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GHOST IN THE SHELL (2017) - REVIEW

A remake of a movie from 1995 can be seen in cinemas from this Thursday on and so here is my review of

GHOST IN THE SHELL



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Writers:

(based on the comic 'The Ghost in the Shell' by), (screenplay) | 1 more credit »

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 STORYLINE

In the near future, Major (Scarlett Johansson) is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people's minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop it. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major discovers that she has been lied to: her life was not saved, it was stolen. She will stop at nothing to recover her past, find out who did this to her and stop them before they do it to others. Based on the internationally acclaimed Japanese Manga, "The Ghost in the Shell."

REVIEW:

The Ghost in the Shell's running time is about 110, it is an Action, Drama, and Fantasy movie, and it is PG-13 rated. The movie tells us the story about Major, who is played by Scarlett Johanson as a Cyborg, a person, who is created for reason, what kind of reason I cannot tell you, because I would tell you the clue of the movie, but all what I can say so far is, that the clue is not a surprise, the story is flat, the acting is bad and boring, and the scoring of the movie at all gives me hard time understand why the movie was so much hipped, which I will explain during the review.

But let us start with the CAST first. So we have Scarlett Johansson as the main character, as the person, who should bring out the story, and push the action in the movie. A main character should be the most important person, but she is not. She is a complete fallout. She is saying 20 sentences at all, her way of acting, her look, her skills, which might be needful to understand why she was created are unreal, her costumes, and finally her behaviour overall in the movie is played in a kind, that I have to say: I am sorry,  but she is misplaced here. At all I have to say I had the feeling I am watching an Asian movie, because the whole cast are nearly played by Asian, and hot by Hollywood people, which the movie wants to tell us, also the studio behind the directing, which is , , and

Other people of the cast are not important for the movie. We have too many different people who are involved in the cloning and cyborg stuff, that it is too much complicated to talk about them. All of them are most of time sitting around a table and negotiating, in the next scene the same, and then the same again. The movie takes his time to speed time and so we are talking about the SETTING. The recordings and locations have been in Wellington again, same as Kong Skull Island for example. The problem here, that the movie wants to create a scenery, which looks like Japan or somewhere in China. I wonder why they chose New Zealand as the locations, if it could have been more convincing, if the setting was in Asia. 

The CAMERA is okay, nothing special. Movements and way of following people is nothing new here. Slow motions, POV, and speeding up in action scenes is also nothing new here, so the movie does not invent something new according to the camera.

The MUSIC is a big problem in the movie. It is most of the time too loud, too many songs, and most of the time it does not fit to the action and scenes. By the way there have been concerts all the around, in 600 countries to promote the music of the movie, and all of the songs better fit into a rock concert, then into this movie. There are 30 different songs in the movie, which is way too much for a score, which is fair to reflect to composer work.

The EFFECTS are cool, but they are coming to a time, when the movie cannot be saved anymore. They are too late, but if, then they are cool, and give the movie a kind of twist and new direction of where it wants to go.

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE MOVIE:
It is not a lot to say what I like about the movie, actually it is nothing else than the effects and the fact, that it has nice places and colors.

WHAT I DO NOT LIKE ABOUT THE MOVIE:
It starts with the cast. Scarlett Johansson is not good, her performance is bad, and she is not person in the movie, where I was able to find any emotional contact, and this is a killer for a movie, when there is no emotional base to the main character. The story is flat, and twists and the ending are really not a big suprise, you always know, what will happen next. The music is too much, and too much over the tops. The story and the sequences of telling us the whole picture of the movie do not fit in there. Ruppert Sanders, the director said before he confirmed, that he will be the Director: "I want to create something new, something which makes us think about human, who were created as robots, and I want to push the level of the 1995's movie into a new dimension." Sorry Rupert, but you failed in my eyes.
For it's genre I will give The Ghost of the Shell 3 out of 10 points, because there still some action and drama sequences in there, which I liked, even though I lost my interests in watchin after 40 minutes.

Overall it earns 1.5 out of 10 points and so I cannot agree with the score of 6.9 out of 10 points at IMDB, the movie belongs to those categories like never ever again, and I could have done someting else in those 106 minutest.

