Movie: Exodus 3D

Spectacular visuals, but lots of dull bits as well.

I'm not religious at all, so I was hoping that, although this is a bible story and subject to debate, there was not going to be much in the way of the presence of god. Fortunately it was fine. God is mentioned, but fairly briefly. God makes an appearance as a small child, but it is left up to the viewer to determine if the child is literally god, or just a figment of Moses's imagination after being hit on the head by a large rock.

The ending was a bit anti-climactic. Moses drives into the village with the ten commandments in the back of his wagon. Fade to black, credits. Mind you, we were just subjected to a fantastic rendition of the parting of the Red sea. That sequence alone was worth watching the whole movie for. And you really need to see it on the big screen in 3D. It would be completely diminished on a TV, no matter how big it is.

Good to see a couple of Aussie boys in important roles. Joel Edgerton plays Rameses, and Ben Mendelsohn plays the weaselly viceroy.

Movie: Fury

This movie, I am happy to say, is just a good old fashioned WWII war movie, but made with the advantages of modern technology.

The casting of this movie is what makes the whole thing work. You have Brad Pitt, who just gets better as he gets older, as the leader who is most at home in his tank. Then you have Shia LeBeouf, who does his best work ever with this role. I just wish he gets himself sorted out because he is clearly a very talented actor. Then there is Michael Pena, who comes across as a very likeable guy, and Jon Bernthal, who somehow manages to come across as both likeable and unlikeable at the same time.

And finally last , but certainly not least the is Logan Lerman, who plays the new guy, the guy straight off the boat and completely clueless about what he is going to soon face up to. I was sitting there, thinking "where have I seen this guy before?", and of course, with the later help of IMDB, I now know he was in Noah, and he was in the Percy Jackson movies. I just couldn't put my finger on it.

But all together, this cast is just a magic mix.

The stellar cast of Fury: Shia LeBeouf, Logan Lerman, Brad Pitt, Michael Pena and Jon Bernthal, with their Director, David Ayer.

One more thing. I'm a big fan of 3D, and there is no doubt that certain scenes in this movie would have looked fantastic in 3D, but I'm glad that is movie is not in 3D  given the subject matter. I think it would have been more of a distraction than anything else.

However, this is a great movie. I'm very tempted to go see it again next week.

Movie: Stephen Fry

I went to see Stephen Fry  at my local cinema. He wasn't there in person of course. He was in England and he was beamed in. He put on a one-off show to promote his new book, "More Fool Me", another volume of his growing autobiography collection. You can get it from here, and other places no doubt: http://www.stephenfry.com/store/

Stephen Fry is a great entertainer. His words are witty, interesting and well constructed. And he knows about Perth, Western Australia, where I live.

He started off the show talking about the countries where he was being broadcast in cinemas, hence the mention of Perth.

He read a chapter from his book, concerning a visit to his place by Lady Diana and Prince Charles. It went on for a while, but every sentence was so well constructed that I was carried along.

But alas, before I knew it, it was over. I was having such a good time that I was disappointed when it was over. I just wanted him to go on for just a little bit longer.

Please Sir, can I hear just one more chapter?....

Movie: 3D Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

This movie is just plain fun. It makes no attempt at any type of intellectual comment on the world at all.

This is the type of movie that 3D is particularly suited to. There is one scene in which the turtles are careening down a mountain side which just wouldn't look good in plain old 3D.

The movie is yet another reboot of the turtle origin story. Fortunately, the turtles do NOT come from outer space, which was one of the early ideas for the film. In fact, they weren't going to be teenagers either. The film was going to be called just Ninja Turtles, and some people speculated that the turtles would be middle aged aliens! Fortunately, good sense kicked in along the line and that idea was dropped. Now, I'm all for letting film makers experiment with the source material, but in this case, a teenage mutant ninja turtle will always bee a teenage mutant ninja turtle

One change I did find fresh was the way that April O'Neil was tied closer to the origin of the turtles. I thought was a nice addition to the existing story.

By my count, this is the third reboot of the turtle story. I quite liked the energy of the first one. the second one, the CGI TMNT was ok, but not outstanding, and this one is just different enough to make it enjoyable

Movie: 3D Sin City - A Dame To Kill For

It's hard to believe that the first Sin City movie was 9 years ago. I can't believe there haven't been many more movies made with the unique visual style of Sin City. I would love to see a superhero movie made with in this very unique and original style.

