Reviews

Did you love inception? Were you as in awe as you were confused the first time you saw Pulp Fiction? Then this is the film for you! Beautifully shot, gripping my storyline combine with amazing live action sequences that will keep you confusingly on the edge of your seat. It's more Jason Bourne that James Bond but a homage to both, playing with the standard clichés but in a modern and refreshing way. The soundtrack was good but I am a big Zimmer fanboy so kept thinking did it grab me like Dunkirk? Not sure that it did. Either way 100% worthy of your concentration.

Wow. Wow Wow wow!

Just seen aliens at The cinema - absolutely blooming phenomenal. I've been dying to see it since I was a kid in the 90s. This is the exact reason why you go to the cinema to watch these kind of films. How can you get scared at a Zombie, when you know there are Xenomorphs out there?! I was jumping like Tigger throughout the whole film even though I've seen it loads of times!!! Definitely watch In a cinema if you get the chance. 🙌🏼

The only character you give a s#!t about is Nuno Lopes's. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 The rest is a cliche of characterisation. The worst thing however, is someone has written the most annoying protagonist who ever existed!

Library bumpkin that wants to mix with the bad boys To find her Brothers killer. "I want you to know I do say yes. I just went and had a dance and I really enjoyed it" wtf kind of writing is that? that's not a sheltered life that a nuclear bunker monstrosity!

The comedic aspects feel forced or unbelievable. And for an "edgy" drama, the subtitles were toned down. It's Kevin & Perry meets El Dorado I'm sad to say. Narcos is head and shoulders above this.

It's been 20 years since I played MK so I had fun remembering some of the characters names. But that was about it. It was better than MK in 1995, yes, but that's not saying much. Fair play to Warner Bros for giving Manga a go, but Sutorîto Faitá II gekijô-ban aka Street Fighter II: the Movie (1994) is still by far the benchmark computer game animation film.

All good films have great writing, this has some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard. It's like it's written by 5 year olds and jokes are truly awful. Like a good soundtrack watch Baby Driver Like dystopian movies watch The Running Man Like nerd movies watch Hackers Like chase movies watch terminator Like laughing watch the big Lebowski.

Anything but this!

Thought I'd come back and give it a second watch having seen Charlotte Awbery's stunning cover of Shadow today. It's even more gut wrenching a second time round! An absolute stellar performance from all of the cast but, Bradley does his best work yet, he absolutely nails the fragile and Lost singer. And kudos for Lady Gaga making her foray into the world of acting 👏🏻

The Dialogue OMG! Amazing!! Im still trying to work out the significance of the 4 spotlights that appear throughout the film. Well worth two hours watching it!

What an amazing film! Clearly an essay on the class divide. Writing lovable but nasty people is tough, but perfectly executed here.

They quite clearly cross the line, and when I mean "they" I mean bother the working class and the upper class. You could easily argue that "parasite" refers to one family trying to suck another family dry. Or that the upper class is draining the labour of the lower class, and expecting them to be grateful about it too! There is also something about the American Indian theme, a metaphor for dying cultural traditions which are being replaced by modernity? Nature is dog eat dog? Or is it a homage to an "idyllic" past where Native American culture was relatively classless?

Either way a must watch if you can handle subtitles!

A solid 7. Wish I could give it more. Some great performances but it felt more like an adult Disney sing-along. Some of the cuts were sloppy and out of sync so you struggled to connect at times.

It felt quite commercial at times, like I was watching a Westend musical, it should have been more of a gritty realist endeavour, followed by a musical theatre show of his life, then THIS film should have been the film about the musical. I liked that It's a story about his life using his songs to take you through his rollercoaster life, I was singing along and tapping away. So it's good but I wanted it to be GREAT.

30 mins in and I already want to hit myself. Dialogue -awful "snowboarding with an avalanche on your bootie?"

A string of action set pieces loosely strung together with an apparent "plot". Trying to speak to the world outside of the US by including football - that Namar opening scene was terrible! Not funny Not remotely believable And will make you dumber.

James Bond has nothing to worry about.

Why take a raw and emotional event and Hollywoodize it? I'm glad Clint didn't do that. It was brave to tell this story without professional actors and I like the fact they used the real guys. The flash backs felt out of kilter with the story and shoved in to make sure people weren't getting bored of the back story. But saying that the finale was very moving and I did feel like a passenger - it certainly got the tear ducts going which is an accolade in itself. Not one of his best but worth a watch for sure.

Leaving aside the accusations of "white washing" everyone agrees this film is visually stunning, and it is there's a certain depth to the images the original didn't have. At some points it felt like the skyscrapers had skyscrapers on them! This is where the majority of the 6stars go.

But there seems to be loads of other sci-fi influences chucked in there too. In the original 1995 film I don't remember any of these holographic overlays on the dystopian cityscape. Maybe they featured in the GitS TV series but for me it had much more Blade Runner DNA in it. The whole film felt a lot more Neo Noir than the original ever did. One scene (entrance to the Hanka building) felt like it was straight out of Robocop. Another had all of these swishing lights and very similar noise to a light sabre. Were they all influences on Masamune Shirow or just chucked in for a bit of Hollywood "depth"?

Where the film really let itself down was that it fundamentally rewrote the film. In the original it is cyborg and human vs AI. In this version it's cyborg & human vs cyborg. This diminishes the whole philosophical content and distorts the context. May be I'm being pedantic but the movie is weakened when you change the story line, from an AI who wants to experience mortality and procreation to one of a Cyborg love interest.

My final gripe is the ending. In the original it is one of the most interesting and thought provoking scenes. The remake features most of it but misses out on the best part of the scene; the Spider Tank shooting up the dinosaur fossils and a stone masonry tree of life. Stopping just shot of the highest branch (Hominis). It's this lack of richness where the film lets itself down. Of course a lot of the changes will be so that they can Make a trilogy out of the universe and do a spin off trilogy for Badou too. #ihatemycynicism still worthy of a watch I guess but don't build up your expectations.