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Just Go With It starring Adam Sandler & Jennifer Aniston

Posted on July 3, 2011 Written by ripitup

Just Go With It starring Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler, Nicole Kidman, Nick Swardson, Brooklyn Decker and Dave Matthews. Image via soundtrack-movie.com

Successful plastic surgeon Danny (Adam Sandler) has found the perfect way of picking up pretty women without having his heart broken: he tells them that he is married to an abusive woman. He wears a gold band to complete the touch, and he is more than happy with the results. But one day he meets his dream woman, Palmer (Brooklyn Decker).

This 20-something gorgeous math teacher is fun, nice and sexy. And she also falls for him. But when she dumps him because he “is married”, Danny goes to his assistant/best friend Katherine (Jennifer Aniston) for help. She tells him to tell Palmer that he is getting divorced. This wins Palmer over, but she insists on meeting this soon-to-be ex-wife. So Danny makes up an ex-wife, and enlists Katherine’s help to pretend to be her. Katherine plays the part of the annoying yet stunning wife perfectly…until her kids call.

Now Palmer thinks that there are children involved and she wants to meet them too. Single mother Katherine has no choice but lend her children to Denny. Just when Danny thinks he has succeeded, Katherine’s little boy blackmails him into taking all of them to Hawaii for vacation. Things get even more ridiculous when Danny’s obnoxious cousin (Nick Swardson) shows up, pretending to be Katherine’s German lover.

So can Danny handle two very smart kids, his girlfriend, his cousin and well his emerging feelings for Katherine? Oh, add Katherine’s college nemesis Devlin (Nicole Kidman) and her equally competitive husband (Dave Matthews) to the equation and we are all in for a riot…

Just Go With It is a highly entertaining romantic comedy. Sure, it is very typical in many aspects. Of course you know who Danny will end up with. Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are their typical romantic comedy selves. But, hey- you knew all this already from the trailer. If you are looking for a different film that will reinvent the wheel, this is not for you. And while the film is mostly a comedy, it is not hilarious. It doesn’t often make you laugh out loud. But it makes you smile, grin, cringe and have fun. It is also a lot of fun to see the front man of Dave Matthews band – Dave Matthews – act, and it is even better to have Nicole Kidman play the highly irritating arch nemesis named Devlin.

I really love Hawaii and its resorts, so the scenery is just lovely. Aniston’s make over scenes are also a lot of fun. Oh and the kids are adorably smart and manipulative.

All in all, it is very watchable and very cute.

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Crossing Jordan starring Jill Hennessy, Miguel Ferrer & Jerry O’Connell

Posted on June 29, 2011 Written by ripitup

Jordan (Jill Hennessy) is a smart, attractive and independent medical examiner. However her brilliance and enthusiasm make her politically incorrect and difficult to work with. When an incident with her boss sends her to an anger management class, she can’t wait to get out of L.A. That’s when she gets a call from her old boss Garret Macy (Miguel Ferrer) in Boston. She jumps at the chance and her colleagues are all happy to have her back. But of course authority figures and cops aren’t so fond of her, as she doesn’t give a damn about red tape and is not satisfied with just determining the cause of death. She just loves following the clues and trying to find the killer. This is a habit that comes from her childhood, as her mother was murdered over 20 years ago and her cop dad raised her like a cop.

Not being able to afford a new place with her unimpressive salary, she crashes at her -now retired- dad’s place. She also needs to deal with the fact that her dad just might have moved on from her mom and her death…

Each episode of Crossing Jordan typically deals with a new case, as well as the friendships and relationships both in and outside the office. Over time, some changes of the cast members change. In season 2, Jerry O’ Connell joins the main cast as the over-invested but good cop Woody, who has a complicated relationship with Jordan. The metal-music loving medical examiner Nigel (Steve Valentine), for instance, becomes more of a main character. Some of the early cast members leave.

I stumbled upon crossing Jordan as I was determined to watch everything Charles Mesure (Kyle Hobbes of V) was a part of. He played a romantic lead to Jordan for 12 episodes (in season 5) and he also wrote one of the episodes himself. Their relationship was fun but complicated, as J.D. (Charles Mesure) was a journalist and everyday at Jordan’s office is newsworthy. Then of course there was Woody…

Crossing Jordan is a really entertaining criminal show, especially for those who love strong female characters. It is also always refreshing to see a female character who is not into marriage and kids, who has intimacy issues and screws up her relationships. And she is fantastic at her job and she can literally kick ass as she knows how to defend herself.

Recommended Episodes:

– The pilot. It’s great at establishing who Jordan is and it has one hell of a story line.

– Season 5 – the J.D. Pollock episodes

– Season 6 – episode 1 – the last J.D. episode, and a really good season-starter.

Fun notes:

– Actor Jerry O’Connell is one of the co-writers of the movie First Daughter starring Katie Holmes, Marc Blucas & Michael Keaton. The movie storyline just might remind you of Chasing Liberty.

