Movie Reviews: Open Water, King Arthur, Hero & Resident Evil: Apocolypse
Posted by kheon Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:32:00 GMT
Now that I’m finally blogging here at kyleheon.com I figured it would be nice to post mini movie reviews of the movies my wife and I watch over the week[end] seeing as how we blow through so many a month (courtesy of Netflix).
This weekend we managed to land a few of the bigger titles released recently. Here is how things played out.
Open Water – The beginning of this movie had some really cheesy acting and it looked like a low budget film. The saying that it is Jaws meets Blair Witch Project is pretty accurate. Once things get going though it’s pretty intense. There was a lot of great camera use to highten the intensity while the two were trapped out at sea. It is not overly gory either which I was somewhat expecting. I give this a 3.5 star rating.
King Arthur – This version of the King Arthur story is considerably different then that of Excalibur or The First Knight (a couple of my favorites). It was a much more brutal portrayal but in the end it was an enjoyable film. I give this one a 4 star rating.
Hero – As for Hero this was a incredible movie. My wife and I really liked Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and this movie is very similar. We watched the subtiltled version (as always) because we struggle with dubbed versions because the voices never match up with the lips and it’s frustrating to watch. It was not at all hard to read the subtitles while still enjoying the movie as most of the dialogue scenes were pretty motionless and there was little to no dialogue during the action scenes. You don’t miss anything. This one gets a 5 star rating.
Resident Evil: Apocolypse – As far as video game movies go this one is not half-bad. Overall the monster portrayal seems pretty close to that of the game series, although I have fairly limited experience with the series, knowing the storyline only. There is one ongoing item that was pretty lame but I will not spoil that here. This one gets 4 stars.