Friday movie roundup - Oct. 12
Friday, October 12th, 2007
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Good heavens, we sure have a lot of new films opening this weekend. A trend I note among several of them: beautiful cinematography. There are some really good-lookin’ movies here.
The best of the lot is “Michael Clayton,” which is also my review for Film.com this week. It’s an excellent piece of work, a legal thriller that will appeal to film snobs as well as regular ol’ moviegoers.
A film that I assumed would be excellent but that turned out not to be is “Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” a sequel to the splendid “Elizabeth” from 1998. Cate Blanchett plays Queen Elizabeth I again, only this time the story isn’t very cohesive and the film feels listless and dull. ‘Tis a pity.
(I wasn’t a movie critic yet when “Elizabeth” came out, and somehow I never saw it until last weekend, when I Netflixed it in preparation for the sequel. It’s a very engaging and entertaining historical flick. Do see it, if you have not.)
“The Final Season” is a lame Inspiring Sports Drama starring Sean Astin (aka Rudy) (aka the fat tricksy hobbit) (aka the narrator on “Meerkat Manor”) as a high school baseball coach, and it’s their last season, and they’re underdogs, and pfffft.
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