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The first two movies were warm-up. Setting up the mythology, background, characters and gags. This is the big payoff. And it works so well.
There are oft repeated complaints about the movie too much stuff/plot/characters, a lot of talk and repetition of things already done in the previous movies. Actually, these are the movies strengths.
It's a movie by fans, for fans. Well, I'm not sure if these are the proper terms it's a movie by someone who loves the setting and characters, for people who love the setting and characters. It rewards you for paying attention to minute details, including those from the last movies, as well as character motivation and mythology. It does not reward ignoring the "talky" parts while waiting for the next action sequence and then getting confused about the "overtly intricate" plot.
Yes, nearly every plot hook, character, and plenty of gags from the last movies are brought up again. The plot threads are more or less neatly tied together, each character gets the fate s/he deserves and the gags ah, those, are where the movie really inherits a great boon from the last two films. Each gag is used once or twice, to the fullest potential, and then dismissed before it overstays its welcome, or taken into an entirely new context. Only with that kind of legacy can a movie send an audience into fits of laughter merely by having a character beckon a dog to him and say "Sea Turtles".
Every element has been fine tuned to near perfection. There's only one full blown swashbuckling/naval combat scene at the climax, where it belongs. And having waited an entire movie for it, I find it hard to imagine an audience member that would not be overwhelmed and swept along. All the double, triple and quadruple crosses are in place, and they are fascinating. Not only are you always unsure of just which side each character is playing, but the negotiation and parlay scenes are filmed in the same manner as the action scenes and it WORKS.
Comparisons to Return of the King are nearly inevitable, regarding various aspects of the film, but the most pretient, in my opinion is that this is the first movie in the series which actually creates the feeling that the heroes and the action are in another world, one of swashbuckling myth and wonder - the sort of feeling you got from any given LoTR movie.
Another RotK comparison (as well as a favorable comparison to the first two Pirate movies) - the movie is long. Some scenes could have been shorter. But there are absolutely no scenes that feel as though they are going on too long. There are no "fight on the wheel" or "drowning Will" scenes that go "meanwhile, are heroes are doing the exact same thing they've been doing for the last 5 minutes".
Shortcomings? The huge chunk of unwieldy exposition shoved into the beginning of the movie, a bit of overacting from Rush, and Chow Yun-Fat's characters should have been given more to do, or cut out altogether. Other than that, this film is excellent, and a fitting end to the trilogy, right down to the humorous/bittersweet/ the road goes ever on and on, ending.
There are oft repeated complaints about the movie too much stuff/plot/characters, a lot of talk and repetition of things already done in the previous movies. Actually, these are the movies strengths.
It's a movie by fans, for fans. Well, I'm not sure if these are the proper terms it's a movie by someone who loves the setting and characters, for people who love the setting and characters. It rewards you for paying attention to minute details, including those from the last movies, as well as character motivation and mythology. It does not reward ignoring the "talky" parts while waiting for the next action sequence and then getting confused about the "overtly intricate" plot.
Yes, nearly every plot hook, character, and plenty of gags from the last movies are brought up again. The plot threads are more or less neatly tied together, each character gets the fate s/he deserves and the gags ah, those, are where the movie really inherits a great boon from the last two films. Each gag is used once or twice, to the fullest potential, and then dismissed before it overstays its welcome, or taken into an entirely new context. Only with that kind of legacy can a movie send an audience into fits of laughter merely by having a character beckon a dog to him and say "Sea Turtles".
Every element has been fine tuned to near perfection. There's only one full blown swashbuckling/naval combat scene at the climax, where it belongs. And having waited an entire movie for it, I find it hard to imagine an audience member that would not be overwhelmed and swept along. All the double, triple and quadruple crosses are in place, and they are fascinating. Not only are you always unsure of just which side each character is playing, but the negotiation and parlay scenes are filmed in the same manner as the action scenes and it WORKS.
Comparisons to Return of the King are nearly inevitable, regarding various aspects of the film, but the most pretient, in my opinion is that this is the first movie in the series which actually creates the feeling that the heroes and the action are in another world, one of swashbuckling myth and wonder - the sort of feeling you got from any given LoTR movie.
Another RotK comparison (as well as a favorable comparison to the first two Pirate movies) - the movie is long. Some scenes could have been shorter. But there are absolutely no scenes that feel as though they are going on too long. There are no "fight on the wheel" or "drowning Will" scenes that go "meanwhile, are heroes are doing the exact same thing they've been doing for the last 5 minutes".
Shortcomings? The huge chunk of unwieldy exposition shoved into the beginning of the movie, a bit of overacting from Rush, and Chow Yun-Fat's characters should have been given more to do, or cut out altogether. Other than that, this film is excellent, and a fitting end to the trilogy, right down to the humorous/bittersweet/ the road goes ever on and on, ending.
For the last decade or so, one of the main "topics" in Russian cinema was "Let's make a real blockbuster action movie! Our answer to Hollywood! " Obviously, whenever a filmmaker is concerned with "our answer to whatever" the final product will be a farmer's friend, but no one else's. We've seen a few decent wannabe-Tarantino / Takeshi Kitano style "action films" ( I still claim that Kitano's Brother and the Russian Brother have plenty in common besides the moniker) but their tries at something Lethal Weaponish fell flatter than the Turkish analogues.
