MIRAGEMAN Kicks Chile’s Ass

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1. pfeffe 03/23/2008 @ 7:03am

   this one looks great!

2. Morzongo 03/23/2008 @ 7:35am

   It looks very funny and original. I hope it will be released in Spain. Great site.

3. Mr.Jagil 03/23/2008 @ 10:34am

   No idea of how i’m gonna get my hands on this, but i just MUST see it

4. marcelopacheco 03/23/2008 @ 8:53pm

   Todd, I translate the review linked here. Please excuse my very bad english. So it goes like this:

   The first time that Maco (Marko Zaror) comes into action like Mirageman is fighting against the feared “Bilbao´s Gang”. His arrival to the bad guys lair, in a public bus, is an image that condenses the aesthetic and the values of this movie. We don´t have flying capes here, or incredible machines, and not even quick changes of clothes in a phone booth. The santiaguinan heroe hardly put his blue masked suit on, sitting on the floor, and saving his clothes in a garbage bag, so nobody could steal him, while he is fighting for justice.

   This hilarious absurdity, always executed in solid form, is the great value of the Ernesto Diaz´s second film. The laughs come spontaneously when we see this superhero acting according to our national idiosyncrasy. The ability to reflect the character of our country is combined with good action sequences designed and choreographed by Diaz and Zaror.  So, Mirageman has always clear that the fun is the most important thing and not bored the audience with social speeches that well could have been used when it comes to combat street crime or pedofile networks. Diaz doesn´t overload the character with internal trauma, thing exaggeratedly used by Hollywood in the last times. Some examples of this thing are the last Superman´s movie (Superman Return), and the Spiderman saga. Mirageman fights to encourage his brother Tito, interned because of psychiatric problems, and doesn´t battle for a moral necessity. This movie doesn´t fall in romantic stupidities, The journalist Carol Valdivieso, for example, is far to become the Mirageman´s Louis Lane (she is the opposite of the Superman´s lover).

   This kind of things, and never try to be so serious like the other superheroes movies, are the greatest things of Mirageman. Also, this kind of risks helps the audience to forget some problems and holes, like the performance of Zaror when he is not fighting, and all the Maria Elena Swett´s acting, always in the edge.

   So, Mirageman is presented as a clear maturation of Ernesto Diaz´s work. If Kiltro was a poor tribute to the martial arts flicks, this one comes to refresh the Chilean cinema. Mirageman is bulletproof.

5. DiVeRsItYofChEaSe 03/24/2008 @ 2:01am

   this looks rediculous.......ly funny! Worth watching, i guess

6. LoBo 03/24/2008 @ 9:00am

   It looks good.

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