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Well, despite of several negative fact about the movie, I quite like this one. The cinematic concept almost the same with another Ridley Scott's movie American Gangster, but this one is darker and bolder. Great cinematography and directing by Ridley Scott as always can make the story more contrast and radical in every second of it. Di Caprio doing very well on playing an unstabilized undercover agent while Crowe successfully played the master mind of the operation (which I think the role style is almost the same as the one that he has on The Insider). Great controversial movie with a lot of blast to the screen and set in several big City in the world. Entertaining I must say.

I bet many of you watched or want to watch this movie on the basis that people talk about how good it was or the nominations/awards that this movie get in this year movie awards all over the world. Yes, I get that feeling as well, and rushing to watch this movie once I’ve time. Before watching this one, I’ve imagine that the setting and cinematography aren’t far from other Danny Boyle’s legend “Trainspotting� and it is what I actually found indeed. The strength of this movie is the story, which is life survival story combined with love, and dream. The acting was at par, nothing special. However, Danny Boyle make this movie memorable in his direction and with a good touching story and beautiful innocent script in place, it wasn’t hard for him to make this one an impressive movie. Definitely a must watch movie, great contender for this year oscar.

Overall, this is a very enjoyable movie. Although the story is not that strong and considered tasteless, I quite enjoy the setting and acting from all cast. Rebecca Hall and Penelope Cruz are my highlights, while Bardem and Johannson just there to complete them. The script has been the main point of this movie, and I found it very amusing and entertaining, furthermore, it’s also diversified by two languages. Very good movie for family and friends occasion, pay attention to the script and you’ll find what I found. Nice going Woody Allen...

I'm not a fan of this kind of movie, I watched this one to release my stress. I found this movie not there enough to release the stress, not that entertaining, the script is so-so, and the acting is definitely not there. However, I still appreciate the underlying essence of this movie, which is about true love to your best friends that has been hiding for years that always being denied. Totally love Elizabeth Banksâs performance in this movie, but I believe she has more talent to show to the world by taking up more challenging role in the future. If you have enough time, go ahead watch it, but I suggest using your time to watch lots of beautiful movie out there.

Dramatically beautiful movie. I can take a paint as analogy for this movie, since there’s significant contrast and lots of strokes between the emotion and mood on the first half of the movie that totally different with the one in the second half of the movie. The story was fresh and supported by a great script, successfully describing the emotion of love and denial, also give another point of view of ex-Nazi SS members that only following orders and what they feel. The casting was perfect, Kate Winslet perfectly potrait Hanna Schmits, while David Kross was unexpectedly perform very well as the young Michael Berg with his innocently hunger for love and sex, and Ralph Fiennes plays the ending point role as successful lawyer and reader Michael Berg. Kate Winslet acting was very memorable on the court scene which mixing all human emotion within short scene, she deserved her recent oscar winning. Stephen Daldry deserve his oscar nomination which this beautiful directing of his. Overall, one of the best movie in 2008.

Lots of my friend associated this movie to "The Pursuit of Happyness"�, and I'm one of the admirers of that movie, so, I finally dedicate some time to watch this one. Better than expected, the story may not be as strong as The Pursuit of Happyness, but definitely directed better and contain far better acting from Will Smith and other casts. Will Smith is the highlight of this movie, since he gives his full capacity as an actor in this movie. When you see it, you may not directly understand what his character trying to do, but if you see it in a bit and pieces in each scene, you will find out that he is surely doing the best that he can and give a lot of passion and feeling to the character. I believe this movie has give the world a proof that Will Smith is not just a regular actor, heâ??s ready to take challenge in any kind of part. The story is beautifully scripted by Grant Nieporte and properly directed by Gabriele Muccino. Watched it, and I believe you wouldn't regret it.

First, this is Darren Aronofsky’s work, and if you remember Requiem for A Dream, he is always consistent to the word, realistic. So is this movie, realistic story, plus realistic setting, plus realistic emotion, plus realistic tragedy, and this is turns out to be a beautiful collaboration in his direction. Great decision to choose Mickey Rourke to play the leading role, it was similar to what his been through, so as expected, Rourke makes the role personal and perform it beautifully. Hope he gets the oscar for this one, although Sean Penn maybe difficult to conquer. Marisa Tomei is one of actress that can bring herself to the edge to add significant feel to the movie by her performance. And yes, in this movie, Marisa is fantastic, she takes the role as if she has been through those situations, and expected oscar nomination finally came to her. The wrestler is one of the movie highly valued in 2008, definitely a memorable movie for myself.

First, I always like movie based on Nazi history due to their pride, intense and politics. This one is not an exception. Considered this movie as a historical documentary, viewers already know the outcome of this movie before they even see the trailer, however there are still some potential points to make this movie good such as acting, directing, dramatizing plot, cinematography and etc. Bryan Singer and the production team did a good job on several of them such as cinematography and directing, however there’s still something missing on acting and dramatizing the plot. The plot can be explore further or deeper to expand the emotion, and as for acting, I believe the movie could be more intense to give Stauffenberg’s part to actor in Denzel Washington’s caliber rather than Tom Cruise, and also gave Hitler’s part to Bruno Ganz (from the movie “Das Untergang (The Downfall)�), Bruno Ganz is the best actor to play Hitler, hands down. Final say, good movie, but once you watched it, you’ll feel it’s enough for you.