We're going from a military based persona to a homeless, drug abusing alcoholic. then he becomes a thief and just happens to end up in an apartment where the owner happens to be away for 6 months. then he finds a letter that happens to have a credit card and a pincode and he decides to stick around for a couple of months using some bullsh*t excuse to his new neighbours and everyone eats it. Then he befriends a nun that had strong personal issues herself and after the death of his 'girlfriend' whom he shared a cardboard box with when he was homeless, he goes for revenge. So he kills someone at the end to get redemption for a family he killed in afghanistan. oh yeah, and has a short fling with the nun because they are supposed to be something like kindred spirits. I mean as far as realism goes, i'm prepared to ignore some aspects when i'm seeing a movie but this was just too much. The story about redemption had something to it, but could have been brought much better in a different context with more cohesive elements. Scenes that explain the personal issues were way too long to keep me interested in them, as far as how much crap someone can take and i felt the movie used too many controversial points in trying to keep the attention of the viewer, which in my case totally backfired because it lacks credibility. As far as acting, i thought jason statham was good in playing a more emotional role and i really thought the ending scene where he cries is very convincing. Too bad the scenario and everything else just made it redundant. Could have been, should have been better... If you want to see Statham in his better roles in a britisch context, i suggest you watch lock, stock and two smoking barrels or snatch. this just isn't it....
Code 37 (2011)
it's a pity...
First of all, i'd like to say that i haven't seen Code 37, the series. I just hope it's a lot better than this movie i've just watched. it starts out with Veerle Baetens who gets awarded for her courage for being a law enforcer. Then you see a guy in a sex theater getting a little hand-action, then he gets clobbered down and assaulted. The team of Hannah Maes (Veerle Baetens) jumps on this crime to investigate it. After a long and very slow while you find out everything you already knew. Its all pretty predictable. Just a typical cop-movie from Belgium with some feminine influences. Excuse me, ladies, but this movie has a little bit too much of emotion aspect for being a thriller. At the end you find out something of Hannah's past (that has probably been a big question mark in the series, but not important for the moviegoer) and that's about it. Case closed with some... emotion aspect. I think this could've been a very good movie, but with the lame red thread of hannah's life throughout the movie, the cliché-story and bad acting (sorry, Michael Pas is normally a fine actor, but he can't hold up his role) it just turned into a TV-movie that is not worth more credit than my rating. I must say that Veerle Baetens really does a genuine effort to keep up with her role and she plays it great, but she has bad luck with the scenario. Fabulous actress, bad movie.