Arrival. Movie review.

Arrival is a great movie. From the beginning you would think that it is about alien invasion, that the science fiction genre will completely take over. But the film is not about that, it is more about human relationships, emotions faced by ordinary people in such extraordinary circumstances.

Despite the genre and the events in the movie there is a sense of realism and vitality. The film is about a female translator, played by Amy Adams. Her life is a boring and painful nightmare. She lives alone, teaches at the University and she is a very strong expert in the realm of translation and languages. She worked with the government before and still has an access to classified data. So she was asked to translate alien language , when they arrived. This whole situation is presented to the viewer from an unexpected point. First days of arrival are shown only from Louise Banks(Adams) point of view. She is like everyone in the world doesn't know what is happening and the movie makes it clear that it's emotional and great. Then we see a military camp, where she was taken with Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) by Colonel Weber (Forest Whitaker). It is full of scientists of every sort. The government is trying to understand, why they arrived and a lot more. This is why they needed a translator.

The tone is very realistic, even it is a science fiction genre. Since there are another twelve alien ships, the whole world is getting nuts. Everyone is doing their own research and everyone has different results in understanding, what the aliens want. So, this is a more like a social experiment for the mankind. There are so many messeges and issues in the movie, directed by Denis Villeneuve, that it should work for the audience as an art. In my oppinion, the movie is very well shot and put together. The soundtrack by Johann Johannsson is amazing, it brings a stunning feel to the movie. Arrival is not similar with Sicario in every way. It is such a different movie, so this is a brand new masterpiece from Denis Villeneuve.

Don't Breathe (2016) movie review.

Don't Breathe is a horror thriller, which this in summer was received very good by critics and was loved by the audience. The movie is not like other horror movies that came out this summer, as The Conjuring 2 and Light Out. It is not based on mystery stories or demon fiction. It could be an entirely true story. Everything that happens in the film is absolutely possible. The story itself starts with the fact that there are three young robbers, who use one of them - Alex, whose dad is working for a security company and owns the keys for the houses they rob. The other guy is Money - the usual bully who lived all his life in a fraudulent way, robbing and selling drugs. And the third member of the gang, the girl, Roxanne, Money's girlfriend. They rob houses to escape from Detroit, which is now more like a ghost town. 

Once they find a new house for potential robbery. There lives a blinded war veteran, played by Stephen Lang(Avatar).They hardly break in, disable the alarm, but they have underestimated the Blind Man. He is able to hear and smell much better than the average person. He kills Money and now the remaining two must get out of this damned house. 

I really wanted to love this movie, which was filmed very well, but I liked it more as a thriller, not as horror, because there was nothing scary in it. The main disappointment I have with the movie is the Blind Man, to whom I wanted to sympathize, but he was a real monster and freak, so I hated him even more then main characters. I also didn't like that the Blind Man was unstoppable. Also there was nothing exceptional about the movie. Tough and realistic relationships between the characters, very dark and gritty settings also make the tone a bit more suitable, but overall the movie doesn't have a lot to offer for the audience.

The whole point of the movie is that the characters must be very sneaky as the old Man hears everything: any rustling, squeaking, rapid breathing. Brilliant performance by Stephen Lang is the only thing that I liked in the movie, although the setting is very nice: one house, with a basement and second floor, blind old man with the Magnum, and need to get out of this, locked with the many locks, house.

'Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them' movie review.

It is a spin-off to the films about Harry Potter, 'Fantastic Beasts, And Where To Find Them'. After a five year break we have the first movie in the Potter universe not about Harry Potter but based on another series of books, written by J. K. Rowling. The events for a new and exciting franchise take place in 1920th, over 70 years before the events of the first book about Harry Potter . 

The story about kicked out from Hogwarts Newt Scamander(Eddie Redmayne) and his visit for a couple of days to New York. Newt was kicked out of Hogwarts for the unfortunate incident that occurred through the fault of one of the beasts, which Scamander keeps in his suitcase, which due to the magic able to fit anything. Despite the title, the movie is not focused only on the creatures in the Newt's suitcase. The attacks on muggles, who in US are called 'no-majs', are happening in the world by the evil wizard Grindelwald. 

