Tell No One

Thanks to Seville, the film's Canadian distributor, we get this on dvd a full two months before its release in America.

Tell No One was actually released on DVD in Canada back in 2007 (I rented it then, http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showpost.php?p=603099&postcount=1425)...

Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) - Eight years after he believes she was killed, Dr. Alexandre Beck receives an e-mail with a link to a live webcam feed, in which he sees his wife. Meanwhile, new evidence points to the previously-exonerated doctor as the prime suspect in his wife's murder. In order to clear his name, Alexandre must evade the police, find his wife...and keep her from getting killed by the people who wanted her dead eight years ago.

The movie started off well and looked rather promising until about two thirds of the way through, at which point it was floundering. The highly-contrived climax - which required a minor character to deliver a fifteen-minute monologue in order to make sense of it all (never a good sign) - was particularly disappointing.

I was impressed, however, with Kristin Scott Thomas' familiarity with the French language. And François Cluzet, who turned in a solid performance, looked a lot like Dustin Hoffman.

The Lucky Ones - Rachel McAdams, Michael Pena, and Tim Robbins are wounded veterans on their way home from Iraq for a 30 day leave, but when their flights are delayed, they team up to rent a vehicle and finish their journey. Of course, their wounds are more than physical, and their time together on the road affords them a chance to work together to work things out.

This is an odd duck of a road movie, sort of tragic and funny at the same time. Each of the characters are a little too off kilter for the story to ring completely true, but it's still a worthwhile adventure.

For us of late, it's been re-visits to some Quentin Tarantino movies -- last weekend, it was Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, and this weekend, Kill Bill I and II. .
What can I say ... these movies get better with each and every viewing!!

The New Protocol - A distraught father searching for answers in the death of his son in a car accident hooks up with an anarchist who convinces him he was a victim of a large drug company's clinical trial gone awry. They wreak havoc, smash many car bumpers, shatter many windshields, and the father eventually infiltrates a global economic summit to confront the president of the drug company.

A premise we've seen before, and a story that grows increasingly absurd and unlikely as the movie progresses.

The List - Annoying guy inherits a seat in a secret society.

That's all I know, because my wife and I couldn't get past the first ten minutes of this dull, irritating and sloppy mess.

RocknRolla - Criminals, Russians, a painting, crayfish, et cetera.

Guy Ritchie does it again...but not very well. Bloated, derivative and weak. (It was, however, better than Revolver.) Tom Wilkinson was disappointing as a poor man's Brick Top.

A very satifying combination of Rob Roy and Frantic. By far the best flick in recent memory. White Slavers take a young girl whose father is a devestating ex-CIA "preventer".

I liked this movie, good entertainment. You should probably watch with the subtitles on first time thru. I agree with eljay that this movie is derivative of some earlier Guy Ritchie films, but I certainly wouldn't call it weak.

A very satifying combination of Rob Roy and Frantic. By far the best flick in recent memory. White Slavers take a young girl whose father is a devestating ex-CIA "preventer".
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I find a lot of movies are really not worth the hassel of seeing in a theatre. Watching them from DVD is good enough.

I only have a 37" without surround. Even so, there may be one movie a year worth going out. Last year I saw Quantum of Solice and Batman on the big.
Batman rocked, but when I watched it again on Blu Ray, I was bored after two hours. Quantum I hope fares better.

Bottom line, sell Cineplex buy Mitsubishi (laserview rocks)

Choke - Victor (Sam Rockwell) is a sex addict who works as a pilgrim at a historical theme park. Unable to connect with people on a real, emotional way, he cons love by choking on food in restaurants, forging lifelong bonds with the people who save him. Meanwhile, his mother (Angelica Huston) is drifting in and out of dementia as she lays dying in a mental hospital, where Victor has managed to have sex with most of the staff, and some of the patients.

One of the weirder movies I've seen in a while, based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, who also wrote Fight Club. Unfortunately, the director of this film is no David Fincher; Choke feels like the cinematic equivalent of one of those hot dog wieners that has been rolling on a grill for a week.

What Just Happened? - Robert DeNiro plays a bigshot Hollywood producer who's having the worst week of his life:

• his latest movie just tested horribly and the tempermental director refuses to recut it
• his ex wife (Robin Wright-Penn) just reupholstered his favorite chair and may be sleeping with a writer (Stanley Tucci) who's trying to pitch a florist movie to him
• the star of his next project, Bruce Willis, just showed up with a paunch and a full beard and his agent (John Turtorro) is too afraid to confront him

Wag the Dog goes Hollywood in Barry Levinson's sharp insider's satire about the movie industry's egos, rivalries, sycophants and excesses. Great cast, including Catherine Keener, Sean Penn and Michael Wincott, that's obviously having a good time poking fun at the people who surround them every day.

Flash of Genius - Greg Kinnear is a professor and inventor, who, in a moment of inspiration, decides the world needs intermittent windshield wiper blades. He sets out to develop what the engineers at Detroit's Big Three automakers can't seem to achieve; but when he takes his prototype to Ford, they won't abide by his terms. Instead, they steal his invention. At least, that's what Kinnear sets out to prove over the next 14 years of hardship, legal wrangling and familial disruption.

Sort of a smaller, downbeat version of Tucker: A Man and His Dream, a little slow at times. But seriously, who ever thought a story about wiper blades could make compelling cinema.

Blindness - A mysterious disease strikes blind all humans except for one woman, who witnesses the devolution of humanity in the isolated and abandoned quarantine facility in which she, her husband and numerous other afflicted people are left to fend for themselves. When, eventually, they manage to leave their prison, they head back to her place for coffee and a bite to eat.

This dull film - yet another failed 28 Days Later imitator - features an inane script, lethargic pacing and uninspired acting. In a word: Boring.

Gladiator
A 2000 epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays General Maximus Decimus Meridius, favorite of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius who is betrayed and murdered by his ambitious son, Commodus (Phoenix). Captured and enslaved along the outer fringes of the Roman empire, Maximus rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to avenge the murder of his family and his Emperor.

Awesome movie - wanna watch it again! :)

Blindness is based on a nobel prize winning novel, so I doubt very much that it is a 28 days later imitator. I haven't seen the movie and I hear it isn't very good but the book is astonishing.