Drama > P Drama

Advantages: Deep plot with twists, complicated characters
Disadvantages: Main character not likeable

...story takes place in 1954, all over Lousianna. It happens to run the course of Sean Penn's Political career from lowly origins up to the day the Louisanna Legislature attempts to Impeach him from the Governership. Some might say this story is told about his charachter since it was an extroadinary story, being voted in by the lower class and despised by everyone with power and money there. However, the story revolves around Jude Law's character, a ...
...named, this film shuffles around all these pawns on Penn's chessboard, and you never really know if you love Penn's charachter or hate him... There's something not quite right about him, and it's facinating. The one thing I am sure of after the movie is over is that I don't like Jude's character, who we root for more than once in the movie, and is clearly the viewpoint of the story... So all in all, I have to say I feel a bit let down. It's almost ... Read review

Advantages: amazing cast, acting, and finally a difeerent perspective of the mafia
Disadvantages: based on a true story so difficult to argue with much huh :)

...and hunted by the mafia), Donnie Brasco is like a De-romanticized, DE-mythologized version of The Godfather. It offers an uncommonly detailed, privileged glimpse inside the world of organized crime from the perspective of the little guys at the bottom of Mafia hierarchy rather than from the kingpins at the top. The plot shows the gradual build of friendship between Donnie and Lefty (Mr Pacino himself). Johnny Depps performance was one which completely ... Read review

Advantages: A beautifully fresh presentation
Disadvantages: Some poor "English" accents

...A brief plot outline Nicholas Nickleby is dead. (This seems to be a theme of how Dickens starts his novels!) But we are not concrned with that Nicholas Nickleby, it is his son ... young Nicholas Nickleby who is the hero of our tale. After his father's suden death leaving his family with little money the young Nicholas goes to his uncle in town for advice. As you can imagine the uncle is loaded but does not help the Nickelby's at all. He manages ...
...Hall. Now Nicholas is warned that this school is not pleasant by an old friend of his fathers but he goes none the less. When he arrives at Dotheboys he is greated by malnourished, down trodden young boys who seem closer to death than receiving a good education. In particular the young boy Smike is the Headmaster's servant boy and often beaten. As you can imagine Nicholas is there to become the boy's saviour and helps Smike to escape. He then beats ... Read review

Advantages: Mel Gibson. Kurt Russell. Mel Gibson.....
Disadvantages: I'm not Michelle Pfeiffer

Now, this is what I call a film!! Two ‘hornbags’ in 111 minutes. Sounds good to me hey girls? And boys, for those of you that are so inclined. Don’t get me wrong though. It’s not only the extremely good looks of Gibson and Russell that endear me to this movie. It’s a big part, but not the whole part. This is a great movie. It didn’t impress the right people, or win any awards. However, it impressed me. ***HOW COMES I’VE SEEN IT?*** As I cast my ...
...seeing this movie on the QT. I had a friend who worked for Blockbusters, and well, I saw it before it went on general release at the video stores. Shouldn’t have done. But I did. I liked, loved even, this film from the first time I saw it. As soon as it was on sale, this was a buyer. And there it has sat, on my shelf, being pulled out, and slipped in every so often when the mood takes me (‘out’ from amongst the other video’s on the shelf and ‘in’ ... Read review

Advantages: Michael Panes, boobs
Disadvantages: The story, the acting

...very sad little boy...). The all star cast should have been a warning. Take note-All star cast=terrible story line but they need to sell it some how, thus they get a cast of big names to sell it to the public, sadly i was suckered into this. But anyway I'll try to talk about what story line there is. It's Joe and Sally's 6th anniversary, Joe's a writer and Sally's an actress, they've invited a few friends and the neighbours and an actress whose ...
...can't act...and is one of the only characters not to bare any skin). So after the pleasantries of a party and introductions comes more genric pointlessness with the odd laugh here and there but nothing outstanding. IMDB.com have average rating of 6.3/10, which basically says everything you need to know. The movie is a bog standard movie, it's average in every way just about (bar the below standard acting and storyline). It does have it's moments ... Read review