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Crimson Peak (2015)
Hidden clue game clone... not a good one, either.
As many people note in their reviews, the story is very banal, characters are undeveloped, cardboard, and irrational just to fit into the events, pieces and details fall off the table left and right... Yes, it's an eye candy in certain respects, music scores are good and work for all the effects intended. Visuals are great - although most of them do not serve any purpose at all, but look great, if you can accept that. Acting is very good all around, as much as it only can be with this kind of paper-thin script behind that just hardly holds any water.
Hire writers from Big Fish games, they probably would do a much better job, faster and a whole lot cheaper than this. Guillermo Del Toro should have had heart and refused to direct this movie. Mind you directing was good, the movie is ... well, bad.
Myortvye docheri (2007)
Awful.... (Majority of positive reviews written by Ruminov & Co.?)
Here we have an extremely poor (and quite literally, horrible!) example on how people think that they can do movies just watching whole bunch of Japanese movie trailers (not even the complete movies I suspect!) and reading the outline paragraphs.
It would have been OK if Mr.Ruminov had not proclaimed himself as an ingenious artist in Russian and international press... I mean, first movie gone bad - no problem, moving on! :) OK, to the point - movie is just very bad, and that's why it is worth watching. However if you do, have a paper bag handy. Mr. Ruminov and Co. are telling us this is "the story of people" - I say it's BS, as the characters are all very unsympathetic and poorly drawn. All female roles are just a failure - same absent expressions and just plain dumb dialogs.
The DJ is ripped-off from another Japanese movie, "the booth"... oh, the list of failures is endless. Camera "work" is pointless replication of Japanese styles.
Just watch this masterpiece of fluff, and then see "Three Extremes" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420251/) to justify art from you know what, and story of people from faceless characters you won't even recognize in the next scene. Sorry Mr. Ruminov, it ain't gonna fly - just quit wasting sponsors money, you don't have what it takes... "A Russian cinematic Genius" :)