After the arrival of Newt Scamander in New York one of the beasts runs away from him . It was like a mole, with a beak of a duck that loves all that is precious and is constantly stealing these goods. It happens at the Bank where much gold and jewelry. This creature is crafty and clever, using his amazing abilities, able to sneak into strictly protected vault. Trying to catch the animal Newt meets no-maj Jacob Kowalski(Dan Fogler), who came to get a loan for a bakery. Kowalsky is a kind of a funny guy, it is a great thing to see a first muggle, who became one of the central characters in the movie in this franchise. A mess goes in the bank, Newt uses magic, which is not allowed in front of the muggle, and gets out from as it became a bank robbery. There is a law, which says that if a no-maj saw the magic craft, his memory about this must be wiped, so it would be against the law, if it wouldn't be done, as it happened, Kowalski knocked Newt out and run away. Now Newt Scamander is arrested by a mage-police, meanwhile Kowalski confused the case , which was identical with the case with the beasts. So he released some of them and Newt must to catch them. 

Newt sometimes is an annoying person, he has little friends, but he is kind and simple person. He loves his creatures, he collects them to help them or study them to write a book, which will be very popular in the future. 

In the other hand of the story we have Grindewald, who is actually played by Johnny Depp, but it is just a cameo. Grindewald appears on the newspapers or mentioned as a threat to society of magicians. The plot has three or four different ways of development, it is a big story, probably too big for this movie. It is going to be five of them in this franchise. 

The movie has familiar Harry Potter feel, but it always reminds, that it is happening in New York and 70 years before. The society is build pretty well, it explains about how everything stands in this universe. Mystery behind some mysterious attacks in New York investigated by Percival Graves, played by Colin Farrell, who is one of the strongest wizards in the movie. And it is more to it, so the story develops after these mysterious attacks. 

All the time the movie explores more and more about the universe and it is litteraly magical, it is super interesting to watch all familiar tricks and magic things, but from someone completely new. As I noticed, Newt Scamander is a powerful wizard, especially with help of some of his beasts. He is mostly unbeatable with them. You will understand what it means by it. Jakob Kowalski is a great as a no-maj. It surely the first time we see muggle to visit the ministry or have dinner with wizards. It is so nice to watch him reacting on all these magic stuff in the movie, he literally represents a little child, who saw Harry Potter movie for the first time as it was in real life. Joking or not, but Kowalski plays a huge emotional role in the movie. He is an important character the audience is supposed to care about. I kind of cared but I wanted the movie to focus on Scamander and the beasts more. So this was a little disappointment, because the movie is too unfocused. The story doesn't go anywhere, it stands where it is, until some another attack by mysterious forces. Later explained pretty well and created a new lore knowledge for this franchise. 

The point of the movie is to show by this beast lover, that it is necessary to care and protect the beasts, because some of them are nearly extinct. Another interesting point is why wizards must hide and stay unnoticed. Both of those issues are very well established. 

Optimally it is a good movie with a lot of great characters and new interesting facts and events and encounters. It was looking like Hobbit in The Lord of the Rings universe - smaller and less important, for now only. I certainly hoping that the following ones will develop the story and create a new important event is this universe. 

A new trailer for Jackie came out, which features Natalie Portman as the ex-first lady.

Check out a new trailer of Jackie(2016) which features Natalie Portman as the ex-first lady, wife of John F. Kennedy. Just from this trailer you can say, that she will be nominated this year for an Oscar. Her talent and genius are certain. She already has won one for "Black Swan" and now it seems that it will be another nomination for her this year. 

The tone that this movie presents perfectly fits for her 
performance. 

The trailer itself is well put together. I does make you interested in the movie. I think Jackie is worth seeing just because of Natalie Portman's performance.

The Martian(2015) movie review.

Another big blockbuster by Ridley Scott again named one of the best in the science fiction genre, along side Alien and The Blade Runner. The story of the astronaut Mark Watney(Matt Damon, who is so amazing in it), who turned up to be alone on an entire planet, when a group of scientists of the Mars-program Ares 3 were urgently evacuated , and Watney, who was hit by the big piece of antenna and left behind,  was presumed dead. 

He was in the team of outstanding astronauts-scientists: captain Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain), pilot Rick Martinez (Michael Peña), Chris Beck( Sebastian Stan), chemist Alex Vogel(Aksel Hennie ) and computer whiz Beth johanssen (Kate Mara). 

Finding himself alone on Mars, Watney begins to work to keep himself alive as long as possible. Soon NASA discovers that Mark is alive and organize a rescue mission. At the same time, Mark needs to think how to provide food and to solve all the problems to survive.

