Entertaining and off-beat, Guy Ritchie produces another very good movie in Layer Cake. The movie is perhaps now best known as the movie that helped Daniel Craig get the nod to be Bond in Casino Royale but this movie certainly stands on its own. For two hours the [...]
Entries from August 2007
August 12, 2007
The Bourne Ultimatum
This one is taking the cake as movie of the Summer. This thing was smart, fast-paced, action packed, intense and very well crafted. For one thing, going back and integrating the second and third so closely helped to give the movies a continuing saga feel instead of allowing the third to drift so far apart [...]
August 12, 2007
Ocean’s 13
It’s really hard to hate on a movie like Ocean’s 13. Of course at the same time it’s really hard to love it too. Ocean’s is a fun summer flick, with its fair share of laughs and more than its share of star power. The film gets a little sluggish in its middle sections but [...]
August 12, 2007
Transformers
Transformers certainly shapes up to be the Summer’s most entertaining ride. What’s not to like about a movie with sweet cars, even cooler robots and great action scenes? The special effects for this movie are simply jaw dropping and the action sequences are pulled off with style and imagination. While the plot is certainly nothing [...]
August 12, 2007
Die Hard 4: Live Free, Die Hard
Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone can now start their own club entitled, “Men over 50 who can still kick butt and resurrect their most famous movie characters in the process.” With any luck Harrison Ford can join the club following the fourth Indiana Jones film. But in all seriousness (or as serious as you can [...]