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MY 10TH REVIEW: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

"Will, you step outside please?"
"Oh, it's not possible."

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(Starring Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant, and Colin Firth. Directed by Beeban Kidron. 108 minutes, R)

The quote often used in sequels, "They're all back. Yes, all of them" can be easily used in this film. Why? Well, for starters they both only circle around three people, Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones, and Daniel Cleaver. (Firth, Zellweger, Grant) It wasn't bad , but neither was it very well done. More of a little small love movie you can go down and rent with your girlfreind or boyfreind.
The movie starts where Bridget is together with Mark and they've been together for about a month. But their was one issue; Mark works. He has developed different business freinds who share a good deal of differences with Bridget.
One night after a ski trip, (which has funny scenes) and a trivia party, and a suspection of Mark cheating on her, she admits that she embarrases Mark, and leaves him.
And, no one is there to take her emotions seriously except... no one. But there is party guy Daniel Cleaver in the store she goes to. Still mad at him, Bridget tries to escape his sarcasm, but gets pulled into Cleaver's let's not give a **** and have a British party zone. They start going out. Almost typical.
Cleaver and Bridget even do decide to go on a trip to Taiwan and Bridget leaves him there because of certain h**s coming to his room, who seem to say Daniel gave them an invitation. Another mishap occurs on that trip.
She flip flops over the dumbest thing to flip flop about; men. Just like the last one. The whole movie is really just about who Bridget will decide to be with in the end, and that part is a little predictable. {Attention people who like to make deals on movies. (Example: Who gets killed first in "The Core") this film is a great one to make bets on who Bridget goes with.}
"Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" is a fine movie to go rent sometime, not a big one to look forward to, too much, (even if you are a fan of Renee Zellweger, like me) but not a horrible picture.

REVIEW: Matchstick Men

"I'm not a criminal; I'm a con man."
"The difference being?"
"They give me their money."

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(Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman, Bruce Altman. Directed by Ridley Scott, 116 minutes, PG-13)

Nicolas Cage, my favorite actor of this year, brings one of his best performances in this dramatic comedy/thriller. Playing the role of a smoke addict who stammers and hesitates between words if he doesn't take his pills, and is torn apart by the sun and bright outdoors, Roy Waller just happens to be a convict in this film. His partner, Frank Mercer (Rockwell) plays a funny, sarcastic guy who helps Roy out. It looks to us they have been working together for years.
As anyone can see Roy and Frank are cons with not much cover. Sort of small cons, using small distractions to steal money.
Roy and his doctor Klein (Altman) have a few good scenes in this movie. (Some towards beginning, rest at end.) Dr. Klein seems to know all of Roy's issues and they have long talks together.
Finally, something happens and Roy finds his ex's 14 -year-old daughter, Angela. (Lohman) He had left her when she was pregnant. Angela stays with him and he becomes a horrible father. Eventually she finds out about him being a convict. Instead of her panicking though she starts to get excited and wants her dad to teach her con tricks.
Of course it turns out like a father-daughter kind of movie, only with the most irresponsible father ever!
"Matchstick Men" is a very dull movie for the first 45 minutes, but it improves and becomes entertaining and even a little confusing. Plus, this film has the best twist I have ever seen in a movie along with good acting performances from Cage and Lohman.

REVIEW: Ocean's Twelve

"Next time I see you, I'm arresting you..."

