As some of you know, I am a pretty big movie fan. I really love watching, reviewing and talking about them. Even really bad movies offer something beneficial; they give the viewer a baseline to compare good movies against. Along the same lines, I have pretty strong opinions about music, books and a few TV shows. So considering the viewer base of this site can fit into the back seat of a small car, I thought I would start writing reviews for movies, books, TV shows, music, and weather, whatever I feel like. I might write a review for a presidential appearance at a news conference if the urge hits me. My reviews won?t be regular, timely, current or consistent. But hey, this is my site and I can do whatever I want.
So taking a page from the Siskel and Ebert book, two guys who took something as complex as reviewing and judging a movie and turned it into something as simple as ?Thumbs Up? and ?Thumbs Down?, please allow me to begin.
<a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0278504">Insomnia</a>
Insomnia, the cure for itself, plods along at a pace as fast as the waiting room in my dentists office. Al Pacino is not bad, I hope he looks the way he did in the movie because the part called for it, but there is not much else redeeming about this movie. It is slow and depressing, two traits that can make a movie good but not in this case, and is predictable, something I hate in a movie. Robin Williams, despite giving a strong performance, gives it only a slight edge as a bad guy. I would recommend taking a shot of Nyquil, have a glass of milk and watch a blank wall, it will leave you feeling the same way I felt when the credits finally rolled.
My rating: Refund (one of my ratings will be ?Refund?, meaning ask for a refund from the movie theater or Blockbuster).
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