September didn’t start with the best of movies, but it was mildly entertaining at least! Quality picked up after the first, by miles.
The Final Destination (03/09/10)
Was this the 3D one? I don’t know. There were moments where things were flung at the screen, but seeing it on TV I was clueless! Your standard Final Destination film with some carefully plotted death sequences. The opening death sequence was good, I liked that. Everything else though? Wasn’t the biggest fan. There were no major surprises and no twists that haven’t already been done in previous Final Destination films. Characters were your bog standard and all pretty bad, except Mykelti Williamson’s character.
Rating: 1/5
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (05/09/10)
I remember when this movie came out in cinemas here, roughly the same time as Michael Mann’s Public Enemies. I remember a family member of mine telling me I should see Mesrine as it was the French’s own public enemy no. 1. Well, I didn’t get round to seeing it then, which is a shame. Having seen it now I wish I had seen it on the big screen. Excellent first part documenting Jacque Mesrine’s climb up the criminal ladder to become a fully fledged, and pretty damn scary, gangster. Vincent Cassel is just brilliant – family man/husband at one point and then cold-blooded killer the next.
Just a really slick and well made thriller/biography of one impressive criminal.
Rating: 4/5
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (05/09/10)
I was going to try to save the second part of Mesrine for next weekend, but I couldn’t. A few hours after I finished the first movie I popped this one in. The second part shows the now established Jacques Mesrine doing everything he can to live the life he wants to live. Things get very brutal. There was one scene where I was hoping it would end quickly! The final scene of the movie is amazing. It wraps up what you saw in the beginning of the first film but in such a way that I nearly fell off the edge of my sofa because of all the tension that was building up. Amazing piece of cinema really well done.
Rating: 4/5
Read on to see all the movies I’ve seen so far this year.
86 movies so far this year
- Three Kings (4/5) 04/01/10
- Defiance (5/5) 06/01/10
- Frost/Nixon (4/5) 06/01/10
- Dreamgirls (4/5) 07/01/10
- Munich (2/5) 08/01/10
- Ray (4/5) 09/01/10
- Max Payne (1/5) 09/01/10
- Mirrors (2/5) 09/01/10
- Ali (5/5) 10/01/10
- Slumdog Millionaire (4/5) 16/01/10
- Australia (2/5) 16/01/10
- Yes Man (2/5) 17/01/10
- Shrooms (1/5) 23/01/10
- Valkyrie (4/5) 30/01/10
- Love the Beast (3/5) 30/01/10
- Brick (4/5) 31/01/10
- My Bloody Valentine (2/5) 06/02/10
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (3/5) 06/02/10
- Children of Men (4/5) 13/02/10
- We Own the Night (3/5) 14/02/10
- Outpost (1/5) 20/02/10
- Push (4/5) 21/02/10
- Revolutionary Road (5/5) 24/02/10
- Milk (5/5) 26/02/10
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (3/5) 27/02/10
- Rendition (3/5) 27/02/10
- The Reader (4/5) 28/02/10
- Flags of Our Fathers (4/5) 03/03/10
- A History of Violence (4/5) 03/03/10
- Office Space (5/5) 04/03/10
- The Eye (2/5) 04/03/10
- Alice in Wonderland (4/5) 05/03/10
- Bolt (4/5) 06/03/10
- Gran Torino (5/5) 06/03/10
- Franklyn (2/5) 07/03/10
- Green Zone (4/5) 11/03/10
- Whip It (4/5) 12/03/10
- Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (0/5) 12/03/10
- Shutter Island (3/5) 13/03/10
- Triangle (4/5) 27/03/10
- Kick Ass (5/5) 01/04/10
- Clash of the Titans (3/5) 02/04/10
- Fast & Furious (4/5) 02/04/10
- Silent Hill (2/5) 03/04/10
- Final Destination 3 (1/5) 03/04/10
- Lilo & Stitch (3/5) 11/04/10
- Lord of War (3/5) 17/04/10
- The Core (2/5) 25/04/10
- Iron Man 2 (4/5) 02/05/10
- Drones (3/5) 03/05/10
- The Orphanage (4/5) 08/05/10
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (4/5) 09/05/10
- Robin Hood (4/5) 15/05/10
- Underdog (1/5) May
- Dan in Real Life (3/5) May
- In the Loop (3/5) May
- State of Play (4/5) 19/06/10
- Pride and Glory (2/5) 19/06/10
- The Losers (3/5) 20/06/10
- [REC] (4/5) 09/07/10
- Inception (5/5) 17/07/10
- Moon (5/5) 18/07/10
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (1/5) 23/07/10
- Mars Attacks! (3/5) 24/07/10
- Inside Man (4/5) 25/07/10
- Splice (3/5) 27/07/10
- Made of Honor (1/5) 29/07/10
- Funny People (3/5) 01/08/10
- Toy Story 3 (5/5) 03/08/10
- The A-Team (4/5) 05/08/10
- The Children (2/5) 07/08/10
- The Expendables (4/5) 13/08/10
- Gamer (2/5) 14/08/10
- Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2/5) 14/08/10
- Pour Elle (Anything for Her) (3/5) 15/08/10
- In Bruges (5/5) 15/08/10
- Salt (4/5) 20/08/10
- Piranha 3D (4/5) 21/08/10
- Adventureland (3/5) 22/08/10
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (5/5) 25/08/10
- Derailed (3/5) 28/08/10
- Atonement (4/5) 29/08/10
- Sky High (2/5) 30/08/10
- The Final Destination (1/5) 03/09/10
- Mesrine: Killer Instinct (4/5) 05/09/10
- Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (4/5) 05/08/10