Hi, everyone! It's me again! How was everyone's Thanksgiving? Mines was fantastic! So much to be grateful for and I ended it all with a nice vigorous workout this morning. My cousin Shan cooks too good! lol.
So today I'm going to review 2 movies I've watched recently: Year One and Out of Sight
Out of Sight is an oldie but a goodie starring the one and only George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez in her rise to fame days. I was only 14 years old when the movie came out which would explain why I never even heard of this movie until I went browsing on the Netflix website. (But somehow I had heard of From Dusk Til Dawn.) My opinion of the movie: Great! Clooney plays Jack Foley, a bank robber who breaks out of jail in pursuit of a fortune in uncut diamonds. On the way he and his friend Buddy played by Ving Rhames runs into Karen Sisco, played by Lopez, a law enforcement agent who's as cunning as she is beautiful! Crime and laughs ensue as the boys can't seem to get away from Ms. Sisco! And, of course, Foley doesn't seem to want to.
The movie is a good cat and mouse feature by famed director Steven Soderberg featuring many actors who have become well known since: Clooney, Rhames, Lopez, Don Cheadle, Steve Zahn, Isaiah Washington and there is even a cameo by Samuel L Jackson. George is handsome as usual. Lopez is beautiful as usual. Zahn is funny as usual and Don plays a psychotic thug all too well! Score: B+
The second movie I want to review is Year One starring Jack Black and Michael Cera as 2 outcasts of Biblical proportions. I love Black and Cera was great in all of his movies but this one was a gigantic stinker! It was just too blasphemous and silly w/o being funny whatsoever. Pointless and with no true storytelling to it's structure. If you're going to be blasphemous and question the existence of God on screen, at least be interesting with it. Black is usually funny and charasmatic in his silliness but not in this womper. I guess there's very little room for talent with poorly writtten dialogue and storyline. The only good thing about the movie was the performance by Oliver Platt who acted too good in the horrible role of an effeminate, Sodomic false priest. The movie is from the makers of Knocked Up but is far from being as funny or interesting. Score: F
Rent Out of Sight if you haven't already seen it. (I'm 11 years late with this one!)
Year One is not even rentable. Save your cash!
Until next time,
Lew
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