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Johnny English (2003)
Only if you don't have anything else to do.
Rowan Atkinson is funny, no doubt about it. but somehow in this movie he didn't make me roll on the floor as I have expected.
A bit boring plot with one or two original scenes which made me going.
Nothing to compare to the hysterical "Mr. Bean" the movie and the TV series Mr. Bean and Red Ader.
Good performance of John Malkovich and Natalie Imbruglia didn't save the movie.
I could have waited for the release of the DVD.
Only if you have too.
Fighter (2000)
Moving, funny and horrifying.
I have been busy the other day, zapping through the cable TV channels and my attention was caught by an English conversation between two elderly gentlemen with a clear Czech accent. I have stopped and started to watch the movie.
Being a Czech ex-patriot and a son of a Holocaust survivor the subject is very near to my heart. I was glued to the screen by one of the most moving, human and interesting documentaries I have ever seen. Maybe I am not objective because of my background but this film is really a masterpiece.
Mr. Lustig with his philosophical and so typically Czech view on life caused me to burst into loud laugh and into tears together. His optimism and the rare talent to pick up the really important things in life which may look trivial in first glance are incredible. Even in the hardest days in the concentration camps could Mr. Lustig find a human side in the Nazi soldiers.
Mr. Wiener on the other hand a completely different type. The dynamic relationship between these two draws a second circle in the movie.
Another level is the story of the Czech Jewry during the Holocaust and the personal stories of these heroes, their families and their close friends during this horrible epoch.
This is one of those films you just don't want to end.
And for summary: Great, Great, Great. One of the most enjoyable 90 minutes I had in long time.
Crna machka, beli machor (1998)
Funny Kustarica's way
Far not the best Kustarica's movie, but it is still a good comedy about the characters we meet in his previous films.
Too much havoc.. to much noise, but who cares, one look at the faces of the characters (where does he find them?) and you enter the enchanted world of the east European gypsies.
It's a piece of life absurd and surealistic as it is. And if it resembles even a bit the real life of these people.. well...
The Avengers (1998)
Boring.. boring.. boring...
Maybe it is not right to write about a film I saw only part of, but whenever I started to watch this movie, slowly my eyes closed and I lost my conscience... so boring.. so bad.
If you can.. avoid it.