Rating : 3.25/5

Robert Downey Jr is back as Iron Man with the film ‘Iron Man 3′. The movie has released today in India, ahead of its theatrical release in the US. With sky high expectations and a pretty big release, the movie is expected to generate a good amount of revenue in India. Shane Black is the director of this instalment that has Ben Kingsley, Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle in lead roles. Let us check out the film and see how it is.

Story :

Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) removes himself briefly from active duty after repulsing the alien invasion (repulsed by SHIELD in The Avengers). He suffers from panic attacks and his relationship with Pepper Pots (Gwyneth Paltrow) grows edgy. In the meantime, America is jolted by a series of violent terrorist attacks orchestrated by the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley).

Tony Stark wakes up to the threat and warns the Mandarin, who responds by destroying Stark’s house and most of his weapons/gadgets. A desperate Stark escapes to rural Tennessee and begins investigating the Mandarin. He has a 10 year old kid named Harley for company.

Tony Stark soon discovers that the Mandarin is using an experimental military program known as the Extremis for spreading mayhem. The Extremis program is devised to help crippled people get a new life, but it goes horribly wrong and ends up creating weapons of destruction.

Stark must use all of his resourcefulness to overcome the impossible odds and combat the Mandarin, to save America from his reign of terror.

Plus Points :
As always, Robert Downey Jr is very effective as the Iron Man. He brings humour and a certain arrogance into the character and that makes his performance very nice to watch. Gwyneth Paltrow is good, and she has a kick-ass moment of glory towards the end. Ben Kingsley is brilliant as the Mandarin and his characterisation is quite interesting.

The vulnerable side of Tony Stark has been showcased well in this movie. Downey Jr’s bonding with the 10 year old Harley is a treat to watch. Don Cheadle delivers a good performance yet again.

The film’s action sequences and visual effects are very nice. The climax sequence ,in particular, will be quite a feast for Iron Man fans.

As in all Iron Man films, sly humour and some romance are present in generous quantities. After the climax fight, Tony Stark does something quite interesting and this has implications for the future films in this franchise.

Minus Points :
There is more drama and less action in this edition when compared to previous Iron Man films. So if you go in expecting pop-corn action entertainment, like in The Avengers, you will be disappointed.

The Extremis episodes are a little bizarre to watch and if you ask me, quite unbelievable (even by Iron Man standards).

The film does not have the ‘WOW’ factor. The action sequences and the visual effects are very good, but not spectacular. The 3D effects are quite underwhelming. In fact, the film will be a lot more enjoyable in 2D than in 3D.

Technical Aspects :

John Toll’s cinematography is decent. Brian Tyler’s music is just about ok and not very awe inspiring. When it comes to 3D effects, the film disappoints. In fact, the action sequences don’t seem to have been configured for 3D effects. Perhaps, it was more of an afterthought.

Shane Black does a neat job as a director. Perhaps, he should have done a bit more to keep the entertainment quotient of the film higher.

Verdict :

‘Iron Man 3′ is a good watch, though it is certainly not spectacular by any means. Robert Downey Jr and Gwyneth Paltrow deliver flawless performances and the climax sequence will be a feast for Iron Man fans. But there is more drama in this edition than pure pop-corn action.

Year : 2011Director : Brad BirdRunning Time : 133 minGenre : Action, Adventure, Thriller

Movie review score

4/5

Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol is really pretty awesome

Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton

Director: Brad Bird

Rating: ***1/2

A bright, whirling, action-movie toy, the J.J. Abrams-produced “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” is certainly entertaining, although lacking suspense and surprise. Watching one of the film’s trademark stunts, I thought to myself, “Tom Cruise, you have some explaining to do to Bruce Willis.”

Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his team of IMF agents are back — minus Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) for the most part, but with Brit tech whiz Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg, who’s worth his weight in sidekick gold) still aboard — this time directed by Brad Bird of Pixar fame in his first-ever live-action outing.

What Bird brings to the table is the genius Pixar touch: He turns Ethan and his fellow agents into a variation of the superhero family of “The Incredibles.”

