teo-sun

First thing first: i'm a huge fan of the original Robocop. It was one of the most significant, critical and powerful action movie of the eighties, so maybe because of that i'm very critical at this reboot but here's my opinion... The "new" Robocop lacks almost everything that the original delivered. It's like a "superhero" reboot (Robocop now is more similar to Iron Man than the original, slow, robotic Peter Weller),it lacks the inner struggle that Weller delivered in the Paul Verhoeven flick. The new protagonist Joel Kinnaman appears uninspired,he does the job but that's all: there's no energy in his role, there's no struggle, there's no Robocop... The "evil guy" in the movie is ridiculous, the Clarence Boddicker of the original could eat him alive... At the end i'm not satisfied with this reboot. Maybe the director wanted to make a movie that could criticize the USA politic of war but the only good message in the movie is the performance of a good Gary Oldman, that's all. Not too much, after all... 5/10

First thing first: "The Avengers" is a masterpiece. Period. It's not easy to put together the most famous Marvel superheroes (apart from Spidey, of course!)in a single movie with a good plot, very good characters development (good & evil), and make a great movie like this one. The story develops around the "Avengers" project, an idea by Nick Fury (director of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and the superhero-billionaire Tony Stark alias Iron Man. A group of Super-persons at service of mankind (something like the X-Men..). The villain here is Loki, returned from the end of the other great movie from Marvel Studios "Thor", eager to take control of the earth using the powers of the Tesseract, the same powerful alien artifact seen in "Captain America". There is a connection with other Marvel movies, in fact to really appreciate the movie you should see the other two movies at least, but it's not a priority of course. The result is a movie full of wonderful action sequences, smart dialogs, excellent character development and an open finale for another, possible, great adventure (don't worry, no spoilers here, just wait the end of the first part of the credits at the end of the movie..). A pleasant surprise, a wonderful movie for every comic fan around the world, and for the ones that hates this kind of movie: just see this film and you'll be amazed. Trust me. 10/10 Teo from Italy

This is the first movie that shows the art of direction of an ex-blockbuster actor like Ben Affleck, and, i must say, i'm really impressed. Based on another stunning novel by American author Dennis Lehane, "Gone Baby Gone" is a cold,sad,moving and unpredictable masterpiece in his genre. Affleck stars his brother Casey in the role of a young private investigator chasing the kidnappers of a little girl, daughter of a drug addict. The movie unfold slowly on the dark side. The cast is perfect and the direction of Ben can show us the multiple faces of Boston, of his people, with the voice of Casey that explain us, like a guide to tourists, how people lives, how people struggle in his neighborhood, without hope, without color, in a twilight-zone existence, and the truth is far from easy... A movie that rise from the others of his genre because has the ability to move different ideas, deep thoughts in the finale. It's not easy to direct a movie like that, it's not easy to use a topic so delicate yet so dark like kidnappings, but here Affleck shows that he can truly amaze us, so that we can breathe the real atmosphere of a plastic reality where the real life, the real problems, the real dark lies beneath our smiling faces.

Go see it if you haven't yet. This is a must see. My word. A+++