lanosiceland Reviews

Flypaper (2011)

Lovely little gem

[10/10 · 18 September 2011]

This film is not for a lazy mind.

That the robbers, all of them, find themselves in the bank confronted with such a dilemma before thirty minutes in from a 100min film presents a great challenge for a writer, and an audience. Do not despair; the film is good. A smart audience will, with the numbers cruncher 'rain man' in the bank(Dempsey), eventually to catch on that there's more than meets the eye.

Hollywood and 'the pundits' seem to have some rigid ideology of what and how a film like this should be. They are wrong. Simply having two dumb as dirt hillbillies as the opposing robbers(vs the geniuses) is brilliant. Chaos. We become an audience, trying to piece things together, but the pieces we receive constantly lead to an entirely different twist. Sweet. We receive the answer long before the end, but again, like a piece of a puzzle.

It a who done, who is it, crime, mystery, comedy, action...the works. definitely not a big-screen flick, but absolutely for the guys and a sixpack. Good entertainment.

Bunraku (2010)

A great disappointment

[1/10 · 11 September 2011]

All the elements/potential of a great movie: stars, good story, action. However, the execution is so bad that most people will torture themselves to get through this: took me three days... and I regretted it. The Sin City a la surrealism concept did not work. Bloody awful. 120min of good money badly spent. The blue-print for 'how not to.' I cannot recommend this. An utter and complete load of garbage; burn after watching and forget as quickly as humanly possible. If you do decide to chance it then expect nothing great and maybe you'll end up with less disappointment... but I doubt it. Everything is wrong with this. Check it out if you must: you'll only have yourself to blame.

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010 Video)

expectations not met

[7/10 · 16 September 2010]

Superman/Batman-Public Enemies is definitely hard to exceed, but this movie had all the basic essentials to do just that: solid story, wonderwoman, the return of darkseid. The fatal mistake in this endeavour is the artwork: the characters were not convincing(excluding diana). The new Darkseid simply doesn't project the fear and darkness, superman is too pretty(way too young) and bats is not coldblooded enough. Tops for the story, flops for the conception and artwork. I understand that maybe the producers felt the need to reinvent the main characters, but after they blew us away with the Justice League final episode(Destroyer), Batman(Red Hood) and Public Enemies, this was like a return to kindergarten. Great story that totally missed the mark in intensity thanks to the misguided exhuberance of the Artists trying to distinguish themselves, and the producers who totally failed in their professional duties. For the high standard of Batman/Superman, this was really bad artwork, and a great disservice to Darkseid(or whatever the hell that was).