Average movies, which are predictable, and offer nothing in particular in exchange for your time, are reviewed in this category. You won’t lose much by watching these films, but you won’t get much either.
Watched “Journey to the Center of the Earth” on the plane’s tiny LCD screen, with really horrible headphones. And wasn’t impressed at all. Yeah, maybe I missed a whole lot of special effects, but the movie still sucked. It felt like a really cheap attempt to recreate one of the Brendan Fraser action-adventure movies. They’ve got Brendan, but failed at everything else.
5 out of 10
Watched “My Mom’s New Boyfriend” (aka “Homeland Security) on the plane. The film does not deserve much. It couldn’t be spoiled by tiny LCD screen with really poor image quality and the most horrible headphones that I ever plugged into my ears. The story is simplistic and predictable. Most of the dialogs are horrible and were only saved by the actors themselves. There was no high or low point in the film – it was all on the same level, and that level was pretty low. It’s a pity to see both Antonio Banderas and Meg Ryan in a film like this.
5 out of 10.
The trailer for “The Spirit” was really nice and I wanted to see the movie. However, when I checked IMDB page and saw the 5.something rating, I got worried. There are many examples when my personal rating differs a lot from the IMDB one, but 5.something is always a cautious sign.
And since there wasn’t much else to see, I still went for it. Unfortunately, this time IMDB was quite right. The film feels like a leftover from “Sin City”. There is nothing original about it. Nothing much to enjoy. And, honestly, nothing much to see in it. Most of the time is spent in silly dialogues and monologues. And these are so silly that they actually harm the good acting that could have been done.
The only scene to remember is the one with Samuel Jackson dressed as a German nazi, and Scarlett Johansson helping him out. Everything is else is boring, overdone, and unoriginal.
3 stars it is.
Some days ago I went to see “Quantum of Solace” in the cinema. This is the continuation of the James Bond agent 007 series.
It ended up being a pretty good action film, with car chases, boat and airlane fights, shootings, and explosions, etc. But, on the other hand, it has the least to do with James Bond series from all the episodes that I ever saw. Bond movies always had plenty of style, spy gadgets, sexy ladies, and English accent. In the one, most are either totally absent or overminimized.
However I still enjoyed the action and all the special effects – well suited for the big screen. I’ll give it an overall 6 out of 10.
Either one of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino is enough to attract attention to the movie. When they are both in the same movie – that’s something that needs to be seen, no matter what the critics or ratings say. And that’s why I went to watch “Righteous Kill” today.
Altogether, the film was rather average – not much dynamics and action for a police movie, predictable story with a lot of cliches, dialogs really off sometimes, and so, and so forth. But. There was enough good acting, and there was enough thought provoking. I mean it’s not a philosophical movie by any measure, but it covers a few morals and gives enough time to the audience to poke around the good, the evil, and the fine line between the two.
Overall, maybe not worthy the big screen, but good enough for a DVD rent. 6.5 out of 10.