Megamind Review

Blue is the new hero!!!

Yes, still now I understand, and even convinced what is the difference between an animation studio DreamWorks from Pixar or Disney . It is not much goes into detail . I do not know whether this can be considered a plus or not, but not all the cartoons the studio can be called masterpieces. Unlike a Pixar,DreamWorks is a risk that the cartoon is not something that will fail, but the flamed film critics or audiences. Of course, this does not always happen, but this was. For example, "Shrek the Third" very disappointed fans franchise. I will not, of course, discuss now why, but it says that the studio is capable of, and errors. As serious and not so. But it also has the best work, except the first and second "Shrek" can still mention the "How to Train Your Dragon", which has pleasantly surprised the audience. And now, after a brief introduction, I begin to describe the new work studio.

From "Megamind" I expected a little more than received, but the impression all the same remains good. I have to say, this cartoon is much better than "I'm Ugly", which has a similar idea. And although " Megamind " was released later than the "ugly self, the creation of DreamWorks does not seem trite. He has significant advantages, but, unfortunately, and the creators have made plenty of mistakes. Explain the order.

The plot of this cartoon is enough original and unpredictable. The protagonist - Megamind, being with the dead planet, which has blue skin and a highly developed mind.  Another little baby, he gets on this earth, but with him there arrives and his future enemy - Metroman, a humanoid alien with super-abilities. It can be considered a direct analogue of the world-famous Superman. His show us how narcissistic and selfish hero who is ready to help mankind. Villain same Megamind, it seems as repressed Metroman person who realizes that he will inevitably have to become a global villain and an enemy who will fight to the end Metroman. So, after many adventures and events Megamind still kills superhero and initially pleased. But later realizes that his life has become meaningless. Herein lies the main distinguishing feature of the cartoon.

This animated picture breaks down stereotypes of superhero films and gives us realize that after all the villains are not without heroes. And vice versa. Next Megamind trying to create a new superhero, the Titan, but it is not the way it should be. Likely to light a new villain, and now Megamind will have to fight with him and find previously the hero love, human love. Original? Absolutely. And this cartoon does not seem to break, he is not much stands out. Everything has been designed in the classical traditions of any kids cartoon: exposition, conflict and resolution. The creation of DreamWorks is not much surprise the audience, there is nothing new, there is a funny and charismatic characters, sometimes comical and naive humor, exciting battles and touching scenes. In "Megamind" as opposed to "I'm Ugly" virtually no flaws.

But the error still there . First and foremost, this is difficult to capture the atmosphere of the painting. If the action takes place in a fictional town Metrociti, the cartoon is simply obliged to attend a saturated atmosphere of the business metropolis. The creators had to create their own, unique world, full of boundless imagination. But they did not. The whole plot is built only on cartoon characters and the main idea. In the rest of the picture is no joy and no surprise. I have it personally a little disappointed. The creators have made a few logical fallacies. For example, when the two villains fighting each other, one of them cuts the most important and tallest building in the city in half, and then runs it in his enemy.After which it is, of course, collapses and turns into splinters and dust. The question immediately arises: as the creators do not take into account the fact that the skyscraper might be people? This is also the main business building in Metrociti and work there innocent citizens. And one of the villains took, and destroyed it. Of course, they're fighting right in town, like kids in a sandbox squabble. But still: where is the logic? In the picture there is still a couple of mistakes, which is quite acceptable for a children's cartoon, but not desirable.

But there can be commended computer graphics . Each time, it is becoming more perfect and more perfect, and Megamind "that is no exception. Here, beautifully drawn and all the major parts of the city, and although the atmosphere, as I said, do not feel Metrociti anyway looks very plausible. Another advantage is the characters themselves, which are very similar to real people. Their faces and manners of behavior seem to be sometimes very human, and they are drawn well in contrast to the "I'm Ugly", where characters are and square, and angled shape of the head. In "Megamind" as each character is shown is plausible.

the town[2010] review

The Town

Prince of Thieves!!

"City of Thieves" - the second feature film Ben Affleck, where he serves choreographer and director in other words.  

The film is based on the novel by Chuck Hogan's some "Prince of Thieves." Childhood friends rob banks, and very thoughtful. One of the robberies and was the starting point of the film's plot. One of the assailants, Doug begins to follow the manager of a bank robbery, the girl gang took them hostage and then released. Claire has no clue about what was happening until a certain time, until the situation does not interfere with the employee the FBI investigating the robbery. 

