Another japanese John Wick/ Gun-Fu attempt, and actually, pretty good! For a revival of an iconic 90s comic, which was once fittingly played by Jackie Chan, City Hunter 2024 brings all the elements to make the series something to look forward to again. Unlike John Wick, Ryo in City Hunter is a total show off which puts him in a perfect spot for lots and lots of flashy Gun-Fu mixed with, you guessed it- Jackie Chan-esque action humor, which is still the No.1 popular kind of action movie in Japan even now. This IP has the potential to be big and I look forward to a bigger budget sequel soon.
This was really going somewhere, until it doesn't. the acting was spot on for the horrifying existential crisis that carried through the silver screen, but just as you thought you were going to get some resolution for going through all the suffering with Cage's character for 2 hours, you were left hanging when the lights came on.
As cheesey as they get was Ghost Rider, especially the prologue, "erh" is how I would describe it.
Every piece of information in this film is a spoon-feeding process done to you in dialogues plainer than white bread, and that seams to be the only way Hollywood handled comic adapts back the 2000s. To think that this only came 3 years before Ironman for me is still troubling to believe.
The way the camera moves, the way the female lead talks (and costumed, and many more things women that is totally uncool to view in 2024 standards), to the way the music is composed and played- all screams mediocrity louder than anything else, but hey, you and I both finished watching it so I guess there're some merits in making a movie about daredevil bike rider with flaming skull heads.
Absolutely genius. i would never have thought a script this perfect is possible
This movie taught me that too much handhelds in a bright, contrasty movie REALLY hurts your eyes... (in contrast to horror movies like Rec., it shakes like hell but it's mostly black so it's :) )
If I learnt something else that would be I don't agree with the oscar committee on movies.
Had I seen this as a teen, maybe i would have learnt about passion and being in love very differently. Still, I love it in my 20s. I look forward to coming back again in my 30s and reflect.
Fact: daddy got turned into a worm for 4 MINUTES (out of a 90+ mins screen time)... and in that 4 minutes Ursula was defeated BY HERSELF... what was i supposed to feel?
A morning poop my cat took- is what looked better and smelled better than 65.
This movie should go straight to movie hell and never be mentioned again.
You have to see it to believe it - big budget utter sxxt is still being made in 2022. Just think of the many lives that could have been saved using that budget people. Alas alas.
Weird ass movie! It's like a bonkers version of Children of Men.
A fantastic gateway movie for those, who just picked up an interest in Japanese animation, wondering what's more to this genre than Ghibli and Shonen action anime.
A silent Voice is a great movie that tells the worth of animation, just as Satoshi Kon would say it, it has a freedom that is priceless and irreplaceable.
The efforts were all thrown into recreating the thrill ride we had in the Lord of the Rings, and we end up with nothing new and nothing more.
Indiana Jones: Fan service and a feast for your eyes about your child hero old and immobile.
when I finally see the jump, I can't help but think: what other value does this add to the movie, other than to have something to do marketing on? i still don't have an answer for that.
In short, the 2 reasons why I like the film but was ultimately disappointed, are: 1. it was too chopped up in edits thus the focus was blurry; and 2. we are too hyped up for a new Nolan movie.
While he is still the refreshing breeze in the stinking film industry that blows our way every once in a while, and yes, his movies are always worth the ticket price- but Nolan just hasn't been the great story teller he used to be.
When it is "fun" to just let loose, not think about anything and enjoy the marvelous cinematography and laugh at the silly dance, you can't tell everyone "best not to think about it" at EVERY problem in the plot when your story is ultimately about your protagonists having their great quest to self realization. There is a famous statue in Moscow by the waterfront where it is marveled at and laughed at by its citizens for its gigantic size and lack of purpose. While there's definitely a lot of craftsmanship in its making, it's resulted in nothing more than a good laugh and something fun to look at when your eyes have no better place to look at.
For Barbie, "Fun" is nothing but a cheap escape for a bad script and lack of mindful creativity, and a failed attempt to make itself a work of serious importance it is proclaiming to be.
