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As most people, I was very much looking forward to a fantasy series based on the later life of Willow. And as most people I was disappointed with the result. I didn't expect a young adult version, but that is okay - there is a lot of high quality young adult fantasy out there. This just ain't one of them. We're rushing through the story, wanting to show too much but in stead giving us shallow pieces of different sets. Those did look good and the sfx are all good too. But the actors do not get the possibility to give their characters real depth. It just feels all very off-balance. Some acting is cringe-worthy bad (sorry mr. Davis), most actors clearly would have been much better if the overall script was better. And those enormous time-jumps ("We've been on this boat now for how long? Weeks? Months?" - wait, what?) This more or less feels like a fast-food version of a fantasy series although it could have been a 4 course meal without losing the YA feel and approach. Props to Tony Revolori and Amar Chadha-Patel for making the most complete characters of the set. They help making it sort of enjoyable together with the way the world was shown. Just would have liked it to be a lot better in quality script-wise.

We have just binged 3 episodes of this wonderful fantasy epos and I've enjoyed every second of it. From the start, where we see Jaskier again, who gets the assignment to tell the real story, the assembly of the 7 in the first few episodes, Lenny Henry as the evil sorcerer (who seems to be landing more fantasy roles at the moment) and of course the always fantastic Michelle Yeoh. In a few smartly written lines each character gets a bit of depth and that is just enough for the length of this mini series. Tomorrow we will watch the last episode and I am sure it will not disappoint.

Netflix, you did a great job with bringing this origin Witcher story to life, can we have more please?

I was looking forward to this series. Having enjoyed Game of Thrones a lot (yes, even the last season) I just couldn't wait to return to Westeros and beyond for more fantasy drama.

The first episode was very promising. Great writing, well acted and impeccable set and costume designs. Matt Smith is a great baddy and Paddy Considine carries his part with great grandeur. Newcomer Milly Alcock is a great addition and she delivers what her part needs and more.

But 6 episodes in, I am getting more disappointed. And I think it is because of the time gaps between episodes. They skip years in between. Therefor you miss a cliffhanger at the end of the episodes. And between episode 5 and 6 there is even a gap of 10 years, so they had to recast the younger actors for older ones. And now you meet people for the first time and are expected to remember their character's whole experience and evolvement from the previous episodes. But that doesn't work, you start at 0 with new characters, so you have to give them a lot more development quickly to get connected to them.

For instance, in episode 6, we have the new wife of Daemon. In previous episodes she was briefly shown as a child, and now she is married to him, with children, for 10 years. She is a grown woman and not happy. So she decides to kill herself by means of dracarys. And that should be a heartbeat stopping moment, but I just didn't care, I just met the woman! I really felt, whatever.

It is really difficult to keep connected to characters if you have these big gaps of time between episodes. Remember that movie Boyhood? Shot over 12 years, several scenes every year. It was well made, but also there, you didn't connect because in the next scene the drama of the previous scene is already solved, because it's a year later.

I will continue watching this though, because I hope it will get better. And for the quality of the acting and production, I will keep my rating on a reasonable level. Maybe I will adjust, maybe not. 7/10.

Let's start with saying: I liked this movie a lot. It's a fresh take on the Spiderman movies we've seen in the past and a clear part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

We've seen Tom Holland in Captain America: Civil War and he made quite a strong impression there as the somewhat clumsy, young and witty Spider-man. So my expectations for his stand-alone movie were quite high.

And they did deliver it well. It was a fun and exciting coming-of-age/high school movie with a a great villain in alien-arms-dealer Michael Keaton. And Robert Downey Jr./Tony Stark in a somewhat struggling father-figure role. And because we have a really young Peter Parker, we can also have a younger than usual aunt May, funny and vibrant Marisa Tomei.

So far so good. Some disasters Spidy has to prevent/fix are directly because his own doing. He jumps into situations without a second thought and deals with them on the spot. This brave and hyperactive Spidy fits well in the MCU and is bound to be a comic relief for a lot of coming movies.

So, the writing, camera-work, editing, production, directions and acting is great - why not a 10? Simply because the trailers (except for the home-video teasers) gave away too much of the movie. I new what was going to happen and that took away a lot of fun and excitement for me. I go to the cinema a lot, so it's hard not to look at the trailers. And it felt too politically correct in casting. Especially Flash was cast wrong. Tony Revolori did well for the part he got, but my Flash is a big mostly physical bully in the comics and the choice for a short snakelike mean character who is part of the decathlon team seemed off.

