Kung Fu Hustle
I had never heard of this movie until running across a positive review online recently. And throwing caution to the wind, I put it in my Netflix queue. Turned out to be a great decision. This movie is a lot of fun! (more…)
May 16, 2007
April 27, 2007
recent movie rental reviews
I can’t remember the last time the wife and I saw a movie at the theater - still not long enough in my opinion but ages ago according to the wife, I’m sure. We watch movies through Netflix on a regular basis, however, and just for the fun of it, I thought I’d toss out my two cents on a few movies that caught my eye.
The Departed was probably the most anticipated according to my sources [various podcasts and online news outlets]. I thought it was a good movie - I had seen Infernal Affairs, the film The Departed was retelling, and found The Departed to be the better film [maybe because it was in English and had numerous familiar faces] - but it wasn’t as great as I expected it to be.
I almost did not rent Deja Vu [based on the unfavorable reviews of my sources]. This would have been a mistake ’cause I enjoyed this movie. It dips it’s foot into science fiction [as opposed to supernatural as the trailers seemed to imply] and would have possibly been even better if it had leaned more into that genre. Denzel was probably, for me, what pushed this film from a flimsy flop to a gripping . . . go-getter [best I could come up with]. (more…)
