Reviews

Yes Man

Yesterday I saw “Yes Man” in the movies. I remember thinking that it should be a funny but pretty average film back when seeing the trailer. So I wasn’t expecting much of it. Due to the lack of options, decided to go see it anyway.

I have to say that I enjoyed it more than average. It was very kind, positive, and funny. Of course, it was a little bit sad, as is usual with Jim Carrey movies. But overall it was pretty good. Much better than expected. I don’t know if it was a combination of the film and my own mood, but by now I don’t even care. I laughed outloud a few times and that rarely has to do with my mood.

Grab it on DVD or see it at the movies – you’ll equally enjoy it. 7 out of 10.

The International

Yesterday I went to see “The International“. It’s not an outstanding movie in any way, but a well executed film in one of the genres that I happen to enjoy – conspiracy. (I’m not even sure that it’s a genre on its own)

Here you’ve got everything a good conspiracy movie should have – special agents, huge financial organizations, corruption, lots of assassignations, and a few good guys who are ready to do anything for justice. And, as always, they need to get bad for a greater good. All of that was mixed with gun fights, chases, good camera work, and some special effects. And it had Clive Owen in it. But the problem was that this film didn’t have anything (or not much at least) of original stuff. It was very much cliche.

Recommended for the fans of the genre. An overall of 7 out of 10.

Watchmen

“Watchmen” turned out to be quite a disappointment for me personally. Maybe that’s because I am not much into comics and maybe because I don’t know who watchmen are and how they came about. But still…

The poster was sort of speaking for itself, and film’s opening credits were pretty cool. It started pretty well. But then it went into a totally different direction. Instead of being your regular comics-based story with a bunch of good and bad guys, and a fight between them, this time it was all about the psychology and drama of a superhero. There were quite a few superheros, who, for some reason, didn’t seem to be really superheros, but rather a bunch of guys in weird costumes. They didn’t do anything superheroic, didn’t have any tricks up their sleeves, didn’t care much about anything else.

The visual effects were excellent, but with no base for those effects, no action, they started to grow pretty boring. And the film went on and on and on (almost 3 hours), and by the time of it I myself was almost falling asleep. I pulled it through, but barely.

If you are into superheros and everything that surrounds them, then you’ll probably enjoy this film. For me though it was somewhere on the scale of 3 out of 10.

Killshot

The other day I went to see “Killshot“. Enjoyed it quite a bit. It’s not the movie that you’d want to buy on DVD and see a few times, or be much interested in the “making of …”. But it makes for a good movie time in the cinema.

The film is an interesting mix of crime and drama. Crime movies are well known for the “easy kills”, where people die during the course of the film with audience not paying much attention to it. Every dead person is just an obstacle on the way – gone when dead. In “Killshot” it’s different. People, both good and bad, have lives, have their own ways to live them, solve their own problems. And they all of them get into this situations where they don’t necessarily want to be. And those situation change them, affect the way they live their lives…

It’s nice to see Mikky Rourke on the big screen again. Joseph Gordon-Levitt played really well too. The rest tried but dialogues were a bit setting them off.

Overall, a 7 out of 10.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

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