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Invasion (2021)
This show it's like the movie Happening
Because nothing is happening. People going about their lives, some action in the Iraq scene, but for now the invasion is not happening.
I'm at episode 3. Still waiting to see an alien.
Tales from the Loop (2020)
Wonderful, picturesque, emotional, full of heart
The series is absolutely stunning! In a crazy fast world, this is what you need to stop, feel, and appreciate the beauty of life. I couldn't take my eyes off of it - the cinematography, the music, the story, the characters - they are so profoundly humane and so real...
I highly recommend it - but not for folks that expect some shooting, fancy tech, and perfect, flawless actors that save the day.
It's an inquiry into our humanity.
The Air I Breathe (2007)
I had a laugh
This is honestly one of the best comedies I saw this year. I kept complaining about Hollywood not having made a good comedy for years and there it is, I ran into this beauty, by accident. I need to admit that I was owned by the cover, Forest Whitaker, Andy Garcia, this must be good - I had my doubts about seeing a movie with Brandon Fraser (really lousy movies in the past) or Sarah Michelle Gellar (I don't consider her talented at all), I said come one, these two can not make Whitaker look bad, he is such an amazing actor.
Oh well, it's not them that made Whitaker look bad, it's the whole movie. The acting was just as bad, but the story, oh the story, was so dull, incredibly unreal and maybe focused on 14 year old. It didn't make any sense. I kept asking myself all the time why is that guy doing that, is there any sense in this whole thing? Not to mention the fact that - the movie is made of 4 different stories - there is completely no connection whatsoever between the story. I could as well have taken 3 random people from the street and they would have been more related to each other than the people in this movie. The time sequence is completely screwed up, things happen in a completely unrelated order.
I consider it painful to go into the story, but it really didn't make any sense, I found myself laughing out loud after the first 10 minutes and I continued to do so. I must admit that it was entertaining at least. Completely unbelievable, it's not only that I didn't care about the characters at all, as they were so badly built, but, after Whitaker got shot, I just wanted all to die: Garcia is a frustrated gangster, deciding to go straight, so he only beats up and kills his own people; Bacon is on speed the whole movie, going about like a maniac; Fraser wants to look depressed and mysterious, a character with a touch of darkness who, apparently, falls in love and turns good but he succeeds to look like he just had a bad meal in all the important scenes and Gellar, oh she tries to act! She tries to look frightened, to look hurt or whatever human emotions, oh well she succeeds to look like she is faking acting, a spoiled kid who got a role in a movie.
Well, you can watch it if you want to have a laugh. For any other consideration, do not let the distribution full you, Whitaker made a good role, but he was really lonely in this one.
Martyrs (2008)
A story with no story, violence for the sake of violence
This movie determines me to write my first IMDb review ever, so there it goes: ***SPOILERS*** First of all, the movie is about an abused girl who escapes somehow (we don't know and don't find out how), gets to an orphanage house. She makes one good friend there and then whoosh, the movie takes us 15 years after. A nice family meal, all happy and normal when someone rings the door and a pretty lady with a shotgun kills the entire family. From here on the movie is a blood bath with no connectivity between the scenes, no logic, total nonsense. Blah-blah, we get to the point where we find out that there's an organization who kidnaps young women in order to reach ... martyrdom (whatever that means in the light of this movie). More or less, by the end of the movie we understand that these people want to find out what's after life.
The first problem that I have with this movie is that there is no explanation about why the people torture these women: the old lady talks about being martyrs and dying with a look on their faces, that shows that they saw beyond. Not to mention that the moment we are to find out ...oh well, let's not spoil all the "fun" of watching this movie.
It's a bad, bad, bad story, with a bad plot, with unconnected action scenes (the freaky lady that keeps attacking Lucy comes and goes like a shadow), with no intelligent lines, the actors are bad, bad, bad, I just find it painful to write about it because I have to review it in my head.
Overall a painful experience, violence for the sake of violence, lots of blood (if you're into bloody experiences), torture with no sense and no details ... There is absolutely no point in the movie and no point watching it. Do yourself a favor and read something instead.