Movie Review: Bucket List (2007)

Gosh, I really enjoyed this film.  Stars are great – Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson.  With those names alone, I was drawn to it without even knowing the plot.  But the plot was interesting too (2 men diagnosed with terminal cancer, draw up a ‘bucket list’ of things they would like to accomplish before they die).  And the 2 characters – of course near opposite personality types – set each other off well.  Morgan plays the more conservative, middle class guy, while Nicholson (of course) plays the rich, obnoxious, eccentric one.

Okay, and I gotta find a weak moment to the film.  I always find something to pick at, the critic that I am (of myself too).  It was the scene where Freeman’s character gets picked up by a very attractive woman, who apparently is a call girl hired by his friend, played by Nicholson.  It was too obvious.

But we really enjoyed this one.  Gave it an 8 out of 10.

Movie Review: Doomsday (2008)

This film is about a deadly virus that breaks out in the UK and it’s controlled by containing everyone within.  There is another outbreak decades later, so they break into the original contaminated zone to find a cure as there are apparently survivors (thus those that are immune).  It’s sort of a cross between Mad Max, Andromeda Strain, and those action movies with the really tough, serious lead female. 

This film is supposed to be set in the future, but it doesn’t FEEL like it.  In fact there was next to no interesting technology in it.  I mean, I don’t HAVE to have it full with all kinds of gizmos, but everything was so basic that it could’ve been set TODAY. 

A weak film, disappointing for scifi / action genre – there are in fact few good ones unfortunately.  Gets a 5 out of 10.