Reviews

That is definitely a well hidden gem that needs more recognition. No idea why it has such a low rating. It surely is better than many much bigger names in the genre.

I found this movie purely on accident while i was looking for Black Rain. But it cought my eye, even as i had low expectations for it. Boy, i was i wrong. It's a B-movie that can challenge many of the "top horror classics".

The movie has decent script. Not overly complex, but not flat and dumb. Leaning more towards typical thriller script. While it's kinda predictable, the movie manages to actually deliver very good suspense that escalates and intensifies towards the end. Which is something i actually see very rarely in the genre (and i've seen almost 1400 horror/thriller movies so far).

Cinematography was good at times even more than that. Acting was to my pure delight - spectacular for such movie. The main actress in particular delivers great sene near the end, with one of the best scream/screeches i've heard in the old horror movies. Easily stealing the scream title from much more popular actresses' performance. Her character is well written, has good arch, and it even has interesting twist that kinda caught me off guard. Nothing mindblowing, but nice touch.

Overall , highly recommended. It exceeded my low expectations , so it's between 6 and 7 in my books.

I give it 3/10 because it is obvious they have put quite some efford in making this movie. But it felt like going for 3 hours. It is not a slow burner , but it just felt long.

Script and plot are ok. Not overly complex, but there is the efford right there. They tried to make a story out of it. So in that regard it is no worse than some of the bigger budget old sequels. While the story is predictable, they even managed to deliver 1-2 tiny twists, and not cliché ending.

Acting is mediocre, but not terrible. I've seen worse (and i've seen worse in big classics.. yeah i know, i'll get thumbs down for talking bad about the nostalgic movies , whatever). While being mediocre, again they did put some efford. It is not amateur joke level as some of the Amityville movies we have recently lol.

CGI is bad but it's not very often so it doesnt strike you in the face :D Cinematography is below mediocre, at times even bad.

Overall, it's not the worst movie i've seen, watchable, but barely :D if that was popular movie or bigger budget movie, i'd give it 2/10 or even 1/10 .

Well let's be frank - you cant expect much from such movie, but that was worse even for very lowered expectations. Almost as bad as Neil Breen movies.. almost. That's some next level bar to go under But this movie is like Rob Zombie movie - just casting his wife as main character and that's enough.

The plot is pretty lame, tho you had at least some idea.

The acting is terrible, for both main character. The girl can not even hold her laugh at times. She just wanna show body and dance around while her husband makes the movie... The most movie is just some B-rolls stitched together. Heck, that's not B-roll, that's Z-roll . Bad camera handling, bad cinematography.

Yeah, the main character seems to have good looking wife and good sports car, but that's not a reason to make a "movie".

Also lol , did they make a song specially for her - "Buzi has a nice bo0ty" ..

definitely not recommended "movie".

Yet another Amityville movie in that never ending "franchaise" lol, but it was not terrible. I would have given it 4-5 even, but.. oh well.

Story is well known, nothing much to say about it, tho plenty of little annoying details here and there. First half of the movie is quite good and normal. The ending is the main reason i drop my rating.

Actingwise - the main character has surprisingly very good acting. Both when he has blank, emotionless and "gone" face, and when he has non-blinking intense stare moments. The father also has pretty good acting. The rest of the cast is mediocre at best.

The first half is as i said pretty good. CGI is terriblem and you see more of it after the first half. Things they could have easily just skipped. We're not the 80s, we dont need badly made CGI/VFX just to be there. They are very prominent around the last part of the movie.

Cinematography is ok. Not great, not terrible, Sound is ok. Surround sound kicks in mostly in the last scene, very noticable there , but nothing spectacular.

Overall - not the worst thing to watch, still better than most old sequels.

Well now, i wasn't expecting such movie (and even less for a B-movie) to have some deeper meaning and thought in the plot. It is kinda original, or at least far from mainstream. While the "deeper" meaning and plot twist is somewhat predictable around the half of the movie, it is never clearly shown if it's true what you think, or not. I really would love to think that my asumption for more philosophical theme is true but.. you'll see for yourself Story and plot are not too complicated, but the movie jumps back and forth to now and before with a lot of long flashbacks. Somehow it is slow pace but doesn't feel dragging.

