Friday, September 28, 2012

Percentage of films made in each genre by year

The plot below shows the percentage of movies produced over the years in the different genres (from this source, thanks to Sundar for sharing):
As a proper scientist, I had to question the source of the data used to produce the plot.
First I think the numbers come from the IMDB website, which may be biased towards american films, so that the statistics may not be representative of the movie production in the rest of the world.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Horrible Bosses (2011)

Also Known As: Kill the Boss
Year of first release: 2011
Director: Seth Gordon
Actors: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey (American Beauty, Usual Suspects), Jennifer Aniston (Friends), Colin Farrell (Total Recall)
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy
Conditions of visioning: 22.09.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Three friends end up with horrible bosses that make their life miserable in different ways, and they will have to surpass themselves if they want to do something about it.
Review: The movie plays with the fact that everybody can have problems at work with ther superior, and pushes this constatation to the extreme. The three friends are funny to watch as they try to do something that is absolutely not in their nature. By contrast, the behaviors of the bosses are horripilating, and also funny since completely exagerated. The gold medal goes to Colin Farrell who is brillant and completely out the role we usualy know him for, reminding me of Brad Pitt in Fight Club. Sometimes the movie is a bit slow, but this is maybe due to the extended Blu-ray version (15 minutes longer) that I watched. Some other times I felt it tried to copy Hangover or a Kevin Smith movie (Clerks) in its crude sexual discussions.
Rating: 6 / 10

G.I.Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)



Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2009
Director: Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, Van Helsing)
Actors: Dennis Quaid (The Day after Tomorrow), Channing Tatum (Step Up), Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie, Requiem for a Dream), Byung-hun Lee (I saw the Devil), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception), Ray Park (Star Wars I), Jonathan Pryce (Brazil)
Country: USA
Genre: Action
Conditions of visioning: 23.09.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: The military corps known as G.I.Joe, gathering all the best soldiers in the world, has prevented a new weapon to fall into the wrong hands, but the bad guys haven't said their last word.
Review: I have seen the movie for the first time in 2011, and I keep on watching it by parts sometimes when I have half an hour to spare. Inspired by the famous toy line by Hasbro that all boy kids played with (or wanted to), I find the movie very entertaining and a pure product of shameless action. It is filled with bad guys who are really rich and bad, good guys who are really good and fight for freedom, high-tech weapons and gadgets, a race in powered suits in the heart of Paris, nanobots!!! Everything to please a geek like me. It is a bit like a James Bond of the megalomaniac period (like Moonraker) without the romance and the ego of the main character, or a Transformers without the slow-motions and the attempts to have a meaning deeper than what it should. G.I.Joe: The Rise of Cobra only tries to entertain you by throwing everything it can at your face, without pretending that it does art, and this honesty feels good.
Rating: 7 /10

Monday, September 24, 2012

9 (2009)



Also Known As: Numero 9
Year of first release: 2009
Director: Shane Acker
Actors (voices): Christopher Plummer (The Sound of Music, Up), Martin Landau (Ed TV, Ed Wood), John C. Reilly (Boogie Nights), Crispin Glover (Back to the Future Part I), Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream), Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings)
Country: USA
Genre: Animation, SF
Conditions of visioning: 21.09.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis:  A rag dolls awakens in a post-apocalyptic future. It will meet others like him, and discover more about this world.
Review: In this movie you can recognize the influence of the two producers: Tim Burton for the doll with a soul, and Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted) for the borrowings to Matrix. The director is also responsible for a short movie with the same name (from 2005), so I guess he came up with the original idea for the story.
I thought at first it was a small animation movie, but when I saw the cast for the voices I realized it was a big project, trying to create an even with a release on the 9.9.09. The qualiy of the images is very good. It is interesting to find an animation film taking place in such post-war environement. The movie should contain enough action, but also character development, to satisfy most viewers.
Rating: 6 /10

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Stir of Echoes (1999)


