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Lucy (2014)
Luc Besson being sad because he was not chose as director for Terminator 8?
Yes, I know it is fiction, and Science fiction at that, there is no science in this film, and the fiction stinks.
The idea with science fiction is often to take a known fact and expanding and extrapolating it, here the science is nonexisting. It is based on another fiction, the fiction that we use only 10% of our brain... we don't , we use 100%, maybe not all at the same time, but a fair estimate is that we use 80-90% at the same time at occasions. However we use 100% of our brain, but we don't dream in our sleep whilst we are mountaineering or performing in a sport. These things are in different parts of the brain.
With the premise here being somthing out aof a laughable book written by a layman in the 1980s, it is getting worse all the time, I will only point out the highly illogical in the main characters 'superbrain' by killing everyone, even innocent people in the streets of Paris, while letting the bad guy's henchman live while she could have killed him, and letting him go on killing innocents, it is only surpassed by that she did not kill the bad guy when she had the chance earlier on, she just knifed him
This is a waste of time, and Besson has only made one watchable film.
Retribution (2023)
Another one with an old age pensioner acting unnatural
How can they? Another one of these films where the characters act nothing like normal persons, you might have the odd man out, but never the whole ensemble, except if it was from a mental hospital.
Can't understand how they dust of ideas from classics and half-classice like Speed and others and think that this is good enough. A person calling and claiming being fromEuropol... Europol is a cooperation organisation for different police forces around Europe, no one works for or in Europol, except maybe the flooor cleaners, all the other central persons work for their police force. Like Interpol. Sad.
Erased (2012)
Another one of these films about intelligence operatives that probably should not be operatives
Ben Logan(Eckhard) plays a rather dumbwitted operative who takes on a job, in a district office of a large company in Antwerp, Belgium. A collegue sees that a device has a patent number that is not owned by the company they work for, but the company says it is their patent.
Why Mr. Logan was offered this job, he used to be a CIA operative, MrLogan never gave a thought....
So,whwn he realizes that the company district office have been cleaned out, and his collegues being killed, he can't use his bank cards, phone or anything. The company district office/laboratory was a ruse, but still he was able to get a work visa?
As Mr. Logan is rather badly equipped mentally, everything goes wrong from there on. Obviously they carry their passports on them at all times , asf the end.
Troll (2022)
Sad misrepresentation of all tjhings Norwegian
Trolls are a part of everyday folklore in Norway, and the trolls don't go out on arampage like this. They are brainless, and of course as stupid as they can be, this film looks like a Norwegian Godzilla film.
Trollsm are't only stupid, but easily scared, they don't react to churchbells, not only because churchbells were introduced in Nporway aroundt the 15 th century, well some churches might have had them in the 13th century, we could not know for sure. Most churches in Norway, untei the 15 th century was bulit without churches and pulpit, it was just an altar and a room were churchgoers had to stand during service.
And why would they save one troll in the 1840s, just trying to kill it afterwards, there is no continuance, why shouldn't they kill it now?^There is just no story here, or a half story.
The oldest troll story is from the 6th century, they are probably older. But as a children film I guess it serves it's purpose, but it was not meant as childrens film.
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Around 25 years ago since I saw this last
A hopeless and totally wrong premise, but still enjoyable film, even if it irritates me that a former law professor would confirm this wrong premise.
So, even if you can not murder someone that you have been convicted of murdering before, because crimes are set in time and space, you are actually convicted of : Monday August 9 in the year of 2003 shooting Brian Astard in his home in 2305 TardAvenue, Ardville, you can not shoot him in Tehe Empire State Building 6 years after with no charges, because he was not shot 6 years earlier.
But the wrong premise is not really a part of the film, so it works fine.
Interceptor (2022)
I did not expect much
And I did not get much.
Firstly, just having to stations with interceptors never happened, there are several on the mainalnd, and the idea that halfway through is the last place uyou can intercept an ICBM is so ludicrous I do not really have words.
These things do not get armed before seconds before they go off, so you could diaintegrate it 30 seconds before impact, which the way never happens with ICBMs the explode in the air over their target. Always, except for the bunker breakers that is.
No the filmmakers making such garbage should never get any financing, so throw in a little wokeism in the story as the leader does and Bevaers patriotism , so there you have it.
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
It is said it is 30 years, but it is 36 years
Of course this could be 2016, but we see tags from 2020, so it is at least 34 years.
It doesn't give me the vibe from 36 years ago. , but it still is more than fair, and much better than much of the stories we get in so many films.
No country fits in to the plot, Iran has only one NATO-member as neighbor, here they are talking about NATO-countries in plural.
Even with that missing credibilty , the idea of using 30 year old planes like F18 is little bit over the top. Drones would have been the obvious, togeteher with miussiles fired from some ocean, but what the h*** , we will live with that, but it reduces a star or two.
And once, please once , give us the exact amount he had to pay in the bar for the rounds, the showed us in the fifties and forties movies, but since then mostly a wad of bills.
But all in all a film worth watching.
