Yes, I saw it. it’s what happens when you have a husband who wants to see “SHTUFF BLOWINGK UPP!!” a la Arnie movies. I have the following points to say about it:
1. James McAvoy is, as I thought, a good (potentiality great) actor who plays both the beaten down average Dilbert in his cubicle busting a vein in his forehead with contained rage as well as the buff and hardened assassin. He deserves all the airtime he can get in my opinion, so rock on, just do it, yada yada, blah blah. Of course I’d rather see him with longer hair wearing a kilt, but we’ll see if these dues give him some props.
2. Angelina plays Lara Croft again, which is pretty much a bore since you’ve already seen Lara Croft. I know you have, don’t lie. There is ONE really cool thing in this film, however, and that is Angelina’s awesome tattoos. Not the naked backshot, the TATOOS. Yes, they are beautiful.
3. Why the fuck is Morgan Freeman in EVERY FILM ON THE PLANET? WHY? What’s he trying for? Out-banking Bill Gates? Oh ya wait, he’s trying to outbank Michael Caine.
4. Why the fuck is Terrance Stamp playing the background heavy you don’t know if you can trust that he always plays? Snooooooooore
5. Who decided that after we have just elevated ourselves karmically as a nation enjoying watching animated rats that want to cook like chefs, we can take hundreds of live rats and blow them up after feeding them explosives???? What kind of sick fuck thought that was ethically ok?
6. Who knew that the director Timur Bekmambetov was Russian/Kazak???? Maybe that explains his bias against rats???
7. CGI makes everything kind of better, but only kind of. Train scene fails to note that they just killed a trainfull of people, none of whom appear to be present after impact. Again, a screaming lack of ethics. Now in MY film, all the people would be shown dead and the rats would have run out to safety….
8. The curving bullet thing is just dorky and the rewind-and-undestruct sequences have been done before. I hope it was him that did the other film, but I can’t recall the name of the other film I saw it in. Equally immemorable.
9. Nice that it was set in Chicago for a change.
10. Had fun thinking about the prop people stringing ALLLL THOSE STRINGS for all those looms……..That’s when you know the movie is lagging.
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