mike bermo

A worthy successor to Yellowstone. Very enlightening and Billy Bob Thornton is excellent. For anyone who wanted to know the behind the scenes of the petroleum industry, this is it! But more than that, they have produced a very good drama here that makes me look forward to the next show to drop.

The first and greatest full length animated hand drawn motion picture. This is how great this movie is: the synopsis of this movie can be told in one paragraph. It is a very simplistic tale from an early 19th century Grimm’s fairy tale. But the animation is so good, people paid their hard earned money during the Great Depression to make it a huge hit. It has continued to make Disney money to this day making it the most successful animated motion picture of all time adjusted for inflation. While it is only slightly over an hour long, Disney manages to develop this story through the exploration of tiny vignettes of the characters…the dwarves and the creatures of the forest. This movie was the ancestor to all of the Disney universe and it almost bankrupted Disney just making the film.

Fun to watch. Not an exceptional plot. Good supporting cast. Lots of action. Now for the bad stuff. Olga Kurylenko took more punishment than any man or woman is likely to survive and yet only had a few well placed cuts. Imagine a big strong 235 lb guy wailing away on a 125 lb model who is 5’9” tall and she doesn’t even have any swelling. Is that realistic? And she is winning!!!! In reality, one punch from the guy would put her down for good…hell, it would put ME down for good..and I am a hell of a lot bigger than she is. Then there was the reference to the M-82 sniper rifle that shoots through body armor worn by the witness. The .50 BMG would most definitely penetrate body armor unless you were wearing a M-1 Abrams main battle tank. But this guy who was shot through the guts by this rifle, was able to run around afterwards like it was a flesh wound with a b.b. gun. Not only that but after we discover what he was shot with, I looked later on and it appears the M-82 morphed into a bolt action 7.62 x 51, probably an M-24. I didn’t know this was a transformer movie. I liked Olga in Hitman and Centurion…she plays a great prostitute by the way but this movie was not her best, completely unrealistic.

I had never heard of this film...but as I began watching it, I loved it. The story is excellent, the characters believable, and the performances strong. Unlike many films that leave you feeling unsatisfied, this one has a wonderful ending with all of the major loose ends wrapped up. Renner did a great job with this film and if you weren’t a Jeremy Renner fan before, after this film you will be.