Where have all the good times gone?

Rating: 2/10 (25 August 2013)

I'm so terribly sorry-or should I say angry?-to go to watch a supposed sci-fi or whatever movie and end up with this!Why? Because it cries out:I have a meaning to deliver.Because it does so in the most simplistic possible way and doesn't even care for some script plausibility that seems rather too much to ask for(many great movies of the genre lack seriousness in the plot and the dialogues but they turn this weakness into appeal).Because it thinks it is clever when it is melodramatic and silly, boring, and follows the rules of blockbustering with no visual charm(apart from the city-from-above-pictures) and with no directional authenticity(I 'm sick of watching movies directed in exactly the same way).I wonder why the director has chosen this genre(it's his second movie,as far as I know), instead of being honest about it and go for the Ken Loach themes.Anyway, to wipe out the effects of the film, I went home and watched on DVD Mad Max II, which I had seen many years ago. That was real cinema, folks:subtle, genuine, poetic.An adventure to fire your heart.Where are movies like this these days? Really!Where have all the good times gone?