So I am done with the review of The Ghost in the Shell, in cinemas from March 30, 2017 on and thanks for reading and I wish you a lot of fun in the movie houses while watching.

SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993) - REVIEW IN CO-OPERATION WITH AMC

Today there will be a review, which is a bit different from all the other reviews before. In co-operation with AMC here is a review of a movie, which made history. It is a movie about hunting Jews, and the second world war, which was not there before. It is the movie of his life, talking about Liam Nesson, and Director Steven Spielberg.

It is Schindler's List (1993)



Trailer


REVIEW by AMC

The best Holocaust movie ever made is Life is Beautiful. However, since Life is Beautiful came out in 1997, there has to have been another film that held the title before Benigni’s comic masterpiece came along and snatched it away. That film is Schindler’s List.
Schindler’s List is the true story of Oscar Schindler, a Nazi party member, a war profiteer, and a man responsible for saving the lives of over 2000 Jews in the Holocaust. As would be expected from the majority of Holocaust movies, Schindler’s List is a film that you cannot say you love without feeling like a total schmuck (or, practicing my Yiddish again, being very Vashnuked). However Schindler’s List is what you would call an endearing film.
Schindler’s List utilizes a stark score by John Williams and a black & white photography by Janusz Kaminski in order to provide the full effect of the Holocaust: utter depression and hopelessness. The film is about as depressing to watch as Leaving Las Vegas. However, despite the desire to use a Smith & Wesson on yourself while watching this movie, the film manages to compel your interest.
Zaillian’s script is right on target: pulling us in at the beginning with the story of Oscar’s brilliant (although narcissistic) formation of a business out of nothing. The business exploits the Jew so much that you begin to wonder if you are watching the wrong movie. However, after Schindler witnesses the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto (still the most touching bunch of celluloid I have ever watched), he begins to work subversively against the Germans and for the Jews.
The one thing that weakens the film is the presence of humor. If a movie is going for the absolute drab, as Schindler’s List did, it would be a good idea to not try to lighten a moment by adding in a joke that you would find in a second-rate comedy. Humor has never been Zaillian’s strongpoint, and he shouldn’t have tried to start.
Regardless, Schindler’s List is still the best movie that Spielberg ever made, and the second-best film about the Holocaust. Schindler’s List is a true dramatic classic, capable of making anyone cry.
See Nazis run.
 Review by MovieTown
 
Schindler's List's running time is about 200 minutes, the movie is R-rated and available on Blu-Ray and DVD and tells us the story about Oskar Schindler, who is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman, who becomes an unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric German Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp, it is a testament to the good in all of us. I know many of you, out there will disagree with me, when I say that Schindler's List is one of the greatest film that there has ever been. It does sound that I'm extremely overrating it, but I truly believe that Schindler's List is up there with The Godfather and Citizen Kane I mean everything about is so good, that its close to perfection.

The acting is brilliant, every actor does an amazing job. Liam Neeson as Schindler is incredible, no doubt about it. He should have won an Oscar for Best Actor. Ralph Fiennes is the one, who truly is the best actor in the film. He plays his antagonist role as Amon Goeth, so well that it is a travesty, he didn't win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

I'm happy though, that the Academy chose this film for Best Picture, it was one of the best decisions they ever made. Because if this film wasn't considered Best Picture by the Academy, I don't know which film would be, expect maybe for The Godfather.

Steven Spielberg certainly deserved an Oscar for Best Director. It was a smart idea for Steven Spielberg to make this film in black-white because it made the movie more bleak, emotional, hopelessness. But you see small patches of color -- A candle and a child's coat bringing the evilness of the tragedy into a agonizing focus.

There's no doubt about it, this film will be a classic in decades, even hundreds of years to come in cinema. This film is without a doubt, the Best film that Spielberg has ever made. With many other Steven Spielberg's classics like Jurassic Park,Jaws,E.T, Raider of the Lost Ark, Saving Private Ryan, etc. Schindler's List will always be Steven Spielberg's most finest, important film. He blends his humanism to the tragic horror of the Holocaust to create an emotional masterpiece.
 
