The Cold War returns full force on the big screen, though by the end of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., you might want to put it back in the fridge.. Whose idea was it to make a cold war thriller for a generation that doesn't know what the cold war was?. An astonishment, an engineering feat, and, finally, a folly.. An utterly clueless, relentlessly grim and rambling action epic guaranteed to displease devout Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, amuse atheists - and generally bore everyone.. Mesmerizing ...
Exodus - Götter und Könige (2014) Online-Streaming-
Mann unter Feuer (2004) Streaming-
A depressingly gory parade of vengeance.. A clumsily condensed mystery/thriller novel made into a movie that offers little more than every other clumsily condensed mystery/thriller novel made into a movie.. The picture is joyless and perfunctory. Call it Mission: Possible.. Easily the best of the recent spate of cynical and violent revenge/vigilante dramas.. Despite a red-hot performance by Washington as the antiheroic, self-annihilating title character, the film as a whole, while possessing a k...
Die Bourne Verschwörung (2004) Voll Streaming
[Director] Greengrass proves himself equally adept at action, building on the edginess of Doug Liman's original with a feverish handheld camera and frenetic editing.. A tour-de-force of thriller filmmaking.. When Garfield conceals Peter's confused-angry- betrayed scowl beneath that shiny red mask, Spider-Man 2 summons the giddy derring-do of the best Iron Man offerings. It's a good movie that could have been great.. The movie is utterly synthetic.. The trouble with director Marc Webb's disappoin...
Pearl Harbor (2001) Online-Streaming-
What to say about a racing movie that's stuck in idle as drama? For starters, don't race to see it... there's nothing to distract you from a plot so tired there are tire tracks from other racing movies all over it.. It's like watching someone ELSE play a video game for more than two hours. That gets old real fast.. In trying for the vicarious varoom of the street-racing video game that inspired it, and no doubt dreaming of "Fast" success, "Speed" clocks in at a long two-plus hours and falls pain...
Das Bourne Ultimatum (2007) Download Film
The third chapter in the globe-trotting -- more like globe-speeding, actually -- saga of Jason Bourne, a.k.a. the Spy With No Memory, is easily the best of the three.. The Bourne Ultimatum leaps, scampers, scraps and drives its way into the pantheon of all-time great action movies.. Bourne -- or whatever his name really is -- is such a resourceful and reckless agent of chaos, we thrill to him despite the fact that he's officially a non-entity.. Not only far and away this summer's best three-peat...
Jack Reacher (2012) Voll Streaming
A clumsily condensed mystery/thriller novel made into a movie that offers little more than every other clumsily condensed mystery/thriller novel made into a movie.. As the details mount, and the star does what stars do, it starts to seem like a good bag of potato chips. There's no nutritional value, but darned if you don't keep eating.. Jack Reacher is an absurdly self-confident, sociopathically laser-focused detective-bot. That is to say, he's a hero that only Tom Cruise could love.. This is br...
Alexander (2004) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
It's boring here and exciting there. And it's almost always goofy.. Seems too puny and fragmented for its mighty subject; it feels as if Stone, for the first time in his career, simply ran out of hot air.. . . At a reported cost of $155 million, Alexander qualifies as a super-spectacle in every respect but one -- namely in its neurotic, confused and sexually ambidextrous hero.. Here's something I never expected to say about a big-budget Oliver Stone film starring Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie an...
Chroniken der Unterwelt - City of Bones (2013) Beobachten Film
Bourne -- or whatever his name really is -- is such a resourceful and reckless agent of chaos, we thrill to him despite the fact that he's officially a non-entity.. Insistent, ingenious and slammed full of five heart attacks worth of action, The Bourne Ultimatum may be the best conspiracy action-thriller ever made, a beautifully crafted mix of mayhem, well-earned paranoia and unlikely introspection.. The fact that there is already at least one sequel planned feels more like a threat than a treat...
American Ultra (2015) Download Voll
A rollicking adventure yarn.. Liman, of Swingers and Go, makes his big-budget action film debut something of a clunker as he delivers a long, low-heat chase, interrupted by a middling car chase.. It turns out to be a disappointingly underdeveloped film that its makers, chiefly director Nima Nourizadeh and writer Max Landis, must have thought could coast by on a cool but half-baked idea.. Nicely paced and fits the bill for those in search of two hours of spy-based action and martial arts.. The mo...
