JakubDobos

Why almost every single movie I watched from the 2000s feels like it's dragging on?

I suppose it was a sort of style back then. I have seen the remake of this movie twice, and I do see the resemblence. However, here, I did not appreciate the lack of story arcs.

The main motivation for our lead character is established, but the background and other, more broad information is lacking. I would love to know more about his past. If he started to learn how to actually handle a gun only recently, or if he has some past to back it up.

I also missed the background on the whole crew of robbers.

The first half of the film, it feels like literally nothing is happening. Then it takes a turn, and the rest of the runtime is packed with story.

It is more of a drama, than an action film, but I could not handle the horrible visual effects, that were pulling me out of otherwise pretty well-handled action scenes. Even if there were only few of them.

Using smoke grennades as props for VFX flashbangs was definitely an interesting idea, but did not work out at all.

This movie came out 20 years ago, back then, quality VFX was much harder to do, and I am glad they attempted, however, when they saw it was not working out, they should have chosen a different path.

The concept of this film is very interesting, and I'm glad it was chosen as a basis for a remake, which did add a lot, and covered a lot of what I missed in this movie. But it had to be a great foundation, for the later writers, to be able to build on something.

This movie deserves a watch, gives insight, into the "low budget" french cinema of the 2000s. I mean for one tenth of the budget for "Wrath of Man" this is a solid piece of work.

Going fresh from finishing Dune part two, I'll let this be a continuation of my review of part one.

It's visually a very amusing movie, starts of fresh, with at least some amount of story.

The expectations are high (compared to 2/10 I gave part one). And they keep being high, for like 3/4 of the movie.

And at that point you start giving up. You realize there's no big reveal coming. Nothing unexpected, or at least resembling a story that evolves.

When I've been so critical in part one, mainly because of the huge cliffhanger it ends on, my friend said: "just you wait for part two"

Well I did, and I still can't see the appeal.

0/5 for a movie that tried, but was over hyped, and a proof that you can't turn a bad book into a good movie.

I accidentally left this movie out for a long time, and I'm happy I gave it a try not a week after finishing Vedma (2023) a fantasy series brought down by lousy writing.

This movie hits amazingly. The Wes Anderson vibe is feelable in the styling, scenography and music, however the theme that roots in something very known to our culture has its gist of originality.

Only two, two small cringey moments in the whole movie. And even those were followed by a mouthful of laughter. That's amazing, and Dusicka did a great work with the script.

Starting a movie in medias res is brave. But even though the storyline is kinda all over the place, it's still easy enough to follow by anyone (I'd eyeball 12+ years of age).

The choice of locations is marvelous. Doing a movie rooted at the turn of the century is logistically a challenge, but we all know how most our buildings and public services got modernized, right?

What really resonated with me was the occasional kick or two at the inability of the gov't to "fix the bloody pavement" (make everything wheelchair accessible).

Even though I watched this movie alone, I was applauding in the end.

First seeing The Swan - a short, at a film festival, I loved the visuals. It's apparent that's one of Karásek's strong suits, another one being the choice of crew (mainly writing, camera, lighting, but also the location guys) and cast (they all play their parts marvelously, and I wondered multiple times, why I never noticed the main actor before (that's a good thing if you mostly get the same female and male stars every year).

With very little to kick at here, this movie deserves your attention, if you're coming from a Socialist turned "Democratic" country, and want a good police/detective mystery, while you're at it.

9/10.