Cut nonsense parts and you only get a 30 minutes movie summarized for you. Nicolas Refn latest art piece is a hell a boring, bloody violence and nonsense movie. Refn pulled it out with "Drive" but repeating the same trick for the second time on "Only God Forgives" just simply not bringing the magic out. Perhaps, Refn might have forgotten about the simplest basic magic rule which is -never do the same trick twice-. 90 minutes of piecing a random art piece and very little dialogue might be appealing for someone but majority will dislikes and would probably walk-out from the cinema half-of-the movie. Especially when you will be served a 60 minutes of scene that should have been left out.
Ryan Gosling ;is the name that lifts the movie prospect. People come to see him after a positively praised for the collaboration with Refn on "Drive". Indeed many loves it and expecting that Ryan will show the magic the second time . Unfortunately, the magic does not even excite me a little.
The writing is nonsense, Compared it to artistic movie "Tree of Life- Terrence Malick" I would rather spend 120 minutes on it rather than 90 minutes of Only God Forgives. I might admit that some scenes are beautifully shot and executed but seriously do the cop has to sing every time he executed a criminal? Okay, lets cut his hand, lets split his chest, oh wait, lets booked a whole room for karaoke bonanza to celebrate it. As well, surprisingly the cop always has a dagger ready to be pulled out of a thin air. If only if they cut all the nonsense part and make it a short movie. If Only IF- -; The whole movie is just like plugging various beautifully shot and ridiculous singing scene to make it worth for the big screen in theater.
The question I have been asking myself about the movie is "Is this another parody of Epic Movie or Disaster Movie?" Despite astonishing great costumes, eye catching settings and involvement of A list star "Julia Robert and Sean Bean", Mirror Mirror failed terribly to impress. The weak story which largely contributed to it. Mirror Mirror tried to set aside from the original classic Snow White fairy tale but failed miserably to fully baked the story. Beside having a weak story, the main focus is unclear either to make it into fun children and family movie or teenager movie. Unlike Alice in Wonderland (2010) that famously praised for dark version of fairy tale that targeted teens or Enchanted (2007) which is fun musical fairy tale adaptation that targeted children and family, Mirror Mirror is like another parody movie about a Snow White which is unclear whether for either teenagers or children. Lacking of creativity is what I can say.
Julia Roberts performance is not so good this time. Comparing her to Helena Bonham Carter portraying antagonist queen in Alice in Wonderland (2010), Julia Roberts is far behind. Perhaps, it was lacking character building that resulted in Julia Roberts unable to fully expressed it. The antagonist in Mirror Mirror does not have a strong character. It is more into an annoying queen rather than purely evil queen like classic Snow White. I know they tried to make Mirror Mirror into modern adaptation not a fully copy and paste stuff, however at least put some effort on it and make the queen just as bad as what she should be rather than become half baked Witch.
Left: Julia Roberts; Right: Helena Bonham Carter
The story is rather weak, is it about the Snow white, the seven dwarfs, the queen, the prince or the lost king? Well, the story started with the queen stating that this is her story but thenI barely know anything about the queen. Why she hates Snow White so much and how evil she is. It is unclear whether the queen is obsessed with the beauty or the greed of power. The whole story is like jumping from one perspective to another without fully describing it. I think that the writer must be fully assuming that everyone have read about the Snow White so he doesn't need to explain it too much or get into more detail. In spite of the title "Mirror Mirror", the whole story is not about it. It is about how Snow White finally married to the Prince. On the other hand, the jokes, the funny act and some of the line is corny and childish. I have admit that some of the scene did make me laugh, but I am still disappointed with the movie. I was expecting more like Alice in Wonderland or at least make it fun like Enchanted. The monsters in the forest and the king lost in the darkness is added to the movie just to make it interesting while the whole movie barely talked about it. The prince? I have only one word to describe it "Lame". Moreover,the true love kiss plot is insulting to the magical classic fairly tale. The post-scene along the credits are unnecessary.
However, on all the bad side. I have to praise the costumes and the settings. The dresses are very elegant, built for perfection. The whole costumes are designed to fit perfectly in fairy tale movie. The settings are fabulous as well. Taking you across the land from the high land castle to the low land town separated by frozen lake. Each scene is beautifully crafted. Even the details of the hall from the floor to the gold tainted ceiling. Thumbs up for both costumes and the settings.
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Legion is about an angel who is sent to earth to end human destiny after God has lost faith in humanity. One of the angel "Michael" (Paul Bettany) believes that is not what the God wants while his friend Gabriel believes that His wish is His commands.
Mostly setting in the middle of desert. The movie starts in the middle of the city where the fallen angel "Michael" cut his wings and betray the God wish. Michael continue his journey to middle of the desert to save a young pregnant woman which he believes the coming baby will save the human kind and change God minds. The movie has action element in it yet the story isn't developed enough. Bringing viewers too quick into action scene without developing it further resulting the body of the story to be boring and filled with junk and corny dialog. The movie is a fail wannabe constantine. However, for viewers who love action, this movie is not bad.
Received only 18% in rottentomatoes.com. It's up to you to judge the movie.
Fame is awful in the story but rich in creativity. It's just the combination of High School Musical with The streets. The dancing, the singing and the musics is entertaining yet the story line is completely awful. If you are looking a good story like the streets or even love story like in the high school musical, then this "Fame" is not your choice.
The story is about the difficulty in getting into show business. Viewers being thrown from one character to another character in short scene without developing it further. It is similar to telling a short gossip not a story to the viewer. Viewers are left with a short scene of the stress and challenge received by the students from the personal life to the career and jealousy yet too many characters in the story means not enough time to focus on main characters. As a result, the movie is more like documentary with video clips of dancing and singing compiled in the middle of the scene making the movie longer.
If you like the streets and High school musical, then you will be disappointed with the story yet you will love the musical scene such as tap dancing, break dance, DJ musics, singing, piano songs and lots more. So what you have to do is go have a quick nap and ask your friends to wake you up when the musical scene starts.
The movie received about 20% in rottentomatoes and 4.5 in Imdb. What I think, this movie is not worth it spending a dime in cinema. Just roll over you tube and search for the dance clips of the movie then there you go.
