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This Means War (2012)
Directed by McG - Rating: 3/5
I decided to check this movie out mainly because of Chris Pine, and Tom Hardy (they usually do good work). In “This Means War” I thought they had great chemistry playing best friends working for the CIA. Admittedly, I came into the film with low expectations, and although it wasn’t a complete disaster, it wasn’t great either. For a romantic comedy, it fails at...
February 2012
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The Woman In Black (2012)
Directed by James Watkins - Rating: 3/5
It’s an interesting choice for Daniel Radcliffe to star in his first film after the end of the Harry Potter franchise, in a fantasy-horror film. He does a good job of convincing us he’s a young lawyer just trying to make ends meet. However, the rest of the movie’s components don’t add up to much. The premise is pretty interesting, but it’s delivered in...
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Safe House (2012)
Directed by Daniel Espinosa - Rating: 3/5
As frustrating as this movie can be, it just be as equally entertaining. Both of the film’s leads are great, Denzel Washington is basically made for this role. Unfortunately, it seems to be the ONLY type of role he want’s take part in these days. Reynolds does a pretty job playing a CIA newbie, who has nice chemistry with Washington’s...
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Red Tails (2012)
Directed by Anthony Hemingway - Rating: 2/5
It took George Lucas something like twenty years to develop Red Tails. Was it worth the wait? The short answer is no. But before I rip into the movie, I’ll first start with the good parts. The CGI of course looks pretty great; the action scenes worked really well and were failry exciting to watch. I also thought Terrence Howard did a pretty good job...
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Chronicle (2012)
Directed by Josh Trank - Rating: 2/5
I’m somewhat surprised at the amount of semi-decent reviews that this movie has gotten. First off I’ll just say it’s not very good film. Here’s the thing with “found footage” movies, certain genres lend themselves to this style of filmmaking. Action/Sci-fi fantasy movies such as Chronicle are only hampered visually by the...
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Haywire (2012)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh - Rating: 4/5
This was a tough call. I had a hard time deciding what to give this movie, in reality it’s more like 3.5 stars but I don’t like to give half ratings. I wasn’t really sure about this movie when I saw the trailer, but I’m a big fan of Soderbergh as a director so I gave him the benefit of the doubt The movie has a lot going for...
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The Grey (2012)
Directed by Joe Carnahan - Rating: 4/5
For a January release, this film is actually a pretty good movie. Liam Neeson does a great job of giving this movie the same credibility that made “Taken” so good a few years back (even with less action scenes). Although emotionally heavy handed at times, the film does a good job of creating a psychological threat rather than focusing solely...
January 2012
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2011 Top Ten Films
Top Ten: 1. Tree Of Life 2. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 3. Young Adult 4. The Artist 5. Contagion 6. Warrior 7. The Descendants 8. Hugo 9. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 10. Moneyball
