t-jure Reviews

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

They don't make movies like this anymore

[10/10 · 4 November 2021]

Michael Mann's film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 isn't the first film adaptation, there has been quite a lot before, but is probably the most well known.

The story goes like this: three trappers, Chingachgook, his son Uncas and adopted white son Hawkeye are hunting in the woods, where they whitness a Huron attack on a British garrison protecting Colonel Edmund Munroe's daughters Cora and Alice. They escort them to Fort William Henry.

This is one of the first movies I ever saw and the one that made me love cinema. It's sad that so little people have seen this movie and it's probably one of the most underrated movies ever. They say only people with soul understand this movie. It got an Oscar for Best sound, which was the only nomination, but it has one of the best movie soundtracks ever. How it didn't won an Oscar for Best Music is beyond my understanding.

Hawkeye is not the most recognised Daniel Day Lewis's role but he did amazingly good job, even for his standards. The cinematografy is beautiful and it gives us a look into the beautiful nature where native Americans lived. The last 15 minutes of the film is probably one of the most intense scenes ever put on film and should give you chills.

The Hatred (2017)

You will feel hatred...for this movie

[2/10 · 1 November 2021]

The plot of the movie is simple and you've seen it a thousand times: 4 young girls go on a trip and stay in an old house in a countryside where murders happened some years back. And at first night (surprise, surprise) strange things start to happen.

Really bad acting, stupid dialogues and most basic plot. An hour and a half feels like forever. Should be banned to make such movies.

Fences (2016)

Everything that boy do, he do for you.

[8/10 · 22 March 2020]

Denzel Washington and Viola Davis can only be a recipe for a good movie. That's what i said to myself when I saw the cast of Fences. And it was the last movie of 2017 best picture nominations which I haven't seen yet. So I had enough reasons to give it a try. If there is one thing to be said about this movie is this: Viola Davis is superb. Her acting gives you chills. It is that good. Her oscar was really well deserved. I really can't put into words how good she is. The movie is basically plain dialog so you can understand that the whole cast did a great job. But the most complex character is Denzel's Troy. He seems to love his wife very much and it seems they really have good relationship...untill you find out he is cheating on her. At first he looks like a really good father figure, working man, providing for his family. But suddenly he seemed to me just like someone with a big drinking problem, trying to project his life ambitions on his son in a very agressive way. Or more like he was trying to prevent his son to be more succesfull than him. Cory was a succesfull man in the end. But was it all worth it? At the end he just hated his father for all he did.

Don Jon (2013)

Just skip it...

[4/10 · 20 March 2020]

I like to watch a good comedy from time to time. But they are really hard to find actually. Yes, I have quite sophisticated taste in movies. Not all comedies are like Borat unfortunately. So I came across this movie one day and check a few rewiews and they were quite good. So I decided to give it a try. But I really wasn't impressed. What can I say. This movie is basically a guy getting angry in the car, going to confession, looking at a girls in the bar and having lunch with his familly. And btw I didn't grinned even once through whole movie. This guy saying "f*** this bi***" all the time reminds me of Tommy Wiseau's "I don't wanna talk about it" in The Room. And why is his father pi**ed off all the time? And which normal girl would left a guy because he watches porn even though they have normal regular sex? And his sister who is always quiet and on her phone...why??? The dialogues are so basic as I was writting them and I am no native speaker. But at least one thing is good in this movie and that is Julianne Moore. I like her very much. She gives us one great moral of the story guys. And that is - go for the mature woman when you are young. Don't waste your time with young spoiled girls. They will just complicate your life. The same goes with this movie - don't waste your time with it.