Divergent (2014) Se Fuld Film

Ironically for a film about non-conformity, it adheres to the playbook rather slavishly.. Barely diverting.. Woodley is an obviously talented actress, a standout in The Descendants and The Spectacular Now but she's let down by the story surrounding her.. Hey, we gotta kill time between Hunger Games installments somehow. Why not Divergent?. I found myself admiring the movie's stubborn adherence to its own universe and logic.. All it asks of viewers is that they do something rare: engage the intel...

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Super Troopers (2001) Se Fuld Film

The best thing about the movie is its personable, amusing cast.. Every minute of this action packed movie is amazing. This is the single best movie I have ever seen. All of the actors do great jobs at their roles from the villains to the side characters they all give convincing performances.. There's nothing super about Super Troopers except for those deep into the low end of the frat-house mentality that equates smart-alecky with hilarity.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't t...

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Saw V (2008) Se Fuld Film

Saw V is a terrible combination: grisly and tedious. Let's just call it bloody dull.. Saw V isn't anywhere close to the best Saw movie, but it makes the entire series coalesce a little bit better.. The latest and least of the Saw films is just plain boring and even a little tame -- albeit by the standards of a genre that helped bring the phrase "torture porn" into the lexicon.. Woefully ponderous, convoluted and improbable.. . The creatives behind the franchise clearly have taken pride in their ...

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Alex Cross (2012) Spille Film

Tyler Perry finds it easier to step out of Madea's dress than into Morgan Freeman's shoes in the thriller Alex Cross, a trite attempt at franchise building.. A grim, dispiritingly stupid waste of time, energy, money and talent .... [Cross] has a really bad temper, really big guns and really bad dialogue. He will use all of them excessively if pushed.. A strong candidate for dumbest film of the year .... Perry's supposed to be its center. And as an actor - certainly as a movie star - he's absolut...

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Paper Towns (2015) Spille Streaming

Paper Towns is an exercise in artifice.. Deeply mediocre .... At last, a movie about teens on the cusp of adulthood that has heart, wit and soul.. Neustadter and Weber, who also adapted "A Fault in Our Stars" for director Josh Boone, have a feel for the mundane moments of teen life that carry an emotional punch.. Unlike in its predecessor, The Fault in Our Stars, the path to pubescent enlightenment in Paper Towns is more literal than existential, giving your tear ducts the night off at the cost ...

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Løftet (2001) Online Streaming

[A] beautifully made bummer.. Penn as director shows how he can turn an ordinary movie scene -- how many times have we seen a jailhouse interrogation? -- into something inventively, thrillingly singular.. A moving and unmannered motion picture -- a convincing portrait of a man at the end of his rope.. . Mystery-thriller buffs, promise yourselves that you'll see The Pledge. And while you're at it, be sure to invite along Jack Nicholson fans and anyone who saw the first two movies that Sean Penn d...

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Paycheck (2003) Fuld Streaming

There's a sense of treading water about this movie.. Unlike Woo's Face/Off or Broken Arrow, there are no stunts, special effects or kinetic moments in Paycheck that really blow you away.. Belongs with the likes of Impostor: a near-future tale of paranoia and suspense of disappointingly generic proportions.. With its bland central character, and collapsible contraption of a plot, Paycheck leaves little after-effect.. A mostly tangled affair that betrays an intriguing premise and botches most oppo...

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