The camera, music, and effects are minor important in this movie. What it is, what is impressive, that Steven Spielberg created something completely different. We all know him as the Director of E.T. or Jurassic Park, where he always takes us into a world full of fantasy and unexpected thing, but in this movie, he tells us a true story, about one of the darkest and sadest chapter in the history of Germany.
 
There is nothing what I don't like about the movie. So all in all 10 out of 10 points for its genre (Biography, Drama, History) as well as an overall rating and so I totally agree with the full and absolutely well deserver metascore of 93 out of 100.

Have fun watching and thanks for readin this very special review.

NEWS - IN CINEMAS MARCH 29, 2017

Let us have a look at the movies, which will be in cinema on March 29, 2017.

There are two new main stream movie and two off streamers, which I recommend to you.

1. Based on a true story, happened during the second world war in Poland.

THE ZOOKERPER'S WIFE



Trailer and behind the scenes clips:
Storyline:
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Ĺ»abiĹ„ska (portrayed by two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain) and her husband, Dr. Jan Ĺ»abiĹ„ski (Johan Heldenbergh), have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When their country is invaded by the Nazis, Jan and Antonina are stunned – and forced to report to the Reich’s newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck (Daniel BrĂĽhl). To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with the Resistance – and put into action plans to save lives out of what has become the Warsaw Ghetto, with Antonina putting herself and even her children at great risk. 


Trivia & Production Notes

  • Adapted from Diane Ackerman’s nonfiction book of the same name which was based on the diaries of Antonina Ĺ»abiĹ„ski.
  • Focus Features will release the film domestically; Universal Pictures International has distribution rights to the film in the U.K., France, Germany, Scandinavia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.
  • Academy Award nominee Suzie Davies (Mr. Turner) is the production designer on The Zookeeper’s Wife; Andrij Parekh (Show Me a Hero) is the director of photography; and Bina Daigeler (Only Lovers Left Alive) is the film’s costume designer. 

2. A cyborg policewoman attempts to bring down a nefarious computer hacker.

GHOST IN THE SHELL  


Trailer:




Storyline:
Follows Major, a special ops, one-of-a-kind human-cyborg hybrid, who leads the elite task force Section 9. Devoted to stopping the most dangerous criminals and extremists, Section 9 is faced with an enemy whose singular goal is to wipe out Hanka Robotic’s advancements in cyber technology.  

Trivia & Production Notes

  • Created by Masamune Shirow, "Ghost in the Shell" was first published in 1989. The Japanese comic book went on to generate two additional manga editions, three anime film adaptations, an anime TV series and three video games. The second anime film, "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence", was released in the United States by DreamWorks' Go Fish Pictures in 2004.
  • Paramount on board to distribute and co-finance the film.
  • The film’s crew includes Cinematographer Jess Hall (THE SPECTACULAR NOW), Editor Neil Smith (SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN), Production Designer Jan Roelfs (FAST & FURIOUS 6), and Costume Designers Kurt Swanson and Bart Mueller (THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY 

Also in March 29
Here Alone
Horror / Limited cinemas
The Prison
Crime / Limited cinemas

These are the all the movies coming on next Wednesday, I hope you will watch some of them, have fun.

IN CINEMAS SPRING 2017

What can we expect from the spring season of 2017 in the cinemas? Here is the news:




Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
USA Release Date: 26 May 2017.





Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
USA Release Date: 5 May 2017.





The Fate of the Furious (2017)
USA Release Date: 14 April 2017.





Wonder Woman (2017)
USA Release Date: 2 June 2017.





Power Rangers (2017)
USA Release Date: 24 March 2017. 
READ MY REVIEW





Alien: Covenant (2017)
USA Release Date: 19 May 2017.





Phoenix Forgotten (2017)
USA Release Date: 21 April 2017.



King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
USA Release Date: 12 May 2017.





Rough Night (2017)
USA Release Date: 16 June 2017.





How to Be a Latin Lover (2017)
USA Release Date: 28 April 2017.





Baywatch (2017)
USA Release Date: 26 May 2017.





CHIPS (2017)
USA Release Date: 24 March 2017.





