Oh I think I remember that. Quite good fun.

Pacific Rim - It won't blow your mind but it's worth catching on the big screen. It's definitely one of the best looking movies I've ever seen!

Don't worry too much about the old 'who's hitting who ffs?' issue - Michael Bay should be strapped into a chair and made to watch this.

I heard that it has not done well at the box office.

I preferred the original, but there again, Steve McQueen always made good films. That said, for a remake, it wasn't too bad.

I caught the last hour of The Way We Were at the weekend. Great to see it on my posh new TV screen and still a good film 40 years later.

Salt

Angelina Jolie stars as a CIA agent who may or may not be a covert russian assassin. Might sound like it has possibilities but it is a load of preposterous rubbish.

2 out of 10


Devil

A cop investigates a suicide when a man leaps from a skyscraper. He finds that a lift is stuck between floors trapping five occupants. When things start taking a horrific turn, it becomes apparent that one of the five might be the devil himself.

Now this was quite good. There are some effective scenes as the cops desperately try to gain access to the lift while witnessing terrible things going on via the lift's CCTV. Although it was nothing special, it does have some tense moments.

6.5 out of 10

Most thrillers are just loads of preposterous rubbish. Salt was trying to be a Bourne film and not succeeding but I'd say it's better than a 2/10. Good enough to watch if it's on TV and you've got nothing else to do, but you'd be better with a DVD of something you like. IIRC there's something odd about the making of that film.. wasn't the lead originally supposed to be Tom Cruise?

That's right.

Maybe Tom was not man enough for the role?

I like action/thrillers but for me they have to be grounded somewhat in reality otherwise there's no tension. Here's the trailer for Salt which shows what I mean. The best action sequence is when Salt is pinned down on a flyover by CIA operatives. She is able to leap off the flyover onto a truck passing below as you can see. But from where she is situated there's no way she could have even seen the truck approaching, much less timed her jump. You can also see how she jumps off a speeding subway train to simply land safely on the ground. There's a later sequence involving a lift which is just ridiculous.

This isn't a superhero movie, though, and once you see this you never really feel that the Jolie character is going to come to harm and so the movie is just something you watch rather than becoming involved in. It's the same kind of problem that marred writer Kurt Wimmer's earlier movies Equilibrium and Ultraviolet. You can see why Cruise left the project after claiming it was a little to similar to his Mission Impossible franchise, but whereas, for example, Mission Impossible 1 got the balance between fantasy and reality about right (for me), Salt crosses the line into absurdity once too often.

I watched The Full Monty again last night. Brilliant film. Hasn't dated at all.

Aye, it's a classic that, Post Office queue scene one of the all-time great british film scenes.

I was really laughing in lots of places. Not many films can do that epecially if you've seen them before.

Love the bit at the beginning too with the steel girders and the lady peeing standing up.

Especially as we have long dole queues in old steel towns again.


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Welcome To The Punch - Starts off as a really glossy British crime movie (you'll recognise just about every face in it) but unfortunately hasn't the wit to be anything else. As ever with these things, you're supposed to be surprised by the endless double-crosses. Oh, and the entire film looks like this



What the hell's wrong with directors these days when it comes to lighting and filtering? Some of you guys might know... is it a way of avoiding hassle in processing and editing with a 'constant' while appearing moody or something? Because all it is is overused and pretty annoying IMO.

By the time this comes on TV (won't be long), the ads will extend it to two hours or over. It's dumb in an hour thirty five. Oh, I nearly forgot. The film's loaded with professionals of every hue that can't shoot in a straight line. Seriously, we're talking A-Team here.