guyeverton
Film Freak
Member Since: 23 Dec 2010
Location: London, UK
Bio: Colours are distorted because most of the time I'm choosing to watch decent movies.
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The Irishman (2019) - Rated 16 Aug 2025
"It’s a movie with a lot of fine ingredients - scintillating performances, particularly Pacino; some beautiful costumes, set design and direction, and a story that slowly unfolds into its gripping climax. I also liked that Frank’s pitiful final years seemed to be offered as a divine retribution for his earthly deeds, when he seems to have avoided the full force of the law or the wrath of his fellow mobsters. In the end though it was yet another mob movie, Sopranos esque."
American Psycho (2000) - Rated 13 Aug 2025
"An enthralling and black sideways look at entitled yuppie life. If this film didn’t inspire both Mad Men and Dexter I’d be shocked. A fantastic performance from Bale cements the story, with my misgivings coming from the ending which seemed to unravel a little too quickly. I’m not sure how much was real and how he could get away with his crimes so easily… particularly when holed up in his office."
Chef (2014) - Rated 09 Aug 2025
"I loved the Latin flavour and the premise, but execution was cheesy and lacking spice. Man has a nice job in a nice restaurant and is punching well above his weight with Scarlett Johansson, or he can have a worse job doing what he loves and punch well above his weight with Sofia Vergara. Every time he hits a bump in the road, the plot magically steps in. Everything- the truck, it’s remodelling and his staff just fall into his lap for free. Even licensing seems not to be a problem. Too easy."
Paddington in Peru (2024) - Rated 06 Aug 2025
"Another nice jaunt into the world of Paddington. It felt like something was missing here - perhaps too much bear and not enough Wesandersonified London - but it was good fun and pretty to look at all the same."
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) - Rated 05 Aug 2025
"An interesting concept and one that has legs for future visits to Middle Earth. Because it’s a cartoon I expected some elements to be jacked up, and that’s ok. I liked the artwork and it was also a much better way to use a heroine than Amazon’s girl boss Galadriel. My only question is Wulf’s motivation - he seemed far too extreme for the slights upon him."
Gladiator 2 (2024) - Rated 05 Aug 2025
"Why make a sequel? Primarily it must be to tie up loose ends from the original, though Gladiator left none. Secondly it must be to rejoin the same character or world because it was such a fun place for audiences to spend time in. Thirdly, it is to milk a successful cash cow. G2 is a mix of the 2nd and 3rd reasons, and sadly I feel it doesn’t do well enough at reason 2 to justify reason 3. With historical accuracy all over the place, I question what the film tells us. It’s just an action flick."
Queer (2024) - Rated 05 Aug 2025
"Incredibly cool, with wonderful 50s fashion and set design. And it rattled through all the tropes - chain smoking, lives lived in bars, seedy hotel rooms and longing looks at lithe young men with cleanshaven faces. I’ve seen it before. Perhaps it was the point, that Allerton was so distant - but for me his lack of real chemistry with Lee totally crashed the movie. I couldn’t buy into the romance enough to empathise with the characters."
Darkest Hour (2017) - Rated 04 Aug 2025
"Dunkirk and Churchill's oratory arouse such intense nostalgic pride that it cannot fail to move audiences, especially British ones. Oldman's Churchill chews scenery convincingly. The ingredients for a plucky British classic are there. So why is my predominant memory that of cringe? Horrible lighting. Lily James, a fictionalised vehicle to elevate a bland and underdeveloped female character to a prominent role. The underground scene. Just yuck. And the overblown political dark arts. Cringe."
Snowpiercer (2013) - Rated 29 Jun 2025
"Despite being about people walking from one end of the train to the other, there is enough unpredictability in the plot to keep this movie going towards its inevitable climax. The problems come the more I think about this film though. The whole thing with the drug was ridiculous; I wish there was a bit more worldbuilding so Wilford could feel less like a 2D Bond villain while most other characters were one-dimensional. And watching after Parasite, it seems Boon likes a glib class commentary."
Seven Years in Tibet (1997) - Rated 23 Apr 2025
"Seems a clear case of a great story ruined by its needing to be told to an American audience. So we get an unconvincing and unlikeable Pitt doing tough stuff while definitely not being a Nazi. It seems first identifying with Pitt is the only way it was felt that the audience could then relate to Tibetan culture. A more focussed insight into Harrer's relationship with the Dalai Lama, with a more serious actor, would have been more suitable."