Apart from that I enjoyed the movie a lot 8/10

I loved this movie. In the first five minutes it almost had me in tears, and not many movies ever succeeded in doing that. The pace is slow, but never too slow, it stays very interesting. Even though the big guy next to me fell asleep after devouring a popsicle, a bag of chips and a bottle of Fanta, I was never distracted from the story. The director pulled me in from the first second and the atmosphere he creates lasts throughout the movie. Great cinematography an soundscape as well. Amy Adams once again shows her great acting skills, and if you don't love Jeremy Renner after this movie, you never will. And in spite of one being part of the DC Universe and the other of the Marvel Universe, they have great chemistry together.

There is a lot more to be said about Arrival, but I just think you should go watch it yourself to make your own judgment. Maybe you agree with me, maybe you don't. It doesn't matter, as long as you understand it's message.

Miss Saigon. I've seen it in the theater numerous times, in Dutch, German and English. I knew cast members who could sneak me in and seat me next to the engineers. I even auditioned for it. I know this show front stage and backstage. You might say, I'm a fan.

Talks about a movie being made made from it made me excited and worried at the same time (see what they did to Les Mis, the show is good, but the movie sucked in so many ways). Probably their decision (for now) to do the theater registration as a movie was really smart. This way you could not lose the pace of the story, the whole drama is already finished and the only thing you need to do is put a camera on it.

Sometimes I'd forget that they were on stage, you would hear the audience react sometimes and even than it was not completely clear if it was inside the cinema or inside the movie (I was seated last row). It could easily have been inside the cinema, the rest of the people clearly enjoyed it as much as I did, also for them it was a great night.

The acting was great, the singing was great and of course the story, based on the Opera Madame Butterfly, is a solid drama. It was filmed pretty up close, there were not so many wide shots, which made you get deeply involved in the drama even more than in the theater. At several moments, because of the music, the story, the acting, I just burst out in tears. Oh how I love me some musical drama.

And when the story was over, the show went on and featured a grand finale with (some of) the original cast members returning to the parts that made them famous or won them Tony's. And they were funny, really funny.

So this movie or registration or whatever you like to call it, did for me what so many movies can't seem to be able to do these days: move me. The logo for theater that has been used many times is the laughing mask and the crying mask and this night, in the cinema, this all came together perfectly. It may as well be the best musical theater on film I have ever seen. Very well done.

I simply loved this movie. Anne Hathaway plays this modern business woman with a heart and soul and Robert deNiro is lovable from the first second you see him.

He's been there, done that and just needs something to do. So he applies for a senior internship at this new-fashioned fast rising web shop. His boss, a young woman with a dream, is trying to keep the control of everything that happened since her idea became a huge success and combine this with having a family. At first she doesn't want him around, but after a while she starts feeling comfortable and at ease when he slowly but surely starts to help her (without her even noticing it at first).

His devotion to help his boss is something I can relate to, and the hip and modern environment they work in I recognize as well. All is done very well, the characters (not all deeply layered, but that's not necessary for a light comedy) are truthful, the story is running with a nice pace and deNiro and Hathaway are a very good match.

I went to bed with a smile on my face, I really liked this movie.

This movie is more a Thriller than a Horror film. We have a lot of suspense and scary moments where we need the kids to escape the house of the evil blind veteran. Or isn't he evil? We ask that question many times, because it looks like this man is protecting his house and money from burglars. Although there are more locks on the door than seem to be necessary, and some you don't want to open.

We had a fun time in the cinema, I love watching these kind of movies in a crowd because it gives a feeling of sharing the same fears and scares all together, which make it fun instead of troubling. Some films you just shouldn't watch alone. With this one that would be perfectly fine, it's not that scary, there is no gore apart from a little blood and a shot wound here and there.

The acting is good, good enough for this movie. The blind man doesn't talk for most part of the movie and when he does more than just a sentence, it's a little distracting because it feels late to introduce that with one of the main characters.

The setting is good, although I must say that the basement must be probably 6 times bigger than the whole house. Does it spread under the whole neighborhood?

It ended rather abruptly. After wanting to finish several times (but delaying the ending) we suddenly have the end titles. Funny enough it was an interesting and exciting movie, but by dragging it a little too long at times we were a little bit bored.