For those who aren't familiar with this style of movie, it's literally a comic book made with real people. It's very dark, it's mainly black and white, but there are splashes of colour. It reminds me a little of the Humphrey Bogart detective movies of the forties and fifties, but everything is hyper-real.

This film is visually stunning. It's also horrendously violent. People lose body parts on a regular basis throughout the film. The spurting blood however is white, not red.

The plot is fantastic. There are a number of sub-plots, which are mostly connected up by the end, but there is still enough mystery to open up the possibility of a third installment.

The casting is brilliant. Nearly all of the main characters are back, and there are quite a few little cameos throughout the film. Try spotting Stacy Keach. Powers Booth is just superb as a crooked senator, but Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Josh Brolin are brilliant as well. They are not playing real people in this movie. All of the characters are hyper real. Mickey Rourke returns as Marv, this time more as a good guy. This is a role he seems to have been born to play, to use an old cliche.

I know it doesn't really mean much, but the box office of this movie doesn't look to good. According to box office mojo, this move has made only 27 million on a budget that I suspect is quite substantial, where as the first Sin City movie made 150 million on a 40 million budget. I just hope that this doesn't mean an end to this style of film making. Do we really need a 19th reboot of Batman?....

Movie: Into The Storm

Hey, it's no Twister, but once it gets moving, it's a real ride.

I have to admit that I am a huge fan of natural disaster movie: the afore-mentioned Twister, Volcano (yes, the one with Tommy Lee Jones), and Dante's Peak.

Like I said, this one isn't bad once it gets going. It doesn't have the humour of Twister, but the visuals, and especially the sound make up for that somewhat.

It doesn't really have an all star cast like Twister has, or even a good soundtrack (the Twister soundtrack is one of my favourites). There is only one actor whose name I recognised, and that is Richard Armitage. I didn't recognise him at first, because the last thing I saw him in was The Hobbit, where he played a four feet tall dwarf. In this film, he is his full height, which has got to be at least six feet.

Some of the dialogue was heavy handed at times, but most of that was at the start, and was passed by relatively quickly. The plot is fairly simple. This movie is about trying to recreate the experience of being inside a tornado, and it does that very well. The movie proves that special effects technology has come a long way since the tornadoes of Twister. If you've seen the trailer, then you have seen a pretty good sample of what the film contains.

One thing that I thought was odd is that this film was not shown in 3D. If there was ever a film that cries out for 3D, it's this one. I think a golden opportunity was missed there.

Movie: The Inbetweeners 2

These four guys are our generation's version of the Marx Brothers, sort of...

I think this film is easily better than the first one, but I put that down to the fact that it is set in Australia. Well, it's the English version of Australia, which as an Australian, I find hilarious.

This film is definitely not for the faint of heart. This movie makes Kevin Smith look like a boy scout. For example, there is one scene at the beginning of the film where one the characters dresses up as Hermione from the Harry Potter films, sans underpants. They end up in a pub, where the said character is bent over a pool table, playing pool of course. Dangling in full sight beneath the skirt are a pair of rather large testicles (probably rubber...), and a dog comes up and starts to lick them. It actually works better in the film than I can adequately describe here, but that's the kind of humour that this film is all about.

You probably need to see the first movie before this one (well, it does have a 2 in the title after all...), because some of the plot points are linked directly to stuff that happens in the first film.

Movie: 3D Guardians Of The Galaxy

This is an excellent movie. Easily better than I expected.

I had great reservations when I saw that one of the lead characters was an animated racoon. I had unpleasant flashbacks to Jar Jar Binks in the Phantom Menace, but this racoon fits in well with the universe and the other main characters. This is a film that does not take itself seriously, and the film benefits a lot because of that. Well done James Gunn and friends.

I wonder how much Vin Diesel got paid for his turn as the walking tree, Groot. He says a total of four words "I", "Am", "Groot" and at the end, "We". Mind you, Chewbacca doesn't have much in the way of dialogue, but Han Solo seems to understand what he is saying.

The rest of the casting is very well executed. Ex Doctor Who companion Karen Gillan is total unrecognisable as one the the lead bad guys. She also gets to kick some serious butt:

I also like the actor who plays the chief bad guy, Ronan, a guy called Lee Pace, who I actually have never seen before. He has a real big screen presence.

