Written by Luc Besson, the screenwriter of Kiss of the Dragon, another Jet Li action, crime, drama film featuring Londoners.
The soundtrack is done by Massive Attack. Plenty of Jet Li's fighting skill on display and the music, story and directing are very good. At times the sense of tension in the air is palpable.
Emotional content is there. The final fight, the way the scene it's in is directed and the way it fits in the story is so badass; it's worth watching the film just for that
This movie was terrible. What the hell? Why did it get such good reviews? The plot was very uneven, dialogue was stale and overall the movie had no flow. I guess some supporting actors were alright, but the main guy wasn't believable at all.
I was tempted to stop watching it before the middle, but I thought that maybe it will redeem itself. Nope. Disappointed.
Paper Moon 9/10
Beautiful black & white cinematography. Great acting and chemistry between Ryan and Tatum O'Neal. Didn't know it was his real daughter in the beginning but could definitely tell after a while because it felt so real. Just a very pleasurable movie.
Straight to stream this one, which would suggest it shouldn't be much good perhaps. Fortunately it's actually damn good - the best war movie i've seen in at least a few years. Liked the acting, liked the plot, liked almost everything about it really. And some shots (there's one at the end for instance, where the main character slouches through a thrench system to get ammo for the machine gun, cigarette dangling from his lips, a helmet that's too big for his twelve year old head) are just superbly done and very memorable... excellent, excellent stuff.
Pretty much the only complaint i can think of is the at times ridiculous sounding African English, just use some native language or even French or whatever.
This was on my to watch list.
You know I enjoy sci-fi but this one tested my faith. I was going to press the stop button but persisted to the end and it got marginally better in the last half; only just.
Decent enough, but underwhelming and predictable.
I'd not watched any Daniel Craig 007 movies, so Wednesday and yesterday I crammed in Casino, Quantum and Skyfall, and then went to see Spectre last night. I'm all Bonded out!
Decent enough, but underwhelming and predictable.
I'd not watched any Daniel Craig 007 movies, so Wednesday and yesterday I crammed in Casino, Quantum and Skyfall, and then went to see Spectre last night. I'm all Bonded out!
phantasmagoria wrote:Saw the original The Thing on 70mm at the cinema last night. The print had lost its blue hues a bit so it was all quite a lot more more pink than it should have been, but that aside the actual definition was absolutely great and the sound? holy fuck
They don't make 'em like that anymore. What a film.
Rob Bottin (Botine, Bottine) should have won an oscar for the defibrilator/chest/spider-head scene. It is one of the most iconic practical efftecs scenes in history on par if not better executed than the mutation on American Werewolve and everything Harryhausen did.
Straight to stream this one, which would suggest it shouldn't be much good perhaps. Fortunately it's actually damn good - the best war movie i've seen in at least a few years. Liked the acting, liked the plot, liked almost everything about it really. And some shots (there's one at the end for instance, where the main character slouches through a thrench system to get ammo for the machine gun, cigarette dangling from his lips, a helmet that's too big for his twelve year old head) are just superbly done and very memorable... excellent, excellent stuff.
Pretty much the only complaint i can think of is the at times ridiculous sounding African English, just use some native language or even French or whatever.
It's taking me a long time to watch this--I'm not sure why. I've finished half of it. Will watch the rest some other day.
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. ... Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda.
The role of the Russian spy is done very well by Mark Rylanc and of course Toms Hanks always does a top job.
Great and solid movie
9/10 IMDB
Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s
The start was a little slow but it built interest as it progressed.
Forest Whitaker was good as Idi Amin.
James McAvoy who played the part of the young Scottish doctor who travels to Uganda and becomes the personal physician to president Idi Amin, I am not familiar with.
Gillian Anderson (Scully - X Files), I saw her name in the credits but really didn't recognise here in her brief movie appearances.
and I am looking forward to it.