The train to Busan was a movie I desperately wanted to see when I saw the trailer. Imagine being inside a fast train with zombies trying to tear you apart in most of the wagons.

The cast do a great job in this movie. Especially the little girl Suan is acting her heart out and the charismatic Sang-Hwa more than once saves the day. All people you would normally meet on the train are present and once again we discover that the real horror can lie with the people, not with the monsters. Monsters have one thing on their mind: to eat you. People make decisions that effect other people and can spread the hate under the majority just because they only think of their own survival.

It is a lesson in survival, and the big question is how do you want to survive. Being a selfish prick using a human shield or protect others even if it might kill you.

It was very well done, I enjoyed the movie immensely, the pace of the story is good, as is the script, most of the main characters have multiple layers and there is a good amount of drama next to the horror and gushing blood. And the special effects are very well done.

I hear rumors of a US remake. Please don't ruin it.

Crawlspace gives you a bit of Aliens, a bit of Cube and a little bit of Halo as well.

The sets give a very claustrophobic atmosphere to the movie. Everyone is on his or her guard and everyone we meet has their own agenda. You can't trust anyone.

Most of the actors are good, and deliver a solid performance. The hallucinations were well done and believable. The script has many unexpected twists which makes it very enjoyable and exciting to watch.

There is some gore, but mainly it's the atmosphere that creates the horror.

There are a few editing mistakes in the version I saw, that made some scenes a bit weird, and there was another military party with the green lights, that I couldn't place and therefor didn't understand why they would attack our group.

But it is a nice and exciting movie, which doesn't let you down.

Oh my, that was a mess. All four of us prepared for at least a nice entertaining movie, but one of us even walked out, it's so disappointing!

The story is too simple, dialogues are bad and many times we were looking at each other like what the ... I doubt even kids will watch this movie again, I would advice them not to do that and watch a simple cartoon instead.

There is so much wrong with this movie that I cannot even appreciate the things that are good, like the voice acting. The best part of the movie is Scratch, not every scene but that actually made me laugh at times. It should have been a 5 minute short with only Scratch and it would have gotten an easy 7 or 8 out of 10. But anything happening on earth was boring, not funny and actually in a way insulting the intelligence of the viewer.

Okay, animation and voice acting were obviously good, but that didn't survive the absolute mess of the whole movie. It would have been great to just have the asteroid kill each and everyone of these characters so that there will never be another Ice Age movie - please stop this torture and invent something new, this was a waste of your money and my time.

A 3,5 for Scratch so 4/10.

Darkness Falls is a Swedish sci-fi short produced with an extremely small budget and crew by Swedish filmmaker Jarno Lee Vinsencius. Sometimes being the writer, producer, director, cinematographer and editor all together results in an overload of ideas and bad self-criticisms but Vinsencius clearly succeeded not to fall into that trap.

After Melissa (played by a promising Joanna Häggblom) wakes up in a forest, she suffers from amnesia and nightmares for the next few weeks. When she gets a note from a stranger who says can help her, she accepts the invitation.

I miss a little bit extra urge from Melissa to solve her problems so I understand the need for her to get into the car with the stranger. After the ending this might be explained, but here Melissa still doesn't have any idea what happened.

When they get to the location of the one who can help her, the stranger, David, tells her a bit more about himself and what might be wrong with her and the world.

The following scene inside the building where Felix discovers the transmitter is a bit static and needed some more tension. Especially the moment where the two ladies enter, I would like to have seen more fear and desperation.

The one character I actually enjoyed the most and with just a few sentences was the most complete to my idea, was the downstairs neighbor. She made me laugh out loud.

All in all, not a bad short at all - within the limits a short provides, there is a use of beautiful cinematography, some okay acting and the plot is interesting. With a bigger budget and some stronger actors, this could easily be turned into an interesting sci-fi feature film. I would give this a 6,5 but I can't - so a 7/10 it is.

I have a problem with sharks. Sharks are my biggest fear in the world. I don't like oceans. Sharks are in it and can come to the surface any second. What if you have a small cut and start bleeding. Sharks will come and bite you, tear you apart and eat you alive. The horror of being in that situation. This problem I have probably made Jaws the most scary movie of all time (not to mention the very young age I had when I saw it for the first time, I didn't dare swim in the French sea on holiday and as soon as I couldn't feel the ground anymore, I was out of the water.)

