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Flight (2012)
The higher you fly the harder you fall...
First of all; Denzel Washington, what a great actor! There's something serious and dark about that man, which truly makes him perfect for playing the role of Captain Whitaker.
After having seen the trailer I thought I had this movie figured out, but there's a lot of depth to the plot and it takes unexpected twists and turns. It shows the true, ugly face of alcoholism in a non glorifying manner, and you wouldn't have to been in a plane crash to relate to it.
What Flight really is about is being true to yourself, and the multitude of difficulties that comes with being just that. It's put in to context with the whole plane crash debacle, which keeps pushing the story onward and keeps excitement up throughout the whole film.
Overall a great movie, which has something for everyone.
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Just perfect
I really did get a special gut feeling hours before seeing this movie, which is running in theaters here now. I barely knew anything about it, hadn't seen a trailer, didn't know who was directing.
Basically what I knew was that a handful of actors were playing multiple characters of different race, which I had heard from a friend (quote: "it looked kind of weird").
Little did I know that I was in for quite the ride. A magnificent work of story telling with directing and music wanting you to swim into the screen, sometimes to lend one of the many convincing protagonists a helping hand, at other times just to enjoy the marvelous scenery.
The depictions of every characters' journey is very well presented, and when you're already sucked in to one of the scenarios, another one just as capturing is thrown in your face. And they're all beautifully intertwined. I understand that it's based on a book, which I haven't read, but I definitely will after seeing this.
For me, this movie is an instant classic, and I most certainly will see it over and over again for years to come.
Transsiberian (2008)
An Old Concept in New Clothes (thick ones)
The movie is set in a somewhat unusual environment (geographically speaking), which, in my opinion, is nice. In the movie you'll see several clichés typical for a thriller, with being able to predict most stuff in the film along the way. As said, the movie doesn't have much new really, but the fact that it's set (mostly) on a train in the middle of nowhere managed to give me the feeling that this was something new, and exciting.
Also typical for these kind of movies was the stereotypical view upon Russians, and foreign (non-american) people overall. The two polite and innocent Americans can't even ask the train staff why the toilet isn't functioning without getting shouted at in Russian. On top of this the police are told to be brutal and corrupt. But then this contributes to the feeling one gets while watching the movie, that the two Americans feels lost and insecure, and that they are in the hands of careless strangers who they can't even communicate with. I just wish they would have done this in some other way, without having to rely on silly stereotypes.
Even though the end was quite predictable, I liked it, along with the rest of the movie. Overall this movie is worth the time spent seeing it, and more.