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starring Paul Bettany, Kevin Durand, Adrienne Palicki, and Lucas Black
Essentially, here are the awesomes: the constant "oh-crap" feeling and Paul Bettany; and the wah-wahs (not awesomes): rushed story, loose ends, seemingly anticlimactic.
The constant feeling of "oh-crap" is legit because as opposed to a movie that features demons and evil things as the antagonist(s), the proposed 'bad guy' is the very same awesome dude that multitudes of religions pray to- God. That feeling that sticks around is one that basically keeps YOU thinking 'well, crap, there goes the neighborhood', with the neighborhood being humanity. Honestly, if you have no one or nothing to look to for guidance and help, what do you have? Which leads me to my next point- Paul Bettany. The guy is a solid ace in the movie, even though the overall flick was rushed and didn't give him nor the story to truly spread their wings (pun-INTENDED). It seemed there were a couple of more loose ends than there needed to be. It could lead to a sequel, but I am not entirely sure how Tinsel Town would be able to pull it off, honestly.
The end of the movie comes a lot sooner than I thought, and it's because of this, the producers couldn't really accomplish what the I wanted: pissed-off-and-possessed angels kicking butt and taking names- if they could tell anything from the remains. I know it sounds like I wanted a zombie flick, but I didn't- I understood the plot and the fall of mankind coming from the fall of God's faith in humanity, but from the previews and the plot, you'd think the possessive angels would have had more to do with the film. Michael, Bettany's character, arrives 8 months into the pregnancy-seemingly 3 days later the child is born- and they acknowledged this. I think they should have gone the course of the month, time-lapsed of course, just to really extend the story a bit more and included more action from the angels.
Overall: 3.0 High Fives.
starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric
First Impression: this is a Bond movie. Flat out. As opposed to giving a breakdown, I'll give a quick "heyo" of what I thought.
I loved the non-stop action. It is reminiscent of an early Connery, mid-Moore type of James Bond. You saw this kind of action in GoldenEye, which of course, catapulted Brosnan into the #3 (sometimes #2) Bond position. The best part about the action is that it wasn't drawn out to fill-time, but was seemingly appropriate for as long as it was and what it was. For instance, Bond gets chased out of a bar by the CIA, but since the action was a main part of the storyline, as soon as Bond peaces out across a balcony, end-scene. It was nicely done, on the action.
On the Bond girl: Olga Kurylenko. Nuff said. One of THE hottest Bond girl's of late, and not to mention, she was good for the role- solid acting, solid motivation, but not over the top, and not to mention the fact that this was one Bond girl that Bond never actually got with. Granted he got with others, that is not what this Bond was about, and I'm glad the producer's actually stuck with it and kept her as innocent as they could. Props, producers, props.
The story line was weak and used- secret corporation begins silent takeover of countries via the act of utilities company; however, the main reason people went to see this film was to see how Bond avenged Vesper. They wanted to see what his silent rage led to and how it developed. The fact that the story line was weak-pfft whatever- toss it out the window. They needed something more than "James Bond is butt-hurt that is lover betrayed him" to convince the Broccoli family to dole out more dough. There is an upside to the environmentalist scenario- it brings about issues that everyone want to talk about. This movie did it in a subtle way that allowed the movie to keep rolling, but keep the viewer also constantly thinking about the environmental issues we are facing currently.
Overall: 4 High Fives.
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