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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 [...]
John Carpenter’s The Ward
The opening title sequence- with the images of patients getting barbaric treatments- was scarier and more interesting than anything else in the first twenty-five minutes, which is when I stopped watching this. Premise / Character / Structure/Plot The girl was sent to a mental hopsital after setting fire to an abandoned house. Say what? Just [...]
Colombiana
A good setup was wasted as the story inexplicably went off course. Zoe Saldana was the only bright spot, but it’s not like she had much to do aside from stunts. Premise and Structure/Plot It should have been so simple. Little Cataleya, after the cute opening where she stabbed the bad guy and ran away, [...]
You Again
The main character was nicely set up. After that… Objective/Stakes Kristen Bell had none. This made me think of Ben Stiller in Meet The Parents if he and his girlfriend were not that serious and he was not planning to propose. That’s why I stopped watching this after 15 minutes. Maybe the issue with the [...]
The Green Hornet
On the plus side, the first ten minutes went well. On the negative side… Premise – It was too easy for Britt Reid and Kato to become crime fighters. At the story’s opening, Kato had already developed much of the technology and was already a martial arts expert. Shifting all that to battling crime was [...]