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Prince

2010-08-05T19:58:00.000+02:00

Horrible and irritating action movie. The trailers are inspiring and the music is good too, but the execution is too clichéful and the movie is full of classical and clichéful dialogues. The effects used in the movie are of fare below average quality, and almost all CGI effects remind you of the first time such effects came. Actually, the effects in Hollywood movies from 70-80’s are better than this one. Simply waste of time.

Rating: 2 of 6

Imran Hosein: Dreams in Islam - A Window to Truth and To The Heart

2010-07-31T19:55:00.000+02:00

Interesting book about the role of dreams in Islam. The author provides several examples of how dreams have provided guidance throughout the history of the different Islamic Prophets. In addition, did you know that the belief in dreams is actually 1/46 part of the prophet hood?

A must read for every Muslim, and also those who liked other books from this author.

This book is actually available for free as eBook at the webpage of the author.

Imran Hosein: The Gold Dinar and Silver Dirham - Islam and the Future of Money

2010-07-31T19:50:00.004+02:00

Interesting book about the monetary system in the world today, and how it conflicts with the Islamic sharia by the references from Qur’an and Ahadith’s.

A must read for every Muslim, and also those who liked The Arrivals or similar series.

This book is actually available for free as eBook at the webpage of the author.

Imran Hosein: Jerusalem in the Qur’an

2010-07-31T19:43:00.016+02:00

Interesting book about the prophesied destiny of the city Jerusalam at the End of Time. The main sources are Qur’an and Ahadith’s. An Islamic View of Gog and Magog in the Modern Age actually had a number of references to this book, which triggered my interest for this book.

A must read for every Muslim, and also those who liked The Arrivals or similar series.

This book is actually available for free as eBook at the webpage of the author.

Imran Hosein: An Islamic View of Gog and Magog in the Modern World

2010-07-28T20:05:00.003+02:00

A very interesting book which has also inspired the “The Arrivals” and similar series, which are available at the internet (i.e. YouTube). The Islamic scholar, Imran Hosein, presents his interpretations of Quran and Ahadith’s and argue that the prophesied release of Gog and Magog actually happened during the time of Prophet Muhammed (PBUH). Furthermore, the world we see it today is actually the result of the actions of Gog and Magog.

A must read for every Muslim, and also those who liked The Arrivals or similar series.

This book is actually available for free as eBook at the webpage of the author.

The Prestige

2010-07-28T20:03:00.000+02:00

After watching Inception, I was really in mood to watch another Christopher Nolan-classic, so I watched this one, again. This movie is simply fantastic and amazing, and you’ll notice more of its amazingness if you watch it second time.

Rating: 5 of 6

Import Eksport

2010-07-28T19:57:00.000+02:00

A must watch with my wife. I basically like this movie, and the reason isn’t the relationship between me and this movie :). But after watching it two times earlier, not everything is that interesting anymore.

Rating: 5 of 6

Inception

2010-07-28T19:54:00.003+02:00

Interesting, fascinating and complicated movie from the director of The Dark Knight, The Prestige and Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan). This movie has received good critics almost all over with good reasons, and therefore I had huge expectations before watching it. As mentioned, the movie is fascinating and complicated with good execution and great visuals, and it’s the complication which has reduced the rating of it. Not everything is understandable when you watch it for the first time, but it can happen that you’ll understand more when you watch it second time and then also improve its rating.

The story deals “in a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job till date”.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Frustrerte Fruer / Desperate Housewives – Season 5

2010-07-22T21:06:00.002+02:00

Basically good series, but I didn’t found this season that interesting as the previous seasons. Every season shows you more in depth of the characters in addition to the evolving story line, and in this season the makers are close to the limit of how much in depth you can show the characters before the stuff simply gets boring. Perhaps it’s time to close down the show or find new script writers?

Rating: 4 of 6

Kites

2010-06-30T21:05:00.001+02:00

Boring movie with Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori (Mexican actress and model) as the lead pair. The movie tells a love story, which has been told several times earlier. This time, the execution is somehow different; the movie is made in US and is also meant towards Western public by making two version of movie, one for the Indian and desi market, and the second for the Western market. The execution is professionally done, but as many similar love stories, the story has lots of clichés and holes. Therefore, it had nothing particularly to offer.

Rating: 3 of 6

Chase

2010-06-30T21:03:00.001+02:00

This is a B- or C-grade movie, which means that not many people watch such movies. After working at a movie shop several years, I am used to watch this kind of crap as well. So after a break for over a year without watching such crap, it’s good to watch it again to understand how well average movies actually are.

This movie had a horrible beginning, and I was convinced that this was a perfect candidate for rating 1. However, the movie got better and better, so I give it rating 3.

The story deals around a guy who is chased by police. Why? Watch it! The makers have used several techniques to make it cool, but the treatment always reminds you that this movie is a B –or C grade.

Rating: 3 of 6

Prison Break – The Final Break

2010-06-30T21:02:00.001+02:00

We needed to get the answers for what actually happened at the end. This movie provided it, and thereby closes this entertaining series.

Rating: 5 of 6

Sex and the city – Sex og singelliv

2010-05-31T21:00:00.002+02:00

Brain dead entertainment. 40 years old women who behave like chicks, so this concept is definitely not meant for me. However, the execution of the movie in terms of production values was good, so this improves the rating. Without this, the movie has been disastrous boring.

Rating: 3/4 of 6

Tropa De Elite

2010-05-31T21:00:00.000+02:00

Relatively all right Brasilian action movie. I actually had higher expectations for this one..

Rating: 3/4

Iron Man

2010-05-31T20:58:00.003+02:00

Surprisingly cool action flick.

Rating: 5 of 6

Mammoth / Mammut

2010-05-31T20:57:00.000+02:00

All right drama, made by Lukas Moodysson who has also made Lilya 4-Ever and Fucking Åmål (Show Me Love). I found this movie somehow depressing, and there aren’t every day you are ready to watch such kind of movies. Or probably I don’t like such movies anymore..?

Rating: 3 of 6

Star Trek

2010-05-31T20:56:00.001+02:00

Surprisingly cool science fiction action movie based on the classical series.

Rating: 5 of 6

De Dana Dan

2010-05-31T20:55:00.001+02:00

Time pass comedy with some hilarious moments. Priyadarshan is the director, and he tend to be too repetitive and this movie confirms it again.

