There's lots of bangs and crashes and a reasonably decent plot, but is a Superhero movie at heart despite higher ambitions. All the team turn up, so it ends up being an Avengers movie without the Avengers, but the acting is ok, if a little pedestrian (it seems a long time ago since Robert Redford was in All The President's Men) and there's a fair number of cameo's, but it's Samuel Jackson, as Nick Fury, and Chris Evans, as th' Cap', that drive the movie.
Showing posts with label Robert Redford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Redford. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Being (relatively) cheap Tuesday at Empire Cinemas on th' BasVegas Strip, I took advantage and went to see the latest in the Marvel Avengers franchise. Now an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America, is confronted with a conspiracy when Nick Fury is attacked.
There's lots of bangs and crashes and a reasonably decent plot, but is a Superhero movie at heart despite higher ambitions. All the team turn up, so it ends up being an Avengers movie without the Avengers, but the acting is ok, if a little pedestrian (it seems a long time ago since Robert Redford was in All The President's Men) and there's a fair number of cameo's, but it's Samuel Jackson, as Nick Fury, and Chris Evans, as th' Cap', that drive the movie.
There's lots of bangs and crashes and a reasonably decent plot, but is a Superhero movie at heart despite higher ambitions. All the team turn up, so it ends up being an Avengers movie without the Avengers, but the acting is ok, if a little pedestrian (it seems a long time ago since Robert Redford was in All The President's Men) and there's a fair number of cameo's, but it's Samuel Jackson, as Nick Fury, and Chris Evans, as th' Cap', that drive the movie.
Saturday, 8 December 2012
The Natural
There are a few Robert Redford films that I like, mostly from the 1970's (All The President's Men, Three Days Of The Condor). This was made during the 1980's and is about that American obsession, baseball. Roy Hobbs mysteriously joins to a struggling baseball team after being shot and critically wounded by a murderous femme fatale many years before, cutting short a promising career before it even started.
Normally, this would be a sort of saccharine, feel-good movie that could just be dismissed. However, there's a labour-of-love feel about the film, both from Redford and Barry Levinson who directed, which comes across and makes the story believably optimistic and sincere. I don't know that much about baseball, other than that I'm the exact age of Barry Bonds who was a hitter for The San Fransisco Giants, but that doesn't seem to matter watching this film.
Normally, this would be a sort of saccharine, feel-good movie that could just be dismissed. However, there's a labour-of-love feel about the film, both from Redford and Barry Levinson who directed, which comes across and makes the story believably optimistic and sincere. I don't know that much about baseball, other than that I'm the exact age of Barry Bonds who was a hitter for The San Fransisco Giants, but that doesn't seem to matter watching this film.
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