Sunday, 27 January 2008

Wire in the Blood / Arr i Sjelen - Season 2

Great series, and has even improved a lot since the previous season. This season consists of four episodes, and I will say that every episode is actually better than an average movie with topic about capturing-serial-killer. In this season, the makers have played with different story telling concepts, and at the same time been loyal to the overall theme.

Rating: 6 of 6

Münich / München

Münich is the story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate the 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Münich massacre of 11 Israeli athletes. The movie isn’t as pro-Israel as we can have thought if we take into consideration the director’s, Steven Spielberg, Jewish and pro-Israeli background. The director has highlighted his standpoints, which also are highly inspired by the book Vengeance.

The movie is categorized as a thriller, but I think the suspense aspect isn’t that high. The movie is much more drama than thriller. In addition, I think it’s too long, but you don’t get so bored because the script is good which evolves the story forward. The movie is well made in many respects, i.e. script, background score, the visual style etc. Unfortunately, the length smashes the movie watching experience…

Rating: 3 of 6

Bombay to Bangkok

This movie comes from the team behind the award winning “Iqbal”. The special thing with Iqbal was its unique story and its plot. “Bombay to Bangkok” disappoints to some extent if we compare it to Iqbal. But still not a bad movie at all and it has its own unique plot based on humor and drama.

Rating: 4 of 6

Avsløringen / Breach

This movie is inspired from a real story where there was discovered in 2001 a double agent in FBI in USA who has been selling vital information to Soviet Union and later Russia for 20 years. The plot was interesting, and the makers tried to make a thriller of the story. Unfortunately, I don’t find the high suspense factor in these so-called thrillers in these days, and these movies should rather be called dramas instead of thrillers. This movie was also nice, and had suspense somehow above average.

Rating: 4 of 6

Monday, 21 January 2008

National Treasure - Book of Secrets

Adventurous action movie, which follows in the same path as the previous movie in this series. Great entertainment.

Rating: 5 of 6

Sunday, 20 January 2008

The Number 23 (Nummer 23)

Interesting movie about a guy who feels that his life and his surrounding can be summarised to number 23. He gets panicked by this, and the movie is about how he deals with it.

The movie has nice visuals effects, and some places it is noir themes too, which suited the story well. Jim Carrey has given a performance in this thriller, which is very different from his traditional comic roles.

Rating: 4 of 6

Halla Bol

OK movie. Seems like that the director was in rush at the ending, because it went over quickly at the end.

Rating: 4 of 6

Sunday, 13 January 2008

Robert Wilson: De forsvunne hendene (The Silent and the Damned)

Interesting criminal novel, which also won the award for best European crime novel in 2006. This is the second novel in Javier Falcon series. The first novel in this series is “The Blind Man of Seville”, which I started on twice, but never got motivated to finish it and only read around 10 pages or something.

“De forsvunne hendene” has several titles and here are some of them:

Norwegian: De forsvunne hendene
English: The Silent and the Damned
American: The Vanished Hands

Rating: 5 of 6

Saturday, 12 January 2008

Rehguzar

Lost movie with strange and stupid characters, boring script and even more boring music and finally totally screwed up execution.

Rating: 1 of 6

Laaga Chunari Mein Daag

OK and time pass movie. I didn’t found anything special with this one. The topic of the movie could have been an advantage from an artistic point of view, but Julie, which came some years ago had similar topic. (The topic is the destiny of a female escort).

Rating: 4 of 6