The Other Guys Review

I first saw this movie in a little theater down at the beach. I had practically no idea what it was going to be about, only that it was a comedy and stared Will Ferrel and Mark Wahlberg. I had seen maybe one trailer and had just decided that day that it would be cool to see a movie and walk around town afterward.

I had no idea how good this movie was going to be. It was just the kind of movie I thought that everyone would love. It had those memorable one-liners. The comedic scenarios. The epic scenes. It was hilarious in every way shape and form. It even carried a substantial story along with it that did have a little bit of a twist towards the end.

Though this movie was amazing, there are a few factors to be warned of. For one, the movie can be a little vulgar. It mentions words and phrases that could have been left out of a PG-13 movie. I would not recommend this movie to anyone under twelve, ten, or eleven. And these ages may vary depending on that child's maturity and understanding of some subjects may be.

RED Review

      RED is a movie I have been hoping to see for a long time. I finally rented it with the high hopes that I would find a funny and action packed block buster worth quoting and watching a few times over. RED certainly was a good movie, filled with tons of enjoyable scenes. Who wouldn't want to watch Bruce Willis step effortlessly out of a car as it spun donuts around a crowded street and immediately start blasting away at a government assassin? Or see Helen Mirren smirk as she mows down a big black SUV with a humongous .50 caliber machine gun. Though this movie was filled with some fantastic scenes, the story itself was a little flat. Its not that it wasn't a good plot to support tremendous action sequences. It's just the fact that the director tries to make us care to much for the story, but what we really grow to care for is the action. And I think that in this movie, there could have been a little more of it. As said before, the story is substantial enough for an action movie, but it often becomes slow, unimportant, and hard to follow.

   But other than some of the problems with the story and the pacing itself. RED is awesome. And though I was a little disappointed with its overall value. It was an entertaining movie.