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The best Czech movie in years. This is an excellent film about revenge, spiced up with the fact that the killers are about eighty years old. Problems with orientation, memory and being wheelchair-bound are just some of the obstacles that these war veterans overcome with their own stubborn persistence. The acting performances are brilliant; you just can’t help rooting for both protagonists. Cynical jokes contrast with all of the horrors of old-age and the journey through the picturesque countryside is topped off with laughter at nothing in the retirement home. What the heck has happened with the world? Hats off to Dušek and Provazník, who didn’t slip into comedy, instead reflecting the gravity of the situation. P.S: Schmitzer is basically like The Punisher in a wheelchair.

The Black Panther’s father was beaten to death and so, now in the role of an NYPD detective, he likes to clean the streets somewhat more thoroughly than his colleagues, preferring to terminate them rather than taking them into custody. He's the perfect candidate to lead a manhunt for two eight-time cop killers who disappeared with 50 kilos of uncut cocaine. This action classic (coherent shoot-outs, high-speed chases) changes direction a little halfway through and is much more intelligent than it seemed at the start. And it just keeps on moving. The moralistic conclusion paradoxically does not present the main character as a good person, but more of a perfectly functioning machine for imposing a new order on the modern world.

I hoped at least for a bit of entertaining action with some cute girls, but that’s not what I got. The car chase shot almost exclusively from inside the vehicle is frustrating. The bad guys escaping thanks to the incompetence of the central team is maddening. Then when the boss says “good work", praising the team… it’s just devastating. Banks directs like a janitor, trampling the legacy of the preceding versions. I didn’t expect anything great, but I’m surprised by how illogically all of the characters behave. Sure, the women help each other out and they’re best friends, which is understandable since all of the men in the movie are either idiots or bad guys. Oh, and one guy cooks for them and gives them massages. At least Stewart appears in a short skirt.

Top-notch special effects, but a couple of old bridges and one dam certainly didn’t swallow the entire crazy budget. More likely Baba Voss rightly demanded a huge fee. Momoa and his decapitation antics are the series' most entertaining attraction. Someone should make a new Conan the Barbarian as a miniseries! A story of two kids born with sight who go to jail to visit their dad has a subtext that is both natural and racist. An evil black man destroying nature again = Canada burning coal. Baba sums it up nicely in the library. But I think that See would work much better as a book. Knight needs room to illustrate the thinking and motives of some of the characters properly, to understand just why they behave like cretins. Take Queen Kane and her dumb plan! How could she even hope that her plan could ever work? There must be some easily defendable reason hidden inside that sick mind of hers, but I would like to know it and not just make assumptions. To accept the fact that the blind are somehow weirdly blind is a game I’m willing to play. Some are a little like Daredevil and then again some aren’t… ok, I can dig that. I’m still looking forward to season 2, even though it has a long way to go in terms of screenwriting.

Bastille Day is likable action movie with the hard-fisted Idris in the role of a CIA badass who solves every situation by disobeying orders, bending the rules and shooting people. Almost like one of Besson’s very best screenplays fell from his desk. A lot of borrowing goes on in all directions, but director James Watkins, who had a hit with his Eden Lake, always channels the action into the right genre alley. And the lesson learned? Maybe this will persuade American muggers not to rob European tourists.

Thor and General Zod on horseback against the Taliban. A well-made, textbook example of a movie, but nothing more. No personal angle. In his debut, Fuglsig offers nothing extra. It’s simply glorification of the American way of making war (let’s drop bombs no them). But the horse vs. tank action scenes are well-made and raw. Just a shame that we don’t learn much about the Uzbek general.

Brilliant ideas, cynical humour and great quips. This gang can always lift my spirits and they have similar taste in cars as me. A show made with gusto.

A Chinese modern western with a wonderful chase involving a truck, a Jeep and horses. Geo uses the “story" as a crutch supporting stylish action scenes that often stray outside the bounds of reality. The character profiles are scant, the motivations purposeful. The main strength lies in the unfamiliar landscape of western China near the Gobi Desert. "This coat is bullet-proof! My grandma told me so."

A great adaptation, faithful enough to the book to please its fans, and different enough for it to tie in with the end of Kubrick’s movie. McGregor is excellent as Danny, but the sexy Rebecca Ferguson’s performance as Rose the Hat is just heaven. Much better than in the book. The climax at the hotel, logically different from the book, is a playful variation on the original Shining, with an ending that closes the circle.

Great actors in a crazy comedy about Nazi ideology. Written, directed Hitler played by a New Zealander. This unusual child’s view of war is presented unobtrusively and in great style. Heil me, man!