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| 61 28% | Max Payne (2008) - Rated 16 Dec 2024
"I have an affinity for video game adaptations, and Wahlberg is a good choice for Payne. For about 20 minutes, it is pretty decent, but then it falls face down to genre cliches. It has a few shining moments where they converted the video game slow-motion violence pretty well to live action, but the rest is forgettable. The vengeance stories are very good as a video game as you appropriate the mission via gameplay, but for a movie, the story needs more bite."
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| 88 89% | Civil War (2024) - Rated 14 Dec 2024
"Its trailers didn't do justice to it; it is an excellent film on journalism. It is a masterful demonstration of how you can generate a setting without talking much about it and make it even more impactful. The three generations of journalists and their approach to it, unbridled enthusiasm, desensitized indifference, and meaning of life, is something that can be said for any dangerous profession. I appreciate Garland, his movies always have character; and Dunst gave a brilliant performance."
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| 83 81% | Fallout (2024) - Rated 13 Dec 2024
"For me, it is a huge success; it feels so authentic in every piece of the setting. While it is constantly cheeky, playing on the edge of being a farce but never falling into that. Goggins is one of the best actors of this generation; overall, the cast is brilliant. The visuals are perfect; they really captured the advertisement-driven apocalypse peculiarity of Fall-out; the last episode and denouement were not up to the rest of the series, but I will definitely watch the second season."
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| 22 4% | The Matrix Resurrections (2021) - Rated 01 Dec 2024
"Maybe one of the worst "franchise" revivals; if you made a competition for the worst Matrix sequel; this might have won it. It is so derivative in its approach, sickeningly self-referential, unoriginal, and pompous... Something that is hard to watch. And the worst thing is, it has no meat in it, not even any technical novelty (which was the difference maker before); except the programme manifestation in the real world trick. And that Catrix thing in the end... I nearly spat on the screen."
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| 61 28% | Road House (2024) - Rated 01 Dec 2024
"Well, it starts pretty well; the fighting choreographies were top-notch, and Gyllenhaal really appropriated the character and did wonders with it. That gimmick of the fight going on in the bar with live music is cute, also. It has a good level of humor and nice chemistry between the characters up until McGregor shows up; there, the film loses its anchor. It was a reasonable gamble to bring a bona fide fighter to a fighting movie, but acting crazy is not easy, even if you are really crazy."
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| 72 53% | The Last Duel (2021) - Rated 20 Oct 2024
"I like how it is structured, a bit like Rashamon but with much more underlying currents; not only the different perceptions but how people read the emotions of others differently. The acting is excellent, both Damon and Driver really exude the tension between their characters. It is something I would say not really my cup of tea, but it is done so well that I enjoyed it, Scott has still good films in him."
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| 71 49% | Daredevil (2003) - Rated 20 Oct 2024
"I don't know why this movies is so villified; it is not bad at all. It is gritty, at times cheeky and quite faithful to the Frank Miller era Daredevil feeling. The rain tricks were not bad at allGranted the fighting sequences are weak and Garner as Elektra wasn't a very good choice; but all in all, it is much better than most of the Marvel stuff now."
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| 71 49% | Books of Blood (2020) - Rated 13 Oct 2024
"It starts rather slow, and all those noise tricks and cockroach stuff are well done; but rather annoying (You feel like "Do I really want to watch this?". In about the first 40 minutes, it lacks what makes Clive Barker's work unique when it is good; then it makes a huge turn and then it is a roller coaster in a good sense. The connections between the stories are rather tenuous but okay and wrapped up rather well. Music is well utilised and the make-ups are top-notch."
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| 60 24% | Solomon Kane (2009) - Rated 29 Sep 2024
"Howard has this amazing knack for creating engaging characters; Kane is no Conan but still there is something interesting about him. The CGI in the movie seriously sucks; but the decors and the make-up make up for that. There is not much kick to the story, but somehow it flows and stays watchable. A good effort, but it is no wonder they couldn't pull off a trilogy; the materials is just not there."
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| 61 28% | X-Men '97 (2024) - Rated 21 Sep 2024
"Well, it was a great idea to do a continuation to the classic series and it starts with a good dynamic. Then it moves away from what makes the original series great, which is the character interactions and focuses too much on an over-arching Sentinel story; which is honestly not that interesting. The animation quality is really high, but they subcontracted it to Korean animation studios and there are times that mangaish-action and interaction style didn't mesh with the nature of the series"
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