dylanmortonx Reviews

Lost in Paradise (2011)

a so-so movie that i had expected too much in...

[16 October 2011]

I watched the movie yesterday, but when i stepped out the movie theater, i didn't know how to express my idea. In general, this movie is somewhat acceptable, but it cannot make me say that: "oh, this is what i has been looking for, i was moved to tears when seeing it", no, absolutely not. I thought it would tell a love story of a normal man with another normal man, how and why they fell in love, how could they protect their love before preservative preconception, those are what i have expected. But all i had received was an old, very old story of the fate of prostitute in a new cover named "call boy". I already known that how they felt when they had to make love to get paid, how their lives went on, I know that it is so unhappy, sorrowful, painful.. and in this case, call boy or male prostitute has no exception, obviously, there is no turning back or escape when getting in. And the love of 2 men that i had expected didn't happen. What happened to Khôi and Lam that they called love was just a fragment of sympathy no more. If Khôi loved Lam, he would not have left Lam like that. besides, the storyline of Smile-man and the street side call girl was unnecessary, it just slow down the main story and add nothing new to watch, have it or not, it's no problem. In short, i have to say "it's acceptable" again though i didn't want to. For me, i love to say "great" or "bad" for all kinds of movies especially to Hollywood movies, but, this is exception. Maybe i must lower my taste a little bit to give Vietnam young film-makers a big hand for their effort although it was not fully impressive.

Skyline (2010)

hix, what a waste of time.

[1/10 · 1 December 2010]

I thought Universal Pictures would have a blockbuster in November but... after seeing the film, i suddenly did want to...cry because it was too bad. i already learned that many big movie corp. such as Universal Pix. always be strict when choosing a script, but i don't know why they allowed a ridiculously stupid script like this get through and go to the movie theater. they had such a low budget that they couldn't hire acceptable actors to save the bad script. the acting is bad, extremely bad, no likable characters even just 1. They suddenly appeared, suddenly be sad, happy, exciting, angry for stupid reasons. 92 minutes, too long for a waste-work like this. maybe the film-making staff should learn how to understand the level of enjoying movie of audience again.

The Rebel (2007)

best film i have ever seen!

[8/10 · 17 August 2009]

to be honest, when i saw this film, i was so eager and surprising because i didn't believe that they could do a great job like this. After seeing the movie, i decided to come back to see it again, again, again and again (total...13 times) but i felt that i was still exciting, and came to see it till the day the movie theater change other movies hehehe. i love this film so much because i am a action genre fan. I love the script, i was moved and surprised when i heard the script, so awesome, intelligent, authentic, this movie has done the job that other movies before could do, good script. maybe no need to say about the action, marvelous. the action scenes were so realistic, heavy and tough. i admired Ngo Thanh Vân very much, she did great job though she had little martial arts background. nice actor. overall, this is the best film i have ever seen. 2 thumbs up!