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Great music! Otherwise a relatively cheap, but fun, intense and sufficiently suspenseful forest chase with sharp fights. Add some gore and it would be four stars. 6/10.

A decent Japanese oddity with great style! Tatsuya Fujiwara (Death Note, Rurouni Kenshin: The End of a Legend Arc) plays a bartender in a fancy restaurant with a very specific clientele: killers and lunatics. A new cute waitress reluctantly starts working there, having no idea what she's getting into. The film has an original colorful style (the visuals are truly stunning and the bar is pleasantly exotic), the gang of killers is interesting, and each has their own "room" in the establishment. The best one is the bizarre character of the bulldog, who steals most scenes for himself and is great in action. I'm a bit disappointed with the action itself, even though it has its own identity and one scene is clearly a nod to The Matrix. I was hoping for more explicit violence, but I still enjoyed watching the film. The characters are well-played, the story is interesting, and it manages to surprise in unexpected directions at times, and the premise itself is more than attractive, so I'm satisfied. Japan has brought me joy after a long time. 7/10.

I hoped Line Walker 2 would shock me similarly to, for example, Shock Wave 2. It's a similar case where the first part didn't really entertain me, so I had some hope for this one, but unfortunately, it's on a similar level as the first part. The acting is decent again (Nick Cheung, Louis Koo, and Francis Ng are well-known Hong Kong stars), but the plot didn't really engage me. The action consists of not very exciting shootouts, although there are at least two decent fights, and occasionally, there is noticeable weaker CGI (the car crash). The only thing I genuinely liked was the twenty minute final car chase, with bulls released into the streets that occasionally pick up a few people on their horns, giving it a relatively fresh and more intense impression. Otherwise, nothing that would blow me away. Hong Kong can do better. 6/10.

I loved every freakin' second of it... Movie of the year! The animated film of the decade! The best Netflix film! Instant cult-classic and masterpiece! Afterwards, I almost had to go to surgery to fix my jaw. Unbelievable experience. The film focuses on a wacky, crazy and likeable family who, in the middle of the robot apocalypse, is on a family trip while people are being abducted and the world is slowly ending. An excellent and original concept of the beginning of the apocalypse involving electric appliances going crazy. Throughout the film, the dog naturally steals the spotlight, but the father is also excellent, being a proper handyman and a real man (many men in their forties will see themselves in him), and, of course, the two malfunctioning robots as additions to the group add even more to the show. The son and daughter are also decent, but they lag behind the others a bit, and the mom, she turns into a regular assassin at the end, earning respect! It has a beautiful comic book stylization, great music, a hefty dose of pop-culture references, as well as references to technology, family, American society, and much more. The action itself is also good (the battle in the shopping center with alive electrical appliances has an almost horror atmosphere!!) and the grand finale is, of course, amazing. The biggest advantage is undoubtedly the humor, which is served to such an extent that I can't remember a movie in which I laughed non-stop without breaks. A tremendous explosion, where I was disappointed it was already over and I wanted even more. I want a sequel, prequel, spin-off, anything right away! More screenings are necessary, there is a lot of humor and details in the background, and it's impossible to absorb everything on the first go, there's really a lot. Powerful, touching, incredibly funny, playful, creative, intelligent, captivating, thrilling, and breathtaking. Yes, that's the Mitchells! And I enthusiastically recommend them to absolutely everyone. 10/10.

Stefano Sollima and Taylor Sheridan are a proven duo, but my expectations were definitely higher. The action-packed April duel is easily won by Nobody. Without Remorse is a technically precise action spy thriller with excellent an performance by Michael B. Jordan, fantastic camera work, solid music, decent pacing, and a rather dark atmosphere. Unfortunately, the action did not captivate me. Firstly, I had a feeling that it is not R-rated, so forget about bloody headshots, and the promised stealth action was also hardly present. It lacks intensity, and the fights are mostly very short. On the other hand, there is quite a bit of action, so boredom is not a threat, and the entertainment is definitely above average, but there is nothing specifically memorable about it. 6/10.

Director Neil Burger set the bar so high after Limitless that he will probably never surpass it. Although Voyagers is not too ambitious, it is definitely a cool and enjoyable bit one-off, worth more attention than this year's sci-fi offerings from Netflix. The film takes place in the near future on a spaceship with a thirty-member crew of young people searching for a new home. As it usually happens, their relationships start to deteriorate early on, with characters changing and dividing into groups. The acting is decent. Tye Sheridan is a likeable protagonist and Lily-Rose Depp is adorable. Colin Farrell is also good in a smaller role. The film is nicely shot and at times it is quite suspenseful. At times, I was hoping it would turn into a nice carnage, but perhaps I wanted too much. It didn't offend me, I enjoyed it, I have no problem with it. Those who have nothing else to watch and love sci-fi will definitely not waste their time with this. 6/10.

Decent, but weaker Pierre Richard. The first half is great and there are two or three hilarious scenes. But after the tournament, Pierre takes a back seat and it didn't interest me as much. Still an entertaining movie, but I'm Shy, But I'll Heal is still unbeatable. 6/10.

Today's Netflix new "horror" release with the beautiful Amanda Seyfried is unfortunately too dull for horror and insufficiently tense for a drama. It's not a completely bad film, it's relatively well-made (but that's already a guarantee for every new Netflix film, so I don't see it as a positive). The problem is mostly the two-hour runtime and the fact that not much interesting happens most of the time. It's not very suspenseful or entertaining, it's not scary at all, and something interesting starts happening only in the final twenty minutes, though again, nothing extraordinary. The film reminded me a bit of The Amityville Horror, but it's not ambitious enough or audience friendly. But I guess it could appeal to some girls, so they can easily add a star and a half, the rest of the viewers won't miss out on anything. If there weren't so many slow and horror dramas coming out this year, I might have leaned towards giving it three stars, but I'm already fed up with them, so I'll be more uncompromising. 4/10.

Cute animated sci-fi with robots. The story is interesting, the animation is average and there isn't much action. Better than average. 6/10.

Anime psycho gore madness!! A group of students performs a spell that is supposed to unite them as friends, but one of them makes a mistake and they are teleported to a different time dimension, to an old dark school haunted by the ghosts of murdered students. It’s very dark, quite twisted, incredibly brutal, and the gore is really great (guts hanging out, gouged out eyes, severed heads, hands). You can try to guess who will die and in what order throughout the whole film, and it is definitely unpredictable. And let's not kid ourselves, killing children is an intense and unpleasant theme in itself, so even in anime, it has quite some "juice" to it. The finale with an unexpected twist is also surprising. Definitely a decent genre piece in terms of story, atmosphere, and brutality. 7/10.