Escape Plan (Håfström, 2013)
Every good escape plan needs three things:
Every good escape plan needs three things:
There are film critics and then there are movie guys.
The theory was--or is--that creating borders, or writing ourselves into a corner, facilitates creativity.
Kenneth R. Morefield reviews Don Jon at 1More Film Blog.
Any good political pollster can tell you that the answer is influenced by the way the question is framed. Film critics usually think the question they are answering is, "Was it any good?" The question I get asked the most, however, is, "Did you like it?"
The director himself opined that he thought the second half of the film was about "the drift towards moral intuition [and ...] the stuff that makes us human."
After the first seven minutes, I was worried, but then I realized the first seven minutes were actually a preview for a Metallica concert film.
When we stop asking our films to save the lost while entertaining the justified and just let them do one or the other, I expect we'll all be a lot happier.
One of the more interesting moments in The Bourne Identity comes about a quarter of the way through the film. Franka Potente plays Marie Kreutz, a woman who has agreed to drive a stranger to Paris in exchange for $10,000
Given that admission, there's no real upside to admitting that Taxi Driver doesn't float my boat.