I have seen that film and it's pretty good. The Clooney film you are thinking of is Good night and Good luck. That's is a far better film to be honest.
'71 - 9/10 Rookie British soldier ends up stuck behind enemy lines in Belfast. Brilliant film with some excellent performances. Kept me gripped right to the end. Chained - 8/10 A young lad is abducted and raised by a serial killer. Pretty grim and disturbing but entertaining nonetheless. Good little twist at the end, too. Ill Manors 9.5/10 Follows the lives of various chavs in London as they stab, shoot and abuse each other. Cracking film with a decent soundtrack. Cherry Tree Lane 7.5/10 Another set in London, it's a home invasion thriller in real time. Well worth a watch.
And for something a little different: Behind the Candelabra - 7/10 Michael Douglas turns in a convincing performance as piano queen Liberace, whilst Matt Damon plays his young loverboy. Very funny at times.
Kingsman. Superb stuff, the fight scenes are spectacular. Tongue in cheek for most of the movie but this is an Action movie which entertains throughout. 8/10
Snakes On A Plane 9.5/10 Fantastic dialogue throughout and truly gripping from the very start. I had no idea what direction the film would take but the ending was jut superb. Samuel Mother ****ing Jackson at his goddamn mother ****ing best.
Big Ass Spider 9/10 Mesmerising! A triumph! The critics were certainly right with their comments about this one. Splendid cinematography, well acted from the start and the plot is just magnificent. Great dialogue too, like those Tarantino films. Well worth a watch. Syfy channel every other week
Saw The Revenant the other night and gave it the same rating. Dicaprio and Hardy were brilliant. Someone said to me it was more of a spectacle than a film, which I suppose is a fair point. But what a fcking spectacle it was! The performances and cinematography was quality. By all accounts, Dicaprio could, and perhaps should, have been one of these pretty-boy, bubble gum pop actors doing plastic roles. Instead he is imo one of the finest actors that's ever graced the screen.
Solace Anthony Hopkins hams it up as a psychic in this not very good thriller. He must have had a tax bill to pay or something. Colin Farrell is actually quite good in it despite a terrible script. 5/10
Just watched the Revenant, acting is ok but a bit mumbled, what got me was how ****ing unrealistic the whole thing was. Well filmed, settings were nice, but Leo should have died about 4-5 times in it (AT LEAST) and the 'plot' was weak as ****. It definitely never deserves a 9/10, 7.5 or 8 max.
That's quite ironic considering it's based on real events How real it is we may never know but I think the fact it is based on true events is also the reason why the plot was weak or fairly straightforward. That's why for me, it was never the story but the spectacle of it all. Each to their own I suppose. It's not going to be to everyone's taste.
It's quite hard to trust 'real events' being reported back then + Leo dies at the end so how to **** would they know what happens? He gets ripped to shreds by a bear (in the film) that would have crushed his ribs to **** when it stands on him, left out in sub-zero temperatures with gaping wounds (before the days of anaesthetic or painkillers), goes for a swim in a freezing river, falls off a cliff, sleeps in a dead horse naked and puts on his soggy frozen clothes to then make it X miles (he just appears near their camp) to the forest bit where they find him. The french dude that reported he attacked them gave them bullshit directions, he attacked them, fled on a horse, then wandered off with ****all idea of where he's going, wearing a coat that he magically acquires en route. Also, no one can shoot in the film apart from him, and at least once he fires 2 shots in a row with a pistol you need to reload every shot... Entertaining film though, just definitely not a 9/10...
Ignore Toby folks, Leo doesn't die at the end. The premise of the whole film is in fact Leo's will to survive and revenge the killing of his son. The human capacity to endure. Simple and straightforward but these things usually are.
Creed 7 out 10 Decent story for a rocky reboot You get what you expect , uplifted and in the mood for a fight
