‘Atonement’ Download and Reviews
“Atonement” Movie Details
Atonement tagline: You can only imagine the truth.
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| IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 out of 69,994 votes |
“Atonement” Movie Review
“Atonement” Plot Summary
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.
Amazing!!! Favourite Romantic Movie.
I was completely stunned when I watched Atonement yesterday. From the funny lines to the sad moments, this movie does not fail to amaze me. James McAvoy is by far the shining star in this movie, endowed with unfailing charisma and absolutely adoring accent. The score was impeccable, especially the sound of the typewriter. I loved the scenes from Dunkirk, the hospital, and ,of course, the mansion. It’s truly an amazing movie that I consider to be the best of 2007’s. The ending was rather sad, but it fits perfectly. Keira Knightley was ineffably wonderful with her charming beauty and brilliant performance. One should really go and watch it because it’s a fulfilling experience. I personally give it 10/10.
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‘A Good Year’ Download and Reviews
“A Good Year” Movie Details
A Good Year tagline: Everything matures… eventually.
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| IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 out of 20,739 votes |
“A Good Year” Movie Review
“A Good Year” Plot Summary
A British investment broker inherits his uncle’s chateau and vineyard in Provence, where he spent much of his childhood. He discovers a new laid-back lifestyle as he tries to renovate the estate to be sold. add synopsis
Incredible and Uninvolving
Watching this fantasy of cashing out to live a life of food, wine, sex and sunlit idleness in Provence, you don’t suspend disbelief for a minute. Right at the outset we are shown that Russell Crowe’s character is exactly what his beloved uncle calls him when he cheats at chess as a boy — ‘a little s**t.’ Now grown up, he enjoys making money by cheating, not so much for the money, though that’s nice too, but for the sheer pleasure of dominating others by being smarter, tougher and more ruthless than they are. Since, he’s surrounded by agreeably available women in London (the movie tries to make a running joke of flashes and cleavage shots) it is clear that he needn’t sleep alone. Nothing Crowe does makes us believe that he is less than perfectly satisfied with the life he leads, or that he would give it up to take up with a Provencal girl and contendedly guzzle home grown wine on the terrace. Nothing convinces that he and she are made for each other, or that she should see him as anything but a good looking rich foreigner who’ll be an enjoyable but short-lived roll in the hay. Because Crowe’s boss writes him a thumping severance check when he turns down a partnership and leaves the firm, his choice is too easy to be interesting. His buddy the real estate agent has it right. After six months he’ll be bored to death, up to his ears in some financial shenanigan, and probably fooling around on his honey just to prove to himself that he can get away with it
The subplot with the American cousin never gets its feet untangled because the conflict between them over who deserves the property and what to do with it isn’t fully developed. She’s supposed to be smarter, tougher and more knowledgeable about wine than her youth and good looks indicate, but she doesn’t get to do very much with those qualities. Crowe’s character can’t stand losing. It would have deepened him, and explained his change of life, to have this kid see through him, take him on and beat him at his own game. It would have been a more dramatically satisfying romance to have him try to seduce her, fail, and then fall in love and have to win her. The film hints at those possibilities and immediately backs away
There’s a lot else wrong with the picture. We never feel that Crowe is actually in serious trouble over the financial maneuver that gets him suspended for a week because he never acts like a man who’s job is on the line. There are a number of pointless sexual innuendos involving secondary characters that don’t go anywhere except, perhaps, the cutting room floor. The rental car foul up is formulaic, not credible and therefore not funny. The smack at a couple of clueless American tourists with Southern accents is smug, gratuitous and irritating. Albert Finney’s role of Bacchus as an English gentleman gone native is written by the numbers and phoned in on screen. The flashback structure allows Scott to pull out of the hat whatever rabbits he needs to keep the plot moving, like Crowe’s childhood ability to imitate his uncle’s handwriting and his one childhood encounter with the woman he falls in love with. That actress, by the way, is too young for a character whom we learn is about the same age as Crowe
The only really enjoyable performance is Archie Panjabi (who played Parminder Nagra’s older sister in Bend It Like Beckham) as Crowe’s hip, all knowing secretary. Her work I’d like to see more of
Bottom line is that this is an unsuccessful variant on the formula High Pressure Guy Finds Self And Love In Laid Back Town. Cars and Doc Hollywood did it better. The Luberon region photographs beautifully, but that’s it.
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‘The Bank Job’ Download and Reviews
“The Bank Job” Movie Details
The Bank Job tagline: The true story of a heist gone wrong… in all the right ways.
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| IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 out of 46,844 votes |
“The Bank Job” Movie Review
“The Bank Job” Plot Summary
Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London’s Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don’t realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets – secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal. add synopsis
Better than Most
I recommend this movie
The movie has a well thought out plot. It moves at a good pace that leaves you interested with the actual events in the film
The acting was well done. Jason Statham continues to be one of todays most under-appreciated and underrated actors. Yes, he does do some questionable action movies, but when you put him in a role where one actually needs to ‘act’, he never disappoints
The dialog was ‘catchy’ but still believable. The characters in this movie are believable in their ’sinister’ ways or their ‘everyday joe’ kind of ways. You really do end up hating certain individuals and loving others. There are so many interesting characters that have an interest in the bank heist that you really do want to know how it all ends
There was no unnecessary violence just for the sake of violence and yet at points, it felt like an action thriller
In the end, this is a movie with a great plot, great characters, good dialog and an ending with no holes. AND this movie is missing the Hollywood ‘over the top’ quality that has a tendency to ruin most movies
Definitely worth seeing.
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