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This masterpiece shows where TV series shine and where features fail. A Carré story in the format of a 1.5hour or even 3 hour movie would just have to take so many shortcuts that it will inevitably hurt the story. This well paced production captures all the mystery and action of the original material and perhaps even surpasses it.

Nonetheless the Golden Globe awards including Tom Hiddleston (Best Actor), Hugh Laurie (Supporting Actor) and Olivia Colman (Supporting Actress) are all well deserved as is the formidable pitch perfect performance of Tom Hollander. How magnificent Hugh Laurie is in a less expected role, and Hiddleston as the very suave man he just is, or plays. Go watch this.

I see quite a lot of positive reviews here from younger audiences. It seems dune struck a cord in all born after 2000. Which I guess is a good thing. Calling it the best movie of all time is something else. It means you first have to watch all films of all time to make such a bold assessment. And secondly Villeneuves rendering needs to be something special. It is not.

There has been other and better movies displaying the same story line, scenes and composition. Sorry to disappoint you Gen-Zers or below.

Even Frank Herbert confest himself to be inspired by Lawrence of Arabia. Now this film is one you need to see (no sand worms there unfortunately)

The story-arch and intrigues are also not new. Even cliche. The high-rise hero falling for the lowly dame and ultimately dump her? Nothing new (but Dune 5 will show something different) Apart from the well orchestrated mass fight and one on one fight scenes we have seen way to often this movie has very little to offer. There really is no suprise only quite a lot of wasted talent on Rampling and Walker (those are boomers btw) There is no surprise, no novelty in this movie. It is a boring arrangement of boring repeats. Even Hans went back to a repetition of what we have heard (before Interstallar, that was truy awesome)

If you want to see a movie in the desert go watch Lawrence of Arabia. If you want to see a messias go watch Matrix. If you want to see a good sci fi movie go see, ehm. 2001?

Again a must see masterpiece under the excellent and meticulous direction of cinematic master sir Woody Allen. The depth and breadth are understandable this is a movie that should be in any film bufs library. Much like Any Hall or Manhattan Mr Allen touches the realms of a whodunit in a backdrop of New York. Featuring a very well acting cast including young Tim Chalamet Errol in one of his more mature roles this movie hales back to mr. Allens best periods. Soundtrack is stellar with hints of Bruback, Alpert and Erroll Gardner. Forget the 'woke' oppressors of good quality film making an do yourself a favour.

In the miniseries this is again outstanding in acting and production. But the vulnerability of the victims make it near unwatchable. The main character (hero?) carries this pisode with an amazing stamina going through fight, rebellion, acceptance and complacency in the one take the series format demands. The juxtaposition of the dependant, the carer, and the society is so palpabele it hurds physically. Ofcourse there is no right or wrong when disaster hits but humans are expected to be, human. This episode explores what makes humans human and look for human solutions for inhuman dispositions. One episode that should be part of a ethics curriculum.

The whale is a metaphore for this film. Bela Tarr knows very well how to pull the wool over his followers eyes. If a movie in filmed and edited in grainy black and white the producer knows very well he is creating a followship of critics who put their critical eye away. It must be a master piece as it was created in a deprived country behind the iron curtain, mustn't it?

Alas we are in quite a different war but no cold war. Mr Tarrr is still playing with the now long bygone era of cold war communist films and is quite aware of it knowing it will raise high attention of middle aged white male critics that still want to believe Hungary is a medieval perspectivless wasteland and brings to the town center a spectical of a decomposing whale. He is playing with the self absorbed and self claimed and blinded film afficionados.

It is not artsy to show a train pass by. It is not artsy to long shot a protagonist walking between unprepared extras. That has been done multiple times. There is no magic in this movie what we know and appreciate from Tarkovsky. There is no exquisite acting what we learned from Robert Eggers. This whole film is a badly edited badly acted and badly filmed waste of time and Bela Tarr seems to know that.

And this series has everything right. From architecture, safety nudging (deuren sluiten) marketing, even children's books (Lientje is een tientje) the tapistry of detail never stops. EVERYTHING is just right. This level of detail is what netflix and Hollywood completely lost and is only possible in indie or European production. There are no USoA viewers who can appreciate this as they judge video productions by their own narrow standards.

Acting is totally onpar and above. I'm dutch but never realised so much talent in Belgium (Vlamingen that is). A great world is created sometimses Tarkovskian, sometimes GATTACA or Blade Runner. I anticipate a British production of The Wall.

Of course this is a classic. But only in a technological art. An excellent cast on Boxleitner, Babylon 5 commander from season 2, Jeff Bridges, celebrated actor, David Warner in three separate bady roles, Cindy Morgan and Bernard Hughes in one his lesser roles all perform stelarly in a dramatically flawed script. Disney has a reputation in killing or not understanding the science fiction genre. See The Black Hole. Another celebrated cast killed in an abysmal script. Not so much the dialog but the nonsensical plot line that makes the whole experience as if the audience is of Donald Duck oriented intelligence. It is so sad to see this much quality in acting, cinematography, special effects go to waste on a none script.

This excellenyly executed thought-provoking flic proofs that viewers more and more associate science fiction with cowboys in space. This is not a cowboys in space movie but with a small fine cast and supporting soundtrack gets the writers and director's point across.

Aliens are attracted to our world for obvious reasons ; we have been advertising ourselves for quite some time. Is this a good thing? Who knows. The cinematography is subtle but go watch this on a large screen, lots of detail could go lost in the darker scenes

More Interstellar or Sunshine than Rogue One. Scify lovers will recognize its quality.

