The second installment of the Narnia series gets a high reccomendation.
Very little to say without giving the story away, but if you had heard grumbling about A) Caspian's Spanish accent, or B) it not sticking to the book, rest easy.
The accent is explained and easily understandable. However, the actor's grasp of a spanish accent is shaky at best. In short, he wanes and waxes, and could have used more practice.
Not sticking to the book? Well, the already short book was mostly descriptive phrases, and in my opinion, they did a good job filling it out.
The battle scenes may make it questionable for younger kids, but other than that... go see it, rent it, whatever.
5/5
Monday, July 7, 2008
Con Air
I saw this movie on vacation, and I gotta say.... Language and violence aside, it was a fantastic film.
I gave the language and violence a pass, mainly because it was depicting real life.
Summary (hopefully spoiler free) A group of hard core criminals, serial killers, and rapist are loaded onto a plane going to a maximum security prison. Nicholas Cage plays a former delta force soldier, sent to prison for killing a man in self-defense. He is scheduled to be released and hitches a ride on the plane with his christian friend. Well, things go down, and the plane falls under a different control.
This movie was a character study, and probably one of the best I have seen. Too often character studies from Hollywood are long, liberal, boring, and preachy. This movie was the opposite. It was fast-paced, interesting, and most surprising of all, it had many Christian, conservative overtones.
The language and violence are there because, lets face it, serial killers and drug lords rarely act like Sunday schoolers. Over the course of the hectic plane flight, the changing personalities are amazing.
The script was amazing, the plot intricate, and the characters were all well fleshed out.
It gets 4/5 stars, only losing a star due to extreme family unfriendlyness.
I gave the language and violence a pass, mainly because it was depicting real life.
Summary (hopefully spoiler free) A group of hard core criminals, serial killers, and rapist are loaded onto a plane going to a maximum security prison. Nicholas Cage plays a former delta force soldier, sent to prison for killing a man in self-defense. He is scheduled to be released and hitches a ride on the plane with his christian friend. Well, things go down, and the plane falls under a different control.
This movie was a character study, and probably one of the best I have seen. Too often character studies from Hollywood are long, liberal, boring, and preachy. This movie was the opposite. It was fast-paced, interesting, and most surprising of all, it had many Christian, conservative overtones.
The language and violence are there because, lets face it, serial killers and drug lords rarely act like Sunday schoolers. Over the course of the hectic plane flight, the changing personalities are amazing.
The script was amazing, the plot intricate, and the characters were all well fleshed out.
It gets 4/5 stars, only losing a star due to extreme family unfriendlyness.
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