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The whole premise is idiotic. But, if you manage to shut your brain off, it sorta works as a goofier, campier and more plastic-looking version of "Goonies" where characters are adults or adult-like but still behave like children.

Your run-of-the-mill demoralizing Hollywood slop that thinks it is way smarter and funnier than it really is.

This movie's ascetic form is inversely proportional to its richness of substance.

A classic (if a little stale today). It's good to know where all the heist movies come from (including the Polish "Vabank"). It's also good to know that this movie reveals how Phoenicians con us into believing all kinds of psyops and how it goes above 99.9% of our collective heads.

I wanted to believe. And yet, it's still your run-of-the-mill programming for ****. White people bad, colored people good, kids having diabetes perfectly normal and so on - that's programming part. The **** part is the plot where mcguffins (kid's insulin, cookie-cutter grandpa) tow it to its conclusion along pretty random and silly happenings and behaviors. Speaking of programming, why do you think they stressed the comet was INTERSTELLAR even though it makes zero sense statistically?

Very realistic, if a bit boring. It also has this problem of having a hard time convincing anybody impervious to after-war propaganda of its main dramatic premise - i.e. seeing helping one totalitarianism (arguably worse) against the other as something heroic.

liked the first one better. Too many changes, too much of Chani. Opening half feels clumsy and the closing one feels rushed.

Moviemaking at its best. The theme is magnificent, the story is great (and made even greater by the fact that life had written it), the casting is top-notch, directing, music, cinematography... you name it. This is for sure the best film about rivalry being a drive for human excellence I've seen so far.

At last a good movie. Very solid court drama with actual plot, proper characters, pacing, plucking at your heart strings at all the right moments and having something to say about the human nature.

Meticulously slow. Matchingly boring, dreary and gross. Gosh... today's cinema. It has to be **** painful, doesn't it? It's either pointlessly perverse/perversely pointless or pointlessly painful/painfully pointless with those damn people. No other option. And to think it's all coming from the brilliant "In Bruges" creator. There's just no hope for humanity. And yes, I got your little precious donkey gnostic allegory against God, you ****.

Disgusting anti-man/anti-family programming disguised in a melodramatic story of a troubled Jewish pianist.

Gosh...salesmen. There has to be a special place in Hell reserved just for them. The script is great, spotted with truth bombs, if a bit too talkative (but the stellar cast, nomen omen, sells it). This is more of a theatrical play of a movie, so you have to like this type of cinema to enjoy it.

On the positive side: it's a kind of a man's cinema nobody does any longer. Also, it is indeed very well directed. I especially liked De Niro breaking the fourth wall in a scene with Vicky when he was "showing her his dad'a house". It was done to make anybody watching it uncomfortable, effectively turning them into a peep. On the negative side: it was pretty boring as far as biopics go. I guess "raging" is as definitive as flat and singular a dimension and bulls aren't very interesting animals.

Going emo on middle-ages. But, let's not be too picky with today's cinema. The acting was good. The script had some great dialogues. The last scene was poignant. And, the essential nature of how governance and authority are made was conveyed.

A strange one. I don't really know what this movie wanted to be? A comedy? A farce? A drama? Did it want to say something? Or only entertain? It doesn't really say much and it's more cringe-inducing and over-the-top than entertaining. It's a product of a culture it wants to criticize. It's making fun of it and embracing it at the same time. It's a somewhat coherently and somewhat campy looking mess.

Stealing a line from another reviewer: I liked the parts with airplanes :). Don't get me wrong, the rest was not particularly bad. But, the emotional parts were overly melodramatic (and made it look padded with too much filler), and you better don't engage your rational qualities at some plot points (especially during the last segment) - you won't see much sense there. This movie was totally in tune with it's hero - a dying breed. A proper blockbuster focusing on delivering fun and action.

A Hollywood's fan service to nerds. More an assumption Hollywood has what a nerd would like to see than what an actual nerd would like to see. I give a bigger score than it deserves, because at least they try. They still don't seem to grasp though why GoT (sans the last season) was such a massive success. You have to be serious about fantasy. Not try to wink-wink audience into your belief that it's all utter bollocks so let's better get it on with it.

