Movie Review: Run Lola Run

Rating: 8.0 out of 10

Review: Very good German language film about a girl running. Well, that's what most of the movie is about. Sort of. I guess it's about feeling helpless/unable to fix a situation and how every action you make, no matter how small, can affect the outcome greatly. Movie was very well done and the music was great. I don't want to give too much plot away, so just go and watch it.

Movie Review: Tropic Thunder

Rating: 8.0 out of 10

Review: Great movie about the making of a Vietnam war movie with pretentious/overrated actors. This was a hilarious movie. The whole concept of a movie about the filming of an over-the-top Hollywood blockbuster movie that is over budget and over acted was great. The actors play stereotypical big name actors and they are fantastic in their humor/portrayal of the Hollywood scene. Great movie, go see it. Oh, and Robet Downey Jr. is amazing! This is the best character acting I've seen in a long time. (What is funny, though, is that it's his character who's doing the amazing character acting. Just adding another layer of funny and confusing)

Movie Review: I Am Legend

Rating: 4.0 out of 10 (original)
Rating: 7.0 out of 10 (alternate version/ending)

Review: The first half of the movie is great. It's about the last guy on Earth after some sort of virus thing has "killed" off the rest of the population (or turned them into vampire/zombies). It has some good action sequences. And it has a bit of foreshadowing to tell the audience that there is more going on than they realize. The problem is that the last half of the movie pretends like the whole plot development and foreshadowing stuff didn't matter. And the ending is just stupid. It makes you mad at the movie. Why go through all of the work of setting up an interesting plot line and ending if you are just going to throw it away for a stupid ending? Well, it turns out that there are two possible ending on the Blu-Ray disk (and possibly the DVD as well). I'm not sure what the back-story on the "alternate version" is, but it is a much better movie. Watch this version, only. The plot development and the foreshadowing make much more sense in this version and the ending is not idiotic. So, in summary, the plot is not as good as the book version, but if you watch the "alternate version", at least you won't end up hating this movie.