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Troll
A paleontologist (?) works with the government to prevent an accidentally awoken troll to thrash Oslo.

Wittenberg
06-12-2022

Only the monster is unique
Trolls are nice monsters for a change, and I somehow expected this to have a Nordic class of restraint, mysticism and folklore. Instead, they went with a full-on Hollywood blockbuster monster-movie vibe, with all the tired cliches and annoyances that come with it. Like you've already seen it.Triple 9
Corrupt agents doing one more gig get caught up in a swamp of distrust

Wittenberg
27-12-2016

Gloomy and effective but not very involving
It's good to see some dark, well-acted, sweaty, and straight up bad cop action again, with effective action/violence because it doesn't want to over dramatize or orchestrate anything. It would have helped though, if we knew a little bit more about these guys so we can sympathize a little better.Triangle
Shipwrecked friends climb onto a passing ship, but it is hardly an improvement....

Wittenberg
16-08-2015

An great story, executed slightly dull
Direction and performances are a bit uninspired, contrasting with a really nifty and clever story that keeps your attention all the way. Even my wife stayed awake for this one.Triada
Woman finds she's part of a triplet seperated at birth, and some dark secrets surrounding this situation

Wittenberg
12-03-2023

A couple of problems, but still enjoyable
We enjoyed this little crime puzzler, but I thought is was a little overacted and implausible, and the ending - where the evil nemesis elaborately tells about the masterplan - seemed like an out of fashion James Bond maneuver. The final showdown was disappointing, too.Trench 11
Near the end of WWI, a group of soldiers investigates an abandoned German underground complex to find out what they did in there

Wittenberg
26-01-2019

A bit underwhelming
The premise sets up a decent mysterious and scary atmosphere, but after a lot of flashlights in endless, similar looking dark hallways and disappointing bad guys, the thing runs out of fuel and fails to reap the claustrophobic possibilities.Tremors
Texas country folk dealing with massive worm-like creatures attacking their tiny town

Wittenberg
25-05-2019

Cheesy at it's best
Even when it was made, it already was silly, cheesy and ridiculous as can be. But it also managed to be an irresistible and charming combination of fun and dumb action that make it a classic. Every time I stumble upon it, I just cannot switch it of.Trauma
Four female friends are brutally invaded by a ruthless man and his son

Wittenberg
22-04-2025

Not as traumatic
There is certainly enough here to warrant trauma. But the movie as a whole doesn't have what it takes to tie it all together, and in doing so the horror doesn't hit as it ought to. Acting is so-so, connection to the characters is limited and the story feels clumsy and amateuristic.Trap
The police seal of a concert in a hunt for a serial killer

Wittenberg
27-10-2024

Played cards too early?
It starts of pretty interesting, but pretty early on we already get what feels like would be the twist. After that, what remains is a mildly entertaining, but hardly believable or groundbreaking crime/thriller.Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Something with large and loud robots helping some kid and earth

Wittenberg
15-06-2013

Unbearably loud
That's it. I have grown old. Some years ago, I would still have fallen for the stellar CGI and non-stop heavy duty action. But as off now, I can no longer stand this hysteric, over-the-top, screaming insane action and was struggling not to switch this off.Transformers: Age of Extinction
The humans built their own transformers, not realizing what they created. Autobots come to the rescue.

Wittenberg
30-10-2014

near torture
This movie looks AWESOME and is a production triumph. You can however, barely watch this. It is crammed with excessive, loud, stupid, endless, insane action, terrible humor, restless angled camera shots, rushed montage, cliches, bucket loads of kitsch and oversaturated color. Somebody make it stop.Transcendence
The soul of a murdered AI scientist is transfered into the system. Will he play nice?

Wittenberg
21-12-2014

Underwhelmed
This subject is right up my alley, but this movie is not. The conversations are a bit gibberish, the science lazy, the action misplaced.Trainwreck
Promiscuous and drinking woman is struggling to make a steady relationship work when she meets someone special

Wittenberg
08-07-2018

Well made and well acted
The surprisingly warm and talented cast, including Amy Schumer herself, make this movie flow wonderfully and naturally, providing plenty of smiles and a general good feeling along the way.Train to Busan
A man takes his daughter on a train to Busan, just as a zombieoutbreak is happening.

