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Chambers Gate (2014)
Overall a highly entertaining movie
Despite its somewhat bleak tone, the film still manages to have its fair share of funny and heartwarming moments, which are seamlessly intertwined into the film's more dramatic scenes. Mukesh Asopa as Julian is perfectly cast as the wisecracking, yet intelligent politician.He and his positive attitude toward his survival is what keeps us invested in the story. The rest of the cast are great too, which includes Christine Saade, Lee Anne Ford, Voytek Skrzeta, Glenda MacInnis, and even Khalid Klein who played gangster. I was also particularly pleased with the film's pacing, there was never a moment that felt rushed or slow and boring. This is a welcome introduction to for the director Charles Ross.
Overall a highly entertaining movie, packed with good acting,editing and a storyline that is well thought-out and manages to keep the audience hooked until the end. A solid addition to the franchise.
Gladiator (2000)
Russell Crowe was perfect cast for the role.
The plot is a rich one, that is as dynamic as it is present. He once again, after Blade Runner, 1492, and others helps us visit the depths of the human soul, which remains the same over all our historical and social experience. Even the fights, are displayed in such a way that all the blood is quite discrete, but still, making us feel like screaming and jumping out of our seats. I would also like to point out the performances of the cast, that is surprisingly good. We have some actors and actresses, who are not Hollywood icons, but are are greatly able to move the audience among screams and tears. All in all, we have guys like Russel Crowe, who are coming out to be part of a new and extremely promising harvest of people who are making each time more fans around the world.
American Psycho (2000)
Makeup with awesome film direction
I found the movie as a whole riveting, loved the restraint shown (and disagree with those calling for more gore, I think Mary should be applauded for her deft hand, the scenes have more power for what is not shown), and was captivated by nearly every scene, by scenes others have called boring, but I found profound.
Bateman putting on his makeup, or simply trying to get a restaurant, and the near apocalyptic importance, such minutiae makes in the lives of empty men. The right card, or the right cloth, or the right table, or the right watch, how these are the signposts of an empty age and an empty soul, and how these things have more value than your fellow man... or woman.
Bateman attains everything the materialistic times tells him he should want, but once he gets it he feels nothing. Emptier than before, less than before. It's only in the extremes of his addictions he begins to feel something, anything. He feeds to fill the emptiness, but the more he feeds the emptier he gets. He eats at his fellowman (woman) but in his bloodlust he eats at himself.
He is the American dream, taken to its cannibalistic extremes.
And never before has makeup, played such a mesmerizing part in a movie. Bateman's(Chris Bale's) face at times when he is under stress, takes on a plastic look, a glossy, sweaty sheen, and for all the world it looks like he's wearing a mask... and the mask, his mask of sanity, is beginning to run.