Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Another movie review.....better late than never!



Ok, so these movie reviews are not exactly weekly as I had planned but living in Ottawa one has to deal with a few natural circumstances; mainly weather; mainly snow!

Some Tuesday's I don't feel like battling through the slush, snow and ice or the ploughs, salt and bad drivers. I also have that bad knee that is still causing some 'limpage'.

Anyway - it's Spring, right? Right! So I decided today was a good day to see a film and write about it.

I had a load to pick from as the last movie I saw was way back in February and was Jumper. (see last post). The films on offer were all new(ish) but I was in the mood for some cards, Vegas and a sprinkling of Spacey and Fishburne so '21' it was.

Now I'm aware of gambling films and the plots surrounding 'counting cards' and frankly this film offered nothing new really; it was the way in which the story was told that made this film a nice story with a happy ending.

So in a nutshell; Spacey brilliant MIT professor has a gang of genii students who, as a team, take Vegas for a few grand each weekend by counting cards. Now, any system needs to have rules and as we all know - when you start to win big you start to get emotional rather than follow the rules - this happens and the team breaks up and then a few losses and betrayals occur. I'll not go into too much detail as it would spoil the film for you.

Suffice to say that it was a good film that was 123 minutes of 'cruise control' for Spacey; one of my favorite actors, this was no stretch for his talent. It was nice to see Laurence Fishburne (larger than life!!) who had a decent role but I still always see him as Morpheus - not my fault.

The rest of the cast was ok - I fail to see the continuing attraction casting directors have with Jim Sturgess but as he is a Brit I'll not dwell too much. Kate Bosworth does a good job as the love interest but again - no stretch there. Still, we'll be seeing much more of her in movies to come, I'm sure.

I was going to see another movie and it probably would have been The Bank Job
but the seats at the cinema were so hard and uncomfortable I decided I couldn't do a 'TMT' (two movie tuesday). Why are cinema seats so uncomfortable? Beats me - one would have thought that they would want you to enjoy a movie instead of shifting around trying to beat the 'numb bum' or general 'arse ache'.

Until next week dear reader.........

Drude.