Movie Blitz!

I saw a bunch of movies recently. Some were new to me, some not so much.

Bourne Ultimatum
Here's another (and perhaps) the last in the series of movies anyway. You may think I'm starting off negatively, however, this couldn't be farther from the truth. The pace of this flick never slowed down. The espionage plot was a little more slow to reveal, and never revealed enough. Even at the end, there were some questions unanswered, luckily, they didn't have to be. Of course, the ending reminded me a bit of X-Men 2. And if you're wondering why, I'm saying 'Of course', you really haven't seen either of them, and you should. But the action sequences (which is why anyone REALLY watches this series) were sweet enough to keep my eyes hidden behind a pillow. Wow. I'm a pansy!

Sicko
As a friend of mine once said, I often find myself agreeing with Michael Moore's opinions, but find his style too one-sided and aggressive. His last, Fahrenheit 911 was perhaps the most anti-anyone-I-don't-like to date. His latest, however, didn't hit me so hard. Perhaps it was because he spent so much time throwing positive light onto Universal Health Care, and in the countries that use them. He actually made me want to move to France. I'm still thinking about it. Of course he attacked 'The Man' - The US government and the Insurance companies, but this is what I expected, and this time, there wasn't really anything I disagreed with. I'm sure he left out ALOT, whether on purpose or because he didn't do all the research, but it was still a pretty enlightening film.

The Good German
An interesting adaptation of the book by the same name. It's filmed as though it was actually a film from the 40s or early 50s. Same kind of camera work and lighting and directing. Brilliant stuff! It was filmed from the perspective of three different people who's crashing lives become intertwined over the mystery of a missing SS numbers man. It's very gritty, which took me by surprise. The language is a bit adult as well as the sex. Though, I felt as though it was necessary. It was as if it made all these old movies truer to themselves.

Lucky Number Slevin
Out of all these movies that were new to me, none were as good as this one. A seemingly unlucky man (Josh Hartnett) is thrust into the middle of two big-time gangsters'(Morgan Freeman and Sir Ben Kingsley) cold war. On top of that he's being hunted by a world-class assassin (Bruce Willis) who won't reveal why. He meets a very eager woman (Lucy Liu) who is very interested in getting to the bottom of this mystery. The direction was brilliant and the humor was very subtle before it hits you like a two-ton Mel Brooks doll. This movie made me want to figure everything out before anything was finished, but it kept stringing me along with it's perplexed characters.