Malarkey

Essentially, you could say that it’s a rather adequately made absolute fantasy movie with everything that goes with it. So no Tolkien-like more history than fantasy or something in the style of The Game of Thrones, where it’s only after the end of the first season that you realize that this isn’t exactly a movie from the middle ages, but that it contains traces of fantasy as well. With this movie, that is clear already with the first digital orc character that appears in the first scene. At that point I realized that there was no other way, as the entire world of Warcraft is based mainly on nations such as elves, orcs, goblins, dwarves or the undead and humans are rather an ancillary nation. Or they do have their place in all this, but it is comparable to that of the other races. So, it took me about half the movie to get used to this film world. It was incredibly colorful, and the digital effect guys did a lot of work as well and looking for a part of the real world in this movie would be as hard as looking for a beer in a crate of Bud Light. But the second half of the movie got me up from my chair and despite initially thinking that I might not watch the movie to the end, the final war scene actually satisfied me, more or less. This doesn’t mean I would need to see the sequel, but on the other hand, I must agree that Blizzard managed to keep an eye of everything. I guess fans of “WoW” or “DotA” will probably die of bliss.

I didn’t know what I was getting into, which means I wasn’t repelled by the poor reviews here. However, at the beginning I was asking myself what kind of bullshit I decided to watch. The best part was when the two guys dared each other in the pub and started whipping each other with a wet rolled up towel trying to decide who can take more. I felt as if I was five again, playingin the sandbox with my cousin competing about who will build a bigger sand cake using the same bucket.

Martin Sheen played the character because of whom I decided to watch this film to the end. Other than that, I don’t understand why somebody has the tendency to turn the same old story into the same old movie thousand times over.

Before I saw this film, I thought that Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale are pretty good-looking chicks. But they are hotter now that when they were twenty. Other than that, they got entangled in quite an interesting conflict with a classical 1990’s atmosphere and a solid blow-up at the end. The ending makes the movie worth watching. You won’t believe it until you see it. In my opinion, this is the greatest self-sacrifice in the history of film.

The weakest predators in the history of film were playing cat and mouse with the worst soldiers on the face of the Earth. Adrien Brody put on about 15 kilograms of muscle for this role, yet he still looks like a stick. Goggins, on the other hand, generally plays fags in most movies and here he is supposed to put in an absolute performance worthy of the SAS. Neither of them managed to clear that hurdle. It looks embarrassing, and what’s even worse is the Chinese guy, who swordfights one of the predators. I don’t know if the predators were just sick of what a bunch of amateurs those morons were, of they were the weakest predators ever. However, both those things made sure that even otherwise good ideas were buried with everything else in this film.

The expectations were sky-high and the result was definitely worth it. Having said that, I definitely recommend watching this movie – if possible – with dubbing. This might be the only movie for which I would recommend that, but at the same time I believe that it’s still better than listening to that “Czech” English spoken by English actors, which, according to the director, was his intention to be able to differentiate Czechs from Germans. And I don’t hold it against him. I got over it quite quickly, but I understand that it might be grating for some people. What was worse was the camera, which in some crucial action scenes was flying around like a rag on the broom wielded by a Ukrainian cleaning lady. But what the hell, I got over that as well and I have to admit that despite some uncertainty during the assassination scene, I was literally excited about the final scene in the church. And that was despite the camera flying about, which added the right amount of confusion to the scene and thus created undoubtedly the best war scene of the past few years. But it’s not only about these individual things. Anthropoid deserves praise mainly as a whole. I don’t think I’ve seen such cooperation between Czech and English filmmakers. That cooperation alone makes the movie unique in my mind. If somebody is giving this a two-star review, I guess they watched the same movie but didn’t perceive what I did. This was the first time that somebody wanted to take a story from Czech, or rather Czechoslovak history and present it to the whole world. And Adam Ellis was a great choice in my opinion. This incredibly sad story deserves global attention. And I believe that Anthropoid did its best!

A beautiful Irish road movie that will give you exactly what you are expecting of it. Naturally, what you get is a journey through a beautiful landscape inhabited by melancholic and thoughtful people who tend to think a lot about life. On top of that, this was the first bigrole for Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter and that also influenced me in my review. Obviously for the better.

Now I know why it took me years to finally see this movie. It’s actually pretty worthless. The story was penned by Halina Pawlovská and the main role was portrayed by Ivana Chýlková. That alone is nothing to write home about. I decided to bear with the movie because of a single actor, who was completely unknown to me – Franciszek Pieczka. I don’t know him at all, I didn’t understand a single thing he said, but his acting performance paralyzed me. Other than that, I can safely say that today we have much better movies available on a similar topic.

Naked erect dicks form the basis of this movie. It’d been a long time since I saw an uncompromising comedy, so I finally got to see one. And this one actually knocked me off my feet pretty well. It’s a pity, however, that brutal motifs were alternating with several boring moments. Well a comedy of this variety cannot keep it up for the entire length of the movie. So the second, more dramatic half was a bit worse, which also goes for the beginning of the movie, which was rather slow-ish. But other than that, I got to see scenes that I will never forget and that convinced me that film as a genre in general still has a lot to offer.

Tom Hardy felt like a dual role and a dual role he got. And truth be told, he did a more-or-less good job portraying the two brothers, who are both criminals and who are each a little different. It’s a pity that the movie only starts getting really interesting once their entire empire begins to crumble apart. At that point, Legend capitalized on the entire story, which was otherwise not that interesting, and the movie prepared a rather tragic unravelling of the plot. And that was good. Mainly because the story was written by life itself. I actually felt really sad at the end of the movie about the human tragedy.