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Movie Review – Trade (2007)

By
Dave
Published: March 18, 2009Posted in: UncategorizedTags: ,

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Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
Writer: Jose Rivera (screenplay) and Peter Landesman (story)
Genre: Drama

Trade is not your average happy feel good movie; rather, it is an often gut wrenching drama that should spark some deep emotion in any person with a beating heart. It is about the sex slave trade and how one girl gets caught in the game. The 13 year old is minding her own business when a couple guys kidnap her right off of the street in broad daylight. Then her older brother begins his quest to seek out his sister and revenge against those who took her. Along the way the boy meets up with a Texas investigator who happens along the same path in search of a missing child.

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Although the subject matter will not be easy for most to take in, Trade was well worth the watch. I found myself caring more and more about the characters as the film went along and when someone got hurt it meant something. All too often in films there is a lack of emotion and character depth. Trade brings home a decent amount of emotion without making you feel like losing faith in humanity. Each character has a purpose and drive that is unique from the other characters and it makes the film well rounded.

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The directing aside from the flow and character building is nothing too spectacular. More specifically the cinematography falls a little behind the rest of the film’s quality. This is not to say that the directing was bad in any way, but it could have been more interesting to watch at times. The other slightly less impressive quality of the film was the acting. Although there were a few star quality moments, there was not an actor that consistently stuck out as impressive. None really came off as being particularly bad either though. Kevin Kline has done better work and seemed a little dry in this one, but his character is sort of spent on all of this sex slave trade stuff so it almost makes sense that he doesn’t bring home the most inviting personality.

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All in all the film was able to make me feel sadness; although that would be considered bad by a lot of people, I find it to be a plus. If a movie is able to invoke a reasonably honest emotion within me then I find that it has accomplished something of worth. If I had watched Trade and not sympathized with the characters and the situations they dealt with then I would have said Trade was not a good movie. On the other hand, most people are looking for movies that are simply entertainment, so if you are looking for the cheap laughs this is not your bag.

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The Skinny Version

Raw Score: 773,091
Sharon Movie? No

Review Blitz #20

By
Dave
Published: March 9, 2009Posted in: Review BlitzTags: , , , , ,

My Left Foot (1989)my-left-foot

Daniel Day Lewis proves his brilliance in this film with an astonishing performance. Although this is a slower movie than I was hoping for, it ended up having plenty of purpose and emotion to make the slow moments worth watching. It is sort of sad mostly, but with enough happy moments to keep the mood afloat. I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for a great performance from a great actor or anyone who likes dramas that have a sense of realism. This movie captures both of those things quite well.

Raw Score: 767,102
Sharon Movie? No

Savage Grace (2007)savage-grace

It was a risk I must admit and one that ended up being worse than I had hoped. If I had gotten to the end of the film and felt like there was a purpose for all of the scenes that got us there then possibly I would have been able to give this film a higher rating. Unfortunately the films gross concept and shocking scene after shocking scene did not end up making much of a statement in the end. It is more like the makers were trying to gross out the viewer and had no real reason for it. I can’t recommend this to anyone even though the acting was pretty good.

Raw Score: 503,209
Sharon Movie? No

The Art of Travel (2008)the-art-of-travel

From the first five minutes of the film I thought it was going to be terrible, but it actually got better along the way. The acting started to get decent about half way through and the story or at least things that happened started to get interesting. As it drifted towards the end though, it finally arrived at an inconclusive and abrupt stopping point. Sometimes an inconclusive ending is what I am looking for, but in this case it was terrible. I felt like I had wasted two hours of my life and the more I think about it, I truly did. I will not get those hours back and they were two hours that I could have spent watching something that was actually worthwhile. Don’t bother with this one.

Raw Score: 411,209
Sharon Movie? No

The Duchess (2008)the-duchess

I get the point of the film and it probably is fairly true to the actual events, but it was simply a downer. The story was actually much blander than I had imagined and the conclusion left me wondering what the point was. The acting was fairly good, but Keira Knightley needs to pick a new genre besides period pieces. It seems like every one she is in gets worse and worse; maybe it is just her devotion to the role. I don’t think she is challenging herself with these roles. Ralph Fiennes fit the mold well, but I enjoyed his acting in In Bruges much more than this. Another boring period piece wanders by.

Raw Score: 600,901
Sharon Movie? No

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)the-mummy

You get exactly what you pay for here. This film is everything that the two movies prior to it were with just a few more special effects. It looks good most of the time except the armies of computer generated skeleton warriors. It is not that they really looked bad; rather it was more that I was just over all of the over the top things going on at that point. The weird gag jokes seem more than just a little childish at times and the acting suffers greatly from the poor writing. Nevertheless the action was exciting and the story was just as good as the first two. If you are looking for a quality film then you are looking in the wrong place with this one, but if you are looking for some mindless action/comedy to pass the time then this is right on the money.

Raw Score: 625,209
Sharon Movie? Yes

Movie Review – Noise (2007)

By
Dave
Published: March 2, 2009Posted in: UncategorizedTags: ,

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Director: Henry Bean
Writer: Henry Bean
Genre: Comedy/Crime/Drama

Oddly enough I thought I actually owned this one, but come to find out I do not. There were two movies called noise released in 2007 and one of them was on my Film Movement subscription. After watching this one I organized my DVDs and thought that I had actually rented a movie that I owned. This could easily have happened with all of the movies I am watching and renting and such so it was quite a relief just now when I realized I actually do have a movie called Noise that I have not seen yet.
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This movie is about car alarms and noise that is in the city which drives the main character mad. Although a little over the top and nutty, the point does come across and the film remains entertaining enough. If it had not been for Tim Robbins though I think this movie would have suffered greatly. I like Tim Robbins acting style and ever since Shawshank I have been interested in every movie he is in. Don’t expect any redemption here though; Noise is mediocre to good, not great.
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Tim Robbins performance was key to making the film have purpose and make sense. His character is over the top with his obsession with getting rid of the noise in his town and sometimes the extreme he takes is just too much. Fortunately Robbins is able to make most of it believable as something that someone would actually do which in turn makes you take the movie and message more seriously. The story is simple; someone is fed up with all of the noise in a city and tries to get laws passed to stop the noise because he feels that noise is an attack on a person just as much as a physical attack.

The main complaints are the slow pace and the dreary scenes. It is almost like there was not enough story to fill the whole time they wanted to fill so they had to add a few scenes which did not help to progress the film at all and even drew the viewer away from the task at hand. I still found the film to get the point across, but it could have been better if some of the filler felt a little more relevant. It is not as funny as I had expected with the subject matter and there is very little action.
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Overall Noise delivers on its promise which is to provide a message about the noise all around us. It focuses on getting the viewer to think about noise and how it affects them. Whether this really makes for a great film or not is debatable, but it was not terrible by any stretch. The language and sometimes nudity are a bit much for the sensitive, but if those two things don’t bother you then there is little else to really offend. Noise is worth a watch if only to see another good performance by Tim Robbins and to see a movie about something relevant to most everyone. It makes you want to go out and destroy car alarms.
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The Skinny Version

Raw Score: 691,290
Sharon Movie? No