Mountain Men is a bit of everything

5 second plot: Two brothers get a chance to catch up while trying to survive on a snowy mountain.

5 second review: I can't tell if this is supposed to be mainly a comedy, or a brotherly love drama or an adventure. It's a little bit of everything. I think they tried to make it a laugh out loud comedy, but that didn't really work out. It's not terrible, but not very much interesting happens. It's also nothing new, it feels like I've seen it a thousand times before.

IMDb score: 5,7/10
Our score: 5/10

House of Manson is not cool

5 second plot: It's the life story of notorious criminal Charles Manson.

5 second review: It couldn't have been easy to tell this story as boring as they did. The dialogue is not good and the actors don't seem to know what they're doing. It's terrible.

IMDb score: 6,2/10
Our score: 0/10

Another World is not very good

5 second plot: The world has gone to shit. Almost everyone turned into a mindless killer (think fast zombies). Two uninfected survivors have made it so far by attacking first and by staying on the move.

5 second review: It can't say I liked anything about this movie: not the bad acting, the silly voice over, the terrible dialogue, the shabby script or the loads of mistakes. Their survival methods don't make any sense and they are way too clean and relaxed for the end of the world. But not everyone seems to agree with me, the IMDb score is not that bad.

IMDb score: 6,5/10
Our score: 0/10

Cooties should be fun

5 second plot: After a kid eats an infected chicken nugget she gets thirsty for blood and very violent. She starts biting other children and then the virus spreads like wildfire. The teachers are trapped in the school and have to find a way to get out of there.

5 second review: If you're wondering if these grown ups are going to kill some kids? Yes, they are. They even set small children on fire and think that's really cool. It's meant to be a lot of fun, but it isn't. Every grown up is an asshole or a loser. There's no-one to root for. I was rooting for the kids.

IMDb score: 5,8/10
Our score; 3/10

Burying the Ex is a cool title

5 second plot: Max promises his girlfriend they will always be together, but he makes this promise in the presence of a Satan genie. A bit later his girlfriend dies (minutes before he's breaking up with her). And then she rises from the dead. And all she wants to do is fuck. 'Cause that's what zombies do, right?

5 second review: No, that's not right, they want BRAAAAAAAIIIIIIINNNNNNSSSS. The actors are really struggling with the dialogue. I felt really sorry for them. The movie's not very good. The title is cool I guess. I don't know what the awesome Alexandra Daddario is doing in here, but thank god she is, she was my only motivation to hang in there.

IMDb score: 5,3/10
Our score: 2/10

Big Game is ridiculous

5 second plot: Air Force One is shot down. The president of the United States is rescued by a young boy who's on an initiation hunt. But they are not home free. They've still got terrorists on their tail.

5 second review: Everything about this movie is laughable. It's just completely ridiculous. I see a lot of familiar faces but they are all acting like they're in Airplane 3. And it's not supposed to be funny. The young Onni Tommila is they only one who's not making a fool of himself. I can't believe I sat through the entire running time.

IMDb score: 5,8/10
Our score: 0/10

The Canal is a quiet little creeper

5 second plot: David is a film archivist who lives with his beautiful wife and son in an old house next to a canal. At work he stumbles upon police film footage from 1902 about a murder that took place in his house. And then very weird and terrible things start to happen.

5 second review: This is a quiet little scary Irish film. It’s not as mysterious as it pretends to be but they did a pretty good job creeping me out. So I guess: well done. 

IMDb score: 5,9/10

Our score: 7/10

Just Before I Go is sweet

5 second plot: Ted is sick of his life and decides to kill himself. First he goes back to his hometown to set a couple of records straight. But to his surprise he finds out there might be some people there that will actually miss him.

5 second review: I didn't know if this movie was going to be sad or funny. But soon enough the cheap jokes start coming. And I don't mind that the jokes are cheap, I'm still laughing my ass off. As a sort of counterweight the movie also touches a couple of serious subjects. This combination doesn't work all the time.  But mostly it does.

IMDb score: 6,5/10
Our score: 8/10

Good Kill is small story set in a big world

5 second plot: Tom is an F16 fighter pilot who is now operating drones. He blows away Taliban fighters from his air-conditioned container one hour and goes home to barbecue the next. He is struggling really hard and he's not doing very well at trying to be a normal husband and father. And then things get worse when his unit has to take out targets for the CIA.

5 second review: It's a very personal story about a good guy who is forced to do things he doesn't want to do. But this small personal story is set in a big scale wake-up call. Ethan Hawke does an amazing job balancing on the edge of (not) flipping out and January Jones is great as his patient wife.

IMDb score: 6,3/10
Our score: 7/10

The Dead Lands is seriously authentic

5 second plot: When a young boy's peaceful tribe gets slaughtered, he teams up with the monster living in the dead lands to avenge his people.

5 second review: This is not a blockbuster revenge movie, this is probably how it would really go down in a tribe like this. The spoken language is Maori, it does not get more authentic than that. It looks awkward and weird at first but in the end it's an amazing story about setting the record straight. Even if all the odds are against you.

IMDb score: 6,3/10
Our score: 7/10

Lost River is random weirdness

5 second plot: Billy is a mom with two kids. They are living in an town where everyone who could leave, has already left. She's not able to pay the bank so she takes on a new (weird) job. Her teenage son Bones is stealing copper to get some money but he entered someone else's territory and this guy's pissed off. But then Bones finds an underwater city. This might be his chance to lift the curse on his town.

