It’s been a while since my last review but I had a few things I wanted to say about this movie. Let me start by saying that I really enjoyed it and thought it was a good movie. Anne Hathaway was excellent as Selina Kyle and could have had more time on screen. Tom Hardy’s performance as Bane was superb. As a matter of fact all the actin performances were great. Though it was funny how Michael Caine would cry and walk off at the end of every scene, but he was still great. The writing was good and Nolan’s …
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Quick Review: Dark Knight Rises
Quick Review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
This was one of the most anticipated movies of the Spring/Summer movie season. I’ll make this review short. Fanboys are going to hate it. Fans of the Wolverine comics aren’t going to like it. Fans of the X-Men series of movies are going to like it. As far as the story goes, its fits into the story line of the X-Men trilogy of movies. It gives the origin of our favorite mutant, Wolverine. Questions about his past that were raised in the first movie are answered. As with most origin stories, the action sequences were spread out by exposition. But, …
Quick Review: Hancock
I saw Hancock the other day, and there’s no doubt in my mind that Will Smith is now the biggest movie star on the planet. Even a mediocre film such as this drew huge crowds and posted huge numbers. I went on Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 PM and the theater was packed. Go figure. The movie was just okay. It was different for a superhero movie, but that’s just it, it was different, not special.
On the bright side, there were 3 things that were great about the movie: 1) Charlize Theron, 2) Jason Bateman, and 3) the soundtrack. I forgot …
Quick Review: Wanted
I initially had my reservations about this movie. After seeing it, I was really impressed with the action stunts. First, let me get the comparison to the graphic novel out of the way. The movie deviated from a good deal of the story without actually changing the main overall plot and theme of the story. I credit the
screen writer for pulling it off. For the most part, the first 20 minutes and the last 20 minutes are just like the story in the graphic novel, with a few small minor changes. They even managed to work in an aspect of …
Quick Review: The Happening, well, more of a Quick Rant
I saw The Happening around the same time I saw The Incredible Hulk, but chose to not do a quick review at the time. Now that I’ve had time to process the movie, I feel like I have to say something about it. There is nothing wrong with a director doing a message movie. But to me, the mark of a good director and writer, which Shayamalan is both, is the ability to convey your message subtly. There are subjects that as a viewing public, in my opinion, that we can deal with being slapped …
Quick Review: Beowulf
I have seen the movie and I liked it. Beowulf the movie is based on the old English poem by the same name. I read the poem, or some of it, in high school, and most english literature scholars know the poem very well. They have taken some liberty with the original story but kept the spirit and gist of what was going on. The movie was done completely in CGI and with the aid of motion capture. Done by the same people who brought us Polar Express, they have seen to have learned from …