The Mummy (2017)
USA Release Date: 9 June 2017.





All Eyez on Me (2017)
USA Release Date: 16 June 2017.





Cars 3 (2017)
USA Release Date: 16 June 2017.





The Circle (2017)
USA Release Date: 28 April 2017.





Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017)
USA Release Date: 19 May 2017.





Aftermath (2017)
USA Release Date: 7 April 2017.





Everything, Everything (2017)
USA Release Date: 19 May 2017.





Captain Underpants (2017)
USA Release Date: 2 June 2017.





Going in Style (2017)
USA Release Date: 7 April 2017.





Voice from the Stone (2017)
USA Release Date: 28 April 2017.





Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
USA Release Date: 7 April 2017.





Unforgettable (2017)
USA Release Date: 21 April 2017.





It Comes at Night (2017)
USA Release Date: 9 June 2017.





Sandy Wexler (2017)
USA Release Date: 14 April 2017.





Gifted (2017)
USA Release Date: 7 April 2017.





The Wall (2017)
USA Release Date: 12 May 2017.





Sand Castle (2017)
USA Release Date: 21 April 2017.





Snatched (2017)
USA Release Date: 12 May 2017.





Stockholm (2017)
USA Release Date: 28 March 2017.





My Cousin Rachel (2017)
USA Release Date: 9 June 2017.





The Case for Christ (2017)
USA Release Date: 7 April 2017.





The Book of Henry (2017)
USA Release Date: 16 June 2017.





1 Mile to You (2017)
USA Release Date: 7 April 2017.

UNA (2016) - REVIEW

When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life. Their confrontation will uncover buried memories and unspeakable desires. It will shake them both to the core.This is what we can see in the high discussed movie about the sexual abuse of

UNA (International Title) / UNA AND RAY (Title for Europe)


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 WARNING - THE TRAILER CONTAINS SEXUAL CONTENT AND IS R-RATED!

Director:

Writer:

(based on his play "Blackbird")

Stars:



REVIEW:
 
STORYLINE
Una's running time is about 94 minutes, it is a Drama, the movie PG-13 rated, which is not enough for the scenes we can see and especially when you look at the background of the movie (later one more about it) and tell the story of Una, who is 13 years and starts to have an affair with Ray, who is already at the end of 30s, and this connection between these, which is not only based on paedophile should have been something special, but it turns out completely different. Ray was sent to prison for 4 years, when we comes back to freedom, he changes his name, has a new family and tries to live a normal, meanwhile Una cannot change her name. Contempted by her family, always with the feeling to be an outsider, she has a life as a victim, and each day feels like a punishment. 15 years later she discovers a way to see Ray again, to visit his working place, and so the movie creates not only a journey into the past, and the movie is always playing with flashbacks, the movie is also dealing with important facts and topics like sexual abuse of children, and that is why the movie is powerful, it is not easy to watch, and it great to see how it deals with the interwoven of different feelings, which are placed the way that you notice, that different topics cannot be separated.

So the movie is powerful, the cast and acting is more than awesome and overwhelming, it is a powerful movie, even though it is a off stream movie, in most of Asian countries blacklisted, it was only streamed in Singapore, and starts in Europe on March 30, 2017, even thoug the movie is almost one year old, but it is off season.
 
Let us talk about the CAST. Ronney Mara is Una. She is absolutely awesome in her performance. She has to show what kind of abuse happened to her, and she to shows us her pain, her suffering, and her way of finding answers like why, what happened to me, why did Ray suddenly disappear, and what kind of influence has the sexual abuse of her and for her family. She is also showing us her own definition of love, and what is means for her during the 15 years, when she did not see Ray. She has to show what this criminal abuse made with her body and soul, and what it means to transport the message of her personnel abuse into a public topic. In all points of her acting she is convincing, she is true to herself, she is a strong actor, and does it is a powerful and great way of acting. 

Same for Ben Mendelsohn who is Ray / Peter because he has a new name after getting out of prison. The movie show how it is to be an offender but also a victim, especially when he is in prison. He is a victim not only in public eyes, but also for himself, and he keeps on asking himself: can I still live with that feeling, even though he knows that he did a crime, and he was judged for that.

