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Fall (2022)
highly misunderstood movie
I'm giving it just three stars because it failed to make people understand or suspect (once it ends) that they all died at the very beginning. Clearly due to the technique, skills and experience (or lck there of) used during climbing bu the three "climbers".
Everything happening "51 weeks later" is clearly taking place in a kind of Limbo (or seconds before final brain death), and shouldn't be interpreted through the lenses of reality but from the POV of a skull-broken influencer/"climber".
With that hint it makes more sense, but the failed attempt to display this "reality" as a recreated one (it doesn't seem many people was able to grasp this, and with reason) devaluates the movie profoundly. Arguably certain "faux-raccords" should have helped (how the rope is tied, the ring, ...) in addition to the feats of strength and physics inaccuracies, as they are clearly intentional.
That the "plot twist" is really the key to open the larger box of the movie, and not just a twist should have been remarked, similarly to the intra-reality forwarning about the charger.
More akin to Lost or A Ghost Story than to any survival thriller (even if the form is that of a survival).
The Last Man (2019)
it tries to be real
The best thing I can say about it is that it tries to be. Not "good", but "something". The film essentially meanders between apocalyptic sci-fi, noir (à la Mute), some kind of parable about climate change and traces of post-Vietnam war movies (PTSD). It just doesn't do too well in any of those fronts, choosing instead to bury down in itself with the promise of meaning.
If you hate voice over, or simply think that it is a poor substitute for good storytelling (or storyshowing), and a crutch for emotional exposition, just stay aeay from this dissapointing film.
No, not even if you are a Harvey Keitel fan, or like the genre. It will not add much to your life.
Ready Player One (2018)
even worse than the book
The book being a horrible piece of fiction, but quite profuse in its imagery, a movie seemed like a really good chance to build on its strengths and try to round the story and the characters into either a decent movie for kids/young adults or a good sci-fi product.
disappointingly, the only thing that remains is the imagery (watched it as IMAX 3D, I imagine lots get lost with any other version) and a hint at the end about a very different movie focused on Halliday (which could have been but is not).
Mark Rylance and Olivia Cooke have good performances, even when their parts do not lend themselves to that. for the rest of the characters, there is simply not enough entity to build anything. maybe this was meant to be a larger movie at some point (a better one too).
everything else is a fiasco, with a not well developed 2nd act, a therefore lazy 3rd act, and plenty of rolling eyes moments. comedy is interspersed here and there and references are thrown around like some people use cheddar on salads: just because it's there in the fridge and what the heck, let's use all of it. that's a problem with the book as well, but at least the book operates as a window into the mind of the writer (meta-interesting, not interesting itself). here it seems just an attempt to make it more palatable to audiences of all ages, without really trying to provide any consistency.
6 because, hey! it is movie kind of coherent and some sequences are actually entertaining, maybe even worthy of another watch. just not the movie as a whole.
Dans les pas de Trisha Brown (2016)
fabulous insight
Did you ever wanted to see how the reconstruction of a choreography takes place, being passed on from one of the dancers it was constructed on to a new generation? Do you want some insight into Trisha Brown's language and why it was so pivotal for postmodern dance? Are you perhaps more interested in the process or creation and recreation than on the actual completed work?
Then this is your documentary.
2010 (1984)
It fails in its representation of "something wonderful"
the main failure of this film is that it fails to go from the build up to that "something wonderful", to some kind of stasis or moment that make you really believe that something has changed and governments would change from the war path they were headed towards.
by showing so directly the "mystery" (therefore making it no mystery at all) the sense of wonder goes out of the window and what should have been a decent climax for the film collapses.
as some people said before, technology and graphics might be outdated, but someone focusing on that might do better not watching films produced more than 6 years.
as per the relationship with computers and AI, it is surprisingly handled in too little time even it is meant to be one of the main concerns since the beginning of the film. somehow it feels a rushed production, probably in order to keep it under the 2 hour mark. It would have been great seeing more development regarding that subject.