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Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
Gracie ruins the movie
Not a huge Burns and Allen person so I don't know if the Mrs North character is too much Gracie or too much Pam. Her ridiculous actions, and non-stop chattering take away completely from the film. She hides evidence from the police, lies to them, and none for any sensible reason except in her own scattered brain I guess. There's no chemistry between her and her husband.
The supporting cast is relatively strong set of character actors who do heir job quite well. The story is thin, confusing. Barnes remembers something and goes to the police? No, goes to mrs north. Th Fuller brush gag was barely funny the first time, after that it was stale and driven to ground. Just like most of the movie. One plus, Keye Luke's character was not as stereotypical of Chinese characters and servants as in most movies of the time.
Blackhat (2015)
Could have been something good
I don't see how anyone could find this movie tense, interesting, a thriller, or even well written. Apparently the requirement for those who say it is good is that the computer/technical side is realistic. it may be (it seemed more realistic than many other TV shows or movies I've seen). But the rest of it was just bad. I made it through the whole movie, although the first 45 minutes had me questioning the wisdom of this. It picked up for 15 minutes in Hong Kong (I believe it was, it was hard to keep up), and then went back downhill into oblivion.
Where to start? The only person who can help the feds is a hacker who's in jail. Isn't that always the way. But the feds get him out (because the feds can get anyone released if it's for national security. The feds tell them he's not getting out of their sights, then let him go off on his own with his girlfriend. The one fed guy doesn't trust him one inch, but hands our hero his phone because he's unable to make a phone call (like what's the black hat going to do, make the signal strength better?), and then doesn't watch him change his tracker refresh to daily (no password protection?). And the fed doesn't check this for days and days until Nick disappears late in the movie.
The love story is completely ridiculous. Did they know each other when Nick was friends with her brother in school or wherever? Or did they just take a cab ride, look at each other a couple of times, and they just felt it was right? Why doesn't this happen to me?
Then we get into the really ridiculous. We've got bad guys who wait for people to leave a car before they launch a bazooka shot at it (I guess waiting until they got back in the car was too easy). And then these supposed professional killers couldn't kill Nick or his girl, and also couldn't move closer in on them, just keep shooting from far away. Then the feds show up and display their complete lack of training. Viola Davis gets out of her car and stands in the middle of the street shooting. Don't bother trying to get behind something. Just stand there to get shot. Even Nick was behind a poster (made of Kevlar, since no bullets penetrated it).
And the reason for blowing up a nuclear power plant? A test run on a virus? They couldn't find something easier/less attention getting? Or why do a test run at all? And when they found it worked, why then wait more weeks to hit their primary target? Just so someone can track you down?
OK, that's it. It was lame. The ending was bad. The movie crawled in pace. It was your average Michael Mann production, worried about style first, the rest later.
Seattle Superstorm (2012)
More government overreach!
This movie just shows you what's wrong with the US government! Did you realize that the regional director of the Disaster Management Agency has the authority to order a massive military assault on a US city, showering the city with missiles until it is just a memory? I didn't either, until I saw this movie! In fact, the president couldn't even order this man to stand down, he had to give orders to some air force officer who tries to stop him! (Luckily for everyone involved he was not able to commit his plan due to a lucky lightening strike).
But don't think for a moment that the stars are out to save the people of Seattle, either. They're just as dastardly, but more subtle. As the superstorm is barreling down onto Seattle, and is just moving into position, the air force officer decides it's time to evacuate the city! Yes, wait until the storm is right on top of you, then put everyone in the streets! Haha, she really didn't like the people of Seattle. I think she must not like the coffee.
We could go onto silly things, like how a Russian scientist can get past several layers of military security, but the ex-NASA guy was being frisked down, even with his ID. Or the DMA guys were at the docks to watch the object crash (do they work there?). Or that the scientists immediately were worried about what the mysterious substance could do to the weather patterns, as opposed to things such as whether it was poisonous or an environmental issue.
But that's our government! Always worried about climate first! And nuking our own cities!
The Client (1994)
Really?
I finally sat down to watch this. I'm not big into 'lawyer' movies, and this plot never made much sense, but it got three stars on the tivo, so I said "sure, why not".
First off, to be clear, I never read the book, nor have I read any Grisham novels.
I never got the plot. Kid somehow finds out 'important' information, but won't tell anyone. Sounds, um, reasonable, sure. He then races to find a lawyer (and he doesn't trust lawyers) in order not to say anything. And I'm still not sure what the lawyer did for him, except get his family out of Memphis (which the DA should have been doing immediately).
I couldn't stand ANY of the characters! Mark Sway just swore a lot and didn't have a clue what he was doing (and some people call him the 'hero'!). Not sure what Reggie the lawyer was trying to protect the boy from, for she seemed far more concerned over the law then the bad guys.
The Barry 'the Blade' character made me wonder whether he was some guy who was posing as a mob killer, and thought that's how they dressed and acted. For he seemed as far from realistic as one could get. The cop that finds Mark has got to be one of the worst cops in Memphis. Kid finds body, you think he's hiding something. So the obvious way to get him to talk? Of course, try to scare it out of him! It always works!
The federal agents seemed to be about as inept as possible. The DA made me wonder why anyone would pay attention to him, let alone the media. The family is in the hospital under police watch, but there's a detective down the hall watching the room? How does that happen? Speaking of the media, how about the supposed newspaper reporter. Taking pictures of the kid in the hospital room? Really? And the newspaper not only gave out his name, but printed a big picture of him?
Finally, this is all about 'finding the body of the senator', but they never explained WHY that was important. A body is just a body. Sure, it can show the senator is truly dead. But not once did we hear "If we can find the body, we're sure to find proof that the blade did this!". Let alone, why would they think they could find it? Had they ever found any of his other victims? And did those not help send him to jail?
Oh, and I didn't even get to the part where they go to NO to find the body for some insane reason.
Anyone who thinks this is even a good movie needs to watch some good movies. Watch the Shawshank Redemption, and then watch this, and you'll see what I mean.