Johnny Depp looks great in this film. Since you know the ending, it is just a matter of how they interpret the story. Enjoyable enough.
The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
Fast moving thriller about a father finding his daughter that was sold into the sex trade.
Suspenseful, with a happy ending, though less happy than one would expect.
It takes a special man to shoot a man’s wife in front of him to make his point.
Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Secret Service to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanese gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him “good luck,” so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.
This wasn’t a bad film by any means, but it was extremely slow moving and long – really really long, unnecessarily long.
There were parts of this film that were quite interesting. I enjoyed the relationship between Daniel and his son. It was interesting to watch it build and then break down. I would have liked to have seen something of them between the time he came from school and when he got married. It seemed like so many small things had been covered and then there was a 20 year gap.
I would have like to have known more about what drove both Daniel and Eli and what brought such conflict (other than the fact that Eli was a manipulative liar, played amazingly well by Paul Dano).
For a film with such a slow start once it picked up it appeared to have missed so much of Daniel’s life after his baptism. It appears from the apparent break down, they may have been the more interesting parts to see.
As usual Daniel Day-Lewis gives a wonderful performance. Intense and somewhat frightening.
And I have no idea why the “I drink your milkshake” thing was so huge. It was barely there and not half as dramatic as all the parodies of it were.
but a milkshake does sound good right now.
So, I add “There Will Be Blood” to the list of good films that I still don’t think deserved all of the praise the Academy showered on them at Oscar time.
A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
Izzy, the youngest son of a troubled New York family, takes a shine to breaking into people’s apartments as a way to get attention.
Three women’s escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.