Movie clip: Homefront (2013)
Trailer #3: Homefront (2013)
A former DEA agent moves his family to a quiet town, where he soon tangles with a local meth druglord. From: IMDb.com
Directed by: Gary Fleder
Starring: James Franco, Jason Statham, Winona Ryder and others
Current release date: November 27, 2013
TV spot: Homefront (2013)
A former DEA agent moves his family to a quiet town, where he soon tangles with a local meth druglord. From: IMDb.com
Trailer: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and teams up with Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, to battle a powerful yet shadowy enemy in present-day Washington, D.C. From: IMDb.com
Directed by: Anthony Russo & Joe Russo
Starring: Chris Evans, Frank Grillo, Sebastian Stan and others
Current release date: April 4, 2014
Red band trailer: Homefront (2013)
A former DEA agent moves his family to a quiet town, where he soon tangles with a local meth druglord. From: IMDb.com
Directed by: Gary Fleder
Starring: James Franco, Jason Statham, Rachelle Lefevre and others
Current release date: November 27, 2013
Trailer: Homefront (2013)
A former DEA agent moves his family to a quiet town, where he soon tangles with a local meth druglord. From: IMDb.com
Directed by: Gary Fleder
Starring: James Franco, Rachelle Lefevre, Jason Statham and others
Current release date: November 27, 2013
Trailer: Disconnect (2012)
A drama centered on a group of people searching for human connections in today's wired world. From: IMDb.com
Directed by: Henry Alex Rubin
Starring: Jason Bateman, Alexander Skarsgård, Paula Patton and others
Current release date: April 12, 2013
Lay the Favorite (2012) Directed by Stephen Frears
You have comedies and then you have some comedies that are...well, not
even comedies really. But what's even worse about this movie is that
it's not just a lacking comedy but also a terrible mess of a movie!
Something went terribly wrong here. Don't know what really happened but it seemed to me that at some time during production they ran out of either time or money, or both and had to rush it to completion.
The movie is horribly constructed and the movie never has a really pleasant or natural flow to it. As a matter of fact, it feels like entire scenes are missing at times, that were supposed to set the mood or help to buildup a certain plot line for a certain character. Now often stuff just happens, without a half decent buildup to any of it. This means that a person can be the one moment happy about something, while in the next he/she is suddenly sad of fed up with the same thing or person, just to give an example.
The way characters respond to situations and each other is often crazy and terribly confusing. People constantly change opinions of each other, without giving you an apparent reason as to why a certain character suddenly makes such a 360 degree turn.
It is a big part of the reason why none of the characters ever work out in this movie. None of them are set well enough up and also therefore are never quite likable and involving enough to follow around, throughout this movie. On top of that, Rebecca Hall was an absolutely horrible lead in this. She might be a good actress, just not for this type of movie, in this type of role. She acts in the sort of exaggerated and over-the-top comedy way, that you might get away with in a Will Ferrell movie but this is simply not a Will Ferrell type of comedy at all.
It's truly a comedy without any comedy. Only thing you could say the movie its approach and style is good for is that it helps to keep things light. But really, I just don't see how anyone could get any laughs out of this movie, simply because there are absolutely no real comical situations in it, or any clever and witty type of dialog.
And I also just really don't get why you would want to cast Bruce Willis in your movie when you are going for a comedy approach. He's still great and has plenty of charisma and screen presence to him but just not in this movie. He feels terribly out of place and seemed to be constantly struggling with both the script and the dialog. And you might think; 'well, at least Vince Vaughn still shows up in it. He probably still adds plenty to the movie its comedy.' But really no, he doesn't. His role is pretty small and besides too insignificant, to leave an impact of any kind.
It's quite amazing how many great actors showed up in this but perhaps it's no big surprise since it got directed by Stephen Frears, who still has a pretty big and good name in the industry, especially when it comes down to comedies. This movie is however perhaps his biggest misfire, as of yet!
It seemed, especially during its second half, like the actors and film-makers themselves had given up on this movie as well and literally had no idea what scene they were doing, what their lines were supposed to mean and how it would fit into the movie. It really feels that messy and horrible all.
It's truly more terrible then you could ever imagine!
3/10
Something went terribly wrong here. Don't know what really happened but it seemed to me that at some time during production they ran out of either time or money, or both and had to rush it to completion.
The movie is horribly constructed and the movie never has a really pleasant or natural flow to it. As a matter of fact, it feels like entire scenes are missing at times, that were supposed to set the mood or help to buildup a certain plot line for a certain character. Now often stuff just happens, without a half decent buildup to any of it. This means that a person can be the one moment happy about something, while in the next he/she is suddenly sad of fed up with the same thing or person, just to give an example.
The way characters respond to situations and each other is often crazy and terribly confusing. People constantly change opinions of each other, without giving you an apparent reason as to why a certain character suddenly makes such a 360 degree turn.
It is a big part of the reason why none of the characters ever work out in this movie. None of them are set well enough up and also therefore are never quite likable and involving enough to follow around, throughout this movie. On top of that, Rebecca Hall was an absolutely horrible lead in this. She might be a good actress, just not for this type of movie, in this type of role. She acts in the sort of exaggerated and over-the-top comedy way, that you might get away with in a Will Ferrell movie but this is simply not a Will Ferrell type of comedy at all.
It's truly a comedy without any comedy. Only thing you could say the movie its approach and style is good for is that it helps to keep things light. But really, I just don't see how anyone could get any laughs out of this movie, simply because there are absolutely no real comical situations in it, or any clever and witty type of dialog.