Since Jaws, many movies with sharks came along. Some ridiculously stupid (Deep Blue Sea, anyone?) or cleverly scary like this one.

This movie made me scream and shiver and tensed from beginning to end. It has a strong lead character that can totally carry the movie by herself. We love to see others suffering so we don't have to do it ourselves, and man, did she suffer! I bought everything that happened to her, she has to survive and you can last a few days without water and food. (Longer if you're healthy, but in her case this was I think pretty much the maximum, how long after the first attack: 36 hours or something?)

The CGI of the horrific shark was scarily good, the pace of the story was slowly building up to a big climax and who would have thought the comic relieve would come from a seagull?

A few criticisms: the man bitten in half crawling up the beach, no, that's just silly, and how the hell did the water catch fire all of a sudden. Did we miss the shot where she puts er... kerosene in it?

For the rest, yes, this is a very scary movie, not only if you have a problem with sharks. It's well written, has a great actress carrying it all the way through and is shot beautifully. A winner for me. 8/10

I watched this yesterday evening on Netflix and got curious because of the trailer and the time-loop story.

The loop has been done many times, from which Groundhog Day and more recently Edge of Tomorrow are the most memorable, and it's easy to burn your fingers on too many mistaken details that distracts from the story. In this movie, I think they did a very good job.

The story is quite simple, and the setting is just in and around a house. You have the almighty leaders in a world that is dying and the resistance that needs to fight for the survival of freedom. And in the middle Renton who created his machine that can do good in the right hands and very bad in the wrong hands, the Arq. And then some people break into his home. There is not a lot explained about why the world is dying or why Renton is hiding and from who exactly, but the story more develops around using the time loop in their advantage, which only works for so long...

The acting is pretty good, Rachael Taylor is the better half of Robbie Amell, but the two together put in a strong with-or-without-you performance. And Shaun Benson makes Sonny a force to be reckoned with.

The whole time-loop thing really works here, every time there is a new person remembering the last loop and that complicates things rapidly while every loop gives more info on the characters and ever changing situation. It's very smartly written and I really like the ending which I will not spoil for you.

All in all a very enjoyable psychological sci-fi thriller that really messes with your head in a good way. A solid 8/10 for me.

The female 'chicklit' comedy is a genre I tend to avoid. I am not sure why, but it must be because I'm a man and some things I just don't get about the female character. Not saying that I do not understand suffering, awkwardness or humiliation, but I guess mine are just different. And mostly in these stories the men are quite 2-dimensional and only there to support the suffering of the title character. So I can't really connect with them as well. And I think I am not alone in that as 90% of the audience today were woman aged 25 - 75.

But I did see the previous two and enjoyed mainly the first one and Renée Zellweger gave Bridget Jones a clumsy and awkwardly comfort which made me curious about this last installment.

And she did grow up, it's 10 years later and she is some more accepting to the things that happen to her. It's good to see she has turned into an independent woman who sometimes gets herself into awkward situations and deals with them. That is also one of the criticisms I have regarding the movie: it never gets really sad or hopeless.

But it is fun to see Renée Zellweger play this character again and you have an instant liking to her. Even though she has so much work done in her face (her smile is more like a grin) once you decide not to be distracted by that, it's an entertaining story.

Best scene is at Glastonbury, where Ed Sheeran has a funny cameo. This is the Bridget Jones from the other movies we know so well. That scene is in the beginning of the movie, and after that there is absolutely some comedy, but never gets that clumsy anymore. I missed that.

The drama however is more with the two guys wanting to know who the father is (no spoilers there, it's all in the trailer), and their characters are a bit too shallow for my taste. They could have done a lot more with those two to really make Bridget her life extremely complicated again. But instead they chose to let Bridget be independent, so whoever and whatever happens isn't really important anymore.

The acting is good, it has some quality comedy actresses and the soundtrack is once again really good. There were some editing mistakes that I found distracting: Bridget talking on screen but you only hear the doctor say something or hear Bridget speak and laugh but in the shot she walks away from the camera while she is clearly not saying something, let alone laughing. Clearly in both cases a choice to add the voice over after shooting and it looks messy.

For the laughs and the reasonably successful return of Bridget Jones a 7/10.

Oh my, I thought the trailer was brilliant, but I never thought this movie would be this crazy. It was funny, very clever and brutally honest on some world- and society problems like different religions refusing to co-exist, like the Arab Lavash and the Jewish Bagel.

