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Charlie Wilson's War
I saw this after midnight on New Years Eve, so I guess very early New Years Day, and I was a little bit tipsy at the time, so this won't be a brilliant review. But don't worry, I was still sober enough that I do remember the film.
Overall this was a generally entertaining film. Philip Seymour Hoffman was definitely the high-light of this film as he did a great job in his role completely over shadowing the work of everyone else in the film. Because of this he might have made the other actors and actresses seem worse in their roles, as I didn't find any of the other actors and actresses to be anything more then solid, but his acting was amazing. Hanks and Robert's both did a decent job in the film, but being two important characters in the film I was disappointed by their job to some extent as I expected them to do a better job.
The story itself was fairly entertaining. It definitely tells a limited story of what was going on throughout that whole time and it acts at times if it is telling the whole story, but it does a good job showing the limited part of the story that it wants to. It gets across well the type of person that Charlie Wilson was, and does so in an entertaining manner.
Overall this is a film that does a good job of showing what it wants to show in a fairly entertaining manner. With the cast that it had, I feel like it should have been better, but it is by no means a terrible film. Seymour Hoffman by himself guarentees that this film is an entertaining film to watch.
Overall Grade: B
Acting: B+
Story: B
Audio/Visual: B
I saw this after midnight on New Years Eve, so I guess very early New Years Day, and I was a little bit tipsy at the time, so this won't be a brilliant review. But don't worry, I was still sober enough that I do remember the film.
Overall this was a generally entertaining film. Philip Seymour Hoffman was definitely the high-light of this film as he did a great job in his role completely over shadowing the work of everyone else in the film. Because of this he might have made the other actors and actresses seem worse in their roles, as I didn't find any of the other actors and actresses to be anything more then solid, but his acting was amazing. Hanks and Robert's both did a decent job in the film, but being two important characters in the film I was disappointed by their job to some extent as I expected them to do a better job.
The story itself was fairly entertaining. It definitely tells a limited story of what was going on throughout that whole time and it acts at times if it is telling the whole story, but it does a good job showing the limited part of the story that it wants to. It gets across well the type of person that Charlie Wilson was, and does so in an entertaining manner.
Overall this is a film that does a good job of showing what it wants to show in a fairly entertaining manner. With the cast that it had, I feel like it should have been better, but it is by no means a terrible film. Seymour Hoffman by himself guarentees that this film is an entertaining film to watch.
Overall Grade: B
Acting: B+
Story: B
Audio/Visual: B