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Showing posts with label Espionage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Espionage. Show all posts

Saturday, April 23, 2011

HANNA

This movie evoked the feel of Ronin, The Professional and The Bourne Series. All good things to have working for you.

Everything about the movie to me, didn't look or feel like Hollywood at all. Right down to the way the movie ended.

I didn't know much about this movie going into it, I don't even remember if I had even seen the trailer for it.

Anyone who likes the above movies should certainly go and see it, great movie. They really managed to pull off the mix of Espionage, Action with some humor. All centered around Hanna who is loose in a world she literally knows next to nothing about. If I had anything to complain about, it would be that I would like to have seen more of everything. With the movie having three corners this way, I could almost feel like each one was just a little bit too short.

3.5 stars out of 5

Sunday, January 16, 2011

The American

Had to rent this one, seeing as it never passed through theatres here. I thought this was a great, Spy, Espionage type movie. Had a real foreign feel to it, which you may not expect with Clooney being a huge Hollywood star. Was done wonderfully before in Deniros Ronin. And, not a lot of action either. Which was just fine. There was enough intrigue, and though that It was a good hour and forty five minutes. If I had anything to complain about off the top, it would be that I wasn't too happy with the ending not to give away much.

Solid rental, Clooney was great. And that paranoid, scowl he had for the whole duration was great.

3.5 stars out of 5

Saturday, July 24, 2010

SALT

This one will probably be a short one.. Go ahead and see it.

Was a pretty decent movie, nothing that will be talked about around the water cooler for days like Inception was. But then this is a pretty straight forward spy type movie.

I came away with this movie feeling like something from the 80s for some reason. And like one review mentioned, and seemed to be dead one. This movie was more of a Bond movie than the last several Bond movies ever were.

The way the movie ends I would like to see a sequel. But then again, I don't. If you know what I mean.

Angelina did a great job, as did the whole cast. This is probably the first movie that I really liked Liev Shreiber in since forever. I always felt he was a good actor mainly, but never seen him in much of a good movie before.

I especially liked the Counter Espionage guy, whos name escapes me at the moment (Was also in Die Hard 4 if I remember right)