May

07

2010

Harry Brown Movie Review

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Category : Thriller

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Harry Brown is set in a modern day Britain where teenage violence runs havoc.  We follow a one man journey through living on a tough council estate which is plagued by these young menaces.  It is rumoured that in order to get his wife to see Harry Brown that Michael Caine told his wife that this movie was like “Mary Poppins”, rest assured this movie is nothing like Mary Poppins.

Harry Brown is a down and gritty modern day movie which has more truth to it than most films get close to.  In many aspects this movie is the British version of Gran Torino, Both movies star disgruntled old men who take revenge on those causing so much pain and suffering to those around them, However Harry Brown is much more violent.

Forget the fancy set pieces and forget witty one liners, Harry Brown takes a risk and throws these important factors out the window which are usually used in a successful movie however Harry Brown takes the risk and succeeds.  The movie hammers home a lot of truth about modern Britain which at times is very scary to watch, however with pensioners out there like Harry Brown we surely have nothing to worry about.

Michael Caine makes this movie, without him it would be a typical British film about gang violence without any real substance to it.  Watching Michael Caine transform from a quiet old aged chess playing pensioner to an old age Rambo is a joy to watch.  Overall this movie was an excellent movie experience.

I award Harry Brown with 4 out of 5 stars.

May

07

2010

Angels and Demons Movie Review

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Tom Hanks is back as reprises his role as the Harvard Symbolist Robert Langdon. This time Langdon has been called in to help the Catholic Church. The movie starts off inside CERN (big bang machine) where anti matter has just been created, this anti matter is being called the ‘God’ Particle so naturally the church isn’t going to like this. So when terrorists brake into the CERN’s facility and plan to use this antimatter to blow up the Vatican City the Vatican reluctantly ask for Robert Langdon’s help to stop the terrorists on time.

These terrorists are later to be found out to be a group called the ‘Illuminati’ one of the churches biggest enemy apart from science that is. The Illuminati plan to explode this god particle on the same day that the College of Cardinals meet up and have a cup of tea and also select a new pope.

Angels and Demons then becomes a race against the clock for Robert Langdon as he races around the Vatican City solving puzzles and even going on site seeing tours to find the god particle before it explodes and takes all the College of Cardinals with it. Even though Angels and Demons is a long movie it never feels boring or slow at any point and there’s always something on screen that will keep you as the viewer interested.

Some people may complain the characters in this movie are wafer thin and I’m not going to dispute that, however we are watching a movie about a man trying to stop a bomb from wiping out an entire city, obviously there’s not going to be a lot of character development as if this was a real story I can imagine the person would be running around like a headless chicken trying to find the bomb rather than taking time to explain how to get to the next point to uncover the next clue. Others may also complain that the book was better, well maybe it was I’ve never read it but unlike the book this movie will only take a couple of hours to watch.

Angels and Demons is worth watching but just don’t expect something spectacular because it’s not, it his however an escape from reality where science and religion go head to head and the story that comes out of it is pretty interesting. I enjoyed angels and demons and give it a religiously solid 3 out of 5 stars.