Film Reviews by porky

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The Sleeping Room

Sleeping room ? , well it sent me to sleep !

(Edit) 07/03/2018

Premise was good, sadly the production lacked greatly , Lead actress was a large part of the problem, she was as wooden as the floorboards . and her spliff puffing Friend was even Worse .

Lost my interest pretty quickly . shame because the story had some meat in it and the locations were perfect for the story ,getting it all on film however was far beyond the production company .

Personally i would give it a miss....

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The Belko Experiment

Blimey the BELKO Experiment was outrageous !

(Edit) 07/03/2018

I wasnt at all sure this would be any good . sounded the sort of thing that would just end up a tragic mess on film. like a low budget version of Hunger Games or something BUT it actually Gave everything and kept me riveted till the end .

Well worth more than the one watch. Action, Horror, Comedy,Drama,Thriller with an interesting slightly twisted ending.

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Logan

Logan....finally ends.

(Edit) 24/02/2018

I loved much of the X men series of movies but having been given SO many episodes based around Logan/Wolverine I have gotten rather Bored with this character . after all there is only so much entertainment in seeing the same old same old over and over . wow he has metal claws...yeh and????

So I have put this off watching for some time being that I felt I would be bored ridged. and I must admit I was pretty bored for a good third of the movie .... There seems to be no other Mutants around any more so all we get is Logan,The most Dull of all Mutants to carry this along .....but once it gets over the Hump it starts to get better.

Pretty much just Logan killing people throughout the full movie with very little else happening .The promise of a whole load of interesting characters that will arrive by the end keeps you going but actually ,in reality,they dont really ever appear except very briefly ,if you blink you will miss them. so yes ,Logan is all there is ...Yaawwwnnn.

Not as Bad as I thought but still pretty mind numbing of you dont drool over seeing Wolverine and Knife fighting .

Glad I finally saw it but I wont be watching it a second time, Nor adding it to my X men DVD collection. Life is too short to waste it on such depressing dullness.

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Beyond Skyline

Finally the ending the first film never gaveus....

(Edit) 24/02/2018

Entertaining romp, not the best sci-fi movie ive seen this year but it is very welcome just to finally get a proper Ending that the first Skyline never gave us, this movie takes place in the same timescale as the first and the final characters show up halfway into this one. so where we left them in the first movie gets its end.

I did feel slightly robbed that the whole second half was told in a completely different continent .but unlike the first Skyline ,this one is a Complete Story. with a beginning,an explanation and an end.

Sadly the lack luster CGI lets this one down hugely ,obviously made on a smaller CGI budget . not All but Some of the action isnt well created. there are one or two sections where you can see the money ran out before everything was properly matted ,but on the whole an enjoyable movie. well worth more than the one watch in my opinion.

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The Final Girls

Final Girls always survive ...apparently .

(Edit) 22/02/2018

Entertainingly Quirky Slasher Movie within a Movie.

Kind of a Pi@@ Take of Friday 13th and Camp Crystal Lake Slasher Deaths by Jason Voorhese ,

Same kind of thing only a bunch of Cinema Patrons accidentally end up within the Move they are Watching . one of which is the daughter of an actress about to be brutally murdered by the movie slasher in said film.

All does not go as planned/filmed. Funny and interestingly original in its take on the subject.

Definately worth more than the one watch .

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The Ritual

Ritual ...

(Edit) 22/02/2018

At first I thought I had made a terrible mistake, looked like being a real BOYS Movie, Lads weekend away ,Drinking,Talking Girls and Cars etc... Thankfully it became soo much more .

Wonderfully Atmospheric Forrest Romp. slight build of panic being Lost in the woods and the possibilities of being Tracked.

Certainly one of my Favorite Films so far this year . and well worth seeing more than the once .

This is what the Blair Witch SHOULD have been .... Far superior movie, far more strange and far more original.

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Within

Within the limits of average .

(Edit) 17/02/2018

Pretty Typical 'Someone is INSIDE your house and you dont know ' kind of movie. Infact it was soo typical that I thought at first I had already seen it ,till i just realised it looked soo much like something else I had already seen (ie, The Hangman)

Entertaining , a bit spooky but you know how it will end , and im more interested in HOW people are able to walk around in the Wall spaces of a house where the walls are no thicker than 5" deep ???? not to mention why pictures on walls they are supposedly walking behind rock ....Either Side of a DOORWAY ?????? :O clearly not the cleverest of Directors .

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Discopath

Discopath without almost any Disco !

(Edit) 17/02/2018

This movie would have been far More Fun if the actin actually took place in a DISCO !

