Brothers

This movie was different. I love Natalie Portman; her performance in this movie takes me back to her role in Where The Heart Is minus the cheesy-ness.

I was not expecting this movie. We know what it is about and you are not fooled there, BUT the whole premise of the movie is a bit of a sham. There was no affair, the brother didn't take over anything, didn't violate anything, besides a harmless kiss that never happened again; which is just loneliness taking over.

I wanted to see something like what happened in Pearl Harbor! Do you remember that? Friend dies, leaving girlfriend behind and slimy best friend to take care of her while he is dead. Nope. Not in this movie.


Don't get me entirely wrong, the movie was intense and pretty factual in terms of part-traumatic stress syndrome from the war, but it was kind of dumb. I wanted more scandal and less crazy war hero (who, by the way, doesn't like being called a hero - I agree, he was not a hero).

Anyway, the movie should have ended about 5 minutes before it did. That would have made a much more dramatic ending and it would have gone along with the intensity of the movie. Plus, I am sick of these American-happy-endings.

I've heard talk of this movie being Oscar worthy and the acting being Grammy winning. I disagree. The movie was good, but certainly not award winning!

Expert Says: 3 Stars, Intense

Basic Instinct

So this was Sharon Stone's break through role? She definitely played one hell of a psycho-mind game player. And the whole leg trick. Yup, that would be nani!

The only thing about this movie is there really is no suspense. There are surprises sure, but we are not left hanging. We know from the beginning "who did it," we just don't know why. And we never find out why, it is left hanging. Did she do it for book sales? Did she do it for the story? The attention? You will never know! In fact, you wont even see the devised plan. You just see this twisted story of one woman who killed someone (most likely not her first) and the rest of the people who die in order for her to not be caught.

Oh and throw in a detective who tries to play her game, but ends up doing EXACTLY what she said he would do... fall for the wrong person. Yup, he fell alright. It was only chance that he wasn't offed as well.

Experts Says: 3 Stars, Not quite the psychological thriller I was looking for.

Four Brothers

The review of Four Brothers is going to kick us off for December. Have you seen it yet? You should!

Four Brothers has something for everyone. The men have fights, guns, gangs, and drugs. While the women have content. We see a struggling father trying to make things right. Mark Walberg (enough said). The deep love four adoptive brothers have for their adoptive mother. The search to find how exactly and why the mother was killed. I already said Mark Walberg, right? He is like 1 step down from Gerard Butler and 1 step up from Vin Diesel.

This movie didn't exactly make me cry, but I felt it warm my heart just a little. There is some humor and a lot of confusion. This is one of those movies where you see everything happening but nothing makes any damn sense until the end. And the the ENDING, not to be confused with the end gives you a satisfactorily amount of closer so that you don't get pissed off at the writers and start throwing things at your T.V. screen,

Experts Says: 5 Stars, good for both men and women.