Priest - Film Review

It is difficult to descrive this movie without being negative. The actors are more or less well in their roles, but the story is quite pointless and looks more like a pilot episode of a TV series than a real film, maybe it was a pilot episode, well, not that I was aware of it when I decided to watch it.
The plot summary on IMDB has already a spoiler as at the beginning of the story it is told that the girl who has to be rescued is the daughter of the brother of the priest, later it turns out to be his daughter, but IMDB already tells you that.
This spoils one of the two not so big surprises of the movie. The second is quite obvious after 20 minutes of watching.
However, the combat scenes even if more or less forced into the story are quite fine and the post-apocalipse feeling of the movie is quite well done.
Not so bad, could have been worse but, well, not really a winner....

A different fairy tale...

A quite strange maybe bizzarre even movie we watched yesterday. In some respects it resembles the Dutch film "Sint" (Wiki, IMDB) wherein a traditional fairy tale or "story for kids" takes a more tenebrous aspect.
This one is a Finnish product, the land of the real Santa as the film proclames, which if weird in its story and narrative, not so really scary but actually funny. Soundtrack was in Finnish in our copy, so we have to read the English subtitles and learn a bit of Finnish in the process :)

13

I watched this film last Saturday and I am still thrilled.
I would like to watch also the original one (13 Tzameti) but taking into account that both films were written and directed by the same filmmaker (Géla Babluani) and the info on wikipedia for the plots (beware of total spoiler if you read them in advance), it seems to be that more this time the remake is really a remake (total copy) of the original one.
A dark story, full of psychological violence and tension.
Just awesome.

Unknown

I watched this film some weeks ago thanks to a friend who liked it.
I have to agree.
The plot is quite decent, well drafted, the actors are credible and even if the story sounds Known the little surprises make it a bit Unknown.
:)

Hope you also like it.

No one is left behind

Based in a true story, until yesterday unknown to me, this very decent and elegant (if you allow me) movie remembers me of the "old" war movies about WWII.
It does not portrait the life of the soldier as great and very masculine, nor as heroic unkillable killing machines, does not make too much of propaganda for the U.S. forces and has not a "happy ending".
The movie just relates the odyseey of a group of US soldiers trapped in the middle of hostile territory in the city of Mogadishu (Somalia) during a "failed" operation to arrests the main warlord at the time, Mohamed Farrah Aidi (wiki).
The movie is based on a book of the same title (wiki) and both seem to be a fair account of the disaster.

Mexican Law

Just back from the cinema and still laughing.
This is movie is just crazy. The whole idea and set up is weird and funny.
I don't know what to tell you about without being a spoiler.
Just go to watch it, and be prepared for some gore, killing not machine, but Machete :D

Now, You know what I do for a living

Great movie.
True, Stallone looks old, but let's face it, he is old.

But, as far as I know this movie is the first and only one with Stallone, Schwarzeneger and Willis on it.
The scene they play together is just great.
I concede that Arnold only plays less than one minute in the movie, but, on the other hand he is retired from the movie business, maybe too busy being Governator (and being parodied by The Umbilical Brothers [Official Site]).

The plot is very linear ad without many surprises, but that is not the point, this movie is not Casablanca, but more like a burger in a MacDonalds, you know what you are getting for your money.
And in this case, what you get is a bunch of action movie guys beating up a whole army :D :D

Hope you enjoy it !

The Time Traveler's Wife

Based on a book which was recommended to me some time ago by a friend, I must say that I did not get the time to read the book, however I just saw the movie and it is great.

Very well done, nice dialogues, good actors, incredible situations and a lot of time traveling :D

As usual no spoilers here, so nothing about how it ends or something like that.

Go to the cinema and enjoy it !

As soon as I read the book, I will tell you about ;D

Sirens in the Aegean

Sirens in the Aegean is a film by Nico Perakis from 2005 which was projected last week during the Greek Film Festival in Delft (Wiki).
The plot is quite simple, a bunch of soldiers decide to scene a joke for one of the members of the platoon who was supposed to have three free days to meet his new girlfriend. Instead of that, his "friends" (including his sergeant) make him believe that they have be mobilized and send in status of maximal alert to the island of Pitta (a piece of stone barely visible above the sea level just in front of Turkey).
The situation gives place to weird situations and escalates when a turkish boat approach the island and some of the crew members try to disembark on the little island.
A lot of funny dialogues and remarks about the rivality between Greek and Turkey are present and will manage to get you into the mood even if you can not speak Greek or turkish and need to rely on the English subtitles.
If you have the chance, watch it and hope you enjoy it.

Not Funny

Not funny at all !

According to my DVD magazine review this movie was supposed to be very funny but actually Paul Blart*Mall Cop is not a funny movie.

The plot seemed fine. A guy with some problems due to hypoglycemia tries to be a cop but due this issue does not manage to pass the physical test and just goes on with his job as mall cop. There is daughter for a previous marriage and a nice girl on the mall which the main character finds very attractive and you learn almost at the beginning that she also likes him. There is also a bunch of bad guys who try to take over the mall to steal all the money from the shop just before they close thanks to some computer thing.

At first approach, the movie has a bit of everything: romance, not so common disease, action, bad guys, and so on; but the movie just falls into common easy jokes.

The guy is quite fat due to his problem and a lot of situations arise where this issue is used to try to make fun by the easy method of ridiculing him or best to say to try to make fun but the jokes are so bad that you almost have to cry.