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(Starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy Garcia, Bernie Mac, Don Cheadle. Directed by Steven Soderburgh, 125 minutes, PG-13)
I really knew this move and the first one for the cast. And the acting and the gadgets, and the plot and story! This movie was entertaining and well done but could of been a little bit more of both of those traits. I didn't not like it.
They had good gadgets in this film and I knew they were out to steal something in this film. If they didn't I just wouldn't of gone. But they don't just feel like getting some more money and they're not trying to get Rusty (Pitt) a girlfreind either. There is a great opeining scene where their Terry Benedick (Garcia, the person they stole approx. 163 milion dollars from in the last film) comes to each and every one of the locations that the eleven has gone off to. "I want my money back."
Danny Ocean (Clooney) calls every one back together so they can calculate how much everyone has spent in their share of the millions of dollars. (A very funny scene.) They decide the only way to live (because hiding sure isn't going to work) is to steal something else and give the money back to Benedick.
Some people have bigger roles than in the first one and some have the opposite. Overall it ˆs a funny film and I wouldn't mind seeing it a second time on DVD. The first one was a definite "WOW" and top ten movies that I have ever seen, but this might be a bit further from there.
One other thing is that this movie really should of been called "Ocean's Nine." Saul quits the plan for 3/4 of the movie and Catherine Zeta Jones (who plays Brad Pitt's ex girlfreind who is now a detective) is a freaking bad guy in this film!

REVIEW: The Incredibles

"Hey, we're super heros; what can happen?"

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(Voices of Craig Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Brad Bird. Directed by Brad Bird. 121 minutes, PG)
Incredible. Amazing. Spectacular. They all mean the same thing. But "Incredible" is what we're talking about here. This is really Pixar's best animation since "Toy Story" or all those others.
"The Incredibles" was very entertaining in theaters and on DVD. Watch it any where and it will be. Not only was the animation stupendous, but it was packed with great jokes and characters. Personally I favored the super hero suit designer who only appears in the movie in a few scenes played by the director, Brad Bird.
The actual movie is about a family who each contains a superpower except for one-year-old Jack-Jack. A very difficult troubled family, because two of them have a exilerating past of arresting bank robbers, saving "crazy" people, and really fighting the crime. But now everything is over for them; even though they do still posses their superpowers, they have to choose to live in secret "normally," (which is a big word in this picture) due to a few angry attorneys sueing Mr. Incredible.
So now he is known as Bob. Bob has to make his pay by sitting in an office and stamping a stamp, "denied." His customers are not happy and neither is his silly little boss. (Another one of my small role funny characters.) Of course, he has to revive his superhero work at some point to make this interesting. (Hey, if that didn't happen what kind of Pixar Disney movie would this be?) Something comes up the day he is fired. A something that says to double his pay and revive his powers.
This goes well and with lying to his family, they think life is actually improving and not getting teared apart.
Then he gets in trouble. A begining character who we all thought was a small joke is back and out to kill and steal his powers for himself. This is the evil cackling wizard with an evil plan in this case. So, then of course the entire family calaborates with their powers to help eachother survive against these stereo typical bad guys. Not that that was a bad part of the movie.
It was amazing! I enjoyed. A real film for everyone.

REVIEW: The Ring Two

"Have you ever seen something so scary that you had to show someone else?"

(Naomi Watts, David Dorfman, Simon Baker, Sissy Spacek, Ryan Merriman, Emily VonCamp, and Kelly Stables. Directed by Hideo Nakata. 107 minutes PG-13)
I'm still giving "The Ring Two" the same rating as the first, but I'll have to say the orignal was always better."The Ring Two" was actually better than I had expected. With an unclear trailer and some other movie clips I thought it was about Samara, (Stables) wanting to take the form of Rachel's son Aidan, (Watts and Dorfman) because she wanted to live again. Hey, if I was trapped at the bottom of a well for about 70 years and only get to kill people every couple of months I wouldn't be thinking very different from her. (Watts and Dorfman) It sort of was and wasn't.
The movie starts out, again, with two teenagers at night hanging out together and just like last movie, one of them has seen the tape. But this person knows of him dying just he doesn't understand how. Jake (Merriman) tries to convince the girl, Emily (VonCamp) from school to watch the tape. Finally, convinced she grabs the tape and inserts it into the VCR. Jake is meanwhile in the kitchen looking at the microwave clock knowing if something goes wrong he will die in two minutes. The phone rings, but it's not his deathcall. Something else was. Samara's calling card comes in from under the door. Jake bursts in to see what Emily is doing. And yet something did