…I feel like I just emerged from the drug induced dreams of Rob Zombie. That movie…hm.
It’s not bad per say, it’s just not good. It kinda meanders. And all the characters I care about end up dead so it’s hard to feel good at the end. In fact, I’m not quite sure what happened at the end.
Don’t recommend. Although there’s lots of blood if that’s your thing.
First off, I have had this from Netflix since November. November. I just couldn’t get in the mood to watch it. I’m not a huge Katherine Heigel fan anyway. I mean, I don’t hate her but she tends to play characters I find shrill and unrelatable.
Her character in this was no exception. She’s shrill, controlling, annoying, pushy, bitchy, and pretty much a basket-case. We’re told she’s smart but every chance she negates that by acting like a buffoon, usually having to do with her “hot” next door neighbor, who she thinks is the perfect man.
Enter Mike, a chauvinist who is being added to her morning show (I don’t even remember the character’s name! Maybe I should just call her Izzie. Or Izzy. Either one because other than 1 being an alien and the other a murdering doctor who can’t follow protocol, they’re the same and they’re THIS woman! So is her character from “Knocked Up” actually.) Anyway, he’s a pig but he’s pretty good looking and since this movie is 1 huge cliche, of course he has a sweet heart under the rough exterior. And of course, he falls for her while helping her land the next door neighbor. And after several mix-ups and misunderstandings, they end up together. Because this movie is 1 sloppy cliche.
I should have just sent it back.
# They always get sick when I can't afford it. # #This is one of those movies I watch every so often when I’m bored. It’s been a few years – and man does it not age well! Especially if you know a bit about computers this movie will drive you nuts!
So Sandra Bullock is Angela Bennett, a computer programing guru who works from home and seems to have some sort of issue meeting people face to face and basically lives as a hermit. We see early use of the internet, although I really don’t remember the internet ever being like it is in this. I’m no hacker but much of what we see the characters do computer wise looks largely suspect and it kinda bugged me this time around viewing. And on that same vein, I HATE when characters are typing on a computer and fucking talk about loud what they’re typing! Who does that? Drives me insane!
Anywho, Angela is sent some shitty looking (well, it’s ok for the time I guess) computer game that has, what we’re told, a virus somehow put there by this cyber-terrorist group. My question – why/how did it get there in the first place? Because said group spends the whole movie trying to get the disk back. So this “virus” allows someone with the know-how to access info they shouldn’t be – FBI files, government files, that sort of thing. So they steal Angela’s identity while she’s on vacation and make her life a living hell trying to get back the disk, which is destroyed early on anyway so I don’t know what they wanted from her.
Basically, you have to turn off any knowledge you have of technology at all while watching this or it will bother you. I used to really enjoy it but this viewing drove me nuts.
This movie is the Americanized ”La Femme Nikita”, the movie not USA show, although that’s based on that movie too. This was pretty good. Bridget Fonda looks rough for the first 15 minutes or so, while her character is still a druggie. Her character, Maggie, is convicted of murdering a cop and sentenced to death. But a secret government operation sees what a fighter she is and decides to fake her death and train her as an assassin. Her handler is Bob, played by Gabriel Byrne, whom I’ve had a crush on since my high school days, even though he’s older than my parents. They have a rough time of it at first but after the higher ups threaten to terminate Maggie, she gets trained in record time.
She’s relocated to L.A. I think? Somewhere in California. She quickly shacks up with some guy who’s her landlord. She has to keep her job a secret. Oh, and did I mention there’s HUGE sexual tension between her and Bob? He shows up from time to time to give her new assignments. She tells her boyfriend he’s her uncle but I’m pretty sure we’re supposed to assume he knows that’s not true.
Well, eventually Maggie gets sick of the life and struggles to get out and walk away from it all. And Bob doesn’t get any loving! That irked me more than anything…but I think I just wanted to see Gabriel Byrne in a sex scene.
I watched this with the family on Christmas day. We all enjoyed it. Some people I know who saw it found it to be boring and drawn out but I didn’t. I wouldn’t hurry to watch it again because it is long. But both Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law do well in their roles. I did feel Rachel McAdams was a tad mis-cast – which I hate saying because I love Rachel McAdams. She did well but…I don’t know.
The mystery and it’s solving was a tad over reaching but it is Sherlock Holmes. My brother was annoyed at how grand the villain’s scheme was but again SHERLOCK HOLMES.
The movie did further convince me Holmes/Watson were hitting it though. Watson getting engaged indeed!