The atmosphere in the movie is very deep and optimistic, combined with serious drama and comedy. The humor of Mark Watney is very nice, his ability to make fun of serious problems inspire. The tone of the film is very pleasant, cinematography is very high quality, I received a huge pleasure watching the movie. Due to the light tone, it feels very comfortable to watch.

At the same time, there is also a great atmosphere in NASA. Director Teddy Sanders(Jeff Daniels) and the head of operations Venkat Kapoor(Chiwetel Ejiofor ) are trying to help Mark to survive. The performances of each actor are great, especially it's impressive how actors are perfectly cast for their roles. Overall the movie has no major weaknesses, it goes smoothly to the end, as if it were a classic masterpiece of the genre. I've never seen anything like this before, this movie is unique, so in my opinion it can be called a masterpiece.

First official "Beauty and the Beast"(2017) drops.

Today was released a new and first official trailer of the remake of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" (1991). Live-action film became possible after the success of The Jungle Book in April 2016. The idea to remake an animated version into a live-action now is a common idea. More projects like that coming up. The technology moved very far. For example in "The Jungle Book " (2016) there was only one human in the movie and all other animals were CGI. And everything was shot in the studio with the green screens. That sort of technology is not the only amazing thing, so these adaptations like Beauty and the Beast is now possible to make so it would look real.

Official Synopsis:  Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is a live-action re-telling of the studio’s animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs. “Beauty and the Beast” is the fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast’s hideous exterior and realize the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within. 

The film stars: Emma Watson as Belle; Dan Stevens as the Beast; Luke Evans as Gaston, the handsome, but shallow villager who woos Belle; Oscar winner Kevin Kline as Maurice, Belle’s eccentric, but lovable father; Josh Gad as Lefou, Gaston’s long-suffering aide-de-camp; Golden Globe nominee Ewan McGregor as Lumiere, the candelabra; Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci as Maestro Cadenza, the harpsichord; Oscar nominee Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, the mantel clock; and two-time Academy Award winner Emma Thompson as the teapot, Mrs. Potts.

Directed by Oscar winner Bill Condon based on the 1991 animated film, “Beauty and the Beast” is produced by Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, with eight-time Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken, who won two Academy Awards® (Best Original Score and Best Song) for the 1991 animated film, providing the score, which will include new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as several new songs written by Menken and three-time Oscar winner Tim Rice. “Beauty and the Beast” will be released in theaters on March 17, 2017.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story new trailers and TV spots.

Over the past few days Lucasfilm began an active campaign in support of Rogue One. International trailers and TV spots were released. Each contains new footage and tells more about the events that will take place in the film. Marketing campaign for the movie is quite strong, but still a lot of people have no idea about the timeline in which the events take place.

The movie opens in theaters on December 16th. 

Synopsis: Jyn Erso, a Rebellion soldier and criminal, is about to experience her biggest challenge yet when Mon Mothma sets her out on a mission to steal the plans for the Death Star. With help from the Rebels, a master swordsman, and non-allied forces, Jyn will be in for something bigger than she thinks.

Director: Gareth Edwards

Staring: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Riz Ahmed, Alan Tudyk and Mads Mikkelsen.

Writer: Chris Weitz

Release Date: December 16, 2016. 

London Has Fallen(2016) movie review.

The sequel to the movie Olympus Has Fallen(2013). The first film was surprisingly not a piece of garbage, but it was so-so. The impression I got from it is positive because I felt the importance and sometimes the drama of the events. I must say the villain in the first movie was good. The ending captured me and I would give the first movie a positive rating. It's just a great pop-corn fest.

I am very surprised why they decided to make a second film because the first didn't do well in the box office. Gerard Butler definitely carries the movie from the beginning to an end along with Aaron Eckhart. They're both playing and showing their professionalism as action stars. 

Morgan Freeman is also in this movie, but this time he plays a much smaller role than in the first one. It certainly disappointed me as I expected more from the film as a whole. Much more I was disappointed about the plot, although in the middle of the movie it gets on the right trail. 

The villain in this movie was boring and cliched. His plan is petty and motivation is banal.

The plot tells about the same situation as in the first film. There's a terror attack and Gerard Butler's character has to save his President and friend. His character Mike Banning is very tired from all these troubles and just angry at these terrorists and terminates them with cruelty. I think it's good for the character and adds more emotions. The movie does not take itself completely seriously. Beneath serious situations lies a bit of humor and awareness that nobody takes seriously what is happening. The film doesn't have the same feel of thrill for main characters, as the film made it clear in advance that Mike would come and kick all the ass.

