I LOVED PUBLIC ENEMIES (NOT THE RAP GROUP)

Director Michael Mann is a good director but what a mess he can make of adaptations---e.g., he screwed up his own TV creation ‘Miami Vice’ in 2006. So I hesitate on pushing his movies, but ‘Public Enemies’ was nothing short of great!!! Set in the 1930’s, John Dillinger was given more press than the cops!! He broke out of jail and could rob banks less in 2 minutes. He had to be stopped, and the man who did it was agent Melvin Purvis. Typical crime story if it wasn’t true.

Johnny Depp as Dillinger was good--he can act. Mr. Intensity himself Christian Bale is always good. I wish he would do a romantic-comedy to lighten up a bit. French actress Marion Cotillard who won an Oscar for ‘La Vie Rose’ as “Lady In Red” was good as well. To be honest all the actors were very good.

The bad is glorifying the criminal. It is exciting but either they are killed or go into a witness protection program--both a sad end for a charismatic, egoistical set of criminals who swear they can’t be caught. I hate to say it, but I can’t wait for what Michael Mann does next.

Transformers 2---I Have 'Fallen' in Love!!

 
I saw the movie Thursday and I must tell you the movie was great!!! I have been reading on websites about the racial overtones and bathroom humor which I didn’t care for but this is for teens.

All the money this movie is making I am sure he won’t have it in ‘TF3’.

The action is totally awesome, and you know in this movie why Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots for he kicks MAJOR BUTT!!! The action is the only thing worth seeing. But, Megatron as a follower? I don’t buy that either. with all its faults, it is still worth to watch.

Plot not really worth explaining but here goes Sam (Shia Labeouf) is going to college but a shared on the Allspark he touched and he sees crazy symbols and trying to figure it out. His roommate played by Ramon Rodriguez is cute and crazed for he believes there are aliens on earth-he is in for a ride!! His sexy girl friend Mikela (Megan Fox) ends up with him in another wild adventure.

I didn’t like Shia and Megan in the first movie but I did this time around and I hate to admit I finally believed he is a hero. The military gets tries to take down the Deceptioncons as they to destroy the earth. Director Michael Bay makes the military very heroic too. Even John Turturro and the “black-sounding robots” help saving the day.

‘TF3’ is coming-I can’t wait!!!!

Bottom Line: The movie is an expensive dumb flick with the best action sequences I have ever seen. You MUST get DVD or Blu-ray when it comes out to figure out all the fast and furious scenes you missed in the theater!!!

Gotta See ‘UP’

Animation movies have come a long way!! Pixar has to be praised for making great animation movies but ‘Up’ is very good. What makes this movie good besides animation is great story telling. It is about an elderly man who had big dreams of going to place he always dreamed about but life got in his way. Finally he gets his wish and finds out what he really wants. It is very creative, funny and sad. You care about these characters! They are better than real actors! They are selling it like a kid’s movie but it’s not kid stuff. It is quite poignant. It is a hit at the box office and if you watch it you will know why.

This ‘HANGOVER’ You Will Like!

Summer of 2009 is very strange. Blockbusters like ‘Wolverine’, ‘Termination Salvation’ and ‘Star Trek’ are doing well but not great. Then a small budget comedy (30 million!!) comes along and racks it in!! The story is simple - four guys go to Las Vegas to give one of their friends a great time before he gets married. The adventures they get into are funny but raunchy. The shocking part is that women are going to watch the movie!! It is very funny and my guess how far they went to save a friend. It is rated R for a reason!!! If you enjoy this kind of bathroom humor by all means go if not-- wait!

‘DRAG ME TO HELL’ To The Movie –Not The Real Thing!

When you have a horror movie coming out in the summer, rated PG-13 and no gore you have to be very creative and yet Sam Raimi who did ‘Evil Dead’ series and ‘Spider-Man’ series does just that!

The story is very simple Alison Lohman is a loan officer who wants so badly that promotion as assistant manager she doesn’t give an old gypsy woman a renewal on her mortgage to prove she is a tough player. Big mistake!! The old woman puts a curse on her and before she is drag to hell-it is hell on earth for Lohman! Now in the trailer our loan officer is just ambitious-she is not as sweet as you think!  

Alison Lohman is good but the star of the show is Lorna Raver as Mrs. Ganrush, the old gypsy woman-she is sympathetic one minute, scary most of the movie! There is no gore but there is gross-lots and I mean LOTS OF REGURITATION (look it up!) I do hope we see more of her in the future. The movie didn’t do so well maybe it was PG-13. I do hope it does well on video for it is good without the gore!! If Sam Raimi wasn’t involved at all this movie would have probably not been of interest at all.