X-Men First Class [2011] 5/10
Considering the talent involved, the writer and director this should have been much better. It had its moments, is visually intertesting and has a great ending which nicely sets up the next movie, but it never got going for me, it was poorly written, a very good cast were wasted, and I just found it a bit dull. Not the great reboot I was hopeing for.
A Short Film About Killing [Krotki Film o Zabijaniu] 8/10 and A Short Film About Love [Krotki Film o Milosci] 9/10
Two great gems from maveck director Krzysztof Kieslowski. The first one is about a young men who slowly turns crazy over the course of the story, and constantly day dreams about actually killing someone, at the same time you get a story of a young up and coming lawyer taking his taste and getting his first case, he ends up defending the murderer, and bonds with him, in the days leading up to his exculcation. ASFAL is about a lonely teenager who spies on his neighbour, and basically comes up with over obsessive ways to meet and spend time with her, basically he believes he is in love with her, but when they start talking she reveals that she doesn't believe in love, and that sex is the only thing appealing about love. The ironic thing is that she turns out to be a more twisted and sinster character than he. But films show the directors tender touch, and how he can make unlikeable characters intertesting, and almost make you care about them. Many complex issues are well handled in both films, visonally they are both great. I would recommend the Love one a little more, because it has a little more to the story and more invested in its characters, and isn't as slow as the other film, but you must see both!
Love, Like Poison [2011] 5.5/10
Basic tale about a girl who comes home from a boarding school, to discover that her parents have split up, while at the same time she experiences love for the first time, and struggles to find herself. It is a beautifully designed and funny in places, but to me it just didn't have enough to say, and the characters just weren't intertesting enough.
Taken [2009] 2/10
Terrible, terrible action film starring Liam Neeson. It is so, dumb and over the top, but not in an entertaining way, it is a film where everyone who isn't american is reduced to a steriotype, and are either evil or weak. Neeson is very good actor, but I don't think action is his strong suit, not to mention the naff script he is handed, the stunts are nothing special, and in places it is just so load and over the top, then it just gets boring and becomes hard to watch. Although I did have a good laugh in places, oh how I laughed!
Buffy The Vampire Slayer [1992] 7/10
First saw this years ago, and didn't think much of it back then, but thought I would give it another go this evening, and second time around I really enjoyed it. Kristy Swanson gives it her all as the empity handed, stuck up high school girl who turns into a festy and more intelligent Vampire slayer, the likes of Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer and a young Hilary Swank add fine support, there are some romping action scenes, and some very funny touque in cheek humour. Very entertaining!
Day of the Dead [1985] 7/10
Completely mind horror, with some brilliant over the top acting and funny one liners, but as always there is a poltically substence at work here, and it slowly draws you in, and becomes very powerful and scary.
