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Saw "Child 44"--was going to "True Story" at Harken in Southlake and there was art fest we didn't think about going on--couldn't get parking space w/o pulling a gun on someone so went to Tinseltown in Grapevine...
(I forgot this is not on my local forum)...
THIS HAS SOME SPOILERS PROBABLY
Better than I thought from some reviews I read--
it does seem foolish to have them talking English w/thick Russian accents--we know they are in Russia...
Tom Hardy is always intense
Noomi Rapace can say alot w/o opening her mouth--some of her best scenes were strictly reaction shots
Gary Oldman very underutilized as was Paddy Constantine
Joel Kinneman still playing robotic Robo Cop
Based on Citizen X true story but set in different (more repressive if possible) Soviet era...
some changes from book were more realistic and believeable--the escape from the train for one
but the explanation for why the killings happened lacked the double twist in the book--
some info about Leo also just omitted as his parents--the movie suffers because of those omissions IMO...
watchable and suspenseful and probably more so for those who hadn't read the book
but a dark movie--dark rooms, dark clothing, dark toughts--just hard to see clearly at times
and frankly I think the point of the movie--the deaths of those children--sort of falls through the cracks and takes a back seat to Leo and Raisa's predicaments
watch Citizen X--on HBO Go for better example of story
Tonight I watched two great films from the 1980s: Stripes with Bill Murray and Dirty Dancing, both with my girlfriend. Both very good, even Dirty Dancing.
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Joe Johnston
REALLY REALLY good film but not quite great.
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