I could see this film generating some nightmares for me and personally if that is the case, then you know that the horror
film did it job right.
Not exact matches
The
film does a great
job at capturing the cold, evil nature of Ian Mckellen's character (who is well cast and gives a great performance) But considering that this is a
film directed by Bryan Singer, you know
right from the start that this isn't his strongest directorial effort.
This
film does a great
job up being really morally ambiguous, and not painting either side as being truly
right or wrong.
It is also an interesting political take on the chain of command in the military, lampooning the superior officers as incompetent fools, despite having their hearts in the
right place, the
film manages to successfully create sympathy for Col. Berman (Ed Harris) in that despite his general inability to
do the
job, he is actually well liked.
He beat out Robert Towne for the
job, pitching the
film as an examination of the characters that inhabited these powerful bodies: why
did they always
do the
right thing?
Cheadle also
does a fine
job in the
film, but his role is much less central than Gleeson's — he's almost there as a straight man, to play the jokes off of and provide an alternate perspective when it comes
right down to it.
Annette Bening
did a fine
job with The Kids Are All
Right, I can not wait to see her in this
film.
Director David Gordon Green is a hot commodity
right now in Hollywood after moving from the world of indie dramas to mainstream comedies, but he seems to be
doing a good
job of riding the momentum from Pineapple Express while also avoiding being pigeon - holed into any one specific genre or style of
film.
That said, also as in that first
film, Columbus overall
does a workman - like
job, reliably hitting the
right notes but adding little else, which makes one all the more eagerly anticipate next year's installment, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, on which Alfonso Cuarón takes over the directing reins.
Sexual abuse, domestic violence, unequal pay, hazardous work environments, and almost no child custody
rights in disputes with men... these were all commonplace at the time, and the
film does a terrific
job of making the points without distracting from its central message.