mariosuzigan Reviews

Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

The problem of Hollywood

[5/10 · 15 March 2010]

Here, once more, is the perfect example of how Hollywood can destroyed a perfect movie with an improbably, but happy, ending.

This movie rocks when try to approach the powers that the district attorney has in the USA and is very successful when make a good movie focusing in the search of a family father for revenge.

The problem here is in the conclusion. After all movie development proving that the system is imperfect and very corrupt, in the ending, they focus in morality, in right or wrong.

I'm very disappoint with the producers and directors who accept this ending without complaining. For this reason, I'm recommend, for the first time, no to watch this movie or accept to fell very angry in the ending.

United States of Tara (2009–2011)

United States of an American family

[9/10 · 15 March 2010]

Despite I am from Brazil, I can understand the middle class American family and, I must say, has a lot of similitude with the middle class Brazilian family. The point that make they different is the history of each country.

The American culture is formed by the problems in the middle class of the United States. United States of Tara has a plot, in my personal opinion, that shows the problems, desires and frustrations through the relationship of a family which has a mom suffering from personality disturb, played by Toni Collette. Each personality shows a piece of the middle class family.

Until this sitcom I have never saw Toni Collette as a great actress, since I saw her interpretation in United States of Tara, I must say that I'm in love for her work. She gave so much life for the personalities inside the character, that until now I am very impregnated.

Hence, this is a must see show. My only doubt here is if Diablo Cody will have the ability to continuous to write for several seasons without destroy the idea and keeping the viewers attention.

The Hangover (2009)

The Best Comedy of 2009.

[9/10 · 8 February 2010]

This is an original comedy with the oldest characters of the last 20 years in comedy movies.

The originality of this plot is in the way how the story is told and how each character has a role in it.

The story is based on a stag party in Las Vegas: we have the fiancé, the crazy fiancée's brother, the best fiancé's friend and the fiancé's friend who is already marriage. OK, until here there is a lot of movies with the same premise, except by the way how the story will be told. That is the differential of this movie and what makes it so cleaver and funny.

The story starts after a crazy night, which the spectators don't know what happened, all the characters wake up and realize the fiancé is missing and that no one have memories of the last nigh. How will they discover what happened is the key of your entertainment!

Trust me, I'm sure you will laugh until the end of the movie, as I am sure this movie is destiny to be a classic in American comedy

The House of the Devil (2009)

Could be better, but still a good movie!

[7/10 · 8 February 2010]

First of all, this is a horror movie different of the usual. The main problem of movies today is the excess of information, useless dialogs and a lot of action scenes, as the director's goals been the development of a MTV clip.

This movie tries to recover the atmosphere of the 80's, with a well use of camera and simple characters, what sometimes make the narrative slow, but without lose the suspense, it tries to provoke fear through the point of view of a common girl, in this case, a babysitter.

For those who are addict to movies that seems more a VideoClip from MTV, I will not recommend this one. For those who want to see a simple movie, well filmed and a regular story, I recommend this one.

Zombieland (2009)

Refreshing for Zombie Comedy movies

[10/10 · 25 January 2010]

I just have finished to watch this movie and I must say that was a pleasant surprise!

This movie has a cleaver plot and a good characters development, that is what make it so original. All the characters in the plot were very well played by the actors and the interaction between them was incredibly fun.

Off course, it's a joke with the slash zombie movies and there's a lot of blood and action, but the great about this movie is in the creativity from the writers to develop the idea behind the apocalypse zombie survivors.

That's why it deserves to be seen.