Overview
Ten-year-old Aurora asks her hitman neighbor to kill the monster under her bed that she claims ate her family. To protect her, he must battle an onslaught of assassins while accepting that some monsters are real.
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| Country: | US, Canada, Hungary |
| Genre: | Fantasy, Action, Horror/Supernatural |
| Production Companies: | Entertainment One, Thunder Road, Hero Squared, Living Dead Guy Productions |
| Watched by: | 1 189 of 1 008 673 |
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Cast
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Mads Mikkelsen
Sigourney Weaver
David Dastmalchian
Rebecca Henderson
Sheila Atim
SS
Sophie Sloan
Nóra Trokán
Formidable woman
Caspar Phillipson
Father
Line Kruse
Mother
Narantsogt Tsogtsaikhan
Hitter
BF
Bence Ferenczi
Hitter
Ákos Szalai
Hitter
RM
Rea Milla
FBI Agent
SZ
Sute Zhao
Waiter (Dim Sum) (as Zhao Su Te)
AW
Armond Willis
FBI Agent
РС
Роланд Сзока
Formidable Man
AJJ
Altamiro Junior Jubilee
Hitter
TJ
Tao Jia
Host (Dim Sum)
FK
Ferenc Kovács
Intimidating Man
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Bairum
20 Feb 11:35
Leon + Matilda = The Dusty Rabbit
A little girl named Aurora hires a neighbor who looks suspiciously like a professional killer to get rid of the monster living under her bed.
From the very first minutes, "Catch the monster" conquers...
..and I will immediately voice the main drawback of the film, and forget about it forever - from the very first minutes there are questions about computer graphics. It's not that bad, but it's noticeable. Sometimes it works for the benefit, and sometimes the cartoonishness goes to ...
From the very first minutes, "Catch the monster" conquers...
..and I will immediately voice the main drawback of the film, and forget about it forever - from the very first minutes there are questions about computer graphics. It's not that bad, but it's noticeable. Sometimes it works for the benefit, and sometimes the cartoonishness goes to ...
What a thrill it is! Just a Fuller from the first seconds.
These juicy colors, the framing, the aesthetics of the interior!!!
The duo of Mads and Brian did not disappoint! How did it flash back to the era of "Hannibal" when discussing and butchering the hero's body🤣😭
Well, the first scenes of Mads' fight... Just a gorgeous man in great shape 🤤
P.S. This is Leon the killer in the fantasy style.
It was colorful, interesting and small! Unusually little))
And to be honest, I waited the whole movie for the girl's illusion to be destroyed and reality to be shown, but in the end, Mikkelson's reality turned upside down))
PS. a reference to Hannibal - 🔥🔥🔥
As mentioned, there's something about Wes. yes, and from Del Toro and some Tarantino, too.
very skillfully, everything twists and harmonizes together in this crazy cocktail.
if you don't get distracted and delve into it, the film opens up very philosophically, adding additional emotions and an interesting aftertaste to the result.
Another example of a review in which they say that there is no coherent story, not because there is none, but because they did not want to or could not see it.
I generally understand why the film has a low rating at different venues, it has moments where the script sags a little (I still wonder why Mads found bullets in his parents' room, for example ...), but as usual with such projects, Brian is too captivated by the soulfulness and visual component, so I'm still very, very happy, it was a pleasure to watch the movie!
😊 it's not a children's fairy tale at all, in general, it's quite watchable 👍
A little girl named Aurora hires a neighbor who looks suspiciously like a professional killer to get rid of the monster living under her bed.
From the very first minutes, "Catch the monster" conquers...
..and I will immediately voice the main drawback of the film, and forget about it forever - from the very first minutes there are questions about computer graphics. It's not that bad, but it's noticeable. Sometimes it works for the benefit, and sometimes the cartoonishness goes to the detriment. In general, there is a clear lack of budget for all the authors' wishes. The case when desires do not always coincide with opportunities. That's it, we've crossed out the paragraph and we're not going back to it anymore.
