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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
A nice chance, that turned out to be stupid
Well, I didn't expect much when I went to see tomb raider. I was expecting a heavy package of action, a lot of cool looking poses of Lara Croft (angelina Jolie) But... it made Mission Impossible look like the most realistic and logic action flick ever. They made the movie look like an computer game. WRONG! When you are playing a computer game, it usually have flaws in the story, when you are playing, you end up fighting and killing hundreds of enemies, magic and unlogical surprises included... but you forgive it, because it's interactive. You are doing, you are killing the enemies by the hundreds, you are running away the falling stones, that NEVER fall in front of you, only behind, and getting closer. But in a movie, the only thing you do it sit down, and watch. It's then when you see the problems of the movie. There a lot of tough female characters in movies. Ripley and Linda Hamilton, as an instance, but they are smart, tough, but not invulnerable. All the characters were undefined, and too plain. Including Lara Croft. And the story line just too many flaws. The action scenes were stupid. Far too cool, to include any resemblance to be real. Matrix made a far better job, both in making cool shots, and make the fights believable. As a resume, don't waste your money.
Nadie conoce a nadie (1999)
Do you really know your best friend?
From the opening of the movie, a corpse with wood cross, to the end of the movie, Mateo Gil, the scripwriter of Tesis and Abre los ojos, both from Alejandro Amenabar, show us his young, yet great ability. There are many interesting points in the movie. We can think that we know somebody. But... do we really know it? How can you know if your best friend is just a normal person... or he is a brutal psycho that has spent one year on planning how to kill you. Another thing that made me think about, is: why do we do things in life?. The main character is living a boring life, seeing his life from above, waiting for something undefined to happen. How many of us do that in life? Living a slow, motionless life, waiting for the train of the great opportunity to appear. Would we accept the chance to live in one day with more intensity than the rest of your would - be life. I also liked the critic that it makes to the old custom of Semana Santa. There is a confrontation between the JASP generation and the 1000´s year traditions, a fight, in which the traditions have nothing to do against the use of modern day technologies and weapons. There are one minor flaw, that it relies in the female audience, showing a nice guy with women falling around him. In the middle of the movie, you can find many flaws (Why this has to happen this way and not this other, why did he have to do that?) that quickly fall with one of the most interesting switches I have ever seen in a movie To sum up, a really interesting thriller that has many question to think over.