A wish beyond daydream

Millions of dollars of drug cartel money is hidden inside a hospital that's scheduled to be demolished. Three desperate parties want the find the money and run away before the charges are set to blow the establishment to kingdom come. The clock is fucking ticking. Dolph Lundgren's Castle Falls is cheap and stupid garbage.

Legacy of misery

It's like a man walks out of prison and he seems so unhappy that it makes you wonder if he want to go back in. Elsewhere a young woman is raped. Kills a cop, too. These two lost souls meet and their path is paved with unexceptional boredom.

Guys wound so tight they were bound to snap

An amnesiac agent Jason Bourne has retired in Goa, India, but he's framed for murder in Europe, so he's forced to resume his profession. The Bourne Supremacy (2004) is a sequel to The Bourne Identity (2002), and those two make better and exciting spy thrills than the James Bond franchise altogether.

In a bodybag by sundown

Do they make thrillers like this these days? If not, they should. The Bourne Identity is a clever high-octane thing with no loose ends. A nail-biting fucker. Agent Jason Bourne is found bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia. He gradually understands a little bit of himself and what he's supposed to be doing. But everything is a great labyrinth of deception and the truth is hard to decipher.

School of hard knocks

The film follows the continued career of Fisherman's Friends (a sea shanties performing folk group), their second album and performing at Glastonbury music festival. A few struggles with the pressures and such, but nothing too challenging. A too predictable a piece, an unnecessary sequel, but heart-warming and quite lovely shit to watch nevertheless.

An ocean of dungeons

It’s 1907. Norwegian miners aren’t too happy with their greedy owners, so they make a rebellion against them. It looks like Nordic Wild West and that’s kind of cool. But otherwise, a fucking bore.

Before the piano wire gets too tight

America is in a civil war. We follow a carful of journalists and their journey towards the capital Washington D.C. and the President of the United States to get a quote of the fucking mess. They witness and encounter shit that's pretty repulsive and are constantly in danger. Alex Garland's Civil War is quite brilliant in its warfare, but disappointing in a sense that it hardly carries any message within. Exciting and intense, but a missed opportunity.

A void in humanity

Pretty wonderful. It's sad with wars and deaths and all, but those are beautifully put together with a simple yet harsh family life in an isolated island of Stormskerry (Stormskär) in Åland, Finland. Annoyingly slow-moving at first, but when it got going, it never let go. Directed by Tiina Lymi.

Always carve with compassion

Something else. Bella's own brain is replaced by the brain of her unborn baby. Thus begins the evolution of a young woman. Take that for a premise of a story. The movie is quite off-putting with its abstract imagery at first, but turns out to be engaging and unique. A weird masterpiece.

The winds of a patient man

A man is in a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean when his yacht collides a floating shipping container disabling his navigation equipment and radio. It takes proper wits and self reliance to survive the disaster and the incoming storms alive! All is Lost is a film with hardly any dialogue and just proves the versatility of the talent of Robert Redford. The movie however is just his character trying to stay alive. It's a brilliant adventure of isolation and great danger.

Thinning the herd

Architect Paul Kersey, a vigilante on free time, has kept the streets clean from scum and filth in New York and Los Angeles before. And now he returns to New York to make things right again. This time however, he has a right to vigilante! And become the neighbourhood hero if justice is brought to the streets record time! Scumbags, street gangs, drug dealers, rapists and degenerates better beware! Michael Winner's Death Wish 3 (1985) is exaggerated urban lawlessness to no end.

Countdown to cold graves

Paul Kersey, an architect by trade, is a vigilante. In New York, wrong-doers killed his wife and raped his daughter. He took revenge on the fuckers! Paul moves to Los Angeles and eight years later, some scumbags hurt his family yet again! Retribution must be executed at all costs! Death Wish II was directed by Michael Winner in 1992, the soundtrack was composed by his then neighbor Jimmy Page and the movie stars Charles Bronson as the architect and people like Laurence Fishburne, Kevyn Major Howard and Thomas D. Duffy as the muggers.

Prophets get stronger when they die

Reckon it would be blasphemous to criticize and ridicule anything so epic and grandiose. Dune: Part Two is yet another endless journey in a sand planet somewhere where a couple of tribes fight for power and a valuable spice that is a key to interstellar travel. It's done well, stripped off some of its running time and pseudo-mythical mumbo-jumbo, it would have been better.

The return of the sun after long darkness

Everything is shrouded with factitious mystery. To be part of the True Detective franchise, they probably just decided to be super mystic and obscure. Backfires big time. It's just weird and plastic. And after all the secrecy and puzzlement a simple and silly ending top offs the stupidity of the fucking thing. Ridiculous plotholes are aplenty too. And to be perfectly honest, not sure about Jodie Foster's performance either.

Even ghosts must have feelings

A ghost writer, completing the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister because the previous writer had been found dead, uncovers secrets and, in turn, puts himself at danger of death. The Ghost Writer is an amazing espionage thriller, courtesy of Roman Polanski. It’s old-fashioned thrills and atmosphere. Quite smart and exciting.

Burned by thousand dawns

The Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion happened in Lapua in 1976. It is Finland’s worst industrial disaster. 40 workers dead and 60 injured. Lapua 1976, the movie, directed by Toni Kurkimäki, is a wishy-washy love story of two workers in the factory. They could have carved so much more of the incident, but the catastrophe is just a sideshow.