I just caught an excellent twofer and got all my Christmas shopping done, for the most part, on my half day. First with the good:
Invictus: Worthy of all the Oscar praise and accolades. Morgan Freeman will be picking up another best actor Oscar for his role as Nelson Mandela, which he handles effortlessly and amazingly. Damon is incredibly solid in his role as South African rugby captain Francois. I enjoyed the movie from start to finish. I brought you up to speed on South Africa politics and history, covered Mandela's life, and made rugby enjoyable even though I know nothing about the sport. This movie should be seen by everyone as nothing is offensive and everything is well done and top-notch. Eastwood let's the actors kick the ass for him and just rolls the camera and doesn't overdue anything. This is one I will buy probably as soon as it comes out.
Bottom line: 9.9 out of 10- instant classic.
Boondock Saints II: The boys are back and shooting and praying bad feller's like usual. It brought the failure of most sequels and dwelled WAY too much on the other movie. Bringing back the majority of the characters was awesome, but recreating the roles of Rocco and Agent Smeckling was a complete and utter failure on all levels. They replace Rocco with a guy they pretend is mexican and use him to just abuse all the stereotypes possible. It is not funny in the slightest way and just horrifically done. They replace Dafoe with a chick who acts like she's from the south and just sucks complete ass. She has an accent on par with Cage in Con-Air and it is just an abortion on your ears. The boys are good at doing what they do, and those parts are still solid. The ending is really surprising and awesome, so it makes you leave the theater happier than you should. Wait for it to come on video.
Bottom line: 6.8 out of 10. Watch when it's convenient, but don't hurdle the people in line for Avatar to get to it.
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