Turning to the advantages can highlight the action and great chemistry between Mike and the President. Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart perfectly interact with each other and do a great job in every scene. Action sometimes is good sometimes bad. So it's 50/50. The movie has one action scene that I was very impressed by. But, overall the movie felt inconsistent. Sometimes it is good, sometimes bad. So it can be categorized as "so bad it's good".

Robert Redford retiring from acting.

Robert Redford, whose acting career lasts nearly 55 years, said that he will retire from acting after last two movies. “I’m getting tired of acting. I’m an impatient person, so it’s hard for me to sit around and do take after take after take. At this point in my life, age 80, it’d give me more satisfaction because I’m not dependent on anybody. It’s just me, just the way it used to be, and so going back to sketching—that’s sort of where my head is right now.  So, I’m thinking of moving in that direction and not acting so much.” Redford said.

He became popular on his projects in the sixties: Inside Daisy clover(1965), This Property is Condemned(1966), Barefoot in the Park (1967) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid(1969).
After the last two projects: Our Souls at Night and Old Man with a Gun Redford thinks to devote himself entirely to directing. He said: “Once they’re done then I’m going to say, ‘Okay, that’s goodbye to all that,’ and then just focus on directing,”.

Also Redford wasn't always wanted to be an actor and was more inclined for directing.
“I started out as an artist when I was 18 or 19 years old. I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went as an artist. I was increasing my skill set and exploring storytelling through painting. Doing that, I realized how much I loved it. Later, when I became an actor, I suffered for four or five years not being sure I wanted to be in that business because I so wanted to be an artist. I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing. Then I realized: why can’t I combine the two?—which led me to be a director,” he relayed. 
His directorial debut was the film Ordinary People(1980), which won the Oscar for best picture. He explained it like that: “I didn’t know the technical language of film-making, so I said, ‘Okay, I’m going to do my own storyboard,’ because I had to explain to the crew and the technical people what I wanted. I knew what I wanted it to look like, so I would sit down and draw it for the cameraman or the production designer. Once I did that I realized: I’m not losing the artist side of me. I’m pulling it together with the performing side,”.
A true artist is talented in everything: art, acting, directing. Also Redford will continue to support independent films with his Sundance Film Festival.

DC finds a writer for a Harley Quinn/Birds of Prey spin-off.

DC and Warner Bros. found a female writer for their Suicide Squad spin-off that will feature Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey. Today news says that Christina Hodson will write a script for the movie.   

After a huge success of Margot Robbie's Quinn among the fans this is not a surprise that this spin-off was announced even before Suicide Squad was released. The fact that WB decided to hire an unknown writer to make a script for one of their primary projects is intriguing in a way that we can see something completely new. 

There is also a report that Robbie is expected to produce the film. The project which was announced back in May still doesn't have a release date.  

The Birds of Prey debuted in DC comics in 1996 and tells a story about Black Canary and Oracle. The series became a success and opened doors for Huntress and Katana. It became a TV Series in 2002 and the CW now has Birds of Prey team-ups in Arrow. 

X2 movie review

The second part of X-men, released in 2003 and directed by Bryan Singer. The second part was better than the first and is considered as the best in the first trilogy. The distinctive point of the film was the story itself that somehow reminded me of "Days of the Future Past" 2014.

The story is about the attack of one of the most dangerous mutants on the President of the United States. This point forced the President to act and let William Stryker( Brian Cox) end this. Well done villain. He's smart and decisive, he thinks he's good which makes him even more dangerous. 

Wolverine(Hugh Jackman) plays a central role in the movie. He is perceived as the main character and everything tied with him. Trying to find answers to what he was before the memory loss, he travels by Cyclops motorcycle through the world , which is ironic, considering that they hate each other. Their love triangle with Jean Grey(Famke Janssen) plays an important role in drama. By the way X2 in addition to the superhero genre is an excellent drama.

The plot is even very good, it is confusing, but smart. Later it creates feelings of enjoyment by the thought of the creators.

I really liked the movie. I watched it many years later, when I first saw it. And I was very surprised how good it was. Great job is done by the whole crew. The film looks great, it has got a few weaknesses. For me, it was a bit too violent and intimidating. But well done action and great acting smooth out these imperfections. A special role plays the relationship between Magneto and Professor Charles Xavier. They are played by such wonderful actors as Patrick Steward and Ian McKellen. Their interaction with each other is great. 