Also Known As: Hypnose
Year of first release: 1999
Director: David Koepp (Secret Window, writer of Jurassik Park, Mission Impossible, Spider-man)
Actors: Kevin Bacon (Friday 13th, Death Sentence, Hollow Man, X-men first class), Zachary David Cope, Kathryn Erbe, Kevin Dunn (Transformers 1-3)
Country: USA
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Conditions of visioning: 18.09.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Tom is working for a telephone company and is hoping for a better life for him and his wife and son. Although sceptical, he gets hypnotised at a party and then starts to have surnatural experiences.
Review: The movie is as good as I remembered from when I first saw it more than ten years ago, except that this time I already knew the ending. Kevin Bacon delivers a great performance, mandatory for a movie that revolves completely around him and his growing obsession. The tension progressively builts up and there are some frightening moments, but Stir of Echoes cleverly avoids the easy jump-scares so common in most recent horror movies.
It is interesting that this movie has been using codes of the asian horror movies long before it became a fashion (ghost with long dark hair, teeth, nails, filming in reverse...) and that some good ideas have been re-used in other films, like Sixth Sense.
The French Blu-ray comes in a nice all-black case, the image quality is good and the surround sound used as it should be in a haunted house movie.
Rating: 8 /10

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Suck (2009)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2009
Director: Rob Stefaniuk
Actors: Rob Stefaniuk, Jessica Paré, Paul Anthony, Malcolm McDowell (Caligula, Clockwork Orange, Doomsday, Halloween), Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Moby
Country: CDN
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Music
Conditions of visioning: 17.09.2012, Bu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: A small rock band will start to meet success after the female bassist is bitten by a vampire. We then follow this band on tour across Canada and the USA, where they meet more vampires, rockers and a vampire hunter.
Review: I had already seen this movie at the Munich Fantasy Filmfest 2010 ( MFFF2010 ), and it was nice to see it again. I was surprised to learn that the 35-year old writer-director is also acting and has composed and played the soundtrack, for a movie that gathers many famous rock stars!! I don't know how he managed it. And the movie is quite good too. It starts slowly, but before you get bored the rythms speeds up and it gets better and better, meaning more fun, gore and rock'n'roll as the movie goes.
The music stars in small roles are also quite good and funny. Malcolm McDowell is excellent in his role of vampire-hunter, that fits his age as well as the roles he had in the recent Doomsday and Halloween. In a flashback we see him at the age 30, and I found out later that they used some scenes of his 1974 movie O'Lucky Man! for this scene, which is a great idea.
Rating: 7 /10

The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2011
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot, King Kong), Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings, King Kong), Daniel Craig (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace), Simon Pegg & Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead)
Country: USA, NZ
Genre: Adventure
Conditions of visioning: 16.09.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: The famous belgian reporter will set out to discover the secret of the Unicorn, a ship that sank centuries ago. In his adventures he will meet adversity but also friendship, and a certain Capitain Haddock.
Review: This first cinematographic adaptation of Hergé's books is visually stunning. From the first moment I was amazed by the beauty of the rendering of the Computer Generated Images. It is difficult to tell the difference from a live movie, except for the slightly caricatural faces of the people. The movie is filled with beautiful sets and landscapes, and impossible camera motions to follow the action from as close as possible. At some point all this action and camera motion is even a bit tiring. The story is typical of a Tintin book, and the partial merging of three of them actually. I found that there was a little lack of emotion and viewer involvment in the movie, maybe due to the animated nature of the characters.
Rating: 7/10

Monday, September 17, 2012

Best of cinema by Mad Movies. Part 1: 1998-2001

Every year my favorite magazine for action/horror/thriller/SF (Mad Movies) publishes the list of the best movies of the previous year (and the worst ones), according to its editors and an average for the whole magazine team.
I have gathered them for your here with a few comments. Enjoy
All parts of this article can be found under this link.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Snatch (2000)


Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2000
Director: Guy Ritchie
Actors: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro
Country: GB
Genre: Black comedy
Conditions of visioning: 12.09.2012, DVD
Synopsis: Small gangsters get involved with a big one. Violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers will be involved willingly or not in  fight to get a diamond. 
Review: Guy Ritchie is responsible for a small cinematographic revolution via Snatch. For the first time, scenes have a picture cut and a tone cut following the same rythm. Tarentino and Asian epics paved the way by having a choregraphy for some scenes, but did not go so far. 
In addition, the soundtrack is picking in a very cool register of the end 90s, and is fitting perfectly to the storyline. The language used by the small delinquents on one hand and by the Gypsies on the other hands is really fun and folkloristic. The "Pickeys" are even almost not understandable! The play of the actors is well done. For the fun of this comedy, and the suspsense of the storyline, and the music, and the unique cut, this movie is a master piece to me.
Rating: 10 /10

Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2008
Director: Ed Neumeier
Actors: Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers, Sleepy Hollow), Jolene Blalock (Star Trek Enterprise TV series), Stephen Hogan
Country: USA
Genre: Action, SF
Conditions of visioning: 15.09.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: The Federation struggles in its war against the Arachnids. After an advanced post is lost, the Sky Marshall and a bunch of soldiers crash land on a planet. The Bugs may be up to something...
Review: As I am writing an article about the Starship Troopers saga, I wanted to watch this one again for a fresh opinion. The first things I noticed were that the actors played quite badly and the special effects were poor. Then the scale of the action is also limited, probably due to the limited budget. Hopefully the story contains some surprises (the director of this movie is also the writer of the three first of the franchise), especially towards the end where some interesting parallels are done with religion.
It is also nice to find again the Starship Troopers universe with Johnny Rico (Van Dien), bugs mutilating soldiers, and the offbeat humour that tries to copy the one Paul Verhoeven initiated in the first movie.
Rating: 5 /10

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)


Also Known As: M:I4
Year of first release: 2011
Director: Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille)
Actors: Tom Cruise (Top Gun, Mission Impossible 1-3), Jeremy Renner (The Avengers, The Hurt Locker), Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek), Paula Patton (Deja Vu)
Country: USA
Genre: Action, Adventure
Conditions of visioning: 10.09.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Ethan Hunt will have to gather a team in order to save the world once more, but this time they are alone as their agency has been dismanteled, undoubtedly a sinister plot from the bad guy.
Review: So what do we have? The fourth episode of a franchise driven by the mega-star Tom Cruise. A couple of trendy actors (Renner & Pegg, who by the way plays the same role of comic techno-genius as in Star Trek). A classic story (a group of disavowed agents preventing a nuclear war). All of this orchestrated by the successful director of Pixar animation films (including my favorite: The Incredibles), here working on his first live movie.
The result is  very good, and for me the best movie of the franchise. The succession of action scenes at different locations around the world reminds me of Quantum of Solace, but I found it much more justified than in the James Bond movie. I also found all the ingredients that I like in the Mission Impossible movies: exotic settings, high-tech equipement and bigger-than-life threats. I loved in particular the part of the movie taking place in Dubai, where the actors are at their best, and their characters have to play an intricate game on two levels of the Burj Kalifa, the tallest building in the world!
The past of Brad Bird in the animation domain is noticeable during the action scenes perfectly choregraphed, and I loved the jazzy touch he brought to the Mission Impossible theme that sounds now very close to the one of The Incredibles (not surprisingly the composer
Michael Giacchino is the same on both movies).
The image quality is impeccable on the Blu-ray and the aerial views are breath-taking.
Rating: 8 /10

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)


Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2012
Director: Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed)
Actors: -
Country: J, USA
Genre: Action, Animation, SF
Conditions of visioning: 08.09.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Killing Bugs is still part of the day-to-day life of the Federation Trooper. The Psychic Carl Jenkins dissapears while on a secret mission to defeat the arachnid, and we follow a bunch of Troopers going to his rescue.
Review: I didn't expect much of this fourth episode of the saga, fully computer-generated, but it turned out to be the best since the first, which is one of my favorite movies ever. It is true that the second film (Hero of the Federation) was very cheap, and the third (Marauder) started to get better but still a B-movie, but this Invasion is a grade-A action movie. It is not exempt from defects but is quite well done, the images are good-looking, and I was holding my breath during some excellent action scenes. The storyline and character design is quite OK, which is always the risk with Japanese Anime. The action scenes and bug attacks are sometimes confused, due to the choice of having most of the action taking place inside a crowded spaceship. 
The 1.5-hour making-of on the Blu-ray is quite instructive and explains the sources of inspiration for the movie, that we could already guess while watching it. The first film of course was used as a reference for the "look" of the whole thing. The original book and the Marauder movie are quoted for the introduction of the armored suits, while the design of the suits themselves is more inspired by recent video games (the similarity with the suits in the Lost Planet: Extreme Condition game is striking). Some details and story points are also taken from the TV series (Roughnecks). Thanks to the making-of we also learn how the Americano-Japanese collaboration on the movie went, and the problems caused by the cultural differences. Note that Casper Van Dien, the Johnny Rico from the frst and third films, is producer on this one.
I will probably soon write an article about the saga, from the book to the TV series and the films.
Rating: 7 /10

Monday, September 10, 2012

Munich Fantasy Film Fest 2012 - Conclusion

The MFFF2012 is over and it is time for a report.
I have watched 19 movies and all the reviews can be found under this link.
The overall quality of the movies I have seen is pretty good, if you believe in histograms and in our rating system:
The best I have seen is Eva. It is followed by the excellent Sightseers, God Bless America and The Hidden Face, and the very good Killer Joe, Compliance and Thale. Many movies are then in the category "good", and only a few worse than that.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

The Baytown Outlaws (2012)


Also Known As: The Baytown Disco
Year of first release: 2012
Director: Barry Battles
Actors: Clayne Crawford, Travis Fimmel (The experiment), Daniel Cudmore (X-men 2&3), Paul Wesley, Billy Bob Thornton (Armageddon, The Man who wasn't there, Bandits), Zoe Bell (Death Proof, stunt double of Uma Thurman in Kill Bill), Eva Longoria
Country: USA
Genre: Action
Conditions of visioning: 05.09.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012
Synopsis: Three bandit brothers from Alabama go to Texas to get back the kid of a woman who gave them good money for the job. Meanwhile an investigation on their last activities might put them in trouble for good.
Review: This is a badass movie: guns, car chases, hot chicks with guns, mexicans with guns, indians with guns, you name it. The ennemies they encounter are bigger and badder, until a point where we believe to be in a post-apocalyptic movie like Mad Max 2. Carlos (played by Thornton at ease in this role), the guy from whom they took the kid, will stop at nothing to eliminate the Oodie brothers.
Between the action scenes, we learn to like those three guys: one head, one a bit dumb, and one giant mute ex-wrestler. They develop a kind of family relationship with the kid. The atmosphere of the movie is nice but I found it uneven, and some ideas were clearly taken from other movies (example: the car chase with gun on the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd like in The Devil's Rejects).
Note that some dialogs are hard to follows in the thick southern US accent, and I recommend watching the movie with sub-titles.
Rating: 6 /10

Violet & Daisy (2011)


Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2011
Director: Geoffrey Fletcher
Actors: Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones), Alexis Bledel (Sin City), James Gandolfini (Crimson Tide), Danny Trejo
Country: USA
Genre: Action, Black comedy
Conditions of visioning: 05.09.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012
Synopsis: Violet and Daisy are two teenage professional hitmen (!). Although on holiday, they accept to take an easy job to get money to buy dresses (!!), but the man they meet will have them start thinking about their lives.
Review: The movie tries very hard to be "cool" (the opening scene reminds of Pulp Fiction), but didn't convince me completely. The main comic argument is the antagony between the job of the girls and their childish behavior, but that is not enough. The meeting with the man, a big Teddy bear as sweet as possible, gives also some interesting and funny situations.
Rating: 6 /10

