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It started really well, great performances etc... but then got confused in what it wanted to be. A comedy? A dark self dystopian dysfunction? Or a social commentary... didn't work trying to be all of them. As a thick threaded telling of one of the genres, it may well have pulled this viewer deeper, instead, with its decision to be a mix, it simply left me floating on the surface, not particularly bothered, and not about to go diving deeper. Rape needs to be presented with care and consideration of how it will be perceived, here it just seemed to be added on to give a reason for the protagonist to be "messed up". There was no exploration or condemnation of that harrowing experience. It was just "there".

What was the whole thing trying to say? What was the sum of its parts? There are some superb scenes, some thought provoking interactions and stunning imagery, but, what was it trying to say as a whole? It left me shrugging with a "meh" rather than a flailing armed "WOW". There was no real message or impression other than disjointed snippets of paranoid anxiety being lived out in a very surreal place: people's minds that were not well. Either be who you want to be a as a director/artist or don't bother, as this seemed an attempt to fuse Buñuel and Greenaway and the two ideas, whatever they were, or no matter how many ideas -- two or a thousand -- did not mix to spark.

If you know anything about the war in Afghanistan -- and you should -- then you know this is not set in that country, and that the combatants of said country as portrayed here are -- at best -- poor caricatures. The truck "bomb" -- if actual -- would be the weakest explosive device ever detonated by the Taliban in the form of a vehicular bomb. Just Google "Taliban truck bomb"; just look at the landscape, just... do a pass on this generic mess of a poorly researched and lazy locations film. It's akin to the second half of FMJ, when it is blatantly apparent that the film is not set in the country we as the viewer are meant to submerse ourselves in.

Well done for bringing this to life. A friend recommended it and I was somewhat confused how a film on this budget was getting the 70s/80s feel down so pat. HA ha. So, I found the back story and here we are. It's like a documentary. Great stuff! This city owes me!

The sound track just adds more B-Movie goodness.

TBH I thought I was all Marvelled out. Done. Dosed up to the gills with super heroes. Nope. This was DOPE. One of the best super hero films I have seen. Really outrageously fun, funny and pack full of thrills, spills and even a few surprises.

Watch it. Enjoy it.

There's no doubting the sets, the costumes, the lighting and cast, are all very slick and beautifully done, but the original by David Lynch took you to alien places, the special affects of the shields for example, in Lynch's were very "alien", as somewhere in the Universe in the eleventh thousandth century would be. Baron Harkonnen was not even a 10th as revolting, mad or disturbing as the original's, so yes, all very pretty with its cinematography, but no depth of character. It didn't feel like Hamlet, more like "meh". Peter de Vries was a conniving muffa f'cker and you could TASTE his deceit in the original. Also, dragonfly inspired aircraft? They live in a Universe where spacetime can be folded and that's how they'd get around a planet's atmosphere? Hmm. The original's craft were far more "alien".

If you need/want to cry, really sob and be rent asunder: Watch this film. I haven't been such an emotional wreck since The English patient.

Superb underrated movie, with Will Smith truly giving a subtle, nuanced performance. Ms Dawson too, and is just stunning. What an aesthetic.

I got the premise with the haunting imagery, the flashbacks, quite early on, but that didn't detract from the humanity of this film. The torment suffered. The willingness to give, but to go that far without forgiving yourself?

As you do now-and-then you search for new comedy, this came top of the search: First episode, I wasn't sure, but with nothing else to do... here I am having binged on season 1. It's safely fun --too so at times-- and takes the p##s out of things that need a good dose of 'reality check' bring down to size: New age mumbo-jumbo, hipsters and others, all set amongst the generational perceptions of Generation X and their offspring. Some willy, sex and toilet jokes is a staple of UK comedy, mixed with the wacked out Californian. It works.

Is it me or is Greg Davies, from facial mannerisms, voice, tone and actual comedy a large version of --the missed-- Rik Mayall?

