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Reviews
Michael Bublé: I Believe in You (2017)
Wonderful video
This music video was just a great story of the love of a couple from childhood into older adulthood. Great dancing by the writer/director/star Derek Hough, really made me notice him for the first time (hadn't watched either dancing with the stars or other performances on his CV - something I intend to correct).
Takers (2010)
I Blame the Director (and whoever was supposed to check consistency)
It isn't often I review a film. As many others have written, it's easy to see where this film gets its influences (Heat, The Italian Job, the opening scene of Casino Royale etc). My problem was in character consistency. The director establishes that the "heroes" are a well run team of criminals who are smart about the crimes they pull and even know how to take care of their ill gotten loot, but when a "too good to be true" deal lands in their laps by someone they OBVIOUSLY don't trust, with no good reason for them to jump on it... why would they? The acting was really not bad given the material they had to work with, but ultimately the film fails because of unlikely reactions on the part of the characters that make the audience disbelieve the situations. Decent special effects, reasonable acting, mediocre story - except it was badly assembled. Might have made more sense with a different edit.