Walter K's Reviews

The very definition of harrowing - in fact that word only begins to describe it. An absolutely incredible tale, and all the more so because it is apparently true. Intense, painful to watch, yet uplifting. Incredible acting across the board. I was left breathless and in awe.
Review Date: 4/28/2022

"This is dragging on too long." It's dialogue spoken in the movie that describes it perfectly. The repetition is annoying and unnecessary, and the story seriously takes forever to move forward. Some filmmakers have so little to say or show you that they fill the screen with slow lingering shots of nothing particularly important or even beautiful. It's just filler and it's dull to sit through while waiting for something to happen.
Review Date: 9/4/2022

Endless and pointless profanity, and a camera that never stops moving, like the cameraman was on 10 cups of coffee. Unwatchable.
Review Date: 8/26/2022

Unpleasant is how I would describe this film. The characters are unpleasant and the story is fairly dull. As much as I wanted to know what happened to the missing daughter I couldn't sit and take any more unpleasantness.
Review Date: 8/21/2022

By far this has the dumbest premise I think I've ever seen. I can't believe Sigourney Weaver fell this far. Sad.
Review Date: 9/1/2022

Meryl Streep is astonishing! Some movies and stories are meant to be heart wrenching and unpleasant. Some might feel this movie is too negative or harsh but that's the kind of story these people wanted to tell. Yes sometimes entertainment can be dark and uncomfortable, but the magic is that you don't want to look away despite that.
Review Date: 11/8/2022

There's a reason this movie is nearly 2 hours long; every single moment is long and drawn out for absolutely no reason. Over-use of slow motion, conversations that plod along, a storyline that could have been summed up in 30 minutes. I hit fast forward a great deal because i got tired of nothing slowly happening. Nothing. No amount of cameos made a bit of difference. After an hour there was a fight scene that lasted approximately 30 seconds and then it was fillowed by a conversation with little substance. Jusr plain boring.
Review Date: 5/11/2022

Bad writing. Bad use of a truly talented actor. Bad holes in the plot line, and really bad behavior from the characters. Yep, it was definitely bad. The only good thing I got out of this movie was seeing shots of Portland, Oregon that I recognized. If that's the best a film has to offer, well, you know how low to set your expectations.
Review Date: 9/27/2022

I think that even if I had gone into this without any expectations I would have been disappointed. It's a very uninteresting tale, though I admit I gave up after only 20 minutes. The acting is fine, it just felt like the story was going nowhere at a pace too slow for me to enjoy. Colin Farrell whining about his lost friendship wasn't very entertaining, and whoever did his makeup needs to find new employment because his face was often 3 different colors at the same time. I suppose the film could have gotten much better but I simply could not get invested in the characters, or their plight. Now I'm going to go watch "In Bruges" to remind myself why I had such high expectations to begin with.
Review Date: 2/17/2023

As far as dialogue goes this movie was a no-brainer. An hour of people just calling out each others names gets really damn old. I can just envision the casting call; "Are you able to yell out the same name over and over again for the length of an entire movie while looking and sounding scared? If so, we have the perfect part for you..." I'm starting to think anything with a good Rotten Tomatoes rating is worthless.
Review Date: 5/4/2022

After 20+ minutes of basically nothing happening, and the cameraman's inability to hold the camera still for more than a few seconds, I turned this movie off. Maybe it was going somewhere amazing - I don't know - I just know the constant shaking of the camera was both irritating and nauseating, and the fact that each scene just seemed to slowly unfold into nothing got to me. Good luck to anyone who tries to watch this.
Review Date: 3/27/2021

I thought this was a pretty weak film. It definitely had a weak, unsatisfying, dare I say cheap ending. Hayek's character, though passionate about her point of view, shows herself to be fairly weak and ineffective. There is one redeeming point, though weakly made, that it is more difficult to heal or take care of something than it is to destroy it but that was the only point in which I thought this movie had something worth offering. It wasn't really entertaining, often uncomfortable, and did a clumsy job of driving the oh-so-obvious point home. I expected more from the excellent cast and got less.
Review Date: 12/3/2022

Overly long, meandering, incomprehensible at times, boring at others. I understand and enjoy absurdist/abstract/difficult/artistic movies, and the first maybe 30 minutes were indeed engaging (though a bit staged) but then it just kept dragging on. Rarely did I feel sucked into, or immersed in, the moment. Quite often I longed to press the fast forward button, or at least mute the constant whining of Mr. Phoenix.

So it's a bit about incest apparently, though that was pretty obvious in the first 30 minutes. Once I gave up and DID start skipping chapters I ran into a section where it sounded like the voice of his mother was either talking to him, or narrating, I'm not sure. Her pace was much like the movie; slow, boring. I kept skipping chapters/scenes and it was just the same slow, nothing going on. It wound up being yet another movie I gave up on.

