The Golden Compass - this film is bad. I don't know how good the books are, but if they are "classics" then they need to sack the director. The flow of the story is disjointed and awkward and pretty much has no ending (surely a sad ending is better than no ending?!). If I'm scratching for positives the child actors were bearable and the bear jaw flying off was a shocking highlight. I just felt sorry for the polar bears, not only loosing their habitat, but being forced to steal the show in dire films like this.
2 out of 10 - better than having your jaw punched off, but not as good as waiting for Enchanted to come out.
Hitman - game to film conversion, that suffers from the usual effect that either the makers don't really know the games or gamers very well, or they want to water it down to try and appeal to "normal" people too. Like Doom before it, they've managed to take a decent back-story and character and suck a lot of the depth out of it (not that the games were overly in depth to start with). At least some of the splatterage managed to stay in, despite the accountants wanting to make it a 15 rated movie. The story is pretty generic, but the SFX and acting were pretty good for it's budget.
5 out of 9mm - better than accidentally scanning your head in Sainsbury's self checkout, not as good as Hitman 2 hopefully.
American Gangster - kind of disappointing, I really wanted to like this film being a big fan of Denzel W and Ridley Scott, but I really found it not very interesting. Possibly because of the drug subject matter and possibly because of the high standard of other similar films like The Departed, The Untouchables, LA Confidential etc. I didn't think Russel Crowe was as good as he could have been either, I was going to say possibly mis-cast, but then he was great in LA Confidential.
Just 60% pure. Better than sniffing Coke, but not as good as sniffing Pepsi.
30 Days of Night - another great horror movie featuring Melissa George - keep them coming. Some fantastically graphic and gory scenes despite being rated 15. Good story and pacing, with some cool effects and stylised cinematography based on the graphic novel. A nice, new interpretation of vampires that allows it to slide in alongside the other great vampire movies in the genre without too many direct comparisons. It also made me want to go and watch The Thing again - always a good thing.
25 of 30 days of night - better than a vampire blood bath, not as good as a Melissa George bubble bath.
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