Movie Review Thread

[Revenant]

Brazil was great sci-fi.

[Nico]

The Expatriate.

It's from last year, but I saw this last night and was braced for a bad TV movie. It was, in fact, very good. The script was believable, the action was believable and the acting was decent, at least from the lead Aaron Eckhart, whom I am starting to consider to be one of the most watchable actors around at the moment. He does passable baddass and remains a sympathetic character.
The movie itself is not that dissimilar to any other "ex CIA guy protects family" type films getting around, but the standout feature for this film is the realism. The good guy is good, but he's not so good he fights like he ran a dojo for 20 years. Except for the given that the protagonist usually wins, the fights often look like they will go the other way so you get to entertain some doubt. Explosions look like actual military grade explosions, not petrol bombs so that is satisfying for me to watch. Pretty much nothing made me sigh on the technical front.

The relationship between Eckhart and his screen daughter Liana Liberato is pretty much as you would expect from a real father and daughter. So after I numbly watched my way through Taken2, while stopping to play 4 matches on World of Tanks, I put this on next expecting to do the same, and ended up glued to the screen, so 8/10 from me. I'm not sure what could have been done better for a film of this genre, although plotting was light. It prob didn't hurt that it also had the 2nd hottest woman on the planet, Olga Kurylenko in it as well, and that the final act has epic and very satisfying finish.

[PoS]

Gangster Squad: 4/10

Meh. They try to make it ultra violent and its still PC.

[Winchester]

[eynon81]

Odark30

great, but left me very America f**k yeah?

wait...that didn't come out right. (edits)

[Kane]

That was the point.

[exploited]

But everyday is f**k day...

[eynon81]

[Kane]

Saw django. Kinda meh...I've seen better Tarantino. His current style is wearing thin on me, that could just be inglorious bastards setting the bar so high. I didn't feel like waltz delivered anything on par with what I saw in bastards and when he leaves the movie turns kinda bland for me. It just felt like a big blackxploitation film at that point. And that's fine, no problem with it I just don't really enjoy that type of cinema.

Tarantino needs to find a new style soon. This one wore thin on me.

[The Dharma Bum]

Agreed.

I'm a little tired of the derivative schtick. Yeah those are great movies he's mining for material but the premise is a little thin to base an entire body of work on. I'd like to see him try his hand at something less superficial, a drama perhaps.