Just like its main character, this movie takes a good thing, but doesn't know when to stop, and keeps escalating until it becomes a lump of disgusting fleshy nothingness.
Just like its main character, this movie takes a good thing, but doesn't know when to stop, and keeps escalating until it becomes a lump of disgusting fleshy nothingness.
Simply amazing. My first 5/5 of the year (yes, it is December). As films both big budget and indie continue to point their cameras at the beautiful and the dashing, there's an entire category of human beings whose lives are ignored. This film is about those people.
It asks some very uncomfortable questions. What happens with all the unwanted people? Do they manage to find each other? And are they truly happy when they do? Does a life of continual…
I really really want to like this movie. I think the message the film wants to make could potentially be really powerful... if only it didn't try too hard by bashing me over the head all the time.
As a Westernised Asian living in Norway, and as one with pretty traditionally Asian parents, a lot in this film really speaks to me personally. But I feel like Haq just heavy-handedly grabs us by the nose, and in every minute of…
If you're going to take all the fun out of Bond, at least give it some substance or character. But Skyfall offers none of the above.
Instead, you're greeted with one pedestrian action sequence after the next, then expected to jump like a dog at every little Bond reference it so conceitedly hammers over your head (Wow, they referenced the exploding pen! Omg, the Aston Martin with the eject button, I think I just came in my pants!).
Sadly, you…