tfm_copycat Reviews

The Killer (2023)

Of all the action movies, this is certainly.. one of them

[6/10 · 19 November 2023]

"The Killer" is a visually good action flick with great shots and a good cast, but the story is ultimately bland and pointless. It's a generic revenge plot with no real twists or turns, and the characters are underdeveloped and forgettable - we don't really care about any of them.

The cinematography is top-notch. The film is beautifully shot, the action is well-choreographed with tension-filled scenes. The performances are solid. Michael Fassbender is effective in the lead role, and the supporting cast is also good.

If you're looking for a mindless action movie to turn your brain off to, then this is the film for you. But don't expect a plot.

Hitman (I) (2007)

Fantastic adaptation!

[8/10 · 10 March 2008]

Of all the game-based movies that have spawned in the last years, this gets my vote as the most honest adaptation. Every detail is fantastic. He does not get involved in a love relationship as it led me to believe (which would have really destroyed the Agent 47 idea), he's as cold blooded and cool headed as in the games, he walks calmly, the disguises, the piano string, the flowers, the subtle poison killings: perfectly done. And above all, he never kills anybody that doesn't pose a direct danger to himself or is "innocent" which was a really important aspect of the games.

Just a couple of minor stuff that weren't perfect and considering the not-so-famous levels of the actors didn't make this a 10/10 movie, but it's as good as it gets.

By all means, this is NOT a deep, though inducing movie with magnificent acting to deserve a very high rating, but if you played and loved the Hit-man games, you'll absolutely LOVE the movie and nothing will disappoint you.

47 rocks.

Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007 Video)

Happy it's back. Just not this way

[8/10 · 17 December 2007]

I'm a HUGE fan. I mean, hardcore huge. I know episodes by heart and watched the whole series twice with audio commentaries. If you ever listened to the commentaries, when they started the series, they set some rules which shouldn't be broken. One of them was absolutely NO time travel. Of course, with the exception of "Roswell that ends well" (3x19), which they declared that they "bent" their own rule.

I think they tried to really "renew" the whole ideas and probably the first thing that came to them was "let's make it BASED on time travel!". That didn't work well. Futurama was always very geeky, and everything had a basis and in some twisted way, it was still believable or explained somehow. Having 3 benders and 2 Frys walking around just made me feel that it wasn't the old good Futurama. And I was really expecting at least the SLIGHTEST indictment of what happened right after the series ended between Fry and Leela, but there just wasn't anything to it. The scammers were really disgusting (something I've never felt in futurama, for the exception of the queen slurm worm), and I'm not saying I'm a prude or was offended, but it's just not that kind of show. Futurama has always been about witty, unexpected, double-sensed things.

It was just not the same. I'd still give it 8/10 because I did laugh and it was just great seeing everyone back, but I didn't love it. I hope they were just rusty and things will get better.

Inland Empire (2006)

Horrible piece of cinema...

[1/10 · 30 March 2007]

Since I recalled seeing "Blue Velvet" and certainly seen "Elephant Man", I guess I knew what to expect from David Lynch. What I did not expect is an agonizing, slow death by being thrown crappy footage and senseless and completely worthless dialogs and scenes. I mean, c'mon, you guys in the UK were lucky with 170 minutes of film! Here in Italy we get the full blown 190! luckily I was smart enough to decide that 2 1/2 hours where enough of that complete and utter garbage of movie-making, and left the theatre. Now into part by part movie critique:

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I liked the beginning. Polish, no subtitles, dark and b&w, sinister. Even the bunny people with the completely absurd laughs at the back was an acceptable "unreal interlude" between scenes, and it got really creepy at one moment (with mama bunny holding candles) Then on to the "main" (if any) story: Dern is visited by a strange woman (beginning of the exaggerate close ups and HORRIBLY ANNOYING out of focus filming which gives you headache, darnit, your eyes try to make up for the lack of focus and you end up physically and mentally tired) and we understand that she's about to star in a film. Things go smoothly this part, we can understand that the husband is horribly jealous, and that there _will_ be something between the starring roles.

Then it all goes to hell. Apparently, at this part of the movie making / filming / writing, David Lynch fell head down into a rock, and either got amnesiac or ADHD, which gave him the chance of putting random, shaky, low quality DV into the film, senseless stories, scenes that where TOO similar to those of "Requiem for a dream" (a masterpiece), for example the music, the dancing, the sudden violent / horrible scenes, etc. Then you have painfully long and senseless scenes in badly spoken English or polish, which do absolutely nothing for the movie, which should have been cut down, to say... 80 minutes of film? Maybe my opinion on this pile of crap would have been better, should the film be 80 minutes long. Don't watch this movie: you won't even be able to sleep in the theatre; it's all nice, warm and quiet, and then BAAAM! loud noises, bleeding screaming girl.

1/10 because I can't go decimal or negative.