Yes we get One Disco through the whole movie , just the one at the beginning....... I was hoping to enjoy seeing Disco Dancing to Great Tunes between all the Killings ,but sadly not to be , we are instead in some Dull Convent School ,with a small record player and a Disco Single ....... Really ? sigh.... so much for Disco.

Could have been soo much better . Nice bit of Music . Acting is atrocious . Gore effects are Rubbery,Unintentionally Funny but Effectively Gorey .

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The Limehouse Golem

Golem, go get em....

(Edit) 13/02/2018

Entertainingly Dark in the best Victorian way.

Picture the Johnny Depp Movie 'FROM HELL' only ,thankfully, this time without that dreadful over acting of Depp himself .... a Much ,much better movie by far .

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American Fable

Fable but not Fab .

(Edit) 13/02/2018

Good movie that could have been a lot Better .

It tickles at the edges of Pans Labyrinth with its visions of darkness, but goes no further than a tickle ...

A kidnapping story that gets increasingly complicated by 2 pretty stupid Children's involvement .

people die unnecessarily ,mailboxes too.....

I enjoyed it by the end, but all the way through I did feel like Strangling the stupid kids .

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Mother!

Mother!

(Edit) 09/02/2018

Wow, very Powerful and Uncomfortable .

Im not in any way a follower of any religion but I saw it very clearly as a Creation/God /Christian Parable....Bardem the Creator....God Figure , The Acolyte of Bardem,Ed Harris and his Wife (Adam and Eve) and his two Sons,Cain and Abel,brothers ,one killing the other . Eventually after the Many Wars in the Holy Lands all around God ,who demands the Love and Praise of his followers ,Gives his only Born Son to Humankind Who in their Ignorance Kill him, eating his Blood and Flesh as Sacrement . etc..... it was also a powerful story of Love and how it can be taken for granted by the Blind,Taken but never Fed and Nurtured . like with nature .the Earth Dies and the Creator ,Bardem,Starts Over Once Again...fed only by the Love and Praise he greedily takes from his devoted follower.who loved him unconditionally .

Deeply meaningful symbolism and yet obscured by a distracting overlay of discomfort for the protagonist in her own home being invaded by destructive and brutal outsiders .

Alarming, shocking and thought provoking .

A Must see Movie.

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Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Kingsman ...2

(Edit) 09/02/2018

maybe not as good as part 1 but entertaining and fast paced .beautifully choreographed fight scenes, clever use of camera angles and slow motion . a Good Evenings Entertainment . all that and Cute Puppies too !

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Atomic Blonde

Abysmal Blond .

(Edit) 07/02/2018

More 'Dempsey and Makepeace' than anything ATOMIC .

How they managed to make Charlize Theron look so Ugly was amazing given that she is Stunning in reality .

Bored to Death through the whole movie.. Didn't care who wn ,didn't understand why anyone was doing what they did ,and couldn't care less about the fact they did it ....

Really Grated on me that they were basing the movie around the time the Berlin wall was falling in 1989 but the Music was stuck firmly in the very early 1980's with Electro pop and New Romantics instead of the late 80's and House music and Italian Dance /Acid House and Hip Hop which was the sound of the time and as it should have been....

Badly Planned, Badly Costumed and badly Written.... and Hair and makeup somehow seemed it important to make the lead actress look like Vera Duckworth from Coronation street of the period rather than someone Attractive,Seductive and in any way Trendy .

This movie is Bogging. I had to turn it off .

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The Cutting Room

Cutting Room ?...... hmmm

(Edit) 07/02/2018

Very little Cutting and a Lot of Teenagers Talking .

In reality here, Three Teenagers have made themselves a movie by filming themselves walking about aimlessly and pretending to make a Documentary for a School project about Cyber Bullying....

Its dreadful , like your own home movie ,pointless and in no way a watchable film.

watch your own footage of a family party ,it will have more happening in it .

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Only Lovers Left Alive

Hmmmm.....

(Edit) 06/02/2018

It was OK...to be honest ,

I am soo Vampired Out these days ,Vampires,Vampires everywhere TV,Adverts,Movies,Comics,Books,Yaaawwwwnnnn ,I dont even know why i bothered to get it ...but having done so ,I enjoyed it to some extent, probably one of the better Vampire Movies of the last 20 years since Twilight ruined vampirism for everyone . Think a much much Less Glamorous and more Seedy 'Hunger' ,with far Uglier Vampires than Bowie and Deneuve .Rattier Homes and only Drinking Blood from Blood Banks .

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