pro-phy Reviews

Twelve (2010)

What a great example of waste of time + money

[2/10 · 4 December 2010]

Honestly, I really do NOT know how to sum up this awful movie. Thank god I spend two days thinking about it - otherwise my review would have even been more negative.

IF (!) it was some independent, absolutely NO COST, no professional actors, no script, no professionals at all,.. THEN I would even say it MAY be worth watching because somebody did something out of nothing. But this way this is maybe THE WORST something I was able to watch to the end. If I had not rented it, but had been paying to watch this pseudoCool-gangster-whino-teenyLoveStory in cinema I would have gone berserk! A waste of money (mine+productionCost) and time (again my time + everybody involved in this movie).

This awful and lame narrator repeating the main-characters name over and over again made me really go crazy. Maybe the German dub version is simply awful. But why does an director do such crap anyway? This is def. something new. yeah right, and guess why nobody has tried it before.

Mainly I was fascinated by some actors I saw on the cover. The most interesting one to me was 50Cent - just because I had seen GetRichOrDieTrying recently and found it quite good. In this movie he lost all of my reputation although he fitted the best into his role and was in my opinion the best in this movie.

Maybe you want to watch it be yourself just to prove me wrong, but be prepared for the worst everything you can imagine!

Normal (2007)

A little something, a lot nothing

[6/10 · 15 September 2010]

Call me stupid, but I did not get the point of this movie. As I am about to watch the Carrie-Anne Moss "videography" I kind of had to go through this one. ..and this is a tough I can tell.

Although there are quite interesting scenes - whether it is some nude scene (which are quite authentic) - this movie seemed not to come to an end. This is about regret, hope, affairs, pain, .. just too much of everything for me but nothing done the right (intense) way as it should be. The scenes are just to short and too much seesaw as one could get into it. It is as if the director wanted to put just everything in - whether it fits or not..

The plot could be told told in two sentences.. The story is nothing new.. There are many "side"plots which seem so go no where, that cross each other from time to time what made me lose the thread and finally the interest in this movie. The camera is very shaky in some scenes..

anyhow I like the actors but this is - to sum it up - neither fish nor fowl. Maybe you like it - or understand it - then tell me please ;)

Bomb the System (2002)

If you expect something political, don't watch this movie...

[3/10 · 30 April 2010]

Good lord.. this was by far _THE_ worst what-ever-this-was I have seen.

A whole bunch of wannabe gangsters, pseudo-sprayer attitude, side plot love-story and on top of it one or two oh-we-are-so-system-critical statements.

It is hard to say if the story, the storytelling, the acting or the camera is the thing that make you want to turn this off after some minutes.

I am really annoyed, having wasted my time on watching and finally writing something about this nonsense. It is though watching until the end, I can tell..

The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (2008)

identify yourself

[10/10 · 22 April 2010]

Been from Bulgaria, knowing the country, the traditions, the mentality of the people I can tell, that it was great and honest acting - just as you could meet the people and their spirit in the streets.

To my luck, I live in Germany and can also identity and totally understand and even see some of my own experience, feelings and everything the characters are going through on the silver screen as I did myself in the most realistic, authentic and beautifully possible way by settling to an other country. Not only having this background - and even the same name, as the main character Alex - this movie can touch your heart.

Knowing some current Bulgarian movies - in my opinion - this is definitely THE best movie of the past few years. Honestly, I cannot remember anything more touching form any country for some past time. I had wet eyes during some scenes - either it was from laughing or from really deep emotion.

This movie deserves watching.