December 13, 2007

• Movies I've Seen Recently...

  
  Juno (2007)  A

  Smart, funny, and even a social commentary, "Juno" is a very entertaining movie about a pregnant teenager giving up her child for adoption. Ellen Page plays the title character as a very witty and independent girl, and she plays a very memorable role. The things she says and do are just a delight, and absolutely captivating. The strongest strength in the movie is the dialog, which like Juno herself are very smart, witty, and funny. The story also have some thought provoking commentary about social classes between the middle class and the upper class, as well as talk about relationships, and even a comment about the different age groups. The characters here are very well written and well acted, that they chose a very good cast for the roles. One could argue that things can be a little self-aware, but the screenwriting by Diablo Cody and direction by Jason Reitman keeps things from going too over the top. I loved this movie, and it's one of my most favorite releases of 2007.

  
  Hitman (2007)  C

  Based off the video game series by Eidos, "Hitman" is an entertaining action movie that gets bogged down by being a little too ambitious with the plot. This is one of those movies that makes you try to use your brain to follow the plot, but at the same time it's very much a "keep your brain in check" type of film. This movie actually felt like it's already a sequel as they throw in characters that we are suppose to already know, as well as assume we already have an understanding to how the main character is as a hitman. Timothy Olyphant does a remarkable job as "Agent 47", and Olga Kurylenko is just hot hot hot as the leading actress. Unfortunately there are tons of character flaws and overall logical errors that occurs in the film, that it pretty much deflated many of the positive things about the movie. I enjoyed it just the same though, but the film simply could have been much better than the actual result.

  • 10:25 am
  • 1 Comment