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Those who like action thrillers from the nineties can easily add a star, and if you don't mind that it's all naive, schematic, and the concept is stupid as hell, feel free to add a third one as well. Hogan is not a complete loser, even though he is a routine actor. Jon Voight overacts, to say the least, you can recognize the villain from miles away, and if someone wanted to count all the script acrobatics, they would have a very difficult task ahead of them. However, Most Wanted can be something to do during a boring evening when you can't sleep. Overall impression: 20%.

Unrivaled best adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel. An exceptionally powerful film with an interesting theme, a clever screenplay, and a star-studded cast. For me, Nick Nolte delivers his best performance. The film, and maybe it's not worth adding the word "surprisingly", hopelessly failed on the American film market and was not particularly appreciated by film critics. It is a tragicomic story of a man who sacrificed his entire life, his past and future, and even his personal identity in the name of a higher purpose, namely victory in war, and ultimately paid for it with the irony of fate. Overall impression: 90%.

Decently written and filmed detective stories for their time, but if we disregard the faces of Czech actors and compare it to today's global genre average, it's nothing special. The film remains in my memory mainly because of the acting performances of Ilja Prachař and Jiří Hálek. Overall impression 50%.

When introduced on television, Mouchette was characterized as a gloomy metaphor about a society from which God disappeared. A casual, but also a deeper look at the world today confirms that the countries from which God disappeared are not only winning in terms of living standards but also in terms of happiness and contentment index, unlike those where God is still housed wherever you look. The countries where God returns after the era of secularization signal worsening living conditions and security situations. Just like Diary of a Country Priest, Mouchette is also a portrayal of the main character's social isolation and his feelings of loneliness and lack of understanding. Both of my previous encounters with the works of Robert Bresson led me to the realization that he comes from such different ideological positions, that we would probably have a difficult time agreeing even on the weather. I also have difficulty with Bresson's austere form of his works - dramatic tension is foreign to him, and he deliberately avoids emotions and film effects. Yet I cannot deny his extraordinary sensitivity to the cinematic image. He is one of the directors who can speak through imagery, and dialogues only play a peripheral role. For his excellent camerawork alone, Bresson effortlessly deserves three stars. Overall impression: 65%.

The technical aspects of this film are brilliant and Marchal is among the top directors in France, not only in his genre. It is difficult to criticize the acting performances, as Daniel Auteuil is currently the greatest acting ace of French cinema, and he convincingly portrays his burnt-out bitter policeman. The music, editing, and cinematography are all excellently coordinated and fulfill the director's intention. However, I have difficulty with the content, although the script is logically constructed, it all feels somewhat overexposed. All the conflicts are taken to the extreme and create not only a pessimistic but directly nihilistic image of today's France and its justice system. Moreover, the main character is not only imperfect but can serve as a textbook example of a ruined man who has perfected his self-destruction and can hardly gain the audience's sympathy. The film, for example, works with the idea that 25 years of imprisonment is clearly an inadequate punishment for a man who committed a double murder. It is actually an indirect challenge to debate about the death penalty. Frankly, I do not believe in miraculous character changes and the rehabilitative environment of a prison, but a man on the verge of his seventies will already be too exhausted after 25 years of imprisonment and it will be difficult for him to plan and commit further crimes. Emotionally, I simply could not identify with the film. Overall impression: 65%.

A charismatic serial killer is a safe bet for a movie. Kevin Costner no longer has the same status as he did in the 90s, and Mr. Brooks is one of the more promising attempts to return to the limelight. He convincingly plays his killer for pleasure, and if one villain wasn't enough, the screenwriter also uses the hallucinogenic alter ego of Mr. Brooks in a stylish performance by William Hurt. The dialogue of the main character with his uncompromising and straightforward self is ultimately the most interesting part of the whole movie. The script is somewhat overdone, but what can you do, in today's inflation of movie titles, you simply have to grab attention somehow. The biggest disadvantage for Mr. Brooks is the absence of an opponent at his level - unfortunately, Demi Moore is not that. Not so much because of her dull acting, but rather because of the script, which doesn't give her as much space and opportunity. Overall impression: 60%.

I do not want to have unnecessary prejudices, but in a way, this is a typical Czech commercial television product. Originally, it was supposed to be a comedy, but it lacks truly funny dialogues and gags, so it remains some kind of romance, which, however, suffers from the puppet-like characters that are very superficially drawn. A woman like Veronika played by Klára Issová does not even exist in reality, and the same applies to her criminal boyfriend Václav. But what was mentioned above is true - they are too unfunny to be caricatures, so it feels more like an embarrassment. The actors for the most part overreact, partly because the script dictates it, but also because they are poorly directed, especially Lucie Vondráčková. The only civil performance was possibly the character of the American musician... Objectively speaking, I give it about 1 and a half stars, but I have no reason to support this kind of production. Overall impression: 25%.

A shallow disposable popcorn movie, which more or less works thanks to the central acting pair and decent, albeit fluctuating, pace. Overall impression: 50%. I don't particularly like Angelina Jolie, but in this case, her glamour was to the benefit of the film, and she was the perfect type for her role. Brad Pitt, on the other hand, shows that his star reputation is justified.

This is nothing more than stylishly directed nonsense. Maybe it's just a message for those who claim that the king has luxurious golden embroidered clothes adorned with jewels. Unfortunately, the king is naked and the only remarkable thing about him is how proudly he displays his nudity and pretends to have depth of thought when he is as flat as a sheet of paper. Overall impression: you can't go into the negative, so three underlined zeroes.

Mr. Robot stirred up the waters of TV production and became a term or even a revelation for many. It's no wonder - the production team knew the potential of the project and who its target audience was. The game the creators played had its inspiration in Palahniuk's cult classic "Fight Club." Those viewers who watched the German movie Who Am I at the time will find that Mr. Robot feels like its extended version. Fight Club worked great in a small space, but Mr. Robot, expanded into several TV series, can't avoid occasional stumbling and by extending some of the motifs, it reveals their fragility and overall artificiality. The effort to be fresh and cool under all circumstances and repeatedly play on the audience's gratitude effect sometimes disturbs me. After all, the creators obviously aimed at a younger audience; I'm simply not the target. The series presents itself as an anti-system piece with a socio-critical shade, but its cyber-anarchistic premises are shallow and obscure the fact that a similar kind of revolt would have devastating effects on ordinary people and certainly wouldn't lead to any "liberation." Corporations would withstand such an attack in a much better condition. Malek is the ideal choice for the lead role; I had no problem with him at all, and his presence ultimately determined my rating of 4 stars and an overall impression of 70%.