Film Reviews

Me and the wife managed to get ourselves to watch 3 movies in a week. See THREE movies. How movie buff are we ehh?? So here are the reviews. And yes, my reviews are better than those you can read in celebrity mags. Trust me on this. When I say a movie sucks, i.e Transformers a.k.a worst-plot-ever-but-blinded-the-audience-with-cgi, it does suck. So here it goes. 3 movies crammed in one post.

1. Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince

Boy the boys and girls of Hogwartz have all grown up dont they? Honestly, I dont know how to categorize this 6th part of the boy wizard series. Is this a love story? An action movie? A comedy? Seriously I dont know. As always, they just couldn't transfer the excitement from to book (which I read TWICE) into the big screen thoroughly. Yeah in the end of the movie Snape did tell Harry he was the half blood prince. But just like that? Theres no clue along the movie trying to tell us who was the prince. The movie never let us guess weather Dumbledore or Snape was the brilliant student disguising himself as the half blood prince. And why did he call himself the half blood prince then? How did he come up with that 'Sectumsempra' then? If you dont read the book you'll never know. The movie focused more on some stupid stuff, such as the love between Ron and some girl (I forgot her name, shes just not worth remembering), the flowering relationship between Harry and Gina Weasley, Harmioine's jealousy and others. I wonder why didnt they put more emphasize on how Draco Malfoy turned into a Death Eater, how did Snape become half blood prince, and like in the book, the cursed relationship between Dumbledore and Tom Riddle. That would make the movie much better. However the movie was still very enjoyable though. The battle between good and evil portrayed in it was thrilling, occasionally funny and visually stunning. They toyed with your emotions too. The acting was brilliant, with the boys and girls all turned out to be decent actors arent they? Especially to Daniel Radcliff, who I think was totally believable as a boy struggling with his destiny. All in all, its a good movie to spend your two hours on. In the battle between the summer's blockbusters, this one was the clear winner, beating that robot-orgy movie down to earth.

Rating - 7/10


2. The Taking of Pelham 123

Im a big Denzel Washigton fan. Rarely his movies ever disappointed me. However this one..urghh..not good sir..just not that good. The plot and direction were horrible leaving gaping holes here and there. How did Dennis Ford turned into Bernard Ryder, the sadistic and vicious yet brilliant criminal? What made Garber take that bribe? No, you cant just say child education as the answer for everything please. There have to be something else. And whats with the boy who was cyber-sexing with his girlfriend on the train? Totally inappropriate. In the end Garber, the naive soft spoken guy, able to gather all his strength and courage to single handedly disrupt Ryder's plan resulting death to all of the villains. So easy. So fucking easy. As brilliant as Ryder was he was easily outthought by a train operator. A fucking train operator. Oh right, a bribe taking train operator which made him a criminal too (whats the point here??!??!). What a time waster this movie was.

Rating - 3/10

3. The Proposal

Just watched this one last nite. When it comes to romantic comedy trust Sandra Bullock to deliver. Few actress can make a rom-com as enjoyable as she does. She seems to have good chemistry with any actor shes paired with, and for this one she and Ryan Reynolds looked perfect for each other. Though the story line was recycled (as most of the rom-com genre) there were something about this movie that preventing it to be another snore fest. It wont disappoint most of movie goers for sure. All in all, a feel good movie, which will leave you happy-hearted in the end.

Rating - 6/10

I promise I'll write about Arsenal next time.