campilotrop Reviews

Hellraiser: Revelations (2011)

Not so bad

[6/10 · 27 January 2021]

This was last Hellraiser movie I had still to see, and AI should say, despite the reviews, this is not a bad movie for the franchise, compared to many other worse titles. If you are a fan, don't expect absolutely nothing amazing but for a little more than an hour, here you have a bit taste of all, (with a remarkable reference to Hellraiser II: Hellbound) and so a good brief to be introduced to the series if you are new in these. Thing to improve?: better plot, better acting (YES Doug Bradley as always happen with originals was the best), better FX, more sceneries, more monsters and above all: MORE TERROR.

Lightning Jack (1994)

Although silly, better than you really would expect!

[6/10 · 26 July 2018]

Yes, I agree with btkfan! When there were plenty of very awful comedies, such as Home Alone, Hot Shots, etc. I remember I started watching that movie, with no expectation at all, but in the end it resulted in a silly nice comedy, with sympathetic Paul Hogan, just to make you look back, at his own character in the better Crocodile Dundee.

A View to a Kill (1985)

Best Moore Bond movie!

[10/10 · 4 March 2018]

In the past I had read some unfair opinions underrating his movie but since I was a kid, this has always been my favourite.

It has all the ingredients of the typical Bond movie: (so yes, it's unoriginal, after all, it was the last Roger Bond's movie) but taken to the maximum in the best of the decades (with permission of 70's), the 80's: Great actors, everybody! Such a surprise, Grace Jones; great acting with the charming Tanya Roberts and one of the best rivals, Christopher Walken.

One of the best musics with the main score by Duran Duran which was the only one in Bond scores, to be so top in US and UK charts.

Story with nice backgrounds, uniques scenes and incredible actions, even for today!!! That makes you remind just this film, making honour to the title).

Funny prelude, nice farewell.

So after that, it was the end of a season and took place a renewal with another worse Bonds so we are happy becaue it continues nowadays, but unfortunately it wouldn't be the same again.

Umbracle (1972)

Unique piece of surrealism in the catalan vindicative cinema.

[8/10 · 14 February 2018]

In Umbracle, as a homage, we are introduced Christopher Lee in a few Barcelona's locations of the 70's (though for its technique the film seems much older) such as the old Zoology Museum and we pleasantly enjoy about a different acting of him, but first, all you have to know is that you won't be told a conventional story. This isn't about a tale with a beginning and an end, but different disruptive fragments through metaphors, poetry (Joan Brossa, Edgar Allan Poe,...) and particular metalanguage, sometimes asynchronous, that mostly have to be read between the lines of the images, with the purpose of claiming, showing or more exactly, making you deeply feel shabby elements of repression and censorship (containing one part of spoken documentary) of the so long Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975) and for extension, also opression (indeed so actual nowadays) and war in general. For that, is just a unique film (and most preferred within his filmography for the director as he said today) in the catalan surrealism cinema.