no no, don't feel like you have to rush out and see them all straightaway. mediocre movies will be available to you all year long. and of course their dvd counterparts do boast seemingly inexhaustible shelf life. yet this is the time of year when the floodgates open, releasing some real doozies into multiplex and art house alike.
ah, i remember the curdled cream of 2007's rotten crop (of those i was "bold" enough to endure)--spider-man 3 and walk hard: the dewey cox story. in a word, awful. now i've seen the first big stinker of this campaign:
in bruges--
starring colin farrell, brendan gleeson, and ralph fiennes, it certainly has enough star power to draw an audience. but writer/director martin mcdonagh (who wrote staggeringly brilliant stage play The Pillowman) simply gets it all wrong. the scenes feel incongruous, the humor consistently misses the mark, the shot selection appears amateurish, even the allegedly picturesque city gets lost in the directorial mess (might as well have filmed on a soundstage). honestly, why beat this dead horse? (i don't like writing reviews so scathing, esp. when such talent is involved; we're all artists. sorry.) i can't give it zero stars, cuz lord knows i've seen (and been in) much worse.
all wrong: 1 star
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