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Film Review: GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra
By Fernando Mexia - Movies , featured , headline - 06/08/2009
Fernando Mexia, the pen.
If you love the saga of The Mummy and enjoyed the sequel to Transformers it is likely that GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra is the film you were expecting this summer to kill the bug-paced action and display of special effects. A film with a script very undemanding officially presented on the big screen to the successful toys Hasbro , that body of elite U.S. soldiers who fight day in and day out the dangerous Cobra and his minions. A battle seen in cartoons to liven now Dennis Quaid ( The Day After Tomorrow ) or an increasingly popular Channing Tatum ( Step Up ).
The secrecy practiced by Paramount with the press to hide the critics the debut of the "Joes" before the official release, to avoid negative reactions, ultimately lacks merit. Unwarranted fear in view of the result in box office reviled by the media Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, possibly one of the worst stories of recent years but now exceeds 800 million dollars of revenue worldwide. GI Joe is directed to the same audience and is defined with a series. To its credit, the script is something more elaborate than the last robot; against him, the special effects are not as caring as they should.
GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra introduces the audience to the heart of the secret organization of elite military launched by U.S. to combat global threats in the shadow which highlights potential technology conventional security forces. Some special forces led by General Hawk (Quaid) who recruit by accident a couple of valiant soldiers, Duke (Tatum) and Ripcord (Wayans Marlons), in order to protect first-and-back-after-a sophisticated weapon nanotechnology able to shatter anything that was his path. The rest of the unit Joes protagonists are "camouflaged" Scarlett (Rachel Nichols), Heavy Duty (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and the technological Braker (Saïd Taghmaoui). Surprise is a brief cameo by Brandon Fraser, an avowed fan of GI Joe and friend of director Stephen Sommers, who asked him to give him a bit part in the story while they were filming the third part of The Mummy.
The beautiful Sienna Miller will face "sweet" the universe opaque Cobra, which is defined as the film progresses, perhaps most interesting about the production, which ends in a disturbing way, an ending that does not stand without a sequel.
Fans of the series of drawings and those who played with the dolls could be left feeling disappointed by the superficiality with which addresses some of the characters or the role that some, such as General Hawk, which is half the movie KO and is limited to harangue his pupils without being directly involved in the action. Nor fundamental decisions. The affair entrelos characters Tatum and Miller which aims to move the conflict between good and evil to an emotional level is sometimes misplaced. The story does not stop at the origins of the mysterious Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow down with (Byung Hun Lee), dating back to childhood in a martial arts school in Japan.
Special effects, on the other hand, show inconsistent, with sequences quite collected, such as persecution on the streets of Paris and the resulting destruction, though often suspended in the little details are what eventually define the quality of a product . Of note is the finish of some images, more of an aesthetic game that has little to do with the resolution reached by Michael Bay on Transformers.
Film Review: Brüno
By Fernando Mexia - Movies , featured , headline - 09/07/2009
Fernando Mexia, the pen.
Sacha Baron Cohen leaves no stone cold in "Brüno", an insulting and irreverent caricature of the celebrity world that transcends the boundaries of Hollywood and ridiculed without measure designers, anxious parents that their baby go on television, adoptions of African children ( like Madonna), gays, the homophobes, the problems in the Middle East, the abuse of immigrants and a lot more than isolated incidents that together form a film that attempts to assimilate the success of its predecessor, "Borat."
The interesting ante Cohen (mocking the famous) through the character of Bruno, a gay Austrian journalist specializing in fashion that is willing to do anything to be a celebrity, ends up being a story with ups and downs, quite disjointed, and a more than enough sexual content treated in a foul which makes one wonder if the film crosses the gender line porn.
Without going into detail on the strings say that production is true to the style of Candid Camera, which are some familiar faces (especially for American audiences), is involved in the Spanish brand Agatha Ruiz de la Prada and had a scene with La Toya Jackson was finally abolished after the death of Michael Jackson (who Brüno wanted to call for an interview).
"Brüno" is a film designed to make you think while you have a good time, but only the viewer who comes to the movies with intention not to take sides and get away from the offenses laugh and enjoy with such disrespect.
The pace of the tape is consistent, we go from one story to another with no time to digest what just happened. A chain of events more or less sense.
The final challenge of "Brüno" clearly outside of offending those who can, is to beat the $ 260 million made by "Borat", another work by Cohen that was harshly criticized in Kazakhstan, where is supposed to be the star- but was received with open arms in the U.S..
I recognize that in the screening of the film I went to the room was packed and there were many laughs, but ultimately the audience was leaving a warm applause (very common in the U.S. in movies clapping). See if the world understands the jokes or insults gets.
Film Review: Transformers 2
By Fernando Mexia - Movies , featured , headline - 23/06/2009
Fernando Mexia, the pen.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a film unfit for over 10 years. That was the taste that left me the sequel to Michael Bay (Armageddon, 1998) after more than two hours of wasted special effects, exciting action to the point of dizziness and a storyline that can be in falling more dreams, as happened to the person who sat next to me (he woke up startled with every noise).
The $ 200 million budget for this project, the most expensive of the year, if my information is correct,, evaporated to convert into a product tape midway between a huge game of mighty robots and a B-movie payroll has Shia Labeouf and Megan Fox , two of the hottest young stars of the moment in Hollywood. Something else is paid, of course.
The story of this sequel back to the beginning of mankind, the evil Decepticons links with the past in an Egyptian archaeological reinvention as an artistic license to shape a shallow script that requires little mental demand of the viewer. The second part of Trasnformers is, as said Bay, "a movie for the summer," with all that goes with that statement sounds like a justification of father to a son who disappoints.
The film gives much prominence to robots, so much so that the performances of the actors are reduced to the moments in which the alien machines are not locked in a fight to the last drop of oil. There are action sequences that last so you can come to forget why they were hitting each other. Of course, apart from the excessive speed which made it very difficult to follow many of the shots, I imagine that in order to give realism robotic fighting in several natural scenes are pretty impressive technical quality.
Upon completion of viewing, in the midst of my perplexity and confusion over what had just seen, I came across a gang of children who had had the privilege of being the first of his college, surely, to see the film. They seemed ecstatic to open eyes wide and grinning from ear to ear. That was when he heard one of them convinced that: "It's the best movie ever" (which translates as: 'is the best movie of all time'). That's when I put aside my journalistic value judgments and thought that instead of crashing, Transformers 2 was to make many millions of dollars in box office.
A journalist colleague told me later that this film was intended for an audience of six years, I would give a little credit would rise to ten. After all this, nobody will miss him as a promotional gift to give a skateboard to the press.
One more thing. I admit that my fondness for John Turturro target me recently when criticizing, but the point of humor that gave the film was appreciated.
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Clarification: When I speak of age, in any case I have the intention of offending the fans of the series or the people you liked the film, just think the movie is meant to impress in every way to children, normally unless the script ask that an adult who has seen many movies. The children fill in the gaps with imagination. That does not mean that you might like more people but it is obvious that the film team cared very little of that history was at the height of both budget.
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