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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
I wasn’t planning to see this in the theater, but went a few weeks after it was released because of its 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. For one of the rare times, I completely disagree with RT. Character Simon Pegg was clearly the comic relief and I liked him. Jeremy Renner was the problem. His [...]
Source Code
I liked it…except for the half of the movie that got twisted in its own mythology. Premise The science behind the technology should have stayed in the setup and not been an avenue for Jake Gyllenhaal to remain in that person’s body at the end. And the science should have been less complex…not use a [...]
Take Me Home Tonight
I wish my friend had taken me anywhere but to a TV to watch this drivel. At least I didn’t watch the whole thing. Character The character of the fine actor Topher Grace graduated from MIT (in the backstory) and, rather than work in his field till he figured out his life, worked in a [...]
Red Riding Hood
Why did I stop watching this after 30 minutes? Premise Because the tone of the movie was muddled. It was supposed to be a fairy-tale setting, yet it looked silly…it looked like a low-budget set of a fairy-tale village. And then there was talk of a Father and, worse, the Father character appeared. Yup, a [...]
Sucker Punch
I was the sucker for watching this drivel. Good thing I didn’t pay to see it and good thing I fell asleep for parts of it. Premise Girls sent to a mental institution were forced to dance for outside clients. Say what? While I was still trying to understand that nonsense, the story revealed its [...]
The Conspirator
Good legal drama. Little things When Mary Surrat admitted to her lawyer James McAvoy that she knew of the original plot to kidnap- not kill- President Lincoln, I felt like most of the tension delfated from the story. Sure, there was still the larger issue of the injustice of her being tried by a military [...]
Hall Pass
The studio should have passed on this idea. Premise / Character I’m not sure if the idea could have worked in any manner, but it was doomed from the beginning in this production. The wives giving their husbands a week off from marriage made them look stupid (regardless of the reverse-psychology that was established) and [...]