30 Days of Night is about a small Alaskan town who get invaded by vampires.
The best thing about this movie is the premise. 30 days of night? Vampires? Easy! It has the potential to be really scary and really cool, but ends up being boring and dull instead.
You would think a vampire movie would have tons of blood. But most of the killings happen off screen. Every once in awhile, you get a money shot, but they are far too few. Instead, we have a few survivors of the town just hiding the whole time, waiting for the sun to come up. Hiding isn’t very exciting to me.
Even the vampires end up looking kind of stupid. They just all meander around hissing and smiling and talking to each other in what I think is Russian. I appreciate that they didn’t make them sexy, a la Underworld, but I’d still rather see Kate Beckinsale in leathers.
The Last Winter is a movie about a team who go up north to setup a drilling station. People start going crazy and start dying and there are strange “wind creatures” that leave foot prints in the snow.
I can understand how global warming is a hot issue (pun intended). Considering it has to do with our home and our future, it’s something we should definitely be concerned about. The Last Winter tries to tell us that there are weird “wind creatures” hiding under the permafrost. And due to the rising temperature, they’re now free to bite and kidnap people.
The main flaw is the conflict isn’t really set up. No one directly confronts these creatures that start running around. For the most part, that’s all they do, run around. There’s some argument between a tree-hugger and one of the oil men, but it’s nothing earth shattering.
In the end, I was just bored throughout the whole thing.
I really wanted to enjoy Revolver, really! It’s the new movie by Guy Ritchie, who also did Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, the hardest movie to google. This was supposed to be Ritchie’s return to form, but it really isn’t.
It’s right after the set up that everything starts falling apart. The narrative structure just disappears and things just happen for the sake of happening. The thing spirals into a pretentious glop of self-discovery and battling inner demons and all this other garbage that doesn’t really make any sense. I watched the UK cut, and it was hard to follow. I heard that the US release is 10 minutes shorter and even more confusing, purposefully!
There’s really no way I can recommend this, not even to Ritchie fans. The action, how scant it is, is mediocre. There’s a great set of assassinations towards the end, but by that time, you really don’t care anymore. Stay away. Stay far away.
If you watched the above trailer, you’ve seen everything in the movie. Literally. If you haven’t, spend the 2 minutes and then you won’t have to see the movie.
Keanu Reeves does a good job of playing himself, which isn’t a bad thing. This was before he was famous, so it’s okay. But the main problem is that the movie’s boring. There were a few times that I wanted to turn it off. But, I waited it out to see if something would happen. Nothing did. Save yourself the trouble, pass on this one.
Went to see Resident Evil 3 with Ninja, and some friends today. Needless to say, it wasn’t great. It was definitely better than the second one. There were some nice set pieces, but most of the action was kind of ho hum. Not much tension or suspense in them. Alice is pwn on a stick. She’s definitely got some Mad Max blood in her.
If you can sit through the gratuitous helicopter shots of the convoy, you may get a kick out of it. I haven’t played too much of the game, but as far as I understand it, it’s not exactly faithful. If you’re with a good bunch of guys, rent it and yell at the screen.
