Watched “The King’s Speech” last weekend, and I thought it was a brilliant watch… The mix between drama and humor really pulled me into what I half-expected to be a boring movie. The actors were a great choice, with loads of chemistry between Firth and Rush, which above all (and more important for this story) was believable…
The movie’s story is about George VI (the father of the current Queen of England, for all of those that know squat about monarchies and stuff) and his fight against his stutter… As a member of the Royal Family, he was expected to deliver speeches, and he couldn’t because of his huge speech impediment. Geoffrey Rush plays a specialist in speech defects that helps him overcome (or mitigate, more precisely) his problem… A great story about friendship and fear… Really worthwhile… 10/10
Also watched this one… Sometimes is good to stop and see a mindless action movie with no intellectual depth… Unfortunately, this wasn’t it. Although it lacks any kind of intellectual depth, the action scenes were disappointing, to say the least…
This is the standard story of revenge… Guy needs to get revenge on the people that killed his brother, by killing them… Usually I don’t have anything about this kind of narratives, but this one is a yawn-fest… The main character (played by “The Rock”) is 2-dimensional (albeit intense, I’ll give him that), the bad guys are a bunch of wieners and the whole movie just feels sluggish. Don’t waste your time on this one… 4/10