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Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017)
Great story ruined by a bad director
A heart-aching "based on true events" story. Could have been better without Ali Atay -playing himself as always-. I wish a remake of this movie with a better Turkish director and an editing team would be possible. Commercials of the movie introducing it as "The Turkish candidate for Academy Awards candidates" is also problematic.
3 points for the story, 3 points for the little girl, and 1 point for the sake of development of Turkish film industry.
Self/less (2015)
Promising Idea, Poor Execution
Movie starts with Ben Kingsley and a very calm atmosphere, giving the impression that we will witness a satisfactory amount of good acting, experience sci-fi thrill and a Black-Mirroresque dystopia. At the first 30-minute-mark, it definitely seemed like a good choice though. Then, every tiny thing in the movie becomes almost a hundred percent predictable and follows a very cliche storybuilding, and bad -awful- acting comes in. At some point, the sci-fi element of the movie becomes absurd, with some objects and events defying the rules of physics, likewise bulletproof glasses easily melting, or bullets surviving MRI machines. In this absurdity, the whole focus of the film goes from scientific to action-oriented, simply guys chasing each other with guns kind. Well, even these chase-action movies sometimes can be spectacular or epic, Self/less has nothing to do with it.
Poor acting (except Ben Kingsley) and poorer plot; yet, initially promising.