The movie starts out very depressingly. I actually checked my ticket because I thought the cinema was showing the wrong movie.

The 3D in this movie was very well executed. I am a huge fan of 3D, almost verging on addiction. I'm almost at the point of not seeing a movie if it isn't 3D.

You need to hang around for the now traditional Marvel teaser after the credits. This one concerns a certain bird, which George L tried to bring to the screen in the eighties with such ineptness. That would be a hoot if he actually turned up in Guardians II, but I don't think it would happen.

And finally, a shout out for the soundtrack. They have used classic seventies tracks as a backing for some of the scenes. In one scene, they used Cherry Bomb by the Runaways, and at that point I zoned out and didn't actually hear the dialogue. I was grooving away to Joan Jett's guitar.

"Cherry Bomb" by The Runaways

There's also a CD of the songs used in the film (actually 2 CD's, the songs on one and the score on the other). It's quite a good selection:

1: Hooked On A Feeling - Blue Swede
2: Go All The Way - Raspberries
3: Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
4: Moonage Daydream - David Bowie
5: Fooled Around And Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop
6: I'm Not In Love - 10CC
7: I Want You Back - Jackson 5
8: Come And Get Your Love - Redbone
9: Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
10: Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
11: O-O-H Child - Five Stairsteps
12: Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

As of today, August 23, 2014, this soundtrack is at number 2 on the Australian album charts.

I'll race you to the CD shop right now....


Here's a great review I just found: "Guardians Of The Galaxy" review

I keep finding all these links on YouTube. Here's another good one, a Q and A with Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Vin Diesel: Cast Q and A

Movie: 3D Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

This is a great movie, easily the best I've seen this year so far.

I wasn't much of a fan of the previous Ape movie. I can't put my finger on the exact reason why, I just didn't connect with that movie. I'm glad to say that was not the case with this latest installment.

This is almost a perfect movie. The story line is really strong and engaging, and because I couldn't tell the difference between the CGI apes and a man in a costume (we're there any?), I was totally absorbed in it. It was so compelling that even the 3D didn't draw attention to itself. It felt all very natural.

I found the cast to be very likeable. Jason Clarke, who I discovered later is an Australian, is the good guy human hero. The always good Gary Oldman plays the leader of the human colony, who wants to wipe out the apes, and who almost succeeds in doing just that. I did have a small amount of sympathy for his character. After all, he was trying to protect the future of the human race by doing what, in his own mind, was absolutely neccessary. Andy Serkis does a great job with Caesar, but my favourite ape character was Maurice, who plays a breed of ape that I haven't identified as yet (I'll google it). The bad guy ape was also well done, being played by an English actor called Toby Kebbell, who's actually going to play Doctor Doom in the next Fantastic Four movie.

I just want to add that I am a big fan of the original four ape movies. Roddy McDowall will always be my ideal Caesar. I'm probably one of the few people on the planet who actually considers Battle For The Planet Of The Apes as one of their favourite movies. I also quite liked the TV series as well, although it was a long time ago and I can barely remember it.

In summary, this is an outstanding movie, brilliantly executed. To me, it's 99% of the way to being a perfect movie ( there was just a few seconds where the wind blowing through the hair of an ape didn't look quite right!). I very much look forward to the DVD and the "Making Of" DVD extra (I hope there is one, and a Director's commentary as well).

Movie: 3D Captain America - The Winter Soldier

Watch out! There be spoilers ahead (potentially)!

I may be getting jaded, but these superhero movies, especially the Marvel ones, are all starting to look the same. There's a superhero, a really evil bad guy, the world is about to end, superhero pummels bad guy in the last scene, world lives to see another day. Really, the superhero is interchangeable with these story lines. This could be a Thor movie, or an Iron Man movie.

That's not to say this isn't a good movie. I liked it very much. Chris Evans is a very likeable hero. It's just that there were no surprises in this movie. It really is a by-the-book superhero movie. If it was up to me, every superhero movie would be under the control of Joss Whedon, but unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world. I can't wait for the next Avengers movie.

If you are a watcher of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show (and if not, why not? It's excellent), then the plot of this movie will be familiar. It's pretty much the same as this movie. Bad guys Hydra take over S.H.I.E.L.D., and Captain America has to save it. That's what I meant earlier when I said there were no surprises in this movie.

