Early reviews of Stallone's latest action extravaganza confirm my worst fears. After seeing the film, I will say it's worth seeing just because of the one scene with Stallone, Willis and Schwarzenegger, though can't say that's worth the price of admission. On the other hand, I have also seen Scott Pilgrim and completely feel it is worth the price.
Go see:
Hollywood Studios:
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - Universal - Rated PG-13
Like "Dick Tracy," "Sin City" and "300" before it, Wright has, in the words of French film theorist André Bazin, the ability to capture the unique essence of one medium (comics) within another (film) and his stylistic remediations are stunning adaptations of the source material...read more.
Independent & Foreign:
Animal Kingdom - SPC - Rated R
The crime family/saga film is practically a tradition in Hollywood. With well established rules, stock characters and even stock stories the genre has largely run itself into a rut. The inner workings of the large crime families are general knowledge and really, the entire idea of the successful contemporary crime family is practically a lifestyle that's packaged and branded. So how wonderfully bracing it is that from the start of writer/director David Michôd's debut feature film, he tosses out everything that has become routine in the genre and starts from scratch...read more.
Enjoy the movies.
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