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Stonewall (2015)

Drama | 129 minutes
2,17 18 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 129 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ron Perlman

IMDb score: 5,4 (4.720)

Releasedate: 18 September 2015

Stonewall plot

"Where Pride Began"

The story is set in 1969 around the Stonewall riots, the violent confrontation that started the gay movement in New York City. Danny Winters, a young gay man, flees to New York and leaves his sister behind. In New York he discovers the gay bar The Stonewall Inn where he meets Trevor. However, he is also noticed by Ed Murphy, the manager of The Stonewall Inn who colludes with corrupt cops and exploits homeless youth.

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Decec

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A mediocre drama film...

A mediocre story...

Reasonable acting...

Famous actor Ron Perlman...

There is nothing about gay story...

Excellent background sound/music

(Dolby Digital)...

Beautiful HD quality widescreen...

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coumi

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After all those disaster films, Emmerich doesn't make a disaster of a film, but it doesn't make much difference. Very poor, this subject undoubtedly deserved better treatment. In the first half, in addition to being boring, it is also often immensely irritating because a very eccentric and one-sided bunch of gays are presented here. Subtlety, especially in the development of his characters, is always hard to find with this director (in all his films there is a ridiculously overweight role that almost undermines the entire film), but here he makes it very colorful. If the normally exasperating Rhys Meyers is the most normal and balanced one in this group, then you know what happens to the rest.

The second half of Stonewall gets a bit better as the focus is on the well-known riots, and the vicissitudes surrounding the character of Danny Winters are also developed more carefully, but the hint of mediocrity remains around the film for the entire running time.

I can't imagine anyone being really satisfied with this film: not gays, not neutral viewers and not even Emmerich. For his next projects, Roland should simply continue to focus on special effects films in which the world ends, I think it would be better than seriously trying to tell true stories.

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Shadowed

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What director Roland Emmerich had in mind when he took on this project is a bit strange to me, but the result is what we can expect. Not very subtle, quite mediocre in terms of content and characters that do not stand out, but visually very neat. In this case you just have to wait until the bigger scenes come out, because for a change this film is not about the action or destruction. Emmerich knows how to handle the sunny filters and the larger-scale scenes look controlled, but the budding romance story (which takes up almost the entire first hour) is hardly interesting. The gay community is depicted in a limited and caricatured manner, most of which are simply criminals. It doesn't boost sympathy, but Jeremy Irvine, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ron Perlman deliver solid performances. The riot is nicely depicted, but very short. It's a shame that it was exactly that sequence that I was waiting for the entire film. I also regularly got the feeling that history was being significantly distorted.

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