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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Young Adult
Well executed and Charlize Theron was great, yet the movie still fell in no-man’s land. Character The flick was more drama than comedy so it failed early on when Charlize embarked on the objective to win back her ex-boyfriend from high school who was now happily married and a new father. Who can have empathy [...]
Stephen King’s Bag of Bones
More like, Bag of Crap. Despite it being a TV movie, the producers would’ve had a real winner on their hands had they made it like a theatrical release. A&E, why do you think HBO’s original flicks are so good? Premise – The story boiled down to a curse from the black singer who was [...]
Hanna
This was a weird movie…it had some good thriller elements, yet they never gelled together to create any thrills. Some of this was clearly due to the director- parts were over-stylized and characters like Cate Blanchett’s were cartoonish. This movie would have had a much better chance at succeeding in the realistic style of the [...]