Finding Amanda is a dark, stupid, disturbing, and wildly off-putting film. The acting here, except from Matthew Broderick, is bad, the story is lurid and incredibly unbelievable. Broderick stars as Taylor Mending, an alcoholic gambler who is...
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Finding Amanda is a dark, stupid, disturbing, and wildly off-putting film. The acting here, except from Matthew Broderick, is bad, the story is lurid and incredibly unbelievable. Broderick stars as Taylor Mending, an alcoholic gambler who is having troubles with his wife. Taylor finds out one day that his 20-year old niece Amanda, played by Brittany Snow is a pill popping hooker in Vegas. He really doesn't care at first but after fighting with his wife, he decides to go to Vegas and get Amanda into rehab to make it up to her. His wife of course knows that the only reason he is going is to gamble. You stop caring for the guy after about the tenth time he lies to his wife for no apparent reason. In Vegas, Taylor finds his niece. The entire story is extremely disturbing and very off putting. Amanda is buying drugs with her uncle, and talking about hooking and he really doesn't seem to mind. Brittany Snow is really bad here as Amanda, she is a slutty addict outside but in her house she is some weird obsessed housewife. I just can't believe that this script could be taken seriously, this is like a live action cartoon, the characters are 2 dimensional, totally dry, and quite frankly not that smart. The constant swings of Amanda's personality become overwhelmingly annoying, like the entire movie. I did think though that Broderick did try in this thing, but in the end there is only so much you can do with material that is just total crap. The movie did have it's moments, but in the end it is a very sick and disgusting film, and you should stay away from it at all costs.

Wanted is a film that will satisfy even the most hardcore of action junkies, it might even impress groups of women who piled up at the theater for Sex and the City. This is truly a stylishly entertaining film. Fans of the Matrix will also really...
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Wanted is a film that will satisfy even the most hardcore of action junkies, it might even impress groups of women who piled up at the theater for Sex and the City. This is truly a stylishly entertaining film. Fans of the Matrix will also really appreciate this (Yes I did). James McAvoy is really good here as Wesley Gibson. Wesley is basically a down on his luck loser, being pushed around by his boss and his friend who happens to be sleeping with his girlfriend. Wesley knows that his girlfriend is sleeping with his friend, but thinks of himself as too much of a wuss to do anything about it, so he simply doesn't say anything. One day while in a store getting his anti-anxiety meds, Fox, played by the gorgeous Angelina Jolie, pops up. She tells him that his father was a great assassin and that the man who killed him is right behind him. This leads to one of the best car chases I've ever seen, and some great special effects. Wesley is taken to the Fraternity, an ancient group of super assassins who get their assignments from a loom. Morgan Freeman plays Sloan, the leader of the Fraternity. They tell him of his father and the supernatural abilities he has to curve bullets and other weird fantasy stuff. They also tell him that what he thinks are panic attacks are actually a heightened adrenaline level that can make him do amazing things. Wesley obviously runs away at first, but the next day after standing up to his boss and smashing a keyboard on his friend's face he goes back to the Fraternity and tells them he's ready. Now I don't really buy the whole overnight transformation from dork to super assassin, but hey, it's a movie. Soon enough he's killing and liking it. I loved the movie , I think it was great, you want to disagree with me, go ahead. The movie definitely isn't one of the smartest movies ever, but it's fun, action packed, one of the most enjoyable movies I've ever seen, and it grasps your mind the second it starts and doesn't let go until hours later after it's over. The performances were very good, and Angelina Jolie controls this material only for the better. Let me tell you, the R-rating for this movie tremendously helped the marketing campaign for this thing. When I first saw the trailer, I thought it was going to be some dumb PG, most likely PG-13, corny action flick. It's not anything like that, and after I saw that it was R, I couldn't wait for the thing to come out. The special effects are amazing here. The bullets flying through the air never got old and was always enjoyable to watch, especially how they collided together. The mix of live action and slow motion, and everything going slowly through the air is fascinating to watch. Kazakhstan director Timur Bekmambetov, has a long and hopefully winning future as a director. This is one hell of a film. Cancel dinner plans anything else in your schedule and drive as fast you can to get to the theater for Wanted.

Baby Mama is this year's biggest surprise. I walked into this film expecting it to be trash, but came out really happy from the really strong acting and a really funny screenplay. Tina Fey and Amy Phoeler have non-stop chemistry on screen, and are...
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Baby Mama is this year's biggest surprise. I walked into this film expecting it to be trash, but came out really happy from the really strong acting and a really funny screenplay. Tina Fey and Amy Phoeler have non-stop chemistry on screen, and are both really good here. Fey stars as Kate, a 38 year old woman who aspires of becoming a mother. When a doctor informs her that her chances of getting pregnant are one in a million, she decides to seek a surrogate. What Kate wasn't expecting on her plate is the handful Angie, played really well by Phoeler. The two first are at odds with eachother but eventually become buds. The film is at times predictable, but then there are some darker elements here that weren't as predictable. All in all I did basically know what was going to happen even as dark as it was for a very light comedy. I also really liked the performance from Romany Malco as the doorman. He takes on the role of kind of being the funny and likable doorman who occasionally pops in from scene to scene to give advice. These are some really likable characters who you can actually care about. The romance between Kate and Rob, played strongly by Greg Kinnear, is nice, the realtionship between Kate and Angie is like the equivelant of a great buddy film for women. The ending was a little too fairytale-ish for me but I had a great time at this film and I hope peole will check it out in theatres or rent it when it comes out on DVD.

A Virus is making people go nuts in "The Happening"! Who needed a virus. The latest M. Night Shymalan film is propably one of the better films I've seen this year. Why the movie is so hated remains up in the air effected by the virus. If...
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A Virus is making people go nuts in "The Happening"! Who needed a virus. The latest M. Night Shymalan film is propably one of the better films I've seen this year. Why the movie is so hated remains up in the air effected by the virus. If there's one thing I've learned from this movie, is stay as far away from trees. Though this movie has it's share of problems, I really did love this movie, and it did keep me at the edge of my seat. Mark Whalberg gives a so so performance as elliot Moore, a science teacher. He soon becomes involved in a natural disaster where the trees are supposedly rebelling against humans in large groups. People start to lose words, become paralyzed, and kill themselves. Elliot tries to escape the danger zone with his wife Alma, played fairly well by Zooey Deschanel, his best friend Jullian, played very well by John Leguazamo, and Julian's eight year old daughter Jess. Julian leaves the group to go looking for his wife and I think everyone knows the sad fate he meets. When communication has been lost with most of the north eastern border, Elliot, Alma, and Jess survive on theory. The film does start to falter drastically in the third act, and starts getting to nuts like creepy old ladies and depressed cowboys who shoot kids, but I still really enjoyed and was satysfied by the film. The screenplay here is really bad, and defiantely isn't winning any awards, but the direction is really good here. M. Night Shymalan in my opinion, and apparently not so many other's, is back in shape.