We rented about 5 movies last weekend, but only got around to watching three of them:
Lucky Number Slevin B+ This movie is a dark comedy with lots of twists and turns. About three quarters of the way in I figured out who Sleven was, but I didn’t know why he hadn’t been killed, but once you realize who his partner is, it all makes sense. Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman are great as warring mob bosses holed up in apartments across the street from each other.
Over the Hedge F Did Dreamworks fire every one of their good writers? Over The Hedge would have to be twice as good just to be awful. It’s thinly veiled preaching against junk food, suburban sprawl, and pro animal rights. You could overlook the preachiness if the plot wasn’t so stupid. The cast includes every B-list actor in Hollywood in need of job.
The Breakup C+ Chick flick about a couple’s breakup. Jennifer Aniston is the psycho bitch from hell and Vince Vaughn is just an ordinary working guy. After a disastrous dinner party (I still want to know the punch line to the joke told at the dinner table), Aniston says, enough. They spend the next hour selling the condo, and Aniston scheming to get Vaughn back. The + in the ranking comes because atypical of a chick flick, this story doesn’t have a sappy storybook ending.
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