Tag Archives: SF

After Earth (2013) ☆☆(2/4) : A survival camp with dad – on the Earth

 My demand is not that big when I enter the screening room for reviewing SF film. Regardless of the level of my expectation, I merely want to be entertained or excited by what it wants to show and tell us, … Continue reading

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Iron Man 3 (2013) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Iron Man recharged

Unexpectedly, “Iron Man 3” recharges itself with the sense of fun and excitement while being a little more serious than before. We saw Bruce Wayne and James Bond falling and then rising again in last year, and now it is … Continue reading

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Oblivion (2013) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : It’s derivative, but it looks good anyway

After grumbling about “Oblivion” to my lab colleagues right after the afternoon screening at the local theater today, I thought about how easily I could rate this derivative SF film. As a matter of fact, it is so derivative that … Continue reading

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Cloud Atlas (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Life is full of make-ups

“Cloud Atlas” is something you do not often encounter at theater: an ambitiously epic folly which will dazzle or bore you at the big screening room. Though I am not entirely sure about my opinion on this giant messy tapestry, … Continue reading

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Dredd 3D (2012) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : A judge’s rough day with a psychic rookie

 Here is a good news; “Dredd 3D” is better and more enjoyable than that forgettable 1995 film based on the same British comic book by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. While we have seen its dystopian world countless times before … Continue reading

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A Werewolf Boy (2012) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : A Girl and her pet werewolf

South Korean movie “A Werewolf Boy” is an old-fashioned romance story featuring a young girl and her loyal werewolf boy. I know many of you are already thinking about those CGI wolves in Twilight movies, but, luckily for us, the … Continue reading

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Looper (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : A SF thriller with clever loopholes

There is nothing particularly new about one of the time-honored traditions in science fictions in new SF thriller “Looper”, but this smart film cleverly finds good ways to deal with its subject, and I like it. Its law of causality … Continue reading

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Total Recall (2012) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : It can unnecessarily remember it for you

Len Wiseman’s “Total Recall”, which is a remake version of the 1990 film with the same name, has several amusing things to talk about after watching it, but most of them are the faint echoes from the 1990 version. They … Continue reading

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Deranged (2012) ☆☆(2/4) : Do shouting and running solve anything?

 They shout or run a lot in South Korean thriller movie “Deranged”, just because they need to save the people they care about from the deadly parasite which controls human brain for its reproduction. As far as I remember, they … Continue reading

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Minority Report (2002) ☆☆☆☆(4/4): A great multifaceted entertainment from Spielberg

Watching Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” (2002) again through Blu-ray made me muse on how much my life with movies has changed during the last 10 years. When I watched it with my father at one of the big movie theaters … Continue reading

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