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“In fact, I was supposed to see this movie with my filmclub when it was released but, for some reasons, it was cancelled at the last minute and we watched instead the rather disappointing 'Anni Fellici'. Eventually, since I kept hearing some good things about this movie (it even won the Academy Award” read more
“I think I had the soundtrack for this movie for already 20 years, so I was definitely eager to check the damned thing after all this time. Well, to be honest, it wasn't really good, I'm afraid. I mean, it is not that it was really bad, it was more that half of it was really neat and interesting but,” read more
@Rocconerverdies, to be honest, I have to admit that Paula Patton, even Queen Latifah, are actually quite gorgeous ;)
“I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it has a really solid reputation (it has an impressive 7.9 rating on IMDb and it was nominated for 2 Academy Awards), I thought I might as well check it out. On top of that, it was a huge box-office success in France and it turned out t” read more
Notes: Back in the 90's, John Woo was really hot and considered as an icon for many directors such as Quentin Tarantino. "The Killer" is supposed to be his "masterpiece"... I thought it was just bad. Lot of shootings, lot of slow motion... The top was one of the last scenes : There are the 2 main characters. If I recall correctly the woman was blind from the start and the man became blind during one those countless shootings. They crawl to each other very slowly, in a typical John Woo slow motion. It looked just ridiculous and the worse is that at the end.... they missed each other !!! they crawled next to each other !! It supposed to be very touching and have a lot of symbolism but I was just stroke how pathetic it looked. To be honest, it has been ages since I saw the damned thing and I should probably give it a 2nd chance at some point but I really didn't like it at all the first time around. 
“If you are familiar with Gaspar Noé’s work, then you will know that to watch any of his movies is always a challenge and this movie was maybe his most challenging effort so far. I mean, it was pretty obvious that Noé will come up at some point with a very sexually explicit feature and you might ” read more
A Complete Review of Luc Besson's work (39 movies items)
“To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick and I should definitely re-watch it at some point. On paper, this sounded like a project with some great potential. Indeed, it was adapted from one of the better books written by Stephen King (I even read the damned thing later on), it w” read more
“I already saw this movie but, since it was a while back, I was quite eager to check it out again. There was a time, in the 90’s, when there was some kind of wave of movies dealing with the black ghettos in the US, it was called the ‘hood’ genre, and, from all these movies, this must be the mos” read more
What a joke... Of course, it is a thriller! and one of the most convoluted ones I have seen in many years...
Notes: I have always been amazed that, according to Imdb, ‘Good Will Hunting’ is still Gus Van Sant’s best movie. I mean,I think it is a decent drama and an entertaining feature but I don’t see what was so amazing about it. In my opinion, his best movie was actually this flick, his sophomore directing effort. To be honest, it has been a while since I saw it and it probably needs a re-watch but, back then, I thought it was quite amazing and one of the best movies dealing with drug addiction. At the time, Matt Dillon was one of the leading actors of his generation and he was really good in this. It is seriously a dark and rather ominous affair and when William S. Burroughs shows up on the screen playing a junky priest, it becomes even quite surrealist. The only critic I would have is that Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch might look too good to be some massive junkies but, on the other hand, you could argue that they had been hooked only for a few years. 