Acting is surprisingly very good, no complaints here whatsoever. Hope we see more of the actress in the future.

Sound is amazing. Very well made surround sound. It is only 5.1 channel surround but at times it felt like it was full Atmos when the monster walked above the truck. Very very well made sound, puts much more expensive movies to shame. Cool ambient music as well.

VFX are pretty decent. The "monster" has cool design tho it does remind me of another one.

Overall - recommend this movie, quite the hidden gem.

I didn't have high expectations, but the first half of it is pretty much terrible. Probably the most boring and lamest anthology-kind of horror.

Some of the stories are so bad even 7 year old would do it better. Few toilet humor ones, because i guess that's funny to watch... not. The Fart short and the Furry short were plain stupid . The last one was also pretty much terrible, someone wanted to watch naked people i guess.. Acting in most of these was bad to mediocre, but there were 1-2 instances with surprisingly decent acting. Few stories were also pretty good - from the parrot one and the next few ones in a row. Which is the reason i give 3/10 and not lower.

The fat girl episode was pretty much cheap rip-off of Requiem for a dream, the music was quite noticable ripoff.

Anyway, definitely not worth watching, esp when you consider that it's 2h long.

When i started watching the movie i was very impressed by the martial abilities of the main character. He surely knows his martial arts, and knows them good. Got kinda hyped for the movie to be decent or at least tad above mediocre. But i was mistaken.

The fist positive thing i can say is that the main character is very likeable. But it's not well written at all. The other characters are not written well either.

The plot on first glance is pretty flat and cheesy , nothing impressive. Not a masterpiece or anything, but could have been a decent entertaining movie to watch. But after the first 20mins you start seeing more and more lame and pointless scenes with bad dialogues, that are there for no good reason.

Good thing about the movie is, as i said above - the main character knows how to fight in real. So we do have plenty of good scenes with good choreography and almost impactful fights. Almost like the moredn Asian movies.. almost. But the other half of the fighting scenes are badly cut and badly shot. They tried to mix both the almost impactful look of the asian fighting movies and the western lame cuttings. The end result is not very good. The scenes where he fights the camera look terrible. Such scenes we see in Rocky and similar movies, when he trains, but they look bad when it's POV of the loosing side lol.

Anyway, acting is also pretty stiff. That combined with bad dialogues makes this movie not-very-entertaining.

Ending fight makes no sense, where did these 2 swords come from lol, and 1 was supposed to be in the house of James. Did James just walk around with not one but TWO swords for no reason.

Anyway, aside of that last nitpicking, ending and whole plot were very predictable, but they didnt put much efford in the script to make it at least a little bit suspenseful. It was like when you use your level 99 character in the game to play on 1st level of the game - not a challenge whatsoever.

People seem to like and praise the movie, but besides superficially "entertaining "fighting movie, it doesnt deliver much more to that. It's not even good story.

This is the best nuclear movie i've ever seen. Well , I dont count T2 because it's in a league of it's own, and i dont count Threads, which is the best for sure, but it feels more like documentary while this one is "movie".

Very suspense and anxiety driven movie. You get that almost from the start, and unlike most suspense movies, you do feel it here. Script is good, and while it's not unique, it's very well made. Characters are also good, combined with good and somewhat believable acting.

Overall this movie did surpass my expectations by a lot, and i do recommend it. Not very chil movie to relax with, but very good.

I recently watched the remake which is not a masterpiece but entertaining and didn't know it was a remake. So i decided to watch the original as well.

Well, pretty mediocre, borderline bad movie. The plot is as flat as it can be, GTA games overall - you have to run pedestrians to score. Lol, lame. The characters are pretty much generic with very little character arc. Acting is ok - not good but not terrible.

VFX are as you can expect - pretty mediocre as well (some ok explosions). Bad fighting scene with one of the fakest blood ive ever seen in cinema.

Sound is MONO . 1976 movie movie with MONO sound is stupid. We have stereo sound since the 30s, and surround since the late 60s. This alone gets few points down. Besides that the sound and music are ok, but being mono is huge downside. That alone means borderline 2/10 in my books.

The only good thing about the movie is the car design, they are while not superb cool, they are ok. But they feel more like Waky Races , cartoon, not like normal movie. Even the Tunnel scene was like Road runner scene lol.

