nymberg83 Reviews

Dune: Part Two (2024)

Breathtakingly fantastic.

[10/10 · 28 February 2024]

I had the pleasure of watching this movie yesterday at the Swedish premiere and oh man was a mesmerized by the beauty of it all!

Being honest, I instantly fell in love with part one and I have probably watched it more times than what would be deemed sane, or healthy.

So, watching part two was a no brainer to me and needless to say, my expectations where very high.

As the credits rolled I didn't want to leave my seat. Denis Villeneuve did it again. He blew my mind.

He portrayed the world of Dune in a way I didn't believe was possible. Everything is cinematically grandiose and glues you to your seat in awe.

The sci-fi elements of Dune are out of this world, not since the release of the first Star Wars have I seen so many innovative solutions to visualise it. Everything from the Harkonnen desert suits to the mortar ships are things never seen before that excites the mind. This paired up with the amazing sound effects offers a cinematic experience like no other.

The movie itself, the storytelling, pacing and the acting is stellar. No complaints at all.

I might be biased but this is a must for anyone that enjoys sci-fi.

11/10 Sandworms.

Stockholm Bloodbath (2023)

Make up your mind.

[2/10 · 22 December 2023]

I had been looking forward to this movie with quite the anticipation and was quite happy to be able to watch it 12/12. However, my excitement was soon squandered.

From the get go we get a Tarantino vibe, the movie resonates Kill-Bill as we get introduced to whom appears to be the protagonist and the antagonists.

Some gallons of blood later the movie turns into a mess between historical, dead serious and embarassing.

I gad such high hopes for this movie but it falls flat because it doesn't know what it wants to be and therefore ends up being the mess that it is.

And the torture drags on. About 150 minutes of where I enjoyed perhaps 20.

The Midnight Club (2022)

A big nope.

[2/10 · 9 October 2022]

I was so excited for this considering Mike Flanagans earlier releases on Netflix but it didn't impress me at all.

What we got was a bunch of terminally-ill, yet over priviliged teenagers telling stories at midnight that became worse as the show progressed.

Personally I expected malevolent ghosts, spirits and creatures to be thriving on these ill teens in a way or another but instead it felt like Riverdale after dark. The show didn't even set a good mood or setting and at the last episode I was thinking to myself: It can't end yet, nothing has really happened?

But it did end, badly and with too many loose ends.