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Killer Joe (2011)


Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2011
Director: William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection, Bug)
Actors: Matthew McConaughey (Contact, Ed TV, Reign of Fire), Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild, Speed Racer), Juno Temple (Mr Nobody, Kaboom), Thomas Haden Church (Spider-man 3), Gina Gershon (Showgirls, Bound)
Country: USA
Genre: Black_comedy, Thriller
Conditions of visioning: 04.09.2012, CITY Kino, MFFF2012
Synopsis: A family living in a trailer park calls for the services of a professional killer to perform a task that could help them improve their situation.
Review: This story of a poor family in a small town in Texas, resorting to murder to improve their life, filled with colorful characters, could have been a movie made by the Coen brothers (No Country for Old Men, Fargo ...), if it weren't for the bloody and sexual violence that William Friedkin displays so well. His previous movie, Bug, was already focused on people with particular characters, ended in blood, and left me ill at ease. The movie contains violence but humor is not forgotten, in particular in the depiction of the characters and their reaction to unusual situations.
Sometimes predictable, Killer Joe also lingers when you don't expect it, especially in the scenes with McConaughey who delivers a great performance. I liked the way Joe switches off a TV (or worse) when he enters in a room so that people listen to him. Thomas Haden Curch is also very good as the half-dumb father.
In summary: a good and tough movie, not for the faint-hearted.
Rating: 7 /10

Compliance (2012)


Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2012
Director: Craig Zobel
Actors: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker (Gran Torino), Pat Healy (The Innkeepers)
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Polar
Conditions of visioning: 04.09.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012
Synopsis: A police officer calls the manager of a fast food restaurant to ask her help in investigating a possible theft by one employee. As he pretends to be busy, he will ask the manager to push further and further the humiliating interrogation on the employee.
Review: How far can you go with a telephone prank? How much can you control credulous people? The smooth-taking caller starts by imposing himself as a police officer, and we can then see how he manipulates the manager of the restaurant but also the victim (the employee).
The director successfully sets the right atmosphere for the events, i.e. a busy fast-food restaurant on a Friday night. The tension is high and the viewer wants to know what will happen next. At some point it becomes exagerated, but the director manages to efficiently release the tension. I found that the actress playing the employee (Dreama Walker) looks very much like Rose McGowan (Charmed, Scream, Planet Terror).
Inspired by true events (see the Wikipedia page), the movie is an interesting reflexion on the reaction of people to authority, similarly to the German movie Das Experiment and its American remake.
Rating: 7 /10

Beast (2011)


Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2011
Director: Christoffer Boe
Actors: Nicolas Bro (The Green Butchers, Adam's Apples), Marijana Jankovic, Nikolaj Lie Kaas (In China they eat Dogs, Old men in new cars, Adam's Apples, The Green Butchers)
Country: DK
Genre: Drama, Romance
Conditions of visioning: 04.09.2012, CITY Kino, MFFF2012
Synopsis: We follow a cheating wife and her huband progressively sinking into madness.
Review: I was bored during the whole movie, waiting for something to happen, but nothing ever does. The reactions of the husband could start to be interesting, but have no repercussion on the story, so I didn't see the point. One interesting thing at the beginning is how this couple talks frankly to each other, but this also is not followed by anything. Maybe there is some sense in this movie that it too deep for my little brain...
I wanted to see it because I read some good about it in the Mad Movies magazine where it was compared to a David Cronenberg movie (The Fly, Naked Lunch, Cosmoposlis), but it is only vaguely true in the rare bloody scenes. Note that the movie received the Jury award at the Gerardmer Fantastic Film Festival (ex-aequo with The Awakening), while the Audience award was attributed to Eva.
Rating: 0 /10

