Movies of 2007

after a second viewing of this film im still convinced that in 2007, a year that i find to be one of the best movie years of all time, once is my favorite film of the year. im still blown away with how much the director and lead actors did with so little, only $100,000. the music is mind blowing and the story simple and charming. the shots were amazing for the limited camera equipment and glen hansard set himself up for a great acting or musical career if he chooses to do more. wonderful fim.

this film is amazing. the first hour felt incoherent and without consequence, by the time i walked out of the theatre i was blown away by how brilliant the film is. there was a strong use of false foreshadowing that was not as much tricky as it was calculated. there were long and simple shots, like ones where clooney would be driving in his car for periods of time and you would expect something to happen because so much attention was payed to him driving, and then nothing happens at all, which felt strange in the beginning but added an intensity by the end because nothing ever happened to him until finally, one built up moment where you though it might just be another scene of him driving that ended in something big. the anticipation of events was perfectly executed. the diologue was powerful and the disposition of the characters was atypical. and amidst the brilliance the best part was the performances. clooney gives the best performance of his career as a tired and worn down but brilliant specialist, and he just looks exhausted through the whole film. wilkinson also gives his best and even swinton and pollack were very good. this film deserved its 7 oscar noms and it is clearly one of the best of the year.

so far, this is the best film of the year. i still put transformers ahead of it because that film brought me a lot of joy, but there is no dounbt that this is the best film in 2007 to this point. there was some token nudity that was unavoidable, but i still wish it wasnt there, but this film had a rare classiness amung gangster films. not trashy at all like many others in this genre. denzels performance was oscar worthy and russel crowe was also very good. the story was told well and it moved, this film didnt seem like the nearly three hours that it is. i can assuredly say that this has to be my second favorite gangster film of all time behind road to perdition. it had all the great elements of a good vs. evil struggle and russel crowe gave us a character we could root for. top notch film, one that will be a classic in 10 years.

rediculously, phenomonally, incredibally, wonderfully fantastic in every way. one of the best films i have ever seen in my life. michael bay is usually not very good, but he delivered. there were a few typical michael bay sequences that another director could have done better on, but overall the cgi, acting, and storyline were remarkeable. shia lebeouf was amazing and the casting was done very well. i couldnt think of a single poorly casted role in this film. i got goose bumps on 3 different scenes, especially when you hear optimus speak for the first time. the comedy was great, really funny and never corny, and the action was equally impressive. this is normally not the type of film i would hype up this much but its too good. it made me fall back into the love affair i had with the transformers when i was 5.

spectacular. what a wonderfully delightful film. it was sad but fun at the same time. the sadness struck me on numerous occasions but there was so much in the film that led me to hope that i loved watching it. sandler got a lot of the attention for this film, and he was great, but don cheadle was the guy who performed remarkably in this film. im not normally a liv tyler fan but she was great in this film and it wasnt cluttered with too many distractions, the film stuck to the story perfectly. easily one of the best films of the year so far.

this was a top notch film in every regard, practically perfect. i wanted to give it a full score but its just not quite there, although im hard pressed to find much wrong with it. the language is severe and hard to get through at times, but the acting was great, especially the performance by ed harris, the story is heart felt and thought provoking, and in the end this is one of those rare movies that really means something. it has a deeper point than most films. this film is cluttered with issues of ethics and morality and the end leaves you wondering on at least three occasions, i found myself thinking all three times, "what would i do if i were him?" the answer to those questions will perplex you, they are not easy to come by.

astounding. this film blew me away. the only thing keeping it from perfection is the slightly choppy telling of parts of the story, but there are so many things about this film to love. the cinematography is among the best i have ever seen, period. the locations are beautiful, building an awe within me surrounding the world we live in. the acting, considering no one has heard of these actors, was near perfect. the counterfieters was a great film, but this should have beat it last year for the oscar for best foreign language film. absolutely amazing.

this was an astounding film. it was dark but funny, disturbing but engaging. its not often that movies about hitmen and drug money become masterpieces, but this is one. the end was chaotic and then anticlimatic in a strange shift in momentum, but in all the movie was near perfect. tommy lee jones was really good even though his character was the least necessary to the plot. a great movie.

this is a wonderful movie. in a generally weak genre, this is possibly the best romantic comedy ive seen in the last decade. heart warming and heart breaking at the same time, the story is rather epic. swank was adorable and butler was charming, and the script was passionate without beeing sappy. the irish landscapes were inspiring and this film made me wonder throughout how i might handle such a situation. clever and original, a must watch for anyone who is suspect of the romantic comedy genre. this is a film that might restore your faith.

incredible and inspiring. brilliant acting and moving story telling of the life of william wilberforce. a story that all should know, and a movie that all should see.

