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At the beginning, it's unbearably juvenile and one of the main characters is downright annoying. But once the mystery man arrives on the scene, the film is immediately tense until the end and the atmosphere only thickens. It's decently shot, the motive of the killer is good, the pace is fast and it's entertaining enough too. So, if you are in the mood for an unpretentious suspenseful flick, go for it. 70%

The Underworld franchise is famous for the fact that every time you watch a new episode, you don't remember any of the previous ones, and that applies here as well, even though I consider the previous one to be the best. The whole series is very convoluted and uninteresting in terms of story, someone is constantly dying, being revived, there are a bunch of characters and you can't remember their names, but on the other hand the action is solidly gory, clearly shot and has a lot of pizzazz. In modern times there is no bigger slaughter between Lycans and vampires so I quite enjoyed this guilty pleasure. The sexy Kate Beckinsale in latex again and the Prague setting are also good. Entertaining and bloody to the core and I like that. 75%

Zac Efron is starting to grow on me, his films are trendy and enjoyable to watch. We Are Your Friends is a typical chill movie with nice babes (Emily you are awesome!!), decent music, a good party and drugs, more or less the life of today's teenagers. I had a good time, but towards the end it gets a bit touching and sad. 80%

I like boxing movies, this is the kind of movie that will never bore me, but lately the competition has been great and the better ones (Creed, Southpaw) have been a level above. The story itself is quite sensitive and touching, Miles Teller is building a decent career and is one of the more promising young actors, but the fights in the ring themselves aren't very striking or intense, so more of a watchable one-off that I won't remember anytime soon, but for fans of similar films it won't offend. 65%

Peter Berg's reputation with me has recovered a bit after the recent not very satisfying Deepwater Horizon, but Patriots Day still falls short of the pinnacle of his work. While it is a rather sensitive subject, I still find it odd to make a film about a terrorist attack where only three people died when there are far greater disasters happening in the world. But about the film: The pacing is good, the big shootout is stylish, the filming is solid, and Mark Wahlberg is classically fine again, so I'll give four stars for entertainment. 70%

Don't Knock Twice was obviously made on a shoestring budget, but since the whole film takes place in the dark, the layman can't tell anything. Witches are more attractive to me than ghosts, demons and devils combined so a big plus for the leading monster. The film is very entertaining from the beginning, you don't wait for anything and the atmosphere thickens throughout. It's a pity that towards the end it stagnates rather than escalates. Still, in the subgenre definitely a better piece in recent times. 65%.

Hacksaw Ridge just premiered in Dublin yesterday and I'm glad I got to enjoy it on the big screen. The film draws the viewer in from the very beginning with a very unconventional performance from Andrew Garfield, I think the boy has a lot of talent in him and will do some interesting things in the future. The first hour is very emotional, beautifully romantic and psychologically intense. The training session is perhaps the best I've ever seen (Vince Vaughn surprised me), it even gets to my favourite court scene, so awesome all round. Once the film moves to the battlefield the rawest war hell ever filmed begins. Mel Gibson gets absolutely unleashed and serves up some very brutal, violent, realistic, gripping, thrilling and captivating action that had me gasping and screaming out loud in the cinema like I haven't in a long time. I was nearly hit by a chill from how perfect it was. An incredible experience where the scares work more intensely than in The Conjuring. Whether the Oscar will be won by a romantic LALALA for women and fa*s will be a big mystery to me. The fact that there were all seniors sitting around me in the cinema who could have participated in the war itself added to my experience. 100%

I liked Alexandre Aja more in a more lively way a decade ago, when he served us The Hills Have Eyes and High Tension, but lately he seems to have softened. While he serves up imaginative genre pieces, I find the central idea intriguing and it would certainly be more interesting if the boy wasn't lying in a coma for the entire film. Jamie Dornan is good. It was watchable. 60%

Pretty much about nothing. Michael Peña occasionally entertains with a decent joke, but I don't find Alexander Skarsgård funny at all. The plot is bland as hell. Not enough humour. 50%

I, too, feel split about this film, but given that it's celebrating a milestone (it has correctly topped the 3000 rated film number) it deserves a weaker four stars. So I'll start with the praise. James McAvoy, I've noticed a marked improvement in him lately and few could deliver such an intense performance as he does here, but the biggest discovery is Anya Taylor-Joy, who has already shown in both The Witch and Morgan that horror is the way to go. Here, on top of that, she shows that she has more than just kissable tits and her naturally beautiful shape literally took my breath away. That at 20 she can even play tears so believably, hats off to her, this girl is going to do great things. I also liked the appealing cinematography and definitely a breath of fresh air to the kidnap thriller genre. The finale is pretty intense, too. There are more issues though. The first thing that jumps out is the level of humour, not that I didn't laugh, but it didn't really suit a disturbing psychothriller. Also, the trailer and promotion touts 23 different identities in one body, but in the film we only get 5, of which 3 are interesting. The flashbacks and scenes with the psychologist severely slow-down the pace and are boring. And don't expect thrills or gore, this is a pure psychological thriller. I liked last year's The Visit much better, yet I admit that Shyamalan and James Wan are the only ones who can serve up solid mainstream horror. 70%