Constantin Film

The Neverending Story (1984)

The Neverending Story (1984)
Rating: ★★½
Jan 9, 2002Fantasy Adventure Inside an Interactive Book
A popular fantasy film of the 80s that sits just between the imaginative, particularly when it comes to some its creature effects and design work, and the mawkish. It also comes with an intriguing level of meta-fiction that delivers some odd messages
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The Fantastic Four (1994)

The Fantastic Four (1994)
Rating: ★★
Jun 15, 2010Comic-Book Superheroes
The film version of the comic-book that was made by Roger Corman intended to never be released. This has a reputation as a bad movie and is extremely impoverished adaptation but is more authentic to the comic-book than other big-budget films
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Resident Evil (2002)

Resident Evil (2002)
Rating: ★★
Jun 28, 2002Videogame Adaptation/Lab Complex of Zombies
Based on the survival horror videogame, this was the first in a surprisingly popular series of films. It also presaged a major return of the zombie film during the 2000s/10s, even if this only treads where George Romero went better before
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Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Rating: ★★
Nov 3, 2007Videogame Adaptation/Post-Holocaust Zombies
Third of the Resident Evil films. This expands the scale of action to show the entire world destroyed by the virus but for all that and a decent budget, director Russell Mulcahy fails to push the elements to a suitable head of steam
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Rating: ★★
Jun 25, 2007Comic-Book Superheroes
The 2005 Fantastic Four was an amiable entry among the Marvel Comics adaptations of the 2000s. This sequel substitutes lowbrow comedy and renders the great character of the Silver Surfer as a CGI cartoon
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Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008)

Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008)
Rating: ★★★
Mar 7, 2009Comic-Book Character
The third of the live-action Asterix films starring Gerard Depardieu as Obelix. This faithfully replicates the look and visuals of the original comic-books as the two head off to the Olympics
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Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Rating: ★
Sep 21, 2010Videogame Adaptation/Post-Holocaust Zombies
Four films in and clear evidence that the Resident Evil series needs to be retired. This consists of tediously borrowed action moves now presented in 3D and a plot of random dead ends that make little sense
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We Are the Night (2010)

We Are the Night (2010)
Rating: ★★★★
Nov 3, 2012Chic Vampires
Slick and visually exciting German vampire film that recaptures something of the chic sumptuousness of The Hunger. Perhaps The Hunger by way of Sex and the City set in a world of conspicuous fashion consumption where vampirism represents women's ultimate empowerment
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Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Rating: ★★
Sep 24, 2012Videogame Adaptation/Complex of Zombies and Mutants
Another unnecessary entry in a creativity-handicapped series, the continuing popularity of which is baffles. This shuffles through the familiar moves, brings back several familiar characters but only leaves me asking why I have invested some nine hours of time following this series
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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
Rating: ★★
Aug 20, 2013Secret World of Magic Amid the Everyday
A Young Adult fantasy adaptation that fells a Harry Potter wannabe repackaged with the brooding teen romanticism of the Twilight series, all under a director whose indifferent handling fails to animate any of the material
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Tarzan (2013)

Tarzan (2013)
Rating: ★★½
Aug 1, 2014Jungle Hero/Animation
An animated version of the Tarzan story shot in the motion capture process. Some of the modernisations might have Edgar Rice Burroughs turning in his grave, nevertheless the animation is excellent and the film works well as a technologically upgraded version of the Disney film
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Rating: ★★½
Mar 11, 2017Videogame Adaptation/Post-Holocaust Zombies
The Resident Evil films are designed for people who were introduced to drama via the Xbox, action sequences that can be assembled in random order and where it doesn't matter what happens. I watched this, the sixth and final entry, with next-to-no enthusiasm but then quite unexpectedly it starts to work
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The Silence (2019)

The Silence (2019)
Rating: ★
Jun 21, 2019Creatures That Attack Anything That Makes a Sound
This was dismissed as a copy of a A Quiet Place and had an almost identical plot about survivors sheltering from creatures that attack the smallest sound. In actuality, this was based on a book that predates A Quiet Place
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)
Rating: ★★
Dec 31, 2021Videogame Adaptation/Zombies and Mutations
A reboot of the Resident Evil film series under a new director with Johannes Roberts who abandons the previous action poses for a far darker and more visceral survival horror approach
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