E-F Movies
Empire (2002)
Starring John Leguizamo and Peter Sarsgaad, yeah I have never heard of the second guy either, this movie revolves around Money, plain and simple. John is a drug lord in the Bronx who tries to get into big business with a Wall Street Jockey, investing in property developments.
This movie was not at all what I was expecting. The movie centered a lot around territory and respect, and less around what should have been the main story, John getting taken for a ride and scammed out of almost two million dollars.
It does point out a good lesson though, as John got more involved with the new people he thought were his friends, he had less time and cared for less those who had supported him and had his back all along. Then when the time came, a line was drawn in the sand and some stayed and some left all over money and its pursuit.
I think that you kind of have to like John Leguizamo. So if you like his movies, this should be up your alley. But is really heavy on the language, and does get to be a little long. But like I said, it has some good lessons on how money can destroy your life, and how you can never escape your past and the things you did.
Four Feathers (2002)
Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley of American Beauty and Kate Hudson. A respectable cast but not enough to make this Shakur movie the same success Elizabeth was. A long drawling war intertwined with a thickly veiled plot, this movie is as bleak as any other movie in the past that revolves around the iron ruling hand the English had in the 19th century and their obviously hideous style of fighting.
The Forgotten (2004)
Sarah and I talked about this movie on the way home, and the best we could come up with was weird.
This movie is about this mother who has lost her son in a plane crash, but can’t seem to let him go. It overwhelms her life, she is always daydreaming about him, and spending long periods of her day in his room. But then all of a sudden one day, everything changes. Her photos start disappearing and they want to lock her away in an institute, claiming that she dreamt her son up, that she had a miscarriage and that none of her memories were real.
She manages to find and convince another man that a similar thing had happened to him, and they end up on the run for their lives from the NSA and something greater than even they can imagine. If you saw the previews you know the best parts are when some human helping these two finds out too much or says too much and then all of a sudden the aliens such them off the ground into the sky. It surprises you and is always cool to watch.
This movie has a nice alien type element to it, and Julianne Moore does a nice job, but there were a bunch of little “Double Takes” that kind of break up the flow of action. From under reacting to certain events, to the end were Moore gets her son back, but then lets him play on the playground, out of sight and mind after being obsessive to have him back, that didn’t quite make sense.
So, see this movie in the cheap theaters, and it is probably a good thing that it is only an hour and a half, but I almost wouldn’t recommend it enough to rent it. Maybe watch some of it sometime at someone’s house, you know when you see a movie they rented that Friday night laying on the counter, that way you can see the cool scenes for free without having any vested interest in the plot.