The secondary characters are also very easy and the plot just does not add. The bad guys are bad, very bad but just as characters not as opponent. They are a useless bunch of idiots without any substance. They are just there because they are needed for the plot but they are so bad portrait that no one can believe on the characters.

The romantic part of the movie is more or less fine, but that is not so difficult, isn't it?

Conclusion: A movie that maybe you should avoid wasting your time with.

By the power of Grayskull !

Last night we watched the film Hot Fuzz (Wiki) and we really enjoyed it.

The film is about a kind of fantastic good police officer in the UK which is transferred to a little nothing in the middle of nowhere and how he (not)connect with the new surroundings.
The film is from the same team as the fabulous "Shaun of the dead" and very hilarious.

Plenty of great moments and ironic dialogues together with excellent actors, habitual from English movies. Two of the secondary characters, for example, were part of the team of "Love Actually", namely the old rock star and the guy making the poses for the porno movies.

But no spoilers and no more words here.

Just Watch It !!

Inglourious Basterd

No spoilers here.


Just go to the cinema and watch it if you didn't yet.

Great movie, sometimes a bit too slow, but clearly a Tarantino's film.

Origin

In few words: Great Movie.

For those of you who have already read the comics (Wolverine Origin), tell you that the movie summarised the comics in more or less 2 minutes and then goes on with its own argument and plot.
But there is nothing wrong with this. The first X-Men movie was already not following the comics 100%, a trend which was continued by the second and also the last part.
The characters in those movies were already known by every Marvel fan, but the story behind was a bit different.
With Wolverine Origin is again the case. The main characters are already known, namely Logan and Striker and for everyone who has watched the second movie, it is clear that there has to be a connecting point between both of them and the adamantium.
A lot of questions are solved by this film, but of course, a lot more arise.

The best part is to try to recognize all the mutants who are in the movie, some are obvious (no names, no spoilers here), other maybe not.

Also a good deal of special effects and some plot twists which maybe are not the taste of everyone, but which make the film version of the Marvel universe astonishing also for comic readers.

My advise: go to the cinema and enjoy it !

Fuera de carta

The human beings who boast of knowing me well may be surprised to read this comment in which, for once in my life, I’m going to write (good) about a Spanish film. Please, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not telling that all the movies “made in Spain” are bad, I’m only trying to clarify that very often I have difficulties to connect with its humour o its plots and at the end I usually find them quite stupid or boring.
When some weeks ago I saw the trailer in the cinema I supposed that, as seems be usual in this kind of films, they had shown all the good jokes in order to attract audience, but it made me laugh and I though “come on, maybe this one is good”, hopping that this wasn’t another sad case of ninety minutes of crap and only five of amusement. Two weeks later, more or less, we went to see “Fuera de carta” and when the lights were turned off we enjoyed one of the funniest Spanish comedies which we’ve ever seen.
The main character, Maxi (performed by Javier Camara, a well-know name into the Spanish comedy), is a brilliant chef, who dreams of achieve his first Michelin star and who lives perfectly happy with his homosexuality. But life is always full of surprises and his past slap him in the face when he has to take care of his little daughter and his teenager son (that he has not seen since ages), after the sudden death of their mother. As if it wasn’t enough, an Argentinean ex-football player enters in Maxi’s life. Unfortunately, his forever-single friend Alexandra also goes for the handsome Argentinean who, in turn, is not very sure about if he should come out of the closet or not…
Don’t worry; I’m not going to spoil the movie for you by telling what happens at the end. I would prefer to read some other opinions, if you have the chance to see it…

We have to talk.....

with these simples words you can make people look to you with huge eyes, even if you are only eight year old and you say that to your daddy after your first school lesson of sexual education.

That is the starting point of this movie, which is not a normal romantic comedy just by the fact that from the beginning of the movie we are already aware of the end result, Maya, the eight years old girl who pronounces such words.

In the aftermath of this first school lesson, this girl decides that she would like to know why his dad is divorcing her mom (no really spoiling anything here as it is already in the movie description).

The father tries at the beginning to avoid the question and just states "it is complicated". Obviously, such  a lame answer does not satisfies the curiosity of the girl or the spectator, therefore the father is "forced" to start telling her "the story", which starts on 1992.

In some way the movie remembers me of "how I met your mother", the TV Series. In both of them there is story from the past about how the parents of someone met. The main difference here is the length of the story, which is limited to the around two hours for the movies and three seasons from the TV series (so far...) and of course the same nature of the story.

Here we have the father who is explaining to his daughter which girls he was dating and when, but without saying the real names.

In this way, neither the daughter nor the spectator knows which one he married and therefore which one is, actually, the mother.

Along the movie three different women are presented as protagonists of the sentimental life of the father.

In an alphabetical order, they are: April, Emily and Summer.

Each one is, obviously, different, not only in their character, aspirations or behavior, but also in their physical appearance.

And all the three are or were involved in a sentimental way with the father, so for the girl, anyone of them could be her mother and she, along with the spectator "has" to guest which one is "the one". Of course, as spectator, you can just don't play along and not try to discover it, but in doing so you are going to miss a big part of the fun of the movie. Which, on the other hand, is full with good dialogues, very funny remarks from the little girl about the past life and habits of her dad and also some weird situations.

Again  not a philosophical, huge ethical debates, moral questions movie, but just a movie to make you smile and maybe a little more happy.

And now, which one is your bet, April, Emily or Summer ?