So both history of both people is placed on the screen, and this is a new constellation, because usually we can see, how to analyse the crime, how to find out information about victims and offenders and how these people have to deal with that what happened, but in Una, we have a connection of those topics and so both, Una and Ray, show us their POV and what they have to go through is strange to see and to be hones I did not see that before. So the movie asks also about the fact if it is right or wrong to talk about it and combine those aspects of crime.

The CAMERA is most of the time showing cold and freezy pictures. It also shows the sexual crime, the way of dealing with that and is sometimes offending in her way showing the people's emotions.

The SETTING is most of the time at Ray's work and also the past of Una and Ray.

There is most of time no MUSIC in the movie, meaning an inner scream of the people.

The movie has no EFFECTS, only a few flashbacks.

What I like about the movie:
It is the a very strict and seldom mentioned topic in movies, and the telling is good as well as good reflected. The performance of the actors is awesome, we have a setting which creates a feeling of unbelievable of what happened, but it is also a very catching movie, especially when it comes up to the point, when Una and Ray meet each other again, and what happened in the past, why are the figures still conected to each other, and why is Una still amazed by Ray, and those impressions, which cannot show a border or limit between different things, but topics are connected, because they belong together, and so it shows how hard life is, resuilts in a chaos of being a victim and the desires of both actors, and the social consense, that it is not okay what happened, so we still can discus more about the movie but a very good played movie.
 
What I do not like about the movie:
The is a tough topic, this is a warning, because the movie is not showing explicit sexual acts, which would be too much, but because of the facts, that the camera shows what happens in our own mind, it wants to create a kind of mindfuck settings, and you have to ready and prepared for this. You have to except what happens in the movie, and this can be stressful.

All in all this is a movie for those who have and had to deal with this topic. This one here is something very special.

For its genre and because of the openminded and discussed facts I give Una 9.5 points of 10 for being a Drama.

Overall a more than great movie also 9.5 out of 10 points and so you have to watch this one, and I was catched, I felt the pain of Una and Ray, and was in the scenes and settings in very single second. Have fun watching it, and thanks for reading this review of Una, in cinemas on March 30, 2017 in Europe, but also available on DVD and Blu-Ray already, and have fun watching movies.

RAW (2017) - REVIEW BY DAVID FEAR

It's the cannibal movie that caused people to faint at a film festival.



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This is what people talk about when they talk about Raw, the extraordinary body-horror parable from French director Julia Ducournau. The incident, which happened at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, might cause folks to view this as some sort of cinematic dare, a splatter shocker designed to test the limits of the scary-movie marine corps. Consider this a disclaimer, and a reclamation: The story of a young woman (Garance Marillier) who develops a taste for certain off-the-menu delicacies is indeed intense. It's also after much bigger game than merely thrilling folks who've studied Fangoria photo spreads with Talmudic-scholar fervor. Smelling salts are not required, but the ability to recognize a near-perfect movie when you see it most certainly is. If Get Out reminds folks that you can smuggle intelligent social commentary and timely conversation-starters in to theaters via explosive genre packages, then Ducournau's feature debut doubles down on the notion. In terms of the female-body politic, it's an art-horror dirty bomb.


Flesh of any kind is initially carne non grata for Marillier's Justine, a college student who comes from a long line of militant vegetarians; Mom freaks out when a morsel of beef makes its way into some mashed potatoes. But at the veterinary school where she's enrolling as a freshman – and where her older sister, Alexia (Ella Rumpf), is a long-established alpha – the young woman discovers that no one cares about her culinary ideology. After a hazing ritual involving newbies being covered in animal blood (paging Carrie White), Justine is forced to eat a duck kidney. Instant nausea leads to a gnarly rash; soon, she's going in to town and stress-gnoshing on kabobs with her gay roommate Adrien (Rabah Nait Oufella) at a Gas 'n' Sip. Then an accident causes her sister to lose a digit. While waiting for the paramedics, Justine impulsively explores the notion of literal finger food. And now the craving starts.

