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Offender (2012)
Not worth watching but decent soundtrack
This movie has a good start, the 'justice'-theme made clear in the early parts of the film. It's professionally done, nice camera-work and thought out takes.
But it's also obvious very soon that you're watching 'the Vicky Pollard's brother in jail show'. This one hour and 41 minutes are of the same level as Brits on holiday or at a soccer match (or on their own island for that matter): getting sloshed and high and fighting and ruining it for everybody else. Ali G or Borat (with or without mankini) would have fit in nicely.
But.. The music is very pleasing. As a matter of fact I just watched this C-film with my guitar plugged in and jamming along to the various music styles that you get to hear. Nice adaption of known songs, different styles, great! I'm thinking of putting some things in my loop machine and make jam tracks out of it.
Maybe you got interested after reading this review, but I think you should just download the soundtrack (if available).
(IMDB: why do I have to change correctly spelled words?)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Looks like a thriller/horror but isn't, in fact: don't waste your time.
Do an hour drive, enjoy the scenery, get out, have a cup of coffee or a drink with whoever you encounter (or alone) and drive back home and your money and time have been waaaaaaaay better spent than watching this movie.
Really? Yes, really.
It is unrealistic (hey, it's Hollywood but this one's very unrealistic for what they try to convey to you), the tension they try to achieve backfires long time before the end and as I'm typing this after have watched it half last night and the other half right now there's only one thought one my mind: do a review to warn people that it's a waste of two hours time.
I watch a lot of film and this is the second review in years ;-) (there's really bad work and there's this 'hmm, my mind really is blank after two hours'-stuff).
Battleship (2012)
This movie made me think.
After one and a half hours, when I heard Thunderstruck coming up and seeing the Missouri I wandered of and thought 'do I need to buy any milk or is there still some left?'.
When I thought 'they might as well have put some Top Gun in here, it turned out they did! Just in the very last seconds before impact those (nicely rendered) fireballmachines got kicked out of the blue sky. Can of whoop ass, yee haw!
And once in a while I thought 'wasn't that Leslie Nielsen?' and then I thought that is impossible: he's unfortunately gone to Humor Heaven (great man) and this film is sooooo bad, even for corny laughs...
So there! Makes you think doesn't it?