DVD Review (06/24/08)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
In Bruges
Bruges (pronounced “broozh”), the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the pair being ordered right before Christmas by their London boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes) to go and cool their heels in the storybook Flemish city for a couple of weeks.
I wasn’t really sure what to expect going into this movie and I got way more than I expected. The film is not only a nice little movie about hitmen but it’s quite funny on top of everything else. Farrell is perfect for this role and you couldn’t ask for a better performance from Gleason. The script is well written, tight, and doesn’t include much filler. Since Martin McDonagh directed the movie as well, it’s pretty well done. It can definitely go wrong having the same writer and director but McDonagh quickly puts that to rest and proves why people are considering him to be the next David Mamet.
10,000 BC
Rarely does a movie that is so promoted and so big fail to garner so little from the critics. With a massive 9% on Rotten Tomatoes you shouldn’t expect anything great at all from this film. The guy(Roland Emmerich) that has made such duds as The Day After Tomorrow and Godzilla returns with this love story that takes place during the time when the last of the dinosaurs were ruling the earth. In a remote mountain tribe D’Leh has fallen in love with Evolet. But when a small group of warlords raid the village and kidnap Evolet D’Leh gathers a small group of hunters and travels to the end of the world to save her.
Yep, that’s it. Hopefully you weren’t expecting anything too Jurassic Park-y because you won’t find it. This is a straight love story with a few dinosaurs involved, but it’s not the cool ones. You’ll find Wooly Mammoths and some Terradactyls but that’s about it. Don’t even talk about it being historically accurate either. 10,000 BC was right at the end of the ice age and Sabertooth tigers were already extinct by then. Overall this movie is pretty terrible. Not only is it historically inaccurate but I didn’t care about the characters at all. Each of them could have been eaten by a Dilophasaurus(which doesn’t appear) and I would have been happy.
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