Wittenberg
16-12-2018

Original and exciting ride
While the zombie behavior seemed a little outdated and borderline caricature, this movie offers a lot of thrilling and quite original scenes that kept me on the edge of my seat throughout.Tous les Dieux du Ciel (All the Gods in the Sky)
A man takes care of his disabled sister, working towards a mysterious resolution for the both of them

Wittenberg
14-12-2024

Remarkable and uncomfortable.
A gloomy and twisted movie that is not about sensationalism, but a more subtle sense of sickness and discomfort. It effectively uses some scifi and horror elements to create an interesting mix.Touch Me Not
I think it's about a woman trying to break through her fear of intimacy

Wittenberg
07-05-2023

Experimental sexual therapy
No, it's not soft erotica as the description might seem to suggest. Instead, it is an experimental, wandering movie that explores the meaning of sexuality to remarkable people. Cold due to the bright lights and analytical style, yet intimate by letting us in.Total Recall (2012)
Man inserts cool secret agent memories in his brain

Wittenberg
16-08-2013

A very decent sci-fi action thriller.
If you manage to NOT see this as a reboot, it's a fine sci-fi action flick with some great designs.Top Gun: Maverick
Maverick is called back to train a team destined to do the most dangerous mission ever

Wittenberg
06-06-2022

The people don't work for me anymore, but the flying does
I had some trouble buying into the somewhat desperate portrayal of these pilots as beautiful, perfect, witty, slick, hip beings and the insubordinate way they go about their briefings and missions - even if this is Top Gun. But hell yes, the air footage and final combat makes up for it.Tomorrowland aka Project T
A rebelious teenage girl is the chosen one to glimpse into a future world - and save it too

Wittenberg
27-05-2015

Gorgeous but Disney
For younsters, this is a splendid and exciting space adventure with a great spirit. Grumpy old men like me need to deal additionally with the miles thick morals, and the over-smart main character and her indifference towards the amazing things she encounters.Tomorrow War, The
People are send to the future to help fight a loosing war against an alien invasion

Wittenberg
04-07-2021

Forgettable and hardly interesting
While the time traveling does add something to the alien invasion genre, most of this felt quite cliched and tired. It's one of those movies seems to think it doesn't have to be exciting, involving, innovative or believable because it's just a blockbuster with a lot of money. Wrong.Tombraider
Lara sets of the Japan to look for her long missing father, who was investigating a mysterious tomb on a desolate island

Wittenberg
03-02-2019

Faithful videogame recreations don't automatically mean it's good
It follows the game really closely, and some of the scenes and scenery were really familiar. But, as much as I loved these games, seeing it recreated with real people just falls short and makes everything shallow, predictable and lifeless. I Guess this exemplifies the problem with videogame movies.Tokyo Gore Police
A special police officer is on an assigment to take care evil modified humans, which involves a lot of bloodshed

Wittenberg
23-03-2023

Entertaining blood fountains
For the most part I was very entertained by the bizarre atmosphere and blood fountains. It's a nice doze of insanity that is so over the top you can enjoy without remorse. After a while though, it did get a bit pointless and clueless.Tokyo Ghoul
Dude is bitten by a ghoul and turns half into one, but he remains human enough to do good

Wittenberg
29-01-2025

Perhaps a fair adaptation, but still unable to win me over
The story and execution are interesting enough. But as usual, I find it impossible to really care about the weirdly acting and one-dimensional characters and the drama they display. Oh I wish I could somehow see through this and truly enjoy the wondrous imagination of Manga.Titane
Woman goes on a killing spree and then hides by becoming someone's son. I kid you not. Also, something with cars.

Wittenberg
06-04-2023

Strange, unpleasant yet secretly fascinating
One of the strangest movies I have seen. I found it an unpleasant experience in ways I had not felt before. Everything is just so confusing, nasty, sweaty and ugly. But at the same time I was fascinated enough to look up the director and will keep track of her future works.Titan, The
On a diminishing earth, some humans are experimentally transformed so they can live on the moon Titan

Wittenberg
12-08-2018

Experiment failed
It started okay-ish with a potentially interesting story and decent actors, but it is let down by a slow pace causing my attention to wander off several times, and then the story falls apart as it becomes incomprehensible and weird.Time Trap
When they try to recover missing persons from a cave, it seems that in there, there is something wrong with time

Wittenberg
15-08-2020

Great idea cannot overcome B-movie atmosphere
I love the idea, and it's one that could have worked beautifully with limited budget and resources. Unfortunately, they went with rather dull, unimaginative characters delivering cheesy lines and doing crincy things, which results in a fatal B-movie atmosphere. Too bad, they were on to something.Time Lapse
Three friends discover a device that takes a photo of their house everyday at eight o clock.... tomorrow