Looking back, this movie is definitely one of the low points of 90s cinema, made uninspiredly from the golden formula borrowed from countless better movies with a similar rogue cop plot. First you need - 1 agent / police who must fight against bureaucracy; + 1 Black sidekick who is good with supporting from remote; + 1 forgetable chick who offers help blindly and unconditionally; + someone to save who always runs off or get caught and need saving; and don't forget the bad guy who has a crooked justice in his big head and a s*** load of authority.
There are actually plenty of flicks back then (and still now) which are actually well made using this formula, but if you happened to do too little or too much, there is still a chance you mess up big time and you end up burning millions of dollars to produce 120 minutes of trash time and wasted talent here and there.
Mercury rising is definitely one of the cases where they mess up, but too little or too much you ask? Well, I don't know and I don't want to know. Do you?
This movie is weak beyond measure, and not any good acting can save the terrible directing. How did WB greenlight this stuff???
It's got all the action movie clichés you can think of, protagonist that got in the eye of storm by accident, bomb defusing, Morse codes, antagonist that always gets an extra life, action clichés you name it you got it. its got ideas pulled from everywhere but it was detail filled enough that the actual result was pretty good to the eye.
If I'm to see an action movie, this is the kind i want to see.
Epic scale, little depth.
The actors delivered well, Eric Bana and actor of old king Priam were especially impressive. some overacting here and there to cope with the style is understandable for me, but the script is very mediocre, compared with the eye dazzling fight choreography and amusing set designs.
In short, typical Hollywood big budget to the bones. for a well known story such as Troy, you would expect they put a 21 century spin on it instead of doing it as is, something tactical, something outwitting. but no, Warner Brothers gave us more romance, which are super forgivable once the movie ends.
still watchable. but not much to remember.
The one thing i like about this movie: friendship and love is the only right way to help someone who's mentally suffering. In this movie it is very on point, and I'm sure this positiveness is helpful to those who is trying to help a friend like Kakeru.
The one thing i hate about this movie: i could forgive the slow pasing of the movie, i can also forgive the fact that how the time traveling letters works was never explained, i could even forgive the overly acted drama. But what i really couldn't forgive, is THAT SAME THEME MUSIC BEING PLAYED OVER AND OVER AGAINNNNNNN
Enough to be a feel-good movie? No. Enough to be a feel-good Royal Caribbean commercial? Way too much.
Probably the best Bad CGI of your life! euh.
CGI spectacle! in never giving up. euh.
well paced, and i really like the attitude towards every party in this movie! be it the haters or the hated, flat earthers or not, everyone got a chance to win the viewers over in this movie.
for over 2 hour, the movie still couldn't figure out what it's trying to be.
Behold: A stylish Introduction to a series of characters, and never see them again!
A mysterious looking bunch of McGuffins, that absolutely didn't matter to the very least!
And REALLY BEHOLD: the most mind-bending time travel plot, that won't work if you thought a little too much about it!!
since when did Nolan became mediocre? In the future or the past?
Dont get me wrong, I am a huge fan of nolan and I have watched this movie twice in the cinema already, but this simply is not the execution i was expecting.
The big problem is this : the movie delivered no message. Bunch of poor / wicked church-going country folks in worst case scenarios was the only theme in this movie, but nothing of a higher level are to be extracted from those scenarios.
Quite frankly, this movie's inability to find it's aim had taken a serious toll on the final result of the viewing experience, and wasted some really good acting from a stary cast.
What left me uneasy after the movie was not that the protagonist seemingly ended his revenge journey with no real consequences (he don't have much more to lose anyways). But that I was simply really hoping, the identity of the VO would be revealed as one of the characters who observed all along (say, uncle Earskell?), but sadly the reason for this movie to have a VO turned out to be nothing more but a clumsy cover up for a not very well written screenplay, that failed to tie together the diverging storylines of it's characters.
Overall, not a bad watch, just not quite worth the time and not any close to being the satisfaction it was starred to be.
IT'S. SO. DARK. Literally! cause the zombie chase scenes are completely CG this movie is so under-lit dark (they had to match the other scenes with similar brightness) it hurts my eyes to see it for 2 hours. As for the movie itself, i would say it's so mediocre it didn't struck me enough to label it light or dark, it's just one of those grabs movies. Lnow what to expect and you might actually enjoy it a little more.
so, Smoking or non-smoking?