5 second review: I was willing to give this movie a chance. I heard that it was not good. But I tried. I really did. It felt like I was watching some randomly put together weird images. And if it were happy go lucky, then it might have been okay. But it's deep and sad. And that made it even worse for me.

IMDb score: 6/10
Our score: 0/10

Robot Overlords could have been fun

5 second plot: The world is in the hands of alien robots. They say they just want to examine the human race. And when they're done, they will leave. All humans have to stay indoors. Except for a handful of collaborators. Sean and a couple of friends figure out a way to disable their tracking system. They go looking for Sean's dad.

5 second review: The idea is cool, the robots are decent and it's a pretty solid adventure story. And it's even funny from time to time. The evil humans might be a bit much. Ben Kingsley takes it a tad too far. This makes it a lot less fun than it could have been. And it's too bad the movie eventually spirals completely out of control and turns into a ridiculous mess. That too.

IMDb score: 4,6/10
Our score: 5,5/10

While We're Young is overall a good deal

5 second plot: Josh and Cornelia one day meet a younger couple who make them re-evaluate their own lives.

5 second review: This is as much a comedy as it is a drama. It gets painful and awkward lots of times. But I guess that's the whole idea. Not all the comedy works (the barfing) but some things do (the pitch to the young movie exec). The story is not very interesting but thanks to the solid performances it's still overall a good deal.

IMDb score: 6,5/10
Our score: 5/10

Backcountry feels real

5 second plot: A guy takes his girlfriend on a hiking trip into the woods. It's her first time camping or hiking but he came here a lot when he was a kid. He doesn't need a map and bears don't scare him, but of course, they get lost. And if that's not bad enough, they step into the territory of a huge angry bear.

5 second review: There's a whole lot of walking and a whole lot of talking (and a whole lot of nothing), but when the bear arrives on the scene, you will shit your pants. I know I did. This is not your typical slasher horror. It feels real. This feels like it could happen to me next week when I go hiking in the woods.

IMDb score: 6,1/10
Our score: 7/10

Spring is something that doesn't come around very often

5 second plot: Evan is a good guy who's world falls apart. He packs a bag and takes the first flight out of the country, just to get away from everything. He goes to Italy. There he meets a girl and falls in love. But this is one very very very special girl.

5 second review: Don't get sucked into the monster-promo too much. There is a little bit of cool monster stuff in here but this is mostly a romantic story. A beautiful romantic horror movie with some supernatural elements (or is it?). Now that's something that doesn't come around very often.

IMDb score: 6,7/10
Our score: 8/10

It Follows is a creeper

5 second plot: A girl has sex with a boy. He tells her that he passed something on: the 'It' from the title. This 'It' is an evil entity that will follow her and will kill her if it gets near. The good news is: it's slow and you can pass it on by having sex with someone else. The bad news is: it's very (very!) persistent and if it kills someone, it then start right back at following the previous victim.

5 second review: I heard a lot of good things about this movie. And they're all true. This is a very simple but very effective horror-thriller. This is one of those movies where you hold your breath, are afraid to look and just want to scream: 'NO YOU DUMB B**CH, NOT UPSTAIRS!'. It's an awesome scary movie.

IMDb score: 7,5/10
Our score: 9/10

The Cobbler is a bit too simple

5 second plot: Max is a cobbler (surprise) who finds out he's got a magical machine in his basement. If he fixes someone's shoes with this machine, he can become this person by wearing the shoes. This new power is fun at first, but soon enough Max gets in some serious trouble with the wrong people.

5 second review: I think this is the first time I saw a movie about a fucking cobbler. This is one very simple story. From time to time it gets so ridiculous and childish it made my toes curl. If you like Adam Sandler you will like the movie, but don't expect too much fireworks. It isn't his best work.

IMDb score: 5,8/10
Our score: 4/10

Northmen - A Viking Saga is not bad on the battle-scale

5 second plot: A group of vikings washes up on the shore of enemy territory after their ship sinks. They accidentally capture the daughter of the king and decide to ask a big ransom for her release. But the king sends a group of bad ass bounty hunters on their tail.

5 second review: The only thing that's good about this movie are the battles and there are too few of them.

IMDb score: 5,3/10
Our score: 5/10

Monsters: Dark Continent doesn’t feature a lot of monsters

5 second plot: The USA is fighting big ass monsters in the Middle East. But all these goddamn locals keep collaterally dying. And they are pissed off. So now the main problem for the US ground troops isn’t really the monsters, it’s the insurgents.

5 second review: I really didn’t want to see another Gulf War movie, I wanted to see fucking monsters. This is one seriously boring B movie, I don’t know how I got through it. The running time is 2 hours for Christ’s sake.

IMDb score: 4,7/10
Our score: 1/10

Wyrmwood is pretty cool

5 second plot: After a meteor shower hits the atmosphere almost all humans turn into zombies. Barry survives, but he has to go through great lengths to stay alive. He goes looking for his sister and picks up some friends along the way. His sister is being held captive by a crazy doctor who's experimenting on her.

5 second review: This is a pretty cool, funny, clumsy, cute, bleak Australian zombie movie. The zombies are sometimes slow, sometimes fast, they make a lot of noise and their blood lights up like gasoline. But only in the daytime. Who in the world made that up? It's awesome. There is also a crazy sort of Nazi doctor. That's a little bit overshooting it.

IMDb score: 6,3/10
Our score: 7,5/10