The highlight of this movie for me was the performance of Sebastian Stan as the bad guy. This guy is really charismatic, and I've got no doubt we'll see him in more movies. It was really great to see Robert Redford as the chief bad guy as well. He adds a certain gravitas to this movie. I also thought the Captain America uniform was superbly designed, even the one at the end that he took out of the museum.

The ending of the movie sets up the next Captain America movie, and because of the box office popularity of this current Captain America, there's no doubt it will becoming in a couple of years time.

My summary, Winter Soldier is an ok movie, I liked it, but it's not the best movie I've seen so far this year. It's certainly not as good as the Avengers, but who's going to compete with the sharp mind of Joss Whedon?

Movie - The Trip To Italy

This is a very pleasant little movie.

There is no plot to speak of. It's just Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing fictionalised versions of themselves, driving from one restaurant to another, with the backdrop of some spectacular Italian countryside.

Not a lot happens, action wise, but the dialogue is hilarious in places, especially when they start talking about movies and doing impressions. The part where they were talking about the Dark Knight Rises, and how Michael Caine wasn't going to "bury another batman", almost caused me to leave the cinema so I could have a really good belly laugh without interrupting the other cinema patrons.

Movie: 3D X Men: Days Of Future Past

Bryan Singer is back where he belongs: making great X Men movies. His last foray into the X Menu universe was 11 years ago. Has it really been that long? Seems like only yesterday....

The plot of the movie itself is nothing original. It's been done in lots of movies. Basically, the world has gone to hell. Mutants are being hunted down and killed by giant human engineered robots who can detect mutants and adapt to their powers. The robots were created back in 1973 by a scientist, who was subsequently killed by mutant Raven, who is also known as Mystique. Of course, this killing has spurred on the government to continue working on the giant robots, with the aid of the soon captured Raven's DNA, to make the robots adaptable. Wolverine is sent back to 1973, in a fashion, to prevent Raven/Mystique from killing the scientist, and thus preventing the mutant/human war. Just like Marty McFly going back to 1955 to prevent terrorists from killing Doc Brown.

The movie is in 3D, but it didn't seem all that noticeable (I see a lot of 3D movies so maybe I'm becoming immune to it's effects). I don't think it would have made much difference to have seen the movie in 2D. I think I'm quite lucky. I have no problem with watching 3D movies. The difference in the lighting level is barely noticeable to me, and I don't get headaches like I know some people do. Maybe it's because the cinema I go to has all their machinery set up correctly (I only ever go to one cinema).

All the usual cast are back from previous X Men movies. According to IMDB, Hugh Jackman still holds the record for the most times an actor has played the same character in films, seven. He's also the only person who has been in all the X-Men films, if you count the little cameos as well. One great addition to the cast is Peter Dinklage, who was in one of my favourite movies, The Station Agent.

Wait for the end of credits, there's a little bit extra. I have no idea what it means though. I'll guess I'll have to wait till 2016 and X Men Apocalypse.

Heard In The Supermarket On This Day: May 23, 2014

Today, I heard one of my favourite Neil Diamond songs, Brooklyn Roads.

"Brooklyn Roads by Neil Diamond on YouTube"

Heard In The Supermarket On This Day: May 21, 2014

My local supermarket doesn't play the usual "muzak" when you are a walking around trying to find something to eat that hasn't been processed to within an inch of it's life. Sometimes they play some cool stuff. So I've decided to keep a record of the last song I hear as I leave the complex, mainly as a little exercise to amuse myself.

Today, we had "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS, one of the great songs ever written, in my humble opinion.

Here it is on YouTube:  "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS

By the way, as I was searching through YouTube, I also found this version from American Idol which I quite like as well:  "Never Tear Us Apart" from American Idol

Movie: Noah

Firstly I want to say that I am not religious. I don't believe any of the tales from the bible, although I do believe that the myth of the flood is based on a true event, just not on a world wide flood. I went so see this movie because I believe the basic story of Noah and the flood would provide plenty of opportunity to create a big cinematic epic, with lots of good looking visuals and thunderous, wall shaking sound effects.

This movie is just plain crazy.

