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Piraci z Karaibów: Skrzynia umarlaka (2006) 

angielski Needless bombast and excessive length versus great sea monsters and a slimy (literally and to the letter!) villain played by Bill Nighy and his makeup/digital magicians. Johnny Depp is equally good, but he has nothing left to surprise us with. Throw out part of that storyline and cut the runtime down to 120 minutes, and this would be worthy of four stars.

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Lurdža Magdany (1955) 

angielski Though its simple in terms of content, this is a very nicely shot Russian mini-film dripping with Russian theatricality. But because of its almost fairy-tale simplicity, that somehow doesn’t matter.

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Kod da Vinci (2006) 

angielski The Da Vinci Code is flat, tedious and visually unappealing. And for me, as an atheist who at most acknowledges faith in himself, the plot is also unappealing. With the exception of Ian McKellen, the actors are bland and the only thing above average here is Hans Zimmer’s dark music. I haven’t read the book, and now I definitely won’t read it. Typical Hollywood tripe sold through brilliant marketing.

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Przygoda na Antarktydzie (2006) 

angielski Eight Below is a pleasant family movie that surprisingly isn’t about people being rescued by heroic dogs, as you would expect from the still photographs and Disney’s clichéd production. Frank Marshall again plays a fair game and, besides the children, the cute pups and one comedic character (Jason Biggs), the film doesn’t irritate the adult intellect or those allergic to sentimentality. There is a tolerable amount of that here and the actors turn in better-than-average performances in the context of the genre. The scenes with the solo dogs are handled superbly and the natural scenery is beautiful. Only the film’s runtime is a bit of a problem – it runs out of steam in the second third. But if your heart softens merely at the sight of the sad dog eyes, you'll give Eight Below four stars.

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X-Men: Ostatni bastion (2006) 

angielski As Hollywood eye-candy entertainment for a young audience, The Last Stand is flawless. As a sequel to Singer’s X-Men 2, however, it’s just sad. Brett Ratner is an enthusiastic filmmaker, an aficionado of nice images, effects and movie heroes, but he’s too superficial and childish for the meaningfulness of the material that Bryan Singer outlined before him. The character of Juggernaut (Vinnie Jones) and the occasional lapses in logic seem to have fallen out of a game adaptation by Paul W.S. Anderson and the film has more in common with Fantastic Four than with its predecessors. At the age of seventeen, when I loved Commando because there was “always something happening” in it, I would have liked The Last Stand best out of all of the X-Men movies. P.S. If Singer had added “his own thing” to the high-octane screenplay and shot it himself with a straighter face and a more modest 120-minute runtime, this really could have been the best instalment of the franchise.

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Siedem (1995) 

angielski Alongside The Silence of the Lambs, this is the most powerful psycho-thriller ever. Seven is a gem of the genre in which every filmmaking component is stretched to the absolute limit, along with the viewer’s nerves, emotions and psyche. Darkness that will take your breath away and keep you up at night.

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Posejdon (2006) 

angielski Poseidon could have run 130 minutes. The first 40 minutes would have traditionally been focused on the characters. But the screenplay takes a rather more popcorn approach, capsizing the ship after only ten minutes, during which it touches on each of the main characters for barely a minute in passing. We learn more, though still very little, about them continuously in the remaining 80 minutes, during the escape from the “bottom” of the ship to its “deck” – and by that point, we’re in Deep Blue Sea, but without the sharks. There is thus not much to the characters and the brief emotional tremors as they gradually die off are contrived. There is practically no story. However, I’m giving it a strong three stars for its absolutely shockingly unnerving, claustrophobic scenes. Though Poseidon is an empty and occasionally dumb movie, in technical terms it is a perfectly executed roller-coaster ride of thrills that is never boring for even a second. Still, it’s not as cool and unpredictable as Deep Blue Sea.

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Mission: Impossible III (2006) 

angielski Mission: Impossible III has only one absolutely great action scene (and we’ve already seen it in the trailer) and it lacks the high-tech charge that was typical of the preceding instalments. However, these shortcomings are offset by the film’s superb balance of authenticity (!) with a detached sense of humor and, mainly, its dynamic story in which something important is constantly happening, driven by urgency and emotions. Ethan’s relationship with his new wife works very well and when her life is hanging in the balance, it’s about more than saving the world. The less we see of the super-villain played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, the more impressive are the scenes featuring him. This is a different but effective instalment in the franchise. It’s a popcorn movie that, like the Bourne films, won’t insult your intelligence. I was most pleased with the breakneck shots, starting on Cruise’s face and continuously following his subsequent acrobatic stunts (jumping off of a skyscraper, running across Chinese rooftops). This makes up for the absence of De Palma and Woo’s eye-candy action from the previous M:I films.

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Nagi instynkt 2 (2006) 

angielski Take away everything that made the first Basic Instinct engaging, original, unpredictable, exciting and sexy, and you have Basic Instinct 2. The opening credits are provocative, but David Morrissey kills any potential for any other sex in the film, and there is VERY little of it and it is VERY brief. And the other actors aren’t much better – it would be difficult to find another film so debased by its casting. It can’t be salvaged even by Sharon Stone, whose aged hand obscures her heavily made-up face every time she takes a drag on her cigarette. The screenplay hopelessly parasitizes on the ideas from the first film. The result is a below-average thriller in the style of Color of Night. Basic Instinct 2 is primed to sweep the Golden Raspberry Awards.