This is Chris's Movie Reviews Page
Current Reviews:
Here is a film with exciting action, interesting & sympathetic characters, and moments of real humor. It is in no way a bad film. It is also not really a great film. Captain America: The First Avenger is the epitome of a three-star film. [Full Review]
It’s an open secret that I am unnaturally attracted to the 1960s Spy genre: James Bond, The Avengers, I Spy, Man from UNCLE, The Prisoner. For some reason or other I just can’t get enough; I love ‘em. [Full Review]
Your Highness is a comedy. It made me laugh. There ya go! Mission accomplished. Anybody looking for anything more out of this movie will be incredibly disappointed. It is not really a good movie at all. But I found it thoroughly enjoyable and funny. [Full Review]
Thor is ostensibly a movie about an arrogant, selfish prince who causes great ruin to himself and his kingdom through his thoughtless actions and then has to learn his lesson and redeem himself. Indeed, the movie does follow the beats of the story, but the main problem is that it just feels way too easy for Thor; I never felt that he actually earned his redemption or really learned his lesson. [Full Review]
The Illusionist is a periodically charming, vaguely frustrating, and ultimately disappointing second film from Triplettes of Belleville director Sylvain Chomet. [Full Review]
I went in to Black Swan expecting it to be a drama about the trials and tribulations of ballet dancer Nina (played by Natalie Portman) with some dark, psychological thriller undertones. What I did not expect was for the movie to be basically a full-blown body-horror movie with a surprising amount of gore in it. [Full Review]
Ah, Tron. Here's the thing you have to realize about the first Tron movie: It isn't very good. It worked as a state-of-the-art experience: visuals and sounds (it won an Oscar for Best Sound) and things you've never seen before. The same is true of this sequel: it sure is something to behold, even if it isn't a terribly great movie, though I must say I enjoyed the story more than the first movie. [Full Review]
This is a movie that is a rarity: it has actually grown on me over time. I like it a little more each time I see it. I got it on DVD for Christmas and have watched it three times since then. I really, really like it. What's that? No, I didn't read the books first. I'm reviewing a movie here, not a book! [Full Review]
Inception is an incredibly well-directed film that strikes absolutely just the right pitch-perfect notes in its performances, music, camerawork, cinematography, special effects, just about everything. It’s a heist movie with a sci-fi premise, but don’t worry--it’s not a laser gun and spaceship sci-fi movie. It’s a “one thing” sci-fi story, where the world is exactly as it is today except for one thing, and the film explores the ramifications of that one thing. [Full Review]
Kick-Ass is a movie about horrifying things: a deranged man teaching his pre-pubescent daughter to be a murderer; a teenager getting stabbed, hit by a car, having multiple surgeries and going through painstaking physical therapy; a cruel gangster using his son as bait to lure his deadly enemies; a girl watching her father be burned to death. And it's all presented as a rollicking, wacky, almost feel-good comedy. And somehow it works. [Full Review]
