Expendables 2: 10/10
It was just freakin awesome and fun. It wasn't meant to be serious and it wasn't. It was meant to be actiony and it was. There were some corny parts of course but this was a fun movie. I enjoyed it. Had a few laughs. Good movie.
No comment. lol.
Electrick Children (2012) 4/10
Well this was a good idea on paper at least. Its about a 15 year old girl who lives in a religious community who after listening to a tape with a cover of Blondie's Hanging on the Telephone mysterying becomes pregnant, when her step father tries to marry her off she flies the village (with her brother in toe) and goes in search of the man who sung on the tape believing that he is the father. What should have been a colouful and charming coming of age story for me was a very dull, poorly written story, with a bland lead character and worse Julia Garner who played her was about the worse actress they could have picked. Rory Culkin is quite good through. I did get a tip off than the film might be poor when I saw 'and Billy Zane' on the credits, should have left the cinema then! lol.
Manhattan (1979) 9/10
Woody Allen at his best. A pure love letter to the city he loves, with powerful black and white photograhy and one of the most stiring scores in cinema history. The wit is all here and story wonderfully cast, but it is a far more gentle Allen character here who you believe in as a person, often in his other films
he is very funny but sometimes a bit too cold. The supporting cast are fantastic too.
Broadway Danny Rose (1984) 7/10
Not one Allen's best I don't think. It is another different part for him as he plays a bit of a weasle who it turns out as a big heart and again the romance is compelling, it just doesn't have the sharp story telling or gags of some his best films.
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) 6.5/10
This is middle of the road Bond I think. The stunts are pretty good fun, the effects solid and there is good humour once again, but the Villian I thought was not great and the plot just never convinced me. I still think GoldenEye was Bronan's best Bond film, but this is entertaining enough.