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The Village (2023– )
2/10
What a horrible series...
19 December 2023
How could 33% of viewers give 10 to this?!! Maybe it's the entire film crew and their families who did... Because nobody in their right mind would give 10 to this. It was awful.

I was really enthusiastic at the idea of watching an Indian horror series, and the first episode was somewhat promising, but I became VERY disillusioned quite fast.

There are so many, and I mean SO MANY discrepancies in this series... Bad guys behavior that changed drastically (!!) when confronting random onlookers or "the heroes". Bad guys who behaved like in a very bad sci fi movie from the 70s: grunting and moving suuuuper slowly (and I really mean it!), for what seemed like an eteeeernity. It was awful. Nothing makes sense. Like absolutely nothing, even according to the script. So many scenes that don't make sense, that just "serve the script" because otherwise the director would be embarrassed and not know how to continue the series. I don't want to spoil, but really it happens way too often. Almost all the time, actually.

Like, even whole characters disappeared from the screen for no reason from one sequence to another, just like "ok from now on we won't be using them because I was lazy with the script, so let's pretend they never existed in the first place ok?". Seriously?! It feels like the script was written while the filming took place. It really does.

The bad guys are poorly done, it feels like papier-mâché from several decades ago. Maybe they did not have the budget, but why insisting on the bad guy's face for so long with the camera? Use suggestion instead, like in the first episode!

The heroes are also super stupid, like you want to smash your TV several times.

Summary: it's a VERY bad TV series, with poor make up, poor script, poor acting (mostly, especially the main hero), and the further it goes, the worse it becomes. The final episode is completely and utterly stupid.
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Peninsula (2020)
3/10
A disappointing sequel that should not have happened
27 September 2020
In this lame movie, you are entitled to every cliché you can ask for.

Characters have no depth, the hero is bland (all the contrary to Ma Dong-Seok), bad guys are clichés (only males whereas the heroes are all females with an old man)...

Let's not talk about the graphisms quality. It's lame CGI all over the place, that really feels extremely dated. The night is not dark, it's bright like in broad daylight...

Inconsistencies all over the place. Obvious chain of events. "Scenario shortcuts" (don't know the english word for "twisting the scenario so that the movie can go on despite discrepencies or gaps") used and overused.

Really, this movie is lame, not to say something else... When you see the quality of so many (most of) Korean dramas, and the quality of Train to Busan (the original movie, that we extremely enjoyed)... You are excepting something that this excuse of a movie will never ever give you, even remotely.

Do yourself a favor and skip this awful thing. Except from one or two quick laughs (and not a single more), you will get nothing from this movie.
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The Prince (I) (2014)
3/10
Boring and pointless movie
23 August 2014
Soooo disappointed after watching this movie!

We thought it was going to be great, because of Bruce Willis.

But not at all... Fight scenes are lame and not slightly realistic, the car pursuit scene is lame as well. We didn't clearly understand the story.

Also, the hero was not charismatic at all, neither was he convincing.

Nothing in this movie was worth our time. We were three people, one of us was toying with his phone, the other one with the dogs, and myself I fell asleep.

Do not watch this movie.

You've been warned.
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4/10
Bad remake of a bad french movie
22 August 2014
This is an easy review to write.

This movie is a bad remake of a bad french movie ("Banlieue 13").

Almost everything is exactly the same. It has the same "politically correct" message, but it's even more bad than the french movie because of not very realistic situations and events (even for such kind of movie).

I advise not to watch it, I did not enjoy a single minute of that movie.

Do not watch "Banlieue 13" either, it's almost as bad and is still a praise for thugs and all.

Best regards,
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4/10
Beautiful, long, boring, sad
29 September 2013
Why write a hundred lines about this movie, when a few words suffice? Please let me however describe these 4 words so that people can better see what I mean.

1) Beautiful Please, do not misunderstand me: the actors were really great, and the scenery as well (as for special effects, maybe it was intended, but I really disliked them and considered them poor).

2) Long Indeed it was. Too long for the kind of story that was told. Worse, several aspects of the movie were not even developed (I have at least 3 in mind).

3) Boring I was almost falling asleep all movie long. Maybe it was my disliking the early 20th century that made this movie boring, but, really, it seemed to me like nothing was really into motion there.

4) Sad No spoilers here. But yeah, definitely sad. Absolutely not for people looking for funny and joy-bringing movies.