Villeneuve'a strong suit (esthetics, building up the atmoshpere, sensuality) has found enough room to shine at last. Woke accents are, mercifully, barely noticeable, and if present, they manage to defend themselves. Casting is top-notch as, in such a heavily theatrical movie, has to. There are things to nit-pick but they shan't obscure the big picture and the big picture is glorious.

A tough nut to crack. Great dialogues (and even better monologues!) and acting. Seemingly, it's daringly revealing. Some points it rises hit eerily close to home (esp. during this covid craze). But, it's still programming. And I've a feeling I missed the gist of it (apart from the usual: spreading despair, nihilism, atheism and moral rot). The melodrama arc is not believable and way too meta. The movie's focal point, the Howard Beale character, feels an artificial stooge. Strange one, for sure.

Good cinema, but I didn't like the perversely decadent theme. Original and competent (great use of classical music to amplify the emotional effect of violence), but way too over the top. Also, the director had overdone the ambiguity schtick for the ending.

Americans and their pathetic attempts at building a mythology. Apart from the "twist" with the black girl, thanks to the unreliable narrator shtick, nothing resembling any sense whatsoever ever happens in this movie and all this convoluted drama doesn't work on me, at all. And don't think the programming is off here. You see, violence is fun. It will make all of your problems go away. Also, aren't people crazy? Unhappy for no reason. And life is a failed comedian stage. And you're the comedian.

Nihilism + crappy animation + discordant noises + choppy narration. Closest to "demonic" of what I've yet seen, and I've seen a lot.

All modernists are the same: perversely pointless and pointlessly perverse.

'm not an Indonesian and I found this lacking in substance. It could be easily edited and compressed to like 25 min. War is never nice and domestic ones are the worst. I don't know the country's history enough to judge who was right in this conflict but I've seen enough of this movie to judge it's not even trying to be impartial. And no, stating that communists are godless and immoral is not propaganda. If they were God-fearing, moral people, they weren't communists.

A gangster classic, for sure, but didn't blow me away. The memed scenes with laughing Ray Liotta took me out of it for a moment and I thought overall it glorified crime a little bit too much for my liking. What it was best at was building up emotions. The franticness and craziness of it all. The paranoia that at the end becomes not irrational at all.

This movie will pull a fast one on you if you let it. If the parasite family are willing to work geniuses why do they find themselves on the low ebb of life? If the parasited on family is so lazy and stupid why do they find themselves on the opposite end of the social stick? World is full of smart but lazy and hard-working but stupid people. The meager rest is mostly comprised of both lazy and stupid. If you want to work and are smart to boot believe me society will find a way to appreciate you.

t has a story that sports at least one complete character arc. It has good acting here and there (Sam Rockwell, but he’s always great). The drama is spread too thin (esp. in the first part). Shame it’s underlined with hideous modernist exsistentialism. Just look at the conversation with a priest or, for even better gist of the thing, the monolog with a deer. The world is empty, there’s no God, our sufferings are utterly meaningless. Just despair and thank us for our entertainment.

A feel-good movie, painfully predictable. I liked Mortensen's work, but there's literally nothing exceptional about this film. For sure nothing warranting Oscars (apart from the agenda).

Great script and some excellent performances, with some of them (e.g. Steve Buscemi's) even exceptionally great. I guess, it works even more for western audiences, because they naturally take it to be exaggerated for the purposes of dark humor. Whilst we, people from behind the Iron Curtain, know that it's not necessarily so (but still can appreciate a good laugh - after all, as Russians say, if you have to either weep or laugh, you laugh).

Good CGI and outstanding art and set design. Yet, plot is full of mcguffins, convenient deus ex machinas, cheap emotional twists/hooks, comic-relief side-kicks and any other formulaic scheme from the fimmaker's playbook. A both heartwarming and dazzling fairy tale for the masses. Too light on the palate for a real hard SF fan and hard to follow for a westerner due to Chinese-assumed knowledge that feels like plot holes and all the similar faces that you'll have hard time to tell apart.