New to the team are warrior princess Jane Carter (alarmingly gorgeous Paula Patton, “Precious”) and seeming desk jockey William Brandt (Jeremy Renner, “The Town”).

Blamed for a 9/11-like bombing of the Kremlin, the team members are disavowed by the U.S. president, who evokes “Ghost Protocol.” (I know, what?) The truth is the IMF team is on the trail of Swedish madman Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist of the great Swedish trilogy “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”), who is intent on starting a nuclear world war using Russian missiles.

This time around, Renner is the one who leaps from a high perch only to stop midair — inches before fatally crashing. Cruise, for his part, scales the world’s tallest building with nothing more than a pair of not-very-reliable, computerized suction gloves (like I said, paging Elastigirl).

What Bird and the screenwriting team of Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec don’t get is that just photographing Cruise standing at an open window near the top of the 2,217-foot-high Burj Khalifa building in Dubai is sufficient to amaze and terrify the audience.

The rest of the stuff is extraneous and familiar. The best bit in the film is a truly amazing, high-tech illusion the IMF team pulls off in the Kremlin.

If you want to watch the film for it being shot in India, and for Anil Kapoor, you’ll be sorely disappointed. Only two minutes of actual India make it to the film.

The other shots thought to be filmed in the country, have actually been shot in Indian localities of North America. Kapoor barely has a few minutes’ role as a lecherous business tycoon. It’s not enough either for his fans or his detractors.

These “Mission: Impossible” films, which kicked off in 1996, have been Cruise’s attempt to create a James Bond-like franchise for himself, and while Cruise has succeeded at the box office, the films have been hit-and-miss, and Ethan Hunt is no James Bond.

Still, this “M:I” is a lot of fun. No one’s going to pretend this film is deep or meaningful but, at its best, it really is pretty awesome.

Release Date: August 12, 2011 
Studio: Columbia Pictures(Sony) 
Director: Ruben Fleischer 
Screenwriter: Michael Diliberti, Matthew Sullivan 
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari, Nick Swardson, Michael Pena 
Genre: Action, Comedy 
MPAA Rating: R (for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, nudity and some violence) 
Official Website: 30MinutesorLess.com 
Review: 8/10 rating 
DVD Review: Not Available
 

From a world infested with zombies to a world inhabited by a couple of low rent criminals obsessed with oral sex, Jesse Eisenberg stars in this new, almost hilarious action/comedy 30 MINUTES OR LESS from ZOMBIELAND director, Ruben Fleischer. The emphasis here is more comedy because the action is quite minimal, but neither aspect ever shines as bright as it could. Fleischer once again proves himself as a competent director, but the story never seems fully developed and almost like the writer indeed tried throwing a script together in 30 minutes or less.

Jesse Eisenberg follows up his Academy Award nominated performance in THE SOCIAL NETWORK with the character Nick who delivers pizzas for a living. Nick is somehow friends with Chet (Aziz Ansari), a substitute teacher, even though they both have huge personal issues with the other. Nick is called on a delivery to two bumbling idiots Dwayne (Danny McBride) and Travis (Nick Swardson), who strap a bomb to Nick and tell him he must get them $100,000 in 10 hours. Dwayne needs the money to pay a hitman to murder his millionaire father who treats Dwayne like a loser. Nick somehow talks Chet into being an accomplice to the crime.

Fleischer’s follow-up to ZOMBIELAND isn’t a complete departure from his style in the zombie horror/comedy, at least in terms of quirky character comedy. 30 MINUTES OR LESS is similar in that even when serious and violent things are happening there’s still a light hearted tinge to the proceedings. Visually, this film is much different from ZOMBIELAND because the wide range of apocalyptic horizons and deserted cities are gone and things are simplified down to plane ol’ sets with a limited amount of action. It’s better because of the simplified formula, but also flawed for different reasons.

