edl666 Reviews

Westworld (2016–2022)

Waste of Time

[2/10 · 26 April 2017]

I don't do this often, but Westworld requires a comment. I feel betrayed and tricked by this series of more or less utter nonsense. I watched the last episode yesterday and had to force myself to keep on watching. The problem is, that I stopped caring for any character after six or seven episodes. They are robots, right? So, what's the point? Who cares if they live or die or ponder their existence?

If this is supposed to be the spearhead of the HBO shows, I feel sorry for the makers and viewers of the program. And I had the strong feeling that even the writers of this show lost track of the story lines and characters. It became a weird mixture of flashbacks, reboots, questions and answers. Answers to what? That I couldn't figure out.

BTW, the same happened to me while watching "Ghost in the shell" lately. I just can't care for robots. They bore me. They are not human and will never be. You lose one? Build a new one. Case closed. Two stars for the decent acting and camera-work.

U Want Me 2 Kill Him? (2013)

Well done, but ...

[7/10 · 26 January 2015]

... the reality is much more weird than this movie.

Of course I had to do the research after watching the movie to read about the real case in Vanity Fair (the article can still be found on the internet). Fascinating stuff and much more complicated than the events that are described in this movie. Yes, the filmmakers did a good job converting this internet-drama for the screen, but I can only advice everyone to check out the facts. Much more thrilling than the fictional approach and much more unbelievable.

Still a movie to think about for a while.

Good actors and a good way to show internet-chats on the screen. I guess that was the hardest part in making this movie. And the choice they made in presenting these chats was well done.

The Take (2009)

Two Sisters and some criminals

[5/10 · 26 January 2015]

This is not a show about crime or the "mafia", it is a story about two families and especially two sisters who live with some criminals and have to cope with it. There is not much happening on the crime-side of the story and the title is absolutely misleading and wrong. It is no thriller, it is a family-drama about bad, stupid, sad and helpless people. And it gets really tiresome after a while, because Tom Hardy plays a major idiot-bad-ass and you know from the very first scenes that this guy will achieve nothing and ruin everything. And then you can watch the decline of two families ... Yes, the performances are all great. Great and depressing, because there is nothing in that drama that will lighten your mood or entertain you in a friendly way. And it is absolutely predictable, except for the very end, that contained a small surprise. Don't get me wrong: The series is not bad at all, no, but the label is wrong and I expected something else. I did not plan to see crying and desperate women who are doomed by a psycho played by Hardy. This is what comes out when women write about the "mafia". Sorry, but that's the sad truth.