Wittenberg
17-01-2016

Hats off to the minds that can cook up a story like this
A mind boggling story that continuously left me balancing on whether I was aboard or not, and had me drawing diagrams the next morning. And as if the story weren't complex enough, their is still room for an additional twist at the end too. Very clever.Tides aka The Colony
Space colonists return to see if earth is habitable again, but get caught up in tribes competing with each other

Wittenberg
03-08-2021

Promising beginning, so-so rest
Initially the wet, misty landscape sets an moody atmosphere, and the story manages to pull you in. As it progresses though, the madmax shenanigans are okay but felt a bit anticlimactic, and as a whole it looses some energy and mystery.Three Thousand Years of Longing
A woman releases a genie, and together they ponder their lives in trying to find out what wishes to make

Wittenberg
28-06-2024

Conversations done right
The movie mixes some philosophy, history and fantasy, but above all is quite a chatty intellectual movie about longing and purpose. But is remains accessible, and never gets heavy handed due to it's lighthearted atmosphere.Thor: Love and Thunder
In confronting a new menace to all of the gods, Thor gets help from an old love

Wittenberg
08-08-2024

Appearantly Thor is not to be taken seriously
A curious product where noon seemed to care anymore, and they just cooked up a ridiculous, corny and over the top comedy where every idea and fart was greenlighted. It's either painful and preposterous, or it will slowly get to you and make you chuckle uncontrollably.Thor The Dark World
Evil forces want to bring darkness to the worlds. Thor intervenes

Wittenberg
20-04-2014

Another curious case of stellar looking boredom
I just sat around wondering how I could be so bored with so much beautiful looking stuff going on. Natalie Portman, who is dragged into celestial warfare, doesn't appear to be impressed by any of it either. Points are solely for looks and effort.This is the End
Film actors at a party find themselves amidst judgement day... and saviour of the righteous only

Wittenberg
23-06-2015

Mostly self absorbed
The idea of the actors playing more or less themselves in a bizarre situation like this is kind of nice. But for the most part, the look-at-how-funny-we-are is tiresome instead.Thin Red Line, The
In worldwar 2, an American platoon tries to conquor a Japanese mountain

Wittenberg
16-08-2024

A decent war pic with some tricks up it's sleeve that only partly work
This movie sets out reasonably intensive combat, with emphasis on the decisions in the command structure. What sets the movie apart is frequent footage of nature, and voiceovers reading poetic contemplations. It sets the movie apart, but was quite vague and hard to follow.They/Them
A conversion camp for gays and other QHBT+ variations holds dark secrets and methods

Wittenberg
12-02-2023

Mostly fine
I wasn't sure I wanted to watch an entire movie featuring exaggerated Q+HTBI characters, but Kevin Bacon is putting on quite a show, and the slowly developing sinister undertone makes it interesting. As it draws to and end, it felt ideas ran out and it winded up as a mediocre slasher.There's Something Wrong With the Children
Two befriended couples on vacation visit a mysterious building, after which their children start to act weird

Wittenberg
23-03-2023

Not intense or scary enough
The story has plenty of potential, but it's one of those movies that just won't get scary without an obvious reasons why. I am guessing it's that kids that are more annoying than scary, and an atmosphere that makes it feel like an episode in a series - with limited budget and inspiration.Them That Follow
A woman of a secluded religious community, that does snake handling to prove their faith, has a secret

Wittenberg
27-12-2021

Slow, but something is growing
The movie has a very serene atmosphere in which the slow daily life in the woods is portrayed very well, so much so that in fact halfway I almost started to long for some action. But there's a constant under the skin buzz that keeps it mysterious and kept me watching, with memorable performances.Thanatomorphose
A woman's body starts rotting while she is still alive

Wittenberg
12-03-2023

Unpleasant but relevant curiosity
It's a glooming, filthy and let's not forget very slow film that's not for everyone. But I have to say it worked too. The way she endures it, all alone in her windowless apartment, without seeking help, adds to an deep sense of isolation and depression, and a deeper meaning to it.Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
Folks buy an old town to turn it into something hip, but one house still contains the freaky villain from the seventies

Wittenberg
27-05-2023

Succesful slasher
While I suspect fans of the original have plenty to complain about, in itself I found this to be a fairly solid slasher movie. It has some good gore, and the tension in some scenes is well done and certainly above average.Tetsuo: The Iron Man
A bad trip about a man who is slowly turning into metal scrap

