I, Robot (2004) Spela Strömmande

The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'm not WHO Easily could be convinced with good action no matter how big and famous. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'...

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Scream 3 (2000) Titta Hela Filmen

Noyce's methods of crafting suspense are defiantly old-fashioned: low-angle shots for maximum viewer disorientation and a preference for daredevil stunt work over CGI cheating.. A limp movie-within-a-movie parody that closed the trilogy with a fizzle instead of the bang it deserved.. The result is the usual fragmentary mixture of jolts and jokes, knife-wielding maniacs and red herrings.. Crushingly generic.. . Really, who goes to summer action movies for cast-iron logic anyway? Or for plausible ...

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Apollo 18 (2011) Ladda Ner Film

Has no thrills, no chills, no scares and contains a villain, or several of them, actually, that will turn you to stone -- from boredom.. The source of the creepy events, when it's finally revealed, is profoundly dull, like a forgettable episode of The X-Files or Fringe.. It's 80 minutes of dead air.. The film takes a startlingly long time to rev up, and even at less than 90 minutes feels thin and at moments like it is playing for time.. For most horror fans it will be kind of a snooze.. Despite ...

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Now You See Me (2013) Spela Film

Although Sinister 2 continues the story begun in Scott Derrickson's creepily effective Sinister, it feels more like an unnecessary retread than an organic extension of the original.. "Inherent Vice" is an aggressively weird movie, which you should take not as a warning but as a compliment and an invitation to see it, to let its stoner vibes wash all over you.. Not a moment of Sinister 2 is convincing or frightening, mostly due to the uber-stilted child acting and the flat, overlit visual palette...

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Divergent (2014) Ladda Ner Film

Dark Places just becomes an overstuffed, low-simmer potboiler with too many improbable detours and overly convenient twists.. "Prisoners" is a dark, deeply serious examination of how loss can unhinge us; it grabs onto you, and you may have trouble shaking it away.. A film that, for all its pretensions and intermittent power, is essentially high-grade claptrap.. A work of impressive craftsmanship that winds up making us think too much about how it was fashioned rather than what it has to say.. It...

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Memento (2000) Titta Hela Filmen

Its overripe atmospherics put it in that rare class of failures that can only be made by talented people falling on their face while reaching for the moon.. Writer-director Christopher Nolan's second film is one of the most original and ultimately confounding mind games to reach the screen since The Usual Suspects.. What is real? What is delusion? What is montrous? What is decent? Shutter Island may not shatter the heart but these are gnawing achievements for a movie about madness and paranoia.....

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Harry Potter och Fenixorden (2007) Titta På Strömmande

This is a stylish and smart thriller.. That's a familiar setup, but Barrett and Wingard take it in one unexpected direction after another, displaying obvious pleasure in their mad dash to keep topping themselves.. This ghost of a movie star is never more at home than when walking among the tombstones.. Overplotted and underexplained .... The Guest transcends the genre with characters who could have come out of a more serious movie. When they're in peril, we actually care.. Yes, it's all just a r...

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Ask Me Anything (2014) Spela Strömmande

Thank you for giving information about the film. this a good movie to be watched for sure.. I really like this movie. thank you. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away...

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Mænd & høns (2015) Titta Hela Filmen

Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. Awesome as direct...

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Haunter (2013) Spela Film

Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. Inspiration seems to come from Groundhog Day, Beetlejuice and even The Shining.. Clever haunted-house pic will please more than hardcore...

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Jack Reacher (2012) Titta Hela Filmen

This movie is a turkey gone rancid.. It only ends up reminding us of how much better Cruise's riskier, more personal work - particularly his outside-the-box performances in pictures like "Tropic Thunder," "Magnolia" and "Rock of Ages" - truly is.. A wildly ill-advised miscalculation, with Cruise's virtually unstoppable appeal butting uncomfortably against Reacher's alternately cocky and downright crude cynicism.. The dialogue is often unintentionally funny and Cruise's performance is all wrong.....

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Non-Stop (2014) Titta På Strömmande

"Non-Stop" doesn't make any sense, but that's expected, uninteresting and incidental to the pleasures of a slow-season Liam Neeson release as diverting as this one.. It might be curtains for celluloid, but Scorsese, a boyish 69, clearly isn't leaving the stage any time soon. He directs every film with the passion of his first. And it shows.. Scorsese transforms this innocent tale into an ardent love letter to the cinema and a moving plea for film preservation.. Scorsese's film is a richly illust...

