sebastiano-ricci Reviews

The Northman (2022)

Boring, useless, not engaging. With nudities.

[6/10 · 18 December 2023]

More than seeing "secret and sacred" anatomical parts of the Goddess named Anya Taylor-Joy, this movie doesn't engage that much.

The characters speak by infinitives, in a boring aulic way, which completely contrasts with the imagery, which wants to transport the beholders in an ancient and mysterious world of abused people, vikings and pseudo-historic Scandinavian (ancient Rus'-scandinavian) villagers who struggle to survive while a hunchbacked bodybuilt "son of a great actor" kills everything that is alive.

Splatter here, there and everywhere, breasts, underbelly furs, nonsense visions, on the top of an all-star cast.

Maybe some of all that stuff went necessary to justify the costs of such a plot of an abstract of a comic-book... have I already said that there is Anya showing off what we struggled to see for years?

All that said, it is worth a view.

Once.

Sweet Tooth (2021–2024)

Pointless ultra-intelligent dumb animal-kids

[5/10 · 30 September 2023]

Is there any agony longer than a full season of villains that can't overcome few animal kids?

C'mon Netflix... Could it be any more stupid?

Bear is pointless.

Big Man is a deadweight (can't go fast, can't combat - at least only in first episodes - , almost can't help anybody.

All is soooo slow paced that you can't understand how time spans...

Characters are almost useless until they are dedicated a piece of episode to.

The idea and the comic book are surely good, but the length of the agony in which they are depicted is truly unbearable.

Reading about impressions of the second season is sincerely not the best way to continue...

Don't Look Up (2021)

Totally overrated

[4/10 · 26 December 2021]

Ok the political critics, but American films always cannot end without messing up religion, family, good feelings and Puritanism. In a all-stars sci-fi movie which starts delightfully with that pure marvel of Jennifer Lawrence, with the always great Leo, with that magic of Meryl.

What about that fake Steve Jobs?

Why do they do that to the audience? WHY?!?!

Annihilation (I) (2018)

Pretentious boring boringness

[1/10 · 5 May 2018]

The clear example of how Netflix is really broadcasting money trying to catch the right writers in the mass.

A very lengthy, annoyingly amount of sighs, hahs, breaths and kaleidoscope lights with bass trembling music.

Two fully lost hours of nothing interesting.

Down in the Valley (2005)

Disillusion, Love and Violence: Normality?

[7/10 · 11 February 2007]

I must confess: I bought this film in Italian DVD version for two small reasons. First, for the unspeakable beauty of Evan Rachel Wood, as long as her talent, which spreads over the film together with her seductive sight. Second, thinking about the reasons why it was not given a plug to this film here in Italy. Or at least I never heard much of it.

I think so because it is a low budget film, in which there are no explosions, no hyper-exposed superstars, no self-explaining "all-the-same-faces subcultures exploiting easy comical political financial police & lawyers' sci-fi" drama.

This is not what people expect to be played in cinemas few weeks before Christmas...

It is a great small film. Really well played.

It was sheer chance yesterday I played Contact DVD with great David Morse. GREAT actor. Unfortunately he is always given the role of the good family father. But it is another story.

I think also that Edward Norton is a great actor too. And, for my pleasure, I think he could reincarnate the magnificent role of Jon Voigt in Midnight Cowboy, with it's load of disillusion and violence.

Evan Rachel Wood is the great talented teen I was waiting for since the appearance of a too fast grown Natalie Portman in Besson's The Professional (Léon). She appeared to me in Thirteen to be the angel I am waiting for since I understood why women were created... And in this film I must say she is passionate, and warm, and real. And, despite her beauty, she is normal.

There is something odd in Culkin brothers' DNA. They are greatly talented when in childhood... May Rory be greater in his future than his brother was.

This is a film about something which is not normal, as well. And this abnormality permeates all the story from the beginning. Is this violence or love? Maybe both. But this is a spoiler story...