Wittenberg
02-01-2022

A good bad trip, but too pointless to be a satisfying movie
What if those creepy black and white 'art student movies' you see in horror films were a full length experience? Maybe it would be something like this. I was quite intrigued at first; it is effectively unsettling. But after while I wondered where it all was going and I lost my curiosity.testmovie
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Catwoman88
20-05-2013

final floattest, can't be one integer
2.5 for me
robocop
20-05-2013

It will also float this
Floating with 9.5
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Terrifier 3
Art the Clown goes at it in Christmas spirits

Wittenberg
04-07-2025

Delivers the goods but not the packaging
It proudly and unashamedly continues some of the most sadistic and brutal executions in town, contrasting starkly with the happy and joyful Christmas shenanigans. I did find that the story supporting it all was unable to take it to higher levels, making it an easily forgettable one time snack.Terrifier 2
Girl faces a a clown that slaughters people in the most brutal ways

Wittenberg
13-11-2022

A bold slaughterfest with eighties vibe
There's plenty of shock value, with executions that are bloody and painful the watch. They also managed to set up an eighties vibe by the colors used, and perhaps even the acting style. But I also felt is was a bit long and pointless.Terminator: Genisys
The original timeline seen from the future perspective - until things start to change....

Wittenberg
12-07-2015

Full of letdowns.. just barely makes it to 'entertaining'
Kyle is now a miscasted dork. Sarah is now omnipotent and omniscient so all excitement is gone. The terminators scenes feel like a 'best of' rehash of earlier movies. It has an unrealistic and strange sterile look to it. The time travel has become a caricaturisation. Arnold was funny though.Terminator Dark Fate
More or less the original story but with more females

Wittenberg
25-04-2020

No
Some action scenes successfully revisit the hard-hitting robot fights and good old car chases. But my god, Sarah Connor is a hideous, disastrous character now and the other ones have to deliver some pretty painful dialogue as well. The forever recovering evil cyborg got boring, too.Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines
Again, a terminator comes back in time to secure the future. Again, he is hunted down by an advanced terminator model

Wittenberg
11-05-2014

A lesser but stilll adequate episode
Not as epic and overwhelming as the preceding parts, in part because of the rather dull main characters. Still, there's plenty of Terminator goodness in here to have a good time. Average actionmovies back then still were more fun than the soulless fx bonanzas we get nowadays.Terminator, The
In the future, killer robotmachines rule, and send a terminator cyborg back to the presents prevent prevent the human rebellion leader from ever being born.

robocop
13-02-2013

Not bad for such a wuzz
It lacks soul like i have. In the end, it is human decision making that settles things.
Catwoman88
01-02-2013

Could have been better meow
This movie needed more latex I could have privided, as well as more meow. Anywway this review is a bit on the long side for testing purposes.
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Tenet
A special agent is ask to assist in a mysterious mission to prevent WW3, for which he encounters things that go back in time

Wittenberg
03-09-2020

The most audacious and genius movie ever, but does that mean enjoybale
Clearly we have another Nolan gem on our hands, in terms of visuals, music and the mind blowing story. Initially I wondered if the complexity was just too much, getting in the way of enjoyment. But as it starts to digest in days after, you begin to grasp the sheer genius and audacity of this.Temple, The
Three people travel to a mysterious desolate temple in Japan where strange events have been reported

Wittenberg
30-09-2018

They forgot to write it
I quite liked the beginning with moody Japanese scenery and mystery. But as they approach the temple, it looks like they had no more ideas so they just threw in some random, incoherent bland scary stuff and were done with it. Very unsatisfying.Teleios
A spaceship docks with a distant spacestation to retrieve a mysterious cargo

Wittenberg
11-09-2017

The suits, my god, the suits!
I think I needed about 7 attempts to watch this all the way through. It is so goofy and off that I thought it would turn into a spacemovie parody, only to realize in horror they are for real. The rest of it is just painfully boring and features a crew wearing the ugliest spacesuits of all time.Teeth
A girl finds she has teeth in her vagina (there's actually a name for that too: Vagina testada)

Wittenberg
26-02-2023

Surprisingly good
Oh my, what kind of movie can possibly come out of this? A pretty good one, apparently! I was pleasantly surprised by an effective mix of drama, horror and humor. It takes itself seriously with becoming heavy handed, and even has some good cinematographic moments in there too.Teenage Mutant Turtle Ninjas
When a badguy attempts to poisson the city, the turtles must finally come out in the open and defend the city

Wittenberg
04-12-2014

An unnecessary movie with no audience
If the idiotic concept of TNMT will ever make any sense, it is in a vivid, wacky animated environment. In a real life movie it didn't really work, the story and pacing were bland and the turtles extremely uncomfortable to look at.Movies found: 1210 | max movies per page: 50 | Showing: 101 - 150
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