Watched in the cinema (172nd visit in 2025)
With "Columbus" and "After Yang", artist and director Kogonada has established himself as a filmmaker who uses his keen powers of observation to tell stories about people and their encounters. That's why it's surprising that his first major studio film, "A Big Bold Beautiful Journey," shows so little of the sensitivity that has distinguished him thus far. The attempt to create a poetic reflection on the past, love, and memory does not…
Watched on Disney +
The secret remake. As the producer of films such as "The Rock", "Con Air" and "Armageddon", riot brother Jerry Bruckheimer is known for the expensive, slickly-polished, raucous cinema of the 90s like no other - not even his frequent companion Michael Bay can keep up. "Gone in Sixty Seconds" was his first production in the new millennium and even a remake for the first time, except that hardly anyone (especially from the target audience) knows the…
Watched on Blu-Ray
After the first part of "Under Siege" became a reasonably big hit, it came as no great surprise when a sequel about Steven Seagal's powerful chef Casey Ryback followed in 1995. Directed by veteran Geoff Murphy, the film offers more of the same content - just in one go. Everything is a little bigger, sillier and more violent, without offering much added value. From a pure entertainment value point of view, however, "Under Siege 2" delivers without…
Watched on Blu-Ray (Extended Cut)
German director Roland Emmerich had already proven in 1994 with "Stargate" that he has a happy hand for sci-fi movies. Despite some flaws, he laid the foundation for an entire saga that was continued in several TV series. In his next film 2 years later, "Independence Day", he stayed true to the genre and once again delivered a megahit that went down in history as one of the biggest material battles of the 90s.
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Watched on Blu-Ray
In the mid- to late 1990s, a series of action films hit the cinemas that defined typical 90s action cinema. Blockbusters like "Bad Boys", "The Rock" and "Face/Off" thrilled action fans worldwide. Even the end of the world was threatened in the late nineties sci-fi blockbuster "Armageddon". "Con Air" by the directorial debutant Simon West ran in the same waters as the above-mentioned films. If it says blockbuster on it, it's blockbuster on it. That's what the…
Watched on Blu-Ray
After "2 Fast 2 Furious" and "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" had ensured that the high-speed franchise was driven into a dead end by oily screwdriver fantasies and breakneck road races, first artistically and then commercially, with the accelerator pedal depressed, clear overhaul work had to be carried out on the Fast & Furious brand, which originally had a broad impact. To get back on the road to success, there was only one possibility: The two…
Watched on Netflix
"Eagle Eye" belongs in the category "senseless, but entertaining".
The omniscient central computer of the USA, which controls all activities, recognizes that people act arbitrarily and incapably. Now it thinks it has to take control.
The concept is really not new (WarGames 1983, Terminator 1984) and is not used to create an innovative story. It serves only to stage respectable pursuit action, whereby the computer recruits clueless citizens and makes them submissive by blackmailing them. Via mobile…