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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)
Definitely no masterpiece, but still a nicely entertaining action movie
I started watching this movie today, because it was the most interesting stuff that was on TV that moment. I saw it pretty much from the beginning, and the beginning of the movie had fast pace to setting up the "starting blocks" of the story. Chun Li's father is kidnapped and her mother dies because of an illness and she gets a old mysterious roll that has a message for her to leave her past behind and get on a "new adventure". There's some great overacting in this movie by Chris Klein and Michael Clarke Duncan (sorry about the overacting part Chris and Michael). The story is very simple, but I don't think there's nothing wrong with that, if your just looking for something pretty entertaining to watch. I like Kristin Kreuk, so that's a plus for this movie :) and I like the action in it. The action seems that you've seen it before, but if your not looking to "invent the wheel" again, it's good action. So maybe this movie isn't something that will be watched for ages, but it's still a very watchable movie.
Eat Pray Love (2010)
One of my favorite movies right now!
About the spoiler alert: I don't know if it is a spoiler, but I mention my opinion about a choice that's made concerning what is showed in one scene, and the other thing is that I give my opinion about the connection between the characters played by Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem (in the scene after their characters supposedly had sex).
One detail: I don't like the finnish word for review, so I'll call all the reviews I'm gonna write, my OPINIONS, not reviews.
OK, so here it is: I came home few hours ago from watching Eat Pray Love and I really liked it! This movie goes to my favorite movies "list" (at least at this moment,) alongside with The Abyss and The House Of Sand And Fog, just to name couple from my "list". I'm a very audiovisual person (I like to watch various style of movies and dancing, and listen and play music), so I REALLY LIKED to see Julia Roberts smiling so much in this movie (at least comparing to the last role I saw her in, which was duplicity) and hear her laughter (Julia Roberts truly is one my favorite actresses, like it wasn't apparent). Also, I really liked the dialog, casting was very good and I enjoyed the scenery shown in this movie! Those things I mentioned are enough for me to give 10 out 10 stars!
Couple of details about the movie: I liked the choice that's made in scene where the characters Liz and Felipe are going to have sex, but that scene ends with Liz closing the door. I think that it was a much better choice to leave what happened after Liz close the door to the viewers imagination, than showing it. I like the connection between Julia and Javier in this movie, except in the scene after they supposedly had sex. I thought the intimate connection you could expect to see wasn't there, maybe a second viewing of the movie will change that? That was pretty much the only negative thing in movie for me, this movie really gives something for all the senses!
If you haven't seen this movie yet and you're hesitant to go see it, because it has the word Pray in the title and you think there is a lot of talking about God and you're not 100% sure that God exists, or something like that. Well, God is such a personal matter, but I guess I'll do a risky thing? If it gets someone to watch this movie? I'm gonna include here what I've heard about what God can mean to some people and my opinion about believing in something (whether it be God or some other matter). There is talking about God in this movie, but this movie doesn't focus just on God (doh!, like wouldn't be apparent just by looking at the title). My opinion is that no one should force their believes (of God or about any other matter) to anyone else! Everyone should be free to believe in whatever they want, as long it doesn't hurt anyone else, mentally or physically. I think that this movie doesn't force you to believe that a certain kind of God exists, because the script doesn't specify what God means in this movie. I've heard that the word God can mean different things to different people. I heard someone say that the word God could be replaced for instance with the word Love! You can agree with that or not! Your choice! Life is full of those! I end my first opinion about any movie by saying: live in as much Peace and Happiness as you can!