To say that things begin to take on an even stronger metaphorical resonance once our heroine indulges in her newfound gourmet obsession would be grossly understating the point; the fact that this coincides with Justine's sexual awakening, made implicit via solo dress-up grinding in front of a mirror then explicit by her ecstatically biting her own arm during sex, isn't coincidental. College is when you try on numerous identities and experiment with new ideas before your in-flux personality calcifies into an adult-shaped mold – so, the film suggests tongue-in-chomped-cheek, why wouldn't anthropophagy be on the docket as well? (Nor is she potentially the only cannibal on campus.)

Ducournau has referred to her movie as a coming-of-age story, and you can see this waifish character go from awkwardly tottering in high heels (a shot that spells out the movie's ideas on femininity drag; don't even ask about the Brazilian waxing sequence) to aggressively asserting herself over 99 blood-flecked minutes. Girl, you'll be a man-eating woman soon, and though references to bulimia and trichophagia suggest control issues run psychologically amuck, Justine also discovers a sense of empowerment in this taboo line-crossing. She begins to take ownership of her body by consuming others'.

None of which should suggest that Raw is simply a grad-school term paper smothered in gore. Ducournau knows how to make the vocabulary of horror filmmaking either finesse or bludgeon with a frightening degree of facility. Few movies have used pacing and composition to such an effective degree in the name of XX-centric dread (the film owes as much to Roman Polanski's Repulsion as it does to the cinema of repulsion), or understood how to employ color so effectively – from a seven-minutes-in-heaven encounter involving blue and yellow paint to the crimson drop on a white lab coat that signals a Type-O deluge. There's a hallucinogenic quality to the deadpan scenes of Justine coming to grips with this personal channeling of passion and perversity, and a shocking aspect to the carnage that feels invasive in a way most shock artists can't conjure. You never get the sense that you're not watching a master at work, regardless of how scant Ducournau's filmography is. She is the real thing.

You could say the same for her partner-in-crime Marillier, who lets viewers join her heroine's journey of carnal knowledge through carnivorous free-fall. A dead ringer for the fictional future offspring of Paul Dano and Saoirse Ronan, the 19-year-old actor can radiate innocence, depravity or bewilderment in a glance, and toggle between humiliated and animalistically hungry on a dime. It takes a certain type of performer to pull off the abandonment of embracing one's dark side and barking like a dog when her sister forces her into a drunken canine act at a party, and Marillier instinctively knows where the do-not-cross line is – then fearlessly hops over it. Ducournau is the one who gives this cunning exploration of crossing the no-man's-land between girlhood and womanhood its transgressive bite; her young star is the one who gives it a recognizable humanity amidst the amuse-bouche arterial spurt. They both allow the film to get under your skin in more ways than one. Your semiotic meal is served. Your appetite for smart, savvy, sick-as-fuck horror will be sated.

RATING 9/10 POINTS

credits:
Rolling Stone 

POWER RANGERS - HD TRAILER & REVIEW

A group of high-school kids, who are infused with unique superpowers, harness their abilities in order to save the world. 


TEASER
 


HD TRAILER



Movie Info
From a story by Executive Producer Roberto Orci (TRANSFORMERS, STAR TREK, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2) and screenwriters Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller (X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, THOR) comes a modern reinvention of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, a group of ordinary high school kids who find themselves infused with extraterrestrial powers and must harness those powers as a team to save the world. (c) Lionsgate

Storyline:
High school outcasts stumble upon an old alien ship, where they acquire superpowers and are dubbed the Power Rangers. Learning that an old enemy of the previous generation has returned to exact vegenance, the group must harness their powers and use them to work together and save the world.

