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Reviews
Knock at the Cabin (2023)
This is how to improvise a CHEAP story
Haven't watched the trailer but then i have heard how close to its book director M. Knight made it so probably my rev applies to both.
The actors were great, the setup and cinematography is brilliant. Now the plot... very boring. Anyway, having not read reviews and watched trailes, I wanted to experience the M. Knight signature twist and the few minute of the movie got me hooked and with a lot of questions going. Then, the plot easily unfolds and my "what if" soon faded into a predictable linear storytelling. The presence and timing of the TV in the movie also adds to the easy guess. As soon as you realize that everything is rooted into the "pure love" of a gay couple and their adoption of a baby girl, I suddenly find the story a product of those "religious nonsense" that a jealous God is about to unleash apocalypse into the world just because you forgot to brush your teeth. The story is ridiculous. In a particular scene, Dave Bautista's character can even memorize every word the newscaster in the TV speaks but he seem to have not predicted what could happen when he was overpowered by the couple.
The movie is watchable but then, it was hard waiting to the punchline when there is really none.
Crypsis (2019)
Dumb and dumber...in a serious tone
I heard it from one of the actors... dumb and dumber... and this movie is choke-full of it. If the ridiculous screenplay won't annoy you then I'm sure the constant quarreling among all the actors would. There is no real scare in this movie. The monster itself was like a suit bought from an 80's horror movie scrap sale.
Finally, I haven't really paid attention to any of the real story or if there had been a real "twist" since between several yawns and psshhh's I really wouldn't care. Watch a 60's classic horror instead - you'd be amazed.
Scream 4 (2011)
Left me Wes-Craving
The Slasher Genre of movies is all the while getting boring and sadly predictable and linear. Mindful of these, Wes has taken his lessons in time as he is a Hitchcock of screenplays. Satirically detailing the history of slasher movies with an intro of several scenes showing intros of every Stab movie, he successfully has shown you a glimpse of what "you are never gonna expect" from this newest Scre4m movie. At least he successfully did revolved the theme around Sydney's winner line "don't f*** with the original!" and this movie is indeed a first in the Slashbox genre of the MTV era.
The movie had in itself a dozen of characters to bring about comedy, spoofs, spooks, drama, hatred to the audience who like me, find myself at times sparing the suspense and wondering whether this and that character gets to survive. But I love mainstay characters, it's like a TV episode where you get to see almost everyone mainstay survive. You get to know a deeper understanding about each character. Like Dewey and Gale for example, I would really hate a Scre4m movie killing them off in favor of new characters. Sydney precisely stood it with pride. But the movie isn't really meant to be predictable. And that's the best part of Wes' creation. There was no way I found every scene in the movie too linear, although I get to see dumb characters who would prefer to go out of the room or car or any secure area after seeing the killer disappear for almost a while! Only thing I see too loose is that some stabs look not fatal at all. You can still see the knife as if it's just sticking into the clothing and not really slicing like the real thing. Or maybe it would lose the entertainment side if it becomes like a documentary type of realism so then I would not ask for more.
Source Code (2011)
A genre mainstay until another far-fetched killer brainchild comes across the big screen.
This has got to be the best Sci-Fi/Love Story plot I've ever watched since The Lakehouse. I definitely recommend this movie for anyone who has got a knack of dealing with mind-boggling scenarios while enjoying the melodramatic mood. This of course has some violent scenes typical for its own stretched-out plot of a time bomb set on a train and afterward the possibility a citywide holocaust. Jake's acting has been driving and very involving. Michelle Monaghan is cute. She did it well and much relaxed. Though the mystery is easy off since the crime perpetrator can be guessed off pretty in the early minutes of the movie, the winning part of the movie is by how every piece of evidence is stitched into one whole revelation and the realization that this has go to be a love story. The ending surprisingly is most rewarding and would bring you to several what- if's and how-come's. Definitely worth watching and a genre mainstay until another far-fetched killer brainchild comes across the big screen.