Change Your Image
SliceNL
Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Lists
An error has ocurred. Please try againReviews
The Watcher (2022)
Could have been great
Many things were done right in this tv show. The pace, the acting, the setting, the mystery... it was all pretty good and made me want to watch it all. However, there was one thing that made me give this tv show a 6 instead of something like an 8, and that was the ending. With a good mystery movie/tv show it is all about wanting to know what happened while this one just gives us an open ending. I understand it is based on true events but that is no way to end a mystery like that when it is made to entertain. They bring up interesting theories like a blood cult, but it seems like they were unable to wrap it all up into a good ending so they just left it as an open ending. It kinda made me feel like I watched this tv show for no reason as knowing what happened in the end is what made me keep watching.
Martyrs (2008)
The best horror movie I ever seen.
This movie contains similarities with movies like Hostel and Saw, in which torture is a big part of it, however, there is actually a deeper meaning for the torture compared to those movies, making this a far more interesting movie to me.
It is hard to give most of the reasons why I like this movie without spoiling too much, just don't expect a ''fun'' horror movie with lighthearted parts and cheap jumpscares. I wouldn't even call this ''torture porn'' as some of the reviews claim it contains. I feel the torture is merely to show the contrast of how otherwise well behaved people can do horrible things just to get answers to questions we otherwise would never get.
The Black Phone (2021)
It didn't make any sense...
A kid gets abducted. There is a phone with the wire cut but it still works. Trough that phone the past victims are able to communicate with the kid that is abducted. They will never explain how this is possible, not even a theory or hint at how this could have happened. The sister of the kid has dreams that give clues on who is kidnapping these kids. In one of her dreams she saw black balloons. Black balloons were left at the crime scene of where the kids were taken (the balloons just fly away when the last kid gets abducted though). Cops heard that this girl dreamed about those black balloons. When the girl has a dream about where the bad guy is at, she calls the cops and they immediatly all go to that location like she gave them some empirical evidence. None of this made any sense, none of it is explained. Ethan Hawke wears a mask the whole movie so they wasted a lot of money on a great actor while they could have just been using some b-movie actor. Not worth it to watch.
The Sinner (2017)
Mystery Thriller done right
Review on Season 4:
The script and story is very well crafted, it intentionally gives you possible ''leads'' to keep you guessing.
The performance of Frances Fisher is also noteworthy and a great pick for the role.
Great locations, it gives a bit of a Twilight/Twin Peaks vibe.
Spolier alert!
I personally found the trafficking of people a bit anti-climatic and wished they went with something more grandiose like for example: The heads of the nature cult only granting other families a fishing contract if they sacrificed someone from the family to the land or something. First the asians had to sacrifice their son for one, and now a new family wanted one so they decided to sacrifice Percy. When they found the body of Percy, they discovered she was severely hurt already by someone and she jumped as a desperate attempt to escape death. I think something like that would have been more interesting.
Still a very solid show! Worth to watch if you like mystery thrillers.
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Meh
Could have been worse, knowing the lack of experience Hollywood has with anime.
The good:
-They tried.
-They hired some good artists for the design.
-It could have been way worse, they showed atleast some respect for the anime.
The bad:
-They couldn't help themselfs to change the story for the worse.
-Scarlet looks too thick for the character she plays. I don't care that she is white, but she just looks too big and clumsy for the type of role she is playing.
-If there was one movie she should have been nude, this would have been the one.
-I'm getting a b-movie fibe, and the lightning/camera filters make it look more like an expensive music video.