Angels and Demons:

Doesn’t feel as long as a 150 minutes movie.

Star Trek:

You have to accept it before you like it.

Revolutionary Road:

Explosive acting; forced story.

Frost/Nixon:

Unbiased charactor studies with a bit of Hollywood exaggeration.

Burn After Reading:

Witty, Smart, and Hilarious.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona:

Spain’s buildings and gardens are fresher than the story.

This is a movie shouldn’t have been made. Rachel Weisz was smart. She chose to drop out because of the bad script. For those who didn’t drop out, they seems tired and they don’t connect to each other at all. It’s a shame to bring Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh into this. They have some good actings but not to the level they have reached, and certainly cannot compensate the overall boring story.

On the contrary to the critics who rave about “The Dark Night“, I don’t like it very much. Someone even claims this is a Oscar contender, but I found it is too dark and there are too many loopholes. The bad guys just keep winning, and the movie just seems never end. How is it possible the joker could plan himself being captured so he can bomb the police station? How is it possible the joker who almost works alone could coordinate massive plan to control the ferry and the hostages at the same time? And what on earth the batman’s moral standpoint is to keep Joker alive everytime he captures Joker? Heath Ledger gave a stunting performance as the Joker, but the industry just wants to take the profit one last time from him in this movie.

I like “Mamma Mia!” a little better, but mostly because those songs are just so familiar. Amanda Seyfried, who plays Meryl Streep‘s daughter, Sophie, really sings well. The movies seems a little rushed. The song is generally related to the scenes, but often the sentiment is stronger than the story that leads to it, which give you a feeling that the movie is staged. It is indeed should be a show on the stage.