Not recommended, probably hyped only because of nostalgia.

Whoa, i was shocked to see that Clint Eastwood made this movie. One of the best war movies i've ever seen - it was not biased, showing both the good and the ugly sides of both the American and Japanese soldiers. It is a hollywood movie, yet it was shown from the Japanese perspective, but done it right. Usually WWII movies are kinda cheesy, showind only one side (usually showing how great the American soldiers were and tha they were the only good and competent ones), and with lame and out of place romance that was totally pointless (yeah, i'm talking about Pearl Harbor, which is like 70% love story and just a tad about the events happened there).

Story and plot are historically known and not changed too much from my quick research, which is great.

Acting is very good.

But the best part about this movie is the superb surround sound mixing. War movies are probably one of the top genres where proper surround sound and bass will benefit the movie greatly, and where bad sound design will actually ruin it. This is definitely one of the best war movies from sound point of view. Very well made and well deserved Oscar. Also There's pretty much constant low bass rumble from the constant barrage . Not loud bass but still very impactfull and solid.

Overall, if you like war movies, i highly recommend this one. On par with Hacksaw Ridge and War Horse ( Schindler and the Pianist are in another league so i don't even count these movies in such lists).

If you watch his "restrospective" you hear him, repeating himself as always 10000 times, that he always want to improve and up with every next movie. You see nothing of that sort here. While the first 2 movies you can excuse for being terrible due to lack of experience, but this is 6th movie.

This movie has terrible script, it seems like written by a 5 years old. Or worse. It's flat, it has bad dialogues full of repetition and single sentences. 0/10 No flow, no cinsistency, no nothing.

Acting - his acting has not improved since his 2nd movie, wooden and stiff as always. 0/10 Some of the other actors are bad too, few have potential but they ruin that potential in participating in such production.

SGI - he again performed worse than before. He uses much more cgi than before but it's as bad as it can be. 5th grader could do much better work than this. 0/10

So, yet again he is the allpowerful and almighty being that saves everything and everyone. Someone should just drink their medication instead i guess.

I am usually all down for bs bizzare joke fan movies, as long as they fully know they make joke movie not serious stuff. Here we have nothing of that sort.

Yet another movie i dont recommend , and a director that should either hire a writer, or just stop alltogether. Movie is unwatchable. The worst one out yet.

P. S all these 8-10 ratings we see around are so fake boosting the movie too much. This movie should be above "The Room" which is like a masterpiece in comparison.

I found this movie in "1001 movies..." alongside the 1938 German Olimpia movies. And it's very very disapointing. Not the events, but the execution of the production.

The most noticable thing is the very bad sound. Music is ok, but the sound is terrible for such production. It starts with a lot of lame clanking (probably the rope on the flagpoles), and the most annoying and the reason i actually write the review is the gymnast section (around half the movie). They add ok dramatic music, and terrible sounds. You hear some badly made matt floor scraping sounds when people are rolling on the ground, you hear annoying squeeking on the metal bar. If they kept it just music, it would have been ok.

Another bad point is actually the cinematography. While some shots are great, inclo slow motion and pannings, others are terrible. Weird angles for the gymnasts and jumpers, and plenty of bad cuts, leaving part of the head, the whole head, or limbs out of the picture lol. Thats like one of the basic rules of photography. ... The 1938 Olimpia was quite enjoyable to watch, with very good cinematography , esp the first movie, and great music.

This... not recommended. Kinda waste of time.

I havent seen any Noris movie , at least none that he's the main character so i decided to give this one a try. And while i expected it to be bad to mediocre, it exceeded my expectations by a lot.

Plot and script are kinda typical 80-90s army men action movies, nothing surprising here. Somewhat cheesy but not overly. The first thing that really pops in your mind is that the movie has quite a budget, and the VFX are really good. Stunts are also pretty impressive for such action movie. That alone made me like this movie a lot. They did put some efford in it.

The only downside to the movie is the pretty mediocre fighting choreography. But i won't take too much points for that, because it's typical for all the movie from that time period, up until late 2000s. It's typical fighting scenes , with typical editing, nothing to surprise you here in positive or negative way.

Overall, pretty enjoyable fast paced action.

