D.Moore

At times it is strangely bland, at times it is a great action film with a lot of good to great things. Especially the duo of Jim Brown and Burt Reynolds, Goldsmith's (another) unforgettable score, and everything that happens in the final quarter, during which I was reminded at times of The Wild Bunch (from the same year). The overall impression was spoiled mainly by Raquel Welch, who looked great under the running water, but apart from this scene I couldn't find any other scene in the film where she had to "act".

It's a really big... disappointment. You just don't make a film about three people locked in an underground bunker (where one of them is weird, the second is weird and dangerous, and the third would just like to get out) without even a bit of suspense. And as hard as John Goodman and Mary Elizabeth Winstead try, the script makes them stupid. Without wanting to give anything away, I have to say that various things happen in 10 Cloverfield Lane simply to be surprising, but they are not logical, and when I asked myself for about the fifth time "Why in God's name...?", I realized how boring the film actually is. Yes, the ending finally had decent momentum, but if anyone is looking forward to seeing something this time - without the constraints of a handheld camera - they should indulge their appetite, because apart from a few brief shots, the picture shakes just as much as it did seven years ago. Two and a half.

I missed a final point, and the film didn't even have a proper plot - we know what happened to the characters, but unfortunately we don't learn what happened to the survivors. However, the writer's (and director's) ideas are very pleasantly blackly entertaining and watchable. Three and a half.

Three and a half stars. James Franco, Sarah Gadon, the retro atmosphere and the first and last episode are great, but in the meantime I was quite bored here and there. The biggest flaw of King's novel, that is, the sprawl during Jake's teaching, was removed, but it was replaced by another flaw - the completely unnecessary character of Bill and the large amount of space the script devoted to him. Otherwise, I didn't mind the changes from the book.

Ninety-four minutes of film... And I wasn't bored with a single one. I read the book in one sitting, so I was "just" waiting to see how Danny Boyle would handle it. I have to say, he did a great job. It's not clear to me why the plot deviated so much from the book and Ralston's real story in the beginning of the film (the swimming with a couple of girls is a purely cinematic, completely unnecessary addition and also the only minus), but everything that came after that was sensational, believable thanks to Franco and constantly imaginative thanks to Boyle (you wouldn't believe how many possibilities there are to place the camera in such a narrow canyon). The film looks amazing, features an impeccable soundtrack and won't get out of my head any time soon.

All I wanted was an ordinary unpretentious action movie that could entertain me (or at least not bore me), and I didn't even get that. Man, this was stupid! The director of the great Die Hard 2 made a stupid clone of Die Hard 3. Crap! And that “actor” in the main role…

It is a very long film, barely up to the level of, for example, Spielberg's Amistad or The Color Purple. It is almost no exaggeration to say that in 12 Years a Slave, the same thing happens over and over again, i.e., blacks are humiliated, whipped, they are scared, etc., just in different variations, and after an hour or so it gets boring. The plot is strangely disjointed and a lot of characters or situations are unnecessary or unfinished (Epps' wife, the other slaves, like the suddenly appearing white guy). If I didn't know the name of the film, I would have absolutely no way of knowing from anything that the whole rough episode lasted twelve years, almost all the white guys are cruel (who plays the nicest guy?)... And so on. It was well acted, Benedict Cumberbatch in particular shone in a smaller but impressive role, and I also gave Michael Fassbender's slave driver all the credit he deserved. I was particularly impressed by the direction in the long whipping shot, while Zimmer's unimaginative music did not impress at all. Three and a bit.__P.S. More and more I'm thinking how much better the film could have been if the first half had been devoted to Solomon's slavery and the second half had shown some of the court scenes/losses (which only the end credits tell us about).

One merciful star for Shapiro's cool soundtrack and for Andy Serkis, without whom this film wouldn't have a single joke. Jennifer Garner can act, but she's grossly miscast in (this) “comedy”.

It's a shame that some of the sympathetic believable bearded men end up being so interchangeable in the chaos, though the film's opening takes quite a bit of care to introduce them as best it can. It's the only thing that bothered me about 13 Hours. But on the other hand, it is quite possible that when I see the film on DVD, I will be able to tell one from the other more easily and it will only improve the film. Michael Bay surprised me - the film is not that pathetic (by his standards!), the action is not overdone and the wait for it is really exciting. The script can afford to let the characters say lines like "It's like Black Hawk Down!" without sounding ridiculous, and the director can use a trick mortar shell flight to refer to the dropping of the Japanese bomb in Pearl Harbor... I hardly noticed the runtime, there was always something going on and everything was in moderation. In short, more than a good film.

A great film. From the horrifying "audio story" of my beloved SK came an above-average film in all respects, which brings back memories of the good old days when the word horror didn't just mean dozens of disgustingly slit throats, piles of disemboweled intestines and a poor atmosphere. I have no reservations about the way the filmmakers handled the subject matter. The short original text was obviously not enough for the whole film, so a lot of things had to be thought out. But even the added passages feel like they are straight out of Stephen King! I was staring... Admiration must go to the director, the special effects team and especially John Cusack, who simply excels in this film about one progressively mad author. And so I thought - if I gave five stars to Darabont's The Mist, why not give them to 1408? One of King's best adaptations.