April 2008

The Forbidden Kingdom

If you liked this movie, I must ask you why. Although it’s not the worst I’ve seen, it’s far from being a “good” movie as far as I’m concerned.
If you want to talk about the fight scenes, forget the fact that it’s Jackie versus Jet for a minute. While the director was treated us to […]

The Contract

Somewhere in this movie is an action adventure that’s supposed to get your heart pounding at some points but they never achieved that effect. Calling this movie a thriller would be an insult to the genre. And it only left me wondering why John Cusack and Morgan Freeman would want to do this project.
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The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

While some people considered this a very slow and boring movie, I found it to be one of the best movies to have released last year, easily.

But I can see how it may only appeal to some. The director Andrew Dominik, who only have another movie to his name, is not afraid to take his […]

Street Kings

Keanu Reeves is back with a semi-decent action movie. Why semi-decent, I’ll explain.

It was probably around the half hour mark when I figured out the ending, and I think this was the case too for everyone watching the movie. The kind of mystery story would have worked well a decade or two ago but definitely […]

Definitely, Maybe

I honestly didn’t expect this to be any good but surprise, surprise. This will probably one of the more memorable romance-themed movie this year.
 
The story is about a man and his former love-lives, told as flashbacks to his daughter. Not exactly flashbacks since the storytelling parts are minimal at best. But the story itself […]