Hence the poor rate.
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7/10
Magic and good actors: a good movie !
16 September 2013
*** this review does NOT contain spoilers *** :)

I think the people who underrated it gave it a bad rate to compensate the good rating it was having and that they disagreed with. Also, I will not tell the story of the movie again (like many reviewers do) because you have the synopsis for that, but I'll surely give you my opinion!

This movie is not fun like you will roll on the floor laughing all the time, but it still has a few funny moments (and during the last minute, I was really laughing like hell!! And I'm still laughing, thinking about it :) )

This is still a good movie, with reaaaally good actors. Jim Carrey is awesome in his role (like always!), Olivia Wilde always so charming, Steve Carell faithful to himself. The story, although "simple" (some would say), works wonders. We are amazed by the magic, and I was even tempted to start learning magic right away during and after the movie (for real). That means the movie achieved its goal: make the public "dream", the duration of a movie...

Not the movie of the year, but clearly NO deception regarding this movie, that is easily worth 6/10 or 7/10.
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Night Wolf (2010)
7/10
Not that bad finally
5 May 2012
After reading one of the reviews, I was tempted not to watch the movie. I'm glad I watched it (okay I did it mainly because of Gemma Atkinson).

The movie is not that bad. I do not agree with what the last user review says : the actors were acceptable, and despite a few bad choices during the movie, I was never bored. The special effects are really poor during the movie, except at the end where it is acceptable.

Despite what was said in the last user review, the director gave us hints about a few things during the movie, you just have to pay attention ! I think the story in itself is quite common, and at the beginning you can easily guess who will survive and a few other things, but then again, the movie was not that bad !
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1/10
Worst. Movie. Ever.
23 September 2011
Warning: Spoilers
There are no negative grades ? There should be, for "movies" like this one.

What is the purpose of this exceptionally boring and pointless pseudo-artistic "thing" ? Please, answer me. Because I stopped after 42 min of painful and soporific viewing. And the movie was to last 2h19 !!! How can that be ? Awfully loud opera music with whispering of the actors amid, while watching some images/animations/clips of planets/volcano/underwater/bio cells... What's the point ? There is almost no story at all, no dialogs, the camera filming is slow and it looks like a documentary about buildings sometimes, we fall asleep while watching it. There are no words to describe it. It's in my top 5 worst movies ever, easily.

Please save 2h19 of your precious life time and go watch something else (like "Crazy stupid love" for example !) or spend time with your loved ones.

It really was a painful experience to watch those 40 minutes of the movie.
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Jack Falls (2011)
8/10
A Sin City like movie
3 April 2011
... A good one.

We have seen only few films like this one. Sin City, Max Payne, ... A dark movie, intense, having us dive into the story. Of course the movie is not perfect, but the scenes are well filmed, the actors play very well, and it is one of a kind movie, so to speak. An important fact : despite its imperfections, the movie don't get us bored. On the contrary, we deeply follow it, trying to anticipate the next course of events. Of course I won't mention the artistic "trip" (way of filming in b&w with only one item colored). It reminds us of Sin City.

As a summary, I will say this is a good movie to watch, especially if you like movies like Sin City and Max Payne.
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Alien Raiders (2008)
9/10
Surprisingly really good !!
8 April 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Another boring day as an unemployed person... I had in mind to watch a DVD, and one of the few remaining that I had not already seen was "Alien Raiders".

Sometimes, the title of a movie does make you think "Yuk! I don't feel like watching a movie with such a title"... And that's what I thought, but, you know, people talk about "giving the benefit of the doubt", so I put the DVD in, and started to watch it.

Quite honest intro, and here we go, the movie starts on the hubcaps (don't know if it's good in English? I mean "fast, without wasting a second"). In fact, while watching it, I did not feel tired just one second! The good surprise was to see Tony Almeida as one of the main actors... It gave the movie another "plus".

This movie does not let you fall asleep, in fact you are every second on your guards, staying alert, watching everything that could happen. You never get bored, you really are IN the movie. The actors play well, we really believe in the story. The only "negative" point is that I guessed the end of the movie at about 1/2 or 2/3. But hey, that's not that terrible, and that could have ended differently...

Like someone said earlier, there is one of the characters we would have loved to see much more of, and you will easily guess who by... Watching the movie! :)

Really guys, even for a low budget movie, it's really worth to buy the DVD, I can say you won't regret it. Definitely a must-have (must-see? sorry for my English)

SPOILER SPOILER

I would really like to see a sequel for that movie, but without Tony Almeida, it would lose some interest, just like X Files without Mulder.

/SPOILER /SPOILER
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