I decided to watch this movie on my quest to get all top250 movies. And i was not impressed by the beginning, even as i did have suspicions (i thought autism not dyslexia, but still kinda close). Yet around the half of the movie, it started growing more and more... So i really enjoyed it. Even as it is predictable movie, sometimes that is not a bad thing.

This is the 2nd Indian movie that revolves around how inefficient the school system is for people who are a little bit different (alongside 3 idiots). As the movie says - everyone has different potential and talent.

So overall script is good. Not too complex, nor mindblowing concept, but quite "normal" and "Earthy". We all had that one teacher, that helped us become better people. Acting was also decent. The reason i lowered my expectations was the beginning and these anger and frustration scenes which i thought were not very well performed. Yet as the movie progressed, they kinda made sense, even as they were "wooden" and "stiff" at times. It just fit the character. But the most impressive was that passive, distant look on the little boy's face. Distant look, that actually GREW more and more as the movie progressed , which was something i did not expect to see from a young actor. Well played.

Aamir Khan is yet again in the role of some strange person who has that specific positive aura, that strange goodness and charisma blooming around him.

Cinematography was interesting and kinda strange. Probably not everyone's cup of tea (incl myself for the 1st portion of the movie). But it was technically good. And yet again we see a shift and change as the movie progresses.

Sound and music... well we all know Indian movies have a lot of songs and dances. So its not surprising that the movie is full of songs. Some of them are quite catchy and nice. To my big surprise - no big dancing performances lol (except the 1st class of the new teacher). But the general sound , surround sound , was well made.

Overall, very nice and wholesome movie that starts a little bit slow and meh, but give it a chance. It is a nice story with a good lesson in it.

Decided to watch this movie just to see if he know what he creates or he's as "grand"as his character, and to see how such low budget things work on such low and personal level. Well now, i skipped a lot, pointless repetitive scenes with bad narative (and many without any).

5 hours where you listen to repeating sentences, repeating of the same few scenes and few "backstage" shots. Idk what is worse - him believing he did outstanding job (while the results are worse than a 6th grade school project we've seen so many on youtube), the fact that he really seems to have spend so much money on these expensive cameras where even entry level ones will give exactly the same result, or the fact that him talking in this documentary is so poorly edited - added extra words afterwards for correction, badly stitched scenes where you have few frames with zero sound.

I decided to watch his movies after seeing the hilarious explosions in his 5th movie , and i thought it was just a fan personal project where the person is down on Earth and knowing he's done poor job. Definitely doesnt' seem the case here lol.

When you hear him saying that he likes to challenge himself, and to make the every next movie bigger and better, yet his acting didnt change at all in the first 4 movies (havent seen the 5th yet), the script changed to zero plot to barely any plot, and the CGI effects he's using don't change much - that slow ghost-disapearing is something we see in every movie, so no upgrade here.

I like bad movies (like Troma), but Troma seems miles ahead of that. I don't trash talk (or at least dont trash review) on bad movies and fan-made movies, when it's obvious the people are just messing around and knowing it's total BS. But when you have serious 5-hour explanation how he did amazing job... lol well then.

P.s. I looove how he's that all-powerful being in every movie, Chuck Noris has someone superior to him.

I don't know what's the obsession with making movies that are 2:30-3:30h long. Most of the newest movies for the past few years are like that.... So this movie is not boring per se, but it's kinda slow burner. The pacing is good but you still feel it's lenght , because it's over 3 hours long. This is the main reason i don't give it 7/10. There are few movies that are long yet you don't even feel the time - LOTR (duuuh), Das Boot, Schindler's list, The green mile, Magnolia, Ben Hur. But they work perfect with longer runtime. Heck, even Gone with the Wind didn't feel too tiresome even as it's almost 4h. Here... it doesnt feel that way. It could have been 2:30h movie and deliver the same , and be even better movie. So this is the only negative i can say about the movie. But with such runtime, it's pretty big minus point in my book.

The story and the script are good, and so are the dialogues. Accents and the Indian languages are to my surprise masterfully done. They did put a lot of efford in that making them learn it properly instead of just trying to repeat it and sound bad.

Acting is good. But that is not surprising when you know the cast, and the director. Cinematography is also good. Typical Scorsese, tho we move from the italian mobs to the pre-italian mobs lol .

