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Revolver (2005)
too many blanks
Because I am a fan of his first two movies, Lock, Stock... and Snatch, I had hoped that the returning of Rithcie to the genre that launched him would be good news. I'm not sure anymore. The action?! Hm... Jason Statham is a crook who just got out of jail after seven years and dreams only to revenge on Ray Liotta(a big casino owner). After he takes from him a really consistent amount of money, he finds out he has only three more days to live. And this only if he doesn't accept the help from a couple of moneylenders (Vincent Pastore and Andre Benjamin). And from here on, I was lost. Between these four, the action is so braided, that even them (the actors, not the characters) don't know, probable, what's going on. And when the movie continued with quotes from "Caesar", "The foundation of Chess" and "Machiavelli", I got it: Ritchie presented us a lesson of metaphysics. I would like to say that it is an intelligent movie, which I managed to watch from beginning to the end. But if I do, I'm afraid I will get a thousand mails asking me to explain it. And then what will I do ?! If there were original, some of the things from the movie would have impressed me. But there are only stereotypes. There is some kind of Keyser Soze like The Usual Suspects, blood bath like Kill Bill. There are chapters, but also reverses of chronology like Pulp Fiction. Frames that make you think of Twin Peaks. Double personality, like Figh Club. But the most interesting scene made me think of Leon, from Nikita, which deserved a movie only for him: here also exists a professional killer, who wares glasses and is stammer, and which, sensitized by a little girl, takes care of a whole gang of bandits to save her father. I guess Revolver it's worth seeing. Perhaps more times, maybe someone understands it and explains it to me too. But I'm definitely waiting the sequel with Mark Strong in the lead role.
Dracula the Impaler (2002)
a very good comedy
I went to see this movie when it appeared in cinemas. I had the opportunity of going to it when the actors where there. They sat and watched the movie like we did, but they preferred to leave the cinema before the movie was over. I guess because all the laughing they heard. This movie is a very good comedy, considering it was meant to be a serious one. I didn't understood why the actors were talking in English and in Hungarian, even though they were in Romania. I guess this is the effect that Dracula had on them. The dialog can make you laugh, if you compare it to the one you'll find in almost every movie that's not made in Romania. In my opinion, the two lines that deserve attention is " the boss is p***ed off " and " in our time, we used to smoke pot and f**k like rabbits ". The vampires are great, every one of them is wearing t-shirts with bands written on them, like offspring, and they all have long hair, probably some students who listen to rock music, and didn't had any money to buy beers.