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9 (2009) Spela Film

Its breathlessness and permanent state of confusion make you long for the assured touch of M. Night Shyamalan.. Things started to fall off of the deep end very quickly.. It's too bad the thin story didn't match the stylishly haunting visuals.. It might have been an opportunity for the sort of challenging speculation sci-fi is best at, however, and the best reason to see it is simply because of the creativity of its visuals.. Hokum is best served straight, not as a New Age cocktail with too many ...

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Michael Clayton (2007) Online Streaming

While the plot is complex in the telling, it unfolds onscreen with propulsive fascination.. One of my favorite movies of the year.. Stop printing the ballots. Don't waste money on those "for your consideration" Oscar ads. There is but one contender for best supporting actor this year, and it is Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton.. A throwback to trim, intelligent moral thrillers like The Verdict and Absence of Malice.. This is unequivocally a thriller for adults. Smart and exciting, Michael Clayto...

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Chernobyl Diaries (2012) Titta På Strömmande

The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacki...

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In the Valley of Elah (2007) Spela Strömmande

. In his first solo outing since the Oscar-winning Crash, writer-director Paul Haggis falls into a familiar trap, where his lofty social theme fights its own battle against the forces of artifice and contrivance.. There should be enough gut-troubling truth to In the Valley of Elah to make it transcend political squabbling.. . In the Valley of Elah rises and falls on the strength of Tommy Lee Jones' performance, which is to say that it rises to great heights, indeed.. [Jones] gives a great, selfl...

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Löftet (2001) Titta Hela Filmen

I'll wager you won't see a better performance by a veteran American actor over the next 11 months.. Those looking for a 'feel-good' movie are advised to go elsewhere -- unless watching artists working near their peak leaves you soaring.. It's the rare -- and rewarding -- police drama that cares more for character than plot.. A gripping, disturbing and deeply intelligent drama.. Penn can't be faulted for his work with the actors. Most of the featured players have only a scene or two, but they're ...

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Berätta Inte För Någon (2006) Ladda Ner Film

Tell No One is a French action thriller and murder mystery that doesn't cheat.. These classy people are put to the trashiest ends, and, for the most part, it's a pleasure to see them rooting around in the garbage.. Although it might make your head spin, this case of Vertigo in cyberspace keeps us spellbound.. By and large, Tell No One is more interested in telling a knotty story than pondering its meaning, but in those rare deeper moments, Canet evokes how a tragedy can gather around a man and l...

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Insomnia (2002) Ladda Ner Hela

The best thing about Insomnia is that despite director Christopher Nolan's soft spot for moody-blues obfuscation, he has the good sense to keep his star in practically every shot.. You see Robin Williams and psycho killer, and you think, hmmmmm. You see the movie and you think, zzzzzzzzz.. Despite its linear storyline, the film is very recognisably the work of the sharp, probing intelligence that gave us Following and Memento.. The film represents a triumph of atmosphere over a none-too-mysterio...

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Silent House (2011) Titta På Strömmande

This is Jones' show and he makes you feel a father's fear and loss in ways that are subtly heartbreaking, never melodramatic.. Sarah does any number of silly things while scurrying through this not-so-silent house, but keeps the audience on her side; you want her to get out of the house immediately but you don't get annoyed with her when she can't.. Demonstrating the limits of being too clever in a genre movie, the art-house chiller "Silent House" lets the tenseness of its first act trickle away...

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Secret in Their Eyes (2015) Fullständig Strömning

Thank you for giving information about the film. this a good movie to be watched for sure.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling...

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The Box (2009) Fullständig Film Streaming

The Rite is all windup, weak delivery.. Is it the devil's work or a psychiatric disorder? That is the spurious debate that sputters along in this dull, pretentiously verbose movie that (need it be said?) enthusiastically takes the devil's side.. I think Kelly is a very inventive writer and I think he is his own worst enemy behind the camera.. There's nothing wrong with The Rite that spinning heads and a little pea soup wouldn't cure.. Oooh. Scary.. ...it fails most crucially in pulling its strin...