Lol. FIrst Neil Breen movie, and no superb VFX lol (too bad, the main reason i decided to watch these movies). Terribly bad script, almost all of the movie is him being narrator of how great he is, how he can do this and that and everything, how nobody can do anything to him, it's just "me , me ,me, me, I, me, I , me"every few seconds.

Script is, as you can imagine, flatter than Flat Earth theory, acting is worse than schoolplay. He did have some budget to rent some gg cars tho lol.

The lack of any ridiculous CGI makes this unwatchably bad.

The movie is so slow and nothing really happens, you feel it's like 4h long.

I finally finished the newest installment of this movie. And while it's not as good as the original, it's very well made movie (unlike the 1st remake from the 80s which is terrible).

Overall they keep more or less to the story, few things changed from the original, but nothing too annoying , except maybe the ending. The original ending is much better IMO ,and shows something very interesting that almost noone talks abot, yet we saw it in the P. Jacksons documentary as well.

Anyway, cinematography is marvelous. Beautifully shot. VFX and and makeup are on point, pretty bloody at times but not pointlessly so. Costumes, design and set decorations are amazing, one of the better movies.

Acting ... well acting was quite good tho i'd wish it was a litle bit more.. not sure what's the word, but just a tad something missing here. But still very good performance.

Surround sound, Atmos and bass are great.

Overall - good movie, and if you liked that, i highly recommend the original 1930s movie as well.

Pretty poor Van Dam movie. Of course, none of his movies are masterpieces, but he has some decent , entertaining movies at least. We all know that he's most known for his split, having at least one in a movie. Guess what, no split here lol.

Anyway, such movies are most entertaining for the fighting scenes. And they are quite poor here in comparison to other of his movies. Much worse choreography and fighting cinematography/editing. Felt like a cheap ripoff instead.

Script is very plain and flat, even for such movie. Dialogues are as bad as they can be , and the acting is below mediocre. Few decent dramatic scenes, few real tears in-camera instead of fake tears, but that alone can't make it up for the rest of the movie.

End fight was very predictable, following all of the late 80s and 90s one-man fighter-army trope, but here it was not even fun to watch. The real ending was also predictable, which is not surprising.

Overall, meh. I like Van Dam , but that's one of the weakest movies of his i've seen so far.

The last movie i watched for 2023, and it's not a bad movie. The script is decent, just 2 friendly families spending time together. Or so it seems.

Around the middle of the movie you get a lot of "uneasy" , anxious feeling, which is great. Nothing scary, yet you feel ... not relaxed. Unfortunately, you get that only in that middle part, and you loose it in the end for some erason. Which is kinda sad, it could have been much better movie. The ending is kinda predictable, you realise what's about to happen aprox. At that time when the "uneasy" scenes start. Saying that, it's not as predictable from the begining at least.

Acting is quite decent, and at times pretty good (few not-good scenes, but overal decent). You even have some ok character development in it, all 4 main characters having enough dimension and not just flat protagonist/antagonist.

Surround sound is also decent. Nothing wow per se, but good ambient sound, and good ambient music. Cinematography was also good for such movie, or even better than many much more "popular" movies lol.

Overall, not a masterpiece, but not a bad movie, and not the typical mainstream Hollywood, so it's worth seeing.

I expected something different, which affected my liking tad more - i expected some adventure/disaster movie.

This movie is veeeeeeery slow and somewhat boring. While i found out it's based on true story, they could have made it tad more interesting. Plenty of empty (filler) scenes that give nothing besides "i'm doing relaxed walk in the mountain in not-so-good weather".

Acting is ok. Not my fav. Naomi movie tho, but not bad. The other actor is also decent. Surround sound is decent, cinematography is ok - all of these are ok , but somewhat mediocre.

The only really good part, and the reason i keep 4 not lower, is the ending dialogue. It gives both good acting performance, and meaning to this boring slow movie. But with that they could have done it 1h movie with the same effect, or even short movie.

I expected yet another cheesy hollywood action, and to be honest, it's quite like that. One-man army, fighting the bad guys and happy ending, you know the plot, done so many times already.

But, it's quite entertaining. The action sequences are pretty well made for older action, and Statham to my delight actually do know how to perform, so we don't have the lame tight cuts because the main actor is uncapable of kicking above the knee. The melee fight choreography was pretty well done for early 2000s, and the race sequence was also decent , in the typical 2000s style.

