Devil, and The Town


Primal

 

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Yeah I know, M Knight Shyamalan has a lot of detractors. And frankly this movie won't help much, it's not gonna win any awards. But you know, I liked it anyway, certainly $5 worth. It was miles ahead of The Happening, and LIGHT-years ahead of The Last Airbender. Then again, I also actually liked Lady in the Water too, so maybe I shouldn't be listened to.

I guessed who the bad guy was before I saw the movie, by just picking the least likely person, and I was right. Until then though it's rather nicely suspenseful, even if the big reveal is eye-roll worthy. If there was nothing supernatural here, it'd be a slick little movie. As it is, it's worth watching but I wouldn't pay much more than I did. I really like how the suicide jump scene at the beginning was shot, but otherwise it's mostly forgotten already.

The Town is a much better film, but I gotta warn you, if you're expecting something as thought-provoking or compelling as Gone Baby Gone, stop it. (Alternatively, if you didn't like that movie, this one's totally different.) This is basically the old One Last Job trope in action. It's a good movie, don't get me wrong, but there's nothing here that's new. If you've seen Heat, or a bunch of other urban-crime movies that go more for realism, you've seen this movie already. Good action scenes, the planning that went into the crimes was very interesting to me, and there's a damn fine death scene near the end. If the movie has a problem besides feeling fairly generic, it's the end, it's VERY close to Narm-land.

There were a bunch of trailers before both, but nothing new. One with Katherine Heigl really annoyed me actually, is she trying to be in every formulaic romantic comedy? Oh and hey, a baby poop joke, we haven't seen a movie with that in what, a week? I like Heigl a lot, and it bothers me to see her wasted like this. But I'm sure she's making more money than I am, so hey.


 

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Thanx Primal for the non spoiler critique,I like M.Knight's work and can hardly wait to see Devil.