Pretty much an Oscar worthy movie from actors to the movie itself.
However, too much blood, gore, and fighting made me feel icky.
Okay, maybe that rating is a tab high. But maybe that is influence
by a slew of stupid male-oriented, plotless movies I've seen in weeks
past. Drew Barrymore continues to act beautifully through her career
with a caring and tender role as Danielle. Angelica Huston also did well
in her evil role. Good acting, however not
Academy Awarding winning, but good enough, especially after Lethal
Weapon was too 'Lethal' in stupidity. Ever After carries some good
soundtrack and has charisma with charm. I would like to advise that
it's just a basic Cinderella story and a much "chic-flick" (so guys
may not be that interested). Heck, anything better than Nickolas
Cage and his chic-flick 'City of Angels'.
The plot of a police negotiator getting framed for his best friend and
cop partner's killing. He (Samuel L. Jackson) takes over his own
hostages and demanded to find the real killer and to clear his name.
His negotiator (Kevin Spacey) trys to bail him out by the end. This
movie had a good plot and great acting, however the end of the situation
and the movie was quite weak. It just did not finish strong.
Romance plot. Like five different guys like the same girl, Mary. All
of them continue to chase the girl all around Miami. She (Cameron
Diaz) and the gang come together to bring a huge set of laughs.
Many including sexual jokes on masturbating and zipper caught in the
wen-wen. The laughs continued to the end making it a contender for
best comedy in years.
Jet Li, Chinese Star. Need more acting in this movie. Movie has a
plot worse than a girl's perfume in the morning. Come on, those two
stupid cops would have been dead if all of that plot holds in real life.
Oh ya, the movie was sure lethal. Though I would say the movie was okay,
till the bitter end where stupidity entered.
A hero in his own right. This movie thriller comprised of a superhero
in Anthony Hopkins fighting for the Mexican people in California
before the region's U.S. tenure. Then his wife was killed and daughter
(Catherine Zeta-Jones), taken from him. He teaches Antonio Banderas
to become the next zorro to save the day again, winning back his
daughter. This movie was indeed action filled with swords and
stuff. Yet, some of the plot near the end was indeed confusing and
unrealisitc. Romance of certainly vivid, but hard to flow in the movie.
A global conspiracy. Two determined FBI agents. One great science
fiction story. The X-Files movie is what that is expected from the
television version. A deadly alien virus, attacking human, using us
as host, laying dormant, till now, under the surface of the earth.
This movie gave much talk of the global conspiracy plot with much
action with little good special effects. As a X-File fan myself, I
thought this movie had the stuff of a good movie. The romance between
Scully and Molder needs more work though.
Well here we go again. Another comet movie, only two months after Deep
Impact soared into our motion picture experiences. This time,
Armageddon was full of action and a huge amount of great special
effects. The ending was done extremely good, with a young couple
marrying after one of them return from the heroic mission to save
earth (Liv Taylor and Ben Affeck). The lead actor Bruce Willis did a
somewhat so-so job for his portrayal of a drill team lead. This
movie however is struck by the multiple stupidness you can ever find.
Come on, a drill team goes to space to save earth? How many things can
go wrong on a space mission to place a nuclear weapon on the rock?
Distorting Greenpeace is a very bad idea. Go watch this movie for its
good action and some emotion. Don't expect to be tamed by a good
plot.
Finally. A Chinese devoted film at the Domestic Box Office. And you
know what? It's good! Actually, it's phenomenally good! Based on the
famous Chinese legand, a young girl, Mulan (voice: Ming-Na Wen),
takes his father's armour and heads to war in his place since he is
too old and weak. When she comes home, she brought back honor and
peace to her family. In the process, she falls in love with Captain
Shang (voice: B.D. Wong). Okay. The real story of Mulan wasn't really
shown in the movie. (In fact, the movie screws the real story up.)
The songs aren't that memorable. But hey, its a cartoon.
Mulan was very funny,
enjoyable to everyone in the audience, and broke the race and gender
barriers without hurting anyone in return. No doubt, watch it now!
