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Everyman's War (2009)
Scripting poor & acting wooden. A big miss.
Hoped for more, a Band of Brothers type movie perhaps? Sadly no, the script was terrible & dialog was flat, contrived & generally cringe-worthy. The acting was amateurish & forced, no realism in the characters or in the delivery. I could barely watch in the end. The scene with the repeated cuts back to the same dead body was painful to watch. The action scenes were cumbersome & predictable, in fact its hard to imagine a poorer depiction of events. I didn't feel connected to any character portrayed in this movie
Production values were low and it shows, that doesn't mean that low budget should equal low quality cinema, but in this case it only adds to the general malaise.
Not one for my tastes, missed by a mile.
Real Steel (2011)
"Best movie eva." Dannen, 8yrs old
OK, I know you die-hard film reviewers take your job very seriously so no disrespect, but really, getting your panties in a bunch over this film, well, its just not worth it. I just finished watching this movie, with my attention-deficit prone kids, Grace, 9yrs & Dannen, 8yrs and their rating was that it was probably the best movie ever. Thats 10/10 in anybody's language. ....and really, thats the only rating that counts. Considering the target audience, the bonus was, mum & dad could watch it too and have fun with it. Its a kids/family movie, it doesn't bear any closer scrutiny than that. Those blatantly negative reviewers either, 1. Never had kids, or 2. Forgot what it was to be a kid, or 3. Take their movie reviewing career waaaay too seriously. I only signed up with (whatsitcalled?) oh, thats it, IMDb.com so I could comment on this movie as I normally am too high-brow for you lot ;), but, in the interests of promoting quality family-time, I can only suggest, watch this movie with your kids. You will smile along the way and as my boy said at the conclusion, "Yeah dad, prob best movie eva..."