dpetkov

I admit I have never been much of a fan of MI, but perhaps haven't missed a movie from the franchise. This one, however was a big disappointment.

The script was poor. I get it AI is fashionable, lets ride the wave, but the plot is just sad and mediocre. It felt like a story my little son was telling me. The actors were not impressive either. The one thing I liked more than the rest of the movies was the occasional fun scenes.

And yeah, I get it MI has always been about the action. That I appreciate, but still, the train, the motorbikes, the cars...nothing felt new to me. And yes, the script - it was poor. I am truly disappointed.

Being a child of the 80s, born in Bulgaria, I found it easy to relate to the movie setting from communist time. It brought back memories, made me smile when thinking of the things I also used to do or experience. But if that was all to this movie, it would have been merely a successful exploitation of people's memories of times that were drastically different than the current ones (in what way, that is a differents story...). But what actually made me fall in love with this movie and write this comment is the fact that it goes beyond the socialism cliche and actually tells a story that almost anyone of us can relate to. The story of "what if...".

I went to see this movie concerned that the low budget, little known actors and low publicity were a true sign that it was no good. But 90 minutes later I was leaving the cinema with a big smile on my face and a lot of good emotions. "Lora from morning till evening" in a movie that will not tell you the yet another sad story of people from an ex-communist country struggling to survive in the new reality, or dealing with their communist past. There are enough movies like that already! Instead it tells us a fantastic story of young Lora's predicaments while trying to help her friend get rid of a pair of magical dices that can make every wish come true.

The script is well written - it escapes most of the typical clichés of other contemporary Bulgarian movies. Same can be said for the directing and acting - there are no long dramatic pauses between lines and the actors are natural, do not recite their lines as if they are in some theater show (probably because half of them are not actual actors).

Packed with funny dialogues, this film comes to show that a good Eastern European movie can not always be all about drama, murder and personal tragedy. People here also love, laugh and party and this too can make a good film story - something that until now I had only seen in Serbian comedies.