Reviews

A little romance in the background of a travel through memories. Lisa Joy's first feature film, this Reminiscence is good, a classic entertainment.

In style, it is modeled on the thrillers of the 1930s, it has all the codes, Hugh Jackman gives us a performance of a depressive detective embarked in an impossible relationship with a femme fatale. The script takes its inspiration from Inception to Casablanca.

There is nothing revolutionary about this film, the story is quite predictable, the photography is very basic. The created world is visually interesting, but little used unfortunately, we would have liked to see more. The actors are good and sufficiently invested. The staging is very classic, with some exceptions (the fight scene between Hugh Jackman and the main protagonist was well done. There is a very strange passage during the gunfight at Saint Joe's, a music from the 80s starts and we have the impression that the film will change to become burlesque, to finally remain in a rather vague style).

The scenario lacks a little depth, it asks a lot of questions and creates a heavy past for each of the characters without exploiting it, we would have liked to learn more. The main plot is very constructed, the answers to our questions arrive gradually with a good sense of rhythm, while asking us new questions which will lead us to a satisfactory and surprising resolution.

In short, Reminiscence is a sympathetic thriller that is appreciated when viewed with kindness.

Being Completely novice to horror films , but a fan of Sam Raimi in the Spider-man trilogy, here I am launched in his first feature film and first success : Evil Dead.

The scenario could have been written on a bus ticket and the actors are average, except for Bruce Campbell who I adored in his sometimes exaggerated, sometimes detached performance (especially when his girlfriend becomes a demon and he does not pay attention). Nevertheless, Sam Raimi's production is the strong point, the director is already very inventive, in his framing, tracking shots and subjective views. He already shows a style he will improve later.

The special effects have aged (especially the stop-motion end), but if you accept the contract right away, that is to say watching a low budget 40 years old movie, there's no problem, on the contrary, you can watch this film with curiosity. So just dive head first into a good little gory and uninhibited film which remains funny and entertaining 40 years later, and encourages us to watch the following films.

This "Solo: A Star Wars Story" tries in a sluggish way to explain the origins of an emblematic character in the great Star Wars mythology, the mysterious Han Solo. And that's the whole problem, we don't know anything about Han Solo, so the writer tries to find an origin to every of his clothes and accessories.

I have never left a movie theater being so angry. This film is a disaster on every levels, a 2.15 hours insult led by an actor who does not at all stick to the arrogant and sarcastic character that Han Solo is. Here we have a "good guy", nice from the begining to the end, totally candid and silly. The meeting with Chewbacca, especially the incredible moment when Han speaks in the wookie language, was a real ordeal.

The villain has the charisma of a rotten oyster and the final revelation is absolutely pathetic (I love Darth Maul, so don't put him in this dud). The scenes in space with the giant monster are so ugly they might make you become blind.

As a huge fan of the six films, and of the character of Han Solo, the shower was freezing over this dud from a distant galaxy, we are far from an absolute masterpiece like The Empire Strikes Back, or even a more uneven episode like Attack of the Clones (which I love).

Everything about this movie is fan service and forced explanation. I advise you to stay away from it if you don't want to get old prematurely, the only movies that gave me such a bad time were Suicide Squad, and Dragonball Evolution.

Star Wars universe is rich and vast enough to tell any story, in every possible and imaginable genre (why not an investigation on Coruscant, who knows ?), no need to recycle the same subjects and characters to remake Star Wars.

I did not even mention the direction or the technique, because the scenario killed all the pleasure xxx I could have had, it was a real insult I would have marked it 0/20 had it been possible. Let's just try to forget it.