Stranger than Fiction

It took me a while to get to this one. I knew I wanted to see it since I saw the trailer but just never got to it. i passed on it every time at the theater and just kept passing up seeing it at home until last night. I don’t know why i kept passing it up, since i like Will Ferrell and thought the premise seemed interesting, but I did time after time. I can now say I was making a bad choice most of the time i passed it up. This was almost everything I thought it would be and a bit more. i say almost because it was not as funny as i thought it would be. It did have a nice amount of humor, but not near enough to be a comedy (which i thought it was).

The story is far fetched and kind of ludicrous but I never really questioned it. I am not sure why but it just kinda made sense to me. Will Ferrell is very good in this film. In my opinion this is his best performance to date. i might watch some of his funnier stuff more often but this is by far his best. He did a great job a playing a strange and slightly funny character without taking it way over the top. This movie did a great job at making me care for the characters and proved to be very touching overall.

My rating 8.5 out of 10

Here is the trailer.

Wanted

Wanted movie poster

I was enthralled by this trailer like many other people. I knew it looked to be a high on action, low on substance type of movie but I didn’t care. The trailer showed some pretty cool special effects and I am a sucker for those. I must say that on the surface I got what I expected. In reality i got much less. The plot was absolutely ridiculous. I know I said i wasn’t expecting one, but if you are going to try to portray an elaborate idea then you damn sure better make sure you can fill all the plot holes and answer all the questions the audience will have. This movie did absolutely none of  those. I couldn’t believe how big of a story they tried to tell with so little pertinent info. It reminded me allot of the movie Jumper, which suffered from the same problems.

The action was also a bit of a problem. I was excited for the over the top action from the trailer and I got that and much more. The problem is that the much more was much less. There were some cool special effects and many over the top action scenes, but many seemed to have no reason and the really crazy stuff was not always pulled off very well. The training session made very little sense and seemed more of a waste of time than actually moving the story along. The entire thing seemed convoluted. My rating is not really low because i did enjoy many of the action scenes but I don’t know that I will watch it again.

My rating 6 out of 10

Here is the trailer.