Archive for the ‘Movie reviews’ Category

May 13, 2006 7 Comments

Mission Impossible 3

Went to the cinema the other day to see Mission Impossible 3.

Unfortunately I can't decide whether I liked it or not. There was lots of action, some of it quite cool, and it was a lot more emotional than previous films (or at least it tried to be). There appeared to be an attempt to make the movie more like the tv series 24 with smaller set pieces where anything can, and ...

May 4, 2006 3 Comments

Movie Roundup – April 06

One for the 'Not what I expected' pile. I know it was loved when released but for me it underperformed. Didn't help that I was ill when I was watching it, which meant that I couldn't concentrate properly.

I enjoy Baz Lurmans Moulin Rouge and thought the idea of Romeo and Juliet using the original script in a modern setting would be great. The leads were pretty good but I had forgotten ...

April 5, 2006 4 Comments

Movie Roundup – March 06

Serenity is a spin off movie from the cult tv show Firefly. The show only lasted one series, and I haven't seen a single episode, however the producer, Joss Whedon, also worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer one of the best TV shows ever - so Serenity was always going to be interesting. I quite enjoyed it, but there were clearly things going on that would only make sense if you've seen the original show. I'm ...

March 5, 2006 0 Comments

Movie Roundup – February 06

Jim Carrey... in a serious movie... whatever next? Ok, he's done some straighter less comedic stuff before, but this is the most serious I've ever seen Jim Carey act and he pulls it off rather well. The story revolves around a man whose girlfriend (Kate Winslet) erases all her memories of him and their time together. Very upset he does the only thing he can, and erases all his memories of her. ...

January 30, 2006 1 Comments

Movie Roundup – January 06

I wasn't expecting much from this, but simply because of Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg figured it was worth a try. The film itself was a quite nice enjoyable simple little movie. Apparently the film was inspired by Merhan Karimi Nasseri an Iranian refugee who has been living in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport since August 8, 1988 (apparently he is still there).

Another Tom Hanks ...

January 3, 2006 4 Comments

King Kong – Woahh

Well, I played the game, and now I've seen the film.

I must admit when I found out Peter Jackson was following up the Lord of the Rings movies with King Kong I was more than a little disappointed. I've always thought of the original film as rather daft so have never watched it and I felt this would be more of the same. When I heard Andy ...

December 28, 2005 8 Comments

Movie Roundup December 05

A great Christmas and a bunch of new films watched. Time for the second of my monthly Movie Roundups

A wonderful film with Forest Whitaker as Ghost Dog, a hitman who follows the teachings of the Samurai. His master is a gangster who saved his life and is now his employer. A simple mistake, which wasn't his fault, means that the gangsters want Ghost Dog killed which leads to a him fighting ...

November 17, 2005 4 Comments

Movie Roundup November 05

I watch quite a few films and recently a lot of them have been really good. I've tried to do movie reviews before but am not convinced they turned out as well as they could have so I am going to try something different. Below are all the films I can remember watching over the last few months with single paragraph reviews of each. I think, from now on, I will do a movie round up once every few weeks.