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16 Blocks

September 17, 2009 - 7:36 am No Comments

Willis, as usual, is fine and Donner, at least keeps things thriller in the style and look. But this movie should have been a fast race against time thriller in the mold of speed or just in time.

There are so many deaf dialogue breaks to make the film that never gets an advantage of the excitement of the seat. That is mixed with a clear 16 Blocks inaction (taking into account the bus scene out of control is good but too short) and an annoying performance “Mos def make this a good idea on paper, but poor in implementation.

If you feel the need to rent this - see the alternate ending is one of those times when you have not labeled with the finished product.

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Dancer In The Dark

August 31, 2009 - 5:31 am No Comments

This semi-musical winner of the D 2000 Palm or singer Bjork is presented as a Czech immigrant sixties America. Bjork Selma s character is a progressive disease that will leave her blind, and as his eye is not working double shifts in a factory to save enough money to pay for an operation to his son, who has the same genetic fate.Shot a brave allowing any change in Hollywood, Selma s film portrays the struggle to make the money you need, and, like his view not of his friends to help his concentration, I do not know why you work so hard.

Selma Dancer In The Dark escape this task in the day dreaming of musicals, and Bjork comes into her own as she performs songs he wrote for the film in his inimitable style, merging the rhythms of life in the darkening of joy and dance numbers. The bittersweet story takes a terrible turn and who is betrayed by his friend, and leave the final decision between his life and his son s future sight. Bjork is superbly unique and charming, with the support of an excellent underestimated Katherine Deneuve, David Morse and Peter Stormare indie unconditional.

This is a radical movement, absorbing film that offers more than the sum of the s party.

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