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Not great but not awful..be fair ppl

posted 15 years ago by Drughie
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I just watched the movie and well, as a fan of tarantino´s movies(I´ve seen them all) its obvious this is a kind of tribute to him.It´s not easy in Portugal with low budgets to do a film of this genre but I have to recognize the effort of Miguel Vieira and the movie still has some good moments of dark humour but.. it always feel to me like "hmm where did I see this joke?" I even knew some things will happen before it happens in the movie..

I really enjoyed Nicolau Brayner´s and Ivo Canela´s performance and Enrique Arce was a good surprise. This film proves once more that Brayner is one of the greatest Portuguese actors ever no matter the language of the movie.. and Ivo Canelas could reach a high level and I would like to see him in an international movie, as I think he´s a very good actor (keep the good work Ivo.. you were great in "furas vidas" and since then your evolution was awsome)

Well I gave it 6/10 hope next one could be better.

Keep the good work and dont give up of portuguese cinema.. in the future I believe we would do great cinema because We already proved that there is talent in our country

[–] suspyria 14 years ago

I agree, it wasn't a bad effort. It lacked something obviously, maybe a bigger budget, a different set of actors or better jokes, but i still thought it was ok. And it was pretty obvious from the beggining that it was a tribute to tarantino, which proves that it was going in the right direction!

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."

[–] jagga_rmn 12 years ago

No, it was not bad at all, by no means a great movie, it has some flaws yes, but I'm sure that if this was released under a british or american label half of the criticism I see to it wouldn't exist.
It is a good movie to watch if you are in for an action movie and a few jokes. It has some problems with its plot, but it is entertaining nonetheless.

What i find gloriously funny, is that for small movie scenes like the portuguese one, you have to make an absolute masterpiece in order to be the least enjoyable for most people and even then people will find something to criticize, this problem on the other hand vanishes completely for the same people when you talk about american, british, japanese or french movies. It is a mentality problem unfortunately...