This movie, featuring Jim Carrey, had a lot of heart and great
drama. Jim Carrey was excellent in a new role as a serious actor
instead of a crack up fool. Carrey, as Truman Burbank, is an
insurance salesman which has his whole life in a tv show. However,
the movie is a little too much to be true. And the movie wasn't
as good as I expected. But it is still very good. Of course, it's
holdovers may not be as good, since it's a drama and not the
funny old Jim Carrey.
This film is like Gweneth Palthrow's fourth or fifth this year.
Certainly none of them hits, however this is the closest. She plays
an unfaithful wife who is married to a super rich man, but in love
with a poor painter. Her husband (Michael Douglas) gets into serious
debts and hires the painter (Viggo Mortenson) so he can collect a
super hundred million dollar amount. The painter will receive half a
million of his murder of his own love. However, the plan falters
twice, leaving two dead at the end (I won't tell whick two). The
movie tends to give moviegoers a sense of scary moments during the
murder situations. The movie flows and the acting was pretty good.
Each player has a different motive to kill, and that gave this movie
a great plot line.
It is the sign of the times. A woman, Birdie, has been just told that her
husband was having an affair with her best friend. What is worse is
that Birdie (Sandra Bullock)was told by her best friend
on a nationally live talk show.
She decided, naturally, to leave him and move back to her hometown of
Smithville, Texas with her daughter, Bernice (Mae Whitman), and live
with her mother (Gena Rowlands). In Smithville, Birdie trys to recover
from her misfortune, but was failing miserably. Her relationship with
her daughter falls apart. In the meanwhile, Justin (Harry Connick, Jr.)
starts to fall in love with Birdie, but Birdie still thought that
her husband would still come back to her. However, Birdie's father
just had a stroke, and then, her mother dies. This is where Birdie's
husband wanted a divorce, and left her and Bernice forever.
The movie was done nicely, showing much emotion and heart-breaking
moments. There is so a touch of comedy. But most importantly, it
touches a real life experience, and it's heart break feeling.
A U.S. Senator (Warren Beatty) trys to do a suicide by paying a hitman to kill him,
all of this in the middle of his reelection campaign. The movie was
pretty funny, including rap and such and centered around the
African-American community. However, the movie had many stupid
situations and discrimatory comments and just overall, the plot was
downright stupid. Oh ya, the 60-year old senator falls in love with
a 26-year old African-American girl and then dies at the end. (oops!)
In this remake of the great Japanese lizard, the special effects were
very good, however, not second-to-none. Despite the good acting, the
writers made a very stupid decision of including romance in the
movie. Romance in Godzilla? That is what the nerd (Matthew Broderick)
does, falling for his college sweetheart (Maria Pitillo) while he
goes trying to find the nest of Godzilla. Godzilla in the meanwhile
goes destroying Manhattan, which is very fun to watch. The line goes
that Godzilla likes Manhattan because it has water on all sides. Of
course what director, writer, and producer Roland Emmerich (Dean
Devlin also produce and wrote) didn't use logic that the island is
downtown New York City, what big reptile want to live there? Anyway,
there is this mayor of New York City (Michael Lerner) who was going for
reelection and only worries about that reelection when the world's
most famous city gets manhandled by a monster creature who has been
shot and hit and hurt so many times and didn't even die. The U.S.
government looked too stupid in this movie. Then the Godzilla nest,
where 200 Godzilla babies were born, takes over the Madison Square
Garden. Come on, the Garden? Of course, there was good special effects
and the splendid destruction of the great city. But the plot needs a
lot of work. Someone said that they were embarassed of being an
American after watching the movie because the military destroyed the
city, not the ugly lizard. Come on, if the real U.S. military
got involved, that enormous ugly looking iguana will be dead before it
was born. Okay movie to go once, but not more than once.
Adopted from a best-selling book a couple years ago, director, writer,
and actor, Robert Redford deals with a horse and teenage girl
recovering from an awful and horrible accident. The teenage girl,
Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson) had her leg amputed while her horse
Pilgrim hit head-on into the imcoming truck. Grace's
friend and horse were
killed. Grace's mother decided to take Grace and her horse to a horse
whisperer in Montana to let them recover, in which they eventually
did. The movie features a good soundtrack and cinematography including
a great acting cast of Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, and
Scarlett Johansson.