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Now or Never!

Original title: Most vagy soha!
  • 2024
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2.2/10
17K
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Lajos Ottó Horváth, Zsombor Ertl, Nándor Berettyán, Balázs Koltai-Nagy, Sára Mosolygó, Tibor Fehér, Gábor Jászberényi, and Roland Bordás in Now or Never! (2024)
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On March 15, 1848, a young firebrand poet, Sándor Petöfi ignites the Hungarian Revolution with his passionate 'National Song', prompting the Austrians to dispatch a ruthless secret agent to ... Read allOn March 15, 1848, a young firebrand poet, Sándor Petöfi ignites the Hungarian Revolution with his passionate 'National Song', prompting the Austrians to dispatch a ruthless secret agent to assassinate him and suppress the uprising.On March 15, 1848, a young firebrand poet, Sándor Petöfi ignites the Hungarian Revolution with his passionate 'National Song', prompting the Austrians to dispatch a ruthless secret agent to assassinate him and suppress the uprising.

  • Director
    • Balázs Lóth
  • Writers
    • Mark Kis-Szabo
    • Philip Rákay
    • Vajk Szente
  • Stars
    • Nándor Berettyán
    • Sára Mosolygó
    • Balázs Koltai-Nagy
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    2.2/10
    17K
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    • Director
      • Balázs Lóth
    • Writers
      • Mark Kis-Szabo
      • Philip Rákay
      • Vajk Szente
    • Stars
      • Nándor Berettyán
      • Sára Mosolygó
      • Balázs Koltai-Nagy
    • 44User reviews
    • 25Critic reviews
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    Nándor Berettyán
    • Petöfi Sándor
    Sára Mosolygó
    Sára Mosolygó
    • Szendrey Júlia
    Balázs Koltai-Nagy
    • Jókai Mór
    Tibor Fehér
    • Vasvári Pál
    Lajos Ottó Horváth
    • Farkasch
    Gábor Jászberényi
    • Meyer
    Sándor Lukács
    • Lederer Ignác tábornok
    Sándor Nagy
    • Emich Gusztáv
    • (as Nagy Sándor)
    Béla Szerednyey
    Béla Szerednyey
    • Landerer Lajos
    Roland Bordás
    • Bulyovszky Gyula
    Zsombor Ertl
    • Irinyi József
    Sándor Berettyán
    • Degré Alajos
    Máté Novkov
    • Irányi Dániel
    Sebestyén László Szabó
    • Sükey Károly
    Tibor Hajdu
    Tibor Hajdu
    • Vidats János
    Reider Péter
    • Vajda János
    József Varga
    • Ottó pincér
    Ferenc Katkó
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    • Director
      • Balázs Lóth
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      • Mark Kis-Szabo
      • Philip Rákay
      • Vajk Szente
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    Reviewers say 'Now or Never!' has mixed feedback on historical accuracy and character portrayal. Critics argue it deviates from facts and misrepresents key events and figures, especially Sándor Petőfi. Some find the fictional elements overshadow real history. Conversely, others praise the film for its visual aesthetics, set design, and certain performances. They appreciate its effort to engage a broader audience and capture the era's atmosphere despite its fictional liberties.
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    1theredravn

    My 12 points on why this movie is rather NEVER

    As a hungarian person I'm honestly embarrased that this is how the movie about one of our most important cultural figure and event turned out. The whole thing is very fustrating, since it could have been such an interesting movie about a resolution that was won with the power of the people without any bloodshed, but noooooo... Around 6 milliard hungarian forints and we get this garbage. I have never been this angry at a movie before. So much wasted potential...

    Disclaimer: The actors, actresses did nothing bad, they were honestly the best part of the movie. It's just that they weren't give much to work with. Also, the costume and the set designers did an amazing job as well.

    The 12 points: 1. The whole movie lacks all around any kind of emotional impact. Even when the dramatic music plays, you only feel nothing but confusion.

