Othello

The comic theme of trying to popularize the shitty image of the Hong Kong police through the media is riddled with myriads of ammo. Action alternates with more action, things go bang here and there, completely calm criminals dine with their hostages, and I'm left wondering from the opening few minutes why I so rarely see something so directorially assured yet charmingly dynamic and explosive. It's badass.

A terrible bullshit film that's all about nothing, and aside from a lot of absurdities culminating in a Thai prison and a bunch of awkwardness, it also has some good jokes, the brilliant Hugh Grant, and a likeable Bridget. btw I really don't get the odes to Colin Firth, wherever the guy appears he has the same dry aristocratic expression and as far as I counted, only twice in this film does he manage to scrunch his face into a fake smile and that in itself is calling to heaven. Definitely a good candidate for the next installment of The Terminator.

A film where I stopped equating "digital camera" with "evil". Mann is great with it. On the other hand, I really didn't like the fact that people were dusting themselves off after being hit by a bullet instead of politely bleeding.

Exhausting, authentic, daring, brilliantly acted and directed, decadent, one hell of a film.

"She was attractive in the way that other women would have said of her: ‘Well, she is attractive in an obvious way.’ Interestingly, a lot of the women who say that about other women tend to have hidden their own attraction so well ... that you do feel like throwing them a bread roll." This guy is a god.

I can't remember the last time I hated myself so much for my review. But what to do with a film whose raw portrayal of the relationship between a young up-and-coming Indo-American man and a six-foot-tall sack of hash brings tears to your eyes over the fact that there are bigger idiots in the world than you. If the movie had an hour more, I'd go for five stars, because by then nothing matters anyway.

It must be excruciating to film a year-long story from the disjointed, ever-changing Harry Potter universe, no matter what the filmmakers prattle on about in the BluRay bonus features. Cuarón has thus proven himself a messiah, whose ability to maintain a unified storyline and focus on the details, particularly in individual scenes whose careful selection is the only saving grace keeping the entire adaptation from disintegrating into a series of clumsily pasted together visual sequences. It can be seen that script editing and pre-production played a significant role here. The individual episodes, then, not only make sense to readers of the book, who, in short, want to at least see some of the things they read, but are capable of assembly into a coherent story on their own. Each scene therefore has purpose and moves the plot forward. It was thanks to this meticulous preparation that it was even possible to focus particularly on the filmmaking aspects, and that's why the third installment of all the Potter films has the most interesting cinematography, mise-en-scene, and various small quirks and elements in the second and subsequent layers.

There you go again, obediently cursing yourself for wanting to yawn. Granted, the second installment of Ocean’s has a really megalame script, Cassel and Willis really didn't need to be here, Brad Pitt is obviously always getting dragged into a scene from some bender, and so forth. But since I personally like to style myself as the director when watching a movie, I quite enjoyed the selfish banter with buddies. Weaker than the first one, but still fun in the best Hollywood way.

If I'm to nominally attack the means Fox uses to manipulate the viewer, I should be extraordinarily freaking careful not to use the same ones in a documentary devoted to it (especially background music, choice of guests, etc.). Of course, you can shrug me off by saying that, despite the name, a documentary need not be objective (which I'll accept), but even so, from the filmmaker's point of view, I would expect it to target a more intelligent viewer with more intelligent means.

There are quite a few things that didn’t come together, the acting isn't the best, but given the filmmakers' enthusiasm, the budget, the ideas (viewing a room through a camera flash), and most importantly, the brilliant and formally bombastic ending, it deserves a buck. Too bad the sequels just ruin the name of this awesome thriller.