The simplified visual approach works to the films favor, however there are half baked plot elements that do not flatter the brief barely 80 minute runtime. There’s the relationship between Nick and Chet’s sister, the strained history between Nick and Chet where they have each done or said morally questionable things that affected the other, the relationship between Dwayne and Travis, Dwayne and his dad, Dwayne and a stripper and Dwayne’s connection to a hitman. Naturally, with all these things squeezed into a fast paced film several of them suffer in terms of their relevance to the film. Everything technically gets worked in to the film in a somewhat satisfying way, but none of them stick out and make any one relationship resonate to a memorable extent.

Danny McBride and Aziz Ansari are the two funniest characters in the film. McBride is a confident, loud and every other sentence out of his mouth has to do with oral sex of some kind. Ansari just states the complete obvious but in a completely sarcastic and animated way, but also squeezes comedy out of even the dullest of moments. Eisenberg has a certain amount of charm, but doesn’t come across as likable or charismatic as we’ve previously seen him. Nick Swardson and Fred Willard are- well they’re just Nick Swardson and Fred Willard.

The parts that stick out during 30 MINUTES OR LESS are when it seems like the actors are seemingly improvising their lines. I could be completely wrong and there following the script word for word, but there were several moments that illicit the biggest laugh out loud moments that felt unscripted. There are a lot of well staged jokes and sequences though it’s just that there are sections that feel forced or not fully fleshed out. Another flaw in the film are some severely outlandish scenarios that are obviously set up to get laughs (and they do), but the constant shifts from outlandish comedy to action to character moments back to outlandish comedy and so on make it almost impossible to establish a connection to any character or specific moment in the film.

30 MINUTES OR LESS has a formula that mimics that of a buddy cop film, but here there are two buddy films stuffed into one. There are highs and there are lows- I’m happy to be on the positive side as I got a lot of enjoyment from the absurd comedy. The script does seem to have been concocted during a night of partying and friends riffing out as many penis and vagina jokes as they could think of, but the results hit more often than they miss. Aziz Ansari and Danny McBride are hilarious and Jesse Eisenberg definitely gives the film some energy but no one gives 30 MINUTES OR LESS that extra push I feel like it needs. Ruben Fleischer’s comedy isn’t as impressive as his debut, but it has a lot of laughs to make it a perfectly watchable flick.

Salt(2010)

Rating: 6.5 out of 10

Cast:

Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt

Liev Schreiber as Ted Winter

Chiwetel Ejiofor as Peabody

Daniel Olbrychski as Orlov

August Diehl as Mike Krause

Hunt Block as President Lewis

Olek Krupa as President Matveyev

Corey Stoll as Shnaider

Review:

The difficulty with thrillers, especially techno-thrillers, is that they're very easy to create interesting hooks for. "Salt," the new thriller from Phillip Noyce ("Clear and Present Danger") and Kurt Wimmer ("Ultraviolet," "Law Abiding Citizen") is a good example of this.

Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a decorated CIA operative with years of experience under her belt. Unfortunately, it's years of experience in the most paranoid of all professions, so when a Russian defector (Daniel Olbrychski) claims she is secretly a Russian sleeper agent she quickly becomes suspect number one in a plot to kill the Russian president (Olek Krupa).

It's a good start for a thriller. You can't see the specifics but you can get an idea what the shape of it will be, how interesting it could be. That's usually enough to get someone interested in watching a film, and it's also usually enough to get a film made, too. Film makers and studios are easily seduced by possibilities as any audience.

According to the mysterious would-be defector, Salt is one of a number of Russian children specially raised and trained for exactly this sort of long-term infiltration, and now they're being activated. Though she claims to be innocent, Salt quickly escapes from the CIA in classic Hollywood fashion with a makeshift grenade launcher before leaping from roof to roof of several moving cars.

Jolie is undeniably good at this sort of thing, believably switching sobbing desperation to steely determination at a speed that, in a normal person, would make you wonder if they had a personality disorder. The conflicting, secretive nature of the spy world helps with that, as Noyce tries to keep you guessing at Salt's motives as long as possible. Is she the double-agent she's been accused of, or is she trying to find leverage to rescue her kidnapped husband (August Diehl) with.

