Reserved tickets last night, best seats in the theater. The bridge is the place to see a movie. Real chairs that don't fold and enough leg room for people to walk by. All the theaters have good sound and when you're tall as more people are these days it matters. With most of the country.. I was going to use some politically correct term but wtf. With all the fat people around it's nice to have the elbow room. The theater is about half full. It's the perfect viewing experience waiting for a great movie to happen. If they didn't sell stale, made in a factory brought in bag popcorn, well I might have had some for old time sake.
I found myself almost immediately wondering if this movie was inspired by a video game. Most recent attempts to converge the finely honed styles of Hollywood with the code driven style of video game developments have left a flat dry taste in the mouth. The intro, without giving anything away was totally cool but in an unfulfilling way. Even if you knew the twist then...
I figured it out early and barely noticed. That sets the tone.
As soon as Angelina hits the screen things change, if for no other reason than you can just look at her. Most of the action was satisfying as she sweeps our hero into the fold and away from evils clutch. Angelina is stunning as ever, but wow she was skinny.
The training was your basic beat the guy till he's tough. Most of it was well done and state of the art. There is nothing to really complain about in this movie, the FX are all solid, but I was never cheering.
Freeman is always a force on stage but I never hated or loved his character. I found myself with no one to really root for or care to much about. At the same time nothing to really care about.
The movie is littered with corpses and brutal depictions of death and none of it had much impact, perhaps a sign of the times.
It was billed as the next matrix, with en emphasis on the effects, but perhaps that was also intended to reference it as an allegory for our times. The basic social comment being we're all blind to the truth of who we are and once we wake up to that truth we will understand that we are powerful.
It was a good movie, perhaps even with it's own message. I liked it and there was a lot of eye candy. But it didn't make me freak out like the Matrix did.
I found myself almost immediately wondering if this movie was inspired by a video game. Most recent attempts to converge the finely honed styles of Hollywood with the code driven style of video game developments have left a flat dry taste in the mouth. The intro, without giving anything away was totally cool but in an unfulfilling way. Even if you knew the twist then...
I figured it out early and barely noticed. That sets the tone.
As soon as Angelina hits the screen things change, if for no other reason than you can just look at her. Most of the action was satisfying as she sweeps our hero into the fold and away from evils clutch. Angelina is stunning as ever, but wow she was skinny.
The training was your basic beat the guy till he's tough. Most of it was well done and state of the art. There is nothing to really complain about in this movie, the FX are all solid, but I was never cheering.
Freeman is always a force on stage but I never hated or loved his character. I found myself with no one to really root for or care to much about. At the same time nothing to really care about.
The movie is littered with corpses and brutal depictions of death and none of it had much impact, perhaps a sign of the times.
It was billed as the next matrix, with en emphasis on the effects, but perhaps that was also intended to reference it as an allegory for our times. The basic social comment being we're all blind to the truth of who we are and once we wake up to that truth we will understand that we are powerful.
It was a good movie, perhaps even with it's own message. I liked it and there was a lot of eye candy. But it didn't make me freak out like the Matrix did.
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