everything within me wants to give this movie a higher score, but something that happens at the very end of the movie just ruins much of what i was looking forward to the most about this flick. it was a great movie, an absolutely classic comic book flick. im a big fantastic four fan and a huge silver surfer fan and the surfer was incredible. they couldnt have done him better, he was the best part of the film by far. the story was great and they did a great job building anticipation with each event. but to me, there is no comic villian like galactus. he is one of my all time favorite comic characters, and they could have done a lot of things better with him. even if they werent going to completely show him, the way they "wrap up" his story was terrible. the thing that happens to him in the movie CANNOT happen to galactus. all i have to say is that in the next film, he better be back.

this was a fantastic movie. im almost inclined to score it even higher because i loved it so much. all of the acting across the board was phenomenal and the movie was gripping from start to finish. this was one of those rare stories in hollywood recently where there was a really strong character in all regards that you could root for. christian bales character was a honest family man just trying to earn the respect of his family. russel crowe did a great job as the villian. this film moved quickly and was told well. great flock.

very good movie. i loved it more than the second and about as much as the first. this turned out to be a fantastic trilogy. bourne's story unfolded well and the action was mostly believable. they didnt screw up the story of any side characters and they told the story well enough to understand it the first time through despite the story being very complex. great film.

many critics and fans alike have loudly declared this to be the best film of 2007. it was truly a remarkeable film in all of the objective areas. day-lewis' performance deserves an oscar, far outdoing anyone else this year as he fell in and out between likeability and ruthless rage. he went from hero to villian more effectively than can be fathomed. the art direction, locations, direction, and musical score couldnt have been any better, and the cinematography was probably only exceeded this year by the assassination of jesse james. however, for a film to be a true masterpiece it must satisfy on the subjective end as well as the objective, and the subjective is where this film fell short. the story was truly profound especially when seen as a father and son story, and the themes of greed and the empty chase for vanity in this life where clear and powerful, but the story still never captured the allure of the great films of all time. the end was empty and the depression drawn on in many scenes was understood but hollow. a great film for sure, but this year has definitely produced a short stack of better films.

i loved this movie. will smith did an excellent job and the film flowed well. no time was wasted on the meaningless, i felt that every scene was essential. to see smith create community with dummies and risk his life for his dog shows humanities need for relationship. this is defintely one of the better films of 2007.

definitely one of the better films of 2007. i was suprised i liked this so much because i find fincher to be overrated as a director but this is his best film in my opinion. the casting was perfect and most of the actors put out the best performances of their careers. im really suprised this film isnt getting any awards buzz for the year, the story was well told and the details blended well. an excellent film.

an amazing film without question. let me start with my disclaimer, this film needed to be perfect just to get 4 stars from me because denzel admitted to knowingly and willfully changing major facts in this story for the purpose of manufacturing extra "inspiration". I am strongly against this practice in films based on true stories. if the story is worth telling, tell it the way it happened, if you need to change the story too much then its not worth telling. since he changed the story so much the film needed to be 5 star material just to get 4 stars, and it was. the acting on every front was absolutely phenomenal, the story despite the inaccuracies was beautiful, and the film was shot well and very engaging. one of the best films of 2007 despite its flaws.

it is a tragedy that this film is so underrated and so quickly forgotten. a truly great fairytale, this is a wonderful although bizarre story crafted by neil gaiman. the fantasy was alluring although it was strange to see the great robert deniro play a gay pirate, and the plot was weaved together well. i was transcended into their world for two hours and had more fun than i have with any movie in a while. forget the obsurdety of it all and embrace the silliness that plagued this film.

this was a wonderful movie with great characters and perfect diologue. seeing these two hollywood icons on the screen together was a treat and the film helps you rethink life in a similar way to kurosawa's great film ikiru. a must see.

this was a phenomenal film. total sleeper because i hadnt heard anything about it, i just rented it based on the cast, and it was better than expected. much better. one of the best films of this year so far, the entire cast really delivered. the film was written well and i loved gandolfini's narrative. salma heyak was top notch and the film was engaging but incredibly haunting and sad at the same time. worth a watch.

disney pulls of another really good movie. they pretty much never flop. my 2 year old son watched this twice the morning we got it and the entire time he watched it i kept realizing how inviting it was to kids like him while having a complex story line for adults like me. great storyline and cool plot twists at the end. i liked this movie alot.

this is a tough film to review. the story was total genius, the acting was incredible, and william hurt playing the evil voice inside of mr brooks was brilliant. at the same time, they made a serial killer into a sypathetic character that you wanted to root for, which is a little damented, and the end was very incomplete. when i see a film i want the whole story and the end of this film left too much story untold. ultimately i think i struggled with this one because it was one of the more brilliant films i have ever seen, but it bothered me that i should want to hate mr brooks and the whole time i almost felt bad for the guy. the plot twists with the daughter were also genius. a film filled with difficult paradox which makes it tough to review, but in the end it was masterful.

i enjoyed this movie alot. i wouldnt want too many movies made in this way, but much of the animation was beautiful and the actors performing behind the animation were great. the story deviates from the original but in a good way, and the characters were complex with depth and realism. the only part of this film that i didnt care for was the design of the monster grendel. ive seen other versions of this story on film that had better designs, but this film explored the characters better than past versions.

