Shadow Covenant

And I’m back… This post: movie reviews…

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen some movies, and I’d like to share some thoughts about them with you guys…

“Taken”: A ex-secret agent gets his daughter kidnapped in France and he wants to get her back… Good visuals, good acting (Liam Neeson is awesome), an interesting story (Luc Besson). The action scenes are great and the view to the sexual trafic business is scary… A suprisingly good movie. 8/10

“Planet 51”: Another very good surprise. It’s an CGI animation movie, and while it’s not “Pixar-quality” level, it’s very good (specially looking at the progress from these guys last movies… the evolution is astonishing). What makes the movie really stand out is the humor and the story… the base line is the arrival of a human to an “alien” world that seems stuck in the 1950’s, with all the mentality of the time (space invasion!!!). Some of the characters are wicked fun, specially “Rover”, the rover-like robot that was sent to the planet before the human arrived. 9/10

“Drag Me To Hell”: A horror movie with a neat story… as all horror stories, you never know how it’s going to end, and this is no exception… It’s not groundbreaking (using the same plot outline as hundreds of horror movies before), but it’s a good one to see late in the evening. 7/10

“Book of Eli”: This movie was utterly amazing… the visuals are awesome (in a post-apocaliptic fashion), the fight sequences are extremely cool (they remind me of the movie “Equilibrium”), and the story is well told and interesting… I wasn’t expecting a very good movie (since lots of friends of mine didn’t enjoy it), but I was completely blown away by it… seriously, it ended and I was staring at the end-credits saying “Fuck… me…”. Really, really, really good… 10/10

“Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”: Well, this is a very complicated movie for me to say something about… I was a huge fan of the games, so the movie kind of fell short for me… My friends all loved it, but I can’t avoid the feeling that the film was lots of waste potential. So, some notes:

• Jake Gyllenhaal does a good job as Prince, but the character portraied in the movie isn’t the character from the game… this Prince is a good-hearted rogue, while the Prince in the games is an egomaniac, selfish prick… Guess that wasn’t Disney-enough…
• The whole plotline is actually pretty good and solid, considering the source material (not that it is bad, but it’s as “gamey” as a story can be, which wouldn’t translate that well to movie, in my opinion). But it’s terribly predictable and just a repetition of its self… Come on, he keeps getting the Dagger stolen from him and stealing it back… he does that about 4 times during the movie!
• The Dagger of Time effect was awesome, but badly used… he didn’t use the dagger enough, and he never used it in combat, which would have looked positively kick-ass…
• For an “entertainment” movie, it’s quite boring in some parts… I was expecting an action-fest all the time, but the movie proceeds in an erratic pace, with the action scenes taking too little of the screen-time (considering that the movie doesn’t have much more to held himself up… the banther between characters is just passable).

So, basically, just loads of wasted potential, in my opinion, which is too bad, since I was really looking forward to this… 6/10

So that’s it for my reviews… 🙂 As usual, comment at will, give me your thoughts and ideas and let’s get some arguments going! 🙂