OK so how I think I would like this to work is that I review some not so recent movies. What I mean by that is they are not the highly anticipated top grossing release movies. They are movies that looked cool when they came out but not enough to go see them and then forgot about them by the time they hit the video store. Not to say I will never talk about the latest new release but for the most part I will stick to those unsung hero movies.
Now when I say review, I don't mean thumbs up, thumbs down or 2 out of 5 stars or anything like that. I will just tell you what I think, like talking to someone when you ask what did they do over the weekend. Just honest feedback from my point of view and then you can make your own decision to go see it or not.
Lets start with "Shooter", I will start by saying that I thought it was called "Sniper" because I remember it had something to do with a sniper but all I found was Tom Berenger movies (Sniper 1, 2 & 3) which I mistakenly pronounced to the clerk as Tom Bergeron (America's Funniest Home Videos) which of course got me no where except for some strange looks.
This one has Mark Wahlberg (Boston Native) is an ex-USMC sniper and is asked to help the government prevent a presidential assassination. I won't go into more detail than that but let me say I was pleasantly surprised. Going into it I thought it would be a conspiracy movie that had a lot of twists and turns but to my surprise it was much more violent than I thought it would be and thus more enjoyable. It kept moving and it threw in some twists as expected but caught you off guard at times. The ending was not unexpected but it wasn't your good guy wins and bad guy goes to jail...lets leave it at that, which I appreciated. I enjoyed the whole cast the bad guy you really hated. You felt for the supporting cast. The female lead was someone that I had not heard of before, Kate Mara, in her Jessica Simpson, Dukes of Hazard accent (sorry that is who I thought of every time she spoke). Over all pleasantly surprised, but now reading this you may go watch it and hate it because I stole the innocence of it all.
PS you have to watch out for movies that reference another movie on the cover. i.e. Shooter -"from the director of Training Day". Who cares? You must also watch out for films that rank it up there with other films. "in the tradition of Bourne Identity", normally the kiss of death because you know it will never be as good as they movies that they mention.
Now when I say review, I don't mean thumbs up, thumbs down or 2 out of 5 stars or anything like that. I will just tell you what I think, like talking to someone when you ask what did they do over the weekend. Just honest feedback from my point of view and then you can make your own decision to go see it or not.
Lets start with "Shooter", I will start by saying that I thought it was called "Sniper" because I remember it had something to do with a sniper but all I found was Tom Berenger movies (Sniper 1, 2 & 3) which I mistakenly pronounced to the clerk as Tom Bergeron (America's Funniest Home Videos) which of course got me no where except for some strange looks.
This one has Mark Wahlberg (Boston Native) is an ex-USMC sniper and is asked to help the government prevent a presidential assassination. I won't go into more detail than that but let me say I was pleasantly surprised. Going into it I thought it would be a conspiracy movie that had a lot of twists and turns but to my surprise it was much more violent than I thought it would be and thus more enjoyable. It kept moving and it threw in some twists as expected but caught you off guard at times. The ending was not unexpected but it wasn't your good guy wins and bad guy goes to jail...lets leave it at that, which I appreciated. I enjoyed the whole cast the bad guy you really hated. You felt for the supporting cast. The female lead was someone that I had not heard of before, Kate Mara, in her Jessica Simpson, Dukes of Hazard accent (sorry that is who I thought of every time she spoke). Over all pleasantly surprised, but now reading this you may go watch it and hate it because I stole the innocence of it all.
PS you have to watch out for movies that reference another movie on the cover. i.e. Shooter -"from the director of Training Day". Who cares? You must also watch out for films that rank it up there with other films. "in the tradition of Bourne Identity", normally the kiss of death because you know it will never be as good as they movies that they mention.
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