Rating: 4 of 6

Revolutionary Road

2010-05-31T20:53:00.001+02:00

A little bit boring drama. The movie has actually received good reviews, but for me the story was irrelevant which is about a relationship which is on its way to be broken.

Rating: 3 of 6

My name is Khan

2010-05-03T20:03:00.000+02:00

The latest adventure from Karan Johar, Shahrukh Khan (SRK) and Kajol. SRK plays a role of autism, which is one of his better performances. The story deals around 9/11 attacks and its effects on desis in USA. I think the movie is too lengthy, and the climax is too filmy and larger-than-life. I’ve expected something different from this kind of movie with such serious topics. Several portions of the movie are simply gripping which tells us that the movie is well made with a good script. But the length of the movie drags it somehow down.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Rottenetter

2010-05-03T19:53:00.001+02:00

Time pass Norwegian movie about an up-and-coming finance/stock broker. The movie tries to describe the finance business set in Stavanger and probably inspired by the movie Wall Street. Unfortunately, the script is too weak, and it focuses too much on the drama element (as many other Norwegian movies) which creates boredom.

Rating: 3 of 6

The Kite Runner

2010-05-03T19:49:00.000+02:00

Nice and touching movie, which is based on the novel with same title. I actually liked the movie better than the novel, probably because the movie didn’t focus too much on the political side of the story.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex – But Were Afraid To Ask

2010-04-30T19:46:00.001+02:00

A colleague of mine borrowed me this movie suddenly, and I thought why not to watch it. The movie is all right with Woody Allen from 1970’s about The particular topic which is indicated in the title of the movie. The movie consists of several funny short movies about different prejudices within the overall topic.

Rating: 4 of 6

Tomme Tønner

2010-04-18T10:28:00.002+02:00

All right Norwegian gangster action comedy movie, made by Leon Bashir who also wrote the script for Izzat. There aren’t that many new things in this movie, and several concepts seems inspired from American gangster action comedies.

Some of the actors don’t have that much acting experience, which also can be seen by their performances in the movie. On the other hand, there are several other “veterans” which both give the movie star value and proper watching experience.

Rating: 4 of 6

Jernanger / Shooting the Sun / The Storm in My Heart

2010-04-18T10:26:00.003+02:00

Jernanger is a boring movie about the tempered Eivind who isn't scared of anything- except love. The story evolves too slowly, and it could easily been a short movie of 15-20 minutes. The only lightening point is the performance by Bjørn Sundquist and his dialogues. I simply don’t understand why it got those good critics and awards and nominations. My friend and I watched it in around 30 minutes and then fast-forward the rest of it. And I don’t think we missed anything.

Rating: 2 of 6

Gautam Malkani: Londonstaner / Londonstani

2010-04-18T10:18:00.000+02:00

This is the debut book written by Gautam Malkani, who is journalist for the news paper The Financial Times. The novel deals around the Indian / Pakistani (also known as desi) circles in London, and particularly Hounslow. There are a great many descriptions and thoughts of the characters, but the story doesn’t evolve that fast. In addition, the language in the novel is mixture of English and Punjabi, which wonder me how non-Punjabi-speaking people can understand all of what is written there. I think this can be irritating.

The novel stake out some good points and let us question ourselves about the way we behave and think. In addition, also some interesting philosophies about desi social behavior and compared to economics theories.

The book is divided into 3 parts, and the last part is most interesting. The ending provides an interesting twist, but it wasn’t that interesting either that the novel is worth to be read all over again.

Rating: 3 of 6

Entourage – Season 2

2010-04-18T09:47:00.006+02:00

Entertaining series! Actually, this season was better than the previous, perhaps because now the characters are settled and in addition become more interesting.

Rating: 5 of 6

24 – Redemption

2010-04-06T16:09:00.000+02:00

This is a TV movie based on the popular TV series 24. It tells the story between season 6 and season 7, where the main character Jack Bauer is in Africa and the American authorities are looking for him. The movie isn’t that well executed which makes it uninspiring. Compared to the seasons which tend to have high tempo, this movie takes time to build up which was unexpected and created some boredom.

The DVD included a sneak preview of season 7, and this season seems promising.

Rating: 3 of 6

Resident Evil: Extinction

2010-04-06T16:07:00.000+02:00

This is simply a milk cow project from the makers of the movie franchise. The story evolves a little bit compared to previous movies, but the overall concept is to kill most died humans as possible, which the DVD cover tells too. The cool concept of the first movie where lasers cut humans into pieces is again repeated, which indicates lack of creativity in this movie.

Anyhow, the movie has some thrilling moments in the beginning.

Rating: 3 of 6

Prison Break 4 – The Final Season

2010-04-06T16:05:00.000+02:00

As the title indicates, this is the fourth and final season of Prison Break. After the phenomenal 2nd season, and very well 3rd season, I had high expectations for this season which weren’t fulfilled. The season is full of twists and things happen, but the story makers have put too much in this season. In addition, in one moment, people are enemies, and in the next moment, the same people are partners and friends. Such kind of rapid moves gives the show an unrealistic approach, which in turn is irritating.

It had a very touchy ending (last 5-10 minutes), but it isn’t enough for the overall season to get a better rating. On the other hand, the ending inspired to watch the final movie of this series; Prison Break - The Final Break.

Rating: 4 of 6

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / Den fantastiske historien om Benjamin Button

2010-03-28T21:51:00.006+02:00

Drama movie about life and death, inspired from a short story, about a man (Brad Pitt) who is born as old and ages in reverse by getting younger and younger. The first hour of the movie was boring, and a proportion of it could have been cut or done otherwise. Afterwards, the movie picked up with a nice climax and ending.

The movie is made by David Fincher, who has made several remarkable movies earlier, i.e. Zodiac, Fight Club, The Game and Se7en. The movie has several sub concepts, which are nice elements to the story and confirms that David Fincher is a story teller in his own division.

Rating: 5 of 6

The Taking of Pelham 123 / Metro 123 Kapret

2010-03-28T19:49:00.005+02:00

Cool and catchy action thriller, based on a novel and movie from 1970’s. The movie is cool edited, has several good cinematographically shots, all right background score and script. It’s made by Tony Scott, who has made several cool movies earlier, i.e. Déjà Vu, Man on Fire and Spy Game.

