Excellent Swedish adaptation of the first in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy. Michael Nyqvist stars as crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recruited to investigate the death of a young girl 30 years previously in a remote part of Sweden. Noomi Rapace plays emo bisexual computer hacker Lisbeth Salander who ends up on Blomkvist's side in the battle against assorted evil authority figures.
I love a good western; hell, I love a bad western. Unfortunately we don’t get many these days, but here’s one and it’s 95% good. Liam Neeson chases Pierce Brosnan across some startling scenery at the end of the civil war, from snowy mountains to desert plains, and there’s a fair bit of gory violence along the way, as well as a fine supporting cast of villains (Michael Wincott, Ed Lauter and Xander Berkeley among them). Thematically it’s similar to The Outlaw Josey Wales in its view on the pointlessness of living for revenge; I wondered if the casting...
Reunited with director Tony Scott for the third time, Denzel Washington plays a New Orleans ATF agent brought in to investigate the bombing of a car ferry. A shadowy FBI agent played by Val Kilmer introduces him to the latest surveillance technology, which can look in detail at the events of exactly four and a half days ago (no, don’t ask me). The movie then becomes a combination of romance, police procedural and time/space paradox story, all filmed with Scott’s usual over-cranked style. As with Man On Fire, there’s a terrific score by Harry Gregson-Williams and inventive visuals courtesy...
