Rush Hour 3

I saw Rush Hour 3 on sale in my local electronics store here at 10 euros. Not too bad a price, so I bought it. Watching my latest movie acquisition - I think it was ok for the price, however, it definitely falls short of Rush Hour 1 and 2. Same tricks, same stuff, same acts. Just only in a different location. Amazing coincidences that they - the cops - find out where the criminal's address is. I mean - talk about lucky to the point it's unrealistic. Yes, it's a movie and movies are meant to be unrealistic, but then there's unrealistic and then there's unrealistic. And this falls into the latter category.

Characters are so one-dimensional that it was so easy to pick out the baddie from the start. This happens when the movie just gets plain tired. To think they paid Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker a combined gross wage of 35 million US dollars to act in this. I'd have canned it a long time ago but that's Hollywood trying to con everyone out of their last dime in trying to breathe something into an almost-dead franchise.

I watched it once, and it was ok. Anymore and it'd be Snore hour 3.

I'd put this film at 2/5 if only for some occasional silly moments but other than that, there's nothing more.

Next movie coming up - Elizabeth the Golden Age.

Bean Bean Bean

Another DVD watched - Mr Bean's holiday - was surprisingly good. I watched the previous Mr Bean movie and I preferred this one much better than the other one. This one feels more true to its origins. Truth be told, I tend to watch Bean with a grain of salt, and without much or any expectations. It's not that I don't think movies deserve any expectations, but I've found from past experience that when I watch films with any level of expectation, it tends to have a negative effect on the entire film.

So wifey and I found ourselves laughing at some of the new gags Mr Bean does. There's some standard Bean-fare with oysters, vending machine, etc. But the best part of the film, isn't from Bean unfortunately. The best part takes the piss out of film makers, the intro from Carson Clay's film - Playback time in Cannes.

Carson Clay pictures present in a Carson Clay production of a Carson Clay film starring Carson Clay. Classic. And also reminded me of an Indian guy I did film school with.



Look out for the "nothings" 1 min and 1 min 21 secs. Couldn't stop laughing. :D

Movies

I've been busy viewing dvds for the last few days since I found out Amazon was having a sale on them. It's hard enough getting english language dvds here in germany, especially when I like the extras in english, and not german.

Anyhow, some of the films I bought were diehard 4.0 and the fantastic four - rise of the silver surfer.

All I'll say is Diehard 4 rocks - good good stuff and that the FF was well, a total letdown. FF had not much of a plot, crap characterization and well, it was crap. Yeah, that would sum it up. Too many characters, too little plot, and it even begins to descend to Alien Vs Predator level of mediocrity. Sad enough that they had Stan Lee on the film as a cameo saying "But I'm Stan Lee!". Damn movie shouldn't even have been made. It looked rushed for release and not much effort was put into it. But Diehard was great, non stop action from the beginning and despite it being a shooting flick, it had more going for it in terms of character and plot than the FF.

Wish there'd be a Diehard 5 but probably there won't be. Sad though. I really liked the Diehard series.