nickrigato-72655 Reviews

Saltburn (2023)

One of the best movie of the decade

[9/10 · 10 January 2024]

An exceptional film, amazing director , memorable actors, photography, editing, music score, all very good. Perversion and madness. Psychiatric dynamics. Simplistic at times but convincing and intense However technically masterful. A small masterpiece. An ambiguous film that remains objective, not politically correct but winks at Satanism. The ending mockingly and riskily downplays and ritualizes evil. The director plays on the matter in an excellent way and remains in the balance between what she wants to consider legitimate and what she wants to "show without demonstrating" (Fellini's quote). It is full of people in the world who have the envy and malice of the main character, of people who plan their moves with perfidiousness, but certainly and fortunately not all and not most arrive at such practical and dramatic situations. Finally it is an educational movie that should be shown in high schools all over the world to teach everyone to cure their complexes, accept them and improve their lives. A film that will be rated very low (without objectivity) by those who identify with the character or by those who claim that gays, problematic nerd people or bisexuals and mulattoes are always on the good side, cancel culture did not yet exist in 2006, the year in which it is set and everything was experienced more lightly than 2024. There is no racism or censure in this story, no offense for anybody except for human dignity, it's liberal in every scene. It is a message in favor of human beings and good people with some good values like the co-protagonist, and even the rest of his family have perversions, probably having mental disorders, being crazily naive and practically stupids but they were good fellas. No moralist but cool people will be very upset for many scenes and if you have a soul you will know it too.

The Descent (2005)

A painful movie

[5/10 · 21 November 2023]

A painful movie from the moment the strange creatures begin to appear. Until then the film was very compelling and claustrophobic, it held the whole story very well and the general atmosphere was one of adventure and danger. From an action and believable film it has turned in the middle of the time into a grotesquely comic and totally unrealistic film full of mistakes. Images and scenes of the fights on the verge of the ridiculous, bizarre creatures almost funny in the expressions immortalized with footage from cinema of the lowest category. If you want to be disappointed look at it, if you want to laugh without high expectations it's fine anyway.

Venice, the Moon and You (1958)

Great movie with easy screenwriting

[8/10 · 5 August 2023]

Great interpretation by Alberto Sordi despite having a bit of unnaturalness of speaking Venetian (He was Roman; the same thing can be said of Nino Manfredi. It's like watching Kevin Costner speak English as an American). Exceptional film color and great rhythm by master Dino Risi. A light story related to those told by the Venetian gondoliers.

Venice is the most beautiful city in the world as you could check wachting this movie. All the cast was perfect, especially the actresses of an incredible beauty. If you are non-Italian you will be able to get to know a cross-section of Italian and more specifically Venetian culture.

There is a small part of actor Giuliano Gemma (uncredited)

You could find it in Prime Video during 2023 summer.

Aliens (1986)

a film that will always stand as one of the best action horror films and sequels ever

[10/10 · 30 May 2023]

After this film it is inexplicable how they didn't award Weaver as best actress with an oscar. What are they waiting for to give her a lifetime achievement award? That she becomes old decrepit? Aliens has all the special effects still practically unbeaten. Cameron's signature is undeniable, to the point that certain aerial scenes are reminiscent of the first Terminator. Everybody were Perfect as actors, but Bill Paxton gives that ironic and scoundrel vein to the general atmosphere and he fits beautifully. Lance Henriksen: another great key-actor to be commended forever. The ending of the film is surreal and physically impossible, in reality ripley's arm would have fractured in a second, but let's leave this sensationalist poetic license to James Cameron who saves himself scoring the maximum ranking with Bishop's quote: "not bad for a human!"

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)

The most exhilarating last 15 minutes of all time

[10/10 · 11 October 2022]

Epic ending. The most exhilarating last 15 minutes of all time , if you still didn't saw it , do it as soon as possible. There is an incredible crescendo until the end. It is something indescribable and only few people could understand this movie in its essence. I consider it the beginning of Steven Seagal's decadence, of course due to the bizzarre director choice and surreal screenplay. You have to watch that movie. The real genre it is comic-like. I have never laughed so much for a scene, perhaps much more then the one in which Arnold storms the camp in the movie "Predator". The expression made by Steven before escaping from the derailed train deserves a special praise. What a good movies they made in the 90s. Myself and two of my friends went on laughing for an hour.

We Love Steven Seagal and especially the first 4 movies but this is ridiculous 😂😂😂

Trinity Is Still My Name (1971)

Trinity Is Still My Name - the most watched Italian film of all times. Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, the records duo.

[10/10 · 15 February 2021]

1972: Trinity Is Still My Name - by Enzo Barboni. With Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. The sequel to They Call Me Trinity ... is almost a remake of it: from bean dishes to burps and sganassones, everything is re-proposed in unison. But perfect is the feeling between the famous couple Hill-Spencer. Rampant sympathy and truly unprecedented or subsequent success: 6 billion lire in takings, 15 million tickets sold and almost two uninterrupted years of screenings in cinemas. The most watched Italian film ever, an absolute record in the history of Italian cinema, still unmatched today.

They Call Me Trinity (1970)

Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, the records duo.

[10/10 · 15 February 2021]

1970: They called him Trinity... - by Enzo Barboni. With Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. A "classic" of Italian cinema, both for lovers of the comic and western genres, even if it is mainly a sober and fun parody of the most bloody spaghetti-westerns, in which the usual shootings are well replaced by the couple's fist fights Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, a real "trademark", which they made famous in their various films. A perfect Movie. Unexpected success with the public: 3 billion and 100 million lire collected in cinemas. With a sequel (the most watched Italian film of all times)

Kill the Irishman (2011)

Great Acting / You could start watching it after 40 minutes

[7/10 · 14 September 2020]

A bit unnecessarily slow for the first 50 minutes, the film never seems to start, yet the top-notch cast manages to guarantee fun entertainment. The final judgment is 7, but it could have been a 9 if they had improved the timing (Wrong) and eliminated the superfluous. The best scene is when (Mr. D'Onofrio as) John Nardi dies.