Movie reviews

POWER RANGERS

Watchable. The film's a bit chaotic, mostly due to specific editing, and I have the impression my review may reflect that. The music's quite good, much better than the rap in the trailer. Elizabeth Banks looks so much better blonde she just shouldn't have been cast as pitch-black-haired Rita Repulsa. The editing is so sharp it's just: shot-cut-shot-cut, unlike in the series where the camera would show a bigger perspective and provide a transition between the shots. Here the whole film looks like chopped with an axe. The movie lacks Japanese-style graphic elements which are present in the series both in the old episodes and in the new ones. Visually the movie consists of a horror-like monster among Transformers-like creatures. More advanced CGIs haven't helped the production. The last scene is during the credits, meaning after the initial ones, later the payroll goes on and on and on with nothing afterwards.

AMOK

Watchable. I don't think it was as famous abroad, including the UK, as the movie implies, as I only heard about it now in Poland. As I didn't know the case, I stayed till the end of this nonsense just to find out whether he was actually a murderer or not. For a crime story it completely lacks suspense. It's also pure chaos, I guess it was meant to be as nonlinear as the title novel but watching a film you cannot mix and match the pieces, you're just left with this mess.