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Unknown starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones & Aidan Quinn

Posted on June 26, 2011 Written by ripitup

Unknown Movie Poster- starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones & Aidan Quinn — Unknown starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones & Aidan Quinn. Image via movienewz.com

American botanist Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) travels to Berlin with his wife (January Jones) for an important summit. When they arrive at their hotel, he realizes that he has forgotten his briefcase at the airport, so he jumps on another cab to go back, while his wife is left to check in. On his way to the airport, the cab gets into an accident, and the cab crashes down into the river. The cab driver Gina (Diane Kruger) manages to save Martin- who is unconscious due to bumping his head hard, and disappears from the scene when the paramedics arrive.

Martin wakes up 4 days later in a Berlin. He remembers who he is, and rushes out to the hotel to meet his wife. But he is shocked when his wife doesn’t have a clue who he is. Moreover, there is another guy (Aidan Quinn), claiming to be her husband. And she is agreeing with the other Martin. With his passport left in the briefcase he couldn’t get to, he has no means of proving who he is. Moreover, the other Martin has all kinds of IDs with his pictures, as well as his face on the website. This sends Martin into doubting who he is…until men start coming after him and kill whoever gets in their way. Martin enlists the help of the unwilling Gina, and the old German ex-spy (Bruno Ganz) to help him prove he is the real Martin Harris. While Gina and Martin try to survive assassins, the spy does his best to prove Martin right. And just when he gets some proof, things get even more complicated….

Why would anyone want to replace him? Why would his wife work with them? Can Liam’s Martin and Diane Kruger’s Gina survive long enough to learn the whole story?

Unknown is an incredibly entertaining action/mystery with touches of drama. Watchers of the Bourne series and Liam Neeson’s Taken complain that Unknown is not an original movie. Never mind that the screenplay which was based on the novel by a French writer who might not even have seen Bourne movies, it is 2011. Millions of scripts were written. And I don’t really think Bourne movies were all %100 original when they came out. I mean come on. What you can do as a writer is to take an idea, and tell it in your own unique way. And Unknown is refreshing in the way that the man who has a head trauma remembers who he is, but his wife refuses it. I quite like how they explained this. And there is no point in getting upset if you guessed the twist. It doesn’t mean the movie is bad. It just means you watch many movies:D But this is not a horror film where the twist is the whole point. It is how we get to the twist, and what happens after it that really matter.

As to why this movie is being compared to Taken, Neeson is once again playing an American who kicks butt in a foreign country. But in Taken, he was an ex-CIA agent, forced to travel to France to save his daughter from her kidnappers. Here, Liam Neeson is more trying to save his butt than trying to kick others’. And apart from the American getting involved in action on foreign soil, the two movies vary a lot in story.

Yes, I enjoyed the movie. Frankly, I was so in love with Taken that I was looking forward to Liam being in another action film. And while I found the Unknown trailer unimpressive, the movie doesn’t fail to entertain.

And “the potential plot holes” can be explained very easily. And as to the complaints on how January Jones and Diane Kruger are too young for Neeson, come on! Never mind that Zeta Jones married Michael Douglas in real life, being 6 years younger than January and 8 than Kruger, I have to confess I really think Liam Neeson got more attractive when he got older. Plus, a 25 year-old kicking butt is not that interesting. And we know guys can become action stars in their 40s. And an actor kicking butt at 59 is just way more fun.

Fun notes:

– Diane Kruger’s character Gina is an illegal Bosnian alien in Germany. In real life, she is actually German.

– American Martin Harris – Liam Neeson- is actually Irish.

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Salt starring Angelina Jolie & Liev Schreiber

Posted on June 24, 2011 Written by ripitup

Salt starring Angelina Jolie & Liev Schreiber

Plot

CIA Agent Evelyn Salt is (Angelina Jolie) happilly married to the German scientist Mike Krause (August Diehl), and is getting along great with her co-worker Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber). And she can’t wait to quit the operations for a desk job, and celebrate her upcoming anniversary. Her plans get completely screwed up, however, when a Russian walk-in suggests that he has valuable information. He tells Salt, and the listening agents, that Russia has successfully raised Russian sleeper agents who fought marvelously, lied very convincingly and spoke English with genuine American accents. The more he reveals, the more the other agents believe him. And soon, he drops the actual bomb: Evelyn Salt is one of those agents, and her mission is to kill the Russian President who is in town to attend the American V.P.’s funeral. Ted tries to convince the CIA not to jump to conclusions, but they are determined to interrogate Evelyn. Evelyn realizes that she has to run for 3 reasons: to protect her husband, to save the Russian President and to clear her name.

Evelyn barely manages to escape, and the Russian walk-in Orlov proves to be deadlier than given credit for. When Evelyn can’t reach her husband, she takes a different kind of route: She acts like the Russian spy she is believed to be, what we are convinced that she just might be. Now, was she acting when she was Evelyn Salt? Is she really a Russian spy? And if she is, which one of her identities is more dominant?

Is it any good?

Salt is a very fast-paced and highly entertaining action film where the female protagonist has all the cool moves and improvisations. Yes, the story’s twists are predictable. But worry not, the predictability is a part of the charm. After all, we are more interested in how and why Evelyn kicks ass, as well whose ass she is going to kick.

The screenwriter is Kurt Wimmer, one of my favorites ever since he wrote Law Abiding Citizen & Equilibrium. Directed by Philip Noyce.

Recommended for the fans of Angelina Jolie and the fans of the genre.

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