Toy Fight Productions, Brightlight Pictures, Sayaka Producciones Audiovisuales,

Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens, Austin Stowell, Tim Blake Nelson

Gloria (Anne Hathaway) is a young woman with a serious drinking problem. She lives with her boyfriend Tim (Dan Stevens) who is fed up with her constant partying and drunkenness and finally kicks her out of the apartment. Gloria has nowhere to go except to her old home town where she settles in. She quickly runs into Oscar (Jason Sudekis) who is an old friend from elementary school who owns a bar and kind of takes Gloria under his wing, giving her a job. She’s trying hard to clean up her life, but still finds herself blacking out, and drinking after work until dawn. Meanwhile, a couple huge monsters are attacking Seoul Korea, a giant monster and a giant robot. But gradually as Gloria keeps reflecting on her past and the events in Seoul, she gradually comes to the understanding that someway she’s connected to the happenings across the world and is having trouble dealing with it, and the sinister secrets Oscar is hiding.

This is an ODD movie. There is very little here that makes sense, and it does require a complete suspension of belief as there is no logical connection to what is going on here. This is sort of like a cross between a fairy tale, and perhaps an allegory or message movie of some sort. Hathaway is very good in this most unusual performance I’ve seen her pull off, although you may recognize a couple of her past characters in the mix. Jason Sudekis is hard to rate, as he does fine in portraying his character, but his character is so very disturbing and unlikable so it’s hard to put your finger on his performance. This movie is advertised as a comedy, but I can’t see it. It’s dark, and disturbing, and certainly not a comedy at all in my opinion. But I found it a very entertaining movie with lots of good things to sink your teeth into. I found it very compelling, even though I still don’t understand it, that actually works for this movie. There is a wrap up in the end, but you’re still left with a “What the Heck” kind of feeling when it’s over. There’s certainly not a very happy ending for Gloria, but it’s certainly understandable. All in all, I found this a good movie and I really enjoyed watching it, although if you go into it looking for a light comedy like Ella Enchanted, you’re going to be seriously disappointed. Likewise, you could try to pin it as a horror or monster movie which it isn’t either. The creatures only take up a few percent of the screen time, and they are rather unimportant to the mood and message of the film. Don’t go in looking for either of these, but look for a very unusual independent film, not much like anything you’ve seen before, and if you can suspend belief and stop looking at the scientific truths of the movie, you’ll see an entertaining film.

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Boll Kino Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, Herold Productions, Brightlight Pictures

Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies, Ron Perlman, Claire Forlani, Kristanna Loken, Matthew Lillard, Brian J. White, Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds, Will Sanderson, Mike Dopud, Tania Saulnier

Farmer (Jason Statham), who was adopted by his village in the kingdom of Ehb has a simple life. But when his wife and son leave for town to sell vegetables, the farm is attacked by a bunch of creatures called Krugs. His neighbor and friend help Farmer to defeat them, but when he arrives in the town, his wife has been captured and his son killed. The Krugs are controlled by an evil wizard Gallian (Ray Liotta) and he is responsible, so this starts Farmer and a bunch of heroes to start off on a quest to save King Konreid (Burt Reynolds) and protect the kingdom. This film was based on the popular role-playing game Dungeon Siege.

Obviously this film was made in 2007 to try to cache in on the popularity of stories like Lord of the Rings. I haven’t played the video game, so I can’t compare it to that, but it is not the strongest of films. However, it is a simple adventure/fanstasy movie that delevers just that. Ray Liotta is very badly cast as the evil magician. He’s a good guy and a decent actor, but the heavy Brooklyn accent makes him seem really out of place in a medieval world of monsters and wizards. Aside from that, though, it’s pretty decently cast. Leelee Sobieski is a unique character, as she very mysteriously appears in a scene from time to time. She must be a character from the game, but I never quite caught on, but it’s lucky we had her cause she did some damage to the bad guys. 🙂

Obviously not a mainstream blockbuster of a film, but one of those that you may have missed that is a good rainy afternoon adventure film. Definitely a boy’s movie, but those are nice now and then. Lots of great battles and heroes that stand up for right. It’s an escape that works once in a while.

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