William Goodall's Blog » Movies http://blog.williamgoodall.name Occasional mutterings Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:22:37 +0000 en hourly 1 Haywire http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2012/02/02/haywire/ http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2012/02/02/haywire/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:22:30 +0000 William_T_Goodall http://blog.williamgoodall.name/?p=586 Saw Haywire today. Gina Carano is a credible action star and the rest of the stellar cast comported themselves skilfully. The plot and the script are a bit perfunctory, simply sketching in motivation for the bone-crunching and convincing action scenes. I was the only person in the screening, on the last day of the film at that complex. Underworld: Awakening (3D) is back for another week.

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]]> http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2012/01/24/underworld-awakening-3d/feed/ 0 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2012/01/11/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-3/ http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2012/01/11/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-3/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:57:25 +0000 William_T_Goodall http://blog.williamgoodall.name/?p=580 Today I saw the David Fincher version of the film of the book. I think it is slightly better than the Swedish version although I still prefer Noomi Rapace’s take on Lisbeth Salandar to Rooney Mara’s.

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Young Cataleya witnesses the murder of her parents by drug dealers in Bogota. She escapes to Chicago and is raised by her uncle who is a hit man and teaches her the trade. Grown up Cataleya is a contract killer with a sideline in trying to find and eliminate her parents’ murderers who are now hidden in the USA under CIA protection as informants.

Much chasing about and firing of automatic weapons + bombs and martial arts. Four out of five from me.

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]]> http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2010/12/16/somewhere/feed/ 0 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2010/12/01/the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest/ http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2010/12/01/the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:26:01 +0000 William_T_Goodall http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2010/12/01/the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest/ Probably incomprehensible if you hadn’t read the book. Various scenes from the book unclearly connected in the film. Worst of the three, and not a very good film.

At imdb.

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