Eskelinen

Although I am a Finn, I've never liked much of any Finnish films. That is why I didn't have high expectations about this one. To my surprise, this movie wasn't only good, it was actually really great.

This movie is a true story about four brothers known as "Eura's Daltons" who don't use alcohol, don't smoke nor curse. Still they have made over hundred robberies. These brothers have a sadistic and schizophrenic father "Joppe pappa" who isn't exactly the best father figure there is.

This movie manages to be fun and yet tragic at the same time. The movie manages to be interesting the whole running time and there aren't any boring moments. All the actors do their job very well and I especially liked the performance of Vesa-Matti Loiri as "Joppe pappa".

It might be difficult to see this movie in foreign countries like in the USA but if you have a chance to see this movie then I recommend you to see it. Hopefully the movie will premiere in other countries as well, at least in Sweden and Norway.

If you want to like this movie then forget the book. There are few really stupid changes to the original story and I don`t really understand why they were there. If you haven`t read the book or can`t remember it very well then you might actually like this.

The only well made CG character was Gollum. Of course he also looked as a CG person but his face movements were great. The ents and wolf riders were just bad.

Battle for helms deep was ok but not THAT great. Jackson uses too much shaking cameras and that is why its hard to follow the action. Still it was much much better than the fight in Moria in the FOTR.

Also, I don`t know why, but I really hated Legolas`s shield skating, god how I hated those 10 seconds. What was Jackson thinking???? This LOTR isn`t a freakin matrix type action movie.

Music was ok but what was the ending music about?? sounded like björk, I hate björk even more than shield skating.

Few bad moments can`t though ruin the whole movie. This was a good movie but not the best movie of the century. And it is an impossible job to make the movie as good as the book. This movie could have been better but it could have been much worse.

I gave it 8/10..I`d have given it 8+ if that was possible.

When I went to see this movie, I really supposed that I am going to see something really really bad. It is very well known to all, that these game movies just aren`t any good.

But to my big surprise, this movie weren`t that bad. It was actually quite okey. Although it isn`t really a masterpiece it is highly enterteining. The storyline(?) moves solidly forward and there aren`t any boring moments. And there is always this "oh sh** we are gonna die" feeling when watching this movie. There are two hot babes and lots of zombies, what could be more fun? I also LOVED the ending, it`s just great.