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Fatal Conflict (2000)
Beautiful Kari in an incredible silly plot
The plot is as silly as it is funny: a band of bad guys, war-type like, strong and stupid as hell, commanded by an incredibly childish leader, and his pathetic sister (a sorry-I-have-gain-a-little-weight Jennifer Rubin), are captured by some kind of future police, (actually they are saving the sole survivors of a massacre set by Kari Wuhrer), and sent toward the nearest planet prision available.
Blaming a small meteorite (as some of the most unbeliavable stupid argument I've heard in a movie) the prisioners get free and take over the ship and set them to crash into L.A. Then there is no other option than to send Kari to the rescue: Relatives of the bad guys, we're sorry to inform you that a gorgeous little woman is about to terminate a full-armed, fierce (but stupid, nevertheless) bunch of baddies.
Ceirtanly the acting is lame, and the sets are extremely simple. (That's the advantage of simulating a space ship) A reasonable dialogue is almost non-existent, and the fights are boring.
On the other hand, some visual effects are nice. You get to see the typical women prision where every inmate is scantily clad. Kari Wuhrer looks beautiful, as always. And there is a fight scene between Kari and a big guy in a water tank which I found very exciting (perhaps the only one in the movie).
So, if you like Kari, or if you are a teenager with nothing else to do in the afternoon, or if you are into powerful, ruthless, terminator-like heroines, well, then rent it, but do it at your own risk. Otherwise, read a book.
Amores perros (2000)
Violent, graphic but intelligent (did I miss anything?)
Walking a path pointed by Tarantino and firmly explored by Guy Ritchie, González Iñárritu (Director) does not fall into plain comedy. The 3 graphic and somehow hiper-violent (realistic?) stories in this movie get deep into our emotions. In the first story, a young Octavio secretly lures about his sister-in-law, Susana, and trying to get money to help her, enters the world of dogfighting. In the second one, Valeria, a supermodel, and Daniel, a succesful editor who has abandoned his family in order to be with her, live very despairing moments when losing a small dog. Finally, el Chivo, a dirty, old, angry hitman who likes dogs, get paid for killing a young succesful executive, and maintains a mysterious interest in a pretty girl. Along the 3 stories, the fate of the dogs became a metaphor of the lives of their owners. A very good film, strong, honest and of a new kind of directors in Mexico. The soundtrack is fantastic (specially a song from Nacha Pop, called "Lucha de gigantes") and we must thank the Director for showing us a different view of Mexico very far away from the "taco", the "indio" and the "narco" movie. I still don't know why they translate the movie title as "Love is a bitch". It doesn´t make any sense to me and seems to be very poor related with the movie, but that's life...