The story is somehow typical; a group of men hijack a metro train in New York and demand $10 millions. Despite the fact that this kind of stories have been used earlier tremendous times, this movie is treated that well that it is still interesting to watch. Actually, the rhythm of this movie reminded me of Speed, who also had a story about hijack (of a bus).

Denzel Washington and John Travolta deliver good performances, but Travolta’s voice wasn’t that matching to his look, but this can easily be ignored when you take other positive elements of the movie into consideration.

Rating: 5 of 6

Chance Pe Dance

2010-03-21T21:10:00.003+01:00

All right musical movie about a guy who struggles to get launched in a Bollywood movie. Actually, the trailers were funnier than the movie itself. The movie is loosely based on Shahid Kapoor’s experiences when he tried to enter Bollywood. The movie is made by Ken Ghosh, who has made better movies earlier (Ishq Vishk and Fida).

Rating: 4/3 of 6

Ishqiya

2010-03-18T15:45:00.000+01:00

All right movie, produced by Vishal Bharadwaj (i.e. Maqbool and Kaminey. Two street smart guys (Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi) come to Krishna (Vidya Balan) to overnight. But Krishna turns out to be a mysterious woman…

The movie has elements from different genre, i.e. humor, drama, action etc. It has its particular which is common for Bharadwaj movies. Sometimes it works, sometimes not, and this time, I think the result is just average.

Rating: 4 of 6

Hellboy

2010-03-18T15:35:00.002+01:00

All right ant time pass movie action drama based on a comic series. I bought it several years ago, and didn’t have myself motivated to see it until now.

Rating: 4/3 of 6

Paa

2010-03-13T22:43:00.002+01:00

Relatively uninspiring movie which is based on a genetic condition known as Progeria and is particularly about a father-son relationship. It’s about a 12 year old boy with Progeria, who is mentally normal but looks like 5 times older. And he is expected to live till he is 13 or 14 year old because of his illness. The boy is portrayed by Amitabh Bachchan, and his father is Abhishek Bachchan.

The movie has gained lots of success, both commercially and by critiques. For me, the movie is pretty much uninspiring with some humour and good climax.

Rating: 3 of 6

8 x 10 Tasveer

2010-03-13T22:32:00.000+01:00

Cool supernatural thriller with Akshay Kumar, made by Nagesh Kukunoor (i.e. 3 Deewarein and Iqbal). The movie is made in Canada, and has lots of beautiful outdoor locations. The story is following; Jai’s (Akshay Kumar) has a supernatural talent to go back in time by looking into a picture. His father dies, and a detective (Javed Jaffrey) approaches Jai claiming that his father’s death is suspicious. Jai first denies this, but later finds out that several people have strange motives which could have led to his father’s death…

The movie is well made and has several thrilling moments and twists. Unfortunately, it failed at the box office. Still, its regarded as one of Akshay Kumar’s favourite films he had done.

Rating: 5 of 6

Green Zone

2010-03-13T22:25:00.000+01:00

Super cool movie from the maker of last two Bourne movies (The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum), Paul Greengrass. This time, Matt Damon is playing the role of a warrant officer, Roy Miller. The movie is inspired from the non-fiction 2006 book “Imperial Life in the Emerald City” by a journalist. The story deals around the invasion of Iraq, because Bush & co with US intelligence had so-called proof of that Saddam Hussein was holding Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). So during the attack, Roy Miller is responsible to find these WMD, but where can he find them when they doesn’t exist? Roy starts investigating what actually is going on and unexpected things starts happening…

The movie has a very political message, and as mostly people know, Americans went to the war primarily because of oil and gas reserves. Despite the fact you know the background; the movie is highly suspenseful and entertaining. Its ending during the last 3-5 minuts of the movie was somehow clicheful, but otherwise it’s recommended entertainment. The execution style is pretty much like the last two Bourne-movies with handheld cameras to give a realistic approach. In addition, some of the execution also reminded of the war series Generation Kill.

Rating: 5/6 of 6

Mein Ek Din Laut Kay Aaoon Ga

2010-03-07T21:28:00.010+01:00

Pakistani movie from 2007 with Humayun Saeed.

- Story: good actually, but not so innovative if we’ve seen Karz earlier. The story seems to has been inspired by Karz actually.

- Script: horrible! Lots of illogical things happen, which simply are irritating

- Execution: awfull. This can also been together with the comments for the script

- Acting: reasonable by some actors, but the heroines performance were disastrous

Rating: 4 of 6

The Cider House Rules / Siderhusreglene

2010-03-07T21:12:00.002+01:00

Nice, good and somehow emotional drama about the life in an orphanage set in 1950’s. The movie is based on the well-known novel with same title. Tobey Maguire and Charlize Theron are some of the actors.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Bruno

2010-03-07T20:58:00.005+01:00

Awful and totally bullshit movie from the maker of Borat. The movie deals around a gay, who strives to be famous and it is meant to be funny. The humor is basically almost totally below the navel-humor, and is not meant for families at all. This is not so surprising taking into consideration the fact who the maker is….Stay away from this cheap movie!

Rating: 1 of 6

Dexter - Season 2

2010-02-28T20:35:00.004+01:00

The plot in the second season of Dexter continues after where the story of first season ended. The first 3-4-5 episodes in this season aren’t that inspiring, but the show picked up afterwards.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Shutter Island

2010-02-28T20:33:00.004+01:00

Interesting psychological thriller, made by Martin Scorsese with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. The film is based on the 2003 novel of the same name.

The plot is following: In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), go to the Ashecliff Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island. They are investigating the disappearance of Rachel Solando, and mysterious things starts happening to them and particularly Teddy Daniels…

For those of us who have seen various psychological thrillers earlier, the climax of this movie isn’t that surprising. Therefore, the climax wasn’t that unexpected. On the other hand, this kind of movies tends to have particular visuals, and Shutter Island also has nice visuals. In addition, the music is also powerful to give the proper experience of the atmosphere in the movie.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Rann

2010-02-21T13:30:00.003+01:00

New movie from Ram Gopal Varma (RGV) who has made both extremely good and extremely boring movies. This time, the result is average. The movie deals around the role of media in politics and society, and it tells a story where media not only report news, but also make news….