viggo mortensen was fantastic in this film. cronenbergs film making followed too similar of a pattern from his last film history of violence to the point where some things were practically mirrors of that film but the film was still well made. there was one trashy and pointless sex scene that took this film down a notch, but without that scenen this would have been a top notch film. it was still one of the best ive seen so far this year and the graphic nature of the film was haunting. if you liked history of violence you will like this because in too many ways they were the same film, but it was different enough to be extremely good.

this is a really great film. it was incredibly slow from start to finish, but its the first film ive seen in a while that was better for being slow. if the pace of this film was sped up at all i think it would have missed something. the characters were represented well and steve zahn elevated himself to another caliber of acting in my mind with his performance.

a great film. not quite an epic, but fun to watch and directed very well. the cinematography was great and the music fit each scene perfectly. gerard butler was great, although his scottish accent was a little too noticeable at times since he was playing a greek. the history wasnt meant to be accurate obviously, but i still wish it was more accurate. most of the details were highly inaccurate in very blatant ways. i only with held a 5 star rating because the story was too simple with little character development, i could have done without the porn scenes, and some of the outlandish characters were a little silly. usually if i have this many criticisms of a movie it wouldnt get more than 3 stars, so the fact that im willing to still rate it so high should show how much i liked all of the other elements of this film that i havent criticised. worth watching for sure.

holocaust films are always so interesting and powerful to me, while also being by far the most depressing to me as well. this is a great film and very deserving of its oscar for best foreign language film, but it is incredibly sad all the same. to see that real people suffered such a fate is always disturbing. wonderful film covering an angle of WW2 that many havent heard about.

this is a great movie. the cast was chosen pretty well, and the locations chosen for shooting were excellent. the film did feel a bit rushed, this was one of those times where i would have supported this film going a full 3 hours in length because the story was so epic, but i understand why the film was limited. there were some changes from the novel that were better, and a few that were major downgrades to the story, but overall i loved the film.

this is an exceptional documentary. its astounding that one film can hit on so many themes so well without feeling confused or incoherent. the film details super hero fandom, the grind of the film industry, human pain and suffering, anger, dillusion, the nature of publicity, short sighted fame, and the search for the american dream. i was sad when the film ended because i realized that the people chronicled were searching for something that they believed would fill a hole in their hearts, and it seems they were looking in the wrong places. really a wonderful film.

haunting, stunning, and as real as it gets. i had a spiritual expirience watching this film that cannot be described with words, one of the most impactful films i have ever seen. this is the sort of film that reminds people that the world is a horrible place for many who live in it. a film about fear, suffering, anxiety, and death, this is 85 of the most impactful minutes a person can expirience watching a movie. this film left me heartbroken.

this was a great movie. the story of petey green is portrayed with raw realism and the best part of this film was the performances of every member of the cast. an incredible ensemble led by don cheadle with easily one of the two or three best performances of 2007. im shocked cheadle isnt getting more hype for this role, he was masterful. good flick.

i loved this movie but i was fairly conflicted while watching it. in some regards the main character was a great family man concerned about his family above all else. in other regards he put his own dreams before the well being of his own family in a major way. ultimately it was a good family film and a delight to watch. you really root for the guy to get to space the whole time and they didnt try and tell too much story. they told what they needed to. i was suprised to see bruce willis in this film because they didnt promote him when the movie came out in theatres, he has a decently important role in this film even though it is a small one.

a wonderful film, the cinematography and musical score being the strongest points. the performances were pretty good and the diologue solid, the only major downside was the persona's of the characters. ultimately there were very few likeable characters in the film leaving me disspassionate about their fate's, but the film was well done and worth the watch.

a really good movie. more proof that shia is one of the great young actors in hollywood. a lot like rear window, not quite as mysterious as rear window but more involved and complex. unlike rear window, i never had a doubt in this one that the guy next door was a killer, but the suspense was still done well.

this film was a huge and pleasant suprise to me. i watched it for the curiosity factor and expected little, and i got a really good movie out of it. there were certainly some very corny scenes and the film was basically a less quality rehash of the premise of the bourne series, but overall the story was intriguing, the action was well planned and executed, and the movie was just a lot of fun. i already liked olga kurylenko before this flick, but this only served to increase my awareness of her. this film doesnt touch excellence but it wasnt meant to, it delivered what it was attempting very well. great flick.

much better than I thought it would be. incredible special effects and nic cage was a better johnny blaze than I thought he would be. eva mendes is always a good thing as well. one of the aspects of the ending was very disapointing which came to a conclusion in the second to last scene, but this was a small thing.

really good flick. not as involved, dramatic, or clever as i expected it to be. you really never even expirienced anything of a spy story even though the flick was about catching a spy, it was more a film about relationships and the inner workings of the FBI. It was basically a spy movie that was not about spying. but it was interesting and well acted and worth a watch.

this movie was great. the first 90 minutes was beyond great and the last 30 minutes had some missteps that take it down a notch but it was sti