Think the Bible meets Lord of the Rings, with Noah as a kick-ass ninja superhero beating up on the bad guys (all that's missing is a big ass cigar dangling from his lips with which he can light his dynamite..). I can understand why the religious people hate this movie, but I think their cause would be better served with ignoring this movie completely and not drawing any unwarranted attention to it. I suspect it will disappear off the big screen quite quickly.

The most ridiculous things are the ugly rock monsters, who start off as man's helpers (as angels I think), then enemies (when God punishes them by changing them into ugly rock monsters), and then help Noah build the ark!... Now, I'm no bible scholar, but I don't remember hearing anything about ugly rock monsters in the bible.

There was no specific mention of "God" in this movie. Everything was being done in the name of the "Creator".

Not much more I want to say about this movie. Even the music wasn't very good. I did like Emma Watson though, and Ray Winstone always makes for a good bad guy. Oh, and the guy who is Percy Jackson was ok as well.

I see this movie is in 3D as well. I didn't get that option, so, being a big 3D fan, my opinion of this move may have been different had I seen it in 3D.

Springsteen: You Never Can Tell

Absolute proof that the E Street Band are the greatest band in the world right now:

"You Never Can Tell" on YouTube

If you are not a Bruce fan, watch this and then try to resist becoming one...

Springsteen, Perth, 7th February, 2014

I've have just arrived home after attending the second of Bruce's three shows here in sunny Perth. I am a happy, exhausted, and slightly deaf camper.

I've been waiting 6 months for this show, and I wanted to treasure and remember every second, because I'm pretty sure that Bruce will never come back to this city which is, as Bruce himself sang (in Sherry Darling), the most isolated city in the world.

Actually, I've had the tickets for only 6 months, but I've been waiting for thirty years for these precious three hours.

I did take a few pictures right at the end, but only with my mobile phone (I can't connect my phone to my computer anymore, so I had to use my camera to take a photo of the phone's screen). They didn't come out very well, so I decided to get a bit artistic and apply some special effects to try and salvage something:

The show was a bit late starting. Pure genius. Let the punters get a bit restless, a bit anxious, so that when Bruce finally hits the stage, all this nervous tension is released in a single moment. Brilliant.

There were many highlights, as there probably is with every Bruce show. In no particular order, here's what I liked tonight:

The Ghost of Tom Joad - Sung by Tom Morello. What a great voice. It's the first time I've heard him.

Tenth Avenue Freeze Out - Bruce jumped up on the lighting console, which was just a few meters from me. My near brush with greatness. He doesn't look as tall close up.

Save My Love - Rapidly becoming my favourite Springsteen song. A lost gem from the mid seventies, rescued on The Promise CD. It was a pitty that the people around me didn't seem to appreciate it. It was pretty obscure though.

Pay Me My Money Down - with the thirty second timer (to get up out of our seats and shake our Western Australian asses, as Bruce put it...)

Rosalita - Bruce introduced the song as the premier Australian performance. Something just for us second nighters. Bruce managed to mess up one the verses by coming in too early. He's only human after all, folks. Only Springsteen can turn a mistake into a joyful highlight.

Born To Run/Dancing in the Dark - No further comment needs to be made. The place went wild.

Waiting on a Sunny Day - sung by a little kid that Bruce met at the beach yesterday. I don't think his parents will ever let him forget it.

Johnny 99 - A bleak lyric turned into an all out party song. One of the top highlights.

Thunder Road - Last song of the night before everyone went home. Just Bruce and his guitar sounding glorious.

There were a few classics that did not make an appearance, and I for one am glad they didn't because the show would have felt unbalanced. There was no Born in the USA, Glory Days, not much from Wrecking Ball unfortunately. We got Hungry Heart and Light of Day. He did a killer acoustic version of Girls in Their Summer Dresses. In fact, all his acoustic stuff, of which there was very little, sounded superb. I wish there could have been more. There were a couple of songs from High Hopes, including High Hopes and the Aussie classic, Just Like Fire Would. The Rising was sensational, coming just before the encore. It was so good I would have been happy if the show had ended right there, but then we had the Baseball bat to the head encore with Rosalita, Born To Run and Dancing in the Dark, all brought home with Twist and Shout, just in case your senses hadn't been assaulted enough already. But that wasn't the end. Bruce strapped on the accoustic guitar and finally finished things off with Thunder Road. There never has been, and never will be anything that will ever come close to the epic experience that is a Bruce show. Calling it big just doesn't do it justice.