The movie is well edited, and cinematography is also top class as always in RGV movies. Still, something was missing to give THE experience which some of RGV’s movies gives sometimes. Probably the script? Or probably the trailers which revealed too much of the story, and there weren’t anything surprising in the movie and everything too predictable?

Rating: 4 of 6

Pyaar Impossible

2010-02-21T13:25:00.001+01:00

I started to watch this movie in the middle of it since it was playing at home, and it grabbed my interest. The story is about a computer geek (Uday Chopra) who is in love with Alisha (Priyanka Chopra), but can’t tell her. In addition, he has a conflict going on with Dino Morea’s character.

As mentioned, the movie was interesting, but the climax and ending was too clichéful.

Rating: 5/4 of 6

Jo Nesbø: Hodejegerne / The Headhunters

2010-02-16T20:45:00.000+01:00

This novel is independent of Jo Nesbø’s earlier works, and isn’t about the character Harry Hole. The novel is interesting. Actually, the first 70-80 pages were relatively average, but after that the plot picked up a lot.

It is about Roger Brown, who is a successful and overconfident headhunter in the recruiting business. On an assignment, he meets Clas Greve, who Roger regards as perfect candidate for an executive position until Roger founds out something disturbing about him…

Rating: 5 of 6

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

2010-02-16T20:44:00.001+01:00

All right melo drama, almost just like Woody Allen’s earlier work. I probably had higher expectations for this movie, so I was a little bit disappoint with this one. Anyhow, for those who like Woody Allen movies, this is worth a watch.

Rating: 4 of 6

Duplicity

2010-02-16T20:41:00.004+01:00

All right drama comedy spy movie with Clive Owen and Julia Roberts. The movie is about two former spies who join the business world and use their earlier working techniques to make money.

The movie is all right funny, and gives sometimes feeling of being in a category like Ocean’s Eleven, but Duplicity tend to have too many kind of twists. After a while, you’ll notice that nothing is as it seems in the story which will make reduce involving too. On the other side, the movie has cool editing.

It is the director of Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy, who has made this movie. He has earlier also written several scripts, i.e. Bourne movies.

Rating: 4 of 6

Kurbaan

2010-02-16T20:39:00.006+01:00

All right movie about the hot topic in these days; namely terrorism by Islamic fundamentalists. The movie is just average. It began well with fast editing and speed, but slowed down after around 40 minutes and thereafter focuses hugely on drama. New York with a similar topic was a better movie actually.

Rating: 5/4 of 6

Gran Torino

2010-02-07T19:24:00.002+01:00

Good drama from Clint Eastwood. He plays the role of a retired and recently widowed Korean War veteran, and is angry at the world around him. After an episode, where he saves his neighbour, they start making a relationship.

The film marks Eastwood's return to a lead acting role after four years after Million Dollar Baby, and Eastwood has stated that this is his final film as an actor. Sad news, but we hope that he’ll continue to make good movies in the future.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Eagle Eye

2010-02-07T19:18:00.002+01:00

Interesting action thriller about a guy who gets a call and is forced to do some stuff, and thereby gets FBI after him. The phone calls continues coming, and the woman on the other side knows exactly where he is and what he is doing. Sometimes, it reminded of Enemy Of The State, but this one has its own treatment. All in all, well worth a watch.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Rocket Singh - Salesman of The Year

2010-02-07T19:08:00.000+01:00

The movie is made by the team behind Chak De! India. Last time, their movie was about sports and hockey, and this time it’s about the particular field of sales. Harpreet Singh (Ranbir Singh) starts as salesman and experiences a world with corruption and other tricks to just get the sale deal. He takes the case in his hands, and tries to do something with it.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Watchmen

2010-02-07T18:53:00.001+01:00

Another action drama based on comic novels. This movie has been appreciated for its treatment of this genre, but for me, just a waste of time! The movie is too lengthy, and the story is uninspiring. However, the visual effects are very good and very similar to 300.

The story is about watchmen, a group of superheroes, and some of them have even retired from their super hero jobs. But now, a killer is going around and killing them, which brings us to the tagline of the movie: Who will save us now? In it self, the plot seems interesting, but the major focus on the drama element in the story telling gives lots of boredom.

The superheroes here have also been given human characters, which probably is inspired by the new Batman and Spiderman movies. But still, the maker of 300 haven’t succeeded to make a movie which appeals to the masses which can watch movies in this genre.

Rating: 2 of 6

RocknRolla

2010-01-31T18:39:00.000+01:00

Cool action flick by Guy Ritchie. The movie is in the same genre as some of the director’s earlier movies, i.e. Revolver and Snatch. Despite that his earlier movies tend to be very cool, this time he has treated this one repeatedly. The humour, making style etc is almost the same as earlier, and the only difference is the story.

Rating: 4 of 6

Generation Kill

2010-01-31T18:21:00.001+01:00

Interesting drama series made by the makers of The Wire. This series is about the new generation of soldiers in a war atmosphere, and the story deals around US’ invasion of Iraq. The series shows, as The Wire, a realistic picture of the events as possible, and you’ll see young soldiers who suddenly are put in a war. A number of these soldiers are close to brain dead, and their leaders are a big question of wonder on why they have been put in charge without any leadership qualities. Based on this, there wouldn’t be difficult to understand why the American war in Iraq has gone the way it has gone.

The events showed in the series will engage you, and will confirm a lot of things you hear in the media. On the other hand, it also shows how the new generation thinks and acts.

The series is based on a book, written by a reporter in Rolling Stone who was with the military during the invasion.

Rating: 5 of 6

Changeling

2010-01-31T18:19:00.002+01:00

Interesting drama made by Clint Eastwood about a woman (Angelina Jolie) who loses her son. The authorities reluctantly try to find him, and the movie is about the woman’s struggle to find her son. The movie is based on real events in 1928 in Los Angeles, and the makers have done a good job to show the Los Angeles of that particular time.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Frost / Nixon

2010-01-25T09:32:00.001+01:00

Interesting movie based on true incidents. Here is the synopsis, grabbed from the DVD:

From Academy Award®-winning director, Ron Howard (The Da Vinci Code, Apollo 13), comes the electrifying, untold story behind one of the most unforgettable moments in history.

When disgraced President Richard Nixon agreed to an interview with jet-setting television personality, David Frost, he thought he'd found the key to saving his tarnished legacy. But, with a name to make and a reputation to overcome, Frost became one of Nixon's most formidable adversaries and engaged the leader in a charged battle of wits that changed the face of politics forever.

Featuring brilliant portrayals by Frank Langella and Michael Sheen, Frost/Nixon is the fascinating and suspenseful story of truth, accountability, secrets and lies.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Robert Wilson: De skjulte morderne / The Hidden Assassins

2010-01-17T17:54:00.000+01:00

All right novel. Robert Wilson has written several interesting novels, but I’m disappointed with this one. Again, the story deals around terrorism and Muslims are off course involved in some kind. Do authors lack creativity that most off them have to write at least one such novel?

In addition, the first 250 pages are too boring with almost no story evolvement. I think that I rather will like to give chance other authors. Probably enough of this author for some years now.

Rating: 4/3 of 6

District 9

2010-01-17T17:46:00.000+01:00

Incredible science fiction movie! This is one of the most exciting science fiction movies in years with an original and new story. The story deals around that some aliens have arrived Earth and are living side by side with humans.

The start of the movie wasn’t that thrilling, but it picked up a lot not so long afterwards. Actually, this is one of the few movies which I look forward to a possible sequel.

Rating: 5/6 of 6

You Don't Mess With The Zohan / Ikke krøll med Zohan

2010-01-17T17:39:00.001+01:00

Hilarious funny movie about an Isreali super soldier, who fakes his own death in order to pursue his dream of becoming a hairstylist in New York. The movie sometimes shows Palestinians / Middle Easterns as “un civilised” in the humour, but otherwise, the movie is a funny ride.

Rating: 5/4 of 6

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / Mordet på Jesse James av den feige Robert Ford

2010-01-17T17:28:00.000+01:00

Boring Western drama movie, based on a novel with same name. The movie is well made and has good cinematography. But the story in itself is very uninspiring.

Rating: 3/2 of 6

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life / Livets Vugge

2010-01-17T17:12:00.000+01:00

Cool adventurous action movie, just the like the prequel. But the story is too similar to the first movie, for instance, the heroin, Lara, has again an ex boy friend to cooperate with, and again, bad people are hunting for something which will give them power to gain control over the world and the heroin has to save the world. Despite the repetitive script, the movie is hugely entertaining.

Rating: 5 of 6

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

2010-01-17T17:01:00.000+01:00

Cool adventurous action movie based on the well known computer game, Tomb Raider. However, the movie has its own story in order to fit for the movie viewing public.

Despite that the movie came in 2001 and thereby has somehow slowly pace compared to today’s movies, it succeeds to entertain a lot.

The story deals somehow around Illuminati, and it’s irritating that the group is mentioned as “The Enlightened” (“De Opplyste” in Norwegian). What about simply calling them Illuminati? Sometimes, Google Translate can do a better job than these so-called interpreters who make subtitles.

Rating: 5 of 6

The Battle of Red Cliff

2010-01-17T16:39:00.000+01:00

This is the most expensive Asian-financed film till date, with Chinese roots and made by John Woo. John Woo has made several remarkable and memorable movies, i.e. Mission: Impossible II (M:I-2), Face/Off and Broken Arrow. After some not so successful movies after M:I-2, he has made this record breaking Chinese movie.

The Battle of Red Cliff offers the story of battle of Red Cliffs and events during the end of the Han Dynasty in China in year 208. After watching several breathtaking Chinese movies, I had huge expectations for this movie which fell apart. The movie has several good action sequences and is all right made. But as the director has shown in some of his earlier movies, there is lack of use of feelings, which reduce the involvement of the viewer. However, the most interesting part of the movie was several aspects of strategy, and particularly war strategy.

Rating: 4 of 6

Terminator Salvation / Terminator 4

2009-12-31T16:20:00.000+01:00

This is 4th instalment in this movie series. Some of the producers are the same as the previous Terminator-movies, but this time, the overconfident and hyper man, called McG, is the director.

The movie offers an interesting description of apocalyptic world, and the machines are ruling and fighting against humankind. In addition, it also has some thrilling sequences as well. However, you’ll not get attached either to the story or the movie, which happened with some people for Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Rating: 4 of 6

Tum Mile

2009-12-29T18:52:00.001+01:00

Tum Mile is the latest movie from Vishesh Films, which has given several successful movies with Emran Hashmi. They are also known for good music of their movies. But this time, neither was the movie that inspiring, and neither the music. This movie is also marketed as India’s first catastrophe movie, but the low budget movie couldn’t offer exciting dramatic sequences either. Just a time pass movie, which can easily be replaced by another movies.

Rating: 3 of 6

London Dreams

2009-12-29T18:42:00.004+01:00

All right musical drama. It has couple of nice songs, but otherwise the music is uninspiring. The movie isn’t that inspiring either. The final song in the ending was nice executed.

The director, Vipul Shah, has made several blockbusters which I liked, i.e. Waqt: The Race Against Time and Namastey London, and this is the only movie which I didn’t like as much as the mentioned.

Rating: 3 of 6

Entourage – Season 1

2009-12-27T17:33:00.002+01:00

Interesting series, with following synopsis grabbed from a DVD:

Your best friend's star is rising in Hollywood, and there's only one thing to do: join his entourage. Meet Eric, Turtle and Johnny Drama: three guys from Queens dedicated to helping their film-star buddy Vincent Chase navigate the absurdities of modern-day Hollywood - where sex, parties and super-agents rule the town.

Mark Wahlberg is one of the producers, and this show is based on some of his experiences when he came to Hollywood. However, after watching this series, where you sometimes experience too repetitive focus on girls and parties, it’ll not be easy to take all super star actors seriously as hard working and intelligent workers or citizens.

Several of well-known stars have cameos in this series in a role as themselves, i.e. Jessica Alba and Val Kilmer, or someone else in a comic role. This is a plus.

Rating: 5 of 6

3 Idiots

2009-12-27T17:22:00.001+01:00

3 Idiots is from the makers of Munna Bhai-movies, which have been very successful. 3 Idiots also seems very funny in the trailers, so there weren’t any surprise that it started with a bang at the box office.