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Mystery Road (2013) Titta På Strömmande

A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. I really like this movie. thank you...

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Vanilla Sky (2001) Online Streaming

. A hopeless jumble of romance, psychodrama, sci-fi and spiritual posturing.. I can't remember the last time I had this much fun having the rug pulled out from under me.. . When we awaken from this "Trance," we wish we could have our amnesia back.. The gaudiness of From Hell might make the film effective for some viewers, on its own cheap terms. But the movie is a disastrous example of filmmakers whose reductive sensibility is not up to the density of the work they've undertaken.. This wry, atmo...

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The Hole (2001) Spela Film

The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. Thank you for giving information about the film. this a good movie to be watched for sure.. Awesome as director this is the first time that they have been together again Since training day powerful movie go see it!!!. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and m...

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Mystic River (2003) Spela Strömmande

Smart, hard-charging, compassionate.. Solid, rarely showy performances, meticulously recreated detective work and moments of pure unadulterated grief accent this whodunit, a movie that will have those who haven't read the book fooled for much of its length.. Sean Penn is so frighteningly good in this movie that he outdoes even the best of his earlier work.. Works as a straight-up detective story, and the acting is often breathtaking.. Contains so many layers that you'll want to see it more than ...

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Last Hours in Suburbia (2012) Ladda Ner Hela

I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'm not WHO Easily could be convinced with good action no matter how big and famous. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'm not WHO Easily could be convinced with good action no matter how big and famous. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as ...

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Buried (2010) Online Streaming

If the aim is to be unpredictable and to revel in cynicism, you run the risk -- realized here -- that the movie becomes more an authorial statement of purpose than a story the audience can believe in.. At its best, Buried is a filmmaker's fondest double-dare challenge. And at its very best, it's considerably more.. In the same way it's impossible to turn away from a grisly accident, taking your eyes away from Ryan Reynolds' hypnotizing performance is not an option.. . Rodrigo Cortes, the Spanish...

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Stay (2005) Ladda Ner Hela

In Marc Forster's humorless thriller, going insane is an exciting, luxurious affair.. A whodunit so nicely crafted that you're tempted to forgive the Byzantine plot -- hell, you're even tempted to pretend you actually understand its twisting obscurities.. Stay is crowded with layers and symbols, probably too many for one movie, and it ultimately wears out its welcome. But its images are compelling, even as its story fades away.. Whether you guess the ending early or have it smack you upside the ...

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Case 39 (2009) Ladda Ner Hela

[Plays] like one more piece of multiplex in-box clutter, ready for the circular file in our moviegoing consciousness.. This is horror hokum of the cheesiest kind. Rent 'Orphan' instead.. This is a nasty and morally repulsive film.. This ludicrous outing from helmer Christian Alvart and scribe Ray Wright takes its psycho-satanic babble much too seriously, and should elicit more laughs than frights.. From a bevy of cheesy jolt scares (alarm clock! barking dog!) to the embarrassing sight of Zellweg...

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Orphan (2009) Spela Strömmande

By the conclusion, your immediate reaction is to want to see the movie again to try to put the pieces together. Your second instinct is to give it a rest.. [Orphan] never exploits the dramatic possibilities, despite the efforts of its excellent cast and gorgeous production values.. Memento is a thriller for people who are sick of thrillers, a puzzle movie in which the puzzle is actually worth the time and effort to solve.. It comes on strong, but in its bloody heart of hearts it's no more resona...

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Sicario (2015) Titta Hela Filmen

Villeneuve has crafted a compelling, unflinching look at the deadly and complicated war on drugs, one that will challenge the attitudes of even the most straight-edged and law-abiding viewers.. This is suspenseful stuff, but hanging over the action is the pungent smell of social failure, as the drug war turns both sides into monsters.. Combining relentless action with the story of a woman confronting a corrupted system, it hits with the staggering energy of a visceral kick in the guts - causing ...

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Harry Potter och Hemligheternas kammare (2002) Ladda Ner Film

In all fairness, I must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed, fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks.. Every two minutes the action whooshes sideways to someone somewhere else.. Radcliffe, 3 inches taller and an octave lower than last year, is growing comfortably into his character, as is Watson, the fetching and confident Hermione.. Alas, as directed by the returning David Yates, these big chase sequences are the usual compendium of ear-sp...