Safe House (2012) Beobachten Film
Pompeii has as much to do with realism and history as the average gas station has with gourmet cuisine and fine dining. If you're hankering for something substantive, you'll leave hungry.. "Safe House" has just enough bone density to emit some satisfying cracks and pops whenever the action gets going.. White House Down is the kind of celebration of rampant mayhem in which everyone seems to have a rocket launcher -- or at least a live hand grenade -- at the ready, just in case they need to dispat...
Die Unglaublichen (2004) Online-Streaming-
The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and its thrilling to behold.. The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. I really like this movie. thank you. The film c...
Sherlock Holmes - Spiel im Schatten (2011) Film-Streaming
This franchise is out of gas.. It may not steal your heart, but you won't feel robbed.. It's complete trash and makes a mockery of Holmes's vaunted deductive reasoning.. This is the zippy remake that Ocean's Eleven wanted to be and wasn't quite.. This is pure entertainment but smart entertainment, plotted and executed with invention and humor and acted by a winning cast radiating good-movie energy.. Like Brian and Dom, Fast & Furious would benefit from more female company. And Vin Diesel's mumbl...
Herz aus Stahl (2014) Film-Streaming
Tarsem Singh has a reputation for making movies that are visually stunning but woefully inert and convoluted in their storytelling (see The Cell and The Fall). Singh's most recent film, Self/less, lives up to at least half of that reputation.. Singh once seemed an original, but Self/less doesn't have a distinctive bone in either of its bodies.. The elaborately convoluted, soul-swapping thriller "Self/less" squanders its intriguing premise with a loud and labored beat-the-bad-guys trajectory.. Wh...
Homefront (2013) Voll Streaming
The deeper we go into this story, the more ridiculous the coincidences and plot twists.. Everyone cast against type. Everyone breathtakingly bad, reciting dialogue by Sylvester Stallone that begs for a "mute" button.. Pardon me, "Homefront," but I'm having a little trouble finding James Franco, as a bayou meth lord, to be much of a match for Jason Statham, as an ex-DEA agent hiding out anonymously with his daughter.. DiCaprio's solid, though I wonder if a real CIA agent could get away with looki...
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) Beobachten Film
What sounds in principle like a pitch for a TV pilot instead plays like an old-fashioned romantic comedy with updated hardware.. Their much-hyped kiss-kiss, bang-bang movie is an expensive time-waster, full of slow-motion explosions and big-scene payoffs that turn out to be duds.. There's no real kick to all the wanton destruction, no sense of real thrill or peril, because the movie, which was written by Simon Kinberg (and rewritten, and then rewritten some more during production) chickens out.....
進撃の巨人 エンド オブ ザ ワールド (2015) Beobachten Film
A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. I really like this movie. thank ...
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Download Voll
Others will see it differently, but for me this is a disappointingly clunky and bombastic conclusion to a superior series -- Nolan's biggest and worst movie to date.. [This] wrap-up wraps up few of the threads in the first two films, and that the climactic cliff-hangers are nothing special (as well as flabbily edited).. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and its thrilling to behold.. A fitting c...
Slow West (2015) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
Brain Hegeland's script offers a trio of endings, a bit much for a movie that lasts nearly 2 1/2 hours.. It's the rare western that invites you to imagine what life then and there might actually have felt like, sight gags and all. Maclean is a supremely promising talent.. You'd have to call Man on Fire a mess, but at least it's an interesting mess.. The movie appeals to baser instincts, and Scott's heavy-handed button-pushing stacks the deck.. This is brisk, attention-grabbing, and generally unp...
Drachenzähmen leicht gemacht 2 (2014) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-
This may be the first and last time anyone says this, but if "How to Train Your Dragon 2" is this good, why stop at 3 and 4?. Hats off to Dreamworks for offering some bold surprises in a respectable sequel filled with moments of humour and emotion among its ample noise and movement.. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and its thrilling to behold.. How to Train Your Dragon 2 is soaring, emotional...
Equilibrium (2002) Voll Streaming
It's a long way from Orwell's dark, intelligent warning cry [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of Equilibrium, and what once was conviction is now affectation.. There's something almost refreshing about a movie that delivers exactly what's expected of it.. Body of Lies has nothing to say about geopolitics, the action scenes are formulaic, and DiCaprio is rarely on the screen with Crowe, who coasts through the most puzzling performance of his career.. Body of Lies is more than anything a missed ...