And so. "To catch a Monster" captivates with its style, staging, and cinematography. It's as if Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Paul Anderson decided to make a film adaptation of the books by Roald Dahl, who somehow watched enough films by Luc Besson. The setting is New York, but the houses and decorations are a fusion of almost Victorian London and Paris, which Amelie would not be ashamed to live in, and flavored with the Asian aesthetics of Chinatown. The director's techniques and visuals constantly insisted that this was something very familiar and beloved. Yes, of course, there was the marked "Amelie" and a pinch of the "Grand Budapest Hotel" with the "Kingdom of the Full Moon", but there was something else that was elusive until a certain time. There was something vaguely familiar about the combination of humor and cruelty, the nuances of Mads Mikkelsen's acting, and-after all-the characters' clothes! Moreover, I recently compiled a list of cinema premieres of the week, among which was "Dust Rabbit" and I remember for sure that the director was a debutant there, but the name somehow jumped out of my head. Spoiler alert - and very wrongly, that popped out! In general, the stylistic costumes of heroes and villains were the last straw. After about 15 minutes, I gave up and looked to see who directed the film. Brian fucking Fuller. Footage from "Miracle Fall," "Dead Like Me," "Dead on Demand," the first season of "American Gods," and, of course, "Hannibal" flashed through my mind. That's it! And it would be fine if Fuller was a debutant in full meter, but he also did not direct a single episode in his art series, which is surprising by today's standards, but the master's hand is really felt. Fuller aesthetics in every frame. Only Ryan Murphy has such recognition in terms of pictures on TV now.
The author himself calls "Catching a Monster" a family horror movie, but this is all for fear of offending and causing psychological trauma to modern sissies. It's a real fairy tale. This is a normal "fairy tale" movie from the time when directors were not afraid to show the molten faces of the Nazis to the kids, and the FBI stopped the alien not with walkie-talkies, but with automatic rifles. And yes, I repeat, this work could have been written by Roald Dahl. "Catching a Monster" is very reminiscent of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Witches", "Matilda", "Gremlins" finally.
"Catching a Monster" may be a little harsh by today's standards for very young children, but I think it's quite possible to watch the whole thing from the 5th grade, and parents will enjoy the fabulous version of the action movie by Besson, the excellent duet of Mikkelsen and the young actress Sophie Sloane, cool dialogues, competent action, gorgeous pictures, memorable soundtrack and intrigue - which is reality and which is fiction. A great directorial debut. Fuller, don't stop.
rating: 5 Leon Monster Slayers out of 5
The titular Mads Mikkelsen, however, no longer eats anyone here, only saws, and looks as if the witcher skipped the casting in Kill Bill, and the only object in his hut is a chicken with a light bulb in its ass (the same can be picked up on the evening streets of Moscow, badum-shhh). The cast is well diluted by Sigourney Weaver and David Dastmalchian.
In the story, an assassin has to take care of a girl whose room has not been cleaned for so long that the dust under the bed turned into a Kaiju rabbit and began to eat people at night. Well, or just someone doesn't take haloperidol.
In general, cinema shows off visuals, has a certain amount of subtext, and, by and large, is out of categories - for those who like strange films, it will probably even go in. It seems pointless to scold or praise here.
"You're like a piper." Do you have a flute?
- In a sense, yes.
And in fact, you get 1 hour and 45 minutes of some kind of dull drug addiction. If in the same "American Gods" all this neon psychedelics and strange images somehow worked for ENT and plot, then there is stupidly zero logic in what is happening. The scenes are wildly drawn out. It feels like watching a two-hour commercial for an expensive perfume: the shots are beautiful, the symmetry is perfect, but there is nothing at all behind all this gloss. A dummy.
I am frankly sorry for Mads. His charisma and talent were simply taken and merged into this stuffy art house. He wanders around the whole movie with a complicated face in the middle of this nonsense, but there is nothing trivial for him to play - the script simply does not give.
We've already written about the plot of the actors and the direction here, but the result turned out to be good, in my opinion. Nowadays, it's rare to see anything without a phone in your hands and on x1.5, and this movie has become such an exception.