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Heroi moho chasu (2018)
Hilarious
I'll start of by saying I have a strange sense of humour. Hero of My Time and Brazil are the only comedies that have ever made me laugh throughout the entire film.
The movie is about two boys who move from a small village into Kyiv expecting to make it big. Of course, things don't quite work out the as they hope. The message of the movie, as explained via an old Soviet video, is that "everyone wants to be like everyone else". But that doesn't work out for everyone.
Most of the jokes target big city life, corruption, and our Ukrainian mindset, and the jokes don't stop coming with this one. 70 minutes of straight hilarity. But, like I said, you need to be open to this type of ironic, sarcastic humour. I watched it with 2 other guys who barely cracked a smile.
The Set-Up (1949)
Fake boxing
I don't get hollywood logic. If you're woing to film a movie where the climactic boxing match takes up over 20% of the film's runtime. And, if the two boxers are going to have a combined total of less than 100 lines in the movie - then why not hire actual professional boxers to star? Insetad we get this pathetic "pew pew pew" fake boxing which bores completely.
I'll give it 3 stars because the rest of the movie wasn't terrible, and I did stick around till the end. The storyline is interesting and the acting is alright. There was a lot of exaggeration, though, particlarly the simpelton audience played off for comedic effect.