Wise and beautiful, ideal for some quality Christmas time with children. Just read the lamentations of liberals (wherever they can spout their nonsense) to know that this movie is not mere visuals, some pretty, but empty Christmas decoration. The same as the holidays themselves, it holds a message that they find hard to swallow, hence their spiteful reaction. And all this comes from Netflix, no less! How about that for a change?

Just glorious. The classic Japanese story retold with a feeling for modern, western aesthetics.

Honest hero story done with really good feeling and tact. As its both uplifting and treats God and pious people with respect - it's a rare treat. Another fine specimen among Mel Gibson's works.

Solid, but modern. All the usual suspects are present. A hip editing - check, 4th wall-braking winks - check, non-existent story/characters - check. The theme is both interesting and important, but all you're gonna get is only a slick, MTV treatment of it.

Realistic and gritty tale of war on drugs. Maybe a tad too long, but overall not bad.

Boringly nihilistic. And a lot of scenes rung false to me. Contrived and pretty pointless all around.

Nice suspense film if only not for preposterous premise, leftist undertones and general lack of logic.

Boooooring. As only an art film can be. No plot to speak of. Only morose and brooding takes and the feminist agenda underlying everything.

Full of red pilled wisdom. Would be sorta great if only not for the weak ending.

Cheap thrills. Including the "twist" at the end. I'm totally fed with what today's Hollywood has to offer.

A stunning Mary Sue hodgepodge with a plasticky feel to it. They stun you with mindless action and oh-so-sweet plastic CGI so that maybe you won't realise there's no story. It seems today they just won't bother to build anything coherent, even when copying from somebody else.

Boring in terms of pace, pretentious and hollow in terms of aesthetics, aimless and contrived in terms of plot, feminist in terms of agenda. And to top it all off there's some uncanny valley exploration at the end. Truly, a fine specimen of today's cinema

What an uncompromisingly masculine, adrenaline-pumping ride! This movie is a madman frothing at the mouth with talent. And this madman actually wears some solid SF vestiges of a plot. Shame the actual proportions of rabid violence vs clever plot weren't more on the plot's side, but I still buy it. Also two things. First, barring this flick and a few others, Sharlto Copley is such a criminally underused genius. Second people who like John **** Wick are nothing but clueless ****

I liked the pace, **** approach and a showcase of human resolve fighting against the greatest monster of all: bureaucracy. The Western characters were unconvincing and the Japanese ones were hard to tell apart, but who cares about them, when there's Gojira stomping a city

Another music video masquerading as an action film. This time though it's a quality job. All style before substance, but the style is first class

I saw music videos with better plot. Keanu is as far from badass as the mcguffin puppy from the first segment. It just doesn't work at all, so why not start a whole goddamn franchise on this fine foundation? Turns out you don't even have to suspend disbelief to make movies these days

Intense, grips you till the end, but there are some questionable plot twists. I mean, they are utilized for a reason and they do their job fine, but better not look at them too close, lest the charm may vanish. Also naming the simpleton "Alex Jones". Really?

It has its uniqueness thing going. That's for sure. But then you realize part of it is its lack of real drama and proper plot. Still, when it hits, it hits true and it just strikes you how coherent and well thought it all is. Great attention to detail. It's not boring even though it's long and it's not superficial like most of European artsy stuff. Linklater never disappoints

It's an acting tour de force, for sure, and I liked the overall crazed out quirkiness, but was left with a feeling it didn't really wanted the deep, meaningful undertones to rise up to the surface. At the end you find yourself dumbfounded with the constant barrage of high quality style and rather robbed of never to be found substance

Another boring communist fairy tale. It verges on venturing into some interesting subjects, but never really does, and the pace is monumentally slow. The only upside is you get a peek into modern day Turkey. For all it's worth