★ 5 / 10
An interesting concept no doubt, <em>'The Door'</em> just
r96sk
An interesting concept no doubt, 'The Door' just doesn't execute it all that well. It starts off decently and I was interested in seeing where it would go.…
An interesting concept no doubt, 'The Door' just doesn't execute it all that well.
It starts off decently and I was interested in seeing where it would go. However, I feel like it lost its way very quickly and suddenly became rather underwhelming. The performances of Mads Mikkelsen (who's German was actually dubbed by Ingo Hülsmann, annoyingly) and Jessica Schwarz, while more than fine, don't set the film alight either - nor do any other elements of this 2009 release.
A disappointment all in all. Forgettable!
★ 7 / 10
...you reap what you sow in the village of the damned
bcheng93
Let's start off by saying that Mads Mikkelsen has never been in a bad or unwatchable movie and he just continues to impress with every movie that he gets…
Let's start off by saying that Mads Mikkelsen has never been in a bad or unwatchable movie and he just continues to impress with every movie that he gets involved in. In case you've never heard of him, he was the main baddie in " casino royale ", he was one of arthurs swordsmen in " King Arthur " and i thought he really stood out among the other ensemble leads in that movie. Last year he was the co-lead along with Shia Leboeuf in " the necessary death of Charlie Countryman ". Uber talented actor and finally getting worldwide attention and in my opinion one of our planets finest male actors. Just look at that face...it shows so many emotions and he can do everything and has done everything from comedy to action.
This is one of the best movies i have watched in a long time and, i had been saving this movie for a while cause i knew it was going to be a good movie and boy!...,it sure didn't disappoint. The genre of this movie is very hard to describe, i would say it is a sci-fi, fantasy, suspense, thriller and finally drama.
As soon as you turn on the movie you are hooked into the story. The story is about a famous married artist(Mikkelsen) and his wife who works for a major pharmaceutical company and they have a lovely 7 year old daughter. While his wife is out working, he works from his home and also watches over the daughter when she is home. He has a very bad problem or addiction where he is not a one woman guy. He often slips out while at home watching his daughter to go to a neighbors house and shag her. The neighbor threatens to tell his wife if he breaks up this arrangement. During one of these trysts his daughter slips in the huge backyard close to the pool, with her shoelaces untied and she falls into the pool and her laces get caught in a filter at the bottom of the pool. Mikkelsen comes back from the neighbors house just not in time to save his little girl...cause he couldn't undo the laces that were caught in the filter. She dies and his already rocky marriage crumbles( the wife knows that he has cheated on her many times).
Cut 5 years down the line and the artist is now a shell of a man and his wife has remarried his best friend and former student. He regrets what has happened terribly, so much in fact where he has tried to commit suicide and is literally a functioning bum. One night he goes to his ex- wifes place just so he can see her...but she doesn't want to see him cause it causes to much pain, but she still cares about him. He leaves and goes back to their old house and in the yard he jumps in the pool and tries to kill himself. He looked particularly bad that night, that worried his ex-wife so she tells her husband(former student and still best friend) to go and make sure hes OK. Suffice to say that his friend gets there in time and jumps in and pulls him out. They separate and he wanders around till he gets to a spot where there is a lot of shrubs and bushes and he spots a hidden entrance.
Something makes him go in and it turns into a dark gloomy tunnel. He continues down the tunnel till hes almost at the end and he can actually see a ratty wooden door. He opens the door and by opening the door he gets a chance at redeeming his past life(5 years ago) and starting over. But wait...has he actually opened up a Pandoras box?????
Shows you that you can make movies at minimal budgets and still have it be a world class movie. All the leads were great, you really got into the movie and the minimal score was awesome, it set the tone so well in every situation in the movie. Good movies like this need to be seen by more people, but alas, it rarely does, every-bodies into watching big budget blockbusters or silly over-gored horror movies or dumb comedies.
Again...this was an awesome movie and i'm still thinking about it and it will not be a movie i will forget, as a matter of fact every movie with Mads in it i remember, even when he gets minor roles the guy still stands out. Mads, you rock!
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1080pp pleasee