Despite the mainly sniffy reviews, I thought that Self/Less was a pretty decent sci-fi thriller. When the terminally ill Ben Kingsley has his body swopped with Ryan Reynolds, there follows an interesting but conventional and sometimes confusing identity crisis. However, the pace is good and director Tarsem Singh has made the film look sharp and sleek. It was OK.
Jake Gyllenhaal deserves every penny he was paid for his role as light heavyweight boxing champion Billy Hope. He definitely looks the part and goes through many a trauma which only suggested to me the mental impact of taking so many blows to the head. There are only so many themes for a boxing movie and this one mines most of them. so although we have seen it all before, director Antione Fuqua and his writers do their best to make it seem fresh. Unfortunately co-star Rachel McAdams only has a limited role. A great pity.
Ant-Man is a surprisingly fun super hero movie, far more to my taste than some of the more serious action blockbusters. Hot Fuzz writers Joe Cornish and Edgar Wright have put their stamp all over this film and it works really well. Paul Rudd is tolerable as our reluctant shrinking hero although Michael Douglas and Evangeline Lilly struggle to convince. But overall I really enjoyed the tone of the movie that reminded me on occasions of Innerspace, and that says a lot.
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