The Gray Man (2022)
Surprisisngly good fun
Besides the usual lack of any cognitive minds, in all aspects like logic, continuity, actons and whatever, this turned out to be a highly enjoyable film. I will look past these unlikely miracles and errors and state that this was an execcellent film that I would have given 10 weren't it for these several inconsistencies and lack of normal precautions by the characters.
It was splendid, and Billy Bob gave me a good feeling, which also the the character Austin Hansen did, he reminded me of some other character, probably from the JAmes Bond movies, where we also saw the parachute stealing in midair 40 years ago with Roger Moore.
What annoys me, is that we could not be sure which disc was inside the medalllion in the end, normal people would have exchanged for another disc, if these did, we don't know.
Salt (2010)
Enjoyable, but somewhat lacking in logic
Filmmakers are not the most intelligent people around, so even if this film was enjoyable right through, it lacked normal cognitivity....
But one can perhaps not expect such, I won't delve into specifics, but add this lacking logic to central characters that get around fourminutes of screentime.
However, a really enjoyable woman hero makes the most of it.
I gave the 8 solely for those parts, it was all to predictable, yes, but I expected that, so I won't subtract anything there.
And everyone that don't die can tell who the real culprit are , that the filmmaker chose to ignore, even if tjhat person is only one. No the filmmaker made his bet on some deaths in a scrapyard...
The Snowman (2017)
Sadly a distortion of the script as well as the novel
Jo Nesbø writes clichés, formalistic and predictable , and as boring that may be, this film ruins even that.
Ususally, the 300-400 page book will never fit in a90-130 minute movie, as then it would be 60 pages descrining the scene and 70 pages describing the acton and dialogue, so one gets that the novel rarely tells the story as the book.
But here, the script is beaten down to silent endless shoots of snowy weather, snowy roads , snowy cityscapes, and snowy railways.
I lose interest from the beginning, just hope that all actors get murdered.
What happened in the cutting room? Was it overtaken by film haters?
SAS: Red Notice (2021)
Another film without contuinity
Not only does the film lack logic, like why drill a hole to a tunnel that is accessible without that hole? Guards that don't act, and how did theyb getthe girlfriend after the operator freed her?
The idea that gas burns so fast (always explossion) is another trope, gas under so low pressure that it allows people to escape trough the pipe will burn slower than a regular house fire, it needs oxygen.
The idea that the UK government would aid a gas company by murdering a village in Georgia is so stupid, that it was probably written by a 7th grader. This is the fourth useless movie in as many days, is Netflix a serious campany?
Security (2017)
Wrong man in right role?
Banderas was not right for this 'shjoot'emup' flick.
Mostly because he did it so poorly.
The only reason I gave it two, and not one star is only because of the stupidity of the setup. No organized criminals wouold kill of a US Marshals motorcade because og an 11 yr old witness.
Stupiidity of this magnitiude should be rewardeed
Not because they are not dumb, because they are, but even they can calculate the risks, and the central would see where every car was, and this unscheduled stop would send helicopter units there, as well as tons of officers.
Add to that the Mall started of as Stoneridge (the place he enters) and the guard foreman says it is Ridgeways Mall, and another name again later, to have three names through the film means tjhat their continuity editor was sleeping I understand her.
Den of Thieves (2018)
Promising, but failed
Cant belive the positive feedback on this film, action shootouts and magic windscreens is somewhat fun, but not to that degree.
The cliche hang thick in this maybe engaging and clever script, but was ruined in the editing room.
Wrong actors in the rifght roles? Or the right actors in the wrong roles? Does not matter, the family problems of the cop are cliche.
Driving from Montebelllo to downtown in afternnon traffic within the hour is doable, but....
Disregard for civilian lives and shooting throgh a wall when yuou nothing of if there are civilians there...
The villain and the sheriffs deputy meetin in the villains home?
Na, that leads me to thinking: to many westerns....
Really, a seven star film? Two is the thing it gets, mainly for a good idea, but thta idea was cut belly up in the editing room.
Skyscraper (2018)
Black version of Die hard...
Almost every scene from the Bruce Willis Christmas movie of all time was repeated, poorly.
This was one of the crappiest movies for years that I watched to the end. Yes, the setting and children were addons, but the totally idiotic disregard to how elevators work, amnd how everything else works is appaling.
The film did not engage me for a second, I just hoped that the scriptwriter would surprise me with a sad ending... but no.
I*f this is future of filmmaking, putting a totally charmless cardboardfigure in the lead, and pour on action scenes, I will not watch them I feel content with the old stuff.
The Queen (2006)
Churchill wearing a hat inddors, in the presence of Her Majesty?
Helen Mirren quote: Yes well, you are my tenth Prime Minister, Mr Blair. My first, of course, was Winston Churchill, he sat in your chair in a frock coat and top hat.
This from the beginng of the film, Lord Churchills son, Winston Churchill wearing a hat indoors, a top hat at that? No, no queen would utter such a lie.
The film is a weak 1 star film.
And that Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (the incoming PM) should be unknowing of the protocol for forming a government as well as the protocol with Her Majesty is ludicrous.
HM sharing a bed, yes even a bedroom at Buckingham Palace, is hardly within the reins of reality.
