Tony Scott has directed Denzel Washington in four previous movies I can think of. Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Deja Vu and The Taking of Pelham 123. Unstoppable is another thriller, but this time the villain is a runaway train. It is fun, predictable, exciting and very loud. Don't worry if there are people in the cinema who wont be quiet, you will never hear them. Not much in the way of story or script, but nonetheless a guilty pleasure.
The final film in the trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest is a worthy conclusion. The critics were not very kind saying only Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander is the only worthy feature of the movie, and she is either in a hospital bed or in court. But her sequences are still thrilling. The rest of the plot about the magazine exposing the elderly baddies complements Lisbeth's predicament. So although a longish two and a half hours, the time goes quite quickly, and I found the story enjoyable with a satisfactory ending. Will David Fincher do justice to the Hollywood version? Time will tell.
London Boulevard is a violent gangster movie. William Monahan won an Oscar for his screenplay for Martin Scorsese's The Departed, so his writing and directing credits enticed me to see what turned out to be a very average film. Colin Farrel does his best in depicting a basically good guy with a history of violence that landed him in jail. So trying to go straight in protecting Kiera Knightly's reclusive film star was never going to be easy with Ray Winstone's boss on your back. Unfortunately, we soon lose all sympathy for our hero as his violent streak boils over. A nice idea that runs out of steam far too early. But David Thewlis and Anna Friel do well in their supporting roles. The soundtrack is peculiar with songs from the sixties for a movie set in the present day? But it was worth the price of admission to hear The Yardbirds "Heart Full Of Soul" at the start and again later. What a great song I had not heard for years.
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