Monday, 6. February 2012

Short, independant flick reviews! Read about it, before you watch it!

Burn After Reading - great movie

Short movie critic: A gym coach sees her one in a life time chance as she gets her hands on top secret CIA shit in the ladies changing room - very amusing comedy :-D

The plot: Aging Linda (Frances McDormand) and naive Chad (Brad Pitt) work both at a gym. As they find a disc with confidential information, they see their chance to change their life’s and get big money. Unfortunately, heavy drinking CIA agent Cox (John Malkovich) has different plans. However, he does not know about his bitchy wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) cheating on him with Harry (George Clooney). Who also has a thing going on with Linda, the gym coach…

It’s a complicated story with a cool, surprising ending and a lot to laugh about. One of the better movies I’ve watched this year. Please, go ahead and watch Burn After Reading. I am sure you will like it :-)

Watch it if you liked: Any Cohen brother movie like The Big Lebowski (1998) or No Country for Old Men (2007).

 

 

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Noise - a great movie!

Very short movie critic: An homage to all the frustrated and angry city slickers, built on urban life case study – worth watching due to Tim Robbins great acting :-)

The plot: David Owen (Tim Robbins) is a patient man. To a certain point. As NYC noise, particularly car alarms keep on messing up his life quality, he starts taking action, suing people, launching neighborhood initiatives and petitions. But as realizes that the law did not protect him and his efforts were futile he decides to take stronger action, becoming the Rectifier, an urban vigilante who teaches all the ignorant car owners a lesson the hard way. His activities do not go unnoticed by either the city major Schneer (William Hurt) or worse his wife Helen (Bridget Moynahan), who does not appreciate it at all.

Flickcritique says: Tim Robbins is great once again but after watching The Shawshank Redemption (1994) I’d probably be delighted about anything that guy does ;-) Let’s face it, he rocks! On the one hand the plot, all the escalation, eventually leading in absurd parallel life as the Rectifier is a bit of a stretch but on the other hand, anyone living in Dublin would confirm that car alarms ringing for hours without anyone giving a s**t, can be very, very annoying :-( The movie also has a deeper message about the way modern, urban life has become and how it effects our well-being. I would highly recommend Noise, it’s another entertaining movie playing in New York, except this one carries an important message to think about.

Conclusion: Great movie, go and watch it!

Watch it if you liked: Falling Down (1993) with Michale Douglas aka William ‘D-Fens’ Foster going mad over a violent society, He Was a Quiet Man (2007) with Christian Slander playing Bob Maconel, a loser type snapping over office madness or Office Space (1999) with Ron Livingston as Peter Gibbons changing his ordinary, boring life radically. Personally, I like all of them :-)

Edit: Noise reminds me also a bit of Changing Lanes (2002) where Ben Affleck clashes with Samuel Jackson over a traffic dispute.

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