Well... no more.
We finally got an excellent Russian action movie blockbuster. Which... is cool and all. More quality = more money = more quantity = more money = possibly more quality.
The plot... is an action movie plot. The brave commando veteran (his former commando unit was called "The Piranha" and that's the only explanation for the movie's title you're going to get) and a lovely bio-chemist are sent to neutralize some bio-weapons left in an abandoned (flooded) military research center near the Chinese border before the land on which said research center is built is ceded to the Chinese. Things go wrong and they find themselves amongst the unwilling participants in the latest "Most Dangerous Game" remake - Taiga edition.
Right...
On the positive side - the movie takes itself as non-seriously as possible without turning into an outright spoof. Quotes, homages and outright "tributes" abound - all delivered lightly and ironically. Mashkov, who was wasting his unshaven charisma in a whole host of pointless films plays a hero at least as well as classic Bruce Willis on a good day. Mironov already acknowledged that he was channeling Garry Oldman in Leon and IMO he tops that performance. Good use of the an energetic soundtrack. The camera moves in a way Tony Scott can only have wet dreams about (not necessarily a good thing) Amazing energy and drive all around - the film just picks you and never let's you go.
So... check it out if it comes your way. I honestly don't think you'll be disappointed.
Well... no more.
We finally got an excellent Russian action movie blockbuster. Which... is cool and all. More quality = more money = more quantity = more money = possibly more quality.
The plot... is an action movie plot. The brave commando veteran (his former commando unit was called "The Piranha" and that's the only explanation for the movie's title you're going to get) and a lovely bio-chemist are sent to neutralize some bio-weapons left in an abandoned (flooded) military research center near the Chinese border before the land on which said research center is built is ceded to the Chinese. Things go wrong and they find themselves amongst the unwilling participants in the latest "Most Dangerous Game" remake - Taiga edition.
Right...
On the positive side - the movie takes itself as non-seriously as possible without turning into an outright spoof. Quotes, homages and outright "tributes" abound - all delivered lightly and ironically. Mashkov, who was wasting his unshaven charisma in a whole host of pointless films plays a hero at least as well as classic Bruce Willis on a good day. Mironov already acknowledged that he was channeling Garry Oldman in Leon and IMO he tops that performance. Good use of the an energetic soundtrack. The camera moves in a way Tony Scott can only have wet dreams about (not necessarily a good thing) Amazing energy and drive all around - the film just picks you and never let's you go.
So... check it out if it comes your way. I honestly don't think you'll be disappointed.
Unofrtunately, it wasn't.
The graphics were great, naturally. The fights... were less great. Visually impressive, certainly, but except for the battle in the church,there was little logic or emotional involvement. I knew exactly how the final battle was going to go before it even began.
The movie seems to have misunderstood what made the game a success. The graphics, sure. But also the involving and (possibly overtly) complicated story. The interesting characters. The music...
The only memorable musical bits in the movie are those that are recycled from the game. The only original characters that matter are Cloud, Tifa, and Vincent as an enigma-spouting zen-master. The rest of the time is devoted to Marlene and a bunch of random kids, 3 Sephiroth wannabes and the Turks (granted, the Turks are always cool). I doubt the surviving members of the original gang managed to scrounge up 5 minutes of screen time between them. And the story... well, it can be summed up in a paragraph without leaving out any important details and yet most of the why's and how's remain unknown. After all, people loved the original story because it was so vague, right?
Nevrtheless... I appreciate the chance to go back to the world that I loved so much.The graphics are truly excellent and the movie is full of "that is SO COOL" moments. And hey - the entire fight sequence against Bahamut is worth the price of admission/DVD, if only for the chance TO GO "OMG, it's my favorite character, and s/he just made the coolest entrance EVER!".
The graphics were great, naturally. The fights... were less great. Visually impressive, certainly, but except for the battle in the church,there was little logic or emotional involvement. I knew exactly how the final battle was going to go before it even began.
The movie seems to have misunderstood what made the game a success. The graphics, sure. But also the involving and (possibly overtly) complicated story. The interesting characters. The music...
The only memorable musical bits in the movie are those that are recycled from the game. The only original characters that matter are Cloud, Tifa, and Vincent as an enigma-spouting zen-master. The rest of the time is devoted to Marlene and a bunch of random kids, 3 Sephiroth wannabes and the Turks (granted, the Turks are always cool). I doubt the surviving members of the original gang managed to scrounge up 5 minutes of screen time between them. And the story... well, it can be summed up in a paragraph without leaving out any important details and yet most of the why's and how's remain unknown. After all, people loved the original story because it was so vague, right?
Nevrtheless... I appreciate the chance to go back to the world that I loved so much.The graphics are truly excellent and the movie is full of "that is SO COOL" moments. And hey - the entire fight sequence against Bahamut is worth the price of admission/DVD, if only for the chance TO GO "OMG, it's my favorite character, and s/he just made the coolest entrance EVER!".