Noyce's action sequences are over the top in concept, but not execution (avoiding the other big action film trap) as he does his level best to bring you along for the ride. If you are willing to by that one person can sneak past all of the Secret Service in the one place where they're looking for her, just by dying her hair, Noyce is willing to meet you half way on the explosions and violence.

The problem is that's usually about as much thought as these things get. Building up twists and turns, drawing people in, isn't so difficult if you're at all moderately creative. Invent a hook, and then keep building up the stakes and the tension. But then you have to take all that, bring it in to a believable and satisfactory conclusion, which is usually when the wheels come off the wagon.

"Salt" isn't quite that, but it does suffer from a spectacularly silly last act that erases a lot of good will. Wimmer has always had a more is more philosophy as a writer, and it shows in "Salt" as the plot twists quickly supersede any ability to believe in them. And considering how serious Salt herself takes her situation, it's hard to pass off the level of silliness the film reaches in its final moments as just another brainless action movie.

There are moments of well-crafted thrills in "Salt" and Jolie reliably carries them off, but the desire of the filmmakers to put off thinking about the finale until they absolutely had to produces a hollow lack of satisfaction instead of the thunderous catharsis they're looking for. You could make a case that it is an excellent example of the kind of film it is, but it's nothing more than that.

Inception(2010)

Cast: Leonardo Di Caprio ,Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

Budget: $160 million

Produced by: Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas

Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures

Rating 4.3/5

Inception is the Hollywood Sci-Thriller movie which was released on 16th July, 2010 in North America and UK. The movie Inception is released in both conventional and IMAX theaters.

The film opens with Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) unconscious on a beach. He is found by anarmed guard and brought into the chamber of an elderly man, who speaks to him cryptically. Cobb is carrying a small metal “totem” and a gun with him.

The plot cuts back to reveal a crime inside a dream, performed by Cobb and his team, including a “point man”, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and an “architect” named Nash (Lukas Haas) who crafts and maintains the balance of the dream world. They are inside the mind of Saito (Ken Watanabe), who, unbeknownst to them, is aware of their deception and is “auditioning” them for his own crime.

The rules of the dream world are explained: if an individual is hurt in the dream world, they will experience pain in a very real sense. But if they die in the dream, they will merely wake up.

Avatar(2009) movie

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Cast: Giovanni Ribisi, Michelle Rodriguez, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana
Director: James Cameron
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: December 18, 2009

AVATAR is the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people.

More than ten years in the making, AVATAR marks Cameron’s return to feature directing since helming 1997’s TITANIC, the highest grossing film of all time and winner of eleven Oscars® including Best Picture.

WETA Digital, renowned for its work in THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy and KING KONG, will incorporate new intuitive CGI technologies to transform the environments and characters into photorealistic 3D imagery that will transport the audience into the alien world rich with imaginative vistas, creatures and characters.

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Ready for some fun sci-fi action with a good ol’ fashioned moral at the end? Check out Bruce Willis‘ new action-thriller by Jonathan Mostow, Surrogates. You’ve seen the sexy/creepy posters of the perfect beings taking off their clothing to reveal their inner robots, now it’s time to see what’s behind all the mystery.

Check out the review below…

The Players:

* Director: Jonathan Mostow
* Screenplay: Michael Ferris and John D. Brancato
* Graphic Novel: Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele
* Cast: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, Ving Rhames

The Plot:

Set in present day, people have found a new way to live their lives to the fullest — with surrogate robots. The robots are a sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. Basically you’re you, only hotter and better at everything that you do. With everyone safe in their homes, free of pain, fear and consequences, the world is a utopia, that is until the first murder occurs and FBI agent Greer (Willis) will have to leave his surrogate behind and risk his life to unravel the mystery.
The Good:

* The Idea Behind the Action: If people really had surrogates it would change the world as we know it, and the movie did attempt to take that all on board in an interesting way. Violence would change, health would change (although I only saw it going the one way- more on this later), war, infidelity (it wasn’t ME!) and more. For an action film, they took a number of these ideas to heart and did a decent job at presenting them in a fun way.
* Old Fashioned Effects: A number of extras doing one thing in unison is more effective than someone flying through thin air. In a world where everything is CGI it’s nice to see a couple simple shots that still blow your hair back. Although there are a few scenes which were definitely shot on a green screen and a tennis ball, they used them spraingly and had enough story to keep you entertained and interested between action sequences.

