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 ...
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Pandorum (2009) Download Voll
Cusack, with his one-of-the-guys face and his nice way with child actors, does creditable work as an Average American Dad trying to put things right.. OK, I'll admit it -- this is hard -- the big silly thing is sort of great.. If the viewer were ever invited to think or feel about what's happening on-screen, the movie's wow-whoa-ain't-it-cool momentum would collapse in a heap of horrific preposterousness.. 2012 is so long, and its special effects are at once so outrageous and so thunderously pre...
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...
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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...
Oblivion (2013) Download Film
More adventurous than your typical Hollywood tent pole, "Oblivion" makes you remember why science fiction movies pulled you in way back when and didn't let you go.. Kosinski's personal commitment to gorgeous artifice above all other considerations only harms the film so much.. The mystery posed by "Oblivion" as a whole is why its mysteries are posed so clumsily, and worked out so murkily.. Was Cruise trying to beat out fellow Scientologist John Travolta for the honor of starring in the dumbest s...
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...
Die Bourne Identität (2002) Download Film
The Bourne Identity has all the necessary components of the genre, and deploys them well.. A thriller with some brains and feeling behind it, more attuned to story and character than to spectacle.. Efficient set pieces come neatly spaced every ten to 15 minutes -- just often enough to keep you credulous -- and the trans-European settings lend a classy backdrop.. A film that is at best misguided, at worst stubbornly flashy, garbled and ready to file in the drawer labeled 'instantly forgettable.'....
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Although Cooper succeeds in resembling and sounding like the real Kyle, this isn't some cheap impersonation trick. Cooper gives maybe the best performance of his career.. Gets the vision and the grit of the source material but finally feels more like a long trailer than an involving movie.. It's bleak business, and as it hurries toward its explosive, expository conclusion, the film becomes nonsensical, too.. Is there room at the multiplex for yet another entry in the young adult/dystopia/surviva...
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Director and co-writer James Gunn brings a giddiness and a wondrous, endless sense of why-the-hell-not? possibility that's reminiscent of Star Wars.. There's a difference between a film about a man reluctant to acknowledge the psychological toll of what he endured and a movie that basically doesn't want to talk about it or question it, or think about it, period.. Guardians of the Galaxy does the impossible. Through dazzle and dumb luck, it turns the cliches of comic-book films on their idiot hea...
Watchmen - Die Wächter (2009) Download Voll
Watchmen is a two-hour, 42 minute ride through a dystopian scape with appropriately twisting and conflicted story lines.. An ambitious, fully immersive cinematic experience.. This is the most technically amazing motion picture to have arrived on screens in many years.. Zack Snyder's film version of Watchmen is a grim and grisly excursion into comic-book mythology.. Whatever way you choose to look at it, Avatar's shock and awe demand to be seen. You've never experienced anything like it, and neit...
Bronson (2008) Beobachten Film
Part literate black comedy, part surrealistic character study, part horror movie, Bronson is a sophisticated confection, rich and dark, sprinkled with bitter little jokes.. Hints of a quasi-apocalyptic chill seem arbitrary-neither symbolic nor dramatic. The effect is like watching software run itself.. You'd expect The Book of Eli to offer something special enough to have lured the brothers from retirement, but the Hugheses settle for serving up all the usual cliches.... t's a post-apocalyptic w...
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The movie may feel tonally consistent with the first, but it's also overlong and thoroughly routine.. With minimal plot development and far too much running around in dark corridors, The Scorch Trials has a poor story:filler ratio. And much of what happens is poorly thought-out.. Although "Tomorrowland" never runs out of objects or ideas, its supply of dramatic fuel soon springs a leak.. Tomorrowland ultimately dispenses with subtlety altogether and clubs viewers over the head with its It's a Sm...
The Book of Eli (2010) Film-Streaming
One of the most visually unattractive movies I've ever seen.. A spectacular work of unhinged moviemaking.. Another silly cyber-thriller, almost saved by an intense Hemsworth and some bruising action.. A movie weighed down by a numbskull screenplay (by rookie Gary Whitta) and a careless lack of attention to details.. . The Hughes brothers' film feels more vibrant than the bleak Road, which was launched at us in November. Here the brothers show us the horror but somehow the staid and calm Denzel f...
The Lego Movie (2014) Film-Streaming
Feels ever more grounded and stuck .... Oblivion is an okay blockbuster, a multimillion-dollar exercise in competence.. The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?. It takes more than an hour for Oblivion to become whatever it is the filmmakers think it's supposed to be.. Kosinski's personal commitment to gorgeous artifice above all other considerations only harms the film so much.. The movie is a wonderful surprise, cleverly written and executed bric...
Sherlock Holmes (2009) Online-Streaming-
By now we've seen so many good, bad, and indifferent Sherlocks that it's almost a relief to get something different, however wrongheaded. And there's no such thing as too much Downey.. There will be lots of versions of Theron's evil queen running around West Hollywood this Halloween; it's a performance that's one part Tilda Swinton to 30 parts Faye Dunaway, the sort of over-the-top craziness that spawns midnight screenings.. It's all knotted together, then unraveled with brio, by Holmes and Wats...
No Escape (2015) Film-Streaming
In terms of pure popcorn escapism, No Escape delivers from the get-go, cutting to the chase without belabouring the character details.. Kosinski offers plenty of action here, and he lets the plot reveals bleed out slowly (explanations keep coming right to the end). Yes, a great deal is derivative, but it's fast-moving derivative.. Dowdle sticks closely to the family's perspective, for better and for worse; though fairly effective at conveying their terror, he fails to establish any sort of socia...
Men in Black 3 (2012) Online-Streaming-
Fails to realize the full potential of its ambitiously dark vision.. Theron gives the picture some spine. As Snow White, Kristen Stewart supplies the heart.. Its opening sequences are a near marvel of confusion, mayhem and embarrassments for its actors. If it was a person, you'd worry it had dementia.. If there ever is a "Men in Black IV" -- and at this point, it's hard to imagine one -- let's hope it finds that delicate balance between the yuks and the yucks.. It is an absolute wonder to watch ...
Olympus Has Fallen - Die Welt in Gefahr (2013) Streaming-
This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. It's a solid, simple, more-bang-for-our-buck entertainment that doesn't ask us to think.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. "Olympus Has Fallen" at least possesses the frisson of timeliness amid otherwise hoary action-movie cliches.. ... the action is often not unengaging, and Butler's better ...
The Transporter Refueled (2015) Download Film
Efficient set pieces come neatly spaced every ten to 15 minutes -- just often enough to keep you credulous -- and the trans-European settings lend a classy backdrop.. Nicely paced and fits the bill for those in search of two hours of spy-based action and martial arts.. Cheap silliness abounds, including car chases that are more about loud crashes and CGI than the thrill of speed.. Eisenberg and Stewart have both found romantic partners with whom they have chemistry (some provided by controlled s...