The western formula cannot be overlooked. A mysterious stranger in a town where the law is interpreted by its protectors, an inevitable confrontation, a helpful friend, the expulsion of the intruder beyond the town's borders, a buildup of injustice, and a final reckoning. The only difference is that the stranger…

Everything is pretty much the same, Alexandre Aja continues to waste his talent on contrived scripts. The absurd premise predictably evolves towards a single meaningful non-absurd denouement. This then arrives, relatively timely, so that for a while the film seems to build to a rather chilling ending on top of it. But…

Spoilers/History – The unexpected gift in the form of a director's cut raises the biggest question: are three and a half hours enough for a comprehensive look? Not even close. At least not for something with the gigantic scope that David Scarpa's screenplay was seeking. Ridley Scott thus faces the traditional drawback…

Damian Nieman may be a card magician, but his directorial skills belong at a school recital. By the end, it was basically irrelevant who would have whose urine on their clothes, as the card table never once brought the nose out of the shadows of moments when Felix Leiter orders the same thing as Bond, but without the…

A released convict, a fugitive, and a loser, all completely stripped of innocence, clash in a red circle. The robbery scene, which would take place in the first half of other films and leave the second half for plot development and resolution, is held off by Jean-Pierre Melville until the final third. That’s how…

The most anticipated movie of 2021 and possibly the most anticipated zombie movie of all time is ultimately a dud for me and can't hold a candle to other zombie movies. The only good thing is the technical aspect, but that's where it ends and the further the movie went on, the more I got sick of the flaws, and by the…

Another film highlighting the flaws in the entire system, from the police to the courts, only that unlike the others, 25 Years of Innocence is naturalistic to the extreme, damn uncomfortable and with perhaps the most believable performances of all time. An intriguing and suffocating case that will have weaker…

An inoffensive, but very interesting action B-movie featuring a dozen well-known actors, but unfortunately they don't make a good film on their own. Mediocre action, a bare-bones story seen hundreds of times, led by Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington. It’s not crap, but I wouldn't have it again and there are plenty…

Jason Statham should have his own genre, because his action flicks, full of gunfights and blood, are already a cult of the genre, and combined with Guy Ritchie, it's a gem. It's clear from the start that this is going to be something more than just another action B-movie, the film has insane charisma and is terribly…

Wow, probably the most useless season in history, degrading the excellent first season and making me sick at how bad it all is. Where the first season excelled with its twists and turns, the way it was presented, the pace of the story and the character transformations, the second season completely flops in exactly all…