Many taboos and a lot of bigotry and sexism passes by and some people walked out of the movie (yes, that started after the street-scene) but 90% of the audience were in a hilarious OMG mode: 'No, they didn't!' A stranger next to me just couldn't stop laughing and was crying his eyes out - so was I. Especially near the end there is a scene (no spoilers) where I found myself in shock with awe and I just couldn't believe my eyes. And I am not easily shocked, I can tell you. The animators most have had the time of their lives, creating that scene in particular!

Apart from this hilarious experience I happily got to share with the rest of the viewers, the story was good, steady and filled with jokes. The voice-acting was brilliant, (what a cast!) and the animations were well done. Okay, three points of criticism: the evil Douche is not really adding to the story or necessary for the actions of the main characters. The biggest antagonists are the humans already. He does have a few good jokes. The second is some irregularities because e.g. in the street scene - without spoiling - that is not food talking, so that is simply not correct. Deadly funny though. Same counts for Douche or toiletpaper.And the biggest reaction of the audience. The last thing is the ending. But how can you end a movie that has that huge 'ensemble- scene' at the end. If you'd end it there, that would leave the fate of the characters unanswered. How they make it end now feels a bit too fabricated. But okay, after this hysterical roller-coaster ride, it doesn't really matter anymore.

If you are easily offended and are a big fan of little house on the prairie, don't watch it. If you like a cleverly written, acted and animated adult animated movie which is also confrontational at times and has many layers underneath the ridiculously hilarious surface - this is for you. A solid 9/10.

And then there were five. A trilogy that was superb, a fourth that was somewhat different but still intriguing and this one, where Matt Damon returned as Jason Bourne and Paul Greengrass as the director. When I was asked after the movie if I liked it, I really wanted to say that it was great. But it wasn't.

It's certainly entertaining, a fast paced action movie and I love me some Alicia Vikander, but the plot was shallow, the action scenes started to look a lot like an overdone Michael Bay movie (which I clearly do not like) and I missed the intriguing past-recovery from the trilogy. This was merely an action blockbuster and missed the quality of the previous films with Matt Damon. It wasn't a necessary addition to the franchise and although it was made well, acting and production, the script is just not good enough for a Bourne movie.

A thin 7 out of 10.

The original Ghostbusters was maybe one of my favorite childhood movies. So I was definitely curious what they did with the female reboot. Oh my, that was way better than I expected!

We have a cast that's always extremely funny when the script of the movie they're in is good. (I've seen Melissa McCarthy in a few movies where she could barely make me grin despite her attempts to try to beat the bad script and be ridiculously funny). All of them, the four ladies and Chris Hemsworth, are all performing their best comedy and it pays off. Most of the smaller parts are very funny as well. I laughed throughout the movie and never sensed it was too much or too little, there's a lot of room for humor within the solid plot. Because the story is basically the same as the original story. Well done with the script, it could have gone wrong so easily, but the balance between story and comedy is great.

I felt like reliving the same feeling when I was a child, watching this movie. As if time didn't pass. I had a great few hours. A solid 9 out of 10.

Just went to see the movie a second time. When I watched the first time I was pretty overwhelmed by the amount of action, but not surprised, because this is in the end a sci-fi action movie. I liked the storytelling and the plot, and it works very well in 3D.

But the second time, I noticed some continuity flaws that is not necessary with a huge budget like this movie has. For instance, when they all get in their pods to quickly evacuate the Enterprise there's no time to change clothes, right? And the pods are very small so inside it would be a hassle an probably take more time than the actual trip is. Still Chekow and Kirk, being the last ones to leave the starship, manage to land their pods and get out in a complete different attire. Not just an extra jacket, that could have been inside the pod, but pants, shirt, everything.

And I noticed the second time that Karl Urban was actually pretty off in this movie. He tries to add some sort of Shakespearian gravity to Bones and that mainly in the way he speaks. That results in a flat and unbelievable character. Haven't seen that before from him, but I felt in this one it was distracting and therefor failed the 'holy trinity' of Kirk, Spock & Bones. But luckily his part in this movie (and if I remember correctly, the others too) is mainly in service of the other characters and he doesn't have his own storyline. So the distraction was minimal.

