10 July 2010

Repo Men (2010)

Sci-fi action from a near future, where artificial organs have become big business. It's creepy to think how real this prospect might be... People in desperate situations signing ridiculously expencive contracts for artificial organs, then later being hunted down by so-called "reposession men" because they're unable to pay. Remy (Jude Law) is the best of all the repo men. He does his job effectively and skillfully - cause it's just another job, right? Until he gets a metal heart himself.

The movie wants you to think about what you're doing with your life; that what you do is what makes who you are in the end. This message is almost too clear. Some parts make less sense, like the girl he picks up and falls in love with half way through, and there's a middle section that makes you look at the time a lot. The music is really good though, and a lot of cool action scenes, there's blood everywhere for those who like that... All in all it's a good movie that manages to pick up the slack at the end.

Runtime: 111 min
Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber


9 July 2010

Fish Tank (2009)

This British indie film is stripped of glamour and anything superfluous, and it hits hard. The repressed anger creates a tension that kept me on the edge of my seat all the way through, flipping from frustration, to worry, to empathy. It's a good movie, very real, and it left me with a great sense of sadness...

So, Mia is a 15 year old English girl with serious anger issues, and with good reason. She lives with her mother and younger sister, a family with too much yelling and booze, and too little care and boundaries. All her life keeping the world out, she has become introverted and temperamental. Now, with a serious crush on her mothers "latest catch", a possible break for her dancing and a nice guy with a car, life is suddenly breaking down her defences.

Runtime: 123 mins
Starring: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender

8 July 2010

Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

I was looking forward to this one, expecting great action, but this turned out to be some seriously disturbed stuff... It's not that the movie wasn't good - it was - but it was just a bit too much horror film and torture for my taste. Gerard Butler is great of course, one of the reasons I wanted to see it in the first place. And the story is clever! But they seemed to be more interested in grossing people out than using the clever story to its full potential...

Basically, it's about the family man Clyde Shelton (Butler) watching his wife and daughter being raped and brutally murdered by some asshole criminals, and then the worst one of them gets only 3 years for being cooperative. Left completely alone, Shelton plots vengance on both the lawyers who made the deal and the whole corrupt justice system. And apparently, they did not know who they were fucking with...

Runtime: 108 min
Starring: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx