Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See
Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.
dragokin I'm one of those who watched Blueberry awaiting a comic book adaptation and, needless to say, wasn't impressed. Maybe the title itself was misleading, since i see there was a release called Renegade. That one i'd surely avoid, which, in turn, would have spared me the disappointment.Anyhow, if you're not familiar with the comic book, there's a whole level of discussion made obsolete. We're left with some nice visuals, yet they get swiftly forgotten by poor CGI which should represent psychedelic visions. Since Blueberry has been released in 2004, i.e. several years after Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon set new standards for special effects, there is no excuse for these visual blurbs.
Thierry Massihians I'm a huge fan of Blueberry:the comic. There are actually many American heroes in french comics that Americans have probably never heard of. There's of course "Blueberry", "Buck Danny", "Comanche", "XIII", etc. Some are quite naive, and others are very, very good. The story that inspired the movie: "The lost German's mine" and its sequel "The specter with the gold bullets" is actually one of the best graphic/scenario combination I've ever read and is still one of my favorites.Unfortunately they never thought of giving the director's job to someone who understands the epoch and the place's context. In making this movie, two big mistakes were made.The first one was to give Apache mysticism a way, way too prominent role (it is only addressed as a superstition linked to an Apache sacred and forbidden territory in the original) and magnify it to proportions that have no relation with reality. This utterly robs the story of its adventurous flavor and transforms it into a story of revenge.The second one was to give the role of Mike Blueberry to Vincent Cassel. Don't get me wrong, Vincent Cassel is a great actor. You only have to watch his impersonation of Mesrine, 's public enemy to see it. In that role he is just fantastic. But Blueberry is another thing altogether. In that role he is totally unconvincing and despite his best efforts, he just can't manage the American slang. It's just not natural. It's clearly fabricated. He also moves and walks like a Frenchman, not like an American. And as the whole cast orbits around this acting failure, it then fails to deliver itself. As this works as a cascade, if neither the hero, nor the cast is convincing, then even the background becomes out of key. It is also worth mentioning that using Louisiana or Canada to justify the use of french in an American movie has become so stale and stereotyped that it is now totally counterproductive. Instead of catching your attention on a clever twist, it now shows a serious creative limitation.The screenplay brought the original story crashing down in such a way that it became almost painful to watch. Even Steven Spielberg (who is obviously not a Frenchman and who took an enormous risk with Tintin's fans) managed to cut and paste several TinTin's adventures and make a homogeneous screenplay.There was nothing wrong with the comic's story and it should not have been tampered with. With such an adaptation disaster, I seriously doubt that a sequel might be attempted, and it's too bad, because the other very good Blueberry adventure is such a good material for a movie with a lot of sequels that one can only shake one's head at the lost opportunity. That saga comes in ten consecutive comics whose titles are: "Chihuahua Pearl", "The man that was worth $500,000", "Ballad for a coffin", "The outlaw", "Angel Face", "Broken-nose", "The long walk", "The ghost tribe", "The last card", "The end of the trail".The story is about the fate of the confederate gold after the civil war and what happens to Blueberry after being framed for its theft.So...I don't recommend Blueberry, the movie. Read the comics instead, you won't be disappointed. If you don't know where to find them, me, I'm on Facebook.
vostf It all boils down to Jan Kounen's personality. He likes to play with images, or more precisely to toy with his camera and visuals. Not a bad thing per se provided the guy knows how to tell a story. Now the problem is Jan Kounen went to Mexico and lost any kind of professional outlook he might have. In exchange he discovered Other Worlds, i.e. Worlds inside his soul or whatever you may experience thanks to shamanism.As an audience you don't care about the director's personal journey unless it makes for a good story. It's not that I only stick with down-to-earth narratives: a story should be told mostly visually. Kubrick's 2001 entranced audiences of pot-smoking hippies, but you needn't pot to enjoy the psychedelic ending. As a matter of fact Kubrick never got lost in a project, and that's why some may find his movies too cerebrally cold, but he never indulged in a pseudo personal therapy.Enough with Kounen who never grew up with his camera (it's amazing he never seems to understand a camera may stand still at times), the producers who trusted him even after he lost his professional mind while preparing Blueberry are to be blame before. Too bad for them, the comic book Blueberry is an homage to westerns and the stunning locations of the Wild West (right, Moebius is credited and some shots are a nice tip of the hat to his drawings), with wonderfully scripted adventure (hey guys you lost J-M Charlier in the process, no wonder the story sucked). The original story was a quest for gold, we all end up with a quest for a meaning. Next time please, make the quest for meaning an inside story of the adventure synopsis, thanks.
memery-1 I had never heard of this film before I saw it on cable. Because it was based on the work of the great Moebius, I thought I would check it out and was pretty amazed. This is a great psychedelic western with cool effects and great acting, particularly from the lead hero and heavy. Some scenes were a little confusing and the narrative seemed a little awkward. Still, this is a cool film that will surprise many people. I am surprised that more people have not made this a cult film on the level of a "Donnie Darko." The movie really picks up steam as it heads to a final confrontation between Cassel and Madsen, and this is the best thing that Juliette Lewis has done in years. Highly recommended.
