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The American (2010)
Probably one of the worst films of 2010
OK, I have no idea who is writing this 9-10 star reviews here, but I would not be surprised if they were all fake. By which standards can this 2 hours of utter boredom be considered a great film?! No, seriously.
Can a film without a logical story, bad unbelievable and shallow characters (which are portrayed in the most stereotypical fashion possible- beautiful hooker, fat cheating Italian priest, hunky assassin, ugly assassin's boss) and terribly long pointless scenes even considered a proper film? Call me old fashioned, but I want to see a story, not some BS that someone thinks is art.
If you are a film maker your priority should be trying to tell us something about the characters. This film just showed us lots of extremely slow and pretentious "artsy" scenes that did not tell us absolutely anything. We do not learn about who is the assassin Clooney plays, what he thinks or what is he doing in fact. Only thing that happens is that we see this so called "assassin" doing mundane everyday tasks that the viewer can not relate to (putting together a machine gun ?!) or does not understand (who kills who in the end and why?).
The only thing I could understand in the film was that the main character was obviously unhappy and was looking to retire as a pro. But to make a film about someone being unhappy without any explanation or hints why it may be, now come on.... The director obviously thought that he could fool us by trying to wrap up this terrible excuse for a film as artistic exploration of human sole, but this was nothing of this sort...
Simply a very dull shallow waste of time and definitely not worth the 7£ I paid for it.
The Kid (2010)
Surprisingly bad
In contrast to the other reviews I must say that this film was surprisingly bad. I am not sure where it went so wrong really, but it is probably the casting. I just could not see one person that was actually believable in his/her role. The mother of the boy was just so badly acted I felt actually embarrassed in the cinema. Also I think they could have done much better with the casting of the lead. I am not from UK, but the poor people from the council estates where the characters came from do NOT sound like some posh Chelsea public school prick. He was much better in the Pride and Prejudice. Only character that was even slightly OK was the guy that played the Kid in his early teens. I actually could see that kid being abused at home. All in all the film fell flat on many occasions, too many stereotypes, too many things we have seen already.After an hour I felt so board I started playing with my phone.I know I may sound like a overly negative person, but I go to movies 2 times a week and don't remember the last time I walked out on the movie before the end. Unfortunately The Kid was the case... 3 points for the effort though as obviously someone worked on this film, but I would never recommend this to anyone....