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Red Eye (2005) Titta Hela Filmen

This is a sophisticated genre movie, and it's effective on many levels.. Oy, how it falls.. This sequel is what you would expect: If you liked the original, you'll probably enjoy this retread. But be warned: It bogs down in a drawn-out scene near the end.. . When Darkness Falls, it pretty much trips over its own feet.. The movie's convoluted hide-and-seek plot also demands a White House break-in that makes about as much sense as subprime mortgage rates.. Fast and furious and tightly focused and ...

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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) Ladda Ner Hela

If you've seen your share of action flicks (who hasn't?) you should have no trouble chuckling. And nodding and winking.. A more-than-serviceable dark comedy.. Kiss Kiss may be impossibly pleased with itself, but with good reason.. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is the first movie since 1994's Pulp Fiction not just to understand movie violence as a pop cultural form ... but to play it like a virtuoso violinist.. Kiss Kiss is such a delightful bombardment, we barely notice that Black's convoluted, serpentin...

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The White Ribbon (2009) Ladda Ner Hela

Writer-director Michael Haneke doesn't pull any punches, but then he doesn't throw any wild ones, either. His filmmaking shows precisely the sort of obsession with control that the movie itself is denouncing. Interesting, you've got to admit.. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. There's no denying this is a coldly commanding tale in which Haneke's signature obsession...

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Den Svarta Dahlian (2006) Spela Film

This episodic drama is set in Dallas during the three days after the JFK assassination, and some of it is highly charged.. A collection of powerful scenes that somehow add up to something less than powerful.. For those who remember that dark day, it will inevitably have impact. But this was too much of a story for one film.. The events of those days would have been better covered in greater depth in a miniseries, rather than a 90-minute movie.. With the exception of Aaron Eckhart, De Palma's act...

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Talvar (2015) Titta Hela Filmen

I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'm not WHO Easily could be convinced with good action no matter how big and famous. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'm not WHO Easily could be convinced with good action no matter how big and famous. Every minute of this action packed movie is amazing. This is the single best movie I...

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The Ring (2002) Fullständig Film Streaming

At times, the suspense is palpable, but by the end there's a sense that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that strains credulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential.. The movie's nifty beginning-all anxiety and dread-suggests that the audience is in for a fearful ride, but the one-dimensional story quickly runs out of fuel.. The filmmakers have wisely stayed close to the original's mood, which is somber and flat, with quick (near-subliminal) inserts and a sound...

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Broken Flowers (2005) Fullständig Film Streaming

More with these sequels is always less. The proportions haven't been right since 2002.. An action franchise in motion tends to stay in motion, long after logic or box office should bring it to a screeching halt.. Broken Flowers is a road movie, and like the best road movies, it doesn't take a straight path.. It's many things: a terrific performance piece for a handful of good actors, an engaging metaphor and a so-so piece of storytelling.. The movie doesn't come to a definitive point or make an ...

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Lady in the Water (2006) Fullständig Film Streaming

Crazy as this might sound, it turns out that self-indulgent ramblings designed to put your children to sleep are pretty much the opposite of art.. Viewers may see religious implications in the movie, with its messianic mermaid and chlorinated holy water, but it really isn't worthy of such deep analysis.. It's a busy made-up universe -- with rules, rituals, and a deity-tree that could give the Hindu hierarchy a run for its rupee. And it's extremely silly.. . An act of spectacular (if unwitting) s...

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Parkland (2013) Online Streaming

Fifty years after the traumatic event, the assassination of JFK is still capable of touching a raw nerve -- even in a dramatization as flat-footed as this one.. Peter Landesman's well-made but dramatically unfocused re-creation of that November day and its aftermath .... There's something to be said for Landesman's attempt to limit himself to just the facts that we can all agree on. Just that much is dramatic enough and awful enough to make for a good movie.. Parkland is history as existential d...

