Reviews

The latest Indiana Jones movie was actually a positive surprise compared to reviews and critics. The movie is for most of the time entertaining and has a good pace. Some elements of treasure hunt even bring back the spirit of Raiders of the lost Ark or The last Crusade. Harrison Ford again delivers a very good performance. Congratulations to a true legend to bring this legendary movie character back to life again. Also Mads Mikkelsen works surprisingly well in the movie.

The script has its weaknesses, especially the final part seems rushed and not logical, you come to the conclusion time travel only works in Back to the Future. You may argue that the supernatural elements in the first three Indiana Jones movies worked much better than in the last two. But, this movie is much more entertaining and delivering the Indiana Jones spirit much better compared to Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

What I really did not like in the movie were the special effects in the first two scenes, the train ride and in New York. Bad CGI effects. Directors by now should know that bad (=unrealistic, cheap, not state of the art) visual effects put audiences off. A scene like on the train already did not work in Matrix II (or III?) 20 years ago and it does not work this time. You ask yourself why is the train scene in the opening of The last Crusade so much better...first of all get rid of CGI.

Also the scene in New York with the horse in the subway is largely unnecessary and neither funny nor well directed (the whole NY scene looks off in terms of visual effects, cinematography and editing).

But despite the weaknesses in the beginning and at the end, a good and entertaining movie for most of the run-time with Harrison Ford not disappointing. A true legend of cinema!

"I am Klaus." If you know the guy who has this Cameo in John Wick: Chapter 4, you may realize the only funny moment in this movie. Besides that I neither understand the imdb ratings nor the critical acclaim. NOTHING in this movie amazes me because it offers nothing that one has not seen in cinema before and on several other occasions movies have delivered action in a more suspenseful, more fast paced action thriller. But John Wick: Chapter 4 rather feels like watching somebody running through an ego shooter but that is admittedly not very exciting. The senseless and emotionless action sequences without any proper tension make John Wick: Chapter 4 a very dull movie. Sometimes the degree of stupid violence is really hard to bear. Especially in times like these, it makes you wonder, does it need senseless action movies full of ultra violence. I think not and I am annoyed that I went to the cinema for this movie. A movie the world really does not need. The end of the movie creates hopes that an end is put to the John Wick saga but I am still in doubt that this is really the end. Unfortunately the John Wick series is too successful. And I do not know why. P. S. The Berlin club scene is really a joke and nothing compared to proper club sense like in movies like Collateral, Black Swan or else, even Blade is better than this even though Blade is 25 years old.

Rocky IV was the first title of the Rocky franchise I saw in the early 90s and few movies ever had such an inspiring and lasting impact. I had never seen any Rocky or Creed movie hat followed Rocky IV until now.

Only a few minutes into Creed II, the question came up, is there no easy way out? - Admittedly, the easiest way out would have been to leave the cinema straight away, but as I am reserving this measure of last resort for the worst to come - which could happen anytime soon in today's mainstream cinema - I had to endure 120 minutes of utterly bad movie making.

The story is a waste, completely predictable and at no moment one would feel any sympathy or whatsoever with any of the characters. It even does not occur to me why the main character (Adonis) should be considered the good, sympathetic guy while the other one (Viktor) is the villain. Actually one does not care. The best contribution from the movie came actually from Dolph Lundgren, at this was rather as it was nice to see him again, after Aquaman, and not because his acting was outstanding.

The music and the use of music in the movie is also simply bad. Maybe unfair, but comparing to Rocky IV again, these two movies are miles apart. Here an inspiring soundtrack, there some undefinable rap songs.

One moment in the movie, which clearly demonstrated that this is bad movie making was at the end of the second fight. There it is simply said, the Russian audience is supporting Creed, in Rocky IV you could really feel how over time the mood of the audience was shifting to support Rocky. But again in this Creed movie you do not feel any sympathy for any character whatsoever.

I also never realized why Rocky is at the end visiting his son and grandson, but so be it. Similarly the ending scene at the grave of Apollo does not convey a lot of emotions but rather leaves you cold.

Overall, a big disappointment. In all fairness, hard for me to explain why such a B-movie gets such a positive rating on imdb.com. For me a 2 / 10 at best.

The cinematography is absolutely extraordinary. You could fill an entire museum with beautiful pictures of the camera shots in this movie.

I watched this movie given that it ranks pretty solidly amidst the imdb top 250. I must admit that I am generally not a big fan of horror movies but as with all other genres, if the movie itself is good and delivers a good experience (e.g. Alien, Scream, Saw for horror, to name a few), I may like it. Entirely different is this movie. The effects are ok (probably quite good for the time), however, the story is completely relying on the shock effects derived from the way "the Thing" kills the crew. Otherwise, there is no atmosphere, no tension, NOTHING. Even despite Ennio Morricone being the composer of this movie, I am wondering if there is any scene where music is properly used or even creates tension. Overall for me quite a disappointment, I would have expected more from a movie rated that highly. An utterly awful and stupid movie, like most horror movies.