Lazy is not only compared the "City of Thieves" with the same "The Departed," "Point Break" and became the benchmark for movies about bank robberies and gunfights with the cops and the opposition "bad guys", namely the film "Fight." Why compare? And the answer is obvious - too many similarities in these films. Scorsese's film recalls the atmosphere of Boston, in the film Bigelow bank robbers walking around in rubber masks (among other things, for such an association here may be attributed, and the opening scene of "The Dark Knight"), well, "Fight", as I wrote, I asked the highest bar, and this film is simply doomed to quoting and imitating, as those who "first, he and dad." But this does not mean that Affleck simply "stupid" copied a long-known techniques, he skillfully used them. The result is not perfect, but very professional. This results in a strong and decent mix of crime drama, a good psychological portraits and romantic images, and lines are so different people whose relations are doomed to start. It is not necessary to find fault with Affleck if he had something not happened, and the film does not possess the continuing ekshenom finally came up with the story he did not, he just sold his adaptation. 

I was satisfied with the movie and received from him a pleasure. Irregularities were of course, and they were in that whole movie look like a robbery with gunfire as it was in "Fight", but Affleck did not allow this, incidentally burdening romantic movie line and fighting among all but in the end everything was in full offset, action, psychology and drama began just off-scale, that I looked like an experienced, what is all over. 

Oh, I forgot to note that Affleck fellow in the fact that assembled an amazing actor's command, not deprived of attention. Game Affleck certainly satisfactory, all the same in terms of acting he was still rather weak, and he gets to play a better role la "Armageddon" or an idiots in "Good Will Hunting", but his game film, he does not spoil. Renner naturally stands out from the rest. Still, the sight is still his breakthrough role in "Lord of the Storm, but he most likely acts" Oscar effect "(in which case each role Oscar nominee or winner seems decent regular awards, although it is not always the case). One can enumerate the rest of  ensemble, but I will confine myself Hamm, are beginning to show that the role of "Madman" for it is not the limit and Rebecca Hall, who was still at the stage of "a promising actress. 

Film tipped to win the nomination and all sorts of awards, and Stephen King, including movies-10 of his favorite films of 2010. What is a good start, keep it up.

Devil

Sealed thriller..

All projects, which, in any way, participated Night Shyamalan, characterized by forcing the atmosphere, the mystical elements of anxiety and food for thought. The Devil retains all the components, presenting a dynamic thriller with elements of horror and mysticism. 

History is quite simple, the main thing - performance. By coincidence 5 people get stuck in an elevator. It would seem that common, but after a while, it turns out that everyone ended up in this place is not accidental.Temporary security guard buildings, silent mechanic, an elderly lady, an advertising agent and a young woman will make the company Lucifer in his mocking the show with a fatal outcome. The detective, who had arrived to investigate a suicide, is forced to go to the challenge of a skyscraper nearby. Now, in front of him as the spectator, is not an easy task to figure out what's going on in the car, and who is responsible for committing heinous acts. Will a desperate guardian of order to stop the devil, and help get out of the "chamber of hell" surviving citizens? This we learn within 80 minutes of dynamic development. 

Sealed thriller. Everything that happens is developing in a skyscraper. The central scene is assigned to the elevator, but a devilish performance will be used also to mine elevator, technical rooms, staff room of the building, and office corridors. Played with wonderful plot twists, and viewers will have much work to do to figure out who is, in fact, is responsible for unfolding nightmare. Every secret will be revealed, and questions will not go unanswered, when the final curtain will be raised. Ending the film may seem a trivial, but in this case would be quite natural, because it is to realize that time called the filmmakers. Maybe she got a bit crumpled, but everything that happens before that is very dynamic and will not make you bored and distracted from the viewing. 

Convincing acting. Readily believe in emotions and feelings of the protagonists. That is why the movie is terrifying, despite the small number of scenes of bloodshed and violence.Very commendable, in my opinion, managed Logan Marshall-Green, who plays mechanic.Sound and beautifully shot scenes of attacks of Satan produce glamor prepodnosimogo horror. 

"Devil" - high-quality atmospheric mystery novel, recommended to fans watching tickle their nerves, and fans of the genre mystery and horror. With a small budget has done an excellent job. After viewing remains a feeling of anxiety, but do not forget that if the Devil exists, God is there. 

