katka-klimo

The whole movie feels like a psychedelic trip through her worst moments in life and impresses by exceeding all my worst expectations. This type of movie could have been an interesting piece of art, but the focus on a single character and her inner pain makes it difficult to watch. I could imagine this type of camera and switching between scenes in a war movie, some other non-fiction topic or in a 1st person storytelling flick. Instead you are stuck in a neverending horror-like biography.

Maybe there is an audience for it, but I'm affraid it is a very small club. Oh, and I only watched it while doing something else simultaneously, or I would have had enough after 20-30 minutes.

The movie was good entertainment, had nice action scenes and some of the original's great aerial views, but once compared to the original story it seems to be an incoherent mix with separate groups that should never make it into one and the same movie clogging it with all kinds of criminal motives introduced only to be abandoned 10 minutes later and pretty much never seen again. As a result, there is little time to show any characters in greater detail or even develop them.

Then there is the timing and placement of events in the movie. A scene is shot at night because daytime makes no sense, but is followed by daytime scenes only to look good on the screen despite the fact that they should only be minutes apart. Characters cross the border with a lot of effort, but the reason remains unclear. Some decisions make no sense. Much of the movie is taking place just somewhere in the middle of nowhere and kind of ends up going nowhere as well.

Despite all that disappointment I mentioned above, I'm thinking of seeing it again (something I rarely do), because it was visually good and it is not the usual predictable one man show other action movies tend to be.