Steve's Movies Reviews (2 for 1)

Just came back from seeing two movies (and dinner) with some friends. We saw "V for Venetta" and "Inside Man" tonight. Here's my quickie reviews of both.

"Inside Man" is a very entertaining heist movie. We are given a little bit more to know than the characters in the film but we are still kept in the dark about what the plan is until the end. I'm not certain why portions of the plan need to involve as many people as it did. My guess is that it was there to distract the characters and us.

"V" is a bit bigger than an entertaining story (which it is). It tries to make a statement. That statement is in one of the promos: "People shouldn't be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of its people." I enjoyed it (although I thought the amount of Bullet Time at the end was over-doing it).

Also, Amy said it best after the movie ended. If you see parallels to the Bush administration in this movie, that is your fears clouding your judgement rather than what the movie is really saying. It is a self-contained story with many different influences. Get over yourself.