Civil War

I never thought I'd be shivering down the spine when I watched this, but with current events across UK the theme of this film is perhaps a bit too close for comfort.America has broken down, with the President ordering F- 16s to attack the revolting masses in USA. Rioters vs. U.S. military endeavour to fight back and survive, the military themselves turning on the White House. All the chaos, disruption and carnage you'd expect from a Civil War. As to WHY this film was made may be a reflection on America's current national psychological crisis. Who would've thought it would translate directly to UK with current events and their dark possibilities ?The film 'Contagion' made 10 years before Covid disturbingly predicts the chaos of that era with alarming accuracy, I only hope this film remains fiction only both in USA and UK.A good film if you're a survivalist prepper on the grim realities of societal breakdown.

A new movie from writer/director Alex Garland. Who did 'Ex Machina'. Among other things. This is a war movie.At some point in the near future, there's a new civil war going on in America. Rebel forces, including both California and Texas, are fighting against the forces of the US President. Two veteran war photojournalists [Kristen Dunst and Wagner Moura] take a rookie one under their wing. Along with another veteran who tags along. Their aim is to get to Washington and get to interview the President before the war ends.Their journey is fraught with a lot of danger and very graphic violence.The lead actors are all great. Despite what some reviews say, this does have a plot. It's as mentioned Get to Washington before the war ends and see the President. So it does have one of those. And the main characters do have character arcs and development along the way.This tries very hard to be realistic. On what was probably not the biggest budget in the world. It does some pretty good work with that. In terms of the devastation you see. It also tries to be realistic in terms of what war is like. There's no gung ho heroics here. It is grim and gritty and brutal and uncompromising, and also very scary with threats of violence at u. You do come away from this thinking that this is what war must really be like. So the film achieves it's aim in that respect.Where it may or may not fall down for people is context. Or lack of it, as you will. Since the war has been in progress for a while when it starts, you're just put in the middle of this America with no explanation of exactly how it got this way. Some find California and Texas working together implausible. But I think the point there is that we should all work together to sort out our problems. So that worked for me.The President though is someone we never get to know. Beyond vague hints of being in a third term, you never get to find out why people have rebelled against him. And he does come over as frankly a very two dimensional caricature. Which is a bit of a pity and doesn't really help.The ending works fine. Although you might have to suspend your disbelief with some of the last ten or so mins in how it gets there.This is pretty memorable film making. I think as can be seen from the reviews it is a bit love or hate. It did work fine for me despite the issues mentioned, and I am glad I gave it a go. Although it didn't stick in the mind after. I would thus say worth a try. So long as you're not expecting gung ho action, because this is certainly not that kind of movie.There are no extras on the dvd.Language and subtitle options:Languages; English.Subtitles: English.

​Starship Troopers for Photojournalists. This is a film about photography, foremost, and some sort of societal critique somewhere down the line. ​The action in the end is well staged, but void. Candidate for worst last words, ​ever? ​As too often the personal relationship between ​an adolescent and a ​self-doubting ​role model figure​ – think shots of ​young protegee gazing into middle distance​, sun setting, etc.– displaces a more interesting story line (like what is actually happening there). time better spent not watching this.

Great film, very realistic concept. Recommend watching it

I waited a long time for this film to be available on Amazon Prime. And to be honest I was very disappointed. I fell asleep twice watching it. Ok, I wasn't expected an all out action movie but the film/story line just seemed to dawdle along. And as usual the Movie Trailer showed all the best bits in the film the rest of it was just extremely boring

The subtitles throughout the movie were horrendously incorrect. Small things like the city of Charlottesville were misspelt (“Charlottsville”) but, worse, whole sentences were routinely displayed incorrectly. They must have created the subtitles automatically using AI or voice recognition and not bothered checking. If you’re deaf, the subtitles will be useless to you.

Started very slow, so much so that, I almost walked out..but, sick with it, this is a brilliant film. The final half hour is breath taking.

Zum Trailer konnte man auf Youtube lesen: "They spent 50 million on this movie, had they waited a little longer, they could have made it for free." Was hier als Spielfilm aufwartet, ist ein düsteres Zukunftsszenario, welches mit dem 5. November 2024 jetzt in greifbare Nähe rückt. US-Amerika ist ein tief gespaltenes Land, bis an die Zähne bewaffnet und gequält von Fragen der inneren wie äußeren Sicherheit. Ich bin mir noch nicht sicher, wie sich die Außenpolitik entwickeln wird, aber innenpolitisch wird es hart werden für unsere amerikanischen Freunde. Was passieren könnte, zeigt uns Alex Garland. Was uns der Film auch zeigt: Es ist noch nicht zu spät, insofern wir nicht auf weitere Eskalation setzen. Und hier ist auch Europa gefragt.

Eines der wohl intensivsten filmerlebnissen des Jahres hatte ich mit diesem Film im Kino.Gute Message und wichtige Story

Der Film ist nachdenklich und weniger ein Actionkracher.Film: 4Ton: 5Bild: 5Edition: 5

Although the explosions were loud, all of the dialogue was severely muted. I had to turn my TV volume to 100, and use my Klipsch speakers just to barely hear the dialogue. Thank goodness for subtitles, but it was a disappointing experience.

Ich habe mir den Film von einem Bekannten ausgeliehen und war begeistert vom Inhalt. Auch die Qualität von der UHD ist sehr gut, auch wenn ich mir hier Dolby Vision wie im Ausland gewünscht hätte, aber das ist Jammern auf hohem Niveau.Da inhaltlich alles okay ist, wollte ich mir mein eigenes Exemplar besorgen, was sich doch als recht schwierig herausstellt. Im örtlichen Handel gibt es ein Exemplar, da kann man durch die Folie bereits erkennen, das sich das Booklet aus der Halterung gelöst hat, das ist für den Preis schonmal nix. Also hab ich mein Glück hier versucht, was ankam, war ein angestoßenes Mediabook mit runden Ecken und angerissenen Booklet-Halterungen, also Ersatz bestellt. Der kam eben an und hier sind die Ecken okay, aber das Booklet hängt nur noch an einer Klammer. Wenn man schon die UHD ausschließlich im Mediabook veröffentlicht, sollte man vielleicht mehr auf die Qualität achten, das Booklet ist anscheinend viel zu schwer für die Klammern.Nachtrag: Amazon hat mir einen Rabatt von 25 Prozent angeboten, ich hab das Booklet jetzt selbst eingeklebt. Nicht die optimalste Lösung, aber immerhin.