Acting aint great but you dont expect great acting in such movie. Saying that, the acting is not bad either. It's fine. Script is pretty plain, but they did manage to deliver few good jokes. Maybe the reason is that it's not exactly hollywood production, idk, but it was funny at times.

The missile VFX were probably the worst thing about the movie, but that's just one scene so it;s fine.

Actually, the only real bad thing was the sound. While we do have decent and very prominent surround sound, the movie do lacks of bass , or more precise - during explosions and shootings. We do have bass in the quite nice soundtracks they have in the movie, but explosions were very lacking.

Overall, not a bad action movie, good for chill time.

Ok, i don't like this kind of movies, with flying, defying gravity fighting style, i find it boring. But all i can say is - WOW THIS IS WELL MADE MOVIE. Even as i don't like that type, the movie is a masterpiece.

The cinematography is true masterpiece, well shot scenes, well framed, with some unique parts. The editing and VFX are also very well made, and most of them are quite unique.

Acting is very good, better than most sword-wielding martial art movies.

Surround sound is to my big surprise- also very very good. You have good immersive surround, with good ambient music and soundtrack.

Script is good, with enough complexity to be more than just "yet another mindles sword smashing movie".

Overall, while i personally dislike such movies, i give it 6/10 because it was trully well made.

If you dont like such movies, you will still enjoy it. If you like them, you will LOVE this movie. Probably the best in the subgenre.

Highly recommended.

After watching "Tabu: A story of the south seas (1931)" and "White shadows in the South Seas (1928) , both of which i liked, i decided to find few more movies about native, tribal people. And this was the most recommended and mentioned movie when the topic comes up. Big rating, good reviews, so i expected something good. How wrong i was.

The plot and story are flat and boring, at times not even making sense.

Cinematography is pretty bad, idk why it's praised so much. 20% of the shots are at random lizards and other small animals that couldn't run away from the director, but all of these scenes are totally pointless to the story, nor are visually well made. Night shots are as you can expect from cheap movie - not night at all, just badly underexposed.

But the biggest problem is that the director seems to like that little girl too much. The movie got controversial about that underaged girl swiming naked (even the actress commented that she was surprised how long the scene is in the end product). The director claims that this scene is just a way to show her pure innocence , and i would have bought that ... But i can't buy that, when 10% of the movie are upskirt shots! Ok, you get reason to shoot the mountain climbing from below, to give scale , but you have ZERO reasons to lower your camera to the ground every single time the girl decides to sit on the ground... and you have ZERO reasons to have these scenes so central frontal ... That alone doesn't sound like "i just show her innocence"... Yet he managed to talk his way out... Everyone praises that movie, but it shows nothing good . You don't see good native Australian scenes, you don't see native tribal life scenes (that car scene is totally random and pointless), you dont even get nice landscape shots , plot is flat and pointless, and the other characters that come into view around the end of the movie, are totally pointless to the story.

Definitely NOT recommended movie.

Pretty boring story and plot. Nothing complicated and fancy, pretty flat plot.

Cinematography is ok, but acting is quite bad. I dislike classical training acting, but this is mediocre even for their standards.

I expected something much better than. I found it in comments about tribal movies ( after seeing "Tabu: A story of the south seas (1931)" and "White shadows in the South Seas (1928) which i liked" .

Idk, this movie didn't age well, but the story is pretty annoying at times, esp the beginning.

Of course, the white, Christian people are the right, all-knowing people who try to force their beliefs on anyone else of the infidels. You see how that white missionary woman is forcing the little girl to get the western, white beliefs because the little native girl MUST wear clothes and shoes, MUST play the piano, speak English and have a western thinking and not be like the rest of the kids in the area. I know, that was the thinking back than, and it was "normal" for the time period, but it still annoying to watch.

Then you have a love story, or love triangle if you like, but that that story is flatter than your grandma's love books lol. The overall drama in the movie is very non-dramatic and boring.

Overall, nothing interesting and worth watching. One of many movies that didn't age well at all. But i have a feeling that it was not great even when it came out. The 30s movies i watched and liked are also not-great as acting, nor do they have very complex plot and story , but they are miles ahead of this movie. Much better cinematography as well.