Horror, 94 Minutes, 2007
This is an excellent movie but not for the squeamish or faint of heart. There’s very little actual gore here, but what there is disturbingly, ball-crunchingly effective. This is a movie that – especially for men – may strike too close to home.
Crime Drama, 125 Minutes, 2010
Ben Affleck takes a lot of crap (it might be because he’s done a lot of shitty movies, but that’s just a guess) but he actually pulls this one off pretty well. It may just nostalgia for Boston (we lived there for 15 years) but we,both my wife and I, enjoyed this.
Sci-fi, 77 Minutes, 2004
[This is the thirteenth review for this edition of my semi-regular “my-wife-and-kids-are-visiting-relatives-so-I’m-watching-loads-of-crappy-movies” film festival.]
Drama/Comedy, 96 Minutes, 2010:
This is an incredible film if you’re able to accept it. If there’s a problem with it (and there isn’t) it’s that it assumes a lot of its audience. So if you think there’s a problem with it (you’re wrong) then it’s really just you. My guess is that you’re an idiot. That’s really nothing to be ashamed of – lots of people are – but you may not enjoy this movie. Everybody else: you’re in for a treat.
Comedy, 101 Minutes, 2011
My wife enjoyed this more than I did – by a fairly large margin so take that for what it’s worth. It’s not that I didn’t like the film it’s simply that I thought it was being a little lazy at times and a little scatter-brained at others. It really didn’t know what story it wanted to tell (so it tried to tell them all) or how it wanted to tell it.
Drama, 118 Minutes, 2010
The movie is just as excellent as you’ve probably heard it is. Excellent casting. Excellent acting. Excellent writing, pacing, set design and all the rest. Just plain excellent all-around.
Action, 115 Minutes, 2003
This was a pretty standard action movie. A tough, straight DEA agent goes rogue after a cartel attempts to kill him and murders his wife in the process.
