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24 - The Good German - A rather good modern black and white noir thriller set in Germany in the immediate aftermath of WWII. George Clooney stars as the American army journalist sent to cover the Potsdam Conference who stumbles over a story he shouldn't, Tobey Maguire is his psychopathic driver, and Cate Blanchett is the inevitable femme fatale. If you're a fan of 40s and 50s noir, then this is for you.
25 - Mission Impossible III - Big silly splodey fun, in which, as I suspected, Phillip Seymour Hoffman is by far and away the very best thing on screen. Saturday night take-out and TV fare, try not to think about the plot too much.
26 - Hellboy II - Speaking of not thinking too much, here's another one. The visuals are lovely, but I was expecting big silly action fun and some good one-liners, and instead got the elf scenes from Lord Of The Rings mixed in with an no brainer action flick. Sadly, the mix just doesn't work, and it ends up as a poor-plotted piece of nonsense. Dreadful stereotyping of a German character plus the most passive female character I've seen in a very long time. Of the few redeeming features, the drunk scene is probably the best one.
27 - The Mummy III - Even more of a no brainer, this is a truly dire flick with awful dialogue, worse jokes, no sense of time or continuity, and a plot that appears to have been dreamed up by the guys in the Orange advert. I mean, really, when the yetis appeared, you could hear the groans from the audience. It certainly didn't help that Evie (not Rachel Weiss, but Maria Bello unable to sustain a British accent for more than a sentence or two at a time) and Rick look like people in their late thirties, even though this is supposed to be 25 years after the original film; and that their son who has dropped out of college looks like a guy in his late twenties. Awful film, some good special effects.
25 - Mission Impossible III - Big silly splodey fun, in which, as I suspected, Phillip Seymour Hoffman is by far and away the very best thing on screen. Saturday night take-out and TV fare, try not to think about the plot too much.
26 - Hellboy II - Speaking of not thinking too much, here's another one. The visuals are lovely, but I was expecting big silly action fun and some good one-liners, and instead got the elf scenes from Lord Of The Rings mixed in with an no brainer action flick. Sadly, the mix just doesn't work, and it ends up as a poor-plotted piece of nonsense. Dreadful stereotyping of a German character plus the most passive female character I've seen in a very long time. Of the few redeeming features, the drunk scene is probably the best one.
27 - The Mummy III - Even more of a no brainer, this is a truly dire flick with awful dialogue, worse jokes, no sense of time or continuity, and a plot that appears to have been dreamed up by the guys in the Orange advert. I mean, really, when the yetis appeared, you could hear the groans from the audience. It certainly didn't help that Evie (not Rachel Weiss, but Maria Bello unable to sustain a British accent for more than a sentence or two at a time) and Rick look like people in their late thirties, even though this is supposed to be 25 years after the original film; and that their son who has dropped out of college looks like a guy in his late twenties. Awful film, some good special effects.