The story structure of 3 Idiots reminds of Munna Bhai-movies. These movies had their particular themes, i.e. medicine education and Gandhigiri, and this time it’s about engineering education. Boman Irani is also repeated in a kind of comic negative role. The Munna Bhai-movies were also known for being family movies, which you can watch easily with all members in a family. 3 idiots has moved away from this concept, and is not so family oriented anymore. Some of the ingredients you’ll find is “below the navel”-humour and a birth scene. A number of desi families are (still) not comfortable to watch such things together.

Otherwise, the movie has a number of laughter full moments to offer, and some memorable moments.

Rating: 5 of 6

Forrest Gump

2009-12-27T16:53:00.003+01:00

Fantastic and phenomenal all time classic movie.

Rating: 5/6 of 6

Frustrerte Fruer / Desperate Housewives – Season 4

2009-12-27T16:51:00.004+01:00

Interesting series. Actually, in the beginning of this season, it wasn’t that interesting and gave pretty much average experience. The structure of the story, the characters and success formulas used earlier reminded of the previous seasons. But it picked up dramatically afterwards, and the climax was that interesting that it eagered to start on the next season..

Rating: 5/6 of 6

Avatar (3D)

2009-12-27T16:44:00.004+01:00

Avatar is the latest movie adventure James Cameron has to offer to the public. Some lines to put James Cameron in perspective: The guy has given us several remarkable, memorable and huge movies, i.e. The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (T2), True Lies and Titanic. After Titanic, he has been busy with other projects than commercial movies. Several of his movies have been ground-breaking in terms of technological challenges and inventions. T2 was on its release time the most expensive movie, and the CGI effects were pioneering. Titanic was also the most expensive movie when it was released, and there were rumours that the producers of the movie weren’t that happy with the budget overruns. But the movie also turned out to be one of the most profitable in history.

With such an outstanding CV, James Cameron has to give something extraordinary in his latest adventure, so the question is, has he succeeded with it?

The story deals around that men have found an earth-like moon called Pandora, which is inhabited by a civilisation called Na’vis. Pandora and Na’vis have other set of rules than Earth and men. Men regard them as underdeveloped civilisation which live in forests in harmony with the nature and believe in other kind of religions that we are used to. However, the major reason for why men are interested in Pandora is its stock of a valuable mineral. A corporation has sent military recourses to the Pandora to help them harvest such mineral recourses. On the other hand, there is also doing research on the Pandora. On such research, there has been created so-called Avatars. Avatars are hybrid of men and Na’avis, and it looks like Na’avis, but can be controlled by men. One such Avatar has been sent to Na’avis in order to get known to them, and the rest of the story is about this Avatar and its journey into the world of Pandora and its civilisation.

The movie is a great visual and adventurous journey. The Avatars journey to get known to the planet and its civilisation is well described. The story also reminds us of Americas imperialistic agenda to gain control over the world.

When making the movie, there has also been invested a lot in development of 3D technology to give a good watching experience. The watching experience is cool in 3D. However, you notice the 3D effects in the beginning, but you’ll be busy with the story and other elements of the movie that you’ll lose focus on the 3D effects.

All in all, a cool experience.

Rating: 5 of 6

Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani

2009-12-27T15:52:00.002+01:00

Funny movie, made by Rajkumar Santoshi, who has also made several good movies earlier, i.e. Khakee, Family - Ties Of Blood and Andaz Apna Apna. The latter has also gained cult status among the publics as a comedy. Santoshi hasn’t made any comedy after that, so this movie is his first comedy after 15 years and therefore the expectations were huge.

Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani is funny, and has several hilarious moments. There are used several elements from “comic books turned movie”, and actually some similar elements were also used in Andaz Apna Apna. The acting of Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor in a comic atmosphere is really good, and their face expressions are first class.

Despite the fact that the movie is funny etc, it lacks kind of soul. It provides a laughter-full journey, but is nothing you’ll remember some days later.

Rating: 4 of 6

Hancock

2009-12-20T20:04:00.001+01:00

Funny superhero movie. Actually, I’m not that excited for superhero movies. Lots of them are too similar. Therefore, it took some time to motivate myself for this one. But this one turned out to be different from other superhero movies. The superhero in this case is an idiot and hated among people, compared to heros who are perfect and almost glorified and idolised among public in traditional superhero movies. In addition, the climax presents an interesting twist, which also is uncommon in such movies. A very enjoyable movie.

Rating: 5 of 6

Paranormal Activity

2009-12-20T19:56:00.002+01:00

Scary horror movie. The movie is about a couple who experiences paranormal activity in their house. Katie thinks that they are haunted by a ghost, and Micah doesn’t take her that seriously. Micah buys a video camera and insists on filming every thing, also their bedroom when they are asleep. The recorded videos show some interesting stuff, which surely can’t be regarded as normal activity...

This movie is kind of based on the footages from the video recording, which are taking place in the story. This actually gives some kind of realistic feeling of the all, just like Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield.

The unique concept of the movie is a huge plus. It differentiates away from the so-called traditional horror movies with lots of blood and gore, and instead uses other fear elements. Said that, some parts of the movie are too lengthy, despite the movie’s total length of around 1 hour 30 minutes. This creates somehow boredom.

There are several versions of the movie with different endings. The ending in the Norwegian version wasn’t that bad actually.

Rating: 4 of 6

Wake Up S!d

2009-12-20T19:55:00.001+01:00

“Wake up Sid” is an all right drama comedy about wealthy and young Sid, who enjoys his life and doesn’t care about his future. He has no ambitions about what to do other than to spend his father’s money. In fact, one scene where his father asks him what his plans are for the future, the scene reminded me of the scene from Dil Chahta Hai, where Aamir Khan’s character’s father asks him precisely same question. This is not a plus at all and is a sign of minor creativity.

The movie tells Sid’s story and consequences of his life style. The movie has some nice and memorable moments, but the overall experience was just average. The name of Karan Johar, who is the producer of the movie, doesn’t help much to raise the quality of the movie.

Rating: 4 of 6

All the Best

2009-12-16T13:36:00.000+01:00

Funny and hilarious movie made by Rohit Shetty who has made Sunday and Golmaal Returns among others. Ajay Devgan is the producer of the movie in addition to act in it.

