- Brilliant if, like me, you’re a child of the eighties
- A french co-production that adds to the mix nicely
- Genuinely touching
- Great 80s tunes and synchronised dancing scene
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post a comment- Rather similar to a lot of other Will Ferrell movies
- Incredibly similar to a lot of other underdog-team/small-town/sporting/crisis-of-confidence movies
- Awesomely funky soundtrack
- Some nice slow-mo basketball shots
Slightly comedy nazis, some good underground/resistance banter, Carice van Houten is gorgeous, Verhoeven’s usual excessive violence.
Even though we were on the second row and one seat from the left of the auditorium this was still a fantastic movie. As always it has a superb, gritty, frantic feel about it. There’s always one stand out hand-to-hand fight in every Bourne film and this one is no exception. The fight choreography is exceptional, I think I forgot to breathe for the entire duration. I agree with Michael Heilemann’s comments though that it seems all CIA hitman have to be male models with man-bags.
The final scene nicely echoes back to the opening scene of the first film with Bourne once again floating in the water. Plus, for once it was a blockbuster that wasn’t blatantly fishing for a sequel at the end of the film.
- Very surreal scenes in the “locker”, a lot more so than I was expecting
- Faultless CGI, as you would expect from ILM
- Keira’s hair seems to change every other scene
- Keith Richard’s cameo is entertaining and not overly gratuitous
- Initially the plot is a bit all over the shop but it comes together in the end
- Good usage of Sea Turtles
- Chow Yun-Fat is nicely menacing as the pirate king from Singapore
- You get to see Bill Nighy minus CGI!
- So Jack really is mad…
- Slightly too many bad-guys.
- An even better Bruce Campbell cameo than the first two films. His French accent had Kerry in stitches.
- The plot isn’t as smooth as the first two, it was like they were trying to cram loads of “cool stuff” into the last one in the trilogy.
- Excellent sandman “sand” CGI.
- Emo spiderman!
Danny Boyle’s latest film is hugely influenced by old skool sci-fi like 2001 and Alien. Lots of slow graceful special effects shots, very reminiscent of the ballet-like docking scenes of 2001. Mixed with the claustrophobia and utility of the internal shots of the spacecraft. It has a cast of relative unknowns apart from Cillian Murphy who interestingly isn’t initially portrayed as the lead. I’d recommend seeing it at a cinema as the “solar” special effects are awesome on the big screen.
- Aranovsky’s latest is his usual bizzare mix of “what the f*ck” and amazing visuals.
- Weiz/Jackman are both good.
- Jackman crying is sad.
- Awesome space visuals especially inside a Nebula.
- Another Mayan film?
- Remember, nobody expects the Spanish inquisition…
Well, this was a total snooze fest. I was expecting another noir-ish cop thriller like L.A. Confidential or maybe The Untouchables. But this is just a very stylish mess. The plot is hardly even attempted to be explained and it just meanders between Scarlett looking teary to Josh looking confused. The first film for a while where I was actually mildly bored.