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The Ghostmaker (2011)


Also Known As: Box of Shadows
Year of first release: 2011
Director: Mauro Borrelli (illustrator on Battleship, The Wolfman, Captain America, Pirates of the Caribbean...)
Actors: Aaron Dean Eisenberg, Liz Fenning, J. Walter Holland
Country: USA
Genre: Thriller
Conditions of visioning: 03.09.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012
Synopsis: A student with some drug and money problems lay hands on an ancien coffin that contains some mechanisms and seem to have a mysterious power.
Review: Interesting story that this one of a mechanical antique coffin that reproduces for a moment the sensation of dying (Near Death Experience of NDA). But the question that rises, like in the Final Destination franchise or in Flatliners (L'experience interdite), is: can you cheat Death?
Well, you already know what the answer need to be in order to make a good thriller or slasher movie. In The Ghostmaker, the story is centered on the three friends that make the discovery, and what they do with it. I estimate the quality of the movie somewhere between a good telefilm and a cheap B movie. Not too bad after all. And a good realisation for the illustrator
Mauro Borrelli.
Rating: 6 /10

The King of Pigs (2011)


Also Known As: Dwae-ji-ui wang
Year of first release: 2011
Director: Sang-ho Yeon
Actors: Ik-Joon Yang, Jung-se Oh, Hye-na Kim (voices)
Country: ROK
Genre: Animation, Drama
Conditions of visioning: 03.09.2012, CITY Kino, MFFF2012
Synopsis: Two former school friends meet after 15 years without talking to each other. They will remember what they lived when they were in first grade.
Review: A quite intense drama about bullying, childhood trauma, and how it can affect an adult's life. All the ingredients are present to make you feel bad for the abused children. The drawings are not beautiful, but render well the feelings of the characters. The movie tends to be a bit long towards the end, and the characters over-explain their action, like often in asian movies.
Note that the English sub-titles were sometimes difficult to understand in the version I have seen (poor translation).
Rating: 6 /10

Monday, September 3, 2012

The Hidden Face (2011)


Also Known As: La Cara Oculta
Year of first release: 2011
Director: Andrés Baiz
Actors: Martina García, Quim Gutiérrez, Clara Lago
Country: E, CO
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Conditions of visioning: 02.09.2012, CITY Kino, MFFF2012
Synopsis: An orchester conductor brings back a girl he just met to his large house in the countryside, although the disparition of his previous girlfriend is not yet solved.
Review: DO NOT WATCH the trailer of this movie, or it would spoil the first half for you!
A very good thriller, filled with jalousy and suspicion. The orchestral music conducted by the main character is often put in parallel with what happens in the house, for an intense dramatic effect. The house itself and the surrondings provide the frame for an unnerving atmosphere, in which you are always eager to see what will happen next.... through the fingers of your hands covering your face.
Rating: 8 /10

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)


Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2012
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Actors: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Conditions of visioning: 02.09.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012
Synopsis: We follow the life of a little girl and her father, in a Louisiana isolated from the rest of the world and going back to prehistoric ages.
Review: The daughter/father story is not really my type of movies, so somebody else would have probably ranked the movie better. It is true that the little girl playing the main character is very good and touching. What I liked most is the way in which a very probable future is depicted. I imagine very well the oceans rising because of global warming, the USA building a giant dam around their southern states to block the water, and having to evacuate the area against the will of the people living there and who don't want to move. The surroundings render very well a post-apocalyptic future, probably thanks to the hurricanes wich regularly devastate the area. All around you see makeshift houses and boats. The music fits also very well. I heard that the director had first composed the soundtrack music to play with his band, but when he saw how good the movie looked, he re-wrote it completely for an orchestra. All for the best.
Rating: 6 /10