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My platonic love Leon and his always perfectly styled hair saved the world once again. Is it cheesy? Yes! And is it wrong? Not at all! :D The execution - flawless, the story - simple, and that's how it should be! I love it, and I can watch it for the fifty-eighth time, and it will entertain me just as much as the first time.

An absolutely great movie for aspiring screenwriters - as a cautionary example of what not to do. From the first minute, it's clear what's going on, who the bad guy is, and why. Watching a film where there's zero surprise, and everything is guessed in advance, is like waking up on New Year's Eve and pretending it's mid-May - it just doesn't work.

Well, where do I even begin... if this was supposed to be a comedy, it wasn't funny; if a drama, it bored me, and if a romance, it was completely emotionless. If I understood it correctly (which I've been struggling with in movies lately), it was supposed to be a gloomy thriller about a terrifying cult, but instead, it turned into an ultra-awkward and bizarre something with extremely "tough" tattooed guys. It didn't work out, and it's only saved by a few good fight scenes with detached limbs. There's no deeper message to look for in this, it's just a waste of time.

Dead City is just another confirmation that the entire series The Walking Dead, once the most successful TV show ever, is now just a dying concept. It's a classic example of something being artificially prolonged and lacking reflection on the fans' opinions, instead blindly pursuing profits, which is a path to hell.

Let's be honest - who understood this movie right from the beginning? :) Time traveling and bending of the spacetime continuum are always quite complicated matters, but they can be presented in a relatively understandable way, which, unfortunately, wasn't the case for me here. The concept is great, the actors are good (Pattinson pleasantly surprises), the effects are cool, and the action is intense, but towards the end, there are too many unanswered questions and a slight taste of not fully grasping the plot, resulting in an incomplete experience. Christopher Nolan has shown he can do much better, as demonstrated in movies like Inception or Interstellar. This is, for me, his weakest work so far, but still a quality watch.

For how much of a crap the first movie was (despite my painful efforts, I couldn't manage to finish watching it, I admit), the sequel was actually a very pleasant surprise! Chris rediscovered at least a tiny bit of his acting talent, the story was, well, okay, and the locations were perfect (an old Georgian prison will always work). The action was comparable, if not better, than in the latest John Wick movie (yeah, I know, I'm going to hell for saying that). Surely, there are moments when the main character survives the unsurvivable, like repeatedly taking cover behind a ladder during a shootout with a helicopter (yes, a HELICOPTER, and yes, behind a ladder), which will probably become a slightly cultish cliché forever. However, prioritizing action over all those empathetic BS, as it's become a good habit these days, proved to be the right choice for an action film, resulting in an incredibly enjoyable spectacle.

I'll keep it simple -this had quite a significant potential... and it ended up as a slightly dumb slasher with the obligatory racial diversity among the main characters and Black Lives Matter and COVID themes. Ugh.

As is often the case with me, my expectations were quite high :) Based on the trailer, it seemed like a decent psychological horror film, but due to its execution (casting, locations, escalation), it falls behind in the end. The concept is original and entertaining - a demon inside a death row inmate and his psychologist who must determine if he is sane enough to be executed or declare him mentally ill to avoid the electric chair. Perhaps I'm a demanding viewer, but I was expecting much more. I was disappointed with the choice of actors for the main characters, and a plot set in a single room must be gripping, or the viewer will inevitably get bored after 10 minutes. Even the ending, which was supposed to be somewhat shocking, did not impressed me at all. So, for me, it was a disappointment, but not a complete failure :)

Even though it's the "latest" cinematic work of Starship Troopers, the effects and story are probably the dumbest of them all :) They did bring back Casper, aka Rico, but it's not the same anymore; you can only appreciate Lola's lips as big as monster truck tires. For me, it was a slight disappointment, and I can't really say many positive things - actually, none at all. But what annoyed me the most was the religious propaganda (that praying at the very end was just too much!) and those special effects, oh my god, those effects LOL.

This movie probably won't make it into the golden vault of cinematography, but that's not a reason to say it's a complete piece of sh*t. In my opinion, there are plenty of people like me, who were hooked on the first one and will enjoy this so-called sequel as well. Rico is missing, and it's a bit amusing to see Brenda Strong in the cast. She played the uptight (literally) captain of the starship in the first one, and here we have her as a super hot cool marine with a weakness for Cuban monster cigars, and honestly, it suits her perfectly! For me, it's a great movie because it somewhat stays true to the original source, and those propaganda recruitment videos keep playing, that exaggerated sense of civic duty and genuine loyalty and pride of all the US Marines going into that damn bug war :D For me, this works mainly because it's set in a single location (an abandoned base) and we slowly massacre a group from the inside. The idea of bug infiltration is brilliant, and the execution is almost morbid (through coitus and smooching), especially the scene in the shower with the "discarded" technician, which is probably the most memorable (literally). Anyone who rates this piece as Boo! probably didn't really understand what the movie is trying to do, but I understand and I get it :) I say it's a fuckin' awesome movie, bro!