The movie itself is just brilliant, I like the selected tone and of course the characters themselves and their development.

Pacific Rim 2 starts filming. ‘Maelstrom’ title confirmed

John Boyega announced the start of filming over Instagram and also revealed its title: Maelstrom. That is definitely a great title though.

The first Pacific Rim was fun and original so I hope the second one will be. Guillermo del Toro is not directing it but he is one of the producers. The job of directing will be done by Steven S. DeKnight(Spartacus(TV) and Marvel's Daredevil) so the movie is in good hands. Also confirmed that the original cast will return and the script is written by Derek Connolly (Jurassic World). 

Boyega himself plays the son of Idris Elba’s Stacker Pentecost. Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Jing Tian, and Levi Meaden are also star in the movie, which scheduled to relise on Februrary 23, 2018.

It appears that Bryan Singer won't return in X-men franchise.

Bryan Singer is done with X-men franchise THR reports. That might be a consequence of latest X-men: Apocalypse poor box office results, as it made 200 millions less than Days of the Future Past. As far as Deadpool 2 also lost it's director this is interesting to see who will lead up a new generation of X-men movies, because Bryan Singer was working with this franchise from the very beginning and rebuild it with successful First Class(2011). 

This franchise owns Singer a lot in terms of creativity and love for it. It was also reported that Simon Kinberg will work on the script of a new flagship movie of X-men universe.

It is unclear where the franchise will go after Apocalypse, because Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence are out of their contracts, but Kinberg writes a new script with optimism that they will come back. So he must make a truly great script to interest them.

So now it is very unclear how Fox will move on with their property.

Tom Holland will play Spider-man six times.

Seems like Sony and Marvel has big plans for using Spider-man in their future movies has Tom Holland's got signed a six films deal to play one of the most popular superheroes. He have already had an appearance in Captain America: Civil War and he was really good and fans liked this version of Spider-man. As the introduction was successful, Marvel now has great plans on using him in Avengers and in theirs shared movies with Sony. 

Holland will appear Spider-Man: Homecoming heats theaters on July 6Th 2017. And of cause I am more than excited about it. Actually I am not sure if his cameo in Civil War counts. Seems like we will have a great journey of Peter Parker from school to his mid thirties. And it probably the best thing about this news, because it is so interesting to see Peter Parker's development in such a wide perspective.

New Mission: Impossible will be released on summer 2018.

New Mission: Impossible finally got a release date - 27Th July 2018. As two previous movies did great, grossing almost 700 million dollars worldwide, there was no doubt that the sixth film will be made. There was a delay in the movie development because of Tom Cruise's contract, but now everything solved and we will see a new movie from this franchise. 

It will debut the same day Warner Bros. Aquaman is set. One of hem might move to avoid blockbuster concurrency.

No plot details are set and also unknown who from the latest cast will return. But it is likely that Jeremy Renner and Rebecca Ferguson will be back. The movie will be directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who directed Rogue Nation. Due to the fact that McQuarrie already made one of the best Missions: Impossible the expectations are high.

Deadpool 3 is already in works.

Since a great success of Deadpool, it is not surprising that Fox decided to make a sequel, thanks to Mr. Reynolds. The movie suffered a loss of director already. Tim Miller dropped of the project over creative differences. And of cause Reynolds who literally gave birth for the most successful X-men movie ever made would dictate every step his movie will make. Even adjusted it beats every movie Fox made yet in that franchise. 

Of cause if Ryan Reynolds was not persistent enough this movie would never happen, because the studio didn't want to "waste money for doubtful project. And now the should apologize for being faithless in original projects.

And now, when main X-men trilogy is over, it might be that Deadpool is the only property left that will have sequels soon. So Fox in a bigger debt with Ryan Reynolds for that movie than in previous circumstances.

As for now, they know what they are doing with this franchise very well. Second movie will come out in March 2018, so there is clear that for them making the third movie at some point is a giant understanding of where the franchise will go. Using that they will have background to start more risky projects like Gambit or maybe even rebooting the main X-men franchise again. 

The future of the X-men franchise is unclear.

Since Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence contracts are done, and since the last X-men: Apocalypse did not do as well as Days of the Future Past at the box office now it is unclear how the franchise is going to proceed. 

If the studio is going to re-sign all their leads for a lot of money and will make another X-men, because the story is not finished. Or they are going to reboot it again with a different cast.

