GREAT CONCEPT

There are intellectual thrillers and then there are Alfred Hitchcock's intellectual thrillers! Being the guy that invented the entire genre, the famous director tries and produces one of his best works in a intertwined story about a perfect murder scheme created by the random meeting in a train. Basic plot so simple that it's genius will go on to produce some of the genre's best concepts and a dramatic finale that will justify the director's reputation for making immaculate crime stories for the big screen.

„Strangers on a train” is a great movie in any era, a perfect crime story that stood the test of time and a homework for the generations of movie creators that followed it.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN – 8/10

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ENTIRE GENRE REVAMPED

I thought that zombie horror subgenre was officially dead and I was wrong. I was wrong because Koreans hadn't done it before, at least not in the feature film format.

„Train to Busan” is basically an adapted manga, placed in a bullet train from Seoul to Busan, making it a classic situation thriller. The retarded basic storyline is there, as well as the corny dialogues and cliche characters, but so is the trademark Korean originality when it comes to intellectual subplots and extraordinary micro-action sequences. All of this will be spiced up with minimum CGI and a truly powerful, altough pathetic ending.

„Train to Busan” is probably the most original zombie horror ever filmed.

TRAIN TO BUSAN – 7/10

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DARK MULTINATIONAL GORE

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Cary Fukunaga is one superb moviemaker. Mix of cultures in his genome obviously led to some very interesting intertwining of the preferable styles and genres, mixing thriller with the noir.

However, in ”Sin nombre” everything is not noir, but pitch black. Subject of a renegade gang member trying to run from Salvador to the States is sometimes just too gruesome to watch, without any ray of hope until the very end.

Cinematography and action are really good and the concept that revolves around the freight train carrying immigrants is just great.

”Sin nombre” is a hefty and heart-chilling thriller for those with the stomach to take it.

SIN NOMBRE - 6/10