And I also just really don't get why you would want to cast Bruce Willis in your movie when you are going for a comedy approach. He's still great and has plenty of charisma and screen presence to him but just not in this movie. He feels terribly out of place and seemed to be constantly struggling with both the script and the dialog. And you might think; 'well, at least Vince Vaughn still shows up in it. He probably still adds plenty to the movie its comedy.' But really no, he doesn't. His role is pretty small and besides too insignificant, to leave an impact of any kind.
It's quite amazing how many great actors showed up in this but perhaps it's no big surprise since it got directed by Stephen Frears, who still has a pretty big and good name in the industry, especially when it comes down to comedies. This movie is however perhaps his biggest misfire, as of yet!
It seemed, especially during its second half, like the actors and film-makers themselves had given up on this movie as well and literally had no idea what scene they were doing, what their lines were supposed to mean and how it would fit into the movie. It really feels that messy and horrible all.
It's truly more terrible then you could ever imagine!
3/10
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End of Watch (2012) Directed by David Ayer
Well, this movie is being original with its approach and everything but
I just wasn't all that taken by it.
It might seem to you that this is just another one of those 'found footage' movies, in which everything is getting told and shown from the perspective of the person handling the camera. But for your information, or perhaps also your comfort, it's only being partly a found footage movie. It often shows things from the perspective of its main characters but it also often steps outside of it and becomes a more common movie with its camera-work and storytelling. Normally this is something that doesn't work out too well. You either do one approach or the other but when mixing them together, the movie its style and way of storytelling sorts of start to fall flat. It however worked out well for this movie though, probably because the movie never goes overboard with either approach and actually uses the two approaches to strengthen each other.
This definitely is being a movie that's picking a more realistic approach to things. Everything (well, almost everything) that happens in the movie feels realistic, in the sense that it truly could happen all to real life cops. It's also not being standard and clichéd with all of its situations. The situations the two police men get called out to are often nothing spectacular, fun or rewarding. I liked that the movie did this, since this definitely must be what a normal average day of a cop on patrol must be like.
Thing I however didn't liked very much was that it was also focusing on the the more private and personal lives of the two main characters. I'm sorry to say, it just wasn't being all that interesting for me. It would most definitely had been enough to keep things focused on its two main characters and perhaps let them only mention stuff about their privates lives, from time to time. It slowed things down and gave the movie too many distractions, that it just didn't needed to have in it. I actually was mostly bored during the movie its entire middle part, in which nothing too interesting ever happened, at least not for me.
Luckily the movie still heavily relies on its two main characters and their chemistry together, which is very noticeably present. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are very convincing as partners, as if they were already riding the patrol car for years together.
This is really being original movie in more than one way but foremost really with its approach and storytelling. Yes, original but that doesn't mean it all was being something positive. I for instance didn't really liked it that the movie wasn't really having a clear main story in it. I would had most likely preferred it if the movie more often sticked to its main story, so the movie also would have a clear beginning, middle and end in it. Now instead the movie just feels a tad bit too much like its hanging together from a bunch of loose sequences.
So really, I could appreciate this movie for a whole bunch of stuff it did but on the other hand, it wasn't really a movie I enjoyed watching all throughout and also just got too little else out of it.
6/10
It might seem to you that this is just another one of those 'found footage' movies, in which everything is getting told and shown from the perspective of the person handling the camera. But for your information, or perhaps also your comfort, it's only being partly a found footage movie. It often shows things from the perspective of its main characters but it also often steps outside of it and becomes a more common movie with its camera-work and storytelling. Normally this is something that doesn't work out too well. You either do one approach or the other but when mixing them together, the movie its style and way of storytelling sorts of start to fall flat. It however worked out well for this movie though, probably because the movie never goes overboard with either approach and actually uses the two approaches to strengthen each other.
This definitely is being a movie that's picking a more realistic approach to things. Everything (well, almost everything) that happens in the movie feels realistic, in the sense that it truly could happen all to real life cops. It's also not being standard and clichéd with all of its situations. The situations the two police men get called out to are often nothing spectacular, fun or rewarding. I liked that the movie did this, since this definitely must be what a normal average day of a cop on patrol must be like.
Thing I however didn't liked very much was that it was also focusing on the the more private and personal lives of the two main characters. I'm sorry to say, it just wasn't being all that interesting for me. It would most definitely had been enough to keep things focused on its two main characters and perhaps let them only mention stuff about their privates lives, from time to time. It slowed things down and gave the movie too many distractions, that it just didn't needed to have in it. I actually was mostly bored during the movie its entire middle part, in which nothing too interesting ever happened, at least not for me.
Luckily the movie still heavily relies on its two main characters and their chemistry together, which is very noticeably present. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are very convincing as partners, as if they were already riding the patrol car for years together.
This is really being original movie in more than one way but foremost really with its approach and storytelling. Yes, original but that doesn't mean it all was being something positive. I for instance didn't really liked it that the movie wasn't really having a clear main story in it. I would had most likely preferred it if the movie more often sticked to its main story, so the movie also would have a clear beginning, middle and end in it. Now instead the movie just feels a tad bit too much like its hanging together from a bunch of loose sequences.
So really, I could appreciate this movie for a whole bunch of stuff it did but on the other hand, it wasn't really a movie I enjoyed watching all throughout and also just got too little else out of it.
6/10
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Red band trailer: End of Watch (2012)
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routine traffic stop. From: IMDb.com
Directed by: David Ayer
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick and others
Current release date: September 21, 2012
International trailer: Gangster Squad (2012)
A chronicle of the LAPD's fight to keep East Coast Mafia types out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 50s. From: IMDb.com
Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
Starring: Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and others
Current release date: September 7, 2012
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