Review: Wanted

I would've enjoyed the movie a lot more without all the slow-mo bullet time nonsence. Mainly because it would've finished a hell of a lot sooner.

Review: The Town

Sadly a bit of a let-down from it's awesome trailer, The Town reverts too much to crime story cliché with its tale of bank robber meets girl but gets drawn back for one last job.

The heist scenes themselves are where the film excels, Affleck showing his skills as a director shooting them with a kinetic energy that's up there with Mann and Greengrass, but the talky bits in between just descend into a load of Bawston mumbling with Jeremy Renner popping doing the whole doesn't care if he lives or dies, adrenaline junkie with a gun thing from the Hurt Locker and being the best thing in it.

Review: RocknRolla

Released in 2008, in 2010 the idea of making money from real estate now seems equally as dated the idea of a Guy Ritchie Gangster movie itself - but despite being more than a bit clichéd and a little bit rubbish, its still entertaining rubbish thanks to an excellent cast supporting Gerard Butler in the lead role.

Review: Tyson

The Story of Mike Tyson in his own words, as Iron Mike himself is the only person to feature in this retelling of the heavyweight boxer's rise and fall. I would've preferred to hear more from the people surrounding Tyson as while to certain extent he was left hang himself showing his disgusting attitude to women, too many times it was glossed over quickly to move onto the next subject and the instances where clips of speech are together to create a sort of rhythmic pattern turns into sort of celebration of misogyny, which leaves a sour taste after.

Review: The Happening

It's no surprise the story is bobbins, after all M. Night Shyamalan's been working on the law of diminishing returns for a while now - what's more surprising is how bad the acting is considering it stars Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel, who have frequently proved before that they can both deliver the goods.

In the end The Happening becomes one of those special films that are so bad they're actually good with plenty of completely unintentional laugh out loud moments throughout to keep you entertained.

Review: Machete

Dropping the fake scratches and bad cuts of Planet Terror, Robert Rodriguez comes closer to making the cult movie he pays tribute too, but Machete still suffers from trying to hard to be something its not.

Plenty of blood and boobs ensure Machete is always entertaining, but the cheesy dialogue and crap acting is just to knowing to make it memorable - you'll be ghard pressed to find anyone remembering this in a year, let alone 30.

Rodriguez seems to have missed the point of Grindhouse and even his earlier films that ended up being cult hits - they weren't trying to be cults at all, they all wanted to be mainstream films and tried to make the best of their limitations - both money and talent wise. Making his films worse than should be, ironically or not, is a waste of a talent as huge as Rodriguez's and hopefully its a phase he'll snap out of soon.

Review: I'm Still Here

In many ways I'm Still Here is just as muddled as Joaquin's infamous performance on Letterman, in that while this supposed documentary claims to be saying something about the media, you're never ever really quite sure exactly what that is at any point.

Still despite the rambling nature of the plot there's still plenty to enjoy here, the biggest laughs come when Phoenix comes into contact with other famous faces such as Ben Stiller and Puff Daddy, and only add to the questions that surround the film as you how many people were in on the joke as some reactions are too good to be true.