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Reviews
Line of Duty (2019)
Poor Direction, Could have been much better
Steven Miller, Jeremy Phoenix and Kat Hess should not be hired unless for comedy: so many absurd mistakes with that could've been prevented if someone had kept a clean-simple log.
I love Eckhart, and I am sorry this movie was not up to his level. The script was all right, but needed to be polished with real life solutions, not the hollywoodesque ones. To this, you may add absurd and illogical mistakes during filming that can be pointed all across the board that simply makes you laugh.
I wish this had been under someone else's scope and with better CGI fire.
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
A never ending tik-tok
I feel sorry for the actors, probably were promised a different vision and jeopardized their careers by taking this contract. There are so many absurd scenes here... some don't even relate to the chronology. So much CGI it hurts my eyes and intelligence. The non-sense of the story seemed so crammed to fit into the comics. The appearance of Lynda Carter made absolutely no sense within the story either.
What a waste of money, I'm just relieved I didn't pay my own ticket.
Caribe (2004)
Kind of a nice try.. still a long road to hike
This movie was produced by the biggest producer in Costa Rica. Although their authors brag about it as a the biggest movie in Costa Rica ever made and their actors even dare to say that they didn't get an Oscar Nomination due to it's political relevance with oil (-he he, right) ...Well, this is all a lie. This movie was supposedly based on a book written by Carlos Salazar Herrera about a love triangle (super cliché soap opera-like subject) and it secondary story is about an oil problem on the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica with an American oil company who wanted to explore oil deposits on the region, but at the end it never was approved by the government. Now, it may have some nice footage about the beaches, but that's it; nothing bigger than that... it is all in the camera. Most of the actors are lousy, except for two or three. The rest lack of sense of what acting means: they overact most of the time. The story is completely common and cliché, worthy of a cheap Mexican soap opera as I said.. because the crew advertised it as a protest movie about oil, but 80% of the movie is based on a stupid love triangle. The script is nothing impressing, it is very simple and the dialogs are not very thought. It has also got some editing problem on a couple of scene changes... but besides that is pretty decent. The director did an alright job, I mean, he is not like an Oliver Stone,but he did his job with the resources he had handy. I would like to question him why instead of using Costarican actor he spent most of the money on foreign ones.. I mean after all they bragged about being an 100% Costarican Production... that's what you at least expect. Final the end is is not well done, there are flaws and details that don't match or are useless. Besides being the most elaborated movie in all Costarican history, I think it's mediocre. You can make way more interesting and better pictures with less cash. Never heard of "Pi"? Anyway, if you are curious about Costa Rican or Central American movies, this one will do, but you are definitively not missing anything.
El barrio (1997)
Bad Lousy Series
Despite of their over exaggerated advertisement by sponsors... this TV Series really, really sucks. The script is not real, it is not used by anyone I met ever in my life. The situations are too imaginary. The direction is practically absent. The actors are TV producers sons and friends, so as you can imagine it is never gonna be a good combination. The characters are surreal and overworked. The script seems to be made up minutes before recording and besides that, the editing messes up the dialogs by cutting off words sometimes after dialogs. To bad, such a waist of resources... and for this! Everybody makes fun of this series whenever mentioned.