Denzel is our favorite “action hero” and this one is just O.K.; not great.
borrowed the DVD from our library. glad we did not pay to see it.
personally, i could not get over the weird color rendition (CIA movie reference),
and the vibrating or shaking camera viewpoints. however, it is mindlessly entertaining. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_House\_(2012_film)
I got (amazon) a coupla Elsinore Bier teeshirts, too. One’s beat to Hell, waiting for it to develop a hole or something before I start wearing the backup.
“The Limey” (1999). This is a very inventive and well-acted movie reflecting on the nature and justification for revenge, the effect of memory on our actions, and the culture clash of wealthy Los Angeles vs. hard-knock life British ex-con. Impressive performance by Terrence Stamp. The director, Steven Soderbergh, recently gave an interview in which he said that he was never more in terror than when in post-production for this film and the movie was not coming together. He re-imagined the film, it was re-edited, and the result is a creative and original success. In the same interview, Soderbergh also said that, if the film had done better at the box office, he would have pursued a sequel that takes place in the UK, where the main character, Wilson, would seek revenge against the criminal colleagues whose betrayal led to his prison sentence.
It is similar in its themes about memory and how we think about the past, and the effect of the past on the present. In “The Limey,” there are repeated scenes from the memory of the main character, at times using spliced-in scenes of Terrence Stamp in a 1967 movie. There are also scenes that are his projections of what he imagines might happen in the future, or what he intends to have happen.
good idea….watch a movie that “never gets old”.
only 104 minutes. makes me wish movies had term limits.
maybe a way to learn another language since we know the dialogue by heart.
“Ouais, les blondes sont rares ici.”
I thought it was geared for kiddies and teenyboppers and the like, and was about to change channels when I burst out LOLOLOLOLing. The chick brains the guy with a skillet and is eyeballing him as he lay unconscious. He opens his eyes suddenly, she shrieks, and brains him again!
My kinda movie!
Great humor, great CGI, good story.
And for a “kiddie” movie to have both stabbing and defenestration, ha!, again, my kinda movie.
I watched Breakfast Club yesterday, so now I know where your avatar is coming from. Still can’t understand why it has such a high rating on IMDB, it was pretty boring and tame till the end. I expected more, especially from a 80s movie where there is usually fantastic elements.
“The Nightingale” (2019) This is a riveting yet graphically-violent movie from start to finish. The movie is, sadly, based on a historically accurate portrayal of the relationships between British soldiers, convicted prisoners serving their sentences as indentured servants in what is now known as Tasmania, and the native people who were being systematically removed from the land and murdered, in 1825. The movie could use a bit of editing, to be picky, but the scenery and acting are compelling, and the story about the true costs of violence, prejudice, and revenge is as relevant today as it was 200 years ago at the time this story takes place. Special credit should go to the two lead actors, Aisling Franciosi and Baykali Ganambarr, who respectively play a young woman who seeks revenge for the crimes committed against herself and her family, and the young native man she enlists to help her track the men she seeks through the wilds of Tasmania.
A travel-averse journalist chases her dream assignment where she soon finds herself mentoring a handsome B&B owner who wants to be a tour guide.
Snowkissed (2021)