liezell Reviews

The Interpreter (2005)

Great Cast, good acting, bad plot line

[6/10 · 26 April 2005]

Being from Africa, I found it highly annoying that they decided to use a fake country name (which of course not a lot of people would know!).

The general idea was great and I love NIcole Kidman, and I was really looking forward to watch this movie. However, after seeing it, I felt a lot more could have been done with this wonderful cast and great idea - a lot was missing and it was pretty predictable.

The sad thing is that there are a lot of children actually walking around with automatic weapons, killing for "lunch money" to survive. The civil wars in Sudan are also very sad, but what is even more sad is that we sit here as bystanders and we don't do anything about it. Yeah, we might complain a little if we hear (or shall I say when we hear/read - because so little is said about it) but then people are more worried about foreign gasoline imports, than they are about human lives in a far away country. All it takes is to contact your local government representative.

While I feel this movie shed a little light on that, and yes I know the story is not about it, the plot could have been more suspenseful and unpredictable.

Panic Room (2002)

Not as good as I thought it would be

[3/10 · 8 April 2002]

I went to see High Crimes, and decided afterwards that I would like to see Panic Room (I am a big fan of Jodie Foster). I was a little disapointed. It lacked that very important factor that makes you sit on the edge of your seat. Jodie and the girl did a good job of acting, but I personally thought some of the scenes were just too far fetched. I mean, if you look on the video screens at the men to get out to get your cell phone, then surely you can look again to get out and call 911 when they are all downstairs, instead you have to to the lengthy procedure of trying to hook up the landline>>>>>>> A little bit dumb I think. They had enough time to go out in the room, dial 911 and give the address and then run back into the panic room, while the robbers were downstairs.

Anyway, it is an okay movie.