Takers [2010] Review

Takers

Jack Wells / ghost / Raiders: Who will win?

A film about the brutal truth of seven guys who, as they say, do not fear neither God nor the devil. 

                     

Raiders. Their technique is perfected, and the risk only adds special urgency to move forward. Before them the whole world, and only today, which always resides near the danger and likelihood of adverse outcome, the pleasure of the work done and a big winner.They think through thin solid offensive strategy and successfully carry out a bank robbery.They always have a plan for withdrawal from an unexpected situation, they understand technology, work with C4, do not know what fear and have their own rules that are playing.But there is always someone who breaks the rules and those who adhered to the letter of the law ... 

                                      

Ghost. For six years he was preparing a plan to destroy his team. Ghost volunteered to take revenge on those who paved the way for this lost cause. A place to talk about: it will not return the lost ... and she never made a happy single person ... And so it happened. 

And the last component of the story, Jack Wells - a policeman who takes up a great deal about the crank scam. He destroyed his family, plunging headlong into work. 

Characters of Raiders of interest, but some do not fully disclosed, such as John and AJ - two madly charming character. Gordon - a man with a difficult life, in other matters like the other hijackers, brought up his sister - a drug addict, Jesse and Jake - the brothers whose blood the choice between prison and crime, one of which appeared a different meaning in life - his favorite. Most importantly, as shown in their friendly, almost family relationship as a team when they are for each other are ready to send to the light of anyone who stands in your way. 
Everything in the film very well thought out: there is a fascinating story (on an amateur, of course), nice guys, great costumes, big money, excellent stunts, memorable escape from the police in the performance of Brown, a touching offer, and how all of a sudden and tragic end ... 

For my part I will say this movie type of - the presence of such charismatic actors like Hayden Christensen, Paul Walker, Chris Brown, TI, Matt Dillon, as well, from - in a fraction of the drama, the scenes themselves robberies, and of course, from - for luxury houses, cars and other things of splendor.

Love and Other Drugs

A Weak Dose!

Love stories are essentially the same -- it's a matter of how you dress them up. Many will see through "Love and Other Drugs" and count the romance clichés and formulaic characters, others will find the 1996 setting and the pharmaceutical angle refreshing. Both forces are hard at work in this film, but the tipping point goes in favor thanks to the leads, Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.
There's a reason most romantic films are judged based on the chemistry of their lead actors. When it comes to romance, it's not about how cleverly written the two characters are and how unique and special they feel to us. What counts is whether they can convince you of their attraction/love and get you to -- without blunt coercion -- invest in what happens to them. Gyllenhaal and Hathaway have what it takes to do just that in spite of a script that sometimes tries to lean too hard on conventional tactics of boys meets girl.

Gyllenhaal plays Jamie, an expert salesman who lands a gig as a pharmaceutical sales rep for Pfizer, right before Viagra hit the market. He's also adept at landing any woman he desires. He epitomizes a Don Juan and he's plays the type well, but when you can predict that he'll end up in bed with the next attractive woman that shows up on screen, the writing has taken it a bit far. 
As good of a filmmaker as Edward Zwick is, his best credits include "Glory," "The Last Samurai" and "The Blood Diamond" -- not exactly romance. He co-wrote the script (based on Jamie Reidy's memoir) with longtime collaborator Marshall Herskovitz and thriller writer Charles Randolph ("The Interpreter"), so no real romantic comedy prowess exists among them, hence the tendency to stick with genre conventions. One such convention is Jamie's brother (Josh Gad), who plays the little brother crashing on Jamie's couch who has a porn addiction and makes clueless statements, usually to the tune of no laughs, but he does help break the tension.

Enter girl. Jamie meets Maggie, a bit of a free-spirited cynic who (in a unique twist) has way early onset Parkinson's. Many will be quick to jump on the "diseased girl" archetype, but don't judge Hathaway's prowess that quickly. As completely pathetic as Maggie's self-esteem might be and how strictly anti-commitment she is, when her character caves in to the romance as they all do, Hathaway gives Maggie a believable fragility rather than a melodramatic tone. 
Jamie's motives for wanting to spend more time with Maggie and not simply continuing his streak of banging all who possess lady parts are reduced to the reason of "she's playing hard to get," which is not the best of reasons. The same can be said about Maggie constantly accusing Jamie of having pity sex with the diseased girl. However, watching these two charm each other and overcome the cliché has a definite appeal.

