The new Angelina Jolie movie was so bad, I Wanted, to leave half way thru. I'm a very simple guy, I don't expect allot, but when I leave a movie and contemplate having another hand attached just so I can give it three thumbs down, we have a problem! This is a movie for people who thought the special effects in the Matrix were too subtle and the acting in Bill and Ted was too well polished. They should have just named it CGI:Miami, because the whole movie is such a green screen of ridiculousness; it actually makes Tomb Raider believable. And don't get me started on the "twist" in the middle of the movie, I saw that coming like the money shot at the end of a porn. Good thing I haven't gotten my CHL yet because half way thru I would have started giving fellatio to a loaded 9MN with the safety off.
Now don't get me wrong, I like summer popcorn flicks just as much as the next guy, hell, I'm so excited abut the new Batman movie I'm having to take Ambien just to kill the time. Apparently Heath Ledger is what they call a "method actor." He gets so deep into the character he's playing that he actually becomes that character. For his role as the Joker it's reported that he locked himself into a hotel room, didn't eat or sleep for weeks, listened to a John Mayer Cd over and over and literally drove himself insane. Not to mention all the balloon animals he had to make. The mental anguish that he suffered was so severe it eventually cost him his life. That's allot of preparation for a movie and it got me thinking that if he did all that for the Batman movie, I can't imagine what sort of "activities" he had to do to prepare for that movie he was in with Jake Gyllenhaal. He didn't lock himself into a hotel room, he locked himself into the hotel closet...
And it just goes to show you the two extremes of Hollywood acting: You have one who prepares for a role so much it kills him, and another one who makes a movie so awful I would have been more amused watching grass grow.
Angelina is so bad it actually had me feeling sorry for her kids. Sure she adopted them and they are leaving behind a life time of slavery and poverty but they are eventually going to have to watch "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Beowulf." I'm just saying that if I was Maddox and my mom wanted me to go to the Wanted movie premiere.. I'm getting a plane ticket to Guatemala and finding the nearest Reebok factory.
In conclusion, save your money. If you must get your Angelina fix then rent Mr. and Mrs. Smith (it's the same character) or if you love Morgan Freeman as the "Wise, old, black man" and can't wait for Batman, then just rent every other movie he's ever been in.
I've decided that I'm not angry about the money I lost in seeing the film as much as I am the time I wasted and will never get back. I'm thinking of buying a Delorean... You bring the flux capacitor, I'll bring the Hughey Lewis records and we'll wait for an electrical storm.