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The Company (2007)
Entertaining, but an almost complete fantasy
This is entertaining, but cinema. I happened to be reading Tim Weiners "Legacy of Ashes" when this came on television, and can say that some "artistic liberties" have been taken. Take episode 3, where supposedly an American agent was in contact with the rebels; according to Weiner, who've had access to the archives, the CIA knew next to nothing about what was going on during the uprising, no more than it read in the papers. This man McAuliffe, which supposedly was apprehended by the Hungarian secret police, is not mentioned in he book. That does not automatically mean that he didn't exist, but if this is to be an accurate account, it means the filmmakers had better access to information than the Pulitzer-prize winning author who've written a 700 page book about the history of the CIA. To me, that seems rather unlikely. Much more probable, in my opinion, is that they preferred exciting over accurate, and made something which isn't historically correct at all, other than the names of some of the people involved.
Perhaps not a complete fib, but "history-lovers" have me excused. This is not history, but fantasy. I give it 6 for entertainment value.
Death Proof (2007)
Waste of time
A complete waste of time. What a boring, crap movie. Even the action scenes are uninteresting. It's clear that Tarantino only ever had one good movie in him, Pulp Fiction. Kill Bill was fairly interesting, and had some good action scenes, but this piece of crap has nothing. Midway through the movie, we shift aspect from the main characters, just like in Pulp Fiction, where it was a complete surprise, but we've seen that trick now, it's not too interesting this time around. The movie contains a lot of dialogue, which I found boring, boring, boring. Tarantino himself makes an appearance, which makes you wake up for a few minutes, but then you can lie back in your chair and sleep for the next 20 minutes or so again. This is a movie for Tarantino-fans only, and their patience must be slowly wearing out as well, one should think. Please see it for yourself if you want, but expect nothing of entertainment value. There's and old saying stating that filmmakers are only as good as their last value, which means Tarantino is worth diddly squat.