Day: January 27, 2008

Seriously, what were they thinking? Get rid of the humans in this story and you could have a half decent movie.

With a fairly good storyline to begin with which picks up very nicely from the Alien Vs Predator, it begins to go downhill once the humans get involved. With shoddy acting, ridiculous side storylines that are a distraction and an ending that was so incredibly predictable it was embarrasing. What’s even worse is that it clearly is set up for a trilogy. Well surely they can’t get any worse from here, can they?

0 out of 5!!!!!

We saw this a week or two ago. I am not the greatest Tom Hanks fan however this was a very interesting story. We were probably half expecting the usual “peace, justice and the American way will prevail” outcome but were quite surprised with this well balanced story.

For a synopsis on the storyline here is the link to the official website.

http://www.charliewilsonswar.net/

Memorable quotes:

“You know you’ve reached rock bottom when you’re told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.”

“These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world… and then we f****** up the endgame.”

“Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing? “, “Well, tradition mostly”

4 out of 5.