Another story that sits relatively silent in the West amongst the horror of WWII, the Czech experience. The last 40 minutes left me absolutely exhausted. Akin to Once Were Warriors, or the opening of Saving Private Ryan. It is relentless. To the bravery of those that always stand up, that fight back. That say 'NO'. Thank you.

Beautifully soundscaped, harrowing that you know what's to come. The perversity of the Nazi ideology on display.

If the whole film had had the intensity of that last 40 minutes, it'd be a masterpiece but as it is, it's a fine damn film. Watch it.

Good grief how in any reality could a person experience this regurgitated pap at a level beyond anything other than poor, mediocre or mind numbing. Not a single aspect of this gave rise to a question of what was going to happen next or the where, what, and why anything was plopping out of the orifice that spawned this really bad movie. I watch anything and everything, from The Saturday Matinée B-Monster movie to the confounding complications of art-house works that intrigue... but this was just a total miss. It tells nothing, but takes, takes, takes your time for no just reward. Not even worth a rainy day watch from a a warm bed. Chapter 2 is nothing more than a whole hash of scenes from great films. From Enter the Dragon, to Blade, it's all there but Chapter 2 just comes nowhere near to being anything but a dull turd.

3 out of ten for cinematography.

It kept losing me as I saw it trying to emulate Lynch, Greenaway, --even Bond movies with its score at times-- but then --when you know he's not going to show-- that it is his delivered retort to what she did to him... that is what makes it a good film. He's left her to a future of regret, bad choices and unfulfilled possibilities. If only she'd kept the faith, believed. Not aborted his child. Had an affair. Yet, he owes her his success, so in a way he's thanking her, but bringing down upon her terrible retribution.

The stark contrasts of colours, noise and silence seems overly obvious at times, even unnecessary, the game was kind of given away with the painting, the black and white REVENGE, a little more of a subtle message or none at all would have left the mind thinking for that bit longer, that little deeper. Don't feed us, make us search and forage for the answer.

The only summary that can come to my now affected mind by this inane waste of spacetime is exactly that, a flatline of nothing definable. A veneer of nothingness just passed before my eyes in a barrage of nonsensical blurb, splat and simply complete vacuous fuzzy screen.

It was ill conceived, badly shot, terribly projected as something it is not. For the very first time in my life I very nearly turned a film off, rode closer than I have ever ridden to simply pulling the plug, and I've watched heaps of B, C and D level movies, things that would make most people walk, I am sorry, really sorry that I found myself involved with this entity that somehow has 5.9 here on IMDb and 70-odd % on Rotten. Well, yes. Rotten it is, was and forever shall be. I truly hope more people see this so that a true refection of how bad it is can be garnered on this and other sites that review, share and promote film. This was a turd.

GIVE ME MY TIME BACK!

It's a powerful film. We're thrown in, full toss, into the madness of men who must have what they want. Be it the oil in the ground or control over others by economics or 'god'. It's a very American film, in terms of that which it shows; a man striding across the scape, taking what's 'his', bending nature to his will during the ever growing control achievable by the machine age; an excellent portrayal of that mindset 'I am what I conquer'. It explains and gives us the United States of today through its imagery, the sheer bloody mindedness to 'succeed' to take and drink deep, these were the events that created the mythical American dream. That lynch-pin of the entire nation, 'You too, can have it all'. The segment where Plainview --an excellent name for a man so set by his will, so simple in his objective-- strides across the land to the Pacific Ocean, simply brilliant. The whole thing, from the movement, the scenery, to the score.

This film describes the seeds of that which gave the nation its purpose, to have it all and f##k anyone who tries to stand taller.

A good Hollywood choice, there aren't many that really outclass this.

DDL is such a massive presence on the screen, he's the actor I'd be if I'd got that break. :~)

No John Williams' score. Dragons?? Seriously... Dragons? Krypton's 'wildlife' should have been kept completely out of it --even if there is any. There was a very odd dynamic between the two star spangled lovers --trying too much to make the story 'different', it failed to carry this viewer along-- and no white robes on Krypton? A spaceship instead of the ice forming his temple? No British accents? So many things that should have been included were let go, things that worked so well in the original. The original 1978 version is so much better. Zod was not menacing, Zod in the original? You just felt his evil. His insanity. This film? 'Guilty' of being mediocre. Even ,IMHO, Superman Returns was better, a film that should have been built upon, why go back to scratch?

