Another movie that I don't understand. If they don't explain everything to me at the end, I wouldn't have a clue about anything. I feel like the pieces fit together, and thank God, because my head was already hurting from seeing so many things disjointed and out of place.
Someday I will return to this film and I hope I enjoy it with the context I have of it now.
It's entertaining, most of the time. The other part of the time it's cheesy and stereotypical. There are great sequences like Jack Wilder's escape from the police when he uses all the magic tricks against them, tremendous choreography. But then there's the romance between Dylan Rhodes and the French police; His only function was to give a loving touch to the tape, but it only serves to blur the tape.
The twist at the end that Dylan, Lionel Shrike's son, driven by revenge, was the one behind everything is nice, but when you repeat the movie you can't see any details that lead you to that conclusion, it's just a ending that surprises you and nothing more. "Now You See Me" has no replay value. The film is a set of very entertaining shows, the problem is the moments in the middle of those shows: boring, irrelevant, without substance or style. Beyond small fragments, it is not worth spending two hours on this film to watch again.
"The Will of Fire" spends the entire time telling Naruto to let Kakashi die, that there is no other way to defeat the antagonist, but the movie has his name and we can't make the character give in to the logic and experience, we have to make it super idealistic and irrational. Oh, and agreeing at the end just because and on top of that betraying the coherence of the magic system and preventing the villain from absorbing his rasenshuriken despite having been able to absorb even the chidori more times than I can count on my hands. .
The fights before the finals had creative resolutions however.
A round, focused and forceful film. How the paranormal component affects the emotional component of the protagonist and leads her to do what she does is magnificent.
I have nothing bad to point out about "Talk to Me".
"Batman Begins" has more similarities to "Man of Steel" than I expected, and of course when it's Nola and Boyer who wrote both screenplays.
The first half is a nearly immaculate origin story. Wayne lost seeking to escape his anger and fear of it, being taken as a disciple of Ra's al Ghul and growing as a character to bring justice to Gotham. The second half, although good, is still an empty shell that has nothing more to tell. Bruce Wayne already had his hero's journey, there is nothing more to overcome internally, only external conflicts like all the corruption in Gotham. In that sense it is also very similar to Snyder's "Man of Steel", only better executed and with more details. It also reminds me of the first installment of Favreau's "Iron Man" where Tony also goes through his growth stage very early in the film.
But that does not prevent this Nolan film from being established as one of the best superhero films ever produced in live action.
It's a Naruto movie, there wasn't much to expect from this. Incredibly, it did not disappoint me, but not because it was good, but because I expected a fairly mediocre production, a cashgrab for the fans.
Much of The Lost Tower is built on the viewer knowing a little about the series. If this is not the case, you will not understand the reason for many of the characters or the dialogues.
Naruto is Naruto, there is nothing more. The real protagonist, Sara, is a flat character who they tried to give a hero's path to, but her execution was pretty bad. The villain, as is customary in Naruto productions, makes others feel sad and boring in a way I couldn't even imagine; The guy had four transformations and each one of them was the same as the previous one only bigger. Hilarious.
This Matthew Vaughn film is incredible, nothing more needs to be said. Too round, with a tremendous narrative flow. He does everything well and stands out for the style he works.
The antagonist is nothing out of this world, but he works and leaves you with that impression like the antagonist in Sam Mendes' "Road to Perdition." The action, however, is above average by far, with those great choreographies and such marked cinematography to support it. One of the best action films I've seen, definitely.
In a psychological or content sense it doesn't go very far, but it is of great quality in everything else.
It was difficult to keep up with the film due to the speed of the dialogue and the compactness of the information it was trying to convey. It's as if Anderson wanted to present you with a two-hour-plus film in a short film of just forty minutes.
Still, the story and the character move. In essence it is a simple, textbook story, an Aesop fable, but it undeniably works.
The style that works is, as expected, very Wes Anderson, and that is appreciated. To this day, this man's style is one of the most interesting I have ever seen, perhaps the most impressive of all. The colors, the shots, the staging and the mimicry of the theatrical works, all of this leaves a great impression on the viewer.
I couldn't get a reading of the tape and, to be honest, I don't know if I'll ever do it, I don't even think I have anything to say beyond the obvious, but what is obvious is the great impression it has left on me.
