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I, Anna (2012)
Slow, Confusing, Ultimately Pointless Film
AT the end I wish Bernie had just let Anna jump or better yet pushed her off the ledge. Caught this on Netflix in 2017. I THINK that the daughter and the grand-kid were BOTH imaginary - hence the baby sleeping sign was always on the door. Why was Anna phoning her own apartment from a phone booth? And what's with the old-fashioned touch phone in 2015? Where did the itchy cast on her broken arm come from - did she get it from killing the match.com date? London is photographed like NYC (Gotham) in a Batman movie and I half expected to see the Caped Crusader and Catwoman appear. This is a plot? HE'S a newly divorced cop (DCI Bernie Kominski - a Brit police chief with a Borsch Belt name and demeanor) who stumