Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Movie review "I against I" and a bit on ethics

How to recognize two IMDB reviews and plot summary written by the same person.

Review 1 :

Set in a metropolitan underworld, two very different protagonists are unwittingly caught in a slowly escalating nightmare over one night in which each has to find and eliminate the other or be killed himself. It is only through flashbacks and sudden twists that we the audience gets to find out what is really at stake, and to disentangle the motives in this psychological thriller. As a plot it really works well.
It may not be a big budget gangster movie from Hollywood, but there are enough close up car chases and fast action for one critic to have written that it's a bloke's film. Yes, but it's also a film you can watch alongside your girlfriend or boyfriend. Why? Because it has universal themes of someone ordinary being pushed beyond their limit, and love that ultimately has no limits. So we voted it our film of the month. There are 12 of us in the film club and we see 50-60 films a year. Go watch it.


Review 2:

This film is by no means perfect, but i still loved the way it is shot in London. No Danny Dyer clichés thankfully and keeps the story moving with lots of flash backs adding twists as to who did it. Similar in style to Reservoir Dogs, i thought it might be just a boys film, but i was pleasantly surprised it was more of a crime thriller. No flash bang gangster nonsense but a thinking film. Far removed from all the Hollywood nonsense they churn out, that you can predict the ending 5 minutes in. If you want something different watch this. This film is very much like Marmite you love it or hate it for what it stands for and the genre. I love it :)

Plot Summary (for same movie, uploaded but not written by Peter Slack, which I'll prove later):

Focusing on the timeless themes of jealousy, murder and betrayal, 'I Against I' is set over one night and utilises different time lines to reveal a dark and unexpected conclusion to a simple mystery premise. The main protagonists, opposite in character, take a frantic journey into a desolate nocturnal world with the common aim of survival, though once completed, the plot reveals a trap from which escape may be impossible. Taking influence from films like 'Le Samurai', 'Point Break', and new Asian noir, the film is a modern homage to hard boiled cinema with its own original take

And how do we see its all written by same person? Easy, really. Made easier by fact that this person is terrible writer with no imagination. Answer is "recurring, overused points and comparisons". 


Movie in question, "I against I", actually does not have anything at all to do with Reservoir Dogs, other than stealing flashbacks from it, and it has nothing at all to do with Le Samurai nor Point Break (I have seen Point Break dozen times, I have seen I against I twice, second time so I can be certain in my review, they do not have a single point connecting them, there are no similarities at all, plot summary is a flat out lie). There is no thrill in it, characters are one dimensional, ratings for this movie on IMDB are fake (more than 50% of them are rating 10, yet movie is probably record holder for number of people walking out of theater on how bad it is), and people involved in movie are harassing, threatening and having Facebook and IMDB accounts of reviewers repeatedly reported. Movie in question is garbage not worth wasting your time on, and I personally would never fund any of projects of people involved as I would find them immature, childish and irresponsible with my money.


Thanks to Vedmak.

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