T Movies
Taxi (2004)
I was worried this would be done, thankfully it was another free rental.
Starring Jimmy Fallon, Queen Latifa, Jennifer Esposito, and model Gisele Bundchen, this movie is about a need for speed female taxi driver and stupid reckless cop. They hook up, become buddies somehow, and decide through all odds to try to stop four models from robbing banks. (Bundchen)
From a stupid guy’s standpoint, it was fun to watch these sharp shooting fast driving models from Germany, but that was about it. I laughed maybe twice, and although it wasn’t SNL Fallon (giggles and twitchy) it was a different but not improved Fallon on screen (twitchy and trying to act like some cocky kindy of purposely goofy cop). Plus, Queen Latifa is like the “token” commentary on everything and you get sick of her in about five minutes.
Don’t see this. It sucked.
The Terminal(2004)
Another Steven Spielberg / Tom Hanks Triumph. Tom Hanks yet again carried this movie, making it interesting from the start to the end.
Tom plays Victor Navorski, a mild manner, genuinely nice guy whose country is in shambles after he makes the trip to America and is “forced” to live out of an airport in New York. A funny and touching movie, you laugh when Tom is having dinner with Catherine Zeta Jones and his Indian friend is juggling plates in the background, and you cry when he finally reveals what is in his Planters peanut jar and the “promise” that drove this trip to America and kept him going during nine months of life in an airport.
Only turned into Hollywood mush for a brief scene that doesn’t interrupt the main plot line, you have quirky relatable characters that you can empathize with, and you have a great original story, which really isn’t too common anymore.
Troy (2004)
With a great ensemble cast you’d think that a great story would come secondhand and the stars could carry this movie through. I never once forgot that the movie was almost three hours long and there was not one character to root for. From spitefully revenge and a bastard of a character in Brad Pitt to the whiney twit that was Orlando Bloom, the only lovable character was Eric Bana’s Hector, who dies at the hands of Pitt. Depressing and hoping every character would just die, this move will not stand out from every other war epic. Convincing in scenery, it was a major cinematic accomplishment for Ridley Scott, but not an entertaining movie.
