films seen
5
average score
3.00*
nationality
status
Alive and kicking

Movies


The Orphanage

El Orfanato
2007 / 105m - Spain
Horror, Mystery
4.0*/5.0*
The Orphanage poster

A Monster Calls

2016 / 108m - UK
Fantasy - Animation
3.5*/5.0*
A Monster Calls poster

The Impossible

Lo Imposible
2012 / 114m - USA
Drama, Thriller
3.0*/5.0*
The Impossible poster

Society of the Snow

La Sociedad de la Nieve
2023 / 144m - Spain
Drama, Adventure
2.5*/5.0*
Society of the Snow poster

A Spanish remake of Alive. I'm not sure why they felt it was necessary to tell this story again, especially since the film hardly deviates from the original. It doesn't add that much, at the same time, it's not noticeably worse either. It's just the same story, told in the same way, four decades later.

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When a Uruguayan rugby team goes on a vacation, their flight crashes over the Andes mountains. A good many of them survive the crash, but they are lost and starving in a vast, unhospitable area. When no help is coming, they have to figure out how they are going to survive this ordeal.

The performances are decent and the setting is majestic, but that's about all this film has to offer. The story was familiar territory, the drama is a little too cinematic at times and 140 minutes is a bit much for what is mostly a single-location film. It's not a terrible upgrade, but it is a pointless one.


Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

2018 / 128m - USA
Action, Adventure, Sci-fi
2.0*/5.0*
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom poster

Another good director wasted on a generic Hollywood product. The best thing about the latest Jurassic Park film is a big and spectacular volcano outburst. That's nice and all, but since this is a film about dinosaurs it's telling how botched up the rest of it is. Just kill this franchise already.