Well here i am bringing reviews with a Latino flava, let's get started.
Beyond The Mat (1999)
This is a heartbraking wrestling documentary (an oxymoron), i was a fan when i was 14 or so,
after i found out it was fake, i stopped watching.
This movie makes me find a newfound respect for wrestling, the Jack the Snake story was the saddest, that father daughter reunion almost made me weep, and the referee story probably the most pathetic. They don't explain what makes Jack so great tho.
In all this deserves a spot in doc's heaven right next to Hoop Dreams.
Grade: A
Jump Tomorrow (2001)
Oh Natalia Verbeke is so cute, and has a great but too, and Tunde Adembipe is so cute too, and the crazy french guy , and this story is the cutest story ever. But the marriage between the pretentious film school genre, and romantic comedy, doesn't work well, and probably alienates fan from both camps, its not funny enough, the weird funky directing style is interesting at the beggining, but it becomes more conventional. Tunde gives an awesome performace, would love to see him working again, too bad this was so predictable, kudos for the disco scene.
Grade: C+
Piñero (2001)
Benjamin Bratt give a great peformance, in this ho-hum uninvolving biopic. Unconventional edited, ripping off American History X using black and white for the flashbacks, doesn't tell us much about what makes the man tick, but does show us some of his teenage angry pseudorevolutionary poetry, which is similar to my poetry style btw. Overwritten, overdirected. Talisa Soto is the hottest bad actress workin in Holywood right now.
Grade: C-
Ali (2001)
Was 2001 the year of the dissapointing biopic?.
Terrific performances all around, with Jamie Foxx a standout, well deserved Oscar turns for Will Smith and Jon Voight, horrible make-up job tho, and a horribly miscast Van Peebles.
Beautifully filmed, but so slow, and no film can do Ali's stature justice, only 10 years of his life? , only 1 Frazier fight?, it leaves you wanting more.
Grade: B-
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
This movie tries so hard to be an intelligent psychological thiller, and it had grat potential, can't blame then, but did they expected to be succesful by casting Richard Gere and the very creepy Debra Messing?, Richard Gere is kinda creepy now that i think more, isn't the guy 60 years old and still look the same?. Mark Pellington has a nice eye for framing, but the video directing style doesn't work well here, its pretty similar to Arlington Road, and the screenplay its just too loopy, and wrap things a little bit to thightly in the end. Also cliches, SPOILER, the girls says she's getting married for no reason at all, i wonder what would happen COME ON.
Grade: C, it should be more.
Beyond The Mat (1999)
This is a heartbraking wrestling documentary (an oxymoron), i was a fan when i was 14 or so,
after i found out it was fake, i stopped watching.
This movie makes me find a newfound respect for wrestling, the Jack the Snake story was the saddest, that father daughter reunion almost made me weep, and the referee story probably the most pathetic. They don't explain what makes Jack so great tho.
In all this deserves a spot in doc's heaven right next to Hoop Dreams.
Grade: A
Jump Tomorrow (2001)
Oh Natalia Verbeke is so cute, and has a great but too, and Tunde Adembipe is so cute too, and the crazy french guy , and this story is the cutest story ever. But the marriage between the pretentious film school genre, and romantic comedy, doesn't work well, and probably alienates fan from both camps, its not funny enough, the weird funky directing style is interesting at the beggining, but it becomes more conventional. Tunde gives an awesome performace, would love to see him working again, too bad this was so predictable, kudos for the disco scene.
Grade: C+
Piñero (2001)
Benjamin Bratt give a great peformance, in this ho-hum uninvolving biopic. Unconventional edited, ripping off American History X using black and white for the flashbacks, doesn't tell us much about what makes the man tick, but does show us some of his teenage angry pseudorevolutionary poetry, which is similar to my poetry style btw. Overwritten, overdirected. Talisa Soto is the hottest bad actress workin in Holywood right now.
Grade: C-
Ali (2001)
Was 2001 the year of the dissapointing biopic?.
Terrific performances all around, with Jamie Foxx a standout, well deserved Oscar turns for Will Smith and Jon Voight, horrible make-up job tho, and a horribly miscast Van Peebles.
Beautifully filmed, but so slow, and no film can do Ali's stature justice, only 10 years of his life? , only 1 Frazier fight?, it leaves you wanting more.
Grade: B-
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
This movie tries so hard to be an intelligent psychological thiller, and it had grat potential, can't blame then, but did they expected to be succesful by casting Richard Gere and the very creepy Debra Messing?, Richard Gere is kinda creepy now that i think more, isn't the guy 60 years old and still look the same?. Mark Pellington has a nice eye for framing, but the video directing style doesn't work well here, its pretty similar to Arlington Road, and the screenplay its just too loopy, and wrap things a little bit to thightly in the end. Also cliches, SPOILER, the girls says she's getting married for no reason at all, i wonder what would happen COME ON.
Grade: C, it should be more.
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