Alexander (2004) Film Abspielen

Seems too puny and fragmented for its mighty subject; it feels as if Stone, for the first time in his career, simply ran out of hot air.. It's boring here and exciting there. And it's almost always goofy.. . Alexander, as expressed through the weepy histrionics of Colin Farrell, is more like a desperate housewife than a soldier.. Farrell plays all this as if he means it, but he seems slight in the role and without great physical presence.. As huge a travesty and a bore as 1956's Alexander the Gr...

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Anna Karenina (2012) Download Voll

Seems too puny and fragmented for its mighty subject; it feels as if Stone, for the first time in his career, simply ran out of hot air.. Often deliberately arch and formal, the performers have been instructed to emphasize the overwrought theatricality of Anna's disapproving social set. What doesn't emerge is Anna's passion. Panic is more like it.. Though the battles have the blood-and-sinew bravado you expect from Oliver Stone, this three-hour buttnumbathon is hamstrung by a hectoring grandiosi...

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72 Stunden - The Next Three Days (2010) Download Voll

Suspenseful if not wholly believable, the main problem with The Next Three Days is it lasts about a half day too long.. It's a cool, engrossing thriller; intelligent, packed with shivering suspense, populated with marvelous characters and (unless you've seen the French original, "Pour Elle") impressively unpredictable.. The Next Three Days offers enough suspense to make it worth the price of admission.. Not much more than a meticulously detailed, very long instructional video.. The Next Three Da...

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She's the Man - Voll mein Typ (2006) Voll Streaming

As was proven with 10 Things I Hate about You, it is possible to re-imagine the Bard in a modern high school setting, but She's the Man doesn't do it well.. An intoxicating spectacle that breathes new life into the classic Tolstoy novel, incorporating the notion that all life's a stage -- at least for imperial Russian society.. She's the Man retains much of Twelfth Night's discombobulation and many of its names but is aimed, unlike the original, at the cherry-lip-gloss demographic.. Often delibe...

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Pearl Harbor (2001) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

The bombs explode brilliantly but the story is a bust in "Pearl Harbor.". The woe and horror of the event is steamrolled by a surplus of special and digitized effects.. As a testament to the power of good old-fashioned face-to-face conversation as aphrodisiac, the film works fairly well, if not as a primer on safe online dating.. "Two Night Stand's" strength lies in the doubts and the ambivalence it expresses about the way we love now.. For my money a much better heartbreaker, thrillmaker and te...

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Burlesque (2010) Download Voll

Has the glitz and allure of a Victoria's Secret ad. What it doesn't have is an imaginative reinvention of the show-biz cliches that have so adamantly inspired it.. If you go to Burlesque expecting a campy hoot on the order of Showgirls, you may be in for a disappointment. It's not quite awful enough, although it's plenty bad.. A campy, satisfying showcase for the impressively flashy vocal and sartorial stylings of Cher and Christina Aguilera.. Even the dances feel cozily dated, as choreographers...

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Suite Française (2014) Streaming-

This nuanced, compelling film offers a close-up portrait of a northern French village forced to host a garrison of Nazi soldiers.. Iffy scripting decisions can't thwart the romantic allure of this handsomely crafted, sincerely performed wartime weeper.. As doomed wartime romances go, the film doesn't offer anything particularly original. But with palpable tension and poignancy, Suite Francaise is fine filmmaking well worth watching.. A sturdy enough but ultimately overpolite entry into the class...

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Duell - Enemy at the Gates (2001) Film-Streaming

It's as if an obsessed movie nut had decided to collect every bad war-movie convention on one computer and program it to spit out a script.. . It's remarkable.. Smith, of course, is so cool he can afford to pretend to be uncool; but what really works for him here is the interplay with James, whose inner-wild-man dance moves alone are worth the price of admission.. A tense and artful war film that works both as thrilling spectacle and as intimate drama.. Manages time and again to deliver familiar...

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