PKozyura Reviews

Mystery Train (1989)

Pointless

[13 February 2002]

The whole movie was expressed in a phrase 'By the end of his life, Elvis would weight 640 pounds on Jupiter' (hopefully I'm close enough). It was just a mix of weird stories you ponder about for a split second and forget in the next one.

A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation (1997)

Interesting plot

[7/10 · 9 May 2001]

This animation starts extremely lame. That is, compared to the rest of story. At first I thought I got some kind of cheesy ghost-busting anime with weird-looking synthesis of computer graphics and regular animation. But if you can accept (or endure) occasional splashes of barrel and spell fighting you'll find in this movie an engrossing love drama with interesting plot turns and a bunch of original art. Although the mage characters seem to be low grade in comparison to two main ones the battle system mechanics is pretty interesting too and quite detailed. So after all 'low-gradeness' of mages could be a trick to make main characters stand out.

This version of the story is WAY better than any real movie interpretations. Very recommended.

The Mummy Returns (2001)

Absolutely overdone

[4/10 · 7 May 2001]

"All stories are like this". What can you expect of a movie with a tag line like this one? While the first movie was one of the MOTS the sequel is just plainly boring. All the special effects do no good. The subtle but sophisticated cross of studio setup and computer graphics is gone, leaving mostly computer graphics in place. Film makers thought probably that if one would repeat a cheesy line twice ...err.. thrice... ..err... four times... it should make it quite intellectually challenging. The only good moment of the movie that I remember was the forest fight with zombie pygmies. I was seriously hoping they would kill every single character thus ending my 2.5 hour torture.

Ravenous (1999)

A wonderful movie about good

[10/10 · 9 April 2001]

This seems absurd at first. But the movie which tells a story of a group of cannibals and killing almost all characters is in fact a story about good. It's just of those pictures which make you mind see unexisting objects. You see as vulgar side of life escalates itself in treason, repulsion, ignorance, cynism, withdrawal, selfishness and cannibalism... You hear and see and adapt to their righteousness and compliance with environment. Who is your friend once you know the reality? Which way would you chose? Would you be strong enough to take Boyd's path?

Kite (1998)

another rare find

[8/10 · 2 April 2001]

Solidly built anime and a pleasure to watch. Character development is believable, although predictable. The story feels slightly sketchy and rushed closer to the end. Bonus points for the absence of "will be continued in #2" hint. Absolutely worth watching and owning.