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23.12.2007 - Movie Reviews

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I Am Legend (Warner Bros.)
Grim merely effective thriller has a brave scientist (Will Smith) as the last surviving person in New York battling furious animal and human mutants as he struggles to find a cure for the virus that has eliminated nearly of the world's population. Director Francis Lawrence's remake of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel has some eerie scenes of a decimated New York, and the computer-generated images of mutants attacking are scary enough when they come, merely though Smith is a compelling presence and there ar some pointed and admirable spiritual elements, the basic setup ultimately grows slow and more cheerless than exciting. Acute if isolated wild sequences, including the killing of the creatures, and barely clad mutants. Might be acceptable for older teens. (A-III, PG-13) DVD movies ...

Juno (Fox Searchlight)
Bright, funny and in the end moving comedy-drama with a strong pro-life message about an unwed teen (an outstanding Ellen Page) who decides non to have an abortion, and promises the coming child to a childless couple (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner) who long to adopt. The narrative has just the right moral wrap up; performances are super, including J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney as the girl's supportive parents and Michael Cera as the diffident classmate responsible for her condition. Jason Reitman's direction strikes just the right piquant tone, though Diablo Cody's playscript contains a high expletive level for its appealing just sassy heroine. Gross language and at least one instance of the f-word, some crass expressions, an irreverent comment, a nongraphic prenuptial teen encounter with brief partial nudeness, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, intimate talk and divorce. Possibly appropriate for older teens. (A-III, PG-13)

The Kite Runner (Paramount Vantage)
Superb adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-seller about an Afghan writer now living in the U.S. who recalls how as a boy in his native homeland, he failed to help and subsequently betrayed his best friend, and now finds he has a chance to atone for that misdeed. Under Marc Forster's sensitive direction, the beautifully acted film provides a fascinating portrait of pre- and post-Taliban Afghanistan; its fine human values, strong affirmation of friendship and family, and redemptive ending should move even the most stone-hearted. download movies In Dari and English. Partially subtitled. A single profanity and use of the f-word, a brief rape scene with no nudity involving a small boy and a bully, two discreetly worded sexual references, illegitimacy theme, a violent beating and a woman's stoning. Acceptable for older teens. (A-III, PG-13)

The Perfect Holiday (Yari)
Amiable romantic comedy, narrated by "Mrs. Christmas" (Queen Latifah), in which a divorced mother of three (Gabrielle Union) must cope with the machinations of her narcissistic rap star ex and the underground of her 10-year-old son as she gradually falls, with the help of her daughter, for a songwriter and shopping-mall Santa who\'s posing as an office supply salesman. mp3 download Most of the humorous complications of director Lance Rivera\'s film work well enough, though the end product waterfall well short of its titular adjective. Implied premarital sexual practice, divorce, some crass expressions and one mild profanity. (A-II, PG)

23.12.2007 - Youth Without Youth

Francis Ford Coppola -- the man’s name itself conjures up thoughts of dvd download film wideness, no? He won an Oscar for writing Patton, directed and co-wrote perhaps the best Vietnam dvd movies of all time, Apocalypse Like a shot, and, oh, yeah, in between wrote and directed deuce of the topper movies of all time, The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II. The problem with this thinking, though, is that all of those movies were made in the 1970s, when he was obviously at the peak of his artistic illustriousness.

Since the beginning of the nineties, he’s gone on to make such dreck as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Jack, and, oh, yea, The Godfather: Part III. So, how long can a director coast on the reputation of his best work? And how far can he go artistically before he starts being called a crackpot? For this critic, that line of products has now securely been drawn 'tween all of his previous films and his latest, Early days Without Youth. Other perhaps more erudite critics may ensure the value of Coppola musing on the meaning of reality, philosophy, and other scholarly pursuits, but from a purely storytelling perspective, Youth takes one baffling turn afterward another with barely anything to maintain the film together as a cohesive unit.

Youth starts out in an interesting enough manner: Dominic Matei (Tim Roth) is presented as an older writer in 1938 Romania who’s despondent that he’s ne'er completed the book he was written material when the love of his life, Laura (Alexandra Maria Lara), died. So despondent, in fact, that he’s determined to commit self-annihilation; alas, just as he’s set his mind to that task, he’s indiscriminately struck by lightning in Budapest. Inexplicably, he not only recovers quickly from the ordeal, merely he also starts to become jr., aging backward from 80 to around 40.

News of this miracle leaks out thanks to a mysterious (both in the film and for the viewer) encounter with a sexy spy simply named “The Girl in Room 6,” and it’s not long before the Nazis catch wind of it and course become interested in him. Now, up to this point, disdain some long-winded pontificating and strange situations (Dominic chatting up a dual personality chief among them), the movie was still holding my interest, mostly because I figured this was just a long setup for the big bribe at the end. But what Coppola chooses to do instead is take a massive right turn and introduce Veronica (Lara once more), who just happens to look on the dot like Dominic’s beloved Laura. Like Dominic, she gets smitten by lightning, only instead of growing younger, she starts spouting out archaic languages thanks to an ancient Egyptian named Rupini inhabiting her body at various times. When Veronica enters the picture, the film loses any semblance of coherence and delves deeper and deeper into a story that makes sense only in Coppola’s head.

I’m all for filmmakers intriguing their audiences and not spelling everything out for them. But it’s one thing to do that as region of an otherwise lucid film and another to exactly throw out an indiscriminate hodgepodge of plot points and call it prowess. The first two Godfathers and Apocalypse Now are good examples of the former; Coppola has firmly gone the latter route with Youth Without Spring chicken and in the process has proven to be almost completely bereft of the skills which won him such acclaim 30 years ago. Oh, his technical skills ar still apparent – the framing and execution of versatile shots throughout the film aren’t revelatory of a deficiency of ability.

Only the story does not support this talent, and the film suffers mighty because of it. Roth and Lara do their best with the material they’ve been given, only it’s hard to judge their performances when the actions of their characters are so perplexing. A viewing of the documentary fellow traveler piece, Coda: Thirty Years Later, may be necessary to fully comprehend what drove Coppola to make such an impenetrable film. Mayhap the best way I can draw the complete bizarreness of Youth Without Youth is by pointing out that the first two pages of the press packet for the film are Coppola conducting an imaginary interview … with a Martian. Take that as you will.