I can see why many people are addicted to going to show after show. If I was living in America I would be too. Bruce plays every show like it's going to be his last show. You can see it in all the DVD's, and you can certainly feel it when you are actually there. You never want it to end, but you know that when it is inevitably over, there's nothing more that needs to be said.

And of course, I have to mention the lighting guy, whose name I know not, whose performance was almost as entertaining as Bruce's. Now there's a guy who obviously loves his work, and who wouldn't love having the job of turning the lights on and off at a Springsteen show every night?

Movie: 3D The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

First up, I want to say that I haven't read any of the books, Hobbit or Lord Of The Rings, and I really have no interest in the whole Lord of the Rings universe. I did enjoy the extended versions of the Rings movies though, and I saw the first Hobbit, which I found tried to include a little too much story.

I wasn't a big fan of the first Hobbit movie, but that being part one of a trilogy, I suppose they needed to introduce all the characters, and set up the plot for the second movie. Therefore the second movie hits the ground running, and doesn't really stop for nearly three hours. As Laurence Kasdan says in the Star Wars documentary, part two of a trilogy is the most interesting part, because that's where everything goes to hell. And this movie is a roller coaster ride all the way through. Like I said, I have no idea how the movie is different from the book, and I don't really care. I just care about how this movie stands up as a movie, and I found it pretty good fun all the way through. I've read some reviews on IMDB, and there's a lot of criticism going on. I thought some of them were quite harsh, considering it's basically a Saturday morning cartoon action movie, although a couple of story things seemed strange (Why were the Elves protecting the dwarves from the Orcs, after the Dwarves had escaped from the Elves dungeons?...) It appears that Peter Jackson has taken great liberties with the basic story in the book. I don't have a problem with that. A book does not work as a film. The best you can hope for is that the film is a decent summary of the book.

One thing I did like with this film that I didn't like in the first one was the look of it. When I saw the first one, the image was extremely sharp, and reminded me of one of those old seventies video taped TV shows. I found it quite hard to watch (And it was my first 3D movie, so maybe my brain wasn't trained for it yet). Fortunately, this second movie is a lot softer. It's still sharp video, but it now looks closer to regular film. The screening I went to was supposedly in HFR (High Frame Rate), but what exactly is that meant to give you? I honestly didn't notice any difference to a regular 3D movie.

The ending was quite abrupt and unexpected. It would have been nice to have a bit better lead in to the next movie.

Movie: The Railway Man

Boy, how lucky can you get? The two most recent movies I've seen are probably the best two I've seen all year.

I saw Philomena on Sunday, and today I got to see The Railway Man.

I went to the 9.30AM screening of Railway Man (awfully early to see a movie I know) and there was still a healthy crowd. I have to say it was not what I was expecting. I thought it was about a guy on a train who runs into an old enemy, but it couldn't be any further away from that scenario.

The story concerns Eric Lomax, played by Colin Firth, and his treatment at the hands of the Japanese during the construction of the Burma Railway. It is quite brutal in a couple of places. but nowhere near as graphic as the book that the film is based on, which does not spare any detail. That's a good thing, because portraying the violence would have distracted from the core of the story, which is about Eric dealing with his demons.

This film is a joint Australian/British production, and I believe the film was made possible with some Australian tax concessions, so as an Australian taxpayer, I'm claiming part ownership of this film, and expect a cheque soon for my share of the profits....

I believe Nicole Kidman was not the first choice to play the part of Patty Lomax, but now I'm convinced she was perfect for the role. I fell in love with her for the time the movie was on. Colin Firth was excellent as the older Lomax. There was one scene near the start of the film where he awakens from a nightmare, and lets out the most harrowing scream I think I've ever heard in movie. It was chilling.

There's an actor in this movie called Sam Reid, and I was convinced I was watching the comedian Robert Webb. They are absolutely identical, and was cheering on Robert Webb for taking the chance on a dramtaic role. Alas, as I found out later, it was not him.

The only part of the movie I didn't really like was the very rushed meeting and marriage of Eric and Patty. It seemed to all happen in about 10 minutes. It probably would have been better if the movie started off with them already married, skipped the whole rushed romance thing and jumped straight into the core of the story. Other than that, the film is brilliant.