Drama > Cruise, Tom Drama

Advantages: everything
Disadvantages: none

...film was not just the cocktail that kept you entertained; it also had a good storyline to go with it. I will say Tom cruise made this film what it is with good actors behind him. The soundtrack was great, and the songs went very well with how they were doing the cocktail shaking. There were quite a few oldie songs including all shook up, Tutti-Frutti and hippy hippy shake. I would recommend seeing this film to anyone, I loved it and still do, there ... Read review

Advantages: Great story, great acting, great directing, score and production
Disadvantages: Can tug on the heart-strings

...a rarely acknowledged subject before Rain Man and the fact that this movie became a huge success helped bring focus on it. Dustin Hoffman plays the part of Raymond (the title Rain Man is a mispronunciation nickname for Raymond) Babbitt who is an autistic savant; despite difficulties communicating and understanding his own and others emotions, he has an exceptional ability in memory recall and number crunching. Hoffman (who studied the behaviour ...
...good. The score for Rain Man is one of the high points in composer Han Zimmer's musical career, and it's easy to see why in that the music is totally complimentary and never domineering. It's also a bit of a departure from standard scoring involving orchestras, favouring instead Cuban and electronic styles mixed to centrally depict the alienation of Raymond. Barry Levinson (who initially turned down the project) does a phenomenal job on direction ... Read review

Advantages: The best bit is the TWIST at the end!
Disadvantages: Some Boring Bits

...wasn't one single DVD called Interview with the Vampire on a shelf. So instead I bought Disturbia... Then a friend called Matthew asked for Disturbia, I said ok if only you give me one of your DVDs to borrow... So he gave me a choice: The Lion King Interview With The Vampire Silence of the lambs Se7en I Was dead after Silence of the lambs so I asked for it but he started laughing telling me I couldn't borrow it because he hadn't got it, so ...
...so I decided to choose Interview with The Vampire. He told me that it was a good choice. When we had swapped, I became aware of the certification which was 18. Now what I had expected of it was a really scary film that could make you jump every single second, I expected scariness and a chance at getting Goosebumps. What I didn't expect of it came out. CHARACTERS: Louis de Pointe du Lac (Played By Brad Pitt) - Louis seems to me as a normal Human ... Read review

Advantages: Thoughtful in places.
Disadvantages: 'Relevations' out of nowhere tie everything up too easily.

It's hard to feel sympathy for Tom Cruise's character in this weakly surreal, lowest-common-denominator faux-high-brow sci-fi thriller, and I'm not sure whether this was the point. From the very start, David Aames (Cruise, in crafty 'beat Aaron Aardvark to alphabetical top spot' manoeuvre) is revealed to be a semi-talentless yuppie born into supreme wealth and status, who relies on this, along with his good looks, to have meaningless one night stands ...
...clearly, but one who is somehow respected by his peers, who unbelievably fail to see the funny side in his partial disfigurement following a car crash. Even David's best friend, whose girl he's unashamedly set about stealing, can only wish that 'the old David' could come back. The David who was pretty much the same, only with a very slightly less wonky mouth and eye. Then again, as 'Vanilla Sky' approaches its inevitable plot-twist conclusion, it ... Read review

Advantages: A brilliantly crafted storyline
Disadvantages: Jack Nicholson can be a little dull in this film

...'A Few Good Men' is a unanimously acclaimed drama that highlights the dangerous and sometime precarious differences between following the orders of a military code of conduct and following one's conscience and moral code. The films plot spawns from something that upon first glance doesn't seem like it can provide any element of drama, interest or suspense, yet 'A Few Good Men' is and probably always will be one of the best films I have ever seen. ...
...time as Lt Daniel Kaffee, a brash, softball playing naval lawyer, who is so lazy he likes to settle everything outside of court in plea bargains (44 in 9 months). So much in fact that he's never actually seen the inside of a courtroom before. So why on earth is Kaffee the lead lawyer in a politically explosive murder case, charged with defending two marines accused of killing a fellow soldier? Is it so the case never sees the inside of a courtroom? ... Read review