| Title: Little Fockers Year Of Release: 2010 Review Date: May 31, 2011 Rating: PG-13 Running time: 98 minutes Box Office Gross: $309,538,600 Site Rating: 1 out of 10 stars "Little Fockers" is the crude, vulgar, gross out comedy starring Robert Deniro and Ben Stiller, as a father and son-in-law, fighting for control of their family. "Little Fockers" is the sequel to the film "Meet The Fockers" and introduces the youngest and newest members of the sanity challenged family. "Little Fockers" has its funny moments, but is grossly inappropriate for a film with children among its stars. Speaking of gross, as I’ve used variants of the word three times already, said brand of humor involving bodily fluids is not cute. It is stomach turning and could have been left out of the film. Uncle Jack’s bathroom incident could have been left on the cutting floor as well, in light of the kid factor in the film. |
Selasa, 31 Mei 2011
Movie Review - Little Fockers
Minggu, 01 Mei 2011
Movie Review: Fair Game
Title: Fair Game
Year Of Release: 2010
Review Date: April 30, 2011
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 108 minutes
Box Office Gross: $24,188,922
Site Rating: 2 out of 10 stars
"Fair Game" is the biopic of CIA spy, Valerie Plame and her husband, U.S. Ambassador, Joseph C. Wilson. It is based on Plame's book "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House." And betrayed she was, as the corrupt Bush Administration vengefully outed her as a spy, endangering her life, because they were upset at Wilson's report stating there are no nuclear weapons in Iraq.
The movie explores the time frame leading up to former U.S. President George W. Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq, which was based on the deceitful premise that dictator Saddam Hussein, had obtained and was about to use Weapons of Mass Destruction against the world. Prior to the war, Wilson was sent on a mission to ascertain the truth and when he debunked said claims, the Bush Administration, who only invaded Iraq to steal oil, grew enraged.
Due to lack of self-control and being power obsessed, the Bush Administration vengefully exposed Plame as a spy, which could have gotten her killed by terrorists. Those were bad times for America, because people watched disheartened as the White House broke the law, then used a presidential pardon to get away with it.
A judge also unjustly dismissed Plame's lawsuit against Bush & co, which was the wrong thing to do under the circumstances. However, things did not pan out for Bush , as his presidency devolved into abject failure and disgrace. Bush and Cheney set in motion events that would bankrupt America and destroy the government's name in the world.
The film "Fair Game" had good special efx and sets, but the acting was not as strong as it could have been. Had the film been done in a different way, more people would have filled theaters to view it, as it is a good story worth telling.Movie Review: Freaky Friday
Title: Freaky Friday Year Of Release: 2003 Review Date: April 30, 2011 Rating: PG Running time: 97 minutes Box Office Gross: $160,846,332 Site Rating: 1 out of 10 stars The pilfered premise of the 2003 movie "Freaky Friday" stars Jamie Lee Curtis and now disgraced actress, Lindsay Lohan, as a parent and child, who switch bodies for a short time, due to a magical Chinese fortune cookie. "Freaky Friday" is based on the 1976 book of the same name. The movie is a rip off of the 1987 film "Like Father, Like Son" starring Kirk Cameron and the late Dudley Moore, which is also based on the 1976 "Freaky Friday" book. However, elements not present in the book, were taken from the 1987 film and included in the 2003 retelling. Ironically, both films and the 1976 book "Freaky Friday" are awfully similar to the 1882 novel "Vice Versa" which spawned the 1988 film of the same name, starring Fred Savage and Judge Reinhold. The "Freaky Friday" film comes across as weak and superficial, due to whiny over-actor Lindsay Lohan. How someone went from being the girl next door, to the girl next door if the house next door is a brothel, is anyone’s guess. Lohan must remember those days and cry, as it was the beginning of her downward spiral. |
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Kamis, 31 Maret 2011
Movie Review: Unstoppable
Title: Unstoppable
Year Of Release: 2010
Review Date: March 31, 2011
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 98 minutes
Box Office Gross: $ 167,663,383
Site Rating: 5 out of 10 stars
"Unstoppable" stars Oscar winner, Denzel Washington, as veteran train engineer, Frank Barnes, who is tasked with stopping a runaway train, carrying hazardous materials that is barreling towards a heavily populated Pennsylvania town. Will Colson, played by Chris Pine, is Barnes' apprentice, who is set to replace the aging engineer.