Cute male and female actors in a tangle of loyal and amd nor reliable conduct.pretty male and female faces. But all in all not a very believable construct. A better director would make a twin peaks out of this, but now it's only eye candy. Very pleasing eye candy. Sweet eyes Cathan Hawkes and Megan Tween are doing there's utmost and dirctor Simon Davidson deserves an /oscar. There's never a dull moment in this flick and the 172 charcter limit is doing it a disservice. Amazon is jerking its employees and nobody cares. The just squeezing juice out of yje to let Bezos get in outer space. How sick can you get.

For a scify this is complete missed chance. Unclear why this flick was made but there is no story, cheesy dialog, pointless plot and zero direction. A full waste of celluloid.

I wonder why the top cast not decided to wander out. I guess this is the Black Hole ära where big money was swung pointless. Please erase from memory before the cylons come.

We are lucky with Donald Moore to revive the franchise. It is increasingly unclear where he gor his inspiration. Not from this disappounting mess.

Now i ramble a bit to get to 600 chars.

The vocoder cylons are a smooth.

One spark; Paddy Mcnee as Cylon overlord.

Fantastic build up to the dramatic moment. Practically all generations having with each other or cross generational. Very few directors or writers tempt a four generation confluctuous juxtaposition, but everyone having a family recognize a thing or two. A few takes could've benefitted from more development. Some awkward moments are so well acted it leads to a moment of fremd-schämen.

Excellent casting, of German finest, in very believable, weird, real people. The secluded well spotted location adds to the sometimes claustrophobic atmosphere.

Sometimes just a joke is very much more than that.

There's a couple of reasons why you should watch this movie when it comes near you.

1) chances are you wont be able to see it again. Perhaps after even winning a few awards it is probably not on high rotation in your local theater or streaming service (mubi has it for the time being) 2) it is an excellent way to familiarize yourself with (hard) sciences fiction writing in the most accessible way.

3) Tilda Swinton meticulous english speaking and perfect timing. She's a great actress but an unsurpassed voice talent. Tilda: marry me!

4l modern classic, unfortunately deceased, composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. If you like Arrival? He just scratch the surface 5) post Yugoslavian brutalist landacape art. It is slowly desolving and this move will be probably the only way to appreciate it.

6) stunning cinematography by Sturla Grøvlen.

It is interesting that some call it art or even artsy. My strong believe is that all movies are art by definition. Some however miss their target and merely kill time. This one does not and stays close to the objective and mesmerization of the artform "film".

There is a number of reasons apart from naked Tom Hiddleston; female-gaze anyone?) It's arty, poetic, disturbing, playing with conventions, critical, humerus, and funny, and has amazing cinematography (and a naked Tom). You should watch this and if you don't understand warch it again. And consult me or your local physician if you still don't get it. Final hint Corbusier, Blow Up.

A typical wait-for-it. No, nothing explodes here, just as in your life and you have tp know loads of numbers by hard to get around. But this is an amazing slow paced heist movie. Dealing with our digital online financial life.

Effective, relatable, slow building, drama. Essential humanistic study.

How often have you told a perfect stranger call centrist your current account status? Eben!

An excellent documentary showing that share holder value is share holder value and has nothing to do with quality or safety. As our world gets more and more in the hands of ignorant and cynical private investors lives of people become of less and less value.

Watch and stop flying.

This is one of those series that are so boilerplate it seems an AI has been writing plot, script, dialog. An excellent cast, spectaculair directing but pointless in any other way. I suppose currently we cannot expect more. Give it a few years of analyzing and pattern matching and we will get the techno thriller series of the decade.

This movie ver accurately and humorously shows how we deal with our current climate disaster. It must have been the major casts reason to contribute. Unfortunately the fun does kill the message and human species will be dead by 2055. Call me when that didn't happen.

It all went downhill from. Where the Cassandra/Agent Pender tries to rejuvenite the Scully/Mulder digotomy it is a shy and not beliveable attempt. Sure the series needed a new edge on the mythical arc but this didn't work out for me. Kryceck and Covarrubias meeting and making out mid ocean? Why? And how? The story is going nowhere slowly.

It has humor, the right amount of wonder and mystics a spielbergian visual storytelling. Quite a symphonic soundtrack for such a small movie. But apart from that some amazing acting and directing. This is cinematic magic.

A thirteen yo Jamil Walker Smith. Known for SGU. Playing a totally convincing Bonapart. Who knew what this young actor was capable of. Thank you Chris and the casting department.

Sometime along recording Sir Brad Pitt must have realized how PRETENTIOUS his lines are. Not his fault but he should have shown some respect to the awesome art directors and said "light....." , "dark....." , ehm, hey wait a minute, are seriously kidding me? Who wrote this crap?

Although nobody really needed yet another sequel (why not try a prequel, a reboot, something else completely?) this will upset both fans of the original and newcomers. Not very well written, even worse directing and performing. I flick that should not be.

Everything has been said and written. But Paul Winfield as Traxler is the only and truly convincing actor in this b-movie. Both combining the humor and serious he is the one that makes you forget you watching a movie.

Brandauer owns this movie. It could be Connery-Bond. Craigh-Bond or any in between. He is the ultimate villain and this is the ultimate Bond (without the Broccoli)

Everything fits. The no cuts 5min scene, the underplayed specials (did Daniel do his own stunts?) the rythmic soundtrack, the mistery. The first minutes of this flick make all others pale and we know this is neither a Connery nor a Lanzenby. This a new Bond.