And I was a little disappointed that Kirk, after losing his ship and some of his crewmembers, did not ever show any regret, sadness, anger or pain for that. As well as the other main characters, like Zulu, who talks to Krall as if they are from competitive teams at a sportsevent.

For the rest, I really enjoyed the movie again, the pace is good, actionscenes are numerous and the actors are mostly true to their character. Not as good as number 2, but certainly a good competition with most blockbusters we see these days.

I am a big fan of the series, often peed my pants laughing because of the quality comedy of the two leads and everyone around them. So with that in mind I was a bit scared to go watch the movie, as we have been served movies-from-TV-shows and they are seldom a good addition to the archive. If you haven't seen the series, don't bother watching the movie, you will not understand it if you don't already know the characters.

Of course there are a lot of jokes and some reference to the series and Edina and Patsy are still absolutely fabulous. We get served a lot of characters from the series and things go extremely south rather quickly, like the series. Some slapstick from Patsy made me laugh out really loud in the cinema.

Because it's a movie everything is bigger: the sets are bigger, the story is bigger (is Kate Moss really dead?), the cast is bigger etc. About the latter: at a certain moment you are just waiting for the next cameo, it gets distracting. And there are quite some continuity mistakes, that always distracts me too.

What seems to be the problem is by making everything bigger, they seem to have forgotten what the strongest part of the series was: the dialogues or monologues with the bitchy remarks back and forth. I missed that. There are some, but not enough, it feels like they had to make way for yet another fabulous set or for the faster pace of the story. Pity.

All in all, I will always love them, but this movie wasn't necessary. For their effort and for the opportunity to get a bit more Absolutely Fabulous, 7 out of 10. But I'm being really kind.

We've seen these stories before. Guy has a forgotten past, angry ghosts are making him solve the mystery which turns out to be different than the movie makes us believe at first.

The movie is very slow, the script drags and there is not enough tension to make you sit on the edge of your seat. And probably that wasn't the intention anyway. No, it's a sit back and relax not so exciting ghost story. Some jump-scares make you not fall asleep.

Of course Adrian Brody is trying to do his best to give a great performance, and he succeeds which is kind of an exercise realizing how dragging the script is he has been given. Same goes for the other leads.

But when you feel the movie never ends and it is a 1hour20 minutes movie, that is a really bad sign - I was glad it was over. Still I'm giving it 6 out of 10 for the effort of trying to make a ghost movie with a slow burn. Not a really successful attempt but there is potential. Some Spanish director should make a remake of it, tear the script apart and start with the basics. Hopefully that would be more satisfying.

Found footage horror, I'm not a fan. If well done I'm only slightly irritated by not seeing clearly what is happening and I can enjoy enough and if badly done, I want to throw anything towards the screen that is close at hand and need to put a bucket in front of the couch for my husband to throw up in (I don't take the risk of watching them in the cinema). So I tend to skip this genre most of the time. Luckily my curiosity took over with this one, especially because I've seen Perdita Weeks in Penny Dreadful and I liked her (short) appearance in that series a lot.

And I was not disappointed. Yes, it's not the best horror film in the list and the director and producer clearly watched The Descent (one of my all time favorites) many times, but I accept that as horror movies are known to 'borrow' scenes from their greatest predecessors. It's a slow burn with enough tension built up towards the ending to give you some true scares. (I've never seen my cat run out of the house so fast after we shouted and jumped when the woman appeared just before Benji 'fell' down the pit).

What made it not a great movie was the lack of personality development for the cast apart from the lead actress. Some had some more than others, but overall, it didn't really matter who died because you weren't really loving anyone that much. The acting was good, they could have added some more layers to the characters.

Further more, the whole stone-search story-line was totally off for me. It worked and then it didn't, so she ran back, climbed up, fell in a pool of blood (Descent-style) and discovered the true stone. Even though this is fiction, I didn't buy it. The rest of the movie I did, this one not.

And what I thought was really a missed chance is that they enter the gates of hell like Dante's Inferno (they do show that map) and I really hoped that when they came out up-side-down it would have been in Paris the Hell-on-earth version. So a burning Eiffel tower, thousands of bodies floating in a blood-red Seine, demons ripping people apart time after time... That would have been a great anti-climax. I love it when people think they survived and then discover they didn't, but that's a choice.

So apart from this, the acting is solid, the setting is amazing, the moving camera wasn't bothering me that much and I jumped several times (ain't that why we watch horror anyway). I enjoyed watching it and I think I'm gonna keep an eye out for Perdita Weeks' movies.

