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Monster Ark (2008)
That was my favourite shirt
That was a fabulous line! A dozen of soldiers are killed by a creature, and this archeology student goes bananas after ascertaining that his shirt got soiled.
I haven't read any comments on the CGI generated helicopters. Nice graphics for games, but still... People seem to be more focused on the animated shadowless monster instead (which is good for them).
Acting: ha-ha. The main protagonists acted like teens who were constantly nagging at each other.
Why did I watch this? I was suspicious due to the schedule, however, late night movies are often worth watching. The plot captivated me, but first I believed the description of this said that Noah was the daunting monster. I'm a thinker, so it could possibly happen that this story dealt with a cynical interpretation of the dutiful Noah. Nothing of this at all. Only a predictable storyline with a good dose of the usual American testosterone .
Ow, did you notice these vehicle scenes with that shaky camera and some wicked background music?
MegaFault (2009)
Let's make another Grand Canyon. Yeah, let's do it right now.
I marked this review as a spoiler, but actually that lame line will never become true in the movie. Didn't they need a load of nuclear weapons in order to blast a 25 kilometer wide hole? They eventually ended up with some smoke bombs in a sandpit...
Any good director can make this plot (which deserves 2/10) to a real blockbuster, if using the proper animation techniques and better cast. Even a child sees the animations are overall fake.
At the end of the movie, we can see a huge crack through the US (with the width of plus minus 100 km) from space, but earlier in the movie there is the scene with the main character screaming for her family: the house appears to be at the edge of the same gap (seen from the air around a couple of hundreds of meters wide, even less). This would not be visible from space.
What was that satellite-freezer thing for? And the camera constantly showing the tail of that aircraft?
Love and Treason (2001)
Low-budget TV-thriller
When I turned on the TV and browsed the programmes, I found this movie. I'm mostly keen on some good tension to forget everything around me for a while. So when the description said "adventure and action", I jumped on. Alas, it disappointed me from the first to the last minute. The protagonist seemed unnaturally arrogant in her talking, which irritated me a lot, and her script was like she had learned it by heart some minutes earlier. The other actors played their roles well, but they could have shown a lot more if the story line had been heavier.
Where was the adventure? I wouldn't call a journey into the fjords "adventure". I imagine adventure as something going beyond your limits, survival, the unknown, but definitely not this. Because of the budget the director stuck at a few places, where everything should happen. The longest distance on a half-an-hour drive or something? Action? An attempt, a bank robbery with hacker scripts, kidnapping scenes, a. Okay, I slightly agree. However, the daily-life talking bored me. Also, the actors were only gibbering about "the antagonist is a traitor and broke his wife's heart". The message was clear by the second dialogue, so the director could have shortened the movie down with approximately 1/3, leaving out the other discussions. The antagonist himself was surprisingly fair and kind. According to his wife, he is a genius and he speaks many languages. Why not exploit these qualities in the movie?
Drama: the movie deals with intrigues. Though, the outcome of these intrigues should have been more complex and visible in the Navy Dept. Already in the beginning, this story drew a clear line between the good (Navy) and the bad (the antagonist and co.). That's quite cliché and you already know what will happen. This movie had much potential because of the plot (2/10) and a part of the cast (1/10), but it couldn't captivate me. I would recommend this movie to a female public. Even a 70's 007 makes you thrill more.