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The Postcard Killings (2020)
Might deserve some obscure prize for its title
I never understood Patterson's bestselling writer's status. Even European teachers writing thrillers in rarely translated languages on their own time wouldn't dare to annoy publishers with bland stuff this guy gets away with. If I'd missed the intended function of the 'postcards', I'd have thought they referred to the film's locations. Of course local detectives are traffic cops in disguise who thank god that one single NY deus ex machina knows everything they don't. They're even prepared to forgive him his denigrating attitude and to silently allow him to engage in very illegal police activities abroad. Unheard-of! This doesn't mean that far better made European thrillers are unseen.
The Tender Trap (2021)
Weak, weaker, weakest
Don't expect a brilliantly written review since English was only the fifth foreign language I learned. Yet, that doesn't influence my ability to recognise a film that even the most mediocre Slovakian TV channel would refuse to bore its viewers with. I wrote a couple of school plays and I won a short story contest. Nothing memorable. Eventually I became a banker. Still, I'm convinced I'd write a far better screenplay than whoever got the task to hastily put something on paper resulting in this superfluous, utterly banal, and predictable... film. I can best describe The Tender Trap as an unsurprising textbook example of a textbook film.
The Matrix (1999)
Not one of my favorites
Technically flawless. Another example of the trend of satisfying the culturally deep-rooted links from adolescents with fantasy of British-Scandinavian origin. Makers - and now already our new young generation on the European continent- managed to forget that what was 'foreign' some 15 years ago now belongs to our cultural heritage. Gigantic marketing campaigns on all levels since the mid-90ies were a huge success. I am in my mid-forties and I'm afraid it is too late to expand my own early cultural roots, mainly based on what the brothers Grimm and HC Andersen gathered. Sure, this does not diminish the merits of adding other cultural influences. It's perfectly clear that film distributors aim for maximal revenues. However, it's a pity the high quality horror genre for adults is too small a niche to add it to the films on offer in our theaters.