The movie is full of “bongian” and the story has almost no logic, but still, this is actually what makes the movie funny and entertaining.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Ac!d Factory

2009-12-16T13:33:00.000+01:00

Boring thriller. The story is actually all right, but due to the loose script, the movie will give a boring experience. The movie starts with that a group of people wake up and experience that have a kind of amnesia in an acid factory. The rest is about to find out whom they are, and why they are there. The climax is just average executed.

Rating: 2/3 of 6

Den Siste Revejakta / The Last Joint Venture

2009-12-16T13:32:00.001+01:00

All right criminal comedy. The movie is based on a novel by Ingvar Ambjørnsen with same title, and deals around two guys who live in late 70’s. Cineuropa has made following synopsis of the movie in English:

The hippie decade is coming to an end, and the eighties are approaching fast. Carl and Robert are two slacker characters who live in harmony with the world around them, and let life pass them by in a perpetual hash high. They earn a little dough on minor sales of pot, in their own opinion providing essential stimulus to a suffering population. After the worst drought of all times in the streets of Oslo, they are now ready for their last great scoop. Their dream of a hippie community in the countryside will finally become a reality! Enter Glenn, a financial backer with ambitious yuppie plans. Carl and Robert awake from their hazy harmony, and are forced to fight back. They’re about to enter a wild, dramatic and hysterically funny trip through the Oslo underworld and all the way to Finnskogen.

As mentioned earlier, the movie was all right and is descent entertainment. The best part is its style, and the makers have put lots of effort to show Oslo set in 70’s.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Arr i Sjelen / Wire in the Blood / Mord i Sinnet – Season 5

2009-12-11T14:42:00.002+01:00

Interesting series, in line with previous seasons.

Rating: 5 of 6

Main aurr Mrs Khanna

2009-12-11T14:40:00.001+01:00

Extremely boring movie. It begins as an interesting drama, with several strange occurrences in script. But afterwards, it turns out to be a silly comedy with drama, and mixture of drama and comedy doesn’t work at all. In addition, several of the characters are simply illogical, boring and irritating. Stay away from this one!

Rating: 2 of 6

Burn After Reading

2009-12-04T15:59:00.002+01:00

Coen brothers have given several good movies, but this time I didn’t like it that much. It is supposed to be dark comedy, but it wasn’t that funny either. Some moments were funny, but otherwise, it was a boring experience.

Rating: 3/2 of 6

Blue

2009-12-04T15:58:00.002+01:00

A movie which desperately tries to be cool, but doesn’t achieve a position at all. The whole experience is just irritating tragic. The script is loose, and story isn’t engaging at all. It all seems like inspired by the American movie “Into the blue”, where the story dealt around finding some treasures in the ocean.

The movie is meant to be the most Bollywood expensive till date. I would in the same breath also regard this one as the largest waste of money till date.

Rating: 2/3 of 6

The Happening

2009-11-23T11:59:00.001+01:00

The Happening is made by M. Night Shyamalan who had The Sixth Sense as a successful debut movie. Afterwards, he has made several movies, but not all of them have been as successful as the first one. In addition, his movies tend to be more boring for every new movie, so I actually had no expectations for “The Happening”. Probably therefore, I was positively surprised by the movie and liked it. It follows a man (Mark Wahlberg) and his family as they try to escape from an inexplicable natural disaster. The plot revolves around a mysterious neurotoxin that causes any person coming into contact with it to commit suicide.

Mark Wahlberg was cool in his role, and it was interesting to watch him in such kind of role. The background music of the movie seemed like heard before in other movie. Anyhow, it works in such movie.

The movie is a mixture of thriller, drama and horror. Actually, it isn’t that scary but still good entertainment.

Rating: 5 of 6

2012

2009-11-23T11:57:00.002+01:00

2012 is the latest adventure of Earth’s doomsday, made by Roland Emmerich who has also made similar blockbusters like The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day and several others earlier. Actually, when you hear that this director has made such a movie, you know what you are going to experience during watching it. The movie is full of huge CGI-effects to show destruction of the Earth, and the story is also average interesting with some situation comedy. If we disregard some of the faults in the script, the movie is great experience.

Rating: 5 of 6

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

2009-11-23T11:56:00.002+01:00

Somehow boring melo-drama-thriller about an atmosphere, where all kind of sinister activities are taking place. The brother couple, Andy and Hand (in form of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke), are planning to rob a jewellery shop, their parent’s jewellery shop. In the meanwhile, Hank has alcohol problems and fails to pay his daughter’s child support. In addition, he also has an affair with a wife, his brother’s wife.

The script has several ingredients to make an interesting movie, but the movie tend to be boring. Woody Allen has also made similar movies, melo-drama-thrillers, which are interesting too, but this one is nothing more than a below average time killer if you have nothing else to do on a Friday evening.

Rating: 3 of 6

The Wire – Season 3

2009-11-17T12:20:00.001+01:00

All right season. Actually, the previous two seasons were better than this one, but this one picked up during climax in the last disks.

Rating: 4 of 6

Tropic Thunder

2009-11-17T12:19:00.003+01:00

Boring movie. It’s a comedy and has some laughing moments, but the rest of it is waste of time.

Rating: 3 of 6

Wanted

2009-11-17T12:18:00.003+01:00

Cool and funny movie with Salman Khan. The movie is directed by Prabhudeva, and has Tamil movie style. Nothing wrong with it, in fact, it gives some freshness to the movie. The script has several weak points, but overall, the movie is good entertainment.

Rating: 5 of 6

Nasim Karim: Izzat

2009-11-12T10:06:00.002+01:00

Boken forteller historien om Noreen, som er oppvokst i Norge og opplever utfordringer knyttet til å leve i denne sammenblandingen av to kulturer. Allerede i begynnelsen av boka skjønner man at hun er blitt utsatt for tvangsekteskap, så resten av boka forteller historien om hvordan hun har havnet i denne situasjonen. Boka har for forøvrig ingenting til felles med den norske filmen Izzat som kom i 2005.

