The suspense movie began promisingly, capturing my interest with a strong start. However, as the plot unfolded, it gradually lost its grip, descending into a rather tedious narrative that failed to sustain the initial intrigue. The climax, unfortunately, proved to be a major disappointment, leaving me with a sense of missed potential. Excessive dialogues, nonsense discussions, Robert's character as bad as never and Netflix, just Netflix and its low-budget-with-high-tier-actors kind of movie. The ending could have been executed more thoughtfully to redeem the film's earlier promise. Overall, a letdown that fell short of its initial suspenseful potential.
Reviews
10 Reviews
Leave the World Behind
(2023)
Typical Netflix movie: 5% good stuff 95% mambo jambo
9 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Avatar: The Way of Water
(2022)
Maybe 13-waiting-Earth years are much less in Pandora, that's why the movie needed more
17 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Don't expect people to be easy on a sequel that took 13 years to come out.
As the usual, Cameron submerges us once again in top-of-the-class special effects that eventually makes you forget Pandora is not real. The effort that was put in making little details, textures, sounds and light flares is evident and very well done.
But then, if you were thinking that Avatar 2 would follow Terminator 2, as a successful sequel, this is not the case.
For starters, the movie is half an hour longer than the original. Which necessarily needs to fill out a lot of spaces with situations that in this case were mere superfluous and meh. It was hard to see developed characters, there was excessively obvious situations and predictive climaxes that turned away the interest in the plot, if there's one to analyze. There wasn't one interesting dialogue between the characters like we saw in the fist movie. Something I found awkward was Cameron not defining with enough contingency wether the movie should be narrated by an omnipresent narrator or not, so he cames out speaking in certain points so very separated from each other to the point we forgot there was even a narrator.
Spoilers ahead.
How is even possible that humanity in the XXII century is able to travel across the stars but still not able to produce an anti-wooden-arrow wind shields for their ships? Hard to accept.
But that's just only one of the missing pieces. The big ones come when everything unfolds in the movie just like a Latinamerican telenovela: the bad guy was resurrected. Had a child. The child is one of the good guys but at the end of the movie, not too much anymore. Doctor Grace Augustine was pregnant when she died. How convenient, who's the father? Another missing piece.
An then, they manage to bring back to life so many characters (but not Dr. Augustine) that at the end it just not make any sense to kill one of the main ones, like Sully's elder son. We were all expecting him to be resuscitated either by Eywa or human tech, but instead, he just died and I believe, the director wanted us to drop the tear here but mainly, there was frustration sentiments in exchange. There is also this twisted English-accent antagonist that was more funny than evil.
Goodall' first movie scientists only had a literally 10 seconds spot on the movie. Why not give them more credit in a 3-hour-long movie? What are they still doing in Pandora? Remember all humans were expelled from the planet in the fist movie? How come they still got the base camp and all tech running like if they had technical support and maintenance?
Let's not forget Sully,s children speak like any California's suburb highschool groupies. Like 'hey bro', 'ok cuz'.
Finally, there is no more need to fight over Unobtanium. The substance worth 80 million the litter is some yellow gooey substance squeezed off one of the most intelligent creatures on Pandora, a whale, that if it was that smart, why so easy to hunt?
In a nutshell: very long, no developed dialogues, no mystery in the plot, very obvious situations and convenient resurrections, narrator or not?, unfair with old characters and corny new ones like the English bad guy.
As the usual, Cameron submerges us once again in top-of-the-class special effects that eventually makes you forget Pandora is not real. The effort that was put in making little details, textures, sounds and light flares is evident and very well done.
But then, if you were thinking that Avatar 2 would follow Terminator 2, as a successful sequel, this is not the case.
For starters, the movie is half an hour longer than the original. Which necessarily needs to fill out a lot of spaces with situations that in this case were mere superfluous and meh. It was hard to see developed characters, there was excessively obvious situations and predictive climaxes that turned away the interest in the plot, if there's one to analyze. There wasn't one interesting dialogue between the characters like we saw in the fist movie. Something I found awkward was Cameron not defining with enough contingency wether the movie should be narrated by an omnipresent narrator or not, so he cames out speaking in certain points so very separated from each other to the point we forgot there was even a narrator.
Spoilers ahead.
How is even possible that humanity in the XXII century is able to travel across the stars but still not able to produce an anti-wooden-arrow wind shields for their ships? Hard to accept.