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Tomorrowland (2015) Ladda Ner Hela

[It's] certainly unequaled in its field for the beauty of its camerawork, sets, costumes and effects. But it's also conventionally plotted and not surprising or scary at all.. For all of its vaulting ambition, its sumptuous eye-feasts and its leapings back and forth in space and time, "Tomorrowland" never comes together as coherent drama in the here and now.. An aggressively optimistic script admonishes the lazy and irresolute and urges humanity to end war and save the environment; the proselyti...

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Source Code (2011) Fullständig Strömning

At times, Ritchie and company try so hard to make sure this isn't your father's Sherlock Holmes that it comes across as, well, cartoonish.. . The "Scream 4" (I refuse to write it the other way anymore) drinking game: Take a slug every time someone on-screen remarks how meta it all is.. This is quite effective as horror filmmaking and more pungent than anything [Craven's] done in a while.. The movie is a formally disciplined piece of work, a triumph of movie syntax, made with a sense of rhythm an...

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The Grudge (2004) Ladda Ner Film

. Mostly, it's a tepid affair.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. Awesome as director this is the first time that they have been together again Since training day powerful movie go see it!!!. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself la...

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London Fields (2015) Ladda Ner Hela

The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Thank you for giving information about the film. this a good movie to be watched for sure.. Awesome as d...

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Oldboy (2013) Fullständig Strömning

Sometimes I don't understand the Hollywood mindset. Who thought remaking Park Chan-wook's 2003 cult classic, Oldboy, was a good idea?. It's best to turn your brain off, half an hour in.. Just as depraved and depressing as the original.. The creepiest, clammiest, twitchiest squealfest in months.. Shooter eventually gets in its own way by hitting things too hard, too loud and too long.. Though much of the action in Shooter is beautifully photographed, the movie's force is as a blunt instrument of ...

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) Fullständig Film Streaming

There's nothing here but wreckage. "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" is so ineptly made that the story is advanced solely through announcements.. As Johnny Depp has done so brilliantly with his devilish Jack Sparrow, Downey has made this sly sardonic Sherlock stylistically all his own. Case closed.. The skill level in the script is elementary school, my dear Watson.. Downey may think this interpretation is an insight, or funny, but it pushes what was already a rude rewriting of the classic ch...

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Saw VI (2009) Fullständig Film Streaming

After six installments, it's not exactly cutting edge.. In every way that matters (indeed, in just about every way a movie can), Righteous Kill fails to deliver.. Pacino has a few funny lines, as does Leguizamo, but not nearly enough to save the film from collapsing under the weight of its own self-righteous tedium.. Taken purely on its merits as a psychological thriller, Righteous Kill is probably a two-star film. The third star is there strictly for De Niro and Pacino. Playing off each other, ...

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The Captive (2014) Titta På Strömmande

It's a pretty film full of magic and miracles - a flying horse, a child saved, a man made immortal by love, a mortal character who by my count is at least 104 years old but still working as a newspaper editor - but, alas, it just doesn't gel.. If only there was less mush and more meat in this stew.. Clumsy and inert, a lumbering white elephant rather than the flying white horse that is the novel's magical mascot.. At one point Hanks can be glimpsed gasping for air, mid-endless-sentence. Has ther...

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Prometheus (2012) Fullständig Film Streaming

Prometheus--like, in its telling, the human race itself--is a creation spliced from the DNA of superior forebears.. Erotic thrillers are a time-tested genre, but this effort, scripted by Wesley Strick, is neither erotic nor thrilling.. Prometheus is more interested in piling on big questions than in answering them. It's deep without being particularly smart, although the dazzling design and special effects keep you from noticing that basic flaw until at least an hour in.. There's no redeeming th...

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Super 8 (2011) Titta Hela Filmen

The original is still creepy, but this Horror will have fans jumping in their seats and talking back to the screen.. The game is now afoot with Holmes' arch-nemesis, Professor James Moriarity -- and that makes a notable difference. This time, Holmes is up against an equal, and it's elementary indeed that muscle and firepower alone won't carry the day.. In theory, this should all be scary, but it just isn't. You giggle at the B-movie cheesiness of it.. Spielberg and Abrams are the unwitting targe...

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Holes (2003) Spela Strömmande

A dense yarn with a range of humor, imagination and emotions as wide as the desert floor upon which it is set.. One can't help but feel thankful that the movie doesn't always go the expected route, that the characters have a little more depth to them than average, and that the complexity, which is the movie's basic weakness, is also its fundamental virtue.. Fills a hole in the genre by not treating kids with kid gloves.. . Older kids, fans of the book and parents who remember the fun of reading ...

