waikiki12
Lifetime Total
5+
IMDb Member
11 years
Reviews
Dangerous Lies (2020)
Predictable and boring
If I wasn't sheltering-in, I would never had stayed with this movie. It is boring. An un-original script with wooden characters. Don't waste your time.
Strike Back (2010)
Fantastic First Season (2010)
Stumbled onto the 6-episode first season of Strike Back and was pleasantly surprised t how good it was & got instantly hooked on the show. It kept me on the edge of my seat. Richard Armitage and Andrew Lincoln created amazing characters that you either rooted for or hated. The first season was so fast-paced and suspense-ful that I decided to binge the series. The re-casting of Philip Winchester and Sullivan Stapleton brought a new dynamics to the series which I enjoyed. However, when the series was again re-cast for Season 6, I hated it.
The geniuses who put together the latest dream team must've done in while asleep. This latest team would have trouble rescuing a kitten up a tree. Better to have ended the series when Winchester and Stapleton moved on.
The geniuses who put together the latest dream team must've done in while asleep. This latest team would have trouble rescuing a kitten up a tree. Better to have ended the series when Winchester and Stapleton moved on.
Good Time (2017)
Big Disappointment
I gave this movie a watch because of the positive hype which turned out to unmerited. The story was all over the place; the music blasted aimlessly and the dialog was inaudible. There was no character development or otherwise to have any feelings -- positive or negative -- about any of the people in the story. What a waste of almost 2 hours of my time. Better luck on your next project, Robert Pattinson.
Mother! (2017)
CinemaScore 'F' Rating Is Well Deserved
Saw MOTHER! last night. It deserves its CinemaScore F-rating. Ten minutes into movie, I was looking at my watch and counting down to its end. There are no spoilers to reveal because nothing made sense -- neither the script nor the direction. The movie was a total mess. Wish the audience had access to whatever yellowish drink concoction Jennifer Lawrence's character used to deal with her MOTHER! life.
To better roles for an all-star cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Kristen Wiig. There are much better ways to spend 2 hours of your time than watching this mess.
To better roles for an all-star cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Kristen Wiig. There are much better ways to spend 2 hours of your time than watching this mess.
Fake (2011)
"But In the end, if no one knows .... Is it really fake?"
Attention-grabbing opener as the camera pans a room revealing the principal actors of "Fake". A voice-over self-describes the artist (Gabriel Mann) who claims to have paintings hanging in museums all over the world and who has made "millions of dollars doing it but no one knows" his name.
Flash-back 21 years earlier. A mother drags a young boy through a museum/art gallery. They stop and the mother shows the boy the painting that ruined his father's life. She curses the painting and warns the boy not to waste his life on such foolishness. But as the camera cuts to the boy, it is obvious from the look in his eyes that he, like his father, has fallen under its spell.
As the opening credits play; the artist is carefully and deliberately applying loving strokes to his canvas. When he has finished, he stares at it mesmerized until his girlfriend (Jill Flint) interrupts his preoccupation to tell him she's leaving for work. At her office, we learn she is an art authenticator.
After being passed over at a showing and suffering a series of harsh rejections, Daniel succumbs to the temptation of creating a fake. He passes his painting off with particular delight onto a snooty dealer (Blanche Baker) who had earlier called him a "talentless little sh*t". From here, the story takes us off into the world of art galleries; collectors and dealers who buy and sell paintings; forgeries; authenticators; FBI investigators and the artists who create them.
The story offers a fascinating look at the art world played against the background of a basic love story between a struggling young artist willing to compromise his art for recognition and the loyal girlfriend torn between her love for him and her job. However, the script is often-times done in by the over-the-top performances of Robert Loggia's mob-boss character who screams his lines; his minion son (Robert Clohessy) and the son's corrupt friend (David Thornton) who act out stereotypical roles of gangster-wannabe and childhood screw-up buddy. Fisher Steven, as the dogged-FBI forger-agent, in pursuit of them, does his best in a minor role and gives a welcomed counterbalance performance.
"Fake" would be a most satisfactory watch if there had been a more definitive ending. After investing an hour and forty-five minutes on the movie, the audience is left in a precarious darkness as to the fate of the artist and his girlfriend; as well as that of those who most profited from his fakes.
Flash-back 21 years earlier. A mother drags a young boy through a museum/art gallery. They stop and the mother shows the boy the painting that ruined his father's life. She curses the painting and warns the boy not to waste his life on such foolishness. But as the camera cuts to the boy, it is obvious from the look in his eyes that he, like his father, has fallen under its spell.
As the opening credits play; the artist is carefully and deliberately applying loving strokes to his canvas. When he has finished, he stares at it mesmerized until his girlfriend (Jill Flint) interrupts his preoccupation to tell him she's leaving for work. At her office, we learn she is an art authenticator.
After being passed over at a showing and suffering a series of harsh rejections, Daniel succumbs to the temptation of creating a fake. He passes his painting off with particular delight onto a snooty dealer (Blanche Baker) who had earlier called him a "talentless little sh*t". From here, the story takes us off into the world of art galleries; collectors and dealers who buy and sell paintings; forgeries; authenticators; FBI investigators and the artists who create them.
The story offers a fascinating look at the art world played against the background of a basic love story between a struggling young artist willing to compromise his art for recognition and the loyal girlfriend torn between her love for him and her job. However, the script is often-times done in by the over-the-top performances of Robert Loggia's mob-boss character who screams his lines; his minion son (Robert Clohessy) and the son's corrupt friend (David Thornton) who act out stereotypical roles of gangster-wannabe and childhood screw-up buddy. Fisher Steven, as the dogged-FBI forger-agent, in pursuit of them, does his best in a minor role and gives a welcomed counterbalance performance.
"Fake" would be a most satisfactory watch if there had been a more definitive ending. After investing an hour and forty-five minutes on the movie, the audience is left in a precarious darkness as to the fate of the artist and his girlfriend; as well as that of those who most profited from his fakes.