The first way is easier. They just need to spend much more money for contracts and make a movie that might do poorly as Apocalypse did. So the profit will be unsatisfying for such a huge studio like Fox.

The second way is very risky. The should re-cast everybody, Wolverine included. To go with total unknowns at some point and start fresh. But this is not going to happen, at least in 7 years, because the studio will choose the first way over second and after Logan(2017) they will need time to create a new generation of X-men movies, giving the massive audience time to rethink the franchise and not to confuse two different generations.

It is still not clear how Deadpool will get involved with the X-men. Maybe he will become a new lead for those movies. Right now it is very interesting to see, how they are going to handle it again.

Do they need to reboot it again? Yes, I think they do, because if Logan is really Hugh Jackman's last appearance as The Wolverine, than it will be so good to restart it from that point. It will be so poetic, that it started with Charles Xavier(Patrick Steward) and Logan(Jackman) and it will end with them. It vote for that. Logan as the last movie in 17 years old franchise.   

And soon as they made Deadpool, they used a new cast(nobody was in previous X-men movies, except Reynolds, but Origins does not count I think)it would be a good place to start for them.

The Conjuring 2013 movie review

The first Conjuring has not made the same impression as the second one. I'm certainly not a big horror fan, so I would watch if  would not be sure that the film is good.

The script is built exactly like in the second movie. The family is faced with the terrible events and Warrens are hired to help them. It is wrong to say that the script in this movie is not original, because it was released out before the second part. Rather, the second part follows the structure of the first. 

In general, I liked the movie. Ed and Lorraine conduct their investigation and seek evidence for the church to help the poor family. The demon with whom they met at this time - the very embodiment of evil, even now, I have chills, writing it. 

As well as in the other movie it focuses also on Warren's story. There are two villains in the movie, the demon with the family and demon into Annabelle.

James Wan with his incredible approach makes a great horror movie, basically inventing how the horror genre must work for the audience. He is building a terrifying mystery and creates a plot which makes you awake until sunrise.

Live Die repeat:Edge of Tomorrow 2014 movie review

Doug Liman action film about the invasion of alien creatures. Major Cage (Tom Cruise) is sent to London to cover the events of the battle, the decisive battle that will decide the fate of mankind. He is not like typical Tom Cruise characters. He is selfish, soft, untrained and cowardly. The situation is hopeless and the General Brigham( Brendan Gleeson) sends Cage into battle tomorrow which is not possible for Cage, who tries to blackmail the General to not to go and got himself arrested for treason.

After that ironic kick, Tom Cruise's character wakes up as a private, who will go to battle as a meat with other usual soldiers. Then he starts to realize how the battles are really are and how impossible that only win over aliens was. One of the heroes of that victory was Emily Blant's character Rita Vrataski, who is a strong and tough just the opposite of Cage. This is a interesting twist, because Tom Cruise always plays that types of characters as Blant does in this movie. And the performances are great. I enjoyed this movie so much.

It has a stunning action sequences and incredible setting. The story is very original. Cage as planned died on that beach but he didn't die for all, he killed a Mimic( how the alien called) and it's blood was spread on Cage's face, so he received the power to reset the day. And now he lives one day and dies that every day. Than he starts to survive that beach and he meets Rita on the battlefield, saving her life, because he already learned how to save her in previous life, she tells him to find her. As for the story this was a great way to unite these two characters together, because they both have such a great chemistry together and eventually Rita Vrataski had this ability to reset the day too. 

As far as Cage returns to Rita to train him for battle, he becomes more and more usual Tom Cruise's bad-ass character. This transformation into this fighting force makes the movie so good and enjoyable. Through the endless deaths Cage tries to make it out of the beach to end this war.

The Conjuring 2 movie review

The Conjuring  2 - one of the most scary and terrifying movies ever made. James Wan - horror genius created a mystique around this movie that makes every mysterious thing happening on the screen brings a lot of chills. 

The mystery of demons and ghosts, they actually do not scare until it is not a true story.

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga have nailed it again.The interaction between each other gives the film quality. Drama adds general scariness for the movie. The whole composition is ideal for horror. And it's not the kind of horror film scares by sharp moments, but with the plot which is build around all events, what greatly affects the general idea of the movie and makes it completely insane terrifying. 

