Reviews

Well I would honestly have to say that this movie was a disappointment from beginning to end. Considering the fact that Ron Howard and Tom Hanks are two extremely reputable icons in the movie industry, they did a poor job. Tom Hanks did a poor job in creating the character of Robert Langdon and convincing his audience that he was Robert Langdon. His performance in this movie is an insult to the Lifetime Achievement Award he received in 2002. As for Ron Howard, he absolutely settled for mediocrity with this movie. Each scene was rushed and sloppy. This whole movie was in fast forward; especially the dialogue. However, the poor acting cannot be put solely on the shoulders of Tom Hanks. Nobody in this movie acted well enough to create a believable character. The Da Vinci Code was not even a solid portrayal of the book. This movie should have insulted Dan Brown and it absolutely does not deserve a rating better than a 4 out of 10.

This movie explores the Brazilian self defense dance capoeira which is not known much about unless you've seen it. Lewis(Dacascos)returns to the high school from which he came where he is hired to teach a group of delinquents capoeira in order to harness their otherwise bad habits. He runs into some serious problems with a leader of the gang and city, Silverio(Prieto). Lewis may be getting involved with a problem that he can't solve in this action/martial arts movie. "Only the Strong" brings to light a very interesting capoeira that is otherwise unknown to common knowledge. The soundtrack also deserves some attention if you have any respect for music around the world. This movie throws in the catchy music that introduces the unique berimbau instrument that is used during the jogo (the game). Overall, "Only the Strong" was a C+ to B- movie on the basis of knowledge gained from it and overall originality that it took to create it on a low budget.