    2. The story doesn't make sense. Scences just follow eachother without any connection or impact.

    3. If you don't know anything about hungarian history, the movie is unwatchable. With out context, the charahters are nameless faces and things just happen without a real reason.

    4. Most people don't even get a namerop or a proper introduction in the story, let alone a personality.

    5. All most all scenes of a certain madeup plotline could have been cutband it would have shortened the movie by more than an hour.

    6. The action scenes are completly out of place in this story. Most of them are also pointless and completly removable.

    7. The scenes that copy famous movies are too much and the feel very odd in this story. This is a historical movie, not a superhero movie.

    8. Trying to make this an action full film is somewhat destroying the point of the original historical event.

    9. There is no charachter development and nothing that helps the watcher connect to any of the charahters.

    10. The whole thing didn't have a message or any kind of wisdom. Despite being a very important event that decided the fate of our country's history, this felt like a soulless fictional retelling.

    11. The hungarian voices sounded like a bad dub recorded after the movie even though the actors are hungarian. The voices also didn't match the actors lips in some places.

    12. The CGI was a bit messy sometimes, but the resolution was more distracting. During some scenes everything looked as if you were watching a film someone uploaded to a pirate site.
    gazt90

    It hurts you physically if you are hungarian

    It fulfills the self serving, megalomaniacal desires of an untalented man.

    The actors tried their best, but the script was so bad you can be the greatest actor ever, you cannot build something good from pure garbage.

    One of the greatest event in the hungarian history, which literally makes every single hungarian proud it became a dumb class Z action movie with the overused clichés we saw million times already in modern cinematography.

    The movie just wasnt able to pay the respect the revolutionists and this great event deserves.

    We have lot of skillful professionals in the industry, maybe some day there will be a remake which wont serve the greediness and selfishness of a few but pays tribute to our great and brave ancestors.

    Looking forward to it.
    1szacsoka

    Overpriced hungarian storytelling

    Philip Rákay got a lot of money to create a good movie and he tried. In this small country, we have good creators, but he is a propagandist.

    In 2015: Son of Saul. 01:47 mins and the cost: 450m HuF (4m HuF/min) In 2016: Sing. 00:25 mins and the cost: 10m HuF (400.000 HuF/min)

    This movie is 02:15 mins and the cost: 6564m HuF (48.6m HuF/min). We can spend a lot, but it is not correlate with the quality. The acting was bad. The scripts were empty. The history has been changed. This is a boring movie with a few good episodes.

    This story required a much more better movie because it is a very significant event in Hungarian history.
    1mezzi7

    Incompetency at its finest

    I don't know where to start. Really really bad acting - as usual, totally no historical background check, cheap game of thrones knock off music, I kinda also get a western movie vibe off it. It's a big big mess, if we compare this movie to a house, than it's a gold coated mansion which was built on a swamp from cheap materials and has no electricity, no water whatsoever. It makes the news for one day, then it is forgotten forever rotting in the overgrown bushes. You can see that they poured tons of money in it, but still managed to create an empty vessel of a film. This is so sad. I am so sad. This era would have deserved a quality movie, not this... thing.
    1antiorbanog

    it didn't come through

    Sorry, I was hoping for more. This movie is more of a turbocharged costume marvel than a historical adventure. I expected more and especially a more faithful following of real events. When will we understand that a movie story is original. If it is based on real events, it should be better aligned with them. If it's made up, then write at the beginning that it's just a made up story. But then the names and places should be transformed accordingly.

    That not really!

    If the children taken out of school form an image of the events of 1948 based on this, it is not appropriate to grade their paper!

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    • Release date
      • March 14, 2024 (Hungary)
    • Country of origin
      • Hungary
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    • Language
      • Hungarian
    • Also known as
      • Most vagy soha!
    • Filming locations
      • Budapest, Hungary
    • Production companies
      • FP Films
      • Lumiere Film & TV
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      • HUF 6,100,000,000 (estimated)
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