wotiva's reviews

So let me go over the positives first. Amazing amazing filming of the flights. Not sure how they did it. I don't like air shows, but watching the acrobatics in this film was amazing.

The film goes over the progress toeard being certified as a Thunderbird to give demonstrationas around the world. Displays a dedicated team, working effectively together. Like all documentaries they have a story line. Not sure how contrived it was, but fundamentally the individuals stories was also interesting (though only really touched on their stories briefly.. could easily have been half an hour longer). Good pacing, very upbeat.

What I didn't like.. I've served myself, and I think these guys, while appearing calm logical types, are absolutely insane. 10% of Thunderbird Pilots die. This is an acrobatics demo team but I'm sure that death rate is higher than combat. The tight formations theu fly on are absolutely jaw dropping. Seriously I had tears in my eyes just watching them fly. God bless them, bit seriously, is it worth that death rate? Anyway I highly recommend this film. It literally amd figuratively flew by. Well done to the team that filmed this.

Good and bad.. so let me cover the good first.. So set in plantation era, focusing on a couple of rich black guys and black culture. Black/white tensions, scenes of beautiful rolling cotton fields, a beautiful cast. The panning shots, lighting, scenes are beautiful and really deserve an oscar for the filmography and score. Some of the singing and music was just stunning, and built into the story beautifully. The acting is pretty good, and scenes are really painted out well.

The negative? The story is pretty rambling and weak amd definitely plays second fiddle to the atmosphere of the film. Also, while talking about the past it is solidly in the modern era in its attitudes toward race relations. It's like a modern leftist view of how the plantation era was, with a wakanda like optimism of black relationships. So it's a (modern) 'black' idealist view, making the characters more like charicatures, and similarly white people are depicted as 'crackers' in the most part, though there is some sympathy for the more musical white characters.

So what is this film? An atmosphere piece with great music amd filmography. Did I like it? Yes, it was a beautiful film. And no, it had preconceived ideas of black and white people (nice and fun black people, awful and boring white people). That sheen of discrimination makes it a 'black' film, and through its racially discriminating approach, a little two dimensional. Should you watch it? Sure, it's beautiful and sounds great.

Guys mother dies, decides to open a restaurant using friends of her mother. Nothing else to this film...

...unless of course you are pulled in by sappyness. Yes, Italian culture. Yum, Italians cook well and the food is good. Have the dialogue is talking about different recipes. I really don't get why the high ratings. I like Vince as an actor, and actually he was also good in this, but good at what? Good at appreciating food and being sweet to old women.

I'm not sure who this film was done for, but my guess is Italian-Americans that are out of touch with their origins and can feel good about the fact that Italians cook well. Possibly old women that think 'finally, a film about cooking'. I got very bored about half way through, and I love Italian food (and know Italy and Italian culture). Anyway, I don't recommend.

Straight after watching it I had to write this review. First, Ferreira was amazing in this, and indeed all the actors were great. Really film was about a woman who was abandoned as a child by her mother, and raised by an uncaring and selfish father. She gets by, but is lonely. On the internet she meets a guy with the same name as her father, and he shows her platonic love.

I loved the original story, and the demonstration of caring between people who are all suffering with their own problems. A beautifully crafted film. Nice cinematography, beautifullly emotive. Such a touching film and for me a real gem. While sad, it shows a real positive aspect to humam hearts. Please watch this, it's great.

So I've been a soldier, and so it's difficult for me to know if civilian people will feel same way about this film. Firs - it's not a war movie.. not sure if there's even one shot fired. It's about a ex-soldier post-service dealing with the loss of her best friend.

I like Sonequa Martin-Green, so maybe I'm biased, and glad to see she is playing this role excellently. Reaches just the right balance of tough and sensitive without seeming like a caricature of 2 dimensional, which I think would be difficult in this role. I'd definitely say it's one of her best performances.

So she's a vet after serving in Afghanistan, but it's not about how horrific, it's basically about her friendship with another female soldier there, and also about her relationship with her grandfather, who was an inspiration for her signing up, but she didn't look after because she was dealing with her own PTSD. That relationship develops and gains a new understanding, and there was a really poignant part where her and her grandfather are supposed to stand for the anthem of their division, and he doesn't (you realise he has these strong mixed feelings).

The 'twist' (or revalation of how her friend died) is absolutely excellent and important. Having lost someone in the same way, it brought me to tears and I'm even crying writing this. Something that people don't realise, but it is possibly the toughest part for many soldiers.

Anyway, it hit me like a hammer, and my wife loved it too (I met her after the military and she never served). So there are some amazing war films, and while this maybe won't remembered as much as Apocolypse now, The deer hunter, Heaven and Earth, or Full metal jacket, it's definitely as important as these films because of the topic it addresses.

