Will you look at that – the blog entries just keep on coming! Two in one day!! How amazing is that?! Let’s just hope I can actually maintain this momentum for a little while. So the week following Sin City brought us Sahara. While not a great movie, it was a fun popcorn matinee sort of movie. It wasn't nearly as good as National Treasure, it was certainly a hell of a lot better than the sadly disappointing Lara Croft films (I still want to slap the writer/director of those films completely senseless for screwing up what should have been great movies). Matthew McConaughey does a pretty good job as the hero here, and I’ve always liked Steve Zahn. Admittedly he tends to play the same goofy sort of character in every movie he does, but he’s really good at it, so I don’t see any reason to complain. And of course Penelope Cruz is just nice to watch.
The movie has all things you’d expect from an action/adventure movie – gun fights, chase scenes, lots of action, a fair bit of comedy to lighten things. Sadly, while it has all the elements you’d expect, it doesn’t really have anything to make it unique or original. So while it is enjoyable to watch, there’s really nothing about it to make it stand out from any other movie of this type. I’d probably give it about 3 ½ stars.
Also released this weekend was Fever Pitch, which I need to see one of these days (if for no other reason than I’m a pretty big fan of Drew Barrymore), but I haven’t gotten around to seeing it yet.
So on we go to the next weekend (that would be Friday, April 15th for those of you keeping track). This weekend brought a single wide release (which I don’t even think I got around to seeing until a week or two after it came out), and that would be the absolutely horrid and completely unnecessary remake to The Amityville Horror. This movie stars serious Ryan Reynolds (you can always tell serious Ryan Reynolds from comedy Ryan Reynolds because he has a beard). Sadly, serious Ryan Reynolds really isn’t very impressive as an actor (his role in Blade: Trinity was just terrible!). He doesn’t do too bad a job here, but it’s still nothing all that impressive. The original of this movie was a really good film – very spooky, very atmospheric. This version basically steals elements from every popular horror movie to come out in the last few years (especially the remakes of Japanese horror films that have been so popular lately), and throws them together around the basic story outline of the original film (they still have the audacity to list this one as being “based on a true story,” which is a complete joke). Don’t waste your time or money on this complete waste of a film.
From utter crap we move on to a pretty good political thriller the next weekend – The Interpreter starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn. While I did like this movie, nothing about it really stands out enough for me to remember several months later. This is one of those movies that I enjoyed, and I’m really glad I saw, but it’s not one I think I’d watch more than once or maybe twice, so I probably won’t get it on DVD. I wish I’d done this review months ago so that I could give this movie the write-up that it deserves, but them’s the breaks. Well, I think that’s enough for one entry. More to follow soon.
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