It was only recently that I got into the Bryan Mills and his family troubles by watching the first two Taken movies near the end of last year. I've enjoyed them very much so I was really anxious to see how they would continue the story.

We start with Bryan Mills living a quiet life, still not understanding his daughter has grown into an adult now and helping his ex-wife by listening to her marriage troubles and mixed feelings. After her husband Stuart friendly but strongly demands Bryan to get out of the way so he can solve his problems with his wife, Bryan accepts and the setup is done. From there on in we dive into the roller coaster of action, escape and search for the truth as we well know from the first two movies. Every action scene has a purpose. Not only to survive and flee the scene, but also to gain intel.

Liam Neeson is getting quite old, he is in his sixties now, and that shows throughout the movie. But having had the covert operative life his character Bryan Mills had, you can very well believe the fighting and actions he does. And he does have his 'take a breath' moments. And his emotionally stumbling through the sewers after his first escape, knowing what just happened to his family, was simply heart-breaking. You can see him think 'oh please, not this again'.

Forest Whitaker might well be one of my favorite actors. He is obviously a very intelligent actor and brings that to his role of smart cop Dotzler. He found small things to give his character a bit more depth. For example the chess-piece (trying to understand the next move of his opponent) and the rubber band he plays with (trying to solve the case as the rubber band goes around the file ones solved). Not chasing any soon to be dead leads, cuz he already knows they will be dead because he is dealing with a smart fugitive.

During the movie there were a few moments that I thought: it was impossible he escaped there. And unless Bryan suddenly turned into a superhero, I did not completely buy it that he did. But in a very entertaining, intelligent and exciting movie I can accept those moments. This was a joy to watch.

I am a little bit sceptic about the biblical stories put on film. Not because they are not interesting or dramatic enough, but because they tend to become very pretentious and humourless. Exodus: Gods and Kings is unfortunately no different.

The first 60-90 minutes of the movie rushes by, there is little character development, you have no idea what the wars are all about and whose role is what within the political settings of Ancient Egypt. People meet, get married and you don't know why. It feels like they made the movie, but it was a few hours too long and they decided to cut the so important character development and kept only the action scenes. I was actually getting bored after a while and starting yawning. It was somewhat entertaining, yes, but with none of the characters having any charm or at least being likable, it was just screen-filling waste. Maybe if I did read the story before, some things will have been more clear, but my biblical friend I took with me to the cinema felt exactly the same.

After Moses went back to Egypt it got a little more interesting, we got the plagues, a quite brilliant child-actor and the actual Exodus. And the sea, that was the best part of the movie. But if a splitting and rushing sea is the best part of the movie, what does that say about the rest? You have a great actor who plays Moses, but he is a servant to the oh so important story, instead of giving Moses the heart and soul that would make it interesting. And there we have it: what this movie lacks is a heart and a soul.

Ridley Scott made an overproduced, shallow and heartless debacle, which everyone will have forgotten within a year. The only aspect that made this movie bearable to watch are the special effects. Please next time put some humour and heart into a biblical story.

One guy and his best friend set out to bring down the evil in his own country. No, this is not Lord of the Rings, this is The Interview. The intentionally use of the similarities to that epic story are widely spread throughout the movie. But that's the template within which a political satire unfolds.

A honeypot is a seduction technique used in undercover operations to get what/where/who you want. Without spoiling anything, I can say everyone in this movie has their own way of honeypotting the other. The whole movie is packed with honeypots and it's great to discover one after the other. Some are very obvious, some you discover afterward. I think I will watch this movie again to find all of the different honeypots that are there.

Because the story runs at a fast pace, with no unnecessary dips or plot holes, it's a joy to watch. I had myself cheering and laughing out loud more and more towards the end, the build-up towards the brutal, explosive and funny finale works big time. Thanks to a tight script filled with jokes (but never too much) and a strong directing. I enjoy the humor and chemistry of Seth Rogen and James Franco very much. And Randall Park portraits a very charming, and yet very evil Kim, what makes him no less than Rogen and Franco in this movie – well cast, my friends!

Apart from all the controversy surrounding this movie (the not deliberate hack did conveniently create the must-see movie of the season for Sony), I just watched a very funny, very witty and sometimes quite brutal comedy about two friends getting honeypotted all the time by everyone.