If you like movies where almost everyone dies pointlessly at the end, you'll love this one. I hate that crap though. It's such a lazy cliché, and disappointing coming from M. Night Shyamalan. At the start, to motivate the protagonist and raise the stakes or create tension, sure. But just cynically and brutally killing off two young girls and an innocent woman we've invested our empathy in for the entire movie serves no purpose.
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3 Reviews
Haven
(I) (2004)
Pretentious and miserable...
19 February 2008
Warning: Spoilers
What a horrible movie. It's pretentious and wannabe cool, but the video-clip style editing and constant jumping in time just serve to annoy and confuse. The main problem is the depressing story though. It's about miserable people who all end up miserable, with no redeeming features such as an interesting character study or something like that. It appears to be an attempt at having many seemingly unrelated plot lines coming together at the end like a jigsaw puzzle, but the connections are so tenuous and arbitrary that that aspect falls entirely flat.
Utterly pointless, except for people who enjoy watching misery. The three out of ten is purely for the location, which slightly redeems the movie as something to watch for the pretty pictures.
Utterly pointless, except for people who enjoy watching misery. The three out of ten is purely for the location, which slightly redeems the movie as something to watch for the pretty pictures.
The Prince of Egypt
(1998)
Unbelievable religious dogmatism without an ounce of relativation
9 January 1999
I would have quite enjoyed this movie, as it's very well executed, with the fantastic storyline that animated movies of this kind should have, if the creators of the movie hadn't put that ridiculously pretentious text at the beginning of it, telling me that I had to believe that all of this actually happened!
It's scary to me that not only do these people apparently believe that God murdered tens of thousands of innocent people so that the hebrews could go free (to name just one of the incredibly cruel and vengeful acts that seem so incredibly human), but they also don't appear to see any problem with that!
A scene with hebrews singing triumphantly in the streets follows directly a scene in which an innocent child is struck dead, and the movie is full of moments like these. It's really incredible that someone would make a movie like this in the nineties...
It's scary to me that not only do these people apparently believe that God murdered tens of thousands of innocent people so that the hebrews could go free (to name just one of the incredibly cruel and vengeful acts that seem so incredibly human), but they also don't appear to see any problem with that!
A scene with hebrews singing triumphantly in the streets follows directly a scene in which an innocent child is struck dead, and the movie is full of moments like these. It's really incredible that someone would make a movie like this in the nineties...
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