Films worth a watch.

[Kingy]

Run All Night.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2199571/

Quote:Professional Brooklyn hitman Jimmy Conlon is more commonly known as THE GRAVEDIGGER. Jimmy was a mob hit-man, who was best friends with his boss Sean Maguire. But when Jimmy's son, Michael, is marked for death by the mob, Jimmy must go up against Sean to protect Michael at all costs. Together, he and Michael must avoid corrupt cops, contract killers and the mob to survive the night.

Pretty solid cast headed by Liam Neeson, Ed Harris and an actor I do like a lot - Joel Kinnaman (Robocop and The Killing US).

I quite like a couple of Neesons films. The action/ unplug your brains ones like Taken 1 and Unknown. With that in mind I liked the look of this film. It didn't disappoint. Bit of mindless violence with a twist of redemption and a twisted mob boss hellbent on revenge ... whats not to like!
Lost my internet 3/4 way through the film (terminal - 5 days before a new router sorted it!) so watched this in two parts. The fact that didn't spoil it says a lot about the film - in so much that its just a generic action film that you can take or leave.

I thought is was good. Not brilliant - and unwound just as I thought it might. Nothing wrong with that though. 6/10.



Ex Machina

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/

Quote:Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

I'd heard lots of good things about this film so avoided spoilers so I could watch it.

I found it quite tedious at times and a couple of the reveals were too obvious to carry any weight.
It did draw you in though and make you consider Calebs position as if it were you, which was clever and makes you think afterwards and go back through the storyline in your head. In that respect the writing is quite clever - and the acting (with so few characters involved) is very good. It needs to be to make the film work.
IMDb gives it an 8. Bit high for me that. Probably a reflection on my taste tbh as I prefer to take my brain out and roll with a film when I get chance to watch one, but I'd say 6.5.