Reviews

A generic franchise starter for a sequel that's likely never gonna be made. As usual with this type of movies, it tells a story that ends with the main character being the person we wanted to see in the firsr place, and planting the seeds of a story that looks far more interesting than what the part one presents. Actually, to see the actual story that the filmakers want to tell in the sequel, we just need to watch the previous GI Joe movies. I think this was made only for inclusion, to make an american movie with mostly Asian actors; but for that we have a lot of Chinese movies on Netflix. The action scenes are shaky and dark, so they are no even enjoyable. And the movie is very violent, but without blood or gore, so that's the PG-13.

At least it wasn't boring, has a moral worldview for the main character, and makes a very good casting for Henry Golding as the next James Bond.

I'd rather prefer to have seen The Tomorrow War in a theater than this movie, in relation to the Paramount pictures that were sold to streaming during the pandemic.

I didn't like this movie at the beginning because of the hurried way the story begins. The characters know each other, go from a meeting, to a talk, to a date, to bed and to start a relationship. I also consider that the sexual scenes are excessive because they contribute nothing to the plot. However, after that failed first part, the film tells the second part of the story with extraordinary rhythm, manufacturing and staging. That second third of the film works as a great example of tension and suspense; in fact there is a very large parallel with Parasites, in the sense that the most suspenseful moments of the film take place in a huge house with a hidden bunker whose existence is unknown to the owners. I was pleased to see this level of quality and effort of Mexican cinema in creating a good production. For bad fortune, the resolution of the film was not satisfactory because it involves decisions of amoral characters. It is a film in which the characters act for the heart and not with ethics, and that bothered me. I don't empathize with characters like that, so the destiny of each one ends regardless. In addition, the character of Luis Fernando Peña has a kind of aversion for that of Jose María de Tavira and is never explained why. In conclusion, I recommend this movie not for the quality of the story it tells but for supporting Mexican cinema that has a more risky proposal than the silly comedies we regularly watch.

Typical survival film in which a group of people suffer a disaster and are trapped in a place of difficult access from which they can only exit through a long and dangerous journey amid obstacles that not everyone will survive. On this occasion the stage is a station that controls a maritime drilling 10,000 meters underwater. I admire of the film that features characters that make decisions based on the common good, which leads them to make sacrifices or get ahead of adversity. Thinking of that kind needs this world now. I also recognize that there is a careful production, with amazing scenarios and a sound worth enjoying in the movie theater. Even so, the pace of the movie is unstoppable, something always happens and what happens is not always understandable. The characters are introduced instantaneously, when in this movie genre is more enjoyable to know their background to suffer or enjoy who is saved or not. There are some dialogues and scenes in which we know something about them, but not enough to sustain all the time we spend with them. The edition is made of very fast cuts, which prevents us from appreciating what the characters do to save themselves, or to die. And there is a subplot that involves some monsters that stalk these people but I didn't feel it contributed something relevant to the main plot and you don't even know what those things are. It could have been just a disaster movie without having that unnecessary part of the monsters. And in the end, we came to appreciate the character of Kirsten Stewart more, but his destiny is uncertain, and that frustrated me. I would not recommend this movie to spend money in a movie theater, but to rent it at home and watch it with a good HD screen and a good sound system while eating pizza.

Produced and adapted by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens (the team behind the trilogies of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit), Mortal Engines tells a heroic odyssey of several characters who find themselves by hazards of fate in the middle of a futuristic world in which cities are mobile and the largest ones 'eat' the smallest. It is a film that combines science fiction with adventure and that in general I enjoyed a lot at the entertainment level. The different stories of the characters of the film are crossed and little by little we learn the past and the current context of the main characters, which allows us as spectators to follow their story. The performance of the protagonist fulfills in the sense that it goes from being a vengeful to an action heroine and a girl in love; also she is very pretty. Equally Hugo Weaving knows how to interpret villains until in his sleep and here he does it as well as he did previously. The action scenes are well-armed, they are exciting and constant, so they help maintain a good rhythm in the plot. Also the visual effects are very showy but do not cause discomfort or feel left over. There is a social commentary on the way in which a first world country receives its migrants with open arms and then deny them opportunities or so that they later become as insensitive as the population that received them. They also address issues of totalitarianism, honor and family ties. The plot is structured between the sequences of action and go knowing the past of the characters to find their motivations for the conflict; I felt that these narrative resources were well managed. In particular, the third act contains a form of narration that I enjoy very much: several characters having their own sequences of action, each one fighting with different villains, to achieve the objective that they propose. However towards the end the film feels rushed, being that it was building well both the plot and the characters. I expected the three main characters to meet for the third act of the film and collaborate to defeat the villains; I think that would have given the climax greater emotion and emotion; but it seems that they left that moment for the sequel that, in the movie form, will never happen because of the box office failure of the film. This hurry makes the arc of those characters to not close satisfactorily. But in general, the balance is positive and it is a film that exceeded my expectations and that deserved to be seen by the public in a giant screen because it strives to tell a competent story.

I went to see this movie because I was waiting an exciting adventure with great visuals, but since I knew that a sequel for the original Transformers was coming I released that the story would be as incoherent as the first movie, and I was right. In fact i felt slept during the projection. Yes, the movie includes amazing fx and action sequences but those are not exciting. And the reason is because the plot of the movie is one of the worst written I've ever seen in an American movie. First, why the hell there is a woman transformer, something like Terminator 3. Then, it is supposed that only a Prime can kill another Prime, but in the movie Optimus Prime is killed by a Decepticon... I think. And Finally I never understood why all the adventure finish in Egypt and why there is and 30 minute fight. I mean, is awesome but it has no reason. Also, something I hated since the first movie is the inclusion of the American army; for me it's like some kind of exaltation for joining American teens into the army. In conclusion, this a movie without a coherent plot that means the cancer of the American cinema...