Very moving story of an aging Sherlock Holmes, perfectly portrayed by Ian McKellen who, alongside a fantastic supporting cast and through three different argumentative lines, delivers a chilling performance as the iconic character fighting against a mystified identity around his persona, as well as his loneliness and the perks of old age exemplified by the loss of his once brilliant memory.
Passable supernatural horror film with a very solid set-up and great make-up work that unfortunately fades in punch as the movie moves forward becoming increasingly cliché and predictable.
Adequately for Universal, Sam Raimi succeeds in devising a “monster/creature” film intertwined with other genres such as the superhero film, specifically the origin story, and the thriller. This latter approach being by far the weakest of the three, but still more than bearable due to the interesting and eye-catching main character, the occurrences he goes through and the overall visuals in the film (as per usual when we talk about Raimi).
Correct love story between two centennial vampires in current times suffering from a lack of focus for what concerns the tone of the film, jumping all over the place between existentialist drama, to romance, to comedy, etc. This ambiguity in genre and overall message from the film refrains it from being better than just ok.
The team of Jeremy Saulnier and Macon Blair give us an enjoyable crude revenge story populated by a bunch of common non-special in any regard type of people, differently to the usual canon of the genre that calls for some sort of either ruthless or to some extent “crafty” type of person when it comes to killing.