Boka ble utgitt i 1996, og man kan tenke seg at hvor nyskapende den ble opplevd på det tidspunktet hvor man fikk mulighet til å lese om hvordan kvinner opplever å vokse opp i Norge. Temaer og hendelser som blir tatt opp i boka var ikke så kjente og synlige i mediebildet i 1996, som gjør at den ble opplevd som et friskt bidrag til å fortelle slike opplevelser. Per dags dato, dersom man følger med i mediene, så bør man ha klart å få med seg historier som blir beskrevet i boka slik at slike ting oppleves ikke så ”nye” i dag som i 1996. Noe av dette fikk man jo også kjennskap til via Pakkis (Khalid Hussain), og denne gangen er det hendelsene i en kvinnes liv som står i fokus.

Boka er godt skrevet, og språket er slik at den er enkel å forstå for de fleste. Imidlertid, så benyttes det virkemidler for å gjøre fortellingen mer dramatisk og rørende, og et av virkemidlene er at hovedpersonen, Noreen, er en følelsesladet person som ofte gir uttrykk for følelsene sine ved å gråte. Dette er for så vidt greit, men når hun gråter i nesten annet hvert avsnitt i boka, så blir det regelrett for mye. I verste fall opplever man at fortellingen er deprimerende, og det er ikke alltid et godt utgangspunkt for å få en stjerne.

Som en oppsummering kan det sies at boken er godt bidrag, og man må se den i sammenheng med når den kom. En historie som er greit å få med seg, med unntak av all den griningen som forfatteren utsetter oss for…

Terningkast: 5/4 av 6

The Mist

2009-11-11T09:35:00.000+01:00

All right horror based on a work by Stephen King. The movie is about a town which got rounded by mist, and a man comes in warning of something in the mist. The people seal themselves within a store, and we see what fear can do in such circumstances.

The movie has somehow cheap animations, but what else can you ask for when the movie is relatively low-budget..

Rating: 4 of 6

Law Abiding Citizen

2009-11-11T09:31:00.000+01:00

Interesting action thriller about a man (Gerard Butler as Clyde Shelton) whose wife and daughter got killed by some robbers. In the court, the criminals get away without exact justice, so Clyde decides to take the case in his hands in order to bring proper justice.

The movie reminded me of Man on Fire, which also was about a man executing retaliatory actions.

Rating: 5 of 6

Love Aaj Kal

2009-11-01T09:58:00.000+01:00

Interesting and funny love story with Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone, made by Imtiaz Ali from Jab We Met. This is actually the very first movie Saif Ali Khan has produced himself with a partner, and the movie has gained great success at box office.

This movie has some similarities to another Saif Ali Khan movie which came some years back, but I’ll not mention the title in order to not spoil the story :).

Love Aaj Kal tells a story of a modern couple and their relationship and compares it to another (old) love story of Rishi Kapoor’s character in his younger days.

Rating: 5 of 6

Body of Lies

2009-10-31T10:54:00.000+01:00

Interesting action thriller from Ridley Scott. The movie is based on a novel with same title. The story deals around CIA operations in the Middle East and around the world, and what kind of dirty games is played in order to accomplish their missions.

The movie has some very minor similarities to one of my favourite movies, Spy Game, which was made by the brother of Ridley Scott, namely Tony Scott. I thought there would more similarities than actually was case. Still, this doesn’t spoil the watching experience.

Rating: 5 of 6

Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol

2009-10-30T15:52:00.002+01:00

Interesting thriller novel from the author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. This novel is pretty much like his previous book (The Da Vinci Code). Robert Langdon is back and a new controversy of epic dimensions is to be revealed. The brutal Silas from The Da Vinci Code is replaced with an even more evil villain; Mal'akh. And this time Freemason’s multiple century old secret is to be exposed. Help us, Robert Langdon.

The story of the book is catching, and highly enjoyable. Good entertainment actually. On the other side, the after climax story of the book is too boring and propaganda kind of stuff. (Actually, I slept twice when trying to read the last 10-20 pages). The author putted lots of effort to bring Freemasons in good light and trying to answer controversial questions around them. It seems like the author, Dan Brown, is Freemason himself.

Rating: 5 of 6

Skjult / Hidden

2009-10-26T20:28:00.000+01:00

Pretty good thriller / horror movie. It uses several typical tricks in this genre, but still manages to be special. It is the team behind Villmark (Dark Woods) who made this one. Actually, it reminded me of both Villmark and Naboer (Next Door) which are both very good Norwegian horrors/thrillers.

The DVD lacks the commentary by the makers, thumbs down! The climax was actually pretty interesting, and let you think afterwards what actually happened. Therefore, I tried to see the last scenes with the commentary, but there weren’t any commentary…

Rating: 5 of 6

The Informant!

2009-10-26T20:26:00.000+01:00

Funny drama from the director of Ocean’s 11-12-13 franchise. There are rumours that Matt Damon increased his weight with several kilos for this movie, and this can easily be noticed in the movie. The guy looks older, and this was the intention too.

It is based on true events about Mark Whitacre, and this also is described in a non-fictions book. Mark became a whistle blower when he confessed that his employer, ADM, is involved in the illegal activity of price fixing. This is also known as Lysine price-fixing conspiracy. Mark cooperates with FBI in order to get fewer penalties. But FBI will later regret this cooperation since their informer tends to be “unstable”…

The movie is funny, but I didn’t found many hilarious moments. Therefore, it failed to be added up as a top favourite in my book.

Rating: 4 of 6

Lost - Season 4

2009-10-26T20:25:00.001+01:00

This is the best season of the Lost series. The concept of combining flashbacks, current events and flash forward works very well in order to tell the story.

Rating: 5 of 6

The Day The Earth Stood Still

2009-10-19T09:37:00.000+02:00

All right interesting science fiction movie, this is based on a similar movie from the 50’s with same title. The story is about that the Earth is visited by some aliens, and the arrogant US authorities try to take care of this issue. (This is actually not that surprising after watching several Hollywood science fiction movies in where the Earth got visited by aliens).

Keanu Reeves is known for not using so much other face expressions than serious expressions. This works very well in this movie too, where his role demanded a particular body language.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

2009-10-19T09:35:00.002+02:00

I wasn’t looking that much forward to this movie, since I am not a huge X-men fan. Since this one was available on Blu-ray, so I gave it a chance and got positively surprised. The move had a good starting and several good action scenes. Unfortunately, the focus moved to X-men etc in the ending, which reduced the experience.

Rating: 5/4 of 6