A couple more reviews today, quite a few are for films still quite a long way off including two of the biggest March releases, odd dramas with Ashton Kutcher and Christian Bale, and a highly talked about script:
"The Long War" (script) "To put it simply, "Lord of War" is "GoodFellas" with the Mafia replaced by gunrunning. Yuri Orlov (not to be confused with physicist Yuri Orlov, whose amazing life story would make an excellent film) and his family flee the USSR in 1980 by pretending to be Jewish and end up in New Yorks Little Odessa. Yuri becomes a U.N. peacekeeper, but soon figures out he can make good money by selling weapons illegally to foreign fighters..." (full review)
"Dawn of the Dead" " When you boil the idea of the dead coming back to life down to the sum of it's parts, you get a disaster flick. A bloody, disgusting and kinda spooky disaster flick, but still, it's a disaster/survival flick. This is about the end of the world and this flick hammers the message home with every scene. I can't wait to see this again without the temp music. I know for sure that this one scene couldn't possibly have been scored with the sad music from "Daredevil". So it was a great flick, the zombie flick I've always wanted to see..." (full review)
"The Butterfly Effect" "It's frustrating to watch a movie go awry that begins with an intriguing premise. The Butterfly Effect, a time-traveling thriller starring Ashton Kutcher, is one such movie. Directors Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber create a mind-bender of a plot that crosses back and forth so often that it eventually collapses on itself..." (full review)
"Starsky & Hutch" "Starsky and Hutch trying to nail a drug dealer (Vince Vaughn). As with any great movie, it is the characters (and therefore the actors) that really made this movie what it was. Ben Stiller (Starsky) and Owen Wilson (Hutch) have the sort of chemistry together that made movies such as Rush Hour a success. Of the two I would say that Stiller was better although that is like saying that t-bone is better than prime ribits all personal taste. Snoop Dog is good as Huggy Bear. Nothing special but he didnt have too much screen time to develop..." (full review)