Why the grasp at cheap laughs? I mean, 'Ori: Have they got any chips?' Absolutely ruined that scene. Just, well, a stupid throw away line that just didn't need to be in the film. Were they American chips or British chips? Confusing for the Americans,' Have they got any chips?' It wasn't quite as bad as Dwarf throwing and shield surfing, but still, Pete, use the noggin' > DO IT SMART< Mr Tolkien will stab his pencil in your arm when he gets to see you. Otherwise, apart from the run through the Orc caverns... I mean, STOP it it's not a video game --AND I've told you before Pete, when you did King Kong, that nonsense of falling three kilometres on a log and surviving-- doing that really totally over the top scenario just makes us go 'WTF???' Will you listen to us! As you can craft such wonderful fantasy there is no need to go OTT. The story is magical enough, mate. As for 'chips' Jesus< JUST CRAP> don't do it! xx

This is what visionaries throughout our history have left us with: Are they mad, is it truth? The film portrays the fall into madness very well, the pacing, the intensity, the belief yet questioning, if you know of someone or have actually experienced mental illness you will immediately connect to this film, seeing as mental illness is the most common form of illness amongst us, chances are it'll evoke feelings of empathy, sympathy, fear. To actually experience the ever tightening realization that you or a loved one may be being lost to their own destruction due to mental illness is a terrifying journey beset with denial, anger, hope then darkness. This film captures that and some more, a nice hit the face at the end. It reminded a little of Mist, the same loss of hope only to be hit with a bucket of cold water, if we give up hope, if we refuse to try to see others truth, we lose our humanity. Great film.

exhausted. It was like watching Deliverance on steroids. The stress levels were actually making me feel ill. Fantastic film. With a very important message. Where do we forgive? Where do we punish and how, why? Ms Page was astounding. That look in her face was absolutely genuine, as it would be if you found the person who'd done that. Plus, the whole mystery of her character, very well done. Very original and very disturbing to watch a child take down an adult who'd been hiding behind the rationalization of their deeds and life. I see an excellent career for Ms Page if she sticks to complicated characters like she portrayed in this film. It truly did make me feel ill. More so than Deliverance, more so than any film I can think of right now and THAT is something.

too short. IF you have read the book and seen the BBC's dramatisation of Le Carre's work then you'll see things that aren't there which added to those tellings of this fabulous story; HOWEVER, this is masterfully acted by Oldman. He is nuanced, from twitch to smile, from silence to noise in the very way Alec Guinness played Smiley. Jesus, he is George Smiley as played by Alec Guinness. Even the voice at times, exactly the same. Absolutely brilliant. The sets, the scenes the attention to detail of the 70s spot on, again, lovingly crafted. The film is paced just as the book / BBC, a slow burning crescendo realising Smiley's quiet genius. I love this film but for me it'S only failing is its fast run, omission of scenes, play, intrigue. Can not WAIT for the rest. Who will play Karla, other than Smiley of course! (Get it?) If you don't get drawn in, held and suspended by this film... get back to Arnie, who's MOVIES I do relish by the way.

Gary, again, thank you for such a great act.

Nothing wrong with this budget Sci-fi. Well run, well paced and well executed. Looking forward to part II or should that be part III because this reminded a lot and had connections to Enemy Mine. Watch Enemy Mine if you haven't and you'll see the similarities and the connections. I prefer Enemy Mine for its deeper comment / message but this film was a fun afternoon surprise. The make-up was great and the revealing of the players cleverly done. Who'd have thought it? I gave this a 7, just because my suspended belief was somewhat tested now and then. Throwing a piece of ship hull and lugging it around like it was... Styrofoam. The other planets... way too close to be that size and not be pulling each other apart but all that aside, as written, fun stuff with solid storyline. Bring on part II or as I think, part III. Happy hunting on all fronts.