I enjoyed Hereditary immensely, and remain hopeful Midsommar is good, but after Beau is Afraid I have doubts, and won't be as excited to hear he's made a new flick in the future.
Review Date: 10/23/2023

Sad and incredibly inspirational. The things we do, no matter how seemingly insignificant, and the person we are will have an impact on more people in our lives than we'll ever know. It's never too late to make changes for the better so don’t hesitate to start right now.
Review Date: 4/27/2022

A dark and terrible time in the history of Ireland, told with unflinching brutality and honesty. The sort of film that makes wading through all the other garbage I've seen lately worthwhile. An incredible story, superb acting, and an eye for authenticity. Highly recommended.
Review Date: 4/27/2022

Not very good at all. I seriously can't believe such terrible writing and storytelling is still seen as worthy of praise. Joe Hill is no Stephen King that's for sure.
Review Date: 10/10/2022

Good, profane, lowbrow comedy with heart. This is NOT a family movie, it's called Cock Blockers so you should know what to expect going in. If the amount of honest laughter I experienced was any indication, this is a fantastically foul romp!
Review Date: 11/25/2022

Pretty straightforward fairly realistic revenge story. Well done, no b.s., to the point.
Review Date: 5/1/2022

Boring boring boring
Review Date: 1/4/2023

I had no idea what this movie was about when i pushed play. It was funny, serious, heartwarming and incredibly sad - spent a good deal of time crying. Such a wonderful surprise!
Review Date: 5/6/2022

Do you like to watch people walk? How about the view of their shoes as they climb stairs over and over again? The attempt to make this look like it was one long uninterrupted shot is actually quite distracting, and for an action movie I found it incredibly boring. The acting is sub par, as is some of the camera work. I gave up about halfway through.
Review Date: 11/11/2021

I don't know that I'll ever understand the thinking behind taking every scene and making it painfully slow and drawn out. It makes a film dull, not dramatic. Perhaps these people have a 30 minute story they need to turn into 90 minutes - I can't say for sure. Eventually it becomes tiresome and I just want to get it over with. This is one of those films.
Review Date: 5/2/2022

What an amazing movie!!!
Review Date: 4/22/2022

Nothing scary, new or remotely interesting to see here.
Review Date: 12/20/2022

Much like the first season, I gave up on season 2 because it went from interesting to boring, and the camera operator couldn't seem to hold the camera still. I grew tired of watching scenes drag out and having to dart my eyes back and forth across the screen repeatedly while a character stood still and didn't even say anything. The constant movement does not enhance my experience, nor does it make the action (or lack of it) any more exciting or interesting. So I gave up at about episode 3, which means I gave up a bit sooner than I did on season 1, but not much. Another viewing and storytelling experience ruined by terrible pacing and poor (yet intentional) camerawork.
Review Date: 10/10/2022

Took this off my Wish List. The first half of the season kept me interested, and then it began to seriously drag. This 3 disc season could have easily fit on 2 discs if they didn't spend an inordinate amount of time simply staring at things. It doesn't set the mood to let the camera linger on a face or a house for too long, it just becomes annoying, and the second part of season 1 was overflowing with those moments. Heck, even the convoluted plot wasn't as bothersome as the pacing. I'll be borrowing season 2 from the library.
Review Date: 10/3/2022

Neither "mind-bending" or "disturbing" this was actually quite tame and a bit tedious. If you like watching a person do a lot of walking down dark corridors I suppose you might think this a masterpiece but I was just extremely disappointed throughout. Not much horror in this horror flick.
Review Date: 11/14/2022

I'm a huge fan of Cormac McCarthy but this is definitely not a good adaptation of his work. The acting is poor, the narration distracting. Don't believe the hype it cannot hold a candle to No Country for Old Men.
Review Date: 5/18/2022

I’m going to write this review in the style of the movie. Ready?

This movie is effing terrible. The effing story revolves around a effing man and effing woman who spend a effing night together effing talking and effing talking like they maybe made it past sixth effing grade in their education. If you aren’t certain what I’m trying to say, replace “effing� with the f-word and perhaps it’ll make sense.

