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Englemageren (2023)
Truly disappointing script
This movie is beautifully filmed with good locations, great lighting, well chosen locations, and more. Many of the actors play quite well, but the script leaves a lot to be desired.
The characters have depth, and that great, but the script is extremely depressive and there is zero humor to balance it out. I do not mind dark moods in a movie, but the themes in this movie are like a bottomless pit of sadness.
Overall, I would have rated this 6/10, but the film is extremely violent almost as if the writer is more interested in shocking the audience than to deliver a good story. And near the end, the script falls apart, the story looses realism and everything just stops making sense.
Game of Thrones (2011)
The best tv series ever made. Period.
Political intrigue, epic battles, love, hate, vengeance - this series has it all. Great actors, beautiful locations, and an impressive manuscript with plenty of intelligent surprises along the way
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Entertaining but predictable
This movie is one long battle from start to finish. Endless gun-slinging, infinite amounts of ammo, but not a single shred of desire to challenge the intellect of the audience.
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Not for the intelligent viewer
This is one of those movies where the grown up audience knows after 5 minutes, that the target group is teenagers. Even in the middle of the movie's major crisis, the whole world pauses, as two young characters have to talk intimately, because it is just so important, for she's hot and he's so cute, so the less important end of our civilization will just have to wait.
Unlike many famous sci-fi movies, this movie is not true to science at all. If some young script writer thought that it would be "dope" for gravity to be "defeatable", then gravity is "defeatable", whatever that means. Small objects that are hidden can be monitored in detail by the good guys, while objects the size of a continent are completely undetectable. There are dozens of these examples where the movie makes no sense.
The humor in this movie has no finesse. Watching it is like being at dinner with the distant uncle who is not funny but keeps cracking jokes, though no one is really laughing but him.
Most of the time, the dialogues sound like a wacky parody, in the way Doc spoke with Martin in Back to the Future. They even copied the Doc character so directly, that there is an actual long haired, wacky old man in a lab coat talking in a nutty way while experimenting with sci-fi technology.
One thing does work, though, the computer graphics are impressive. Most of the time, the visual and audio effects really shine. It is just sad that an obviously huge gift budget was spent fully on the wrapping, and very, very little was spent on the gift inside.
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
All icing – no cake
The Die Hard series has delivered some good movies, but this is not one of them. Sure, there is clearly a huge budget behind the action scenes, and if you can live with a complete lack of story, you might be able to enjoy most of this movie. But if you expect at least a mediocre script, you will be disappointed.
If you live on the European continent you will laugh at the script writer's complete lack of knowledge of European geography. Be prepared for an alternate reality in which Chernobyl lies close to Moscow (it is in fact a 14 hour drive) and Grenoble is a city in Switzerland (it is in fact in France).
You can learn a lot from this movie, though. As an example, I learned that radioactivity is not that dangerous, and you can remove radioactivity effectively using a simple spray. If only the Japanese had seen this movie before the recent Fukushima nuclear incident.
I wish someone would tell the screen writers to do some fact checking.