A very good action movie with appropriate violence and crisp humor.

I liked the movie from the beginning. It was convincing from the first minute with its dark atmosphere, which it kept up until the end. In addition, the movie plays with a clever twist towards the end.

All in all a convincing action movie with great action scenes, great characters and stirring moments.

My favorite scene: Li Noor (Iko Uwais) storms into the restaurant to save James Silva (Mark Wahlberg). Epic heroic moment!

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National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Emilio Estevez and Samuel L. Jackson rock so hard that my laugh muscles were about to explode. Just like Top Secret! I watched the film for the first time in years. The film has lost just as little of its charm. And once again it is the humor, which preferably runs in the background, that is convincing.

Lethal Weapon is perfectly parodied here. The actors are terrific, the story is brilliant despite its peculiarities and the humor, as already said, is fantastic. I laughed so much that my diaphragm hurt.

It’s one of the few movies that still knew exactly where humor has to score points, resp. where it works. Modern comedies, on the other hand, rely far too much on disgusting humor, which I partour don’t understand.

What remains: An absolutely brilliant comedy that’s still more than worth seeing.

My favorite scene: To be honest, the movie has too many funny and memorable scenes, which were quickly brought back to my mind after watching it today. But maybe it is the one where Emilio Estevez enters his caravan for the first time and it turns out to be a palace.

I’m still waiting for part two…

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Just now I watched the spy comedy Top Secret with a very young and very handsome Val Kilmer.

The movie of the Naked Gun creator is still more than worth seeing. There is so much to discover in every scene. While the actors are acting very serious, there are so many weird things happening in the background, that laughing flashes are guaranteed at any time.

This partly subtle kind of humor, which you can experience here, was created by only a few directors and authors at that time. David Zucker is a genius in this respect. And you really have to praise the actors as well. For example Val Kilmer’s serious face at all times, while around him the world sinks into chaos - simply divine.

The movie is great. Many scenes were already unforgettable when I first saw it years ago. And so today I was always happy to finally be able to experience exactly this one scene again. The movie is solidly done, 100% funny and pleases with a rocking soundtrack.

My favourite scene: When Val Kilmer is sitting in the train, it jerks for a moment, but while something moves the train itself doesn’t. (I tried to avoid spoilers.) Wonderful!

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This somewhat unusual and yet quite normal story about friendship was captured in great pictures. These are celebrated long and with harmonious music.

The main actors are great. Shia LaBeouf’s Tyler is a young man in search of himself. After a heavy blow of fate he tries to get back on his feet, but does not mince his words. And so it happens that he throws a “I don’t give a damn” to Zak, who tells him about his Down syndrome. And exactly this statement makes him somehow likeable. Because it really doesn’t matter.

The message: No discrimination! Everyone is great and capable of extraordinary things. You just have to support them and not stop them. Tyler does exactly that. He helps Zak, encourages him in what he does. And while doing so he recharges his batteries and creates hope.

This absolutely unobtrusive film convinces with a lot of heart, well-placed humor and just the important core message. The only important thing is: Get involved.

My favourite scene: When Zak hands over his escape plan to the old woman and both of them put it into action.

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Straight into the face is the motto of this film, which is wonderfully oriented towards the game series.

While the story tries to put the focus on Scorpion, it fails because of what Mortal Kombat is all about. That means that once again only the fight of the earthlings against Shang Tsung is in the center of attention. Shang Tsung only needs to win Mortal Kombat one more time to subjugate Earth. Thus, the movie is storywise very much based on the first feature film from 1995.

But honestly, while the story is a bit outrageous, the movie can convince with many other points: The drawing look is great. The result are wacky, bloody scenes with all the fatalities. The characters are well executed and the music is enjoyable.

The question is: What do you expect? When I look at the last games of the series like this, I see absolutely wicked action, as brutal as possible. Whether it’s bone-crushing X-Rays or disturbing fatalities, the movie knows how to do all of that. And that’s exactly why I liked it. THIS IS MORTAL KOMBAT!

My favourite scene: Actually, any scene where Johnny Cage gets a kick in the balls.

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What (the hell) happened to the series?

What started so promisingly with First Class and peaked with Days of Future Past crashed with Apocalypse, only to never recover with Dark Phoenix.

The latest installment of the X-Men is a work in itself. Basically detached from its predecessors, we are experiencing a story here that is usually fobbed off as a side-story in other movies. This film offers zero added value for the series. Nevertheless: Various scenes are fun and the whole work could entertain me.

What a pity: The always valuable and very worth seeing Quicksilver scenes suffer a total failure here. At least Hans Zimmer rocks with his soundtrack to the film and another highlight of his career. The music enlivens the whole work and gives it the necessary drama.

Hooray for the final fight in the train: It looks really good and pushes the whole movie.

Finally, I would like to mention that the movie is just so full of logic holes and nonsense. That’s how Jean Grey gets an incredible power from space and is therefore the most powerful of all mutants. Strange, because that’s what she was before.

My favourite scene: Honestly, I have no idea. Maybe when Quicksilver puts the head of Nightcrawler into a glass ball and quickly wraps tape around it to seal it. Maybe not.

My ★★★ review of Dark Phoenix (2019) on @letterboxd: boxd.it/14akA3 🍿