But that's just only one of the missing pieces. The big ones come when everything unfolds in the movie just like a Latinamerican telenovela: the bad guy was resurrected. Had a child. The child is one of the good guys but at the end of the movie, not too much anymore. Doctor Grace Augustine was pregnant when she died. How convenient, who's the father? Another missing piece.
An then, they manage to bring back to life so many characters (but not Dr. Augustine) that at the end it just not make any sense to kill one of the main ones, like Sully's elder son. We were all expecting him to be resuscitated either by Eywa or human tech, but instead, he just died and I believe, the director wanted us to drop the tear here but mainly, there was frustration sentiments in exchange. There is also this twisted English-accent antagonist that was more funny than evil.
Goodall' first movie scientists only had a literally 10 seconds spot on the movie. Why not give them more credit in a 3-hour-long movie? What are they still doing in Pandora? Remember all humans were expelled from the planet in the fist movie? How come they still got the base camp and all tech running like if they had technical support and maintenance?
Let's not forget Sully,s children speak like any California's suburb highschool groupies. Like 'hey bro', 'ok cuz'.
Finally, there is no more need to fight over Unobtanium. The substance worth 80 million the litter is some yellow gooey substance squeezed off one of the most intelligent creatures on Pandora, a whale, that if it was that smart, why so easy to hunt?
In a nutshell: very long, no developed dialogues, no mystery in the plot, very obvious situations and convenient resurrections, narrator or not?, unfair with old characters and corny new ones like the English bad guy.
Not suitable for not Colombians.
28 January 2022
The parody of the year that unmasks the sad political reality of Colombia which allegedly is set to follow economical interests of few families of power, told from the perspective of an uptown preppy character with very dark humor. 8 episodes full of contextual gags most likely to be understood by Colombians and nationalities near by.
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening
(2012 TV Movie)
Don't bother
18 October 2021
This movie has got to be the worst movie I've stumbled upon to in years. Aside from the gorgeous chic, the movie is full of goofs, bad dialogues, no composition at all, full of continuously errors (like rain when it's sunny, like artificial sunsets), etc. I felt insulted in my good taste and intelligence to watch this garbage.
Incredibly boring. Sorry to say.
22 March 2020
Despite its big effort to resemblance a late 60s Hollywood, there's no continuity nor conductive plot in this movie for the first 120 minutes. Yes. Two hours of simply a time travel like if it was some kind of documentary only attractive for those who love by the time.
A Fantastic Woman
(2017)
Oscar's credibility every time less solid
27 May 2018
I watched this film basically because it won the Oscar to the best foreign picture. Found out that the film was another one to many, picturing evident transgender cliches and slow situations that end up in a very boring linear movie, without montages and cheap incidental music. Seems to me Oscar is giving away their prizes in a very convenient way.
Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia
(2009 Video)
Cliché movie for obtuse people
27 April 2015
Before the movie became a cheap franchise it had good actors, an actual plot and some emotions. This movie lack of those 3 all and besides, it is full of mistakes regarding what Colombia is about, beginning with the geography, the accent and slangs of the actors and actual context. I wonder where is the rush when Hollywood producers make a movie about Colombia, as they always depict the country as it were somewhere near Tijuana, showing not only the cheapness of the movie but the lack of previous investigation.
American soldiers are no longer seen as world heroes but, on the contrary, abusive, corny and ridiculous persona that are trying to make their best impression with poor-special- effects and cheap explosions.
American soldiers are no longer seen as world heroes but, on the contrary, abusive, corny and ridiculous persona that are trying to make their best impression with poor-special- effects and cheap explosions.
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
(2013)
Art made film but just as art, it's not met to be understood by everyone
4 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Von Trier take us to the deepest taboo in human behavior: sex. Although I've seen many negatives reviews, I'm glad to say I was one of the few that saw the two films one after another and believe me, there's nothing boring at all once you get out of the Hollywood box and start conceiving a movie by different standards.
Von Trier does an spectacular 'montage' by telling a biography along with symbolism, religion, music, philosophers and other history milestones on which many are just fantasy meant that way.
Despite LeBouf weird accent, I give this movie a perfect 9, not to mention other technical pluses like the stages, makeup, customs, music and landscapes.
Von Trier does an spectacular 'montage' by telling a biography along with symbolism, religion, music, philosophers and other history milestones on which many are just fantasy meant that way.
Despite LeBouf weird accent, I give this movie a perfect 9, not to mention other technical pluses like the stages, makeup, customs, music and landscapes.
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