Movie Reviews

I rented a bunch of movies so I'll make these individual reviews short. The best movie of the latest batch I saw was Rock n Rolla by Guy Richie and starring Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson and Thandie Newton among many others. It was a fun, twisty story about the seedy scums of the London underworld crossing and double crossing each other. Definitely rent this one if you haven't already seen it.

Zack and Miri Make A Porno, the latest Kevin Smith movie, wasn't as funny as I was hoping it would be but it was a fun, light, silly movie. It's about two high school friends who decide to make a porno to make ends meet and end up falling in love. Max Payne starring Mark Whalberg was a good looking stylistic action movie, but it was predictable. It's about a cop wrestling his personal demons while trying to get to the bottom of a hallucinogenic drug ring. Pride and Glory was a well acted movie about good cops and bad cops (any movie with Edward Norton is guaranteed to be well acted), but it was excessively long. Oliver Stone's W. was an interesting look at how W lived his entire life in his father's shadow and ended up being Cheney's puppet - nothing new there. Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a slow movie about two women who spend the summer in Spain. It's clear to see why Penelope Cruz was nominated for her performance in this. Alien vs. Predator: Requiem was fun to watch but I honestly don't know why they spent so much time on a plot full of characters no one cares about. None of these four movies are "must see's" but they're entertaining if you're in the mood.