Steven Vincent Gee (husky10000years)

This movie is Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's darkly humorous follow-up to their Oscar-winning masterpiece, No Country for Old Men, a grimly serious work that took little time out for comic relief. Burn After Reading certainly adheres to the customary Coen Brothers formula where a heightened quirkiness and a deliberately disjointed storyline are coupled with sudden flare-ups of violence and the unexpected deaths of major characters. While the refusal to follow a predictable narrative path is one of the chief selling points of any Coen Brothers movie, the fact of the matter is that, in the case of Burn After Reading, the script probably could have used a few more revisions to bring the disparate elements more satisfactorily in line with one another. Too often it feels as if the movie itself is rambling around pointlessly, without any clear direction or purpose. The best thing about Burn After Reading is the delicious performances from a cast that any director would give his eyeteeth to work with. John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Goerge Clooney and Tilda Swinton all manage to define their characters through individualized quirks without ever going over the top and reducing their characters to caricatures. But it is Brad Pitt who steals every scene he's in as the nerdy, hyper kinetic doofus who fancies himself a double-naught spy fit to stand alongside the James Bond of the world. Brad Pitt has rarely been this winning. This movie is a frequently hilarious movie that is vastly preferable to all those cookie-cutter comedies that can be found habitually ensconced in the neighborhood multiplexes.

It's a little surprising that the filmmakers opted for Chun-Li instead of the signature character of Ryu. Kristin Kreuk may be a looker and her personal grounding in gymnastics and martial arts do help, but she's ultimately let down by a weak plot and some very weak supporting characters. As if the villains were good enough, being nothing but bland and uninteresting. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is a straight forward movie without much depth in its story and it's relatively lower production budget translates to many of the jazzy special prowess in the game being considerably toned down. Perhaps director Andrzej Bartkowiak's intention was to have it more rooted to reality, but therein lies the danger see, because this movie has tremendous parallels with that of another super-powered movie called Elektra. Both have recognizable female actresses in the lead role and they share a plot involving secret organizations, mystical healing, an experienced teacher to learn the ropes from and plenty of hokey martial arts. Even the training sequence looks super summarized, uninspiring and filled with unremarkable, clichéd dialogue. This movie has an origin story and depending on which camp you're on, you may or may not agree with some of the tweaks made here to accommodate the film version of things. Despite being called "Street Fighter", the fights here are nothing too fantastic or memorable and looks comfortably in place with many B-grade action movies out there, with the occasional lapsing into the crutch of having the fight scenes edited in double quick time.

The PG version of Apocalypto. Well directed and pretty exciting and visually very beautiful. Camilla Bell and Steven Strait were awesome together.

Another great Walt Disney's film. It's really well-animated. The drawings in this were incredible, it was like each scene was a painting.