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THE UNTALENTED MR. RIPLEY I must admit I did not think this series could be an improvement on the great 1999 film but it is worse than my already low expectations. Apart from old, Tom Ripley in this version is utterly disgusting and it is impossible to understand why even an equally uninteresting Dicky, would like to have him around. As said Dicky in this series is also old and looks slightly like a degenerate and Margie is just plain boring. Another negative is the moronic argument by the director that since the series occurs in Italy in the 1950’s it will be better reflected in black and white. Why? Is the director saying that the vibrant colours of the Amalfi coast were not so vibrant in the 50’s? Has he not realised that had colour film been available at that time, no director would have shot a film, even less if it it has Amalfi as a background, in black and white? Finally what made me stop watching this pastiche is the constant repetition of mundane scenes, we see characters going up and down the stairs for hours, we also see every little detail of Ripley disposing and cleaning of the bodies, the lift going up and down over and over…it is so boring! I am not sure if the director tried to emulate Hitchcock but what he achieved was creating the feeling that he was paid by the minute of episode. Overall a bigger disappointment than expected. Do not bother with this and watch the 1999 film instead.

The Emperor has no clothes! Yes, it is an Scorsese movie with De Niro and De Caprio, so expectations are high but in reality it’s one of the most boring, uninteresting movies I have ever watched. The fact that it lasts almost four hours doesn’t help either. By hour three, I could not care less about the very flat plot and I just wanted the dam thing to end. And I was seating in a VIP cinema with an extremely comfortable reclining sofa. I feel sorry for the poor people that have to watch this interminable boredom in a normal cinema! If you really want to have fun, watch the grass grow or even better, wash your hair. It would be cheaper and much much more enjoyable.

I give it one star because I can’t give it zero. The only good thing about the movie is that they managed to make it with what you spend having dinner at a burger joint. It is supposed to be a dystopia but we don’t know why. Of course all sadistic killers are men and heroic people are women and it is all so predictable and uninteresting that even if you fast forward most of it, this movie really sucks.

A typical example of the kind of movies currently been made in Spain that, in order to get money from the government, need to portrait catholic religion as evil, conservative people as simplistic and bad and Spain as a backward and underdeveloped country. A silly movie, full of gratuitous blasphemy (of course for the left is always recomendable to insult Christians with or without reason), leftist propaganda and a moronic plot that makes watching this film a total waste of time and money. As a Spaniard, it makes me very angry to see tax payers money wasted on this rubbish.