michaelberneman Reviews

A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)

Great action but...

[5/10 · 14 February 2013]

Let me start off by saying that like everyone I had a feeling this could go wrong. You have a terrible writer, Skip Woods(even if I enjoyed The A-Team) and a terrible director, John Moore. The people at Fox must be idiots because John Moore has not made one good film, so to trust him with the Die Hard franchise seemed a bad idea. The film has a lot of action if not too much, there isn't any dialog!!!! At 97 minutes it's the shortest one in the series ans it sure feels that way. Every other film in the franchise were longer, they gave you more time to explore the rest of the film. But this one feels so rushed, like okay let's go there , and then here,... The film has no structure. It's like they said "alright guys were gonna make this as fast as possible" Bruce Willis is fine but it's like he doesn't even talk during the whole movie, his chemistry with Jai Courtney is fine. The plot is okay even if you can see the twist coming after 25 minutes. What makes this film still enjoyable is the action even though it's disturbed by shaky-cam, bad editing and bad CGI effects. If they are gonna make another one they should bring back John Mctiernan and make the movie on a smaller scale. Back to basics!! If they make it on a bigger scale than they should make it as good as With a Vengeance.And another thing: You can't drive from Moscow to Chernobyl in a couple of hours!!!!!!

This is by far the worst entry in the franchise

Prometheus (I) (2012)

Exciting but not as good as expected

[7/10 · 3 June 2012]

Last night I went to see Prometheus (in 2D). I didn't see all the movies in the Alien franchise, just the first one. First of all let me start by saying that there are many resemblances with the 1979 film.The crew of the Prometheus is a bit like the one in Alien.

The movie has an amazing cinematography. Seriously the movie is captured so well. Really a movie to watch on blu-ray. Prometheus is sometimes creepy but never scary, its more a science fiction thriller than a science fiction horror. As for the performances they are not bad Noomi Rapace is great but the best performance of them all is Michael Fassbender as the robot David. I have always been a fan of him , especially after X-Men First Class. But in Prometheus he is so convincing. He reminded me of Haley Joel Osment in A.I. but even better.Charlize Theron is playing the perfect bitch. As a response to early reviews I think the script wasn't that bad. If there is one thing that disturbed me was the make-up for Guy Pearce, he plays an old man and his make-up was HORRIBLE just like Armie Hammer in last year's J.Edgar.

For the first 50 minutes the movie is kinda slow and nothing really 'good' is happening but after that the movie gets exciting and has a a lot of action. There is one particular scene that is disgusting but fun and a huge homage to Alien . The ending scene is amazing and certainly for Alien fans. I now understand why Ridley Scott always said why this is not a direct prequel. Prometheus is great ,creepy,and the special effects are really good. Really not the best film but still entertaining.