#31

Hello everyone!
So Christmas seems to be a good time of the year to watch some movies. At least I used the spare time and I watched:

Star Wars: The Clone Wars



After I saw the first 5-6 episodes of the series, which in my opinion is a little bit boring due to the fact that each episode is really short, I wanted to watch the film. Neither the critics nor the general public seemed to like it (rotten tomatoes has an average of 18% and imdb shows an average of 5.3/10). But I wanted to watch the movie with as little prejudice as possible.
So I did and I have to admit that I ended up liking it. Or I felt entertained for the most part.
Even though the only voices from the real movie where those of Sam Jackson and Christopher Lee, I did not have the feeling that something important was missing. Especially happy made me the fact that they couldn't/didn't get Hayden Christensen. I liked Anakin for the first time since "The Phantom Menace".
The story is really simple, but who could be surprised given the fact that this movie is only a lead-in to the series. Jabba the Hutt's is being kidnapped by Count Dooku's assasin Asajj Ventress and held captive on a nearby planet. Anakin and his new Padawan Ahsoka are sent to rescue the Huttlet. But Dooku set the kidnapping up to make Jabba believe that the Jedi want to kill the Hutt Clan. So Anakin and his padawan have to save the Huttlet, return to Tatooine and bring him back safely.
The plot is no fireworks of imagination and big surprises but it is Star Wars.
The setting is great, the score is fantastic as always, the humour is really well placed and the new characters fit perfectly into the world.
One of the biggest problems seemed to be the 3-D look of the movie. I personally like it very much. Some less important sceneries are scarce, but the important settings are detailed and enarmored.

7.4 out of 10 fighting Clones



Eagle Eye



Sometimes there are movies which I want to see because I like one or more actors. Sometimes I want to see a movie because I liked the trailer. Sometimes I want to watch a movie because of a recommendation of one of my friends. And sometimes neither of this applies and I watch a movie out of mere curiousity. With "Eagle Eye" the latter one was the case:
The actors are ok, the trailer was mere average and none of my friends had seen it thus far, but there was something that attracted to this flick.
The plot in short:
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) gets home and finds his appartment stuffed with material to build bombs etc. He gets a call in which a female voice tels him to leave the appartment in the next 30 seconds, because the FBI will be there.
Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) kisses her son goodbye. He's going on a band trip to Washington. As she leaves the station she gets a call as well. She's being told that she has to get into a Porsche Cayenne and drive to a location in order to see her son alive again.
They both want to refuse, but the female voice shows them that she is far more powerful than the two are. They are being sent on a mission that could change the USA forever...
At the beginning of the movie the plot seems to be solid but not out of the ordinary, but the further the story goes the more intriguided you get, because the real plot unravels itself slowly but thrillingly.
The acting is solid, the score is fitting and the character constellation is really good.
What the movie is missing are surprises, because even though the story is revealed slowly you never think: "Wow, that was unexpected!"
Still "Eagle Eye" has it's strengths and knows to entertain. Especially the relationship of Jerry and Rachel (LaBeouf and Monaghan) is thrilling and makes you wonder throughout the whole movie whether or not there will be a kiss.
Another thing worth mentioning is Billy Bob Thornton's performance as FBI Agent Thomas Morgan. He is incredibly sarcastic and really cool at the same time.
For an alltogether positive and entertaining movie I give:

8.2 out of 10 unknown female callers

Stay tuned for a review of Transformers and another movie during the next couple of days. That's all folks!