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From Paris with Love (2010)
am I the only confused one?
Luc Besson's movies fascinate me. Okay, they do – for the most part – require you to suspend your disbelief, but they have a pretty decent story at the same time. And they are fun to watch; it's fun to watch things go "kaboom". Even if there are almost always absolutely no ramifications for blowing up Chinese restaurants and popping caps into waiters.
So when it came to mind that Pierre Morel was also responsible for "Taken" (which I totally loved), I reckoned this movie would be in the same cool vein. While I did enjoy "From Paris", I am still not entirely sure I know just what it was about.
What was it about?
It started with a drug thing, the usual of shutting down a ring; then it went personal 'cause the 'blow' was responsible for the death of some government kid. Then it turns out the kid didn't really exist, and it's all about terrorism (Arab, naturally. So predictable in this climate), and the terrorists need to annihilate representatives of some sort of political conference - which was never really connected to anything in the film, no reasons given for doing such. I think. I really did have some difficulty following the plot as it jumped and skipped from one course of unrelated action to another. Of course it might have helped if I paid more attention to what was going on, and if I didn't allow my head to go off on a tangent at Jonathan Rhys Meyer's cheap porn star goatee – it really aggravated me; what exactly was it doing there?
But yeah – the end really did leave with a "What the f
?" kind of feeling. It just didn't seem to make any sense whatsoever. That being said: I did enjoy it, though was definitely expecting more coherence from the storyline. It still does make for a fun, violent, convoluted romp around Paris. Maybe sometimes nothing really needs to make sense for it to be entertaining.
La Royale. With cheese.
The Book of Eli (2010)
Deliver me, oh lord
I bought this DVD on a whim. I've wanted to see it since I saw the very clever and surreptitious little trailer and thought that it looked like a cool, kickass dystopian sci-fi thriller thing.
It wasn't.
It was instead the tale of an insanely accurate blind holy-roller man doing a long haul across a barren America, being a contradictory self-righteous little muppet along the way. But then I guess that might be typical. It might just be that I'm a borderline atheist and when it was confirmed that this precious, life-giving, life-saving, world-altering book was a bible, I wanted to throw a shoe at my TV. And I would've if I hadn't just bought it.
Ultimately a very disappointing and frustrating film; I am not a fan of being preached at by some dude in a suit, let alone by a Hollywood "futuristic action" movie in disguise; the only reason I sat through all of it was to become even more irritated. And so that I could complain more about it. What really did seem like a good premise was horribly ruined by insidiously religious undertones throughout. That is – until it smacks you upside your head, leaving you feeling cheated.