Cast


Naomi Scott
as Kimberly Hart/The Pink Ranger

R.J. Cyler
as Billy Cranston/The Blue Ranger

Becky G
as Trini Kwan/The Yellow Ranger

Dacre Montgomery
as Jason Lee Scott/The Red Ranger

Ludi Lin
as Zack Taylor/The Black Ranger

Elizabeth Banks
as Rita Repulsa
 
Also appearing in the movie casts like: 
Bryan Cranston as Zordon, Sarah Grey as Amanda and Cody Kearsley as Hawkeye. 
Review:
Today I want to start with some details about the movie data, like site facts and after that I will talk about the movie itself because there a lot of information we should know about the movie before I can tell you my true opinion about it. So the whole budget of the movie is about 105.000.000$, 1.000.000$ just for the cast and the rest was invested into sound, camera, and effects. So please take note of the facts first.
Then we have a good cast actually with Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Naomi Scott.
Again the movie is about 124 minutes.
Why is that important to point? You will see now.
So let's starting talking about the cast first. The cast is actually the biggest problem of the movie. Of course we have Superstars from Hollywood, who have an experience in acting already, especially when I look at the Ranger's cast. But there are way too much of characters. The movie starts with an introduction part of the characters, and to tell the story of each Ranger takes already 60 minutes of the whole movie. All the "new" Rangers (later on I will tell you why "new") do not know each other, but they have something very special in common and what it is, is also something special, and the combination of special and special is again special, so that each character should be special. This is what the wants to tell us, but it totally fails, and I am so sorry for that because I am a cheesy fan of the Power Rangers, but the storyline and the way of introducing the team to us does not work at all.
So the best character in the movie R.J. Cyler, he is the best performer in the movie, he is funny, he is real, and he is the only one who give us an aspect of what to think while watching. The other characters are acting like too much funny, and if the jokes are not funny, I could laugh about them, and the way of how they want to be teenager and superheroes at the same is not working. They are too cheesy, the style is crazy, it is not enough to give girls leather leggings and colored shirts, when the script does not fulfill them.
And so we come to the next problem of the movie and the characters which is the script. A movie is not good when you don not have a good script and also a good script cannot make a bad movie better, when the actors are not good. The story for the characters is low, too low, not much intelligent, and again the jokes are not funny. I am a kind of tired to see white people making fun of black people, but this is happening again right here. I expect more from a movie with such a high budget, especially for the cast only.

Then we have Bryan Cranston as Zordon, he has a overall screen time of just 5 minutes, this is it. Anyone else can play that, but really Bryan? What happened to him? This is not good for him I think and the score for his role reflects that also. His role makes only 6 in the whole metascore of the movie, which BTW 45 out of 100 only. Please take note of that metascore.

Elizabeth Banks takes over the evil person as Rita Repulsa. She is such an evil and bad girl in this movie and again according to the script she has no other chance to be like this. In those 5 minutes, where she has the chance to tell us why she became like this, the movie turns into a SCI-FI spectacular, which we cannot believe in anymore, that we still watching Power Rangers. Later on I will tell you about other movies, which Power Rangers wants to cheer up with, too.

Other people cannot be mention in this review because they are simply not good in their acting.

The camera is actually the best tech used. It is simple, speeds ups during the action scenes, and uses slow motion. Too many slow motion. From minute 70 on I have the feeling to watch a slow motion movie, and it was maing me tired on this feeling while watching, because if something repearts and repeats, you will get tired of it. So the normal feeling is we try to avoid it and this is the worst case for a movie.

The settings is another problem of the movie. Of course we have a school, which looks nice and gets us back to our school memories. But then the cave is too much on high tech, which is not used at its best, the transformation of the Rangers into robots look more like a recap of transformers, and the way of how the robots look like is also more like Bambelbee and the other Transformers.

The music is too much, is some scenes, which are dramatic it is louder than the voices of the actors. In action scenes it is too much noise, and does not make fun.

The effects are bad. Especially in the last fighting sequences of the movie we have POV and explosions which look too much like CGI and too much pixeled. You can see the graphic errors of the used computers to animate the robots, you can see pixel errors, and the water looks more like a painting, when the Rangers are entering the cave. By the way the cave turns into a space station so that I was asking myself, where does the movie want to bring us? What is his real message?

What I like about the movie:
I like the cast, when I do not think about the characters in the movie itself, and when I also forget about their interactions and way of getting introduced to us.
I like Billy as the special character, he is funny, and most likely the best in the cast. 
I like the way of introducing each special force of each Ranger, that they are suddenly super strong and this is great to see and also the best way of pushing the action into the front.

