Reviews

This movie does a great justice to the book and was far above my expectations. The story is as complex as the sense it so heavily relies on - the sense of smell, yet, amazingly the directors of the movie were able to convince the smell and the feeling to the viewer.

The whole book was captured in these 2 hours, every scene was there (except some really non important parts) and everything looked just like I always imagined it to. In fact, I had a strong sense of deja-vu during the whole movie. I already saw it, I already saw it in my imagination when I read the book. The director wasn't afraid to show violence as it was described in the book, nor he was afraid of nudity. It all there, grotesque, beautiful, enchanting and terrible as the author wrote it. I'm quite convinced now that it was the best movie adaptation I've seen.

Yet, not all is perfect with this movie as well. Foremost, the movie isn't for the weak of heart. There is violence and blood, nudity and things you might not to see, yet, it should be accessible to most. Second, the movie is slow. It doesn't rush forward, it convinces true feelings with music and imagery, but that way or another, some parts seem slow.

So there you have it. Close to perfection, as far as I am concerned, but not intended for all. If you are into easy, action-packed movies or if you can't stomach some blood on the screen, steer away, or you'll be up for some complex ride. However, anyone who likes a good drama, an intelligent acting and the dark scent of reality should have a great time.

I give this movie 2/10.

{{Review may contain SPOILERS, but it isn't anything you don't know about the story from the cartoons}}

Prelude: I have nothing against action movies. This is along the movie is entertaining and not awfully stupid.

Spiderman 2: This movie, unlike action movies I like, was boring and awfully stupid... And of course it was cheesy and FULL with the same American bad movie clichés. In fact, the only reason it is 2/10 and not less is because there are indeed some nice CGI effects.

So yes, the arms of Dr.Octavious look nice, there were a few minutes of nice fighting... But really, hardly anything new compared to the first SpiderMan.

I could go over the stupid, melodramatic, cheesy and illogical points of this movie, but it would take too long, that's why I'll just sum it up with these lines from the movie:

Stupid_Woman_Reporter: "But Doctor (octavius), wouldn't the AI of these mechanical arms interfere with your judgment?" Doctor_Octavius: "Yes! That's exactly why I have this chip (*pointing on an exposed tiny lamp on his back*) as long as this chip functions the AI of the arms won't take over my brain!"

It has quite a developed story, yet, eventually all stacks up eventually to yet another beat-em-up.

On the bright side, there is the oldie feeling of the 18th century (god help me if I messed the years again) and features quite a beautiful filming.

The music, acting are fine too, nothing too exciting. But I surely suspected more from a foreign (aka non-American) film.

The main problem with this film is that it doesn't move me a slightly bit. { !!!MILD SPOILERS!!! } The love story(?) was boring, the fighting was nothing too stirring. Heck, the only thing I really cared about in the end is the beast and maybe a TINY bid about the indian.

Above all the story was awfully predictable at parts, weird at others and yet quite interesting to watch.

Another complain is that the movie is too long (120 minutes).

This film kept reminding me of the Equilibrium movie (though it surpasses it in every way). It is possible that I am just getting tired of pretty beat-em-ups films (have I ever liked them at all).

I gave it 7/10 though it is very possible that I will lower it to 6/10 in a week or so. Depends on my feeling about this movie then.

I am a big fan of the original book and this adaption is simply bad. First of all, it had trouble deciding if it is a kiddie toon or an adult one, that caused a strange mix of an adult story and some pretty violent scenes with a silly little duck that keeps giving "funny" moments in the beginning.

But that's hardly important, the film is simply boring, unmoving and not true to the original story. It simply fails to transfer to the picture all the points Orwell tried to make to his book.

{SPOILER}



Second revolution?!! Haven't they guys learned anything?? Who be the next Napoleon then? Benjamin?!!

It is rather sad since this movie showed a LOT of potential in its beginning, yet soon enough it became yet another kitschy Disney movie.

First the good: The performance of Depp was wonderful, even if a tiny bit too ecstatic. The visuals and the sounds were, as you can expect from Disney, amazing as well and reminded me of LOTR visuals somewhat. Also, surprisingly, the movie has also quite a sophisticated story.

{ MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS BELOW }

Very quickly, though, the movie dropped very low. The scenes became repetitive and dull. I grew tired of all these sword slashings, first with men, then with shields. In fact, there is just TOO MUCH fighting in this movie. It isn't the stunning fighting of Matrix/LOTR though where you grew more excited every minute, it is more like the regular Disney fighting of, "Aww he dropped the barrel and it dropped on the skeleton, ain't it funny folks?". All the fighting scenes are FULL with Disney cliches like this one.

{ REAL SPOILERS NOW }

In fact, ALL the movie grows to be more and more one big cliche as it spins towards its grand finale cliche end. Starting from the silly sentences (BadGuy: "Say good-bye!", barrel falls on him, GoodGuy: "Good-bye!"), continuing with even sillier sentences that I could guess ten seconds before the actors said them and ending with the super sticky, happy "and they lived happily ever after" end. I hoped they will broke SOME of the sweetness by letting SOMEONE die but apparently they decided to be the STEREOTYPE of cliche Disney movies.

Oh well, another 2 hours bit the dust.