D.Moore

In my opinion, a modern western almost like it was made by Sam Peckinpah. Almost due to the fact that although the whole atmosphere is commendably reminiscent of The Wild Bunch crossed with Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, it ends up being tough, manly and nicely dramatic in the final moments, while the final shootout is... Sloppy? I guess so. Bloody Sam could have handled such a scene better, but unfortunately Walter Hill shot it in a rather confused and somehow not very "fateful" way. But he did a better job with the duel between two men. Extreme Prejudice is still an excellent film with a not entirely silly and straightforward plot, a number of great moments, Goldsmith's unmistakable score and Nick Nolte's exemplary acting. Four and a half.

A very decent spectacle. It has momentum, ideas and above all an excellent main character who is ready to undergo the worst not because some pompous patriotic duty calls him to it, but because he is protecting his own family. Brad Pitt is excellent, and although he's no superman, and I really liked how logical his character is, how he makes instinctive decisions and improvises (making a bayonet or forearm guards, plus other moments that I won't reveal - one of them has to do with the roof of a house and the other with a hand and a knife...). World War Z should be longer, though, because I couldn't help feeling that quite a lot of the plot is missing and many things or characters are somehow unexplained or unnecessarily rushed (David Morse, why everyone in Jerusalem suddenly started singing...). Otherwise, everything is just fine. Some of the situations were almost blackly humorous (Dr. Fassbach, the way North Korea fights the disease...), the ending didn't have a single flaw (except that it reminded me a bit of the ending of I am Legend). The stunts are almost perfect, the action is fortunately much clearer than in Quantum of Solace, the zombies are swarming like ants and are very (un)pleasantly unpredictable, and of all the biting swarming I probably liked the Jerusalem episode the most (despite the aforementioned criticism). And Marco Beltrami composed excellent music, but this time it is more interesting after seeing the film. A strong four stars.

After Toy Story 3, finally the first Pixar film that I don't have a single complaint about. I mainly disagree with the opinions that it hurts the film that it's a "regular buddy movie" and that we know in advance that Mike and Sully will get together. Well, of course we know that, but what's much more interesting is learning why Mike Wazowski didn't end up as a ghost! After all, from the very beginning, Monsters University shows him as one of the most promising students, who wants to scare and terrify, who prepares himself and almost everything points to his dream coming true despite everything unfair pitted against him. So what happens then? Why will only Sully haunt in the end and not him? That's what I was so interested in - weren't you? I really don't see the slightest flaw in the university. From the animation, which looks extremely realistic in many shots (the university campus, the bus... everything looks real), through a lot of gags, new ghosts (the self-destructive Art is my favorite), the pig chase or the final horror treat for all fans of the genre, to Newman's great music and thankfully very good Czech dubbing.__P.S. The disco ball scene from the trailer is not in the film.__P.P.S. Shame on everyone who left before the end credits.

A deliberate piece of light-hearted rubbish. Some parts are funny enough to make you smile, but it is surprisingly short on narrative, action and humor compared to Shadow, which was filmed four years earlier (and the comparison is directly offered). Billy Zane in particular is a terrible actor... No, wait, that's not it... Billy Zane is terrible. Yeah. And he was obviously taking the prancing around in purple pajamas a little too seriously. But Treat Williams and the other actors were better. The filmmakers certainly expected more from The Phantom, but what can you do? It's fairly watchable, and scenes like jumping from the plane onto the horse are unforgettable.

An unsurprising (in 2013, that is) but decently made action flick with a pleasantly cynical and funny main character. That’s it.

I am starting to like this movie more and more. It grew on me gradually, thanks to how cleverly Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice followed it, which justified (what else could it do with such a subtitle?) the absolute destruction of everything, which bothered me most about Man of Steel. Among the biggest positives are the actors, without exception perhaps the best possible performers, and the more civil first hour culminating in a hurricane. The stunts are often literally unprecedented, only occasionally blatantly digital, the introduction on Krypton is pleasantly novel and even the action is not all that confusing when you know in advance what is happening and who is hitting whom.

In the original version and with subtitles, I might have liked the film a little less, but the dubbing with Miloš Kopecký (!), Jana Hlaváčová, Václav Voska (!) and others enchanted me. It was very clamorous in places, but not unusually so for Italian standards, and there was enough humor, whether subtle or a bit more coarse, and the Australian countryside played one of the main roles (the beautiful scene with parrots)... If the film could have been a bit shorter (probably a direct proportion between the runtime and the title), then it would have been even better.

This film must have been terribly naive even at the time it was released – and this almost sixty years haven’t helped. It has a cute, trashy atmosphere, but it lacks suspense and a proper villain, the action is not worth much, etcetera.

A decent enough film, almost a "thriller comedy" at times. It’s something in the style of Gibson's Payback, with one big minus - why did it have to be clear from the beginning that the person who did the shooting was not the arrested man, but someone else? Couldn't they have deceived us for at least half the film? I wouldn't have minded that at all. Otherwise, it’s a quality film in all respects. The opening shot through the rifle scope may steal from Two-Minute Warning, but then it's one great scene after another, with the bathroom scene being somehow perversely successful and the sensational car chase making me feel sorry for the beautiful mustang. I liked Tom Cruise better here than I did in Mission: Impossible, I liked Rosamund Pike as much as always, i.e., very much, and Robert Duvall was just the cherry on the cherry cake. As for composer Joe Kraemer, I hope that after Jack Reacher he will start getting more jobs like this, because he obviously has ideas and he knows how to do it.

"Spock, tell me it will be ok!" - "I have neither the information nor the conviction to do so." Fortunately, it turned out okay. More than okay, actually. The script dares to play with the parallel Star Trek universe even more than last time, I didn't find a single blemish in terms of the technical aspects, J. J. Abrams directs as well as all the actors act - flawlessly. At times it is funny, at times dramatic, at times intimately moving... And the change of pace never feels like a punch in the face, which is admirable. Of the actors, Benedict Cumberbatch is rightly singled out, whose villain would have a hard time finding competition in contemporary film (hello to the awkward Loki from Avengers and many others). The best part of the film is probably the one that starts with the meeting of the two ships, continues with Scotty's humorous mission, the transfer from one ship to the other and ends with the "reveal". However, I also really liked the opening chase, as if cut from the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Michael Giacchino managed to maintain the excellent level of the last film's music, and the storyline of Kirk and Spock's friendship continued nicely. By the way, Spock is about the only weakness of the film. But I don't mean the "new" one played by Zachary Quinto, but good old Leonard Nimoy, who is here again, but this time his presence seems rather forced and unnecessarily "Deus ex machina". But like I said, that's probably the only flaw.