What I do not like about the movie:
124 minutes, the movie is way too long. Its feels actually like a 3 hours movie. Then I am asking myself what is the aim group of viewers? The movie is PG 13 so it is not made for kids, older tweenies or adults may get bored too quickly because of the script, the actors, and what you see. Then there is no emotional bonding to the audience, a great problem of a 2 hours movie, when you do not get catched by what is happening. The storyline is easy to read and you always know what will happen next. Rita is dark and brutal, she is simply evil and that's it. The ending is very much more than trash, funny moments are not funny, the jokes are not good. The effect are really bad, too much CGI, and that is all what is good for the upcoming movies, because if you keep on sitting in the cinemas until the credits, you can read within and at the end of the credits, where the movie series Power Rangers wants to go. The movies wants to place itself on the same letter as Die Hard and Transformers, and the script is like this also.

Genre Rating:
So for its genre as an action, thriller, fantasy, and a kinda superhero movie it is only 4 out of 10 points, and so I have to agree with the metascore, even if I feel really sorry for that, but it could have been more with such a huge budget and such a cast.

Overall Rating:
Compared to all the other movies and when I think about what is still to come this year I give Power Rangers 2 out of 10 points, and so I have to say, that it is a chance for true fans of Power Rangers, but for everyone else it is not worth to watch it.

That is my true opinion about Power Rangers, right now in all the cinemas worldwide.
Thank you for reading this very long review, but there was a lot to say, also. Have a great day, bye bye.

LIFE (2017) - REVIEW

An international space crew discovers life on Mars. 
 
 
TRAILER
 
 
 
STORYLINE
 
Six astronauts aboard the space station study a sample collected from Mars that could provide evidence for extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. The crew determines that the sample contains a large, single-celled organism - the first example of life beyond Earth. But..things aren't always what they seem. As the crew begins to conduct research, and their methods end up having unintended consequences, the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected.
 
CAST
 
 
REVIEW
 
LIFE's running time is about 103 minutes, it is R rated, and start this Wednesday, March 22, 2017 in cinemas.

First of all I was not expecting a lot from the movie, because we all know the setting already: space, spacestation, aliens, and trouble. This might lead to the conclusion that we have something like an Alien movie, but we don't. The movie is okay, but not overwhelming, that I have to watch it twice.

But let's start with the cast and Jake Gyllenhaal as the main character. Great actor, always awesome to watch him, but in some moments the script ruins his role, like for e.g. when he has his 5 minutes of having a monologue.

Also great to see Mister Deadpool Ryan Reynolds, someone who catches also emotionally, because he is the character who gives us the family's feelings, like in the trailer that he just became father. But he is also in scenes which are full of action and so damn brutal that I thought: wow fortunately this is R rated.

So for its genre as SCI-FI, more Thriller than SCI-FI it is a great cast.

The camera is extraordinary, all looks very scientific and on high standards and values. So for e.g. there is a scene where a eye tear drops out of the eye, and this is so detailed and clear to this, which is awesome. In the actions sequences it enhances its speed and during the brutal and bloody scenes, it shows us all. Again luckily this in a R rated movie, and we also have scenes, where the heart gets ripped out of the body of a person and the camera makes a total view of this, which is crazy to see, especially in the cinema.

The music is okay, and there no effects. So deep space motion is there, this is a SCI-FI movie.

So the question is: is this just an Alien rip off movie? I think it is not. I think do not go to the movie and think like this, because you might don't like the movie then, and it won't give it a chance to convince you, so that you can enjot the stay in the movie house.

So what I like about the movie are the first 50 minutes, to discover life in a way we have not seen before, catched me, and is impressive to see, also the combination of technology and individuals styles of people on how to deal with this new life is great to see.

What I did not like was the second part: the movie is brutal, it turns into a suspicious way of how to present the fight between humans and aliens, and it forgets its storyline a bit, so we got lost, and also the ending and the settings after the first 50 minutes are really easy to see, so that there are so suprises anymore.

So all in all for its genre which is more like a thriller and very brutal I give him 7 out of 10 points, over all 6.5 out of 10 points.

So if you like the cast and if you like the settings and atmosphere go and watch and have a lot of fun while watching.

Thank you, bye bye.
 
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