If you ask me, what would it take for a cliched story ( gangsters, irish neighbourhood, boston, a wicked chief, does it ring a bell?) to pull off,I would say the performances, but if you say its 2 hours and some mins long, I would probably say "nothing".
Its a story about the infamous charlestown neighborhood and how a young man, expert in meticulously planning the bank robberies, gets involved with a girl and wants to leave this crime infested neighborhood to start a new life.
Now if you have watched a lot of movies, there are certain points in the above paragraph that would really get you interested. Meticulous planning, Love, crime infested neighborhood, but alas none of these are given enough weight in the movie. Wait, but did I not say it was 2 hours long? yes it was, but the plot hops between one too many relationships, friendship, father-son, amorous love.
The positives, the performances are excellent, Ben Affleck as Doug MacRay, rebecca hall as Claire, do justice to their roles, but one person who stands out is Jeremy Renner as James coughlin.
Bottom line: Go watch this movie if are in a patient mood and ready to spare sometime for the watching the onscreen performances.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Resident Evil: After Life
I must admit, it was one stupid idea to go watch Zombies in 3D and it wasn't even scary.
I simply don't get the purpose for making a movie like this in 3D. I understand people want to stop piracy by releasing movie in 3D, but wait there are better ideas go consult Christopher Nolan or James Cameron. One might say, its not good to compare with such greats, I say why not? I am paying the same full amount to watch the movie and I will demand the same kind of entertainment.
So whats there in this movie to watch, action, insanely overdosed. Thats it, I can't think of anything else. There were only 7 alive people and 5 of them are for only 10 mins in the movie ( oh by the way, Alice did turn human in this movie, though you won't see any signs of that), so what am I going to talk about, Zombies? oh yeah, they did their part well. Cheap scare tactics used by director. Picture this, you were walking into your house and somebody shouts would you be scared, ofcourse. Same cheap thrills used in the movie.
Bottom Line: Go watch if you enjoy watching bullets flying, blood flowing.
I simply don't get the purpose for making a movie like this in 3D. I understand people want to stop piracy by releasing movie in 3D, but wait there are better ideas go consult Christopher Nolan or James Cameron. One might say, its not good to compare with such greats, I say why not? I am paying the same full amount to watch the movie and I will demand the same kind of entertainment.
So whats there in this movie to watch, action, insanely overdosed. Thats it, I can't think of anything else. There were only 7 alive people and 5 of them are for only 10 mins in the movie ( oh by the way, Alice did turn human in this movie, though you won't see any signs of that), so what am I going to talk about, Zombies? oh yeah, they did their part well. Cheap scare tactics used by director. Picture this, you were walking into your house and somebody shouts would you be scared, ofcourse. Same cheap thrills used in the movie.
Bottom Line: Go watch if you enjoy watching bullets flying, blood flowing.
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