The story is based on real events, with real evidence presented during the credits. The music is just stunning, the scenes are made with a very high quality. All of the scares are not just scary, but appalling, due to that mysticism which was already been built. The film becomes scarier and scarier over time, but in the end the movie becomes incredibly creepy.

In general The Conjuring 2 - my favorite horror movie. It is so good that nothing can affect the overall impression of it for me. James Wan again made everything perfect, he is a genius, it's the scariest movie I've seen so far.

Django Unchained movie review.

One of the best movies of 2012 and one of the best westerns of all time Django Unchained is a Tarantino movie about a former slave Django(Jamie Foxx), who is bounty hunting with his partner Dr. King Schultz( Christoph Waltz). 

The storytelling is so good, most of the movie impresses by it's quality. Some scenes made me clap or shout "yes", that is how good the story is. Also Tarantino uses some great soundtrack to assist his story to flow gracefully. One of the best things about how the story is told is these little moments, when Tarantino brings humor unexpectedly. 

This movie has usual Tarantino style, the tone is very enjoyable especially using this modern music to fit it. Performances from everybody in the movie are spectacular. And also it has a great amount of talent: DiCaprio, Sam Jackson, Waltz and of cause Foxx. The dialogs are brilliant, everything is perfect with this movie, but it has too much violence and some hard drama. 

Overall the movie has this special Tarantino style. The story is magnificent, not surprised that it won an Oscar for original script. The quality of it makes you love movies.

Doctor Strange movie review.

Marvel Cinematic Universe is on phase 3 now, and since all their movies are successful( more or less) we can get movies like Guardians of the Galaxy(2014) and now Doctor Strange.

Perfectly casted, originally told story which is more likely similar with Iron Man's story, but it is just a coincidence. Benedict Cumberbatch is a terrific actor and he perfectly fits in playing these types of characters: selfish, charming, smart and brilliant. 

Tilda Swinton surprisingly is a good fit for the Ancient One, Chiwetel Ejiofor is good, Wong is good and Mads Mikkelsen is good. They all do their best playing these characters, which benefits the movie. 

The movie by the tone is a typical Marvel film. With humor, action, it has family friendly vibe, and it's just a well put together movie. Very familiar with this universe. 

The whole issue with this movie is not the story or characters - it's a great storytelling, but it felt to rapid and of cause there where no time to focus a bit longer on some aspects, but overall it felt too quick, definitely there are parts, like exploring and studying magic, that must be longer. 

Actually this is the only issue, even the villain didn't look useless. Scott Derrickson, who is known for successful horror movies, brings a great half comedic half tough comic book adaptation, which impresses by it's boldness. 

And also. The special effects are something special. Boldness is also hidden in using all these weird magic tricks with dimensions and reality changes. Ten years ago it would be garbage for it's weirdness, but now we say:- "It's Marvel and they kick some ass with their decisions".  

Star Trek: Beyond movie review.

The third film in the franchise. At this time, the post of director was given to Justin Lin who is famous by Fast and Furious movies. This immediately suggests that the film will have a great action, but will it remain whether the spirit of Star Trek or the tone, which was established in two previous Abrams movies?

Just from the beginning the movie feels great. A certain tone that Lin set to start goes to a well-established picture of what does the five-year mission mean for the team . And this part of the movie I incredibly like.

It raises many questions in the course of what is happening with the team, a lot of philosophical issues, for example, Kirk thought about his father. Then the team will stop at Yorktown, outer city, where they can relax and subsequently explore the the space again.

In these moments it is interesting to watch interactions between the characters, they remain the same, but have become more tired and common, so now they have acquired pattern of everyday life. One can see that the team misses a big action. But all that I love about Star Trek is still in this movie: the humor, the interaction between the characters, characters themselves, tone and atmosphere. 

Quiet and good-natured atmospheres replaced by an ambush of some strange aliens and complete destruction of Enterprise, so that the most part of the crew was taken prisoners, and the other main characters, led by the captain should take all necessary in order to escape from this situation.

Action is brilliantly done, with a feeling of great battles scenes. Aliens look intimidating, this part of the movie is very strong in its execution. Thus, from the three-year routine Captain Kirk suddenly faced with this real threat. So they were not ready for such a powerful attack, but could not win because of the lack of protection against such things.

The events begin to take place quickly, but meaningful. The time is properly given to each character, and there is no feeling of imbalance. Very pleased with the presence of the excellent atmosphere of previous films. Many new and interesting characters, the presence of deep meaning in some areas. This and much more make this film quality and fun.