GrandAdmiralThrawn
Lifetime Total
1+
IMDb Member
18 years
Reviews
White Wall (2010)
A good idea, but awful execution
This movie is bad. The acting is bad, the script and screenplay are bad, sometimes even the cut is bad. The pace is too slow, and many scenes seem strangely out of place.
For instance, the scene were our protagonist meets a policeman in some small alley, and then quickly leans towards the wall, I'm not even sure why he does what he does.. At first I thought he wanted to turn his face away from the policeman to not be recognized, but this wasn't the reason, as they look at each other just after the cop walked by. So he didn't want to hide his face. He had no freaking reason to stand there for like 30 seconds looking at his own reflection in a piece of broken glass in a window frame. After that he just walks away. And the whole thing was acted ridiculously bad.
Now this was just one small scene. There are lots of scenes which just don't make any sense or don't quite "fit in".
The idea of the movie as a whole is actually pretty good. Other than most reviewers I even think the fighting scenes weren't bad, I kinda enjoy "realistic" fights, even when not all fighters are good at martial arts. But still, that is not enough to give this piece of junk two stars. The rest is just too bad.
A post-apocalyptic low-budget film that does everything right that this flick did wrong is the German movie "Kampfansage - Der letzte Schüler". Not sure if there is an English version. But if you wanna see a good low-budget post-apocalyptic movie, I would suggest that rather than "White Wall".
I even read the directors message in the IMDb board telling us how he had to struggle to make the production of White Wall possible, and how he had to shoot most of the movie in a 3rd world country, etc. Obviously they only had 15 days to do the whole thing.
But even with such massive odds, I just can't give this flick more than one star. No matter the troubles that the crew had to go through to make this indie movie possible, I'm sorry, it just disappoints completely.
My message to the crew would be: Do this in a more consistent fashion, make the scenes "glue together" better, ensure that your actors bring some real emotion into it, and for gods sake, give it a faster pace and remove the strange out-of-focus crap and the pseudo-artsy strange music. Please learn from this failure, thank you.
For instance, the scene were our protagonist meets a policeman in some small alley, and then quickly leans towards the wall, I'm not even sure why he does what he does.. At first I thought he wanted to turn his face away from the policeman to not be recognized, but this wasn't the reason, as they look at each other just after the cop walked by. So he didn't want to hide his face. He had no freaking reason to stand there for like 30 seconds looking at his own reflection in a piece of broken glass in a window frame. After that he just walks away. And the whole thing was acted ridiculously bad.
Now this was just one small scene. There are lots of scenes which just don't make any sense or don't quite "fit in".
The idea of the movie as a whole is actually pretty good. Other than most reviewers I even think the fighting scenes weren't bad, I kinda enjoy "realistic" fights, even when not all fighters are good at martial arts. But still, that is not enough to give this piece of junk two stars. The rest is just too bad.
A post-apocalyptic low-budget film that does everything right that this flick did wrong is the German movie "Kampfansage - Der letzte Schüler". Not sure if there is an English version. But if you wanna see a good low-budget post-apocalyptic movie, I would suggest that rather than "White Wall".
I even read the directors message in the IMDb board telling us how he had to struggle to make the production of White Wall possible, and how he had to shoot most of the movie in a 3rd world country, etc. Obviously they only had 15 days to do the whole thing.
But even with such massive odds, I just can't give this flick more than one star. No matter the troubles that the crew had to go through to make this indie movie possible, I'm sorry, it just disappoints completely.
My message to the crew would be: Do this in a more consistent fashion, make the scenes "glue together" better, ensure that your actors bring some real emotion into it, and for gods sake, give it a faster pace and remove the strange out-of-focus crap and the pseudo-artsy strange music. Please learn from this failure, thank you.
Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (1994)
Still the greatest of Interactive Movies AND space sims..
I remember WC3 very well, played that on several setups, from my i486DX2/66 up to faster Pentium II and even Pentium III machines. I remember those impressive, large Kilrathi carriers with their flight decks, that you were able to blaze through with your Thunderbolt bomber, wrecking all those parked Dralthi fighters.
Your wingmen or Captain Eisen talking to you via little Monitors in your cockpit (always played it with the cockpit graphics on, something i miss in more modern space sims), adding to the density of the dogfight or torpedo run.. very nice. And all of that almost being an already lost war made it all the better to fight in! Although it happened not very often in this game, i loved the sound of the TCS Victory's countless laser batteries hammering on another capital ships hull. Or the tense fight against the Kilrathis Dreadnaught, which ONLY happened, when you had failed and experienced the "wrong" ending of the game, encountering wave after wave of Kilrathi destroyers, cruisers, carriers, Dralthis, Paktahns, Vaktoths and so on.
That just being said about the gameplay, i have nothing to add about the comments about the movie parts but that they integrated very well into the game. VERY well. Considering one part being 3D space sim battles and another being actual movie scenes, this is quite an accomplishment. And as most WC fans know today, the movie part was even better than the actual wing commander movie.
But in WC3, it all merges well to an enveloping and dense atmosphere. If you CAN find and play this game on your machine nowadays, TRY it! You'll need a legacy device/dos emulator like VDMSound or DOSBOX or a true DOS / Win98 machine which some old hardware (SB16) though...
Your wingmen or Captain Eisen talking to you via little Monitors in your cockpit (always played it with the cockpit graphics on, something i miss in more modern space sims), adding to the density of the dogfight or torpedo run.. very nice. And all of that almost being an already lost war made it all the better to fight in! Although it happened not very often in this game, i loved the sound of the TCS Victory's countless laser batteries hammering on another capital ships hull. Or the tense fight against the Kilrathis Dreadnaught, which ONLY happened, when you had failed and experienced the "wrong" ending of the game, encountering wave after wave of Kilrathi destroyers, cruisers, carriers, Dralthis, Paktahns, Vaktoths and so on.
That just being said about the gameplay, i have nothing to add about the comments about the movie parts but that they integrated very well into the game. VERY well. Considering one part being 3D space sim battles and another being actual movie scenes, this is quite an accomplishment. And as most WC fans know today, the movie part was even better than the actual wing commander movie.
But in WC3, it all merges well to an enveloping and dense atmosphere. If you CAN find and play this game on your machine nowadays, TRY it! You'll need a legacy device/dos emulator like VDMSound or DOSBOX or a true DOS / Win98 machine which some old hardware (SB16) though...