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Griff the Invisible (2010)
Good start and music, but not much else
When the movie started out, I thought I was in for an interesting super-hero movie. A quirky character who is a complete loser that puts on a suit and can crush crime, while also pulling pranks in the office. Throw in a potential love triangle with the main character, his brother, and his brothers girlfriend, and it seems like it has potential to be a goofy super hero movie, with the expectation it might be light on action.
But soon you find the movie dragging on with nothing really too interesting happening, just moving from one scene to the next where you don't feel any real connection to the characters. Perhaps it is because the characters are so odd that it is hard for me to connect with them, or perhaps it is just a bad script and acting. The music and the idea that something interesting might present itself further in the plot kept me in my seat through to the end, but I had to struggle when it felt like it was going nowhere.
At the end of the day, this movie isn't a comedy, it isn't an action/super-hero movie, and it isn't a drama. It is a confusing romance movie lacking in romance and filling in that void with quirk and music that makes you feel like there is more to it.
Underground (2007)
A failed attempt at a reality TV take on underground fights
I decided to watch this movie thinking it was going to be an action movie with a similar plot to most other fighting type movies where you follow the story of one man as he struggles to reach the top. That was not at all what this was. The director decided to make this basically a movie version of a reality TV show, by having these black and white cameras at times, and these cheesy background stories to the characters that you are given sometimes. Then there is the sequence when a fighter loses, similar to getting voted off in Survivor, except instead he goes home with a broken arm or something. While that may have been an interesting idea to have a reality fighting show, it certainly didn't pan out well in this movie. The fights seemed pretty realistic, where it only took a few hits to get knocked out, but the characters were just too cheesy.
So for anyone interested in no flairs fights with blood, and a cheesy storyline about people living with each other before fighting each other for 500k pounds, then you can watch this, but anyone interested in an exciting and action packed story-driven movie, go somewhere else.