The Bad:

* The Sub-Plot: Without spoiling anything, Bruce Willis’ character is given a “dramatic sub-plot” which is completely unnecessary to the story and far to heavy handed to be enjoyed or believed. Which is made worse by…
* The Score: Talk about trying to ham up the little stuff. Every time there’s an emotional plot point that they’re trying to hit you over the head with you’re bombarded with violins and over the top sympathetic music. A good score should but heard but not noticed, this was not that.
* Their Health: Back to what I was saying before… Yes, by having a surrogate you would be less likely to catch a cold from someone sitting next to you, STDs wouldn’t be a problem, and day to day injuries would drop, but if all you did all day long was sit in a chair, your body would atrophy, depression would run rampant, and I’m sure our life lines would go down. Going to the gym, hiking, swimming is not just about being sexy, it’s also about well being and piece of mind. Pharmaceutical companies would have a field day if this were to ever happen and I would have loved to have seen them touch on that.
* Wealth: How can everyone afford amazing apartments with nice cars and a surrogate system that I imagine is extremely expensive? Just because you have a pretty person running around as you doesn’t mean you have more money. Where was the wealth coming from?
* The Surrogates Movement: They can fly through the air, jump from bus to bus, and crush you if necessary, but for some reason they don’t know how to dance. Well at least not all of them. Is the message supposed to be that dancing can only be done by a real human? If so, that’s fine, but I needed a line and someone to tell all the extras in the shot what the deal was, because half of them were dancing like robots and the other half like people.

Overall:

Although this is an action film, it does have a bit more to it. Is it a great film? No. Is it great for what it is? Yes. It’s got a touch of a cool idea mixed in with a bunch of pretty people running around while getting blown up. In fact, I think they could have dropped the whole sub-plot and just dealt a little bit more with the main plot, which was quite rich. And to wrap it all up, it does have a important albeit sappy moral at the end to boot.

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Watch Ninja Assassin Online Free – Raizo (Rain) is one of the world’s deadliest assassins, having been kidnapped as a child and raised by the Ozunu Clan, believed by the world to be a myth. When Raizo’s lover is executed by the Clan, Raizo flees into hiding. He later reemerges, seeking revenge. Meanwhile, Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) is a Europol agent who investigates money linked to political murders and finds that it is linked to the OzunuClan. She defies her superior, Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles), and retrieves secret agency files to find out more. The clan, finding out about the investigation, attempts to assassinate her, but she is rescued by Raizo. Hiding in Europe, Raizo and Mika must find a way to take down the Ozunu Clan.

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How do you transform a very funny book into a dreadfully boring movie? I laughed more from reading the first five pages of Larry Doyle’s novel than I did during the entirety of Chris Columbus’ film version of I Love You, Beth Cooper, despite the fact that Doyle wrote the screenplay. Much of the dialogue is lifted directly from the book, but when spoken on screen, the lines fall painfully flat. That leaves the attempts at physical humor, which are constant, and will tickle to death only those who love to see pratfalls: “Look, Mommy, man fall down and cry out in agony! Ha, ha!”

Leaving aside the source material and the film’s relative faithfulness to it, I Love You, Beth Cooper might have worked as either a joyful, gleefully mischievous, yet ultimately conservative rebel yell (a la Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) or as a funny yet thought-provoking tale of teenagers finally growing up (a la Dazed and Confused). Like those two infinitely superior movies, I Love You, Beth Cooper takes place over the course of one eventful Day in the life of its teen-aged subjects, but Columbus can’t decide whether the movie should be an uncomfortable comedy of embarrassment and humiliation or a sweet, sentimental romance. The tone wavers uncertainly throughout — often within individual scenes — and the film’s general inertia quickly becomes wearisome.

