Get Out (2017): Movie Review

This movie made a lot of buzz, having 99 percent on rotten tomatoes and making a lot of money for Blumhouse Productions and Universal. It became some kind of phenomena. It is now the movie, which is called original, fresh and absolutely creative. The idea behind this script is innovative and new. The story drives smoothly, but the filmmaking by Jordan Peele seems usual. It is an easy-watching film, even though it is a horror. And the horror is more connected to the story, not jump-scares. There are almost no jump-scares, the whole idea of this movie being terrifying is based completely on you experience watching the film. 

Jordan Peele makes you care for the characters. They are not just some puppets to play with, they are people to care for, to one point in the movie, I can't tell, because of the non-spoiler review, but there is a twist, in which everything changes. It wasn't spoiled in the trailer, so even the marketing did play a good hand for this movie to be successful. 

So, basically the main character is Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), who is dating Rose (Allison Williams). They are in love, so their relationship comes to the point, when they go to meet her parents in their residence. Ever since they go on this little journey, strange things start to happen. The whole plot is not revealed very quick, Jordan Peele keeps us wondering about what actually might be happening, and if you pay attention, you might estimate some plot twists, but Peele goes deeper, beyond my, for instance, imagination and brings some really crazy ideas, which are mind-blowing good, very original. And that anticipation of the reveal comes after the characters are developed and well presented by some good dialogs and very well directed scenes. This whole movie is actually so well directed, it is very enjoyable to watch. 

You might find the ending to be disturbing, but it doesn't contain any nasty surprises. This movie hooks and doesn't let go until the end; very well made movie. 

The Fate of the Furious: Movie Review

The Fate of the Furious. Who can top that? Car chases and action, rare gun shots and mostly hand combat battles, low budget and a lot of unknown actors. This is how this franchise started back in 2001. Now, looking back, Fast and Furious looks so different in style and everything else. Budget is 250 million dollars just for production. I bet the marketing was another hundred million. Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his crew made this far from a Point Break remake to the one of the biggest movies of all time. It will do extremely good at the box office. After this one, there will be another 8 coming out in the near future with space battles and races on The Moon. I mean they won't do that in the next 5 or 6 movies, but who knows, maybe the crew will change, and already Dom's and other's children will do all that crazy stuff. 

Firstly this movie started with something very familiar for Fast and Furious fans. Cuba, an atmosphere of a holiday, great cars, beautiful women. Classical race of two on some crazy cars with absolutely insane action for each one's car. Dom raced some local tough guy. 

Him and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) got married and everything goes good, the family is happy and save. His honeymoon is going well. Exactly at that point Dom meets a lady, Cipher (Charlize Theron), who shows him something, that makes him go against his family. His motivation is unclear, but we all know Dom. He would never turn his back on family, if there wasn't a good reason. Because of Dom's betrayal, Hobbs got into prison, where he meets Deckard (Jason Statham) - his enemy form Fast 7. They face each other, swearing and scolding. After their escape they must work together to find Dom and Cipher.  

Humor is everywhere in this movie. Whether it's Hobbs and Deckard or Roman with his stupid comic relief with horrible jokes in JarJar style. This film is full simple one-liners and gesture jokes. Epic and over-the-top phrases don't ruin anything. The movie has that happy atmosphere. But drama doesn't lack in it either. Some moments are tragic. On a scale of superaction this film beats every other F&F combined, it is laughable, how zombie cars drive in New York or a nuclear submarine drugraces a Lamborghini. I laughed a lot. Some moments didn't match with my perception of life. And there are very unnatural moments, that really mess up with the physics. 

However, F8's party-holiday atmosphere and comic relief jokes from Roman create a feeling of this movie being a big pop-film with every directorial move based on following mass audience desire to turn their brains off. It is not bad, but knowing how to do that, F. Gary Grey makes this movie work. Power of onscreen chemistry between "The Rock" and Jason Statham is one of the best parts of this installment of F&F. 

Thus, this movie looks good, but still only follows the ridiculousness of the previous ones. It is irrelevant to talk about artistic value of the film. It delivers fun and ludicrous action, and if you enjoy one-uping each other Hobbs and Deckard - this movie is for you. Entertainment value this movie has. 

The Proposal (2009) Movie Review

Synopsis: A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada.

