Movie review thread...
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22 Bullets - the French title is L'Immortel
On Netflix. It promised Jean Reno killing people while munching on the cold croissant of revenge. Top of the class with you, mon ami!
Jean Reno is an ex-mob boss in Marseilles, who gets shot up with the aforementioned 22 bullets. None of the silly fluffybunnies involved could shoot straight it would appear, so their life expectancy takes a nose dive.
Violent, noir, and so very, very French.
3.5 badly traumatised children out of 5.
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@canefan He's been in a few very good french type noir thrillers. Ronin, whilst being an American film was s et in France and had a very French feel to it. Great car chases, good background story (although a little confusing in parts) and DeNiro before he went to pants.
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@Catogrande Yup, just mentioned one of the first I saw him in. He was in the first Mission Impossible Tom Cruise movie which I enjoyed the most as it was closest in spirit to the original TV series
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande Yup, just mentioned one of the first I saw him in. He was in the first Mission Impossible Tom Cruise movie which I enjoyed the most as it was closest in spirit to the original TV series
I just wish they'd do an actual Mission Impossible where they get set a mission and go and do it. I'm sick of them always being a rogue team.
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@Catogrande if the way television has gone is any indication, you may end up watching a couple of idiots fixing up their house on the big screen.
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@reprobate said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande if the way television has gone is any indication, you may end up watching a couple of idiots fixing up their house on the big screen.
hosted by the increasingly irritating Mark Richardson. He was much more appealing when he had just retired as opposed to turning up on our screens every chance he can get.
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Tears of the Sun
Another Netflix special.
Bruce Willis is a SEAL team leader assigned to get Monica Bellucci out of a jungle mission, about to be overrun by really angry Nigerian dudes. This was made in 2002/3 I think so Monica is in her 40s, and despite being dishevelled and sweaty is still hot as fuck. Even with all her kit on.
Willis makes some stupid choices, as far as the mission goes, and seems to fucking forget that Uncle Sam didn't actually want to get involved in all that rubbish. Some real Willis moves, you might say, in a TSF universe where text substitution still exists.
So instead of leaving a bunch of locals to their fate, he gets half a team killed and the others seriously shot up, because he's got a chubby for doing the "right" thing. I imagine some of the military advisers on set would have been shaking their heads at some of the tactical decisions being made once combat DID ensue.
Tom Skerrit plays the guy who doesn't send in air support until its too late. Mainly because his Lt on the ground was too stupid to ask for it.
In between all that, some tense jungle footage (all shot in Hawaii) and some wartime atrocities that really are shit, because those parts at least.
Roger Ebert's review was 3 out of 4 stars and he accurately said "Tears of the Sun is a film constructed out of rain, cinematography and the face of Bruce Willis. These materials are sufficient to build a film almost as good as if there had been a better screenplay."
3 out of 5 on the why-the-fuck-was-your-lead-scout-only-20-metres-away scale
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Moneyball
Good performances from Pitt and Hill I thought. Didn't load us down with too much baseball talk which is good because I don't follow the game at all, and have no idea who the A's are.
Liked the focus on stats and the conflict with PSH's team manager, though apparently that wasn't the case at all. Well, that's what you get when someone directs a movie.
4 out of 5 home runs
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@Milk said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched Jason Bourne on Saturday and it didn't disappoint.
Just finished re-watching the first 3 again. They really hold up.
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Is there any benefit to re-watching the 4th one, Bourne Legacy with Jeremy Renner? Or do they just forget that one ever happened?I watched the new Bourne movie, I liked it, simple formula. Car chase with the indestructible SWAT truck was pretty good.
The other one could be watched as a stand alone movie IMO, and then is just another action flick.
3 David Webbs out of 5 Jason Bournes
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