Morning Glory (2010)
by Felipe Rosa
Morning Glory: yet another case where you know exactly what you’re getting (which is something cute but common) and is neither surprised nor disappointed in the process.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: comedy
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The Next Three Days
by Felipe Rosa
The Next Three Days: the movie is certainly less urgent than both the title and the trailer would suggest. By the other hand, not much is gained by that increased ponderousness. So, what’s the point? I should not be surprised by being left cold by a movie directed by Paul Haggis, anyway.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: thriller
Due Date
by Felipe Rosa
Due Date: comedies are hard to criticize, because if you laugh, the other elements can be thrown overboard. Well, it was not the case this time. So the absence of laughs just makes it clear that this film brings nothing to the genre of buddy-road comedy. What a waste of the cast.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: comedy
Robin Hood (2010) – Revisit
by Felipe Rosa
Robin Hood: still decent enough, but even now I can’t shake the feeling it’s a prequel to a movie that I would, in all likelyhood, enjoy more. It just feels generic. See what I wrote previously: Robin Hood
Categories: Film reviews, Revisit • Tags: adventure, drama
Life as We Know It
by Felipe Rosa
Life as We Know It: it’s silly, but it’s supposed to be silly. It had some nice things to be said about friendship, way down deep under the music cues.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: romantic comedy
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
by Felipe Rosa
The Last of the Mohicans: while the production values remain great to this day, this movie has a stiffness to it that I didn’t remember. Some of the battle scenes, the story developments, the character motivations, all seem a bit forced, unnatural.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: action
Stone (2010)
by Felipe Rosa
Stone: certainly not the movie I was expecting to see. But I don’t think the actual movie was all that interesting, either. At least it gives Edward Norton the chance to play another interesting character, and he really makes it look easy.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: drama
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
by Felipe Rosa
3:10 to Yuma: it’s a decent actioner, and it’s always nice to see a Western, particularly when it’s well done and has two of the best actors working today as the leads. They have been more challenged elsewhere, however. There is some inconsistency of character that bothered me and kept me from liking it more.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: western
Conviction (2010)
by Felipe Rosa
Conviction: sometimes the truth has the ability to be uninteresting, seem coincidental, almost forced. Maybe that was not the case with this story, but that’s how the movie portrayed it. So, at the end, we have nothing that truly stands out in this competent but pedestrian product.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: drama
