RED

RED

Running time: 111 minutes

Summary: When his idyllic life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive.


Review: We have officially entered my absolute favorite time of the year! Awards season!! For those of you not in the know, the start of awards season means that I can download DVD quality of movies that are just in the theatre and in some cases, even before they are out in the theatre. RED was one of these releases.

Let me start by saying, possibly repetitively that I have a serious hard on for Bruce Willis, apparently even as he plays a retiree as he does in this movie. This movie boasts an all star cast of "old" favorites. Each one was perfectly chosen to play their role and don't let you down as they deliver performances that are extremely well done, if not a little campy at times.

I would not necessarily have chosen Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren for an action movie but their calm and collected demeanor are exactly what you would expect from former CIA agents that are "RED" or "Retired and Extremely Dangerous".

The movie moves quickly and I found myself laughing aloud at some of the dialogue. It introduces the characters carefully and although there are many of them to get to know, I thought that you were provided with just enough background to make them relatable but not too much that it slowed down the story. The movie was a well done, light-hearted delight with a talented ensemble cast.

Best quote: Marvin Boggs -"Why are you trying to kill me?"
                  Frank Moses -"Like why would I be trying to kill you?"
                  Marvin Boggs - "Because last time we met I tried to kill you."
                  Frank Moses - "That was a long time ago."
                  Marvin Boggs - "Some people hold on to things like that."

Rating: 8.5/10 nestability

Tell-Tale

Tell-Tale

Running time: 92 minutes

Summary: In Providence, a husband and wife die in a botched robbery; we see flickers of his last memories. His heart goes to Terry Bernard, a single father raising a girl with a rare degenerative disease. After the operation, Terry has flashes of memory from the last moments of the dead donor's life. Then, he recognizes one of the donor's killers and follows him into an alley. Within days, Terry becomes an unwilling avenger, with a police detective on his trail. Meanwhile, he begins a romance with his daughter's doctor, his moods complicated by memory flashes, the donor's deepening presence in both Terry's mind and body, and the unexplained bond among the donor's killers. Can this end well?

Review: Somehow this movie slipped beneath my radar and I discovered it after a desperate scrounge on my hard drive for something that we haven't seen yet. And what a wonderful surprise!

Tell-Tale was such a nice little treat. Not too long obviously, and full of familiar faces and plot twists to keep you interesting for it's duration. Josh Lucas does a pretty good job of carrying this movie as our antagonizing protagonist, surprising because the only other thing I remember him in was Sweet Home Alabama (upon further investigation I discovered that I would also have seen him in timeless classics such as Stealth and the 2006 remake of Poseidon).

Anyway, if you find yourself at your local video store and think you have seen everything worth seeing, pick up this little number.

Rating: 7/10 nestability

The Last Airbender

The Last Airbender

Running Time: 97 minutes

Summary: Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara (Nicola Peltz), a Waterbender, and her brother, Sokka (Jackson Rathbone), to restore balance to their war-torn world.

Review: How can a director making amazing actor so bad?? M. Night Shyamalan is possibly the worst thing that has happened to the movie industry since James Cameron's ego.

This movie was totally and completely BRUTAL. The story was obviously there but the execution was sooooooo bad! The acting was horrible, characters lacked any sort of depth or believability. Even the action sequences did nothing to redeem this D-grade production from the infinitely disappointing Shyamalan. The worst bit was the kid that plays the long awaited Avatar. It was just pitiful. They should have shaved Dakota Fanning's head and put her in the role instead.

Rating: 2.3/10 nestability

Best Quotes: Me - "Shut up Slumdog, go back to your shit hut in India and stop wasting my time."