Category Archives: Meh… (3 out of 5)
Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Originally Posted June 25th, 2010 It’s Christmas Eve in Stockholm, and disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist is given an intriguing proposition: learn what happened to the heir of the industrious Vangar family, who disappeared forty years ago, in exchange for the proof that can restore his name. A hesitant Mikael accepts, but before long, he becomes …
Review: Prometheus
At what point is a child a separate entity from its parent – or can it ever be? It’s been 33 years since Alien, time enough for someone to become their own person and begin having offspring of their own. Alien, being the groundbreaking bolt out of the blue that it was, didn’t have inherited …
Review: Men in Black 3
Men in Black III is one of those movies that, according to all accepted rules of moviemaking, shouldn’t be nearly as good as it is. Here we’ve got the third instalment of a high concept comedy, that’s ten years out from a brutally disappointing sequel, with a lead who hasn’t been in a movie in …
Review: The Debt
Audiences are trained to be sceptical; you’re always taking a risk with the $11 you fork over for a ticket and it’s a mentality that makes some films easier to diagnose than appreciate, as one major flaw can almost always overshadow present successes. As crippling defects go, The Debt has a big one, in the form of …