The Proposal starring Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock and directed by Anne Fletcher (Step Up). This movie is quite old, eight years, but sometimes I am in the mood of watching older films to see not only the difference in my favorite actors back in time, but to see a movie, that intrigued me by its idea and cast. Ryan Reynolds already was a star, and of cause Sandra Bullock, not yet winning her first Oscar, but already being a legendary actress. The chemistry between two of them made this movie good and fair to call above average in this genre. 

This movie didn't necessarily stick to the formula of most romantic comedies, it had its own route, on which it had flaws, but the acting talent of both two leads created a wall that kept all the negatives from my sight. In terms of being funny this film also gets to the point when it doesn't do well sometimes, but jokes were decent and told very funny at times. 

The most positive point in this movie is the chemistry between Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock's characters, they are both top actors and did their job very well. This is what I call good acting ,when nobody even tries to act, but it is good anyway. 

Ghost in the Shell (2017) Movie Review

Synopsis: In the near future, Major 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.

I was waiting for this movie for quite a while, not that I knew and liked the source material, but the trailers got me by their weirdness and difference, from what I have seen before. I love Matrix(1999), and this movie looked a lot like it - familiar, but different at the same time so I just was sold on this film. Scarlett Johansson is a great action star, her talents were perfectly used in such films as: The Avengers (2012) or Lucy (2014), so she perfectly fits the character of Major, who can fight and needs a great actress to play her right. Major is very complex, her body is synthetic, but the consciousness is taken form another person, who almost died. She was created in a lab, so she could be a terminator for the government stopping the most dangerous terrorists. 

This movie has a unique style. The world looks beautiful, the film is visually stunning. The atmosphere, generated by the visual look and deep, magnificent soundtrack already makes this film worth watching. I really enjoyed the entourage of that gorgeous city, in which this movie takes place. Everything looked fresh and great. I think, that the CGI was well put in the wide shots, the city looked very impressive, especially at night with all those huge moving commercials, it felt absolutely great. 

This film is more about character development and style, with which this movie is made. Scarlett Johansson is great as a mostly robot-hero, having also her memories from the past. The mystery behind her past life is explored more and more until the end. There are some longer scenes of maybe boring dialogs about important things, and those dialogs are not necessarily the best, so overall it looked slow paced, and some plot devices, that were purposed to connect the parts into one, were not well used, leaving the taste of a bad storytelling at times.

I think, that there is nothing horribly wrong with this movie, it is different and good in its own way, but understandably so, this is not the best directorial work by Rupert Sanders, and it didn't appeal to a lot of people. However, the cinematography was great and some characters were very interesting, so I thought, that the story was better than the way it was moved by some obscure plot devises. Obviously, this movie will be forgotten very fast, but I really saw something in it, even though I understand, that this movie is not successful.

"Beauty and the Beast" 2017 movie review.

A remake of a 1991 classic animated musical Beauty and the Beast opened in March. The story of the remake is completely same. 

Synopsis: A young prince, imprisoned in the form of a beast, can be freed only by true love. What may be his only opportunity arrives when he meets Belle, the only human girl to ever visit the castle since it was enchanted.

Belle played by Emma Watson sings and dances, colors are still bright and the atmosphere is magical. This movie has a good storytelling, the very first scene of the enchanting is original as some other things in this film that aren't same as in the 1991 version. 

Very good job by Dan Stevens as the Beast. Interactions between him and Belle were my favorite part of the movie which I actually not surprisingly liked a lot even though a lot of critics dislike it for being rather cliched and destroying the original classic one that we all love. Surely will watch 1991 version as soon as possible, thanks for this remake that was so beautiful that Emma Watson looked normal for the environment and didn't stun, but she did anyway. And her voice was highly above expectations. Usually I like musicals, recent La La Land is one of my favorites of 2016 and this live action musical was very good even though I can't use to dances and songs in the first hour of those films but I really enjoyed them all.  

This whole movie is magical, it keeps up with the classic one and almost copies it. As for me I didn't remember the 1991 version very well so this movie was refreshing and new to me. But for many other people who are the biggest Disney's Beauty and the Beast fans this movie might seem boring and too similar. Anyway this movie takes the greatness of the 1991 animated film and translates it into live action with the same great storytelling and songs.