MrBlairs disrespect for the bureacracy might have been closer to the truth, but I really don't think so.
Thi.
Come and Find Me (2016)
The script writer probably was taken ill halfaway
OK, Claire took photos of her inside man,Hall, collaborating with.... what? The Russian car wreckage mafia?
And then she had to go underground because Hall was the only man that could guarantee her safety? What about her university friend? Th eone that brought a million dollar, for what exactly?
He would know that wouldn't save him from being killed, they would find out about him.
And then there is the question about bringing firearms over the border to Canada, and the corrupt Hall, not seeing his gun in his satchel.
Why is he let go to LA, because he was involved shooting the driver? Why did he not shoot Hall?
Why were they looking for the photos in the first place , he could have copied them onto severeal haddrives already.
Negatives? That does not change a thing, you could photoshop whatever, and fotgraph the edited stuff, this could have been something in the 1970s, but not in 2016.
I'll give at couple of stars for the start, the rest was crap.
21 Bridges (2019)
Poor script, poor acting
Police wandering about withoute their Tyvek suits on a muder scene, and generally going down that road, the protagonsit being immune to gunfire, and still hits with every shot...Come on!
The scriptwriter should sticj to Hardy-boys stories. The 5hour limit is something out of a Dirty-Harry)(which was good by the way)
And the classical FBI vs local theme, makes me wonder if it was written in 1974, I have ahard time finding anything positive in this movie. With police captains sitting on the føoor sobbing on the crime scenes af a mass murder, please do not ever make a film with the man in a leading role here.
Bullet to Beijing (1995)
Spy story? Rather a crime comedy that failed
First of all, a Brit needs a visa to go to St. Petersburg , you can not get that on the border or airport it, takes days, only ships passengers can ashore in Russia for a matter of hours without a visa. Same goes for China, but there it takes weeks to get a visa, Mongolia I don't know about, but these requirements alone makes this unbelieavable.
And this is not apy film, it is some western crimes story set in the east, with the norks as bandits in cahoots with Russian bandits and a city woth 250 000 ingabitants is pictured like a village, where the local bar is in a grocery store. Run down lanes with passengers riding in bathrooms and flight desck makes you believe that the filmmakers changed their mind and opted for a comedy, rather bad.
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
To full of errors
Welll, besides the obvious errors about vocubulary, consistently calling the ship a boat, and so on. Yes sailors might call it a boat, but not it's officers. But worst for me, as a Norwegian i calling Jan Mayen a NATO-base , Soviet-officers would know that there is not a military presence om Jan Mayen, with the exception of the stationmaster, he has 15 personnel, amongs the 4 cooks, 3 engineers, maintenence people and finally 2 meteorologiical personnel nit under the stationmaster. No Americans there. So Liam Neesons character would know that there are no Americans there to assist them, still in the film he refers to Americans on Jan Mayen.
Of course they would get help fram the Norwegians at Jan Mayen, it is after all just a 100 minute flight from Bodø,Norway, a city with a Norwegian Air Base, that would help the Russians.
Otherwise it was somewhat entertaining.
Pressure (2015)
Sad story
With the several inaccuracies and plain wrongs this was not enjoyable.
I saw the film through though, hoping for.... whatever... but that did not happen... some enjoyable moments in the beginng gave it an extra star.
Wonder why they did not use the advice of real divers, and why they did not do what rhey did inthe end in the beginning, the bell would take care of the pressure.
The Chinese angle was.... and then turned around in the end, well, what was that all about?
The producers did n0t even check Google earth were they gave rheir position was..... weell, this was weak in more ways than I can say.
The Runners (2020)
How did this get over 5 star rating?
The script is garbage, and so is the acting, the girl Zoe is ugly, the other ones are average, but they all hae to be in their thirties, but are acting in roles that want them to be 17.....
I am amazed that this was om Amazon Prime.
Hanna (2019)
Just rubbish
Badly written, badly directed, hopeless plot.
There should be a board of sane people judging this before production.
Even if we should accept the premise, the practical side og hings are flatly wrong, muslim women do not change any name wgen they marry. Just an example, just becuse you don't have to show yout passport in travel betewwen Belium abd France, does not mean yoi do not wgen ytavelling into Romania.
But the worst is the lack of logic, sonsequence and heneral continuance.
Liberty Stands Still (2002)
Crap alll the way
That the corrupt cop did no see the chain, and that she gace in and locked her self with the xgain in the first place is too much, and the snipers goal is fuzzy, just crap!
Wade in the Water (2019)
If you eally don't have a story to tell, don't tell it!
Characters that leaves you with nothing, and nothing to tell.
An idea gone to waste in tristesse. May be some sense of ...something, but here it is nothing!
Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
A good idea that was spoiled
The deputy's wife had a phone, and probably more than one, also.
But still she arms herself and goes out by herself after the other deputy is shot, and calls no one!
Watchtowers have bushes and trees cut down around them, they normally should survive fires.
The bad guy has a chance to shoot Connor, but he rather leaves that character played by Julia alone, and goes for his knife.....
We get no info about the party guilty of this ever have to account for this.
And the influence of " a mixed cast" makes it even more unbelieveable.