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Archive for June, 2011

A couple of married guys are always looking at other women, treating their own wives like trash. Their wives are fed up with their behavior, and grant them a ‘hall pass’: a week off their marriage allowing them to do anything. But the guys take their time and their week is almost up. What they don’t realize is that at the same time their wives make connections of their own.

In keeping with the genre of The Hangover, a little rude, crude, and sometimes socially inept. Still it had is funny moments.

Rating: 2.3 out of 5

Interesting movie with Jake Gyllenhaal.

Colter Stevens an American Army helicopter pilot whose last memory is flying in Afghanistan, wakes up on a commuter train. But he discovers he has assumed the identity of another man. 8 minutes later the train explodes and Stevens finds himself in some kind of pod. He then talks to someone named Goodwin who tells him he has to go back and find who the bomber is. He is sent back and is going through the whole thing again and tries to find who the bomber is but fails and the bomb goes off and he is back in the pod. He is sent back again and still can’t find out anything. When he comes back he asks what is going on, Goodwin and Rutledge, the scientist in charge tells him he is part of a project that can put someone in another person’s consciousness during the last 8 minutes of their life. Stevens says why doesn’t he just stop the bomb, he is then told that he is not going back in time but placed in the moment so he can find out who the bomber is and if there are any other targets. But Stevens finds himself falling for the woman traveling with the man who’s consciousness he is in.

You don’t quite figure out what is going on at first, but when you begin to see it evolve, it becomes even more interesting. It is one of those movies that leaves you feeling perplexed at the end, such as Shutter Island and Inception. This movie previewed over a year ago and I don’t know what held up production and release unless it was these other similar movies opening at the same time. Smart marketing as it would have been lost among them. Not a bad movie and watchable.

Rating: 3.9 out of 5

Another movie that had a great plot and used Matthew McConaughey to increase its box office take. Based on a book by the same name. Pretty good movie and worth the watch.

Rating: 4.0 out of 5

A great movie that got what it deserved with the Oscars. How anyone could call Black Swan a good movie is beyond me.

Rating: 4.7 out of 5

Typical Sci-Fi destructo thriller apparently filmed with hand-cam with jerky pictures and editing much like The Green Zone. Watchable, nothing extraordinary. You may want to wait to see it on network TV.

Rating: 2.5 out of 5