January 5 - 7
Blood Brothers
Blood Brothers is a movie that started with a semi-interesting premise but quickly falls into an over-dramatized version of pretty generic events. The story seems to be driven completely by random and out-of-the-blue plot points and the twins death foreshadowing seems forced and out of place. The two strongest actors in the film (Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman) are barely even seen and is a large waste of talent. In the end its not terribly interesting and a lot of the choices made by the characters seem largely unbelievable.
Acting - 4.5
Plot - 3.1
Directing - 3.7
OVERALL - 38%
The Good, The Bad, and the Dead
A somewhat out-there and strange zombie apocalypse movie, The Good, the Bad, and The Dead also had an interesting plot as well as some memorable characters. Although the comedy element seems some-what out of place at times and the toilet joke in the stand-off deflated the situation a bit, the movie mostly managed to strike a nice balance juggling it's many genres. It also managed to be pretty strong in both it's acting and it's direction.
Acting - 6.7
Plot - 7.3
Directing - 7.0
OVERALL - 70%