Review: Fair Game

Director: Doug Liman

Release date: 18 November 2010

Genre: action, drama, biography and thriller (??)

Casting: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Sonya Davison

What?

Let’s start to say that the film is based on a true story and true events. The question is how true the facts are considering we take the side of the weaker party to make up the movie. So ,an undercover CIA agent, married to an ex ambassador becomes in charge of all the Intel concerning Iraq and WMD, an interesting job, in a time when president Bush is motivated to finish his fathers work there. When Watts presents Intel that there's nothing there, the whole system collapses on her, and she becomes the enemy of the state. Who will stand at the end?

Yes?
The main assets of the movie were the actors Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, they were amazing, the roles were well performed and executed. They have a great chemistry between them and the whole marriage looks real. I even liked Penn more than Watts. Since the story was based on real events the viewer understands the meaning and importance of her actions, and connects easily to the personas. The latter half of the movie was good, the flow was better and the spectator starts to feel with the actors and the story.

No?
My main problem was the trailer of the movie. It made you believe it’s going to be a political thriller, which includes danger, running and some action. The movie gives you at most a small hiccup, that's it. The suspense is unreal and nothing to crazy happens, so yes everybody hates you, still not so scary. The introduction for this movie was also way too long. During the fist hour nothing happens, it’s a long explanation of the situation and characters, which of course isn't unneeded but it was to long.

Well

I must admit I was quite disappointed by this movie, because I deeply believed it would be something different. If we leave this fact aside the movie had some positive aspects, so I will not discredit the whole thing because of that.
The beginning was quite boring, but later on the film became spicier, not enough to save it from being, in my opinion a bit lame. So all in all disappointed is the word to use, so because of all the above I grade this one…

Grade: 6 out of 10

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Review: the social network

Director: David Fincher

Release date: 28 October 2010

Genre: Drama, biography, history (actually who cares)

Casting: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake

Memorable quote:
Eduardo Saverin: You better lawyer up, asshole, because I'm not coming back for the 30%. I'm coming back for everything!
And
Marylin Delpy: The site got twenty-two hundred hits within two hours?
Mark Zuckerberg: Thousand.
Marylin Delpy: I'm sorry?
Mark Zuckerberg: Twenty-two *thousand*.

What?
Again this is one of those intros where I’m not sure what to write. Considering the fact that if you don’t know what this movie is about, you probably lived on mars the last couple of years. Well let's say the movie talks about the birth off a country, which at this point reached 600 million citizens. Got the idea, the social network is the declaration of independence of Facebook. The social network gives you the history, the kings and battles of Facebook. Oh and of course the one and only Mark Zuckerberg. Haven’t heard of him either well than just crawl back to the cave where you came from.

Yes?
The movie was anticipated, everyone wanted to watch it and guess what a lot of people watched it. It all started with a brilliant director that brought you, I wouldn’t say big movies, but freaking awesome movies like fight club and Seven. Later on we had a beautiful script, that was based on the book of Mazerich (which is great, yeah I read sometimes too!) and last but not least we had great actors. Eisenberg was perfect for this part, supergeek, not too handsome, but this character was just amazing. I think the movie found his strength from the amazing dialogues found here, in which you almost always find Eisenberg. I believe he was born for this part. Personally I like Timberlake, he has this flashy image that just walks with him, and he too was great for the part. You find in the movie a love hate relationship with Zuckerberg, you like him for what he creates, but hate the fact how he does it and especially to Saverin, especially loved this part.

No?
I’m not sure I liked the switching between all the lawsuits and flashbacks, but it worked out at the end. So maybe we could rethink this but still a minor disturbance for me. I think that’s it actually.

Well
I liked this movie a lot; it was fun to watch and interesting to know a bit more about Facebook. There was a good flow in the movie; you didn’t have to much dry spots. As we all know it got already a couple rewards and I deeply believe it’s going to grab a couple more. Definitely watch it if you haven’t yet get to it and fast, this is the history of our generation, be a part of it. Because of all the above I grade this one…

Grade: 8 out of 10

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