Who is this for? Anyone over the age of 16. It's not a shoot em up or action film, it's about love of a friend and coping with their loss and so most women will like it. For men, it's also about the toughness of being in, and then leaving, the military. Go and watch it, I hope it would receive at least 2 oscars cos it deserves it.

So you'll probably know that in 1972 Munich Olympics Palestiinians terorists took Israeli sports people hostage. Indeed there's already been a film about this, but this film is different.

I think they really portrayed well the desire in German society to put their anti-semitic past behind them, nut then they're caught in a situation where Israeli civilians could be murdered while under their responsibiliy.

The view point is from the abc sports film crew that chnaged suddenly from sports reporters to serious news reporters. It was very well researched and they put alot of effort into it being true to the events. Certainly has value historically. I loved the tension throughout, some continuong bad feeling between Germans, subtle sexism toward the female translator, and geeat character interactions. All the characters had depth, the period was well illustrated.

Anyone interested in history or politics should watch this. It's not an action movie, it's a gripping well told story of a film crew adapting to the horrofic events on that day 1972. Ot had impact without milking it. Just a well balanced and important film. Of course Hollywood is very leftwing and probably won't get fully behind this because of their anti west and anti Jewish leaning, but probably many of them won't even know of terrorist groups like Black September.

Anyway, an important film that all adults should watch (and enjoy)

So it has been compared to Ocean's Eleven. Yup, a team of people with their special skills working together to save the universe from a terrible bomb. How were these skills introduced, literally on the deck of a ship each explainibg these skills/abilities. How can a writer or director be so lazy. Hollywood had a writer's strike? They should have been sacked. I'm sure there are good original writers out there.

So story is a bit two dimensional, effects are good and some thought went into their special abilities, but that does not a film make. If I had made this film I would be ashamed of it So it's not like StarTrek, no problem for me, but it's forgettable pap. Not sure who the target audience is, cos it was pretty childish, but some of the fight scenes not suitable for young children. I think maybe it's directed at very low IQ young adults.

So story line is that two spies give up their spy life to make life safe for their kids. All doesn't go to plan, and they have to get back into the action.

So, first Cameron and Fox are great together. Fox is a really underrated actor and I wish he would try more serious roles, but anyway, he's super im this. The fight scenes were really well choreographed, being good and funny at times So the story isn't boring, but apart from one twist, is pretty nornal while not being too clichéd.

Seems that alot of these family friendly fun spy thrillers recently, but this for me is the best. I highly recommend it. Won't change your life, but will be fun throughout.

Wow. This film was boring. The acting was sub standard, the story pretty flat, the dialogue cheesy and naff. It tried to be a feel good movie, but has the emotional depth of shelf. The whole film revolves around how amazing it is to wrestle with one leg. Close up of one leg. Training run with cruches (why would he use cruches if he doesn't use them while wrestling). Ooo, he falls, so sad. Nobody cares, he's so down troden. Jennifer Lopez's worst film, and that's saying something. Anyone, if you can make it to the end of this film, it's you who's the hero. Not much else to say but gotta fill 39 characters.

Icelandic man dates a Japanese girl and he never married her, but in his later life, after the death of his wife and while his memory is fading, he travels back to Japan to find her. Much off film is flash backs to the developing love affair. It's so well cast and the acting across the board is on point. Watching the young lovers will remind you of young love and it is sp well done. The director expresses something particularly Japanese in the filming, attention to detail and a subtle calm beauty. While not expressing any particularly 'pretty' places, the filming is really amazing with great lighting and scenes full of depth and character. I really felt this film was a labour of love.

There is also an underlying subplot anout the after effects of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, which brings an original and interesting thread through to a final resolution of why they seperated. This is really a beautiful film and I was engrossed in every movement of the actors, every word. There is interesting aspects of Japanese culture and language, amd behaviour, that really is a great credit to the writer and director. This film I think will be especially appealing to older people as it outlines the feeling of life being in the past, and how we look at that past and understand ot is still part of us, in a sentimental but also deep and solid way. If you're an adult amd you like an interesting story with true sentimental feelings (not hollywood pap), you'll adore this film. O expect this will be my favourite film of 2025, and indeed I could it again, which for me is very rare.

This is not a film about race or racism. Could easily have been done with two white leads instead of black leads. It's a film about a 13 year old boy discovering sexuality and entering an adult world by way of a love interest, as well as how his father deals with this without his wife. Great acting by them both and the lead female. Subtle but not overly complex screen play. Interesting and not trying to be over emotional. Not a superb film but worth watching. I really liked the way they portrayed the father's efforts to do well by his son and manage his adherent behaviour without alienating him. Son was also not reckless but simply unaware of the world he was growing into.