However, Colson's first day on the job is a tough one, as he is forced to learn the ropes the hard way, errors an all, via a runaway train that never should have happened. "Unstoppable" was an entertaining film. However, it could have done without the bad language strewn throughout.Movie Review: The A-Team
Year Of Release: 2010
Review Date: March 31, 2011
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 119 minutes
Box Office Gross: $176,933,591
Site Rating: 2 out of 10 stars
Hollywood decided to reboot the 1980s television show "The A-Team" as a film and the results were very mixed, to say the least. Critics gave it lukewarm reviews and apparently audiences did as well, as it struggled in its first few weeks of release at the box office.
Casting for the film was not good. The cast of the remake is led by Liam Neeson, who plays "Hannibal" well enough. However, Bradley Cooper as "Faceman" was not the best idea. Quinton Jackson, who was amusing, did his best as "B.A." and probably as close to the character as anyone other reboot actor could, but it would be hard for anyone to play the role the way Mr. T did, as he was so unique in the part. Sharlto Copley was passable as "Murdock." He didn't do a bad job at all. Dude got a double shot of the crazy.
The storyline of the film, which is stealing money pressing plates, is not original, as it has been used in a number of films, such as "Rush Hour 2." This movie was rife with unoriginality in stunts and the dialog. "A-Team" gets off to a slow and strange start, as the group comes together in a weird way that is at odds with the original series, leaving viewers confused.Movie Review: The Switch
Title: The Switch
Year Of Release: 2010
Review Date: March 31, 2011
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 98 minutes
Box Office Gross: $167,663,383
Site Rating: 0 out of 10 stars
"The Switch" is about a woman seeking to get pregnant by a donor. It stars Jennifer Aniston as "Kassie" and Jason Bateman as "Wally" who becomes jealous over her pregnancy plan. Juliet Lewis makes an appearance as "Debbie" - a pill popping hippy that finds Kassie a donor.
"Kassie" and "Debbie" decide to have a big party the night the former is to inseminate herself with a turkey baster and the sperm donated by a professor. However, a drunk and drugged "Wally" goes to the bathroom to urinate and ends up playing with then dropping the donated sperm down the sink. He then replaces it with his own without telling "Kassie."
The new world wierdo rituals and gross out factors in this movie makes it a strange and kooky film. It gets gross at points - such as the aforementioned drunk man playing with another man's sperm he finds sitting in a jar. Was that really necessary.
This film mocks pregnancy and the plight of women, who struggle to have kids. Leave it to Hollywood to do something so sick. I can see why it flopped. "The Switch" is more like The Stupid.Senin, 28 Februari 2011
Movie Review: Knight And Day
Title: Knight And Day
Year Of Release: 2010
Review Date: February 28, 2011
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 110 minutes
Box Office Gross: $261,924,837
Site Rating: 1 out of 10 stars
"Knight And Day" is the action comedy starring Tom Cruise, as a spy and Cameron Diaz, as his unwitting victim, who is dragged along on a preposterous journey to a number of nations. As common in these types of films, she falls in love with the leading man. Never mind he is insane (in real life too). But then again, so is she.
The duo are chased all over the place by the U.S. government, who are trying to pilfer a new type of energy source, a battery, made by a young man named Simon Feck. Cruise's character attempts to protect Fleck.
This film was very derivative, unoriginal and corny. Furthermore, it's hard to take a film seriously made by two cult members, Cruise, a Scientologist that disgraced himself on the Oprah Winfrey Show and the Today Show and Diaz, a kooky Kabbalahist sleeping with everyone in Hollywood. Birds of a feather...
Movie Review: Red
Title: Red
Year Of Release: 2010
Review Date: February 28, 2011
Rating: R
Running Time: 111 minutes
Box Office Gross: $181,184,283
Site Rating: 1 out of 10 stars
"Red" starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren, is loosely based on the comic book of the same name. The film is about a group of retired CIA agents, classified as "Red" which stands for "Retired Extremely Dangerous" being killed in a strange plot. The remaining agents begin investigating who is behind the plot.
Spoiler Alert: Lo and behold, the agents find out the Vice President Of The United States, ordered their deaths to permanently shut them up, regarding human rights abuses and war crimes committed in Guatemala, by the U.S. government. As a result, they kidnap and try to assassinate the Vice President of the United States.
I did not like this movie for a number of reasons. It is unoriginal, very violent, profane and based on a very bad premise. It simply goes too far. It is also blatantly absorbed in Hollywood's weird obsession with "mind control," illegal wiretapping, harassment and murder, things tinseltown private investigators specialize in. The film comes right out and says it.
