Movie Reviews

Over the past couple of days, I've watched quite a number of films and some of them were pretty darn good. Here's my two cents worth on them:

The first one i watched was Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, which serves as a prequel to Underworld 1. Considering how shiteous the first flick was, I must say that this third installment was pretty ok to me. The thing was, throughout the film, i find the female lead to be quite familiar, though i couldn't quite pin-point where i saw her before. and i wasn't sure whether she was the same chick in Underworld 1. After doing a little research, i realised she was the detective Kit McGraw in Nip/Tuck, who had an incestuous relationship with her brother, who didn't have a penis. Ahhh. No wonder. Here's Rhona Mitra (Sonja in U3) and Kate Beckinsale (Selene in U1):

*they look quite similar in the film*

The next film i'm going to talk about is a huge favourite of mine: Burn after Reading. Funny title; not the kind i would go watch just based on the title. First, here's the theatrical poster:

Witty. Clever. Great Fun to watch. It brings up a lot of topics about people in a very real environment. E.g. Insecurities, Sense of deluded importance, Affairs, Divorce. The film is so named cos the film is centred around a disk of apparently "classified" information that the characters played by Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand discovered. Special mention include George Clooney and Frances McDormand as Linda. George Clooney was particularly hilarious.

I'm a sucker for horror flicks and even though i'll hide behind my pillow and my legs will turn into jelly whenever i watch 'em, i simply can't resist them. which brings me to this double bundle of joy: Kill Theory and The midnight Meat Train.



I don't think Kill Theory has been released in Singapore yet, and i doubt it ever will. I could just sum it up in a sentence: Typical high school students meets serial killer horror flick. Nothing fancy. Pretty average actors. OK script. The 'twist' at the end was ok also... But here's the thing: it's pretty gory. which going by the theatrical poster, i could understand. but it's just that nowadays, more and more 'horror' flicks are becoming 'gore'y, including the next one i'm going to talk about: The Midnight Meat Train.

OK, let me make this very clear. This HORROR flick is 10 times more GORE-Y than Kill Theory. yup. which as u can see from the stills above. for me, the above scenes were one of the scariest. Dead naked bodies hanging from the hand rails on Butcher hooks in a train. yup. in the beginning first few kill scenes, it was pretty artsy, as well as right in your face GORE. slowly, it began to feel like a thriller, with the conspiracy thingy and i pretty like the cinematography. And the ending was pretty good as well. Though it's pretty far-fetched from reality, as like Hey, what are the odds of getting butchered to death in a railway train in today? but hey, it's fantasy horror flick after all. i had great fun watching it and scared myself to shits.



And currently showing in Singapore is the feel-good comedy, Role Models. Surprisingly, this wasn't produced by Judd Apatow. and just knowing Sean William Scott is in it is enough to rush down to the cinemas to catch it. He WAS funny in it, no doubt, but somehow i felt that his performance in it was restrained, held back. not the kind of outright-in-your-face, Sean William Scott-esque funny. feel very scripted. Sure, this is feel-good comedy, about Sean William Scott and Paul Judd doing community as guidance adults for the 'Littles', who wanted nothing more than to finish their hours as quickly as possible, only to come out at the end to have learnt some much from the 'littles'. However, this flick doesn't feel a single bit cheesy and off-the-mill funny. it is seriously funny. and the poster above is pretty kick-ass.