The two spend a lot of naked time together, making "Love and Other Drugs" the best date movie this holiday season. But on a serious note, the drug angle and the "recent past" setting give us something else to chew on, which is nice. Zwick never truly marries that story line with the romance except "Jamie sells drugs and Maggie has a disease that lacks an effective one." The thematic ties are not quite there despite the plot coincidences and the fitting title.
"Love and Other Drugs" is hardly the cure for the common romantic comedy, but the consistent dosage of its two stars by and large pushes away those symptoms.

                                                                                                 Source:- Movie_Muse_Reviews(imdb)

Unstoppable Review

Unstoppable

Adrenaline Rush

If you just know little about the movie you must know  pretty much know the long and short of Tony Scott's "Unstoppable". Based on the real-life story of an unmanned train that went careening down the tracks in Ohio after a railroad employee failed to set the air brakes while switching tracks, this dramatization of that little incident amps up the thrills for a white-knuckle 100-minute non-stop roller-coaster ride- just think of it as an adrenaline shot that pretty much grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go from start to finish.

The setup is plain and simple- on one end of the track is rookie conductor Will Colson (Chris Pine), paired with veteran railroad engineer Frank Barnes (Denzel Washington) on his first day of work. Frank and Will each have their own share of family problems and each bear their own reservations of the other- so there's a fair bit of tension between the two of them as they begin their shift, especially since Will is seen as the company's new blood employed to replace the older workers (including Frank) who have one by one been forced to retire.

Then on the other end of the track, some bumbling employee gets off a train in an attempt to switch tracks, puts the stick in throttle and sends the massive locomotive whizzing down rural Pennsylvania towards the more heavily populated areas. Corporate- represented by Kevin Dunn's VP of operations- and local ground operations- represented by Rosario Dawson's rail commander- can't agree how to stop it, the former as usual weighing the options in terms of dollars and cents on the stock market.

It is only halfway through the film that Frank and Will cross paths with said locomotive nicknamed "The Beast" and come out with a plan to link their engine to the back to it and gun it in the opposite direction. Tony Scott spends the first half of the film doing two things- one, emphasising the working-class backgrounds of Frank and Will; and two, laying out bare the peril of the situation. Both are deftly played for the nail-biting finish, which is guaranteed to leave you wide-eyed and open-mouthed.

By portraying Frank and Will's as everyday men with real concerns over livelihood and family, Scott and "Die Hard 4.0" writer Mark Bomback make the point loud and clear later on that that real-life heroes are really just ordinary men who do extraordinary acts of courage in the face of danger and calamity. Indeed, though it is apparent that both Frank and Will are the heroes of the story, playing down the chest-thumping heroics of their act proves to be a wise choice in painting them as regular people who rose to the occasion to save the lives of thousands, including their families and loved ones.

Scott instead stresses the magnitude of the occasion in repeated failed attempts at halting "The Beast", each and every attempt highlighting the destructive force of the locomotive at that weight and at that speed. Choosing to film the high-octane action sequences in a more straightforward realistic manner than his usual flashy visual style (i.e. jump cuts, shaky camera, zooms and colour-correction) also lends the proceedings an authentic and an altogether genuinely riveting feel, further underlining the gravity of their heroic act. Special mention goes to the sound design of the film, which in a proper theatre with good sound system will set the hall rumbling with the sound of the locomotive.

Because much of the focus of the film is on "The Beast", more screen time seems to be dedicated to the train than to our two lead actors, Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. Still, the ever-reliable Denzel Washington delivers a low-key but no less commanding performance as the dutiful railroad worker Frank. He also shares a nice buddy chemistry with Chris, and it's interesting to watch how the initial tension between the two gives way to mutual cooperation, understanding and finally respect.

Unfolding at a breathless pace, Tony Scott makes the most of a simple premise to deliver a relentlessly exciting action movie that plays like "Speed" on tracks. It wastes no time in getting to the meat of the action, and doesn't once let up right until the end of the thrill ride. In between, you get the story of two men, folks like you and I, who display an outstanding act of heroism when faced with imminent danger. Precisely because they are so relatable, "Unstoppable" becomes so much more gripping, and you'd be advised that this high-octane action movie is just the adrenaline fix you need for the week.

 source:-moviexclusive(imdb)