The World's End

"Have you noticed how communications technologies have developed in the last ten years?" "No." The odd fear was that after the commercial awesomeness of Scott Pilgrim, Edgar Wright's anarchic creativity would be hidden under a bushel. On the contrary, what emerged was probably Wright's purest film, managing to combine two of the director's distinctive virtues: his work with humor and his ability to make good, uncluttered action sequences. In addition, the drunken celebration of fighting the system and especially the constant wit are practically uncorrected by any external interference, so that you can enjoy, for example, an excellent dosage of jokes that are not patently written into the scenes, but instead are the drivers of the plot. This is especially noticeable in the fact that they often build on things that have been hinted at before, so you have to remain constantly vigilant and see beyond the hilarity of the film. Plus, for perhaps the first time, Simon Pegg didn't get on my nerves. Imaging what this director could have done with Ant-Man will forever be in my masturbatory fantasies. (Apologies to the users here for adding the 667th review. Truth be told, I don't give a shit and Satan may rise) (02/10/2016)

Wright, Pegg and Frost are back and in excellent form, this time in a beer-drinkers’ sci-fi about the threat of technology taking over. Almost non-stop situation gags, the action looks like a typical bar fight, crossed with kung-fu. The special effects are excellent, the story gets you thinking. Welcome to the end of the world! (11/08/2013)

It’s good, but my expectations were higher. Hot Fuzz set the bar very high, blending with more grace the serious plot of a thriller with parody. The World's End tries to blend this style of humour with a horror sci-fi thriller, but it grinds a bit (though not as much as, in my opinion, Shaun of the Dead), sometimes the humour is too much, sometimes not enough. What I’m most sorry about is the weird and unnecessary end-credits scene, it ruins the positive impression of the bold and surprising twist with which the film had won me over. (09/29/2013)

The first third is like a flowery hop, boyish-bodied ALE with a delicious taste, whereas the second third begins to smell like an ordinary Eurolager, but it's brisk and drinkable. The final third is like a musty small cellar beer with the dull aftertaste of steamy socks of people who saw too much in their idea. A film whose wheels fall off. Wasting talent and good ingredients for something that again does not lose sight of the genre, but desperately loses sight of itself. History repeats itself, but compared to Hot Fuzz, this is an even thinner attempt at a cheeky meta-party. Most of all, it's quite sad to see how all the overlap literally stamps out the film at the end of the verbatim and still stays with only a few badly grafted references. This is simply not cheeky or clever, just weathered. I pour the end out the window. [65%]. (10/22/2013)

I'm wavering between three and four stars, and that's ultimately one of the biggest surprises that The World's End brought me. The other ones are that Simon Pegg is similar to Tomas Hajíček from the band Krucipüsk, that Nick Frost plays a truly completely different character than you would expect, at least at the beginning, and that Edgar Wright seems to have abandoned his typical bullet shots, or at least is trying to limit them, because there are noticeably less of them. I can't say that I was completely disappointed, but the fact is that I liked The World's End a lot less than the previous two films. I thought it was too long and unnecessarily action-packed (the first encounter with the UFOs was great, but the others just repeated it - and not in the funny "déjà vu" sense). Kudos to the music (the irresistible “Whiskey Bar" scene by The Doors) and all the actors, and I really liked the epilogue. I was thinking that is was too bad that the first half of the film didn't take place "before" and the second half "after". I round down the three and a half stars for now with a heavy heart and will wait to watch it on DVD.__P.S. I don't know how much the other viewers enjoyed the film, I was alone in the movie theatre. (11/10/2013)