Argo 2 (2015) Reviews

• Here we come Malibu!

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  First of all, Argo 2 is clearly not for everyone, not everybody can appreciate this sort of redneck and moron behavior. There are people who may not like this type of humor and that's can be the reason of displeasure. This is a fact and it must be accepted. I'm not one of them. I absolutely loved the first movie and the idea of a sequel made me excited. With a bigger budget, they had the chance to generate an intensive marketing and grab more people's attention. It's pretty obvious that Argo 2 doesn't want to take itself too seriously. I wasn't expecting a complex or revolutionary story, because in this case that's not the major priority. The plot is just the frame and it's only purpose to cause funny and absurd situations. There are indeed plenty of funny moments and action scenes are much more spectacular. They were shooting at different locations which was a pleasant surprise and it added some extra value to the overall. The characters are still funny as hell, they might have brought back the exact same performance (what we witnessed in the first Argo), but that's what we need. The idea of the lack of knowledge in modern technology was a great causer of awkward situations, but they didn't take full advantage of this. A lot of great opportunity were missed, instead of more swearing they could have invested more time in creating situational comedy. There were some movie references - which could have been a good idea - but the implementation of these was too direct. These moments must have been carefully added to the events, sometimes i felt that they tried to throw these in my face: "Look! A reference!". Translation of some old catchphrases to Hungarian would have been a better choice (maybe). There were definitely too much swearing in some scenes. I know, i know, this became the main essence of the first movie and it was quite obvious to hear even more in this one. In my opinion, sometimes less is more. Hungarian language is famous for the wide variety of swear words, they should have used this advantage and add more flashy or twisted words to avoid monotony. As far as i'm concerned the first Argo was a bit better, but this is also a good one. All in all, it is an action packed, funny and entertaining movie. In the last few years Hungarian movies started to shine and Argo 2 joined this positive "uprising". Unfortunately this was the last movie of Lukács Bicskey, who brought us the unforgettable Psycho. His memory will live on with his legacy, Rest In Peace.

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• Refreshing Hungarian movie

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  During the first 5 minutes we thought that we sat in for the wrong movie at the cinema: it was perfectly done, Hollywood style of the newest action feature. After this intro one gets to a new level of the vulgar, exaggerated Eastern European humour one expects to see after having seen the first part (the second part is understandable without watching the first but I believe it gets better with watching both parts). If you haven't been to Eastern Europe or I might risk even you haven't spent a long time in this region of the world chances are that you won't appreciate the jokes. Jokes are funny if they relate to reality and me and my friends: we laughed out loud at least half the time... Great to see that in a short time after Liza the fox fairy (Liza, a rókatündér) there's another Hungarian movie that brings in a new, far away culture (this time Japan) unexpectedly to this action-comedy. If you do know whether to watch it now or no: give it a try, watch the first 5 minutes, you'll love it and then in the next 15-20 you'll get the flavour of the kind of humour of the movie. If you liked the first part probably you'll love this one: at least this is how it went with me. Enjoy!

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