Recent Films
Salt
So preposterous and convoluted that it has more Total Bollocks Overdrive than the entire first season of Torchwood. Angelina Jolie maintains an impressively straight face and as a series of action scenes it provides diverting fun. But did Chiwetel Ejiofor wake up one day and find he'd forgotten how to do Menacing Authority?
The A Team
By contrast The A Team knows it's meant to be preposterous and so works far, far better as a movie. It's also hysterically funny, especially if you're even remotely fond of the original. Liam Neeson is surprisingly convincing as Hannibal Smith, but standout of the movie is Sharlto Copley - last seen in District 9 - as Howlin' Mad Murdock.
Toy Story 3
Everyone's already raved about this, so I'll just say that I went in with high expectations and they were thoroughly exceeded. Oh, and if you suspect that someone you know might be a replicant, see if they cry during the final five minutes - it's the new Voight-Kampff test.
Frontier Blues
Vignettes of overlapping lives on the Iran/Turkmenistan border near the Caspian - a region which, if the film is to believed, is the local counterpart to Darkest Norfolk. This review sums it up better than either![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
darth_hamster or I can, although we both heartily agree with it.
So preposterous and convoluted that it has more Total Bollocks Overdrive than the entire first season of Torchwood. Angelina Jolie maintains an impressively straight face and as a series of action scenes it provides diverting fun. But did Chiwetel Ejiofor wake up one day and find he'd forgotten how to do Menacing Authority?
The A Team
By contrast The A Team knows it's meant to be preposterous and so works far, far better as a movie. It's also hysterically funny, especially if you're even remotely fond of the original. Liam Neeson is surprisingly convincing as Hannibal Smith, but standout of the movie is Sharlto Copley - last seen in District 9 - as Howlin' Mad Murdock.
Toy Story 3
Everyone's already raved about this, so I'll just say that I went in with high expectations and they were thoroughly exceeded. Oh, and if you suspect that someone you know might be a replicant, see if they cry during the final five minutes - it's the new Voight-Kampff test.
Frontier Blues
Vignettes of overlapping lives on the Iran/Turkmenistan border near the Caspian - a region which, if the film is to believed, is the local counterpart to Darkest Norfolk. This review sums it up better than either
darth_hamster or I can, although we both heartily agree with it.