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Reminiscence (2014)
Painfully awful. IMDb rating system is definitely BROKEN.
Being a sort of knowledgeable film nerd, sometimes you just have to dive in title vaults to find something new and potentially interesting.Sometimes that vault is IMDb listings: sometimes that path is one to hell.
How this inarguably piece of garbage keeps a 8 score from 2000 votes and some ranking out of IMDb listings is beyond comprehension..if not for a clever advertising ruse. Because that's all this film is: a neat publicity stunt.
All you find around the web about this film is an awesome plot with some deep explanation of characters, atmosphere and weird mythology, a cleverly put trailer and a nifty poster to awaken your interest..which it does. Problem is the real thing is a pretentious boring and lame plot less video feature.
The acting is atrocious, so thank god for that cheap ominous and uninspired soundtrack leveled up the dialogue volume. Editing is just incompetent with some atrocious sense of pace, and continuity is something unheard of for this crew. Photography can redeem like a 1% of the movie, but that's kudos to the beautiful scenery: camera wise, it is submitted to abuse with some of the worst shaky-cam treatments ever, 40% of the whole film is feet frame based, 20% pitch black and the remainder just expressionless embarrassing faces.
And I thought this was a horror film..Well, the horror is real, just fighting the narcotic effect of boredom. A couple of creepy post-prod faces, some overused ffwd editing crap combined with unclever topical imagery out of some 2000's Ringu type film. And a tree; and waves showed in reverse. Creepy.
Don't even waste a glimpse into this thing, don't even remotely believe any of the good reviews out there: don't fall for the con. I should have seen it coming in the atrocious first 5 minutes, but I was naive and hopeful. Serves me right for trusting the internets.Damn.
Xanda (2004)
How Rocky would be if it were in China?
SPOILERS!!! ---bah!, who cares? will you really become surprised with the "plot" of this movie?--- This movie is exactly a remake of those films from the eighties where a poor and weak boy from the village who likes martial arts becomes the Champion of the greatest contest of the city: you know, first one guy kicks his ass and then our "pretty boy" trains hard for revenge, because, oh, surprise!, actually the "bad guy" is the current champion! Kick'ass action, love story (unbelievable but true) and a "up-down-up-down-now i win-i lose-almost dead-i'm still alive-i can't stand up-but finally i'm gonna kick your ass you bastard-" end. Exactly the same as Karate Kid, Kickboxer, American Kickboxer and the rest of video-releases from some years ago but practising KANDA, which is like Full Contact but even grosser. If you like this genre, this movie should be ok. **1/2 out of *****