Hayden Panettiere makes for an unlikely Beth Cooper. She’s meant to be a high school dream girl, a fantasy figure concocted by the awkward, hapless Denis Cooverman (Paul Rust) through all the years that he’s sat behind her in class and stared at her picture on his bedroom ceiling.

The plot is set in motion when Denis declares his love for Beth during their graduation speech, and then proceeds to unburden himself of all his other unspoken feelings in one fell swoop. He singles out the class bully and a pretty but shallow party girl, takes a verbal swipe at Beth’s boyfriend Kevin (Shawn Roberts), and tells his movie-quoting best friend Rich (Jack T. Carpenter) to admit that he’s gay.

Denis’ speech upsets everyone except Beth, who thinks it was “sweet,” giving Denis the courage to invite her to a party at his house that night. The military-trained Kevin, though, takes the greatest umbrage at Denis for calling him an ‘over-aged loser who keeps company with high school girls because he can’t get a date with a girl his own age.’ Kevin is determined to destroy Denis and stalks him continually, ready to rain down merciless punishment, along with his two equally-fit Army buddies.

Denis’ mother (Cynthia Stevenson) and father (Alan Ruck, from Ferris Bueller oh so many years ago) leave him and Rich alone at the house for their party, which no one attends, of course; they’re social outcasts. Until, that is, Beth shows up in her tiny blue car with her friends Cammy (Lauren London) and Treece (Lauren Storm). Beth, we’re meant to believe, must have some kind of interest in Denis, or else why would she show up? Her friends are catty and mean-spirited, not showing an ounce of human empathy when Denis accidentally cuts himself opening a bottle of champagne and starts bleeding profusely. Beth is one step above them, rushing over to help Denis.

And this is where the problems of the general tone, the casting, and the adaptation from R-rated novel to PG-13 rated film come into play. As I noted, Beth is meant to be a dream girl, but one with glaring imperfections that shatter Denis’ fantasy. A turning point comes right after the gang (Denis, Beth, Rich, Cammy, and Treece) have escaped from Kevin and his comrades. Denis and Beth go into a liquor store to buy beer, but the clerk (Samm Levine) refuses to sell to the under-aged kids until Beth offers to ‘kiss you so good you’ll mess your underwear when you think about it later.’ We don’t see the kiss, but Denis is disillusioned by her actions: “She’s not Beth Cooper.”

In the novel, it’s slightly different; she offers to touch the clerk’s penis.

That’s not the only change, but I think it’s symptomatic of the picture as a whole. Panettiere is a lovely actress, fully capable of dramatizing inner turmoil and anguish, and can certainly play bubbly and cute. And in her “nude scene,” she happily shows off her bare back, above the waist, and a flash of side boob. But her Beth Cooper doesn’t really seem like an f-bomb dropping, rule-breaking girl who walks on the wild side and is willing to get her hands dirty in the process of having a good time. She’s a hottie, but not a truly naughty hottie. At one point Denis says that she scares him, yet the movie Beth isn’t scary at all; she’s too light-spirited and good-hearted to harbor a reservoir of troubled feelings.

The 28-year-old Rust is not terribly convincing as Denis. He’s supposed to be fearful of a great many things and, indeed, the actor often looks timid and uncertain. He’s so “all aflutter,” though, that it feels cruel to laugh at him. At the same time, I can’t remember anything he said that sounded funny. It’s either his delivery, or his timing, or …

I think it all comes back to director Chris Columbus. He put together a string of commercial comedies from 1987 to 1995 (including Adventures in Babysitting, Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Nine Months) that today inspire more nostalgia than admiration. I Love You, Beth Cooper feels awkward in all the worst ways, bumbling along earnestly and hoping to earn a laugh or two from gags that were tired when they were first used in Home Alone. Worst of all, the film never captures the vibe or elicits the gut reactions of a really good book.

In these difficult economic times, it makes more sense to buy Larry Doyle’s novel and skip Chris Columbus’ movie.

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