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Predestination (2014) Online Streaming

Weirder and more contemplative than many of its time-traveling brethren, "Predestination" is a stylish head trip.. It's certainly imaginative, with high-minded ideas, but Hawke and Snook are what keep it grounded in truth.. You won't be able to take your eyes off Sarah Snook, an Aussie actress who makes whatever sex she's playing almost irrelevant. You watch her. You hear her. You believe.. Writer-directors Peter and Michael Spierig show affinities for serious literature as well as pulp fiction;...

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The Loft (2014) Titta Hela Filmen

This new iteration proves such a dour hodgepodge of bad behavior, bald-faced misogyny and ping-ponging alliances, it's more alienating than alluring.. Erotic thrillers are a time-tested genre, but this effort, scripted by Wesley Strick, is neither erotic nor thrilling.. The Loft's boorish leads aren't sensible enough to be worth caring about, making the film's character-driven conclusion feel like a self-defeating cop-out.. Hollywood adds to its trend of awful throwbacks to trashy '90s movies wi...

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Gone Baby Gone (2007) Ladda Ner Film

If Cruise's fantasy superhero garners as many staunch fans ... we may be witnessing the birth of a new franchise.. This movie is a turkey gone rancid.. A twisty, morally ambiguous and satisfying neo-noir.. A workmanlike action thriller, competent but never particularly thrilling.. Structurally, it's a bit murky, but in every other way Gone Baby Gone marks a triumph for the Affleck brothers.. Jack Reacher already feels as if it belongs to another era.. As the details mount, and the star does what...

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Man from Reno (2014) Spela Strömmande

Passion is pretty good. If you cared enough to make a list, it might be your fifth or sixth favorite De Palma.. Man From Reno is hardly the equal of its inspirations, but it nonetheless makes for a pleasantly mellow, well-structured concoction.. John Moore directs the hell out of the action, while Jonathan Sela's glistening photography captures the snow and rain that fall on these bloody New York streets. But you'd have to be on crack not to guess the 'surprise' finale.. Polished and ambitious, ...

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Minority Report (2002) Spela Strömmande

A ludicrous, borderline-nonsensical supernatural concoction with a slightly redeeming sense of its own silliness.. It desperately gathers cliches like a teen fantasy Frankenstein that doesn't realize its secret identity: parody.. Though it has flashes of promise, Bones traces the footsteps of its fantasy film predecessors too closely to blaze anything close to an original narrative.. Much of Minority Report is inspired, but the movie is also packed with oddball, overdone acting, the occasional c...

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Solaris (2002) Titta Hela Filmen

Madsen barely emotes during the ensuing flood of hokey scare tactics.. Despite well-designed scare shots, the laborious telling of this elaborate ghost story ultimately fizzles under the weight of too much effort.. If you give it half a chance, it will bore into your subconscious, mess with your mind and leave you mumbling, 'Hmm, what if --'. . This cold, occasionally dull movie practically defies you to embrace it.. Although it's meant to be restrained and free of emotional hysteria, the result...

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The Haunted Mansion - Spökhuset (2003) Fullständig Strömning

[I]t's dreadful.. It's perfectly palatable family fare for a long weekend when it's hard to find movies at the neighborhood 'plex that will please everyone.. The movie's horror angle also reminds us of Vampire in Brooklyn, the last in a string of Murphy flops before The Nutty Professor saved his screen career in 1996. With this listless foray, Eddie is twice bitten.. Contempo Hollywood may be awash in brilliant technicians and craftspeople but it also needs good storytellers, who aren't to be fo...

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The Crazies (2010) Ladda Ner Hela

Romero had quite a lot on his mind, back in the day: Vietnam, the Kent State shootings, a wicked distrust of the military and the Man in general. Eisner has almost nothing on his mind.. If there's a message in all this, it's buried in blood splatter. Which is fine, but makes The Crazies more disappointing than if it had less lofty goals.. While it loses the charm of Romero's low-budget clunkiness, it is in all other regards superior.. The Crazies is familiar B-movie fare, but it's also lively fu...

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