Riders-In-The-Sky Reviews

Dead Mary (2007 Video)

More than an horror seems to be a Beckett's play

[3/10 · 19 September 2017]

Very strange movie, it seems almost an horror (or funny?) version of "Waiting for Godot", the Beckett's play. So in the first part of the movie there's nothing of interest, while they are waiting for Ted there are only stupid discussions about couple relationships: your boy makes love with x, your girl with y, I makes love with everybody.. All together are friends and lovers but in the wrong beds.

Then the game begins, and the game is "Bloody Mary" or, for copyright and other reasons, "Dead Mary". But don't expect something special, a candle that shuts off, a night walking alone in the forest... the first dead.. who is the killer? It doesn't seem so important, no character seems particularly enjoyable or disliked. Uh, the dead boy is a zombie? It seems funny... There is also a mysterious shed in the scene, you hope, in vain, for something interesting... while everybody are waiting for Ted..

Other murders, you could bet on the next, other accusations of betrayal, it seems the only interest of the group. Who is possessed? One, two, everyone? Some clue could help and not.. in the meantime everybody are waiting for Ted... The cars don't work, no people in the surroundings, somebody start to searching for help but you'll find them always on the same place. And everybody are waiting for Ted...

The end... have you understood anything? Probably not. The possible hypothesis are always the same and every clue turns out useless. You can always meditate waiting for Ted...

Fire! (2009)

One of the worse movie that i have seen

[1/10 · 8 April 2012]

Yes, really one of the worse. The story, the characters, everything in the movie is stupid and absurd. I ask myself if it is sponsored by some car constructor, because the car seems stronger than a tank. The main char that doesn't know his phone and loses his glasses but he can see everything without problem, the killer that uses as password the birth date of the other people son (how he knows it?), the guns with infinite bullets, the people in the bank still lying on the ground after the two robbers are gone, then I don't believe in Germany (unlike the U.S.) are allowed rewards for the capture of wanted, the police that says "we have lose the ambulance" (during the chase) while the same ambulance is with sirens blaring, and so many many other absurd things (as the final killer suicide).

You can look at it only for to see how a movie has NOT to be. It is not enough some car crash for to do a good (or funny) movie. I have to remember the director name, so I will not waste my time in the future.

The Profession of Arms (2001)

An artistic movie, not an action movie

[7/10 · 5 August 2006]

It is not an "easy" film. If you are searching for an adventure film, or a "kolossal", you don't find it here. But this is a beautiful movie by the artistic side, you need to watch it with calm and patience, like you have to watch a picture of a famous painter. The plot is carried out like touches of brush, the characters are "painted" over a background of ethereal landscapes, nearly soft. So, why my vote is only a 7/10? This is just because the movie is not easy, perhaps too slow for a "normal" vision. After all when I watch a movie, often, specially when I'm tired at the end of a hard day, I need to relax myself, while this movie needs much attention. I don't think you can watch it without a little of concentration, at least the first time. Like you look at a painting.

Black Beauty (1994)

The best for horse lovers

[9/10 · 8 April 2005]

This is decidedly the best horse movie that I have never seen. With splendidly poetic images it shows the life, often tormented and sad, of a horse, told by himself in first person. Who has lived around the horses (I have two of them) knows how much the content of the movie is real. Who loves truly the horses, it will serve to do a conscience examination and to ask himself if he always was right towards them. Some tear is really difficult to withhold, specially if we identify Black Beauty with one of ours loved equine friends. A film to watch, if you are an animals lover, and to do watch to your children. The others people, perhaps, can find it difficult to understand...