Yes, if you like the f-word you will think this movie was written by Oscar winners. In between the bloody parts 2 actors hold idiotic, profane conversations that have zero substance, are not entertaining, and are so laden with the f-word that I couldn’t stand another second of it and turned it off. I don’t care if your characters are rough, illiterate, punks, whatever - if you can’t write dialogue that literally includes the f-word in every single line then you shouldn’t be writing dialogue at all and should probably go back to prison where you learned to speak.
Review Date: 11/15/2023

Dull and plodding. I guess I'm supposed to feel sorry for the warden of a prison. If you don't like your career choice choose a different one. If your career is screwing up your life and marriage choose a different job. I felt zero empathy for the warden and really don't understand how anyone could.
Review Date: 7/14/2022

Guilty pleasure. I didn't expect much, and it's true this series can be very cheesy at times, but I got caught up in it nonetheless. It's all very simplistic, but that's okay, because we're talking about a continuation of the Karate Kid movies which, let's face it, was not amazing cinema. This is entertainment, with the message and morals worn on the sleeve and sometimes shoved down your throat, but more than anything it is fun. I can't imagine how they've made it to 6 seasons, and it's not likely I'll ever find out, but I recommend at least giving this series a try. Seasons 1 and 2 are worth it.
Review Date: 9/27/2022

I had high hopes for this. I thought it would be entertaining, perhaps darkly funny, but it just turned out to be irritating. Another disappointment in a long line of them recently.
Review Date: 4/28/2022

The same images, over and over again, coupled with long, lingering shots of absolutely nothing made this a frustrating watch. The story wasn't even interesting enough for me to want to skip to the end to see "what it was all about". Not much going on and it takes a long time getting there.
Review Date: 11/28/2022

Low budget, poorly filmed, empty of any real substance. This is not a horror flick, there's no intense interplay between characters as promised, it's just an amateurish bit of nothing remotely interesting.
Review Date: 5/8/2022

The camera never stops moving and shifting. It's not only distracting, it's headache-inducing. Might have been a good movie, but probably not.
Review Date: 2/6/2023

I had no idea this was a musical. The songs are completely forgettable, the singing I'd describe as halfway decent. It's a timeless tale that is well acted but the musical parts completely drag it down. Couldn't finish it.
Review Date: 7/13/2022

Horrific. Unrelenting tension. The inexplicable followed by the unbelievable. So many of these flicks try to cheat with jump scares, monsters and buckets of blood but this is truly terrifying stuff.
Review Date: 4/30/2022

Literally anyone could have taken on the role that Jim Carrey did in this movie and been just as believable and effective. His talents were wasted. Personally I'd rather see him flailing and making stupid faces than doing this sort of "serious" role. Overall not even that interesting of a tale, true or not.
Review Date: 5/5/2022

Thought the 1st season was great but 2nd is chock full of whining and crying.
Review Date: 2/2/2023

40 minutes into this 2 hour flick they began to board the boat. Give me a break.
Review Date: 11/25/2022

This has to be a serious low point for director Eli Roth. The scenes of violence/gore were adequate enough but the rest of the movie was just a typical bore. Even the presence of some big names like Willis and D'Onofrio couldn't elevate it above average. This is nobody at their best.
Review Date: 10/30/2022

I am almost 50 years old, so while growing up this was THE example of a "twist ending". The most amazing part is that it is entirely acting (based on a play) and I'd say the most impressive special effects were the thunder, lightning and rain. So if you require action sequences you'll be sorely disappointed but if you like dialog and mystery you might just find yourself quite pleased with the time you spent watching it.
Review Date: 8/21/2022

Disturbingly, unsettlingly fascinating, and all the more so because it is based on a true story. All acting, all dialogue, no action sequences or attempts to shock you. Just a great (but tragic) story performed by an amazing cast. Tennant stands out, of course, and you won't believe how icy and out of touch he appears. Fantastic 3-part mini-series!
Review Date: 9/18/2022

How about "Die of boredom"? When 30 minutes of the movie have passed and the narrator is still introducing characters and background you know it's not going to be worth watching
Review Date: 5/2/2022

This won a prize? Idiocy. Boring. Pointless. Is neither inventive or remotely interesting.
Review Date: 4/5/2022

Took this off my wish list. It started out great, and I was happy with the fact that it was quirky and a bit profane, but when I reached the 5th episode and they were still introducing the characters and their backstory I gave up. There's a lot of bickering, which I've never really found to be entertaining, just irritating.
Review Date: 10/9/2022

This is described as profanely funny but i didnt even crack a smile. It was also touted as a British version of the Sopranos, and though i admit i never watched a single minute of that show i cant imagine it had anything in common with this rather dull affair.
Review Date: 4/22/2022

You'd never suspect how funny this movie is.
Review Date: 11/19/2022

It looks like Star Wars and plays out a bit like Game of Thrones but it doesn't have the fire or fun of either. Jodorowsky's "Dune" would have been much better.
Review Date: 11/27/2022

It's difficult for me not to compare anything Aardman does with Wallace and Gromit. Those original shorts were simple, didn't require much dialogue, and it was easy to fall in love with the characters. Nowadays these folks are trying way too hard and the majority of the jokes and sight gags kind of fall flat, just like the dialogue does. I think that's one of the reasons why Shaun the Sheep is still good; they have to rely on more visuals than words.
Review Date: 1/5/2023

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