What an incredible portrayal of madness. Of that decent. From mere mediocrity to perfection. That quest. That drive to become the best at whatever it is you are rabid to become. It is within us all, every single last one of us and this film taps into that psyche, that inner self we all have somewhere. Natalie is incredible in this film. How did she not get recognised for this at the highest level? I watched and was caught within the first act, drawn in, left battered and bruised. What this director does is beyond description, beyond word and critique, the only way to know is to experience this amazing portrayal of what it is to be a genius. To suffer the doubts, the insecurities of that existence. Here, on film for the first time is that story. Watch it. Live it and perhaps find something within that you should express to the rest of humanity. Live. Be.

Low budget take on a home invasion by morally armed wanna be snuff artists. It's not the tightest delivery by the cast but for a film at this entry level it is fun enough, a taste of Funny Games, a touch of the psycho, it takes you half way to the brink of total stress out. Enjoy it for what it is. The Tarantino titles were great. I have tried to find the tittle track but for the life of me, no pun intended I can not find it. If the crew or staff etc of this movie happen to read this, do please let us know. That's all there is to write about it, for me. Good endeavor with your next project! I do look forward to an increased sophistication of what you deliver I really think you'll push something further and improve, it will be a good thing for cinema.

I certainly think parts of the piece are 'conspiracy' tainted but does that amount to a falsification of the 'truth' put forward? It's certainly good food and the opening sequence of 'foreign policy' is, for me, an encapsulation of a fundamental of our species' driving force; war. If you're wanting more I'd suggest, 'The Power of Nightmares' and if it comes to a building near you, 'It Felt Like a Kiss', both by Adam Curtis. I certainly think parts of the piece are 'conspiracy' tainted but does that amount to a falsification of the 'truth' put forward? It's certainly good food and the opening sequence of 'foreign policy' is, for me, an encapsulation of a fundamental of our species' driving force. Also, I think it's a very brave film. If you're wanting more I'd suggest, 'The Power of Nightmares' and if it comes to a building near you, 'It Felt Like a Kiss', both by Adam Curtis.

Interesting, Jim was reading Heart's of Darkness, and one of the crewmen died just as the Chief of the boat did in Apocalypse Now... BUT Faaaar too much CG, like an advert for 'the game coming to a console near you soon'. Ruined the pace, ruined the suspended belief. Falling on a log several hundred feet and been OK? Get out of here! Running through the legs of a stampeding herd??? Come off it! Rubbish. Kong should have killed one T-Rex, proved his title King and that should have been that for the terrible lizards. How many men were on that ship?? They just kept on coming from somewhere. With the prehistoric stuff cut down to much, MUCH less, same with the enormous amount of speeding traffic in New York, could have been a classic. Not so IMHO.

Bottom line: Never give up hope. Whatever struggles you have, no matter the incredible odds stacked against you... never stop believing in yourself. You don't need any frills, spin, fairytale or hocus-pocus to get by; to live your life. All that's needed is your own belief in who and what you are. What a kick in the b*lls, what a smack in the jaw as you're left open-mouthed grabbing for some sense of what has just rolled itself over you. It's the ending that makes you see the whole reason you've just let yourself be taken on this journey by King, the ending leaves you breathless, desperate, head shakingly shattered. Believe, don't ever let go of what makes you live, that force that gets you out of bed in the morning.

Wow. Bogart was absolutely crazed. Fantastic drama, grippin' you by the laurels and shaking you about. This masterful film --it ain't no 'movie'-- takes you to where greed could / can / will? take us all. Makes you realise how a catastrophe like 'Subprime' can happen. Experience the darkness of that which (possibly) snakes its course through that place most dare not even look. Get on your couch, sit, watch and enjoy an adventure. Listen to the hard stab of a man hell-bent on looking after himself. Plus, now at last, I know where Mel Brooks got some inspiration from for Blazing Saddles; "Badges? we don't need no stinkin' badges".