Cold Hell

Centring around fast paced action, but leaving ample room for genuine character development that adds weight to the inevitable violence. Violetta Schurawlow's heroin is a dead pan badass who's easy to root for whether she's navigating personal drama or a vicious psychopath. The film commits to a cool, noir style through it's dreary score and dark but stylish visuals that nod to vintage giallo.

Positive:

• thrilling and entertaining
• acting performance (roles well selected and played)

Negative:

• too much family drama
• actions partly illogical/incomprehensible

Ozge, a young Turkish born taxi driver, who is also a Thai boxer. She keeps to herself mostly. One day she witnesses a murder and also the one who is responsible for it. The events that takes place after this is the basic plot of the movie.

The movies main positive is the lead actress violetta schurawlow. She is just amazing. We can see the anger, fear, intensity, just everything in her performance. You can just watch this movie for her performance. The action sequences were really good, especially the one in the metro train. The cinematography, the sound design and all the other aspects were good. The writing was really good in some places, the thrilling elements worked really nicely. I loved the sequences towards the climax very much.

The only issue i had with the movie is, i felt we could have spent a little more time with the character before the inciting incident. Rather we get to know the character more after the inciting incident, which makes the movie little slow in few places.

The movie is a solid one time watch. Give it a try if you love action thriller movies.

And I mean that in the nicest sense possible. Really I do! Of course if you feel that is an insult, you probably don't like movies like that. Sleazy thrillers, made a couple of decades ago. They were very successful and had charm to them. Very comparable to this one, which has flaws in many departments and you could argue that the characters are not all around likable (especially the police man who gets drawn into the center of it all).

Still this is very empowering to women, even when it doesn't look like it at the beginning. There's still nudity and action and gore and all that. But there's also a lot of humor in it. Of course not everyone will find the same things funny, but the movie does not take prisoners and goes some extra miles ... even when introducing characters and giving us a "father-figure" who almost feels out of place in this. So again, it is messy and it is far from perfect ... but that is what makes it so enticing.

This is no Ben Hur or Lawrence of Arabia but I find myself watching this movie again and again when I don't know what I want to watch that night. I believe I must have watched it 10 times already and I know that I'll still watch it again. Based on this phenomenon alone, I have raised my rating to 9. The editing is quite good too and the art direction is well planned especially the colours. The main characters are not perfect but they both have guts and a softer, finer side. The more I watch this movie, the more I realize that I'm drawn to the characters' authentic personalities and the chemistry between them. They don't fit the Hollywood "handsome" or "gorgeous" moulds but I find them attractive and charismatic. And what can I say, I just love movies where the women can fight back!