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One More Duplicity (2009) with Julia Roberts

angel — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:13:26 +0000

Duplicity is a new adventurous movie featuring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. I’ve just watched it for the second time and I have some more ideas to share with you. The film was announced to be a huge come back of Julia Roberts, however, it is, but not a very huge one. Frankly speaking, I think everything is great in the movie: twisted and sophisticated plot, amazing sceneries and landscapes, great cast … but the only one minus is … actually … performance. It was poor and not believable at all. And I even can’t understand why, Julia has always been a star and a very talented actress and I am not ready to dismiss her. That’s all with the disadvantages, so far I think this movie is possibly the best film I’ve seen this year.

Perhaps it was my low expectations that made me accept this movie very warm and hearty. And may be the movie is simply amazing and highly catching and that’s all. Duplicity has everything to be a hit, and yet it lack something to become a hit. It is not an Oscar material but it is a brilliant film within the context of the genre.

The movie is really interesting and attractive and its trailers didn’t do favours to it, since the movie was much more interesting than its trailers. Love the dialogues – they are witty, edgy and funny, it was pure pleasure to listen to them. Both Julia and Clive look comfortable and natural together.

Love the details – they always come in time and add some pizzazz to the film. Duplicity makes you think and provokes feelings in you. Definitely, a worth watching movie!

The Golden Compass Fantasy Story

angel — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:30:16 +0000

Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards and Ben Walker in a new movie – “The Golden Compass”. Its genre is not defined yet, it’s a perfect mixture of adventure, action, drama, fantasy and thriller. Writer: Chris Weitz. In the USA will be released on the 7th of December.

An amazing adaptation of a Philip Pullman novel His Dark Materials (namely the 1st book of the trilogy). A young student Laura Belaqua (Dakota Blue Richards) lives in Oxford’s Jordan College, she is just a young girl living together with scholars. One day she heard a conversation between her relatives. It was about an extraordinary particle. This particle was rumoured to be able to unite the Universe. It can be found exceptionally in the vast Artic expanse of the North. Unfortunately, there were people striving to destroy this particle and to prevent the Universe from uniting. Lyra turned to be a center and a main hero of this battle, she was destined to lose or to win…

What about my own impressions after The Golden Compass ?

They are quite ambiguous: from the one hand, acting was really incredible (Nicole Kidman is flawless here and Eva Green description of Dust and other world is brilliant), fascinating and good, some scenes grabbed my attention: for example, Ice Bear fighting, but on the other hand, without having profound knowledge what it is all about, you’ll hardly understand the movie. So, either read before watching or strictly follow the plot line. But, the movie was worth my attention and now I feel ashamed being cynical about it. So, watch it!!!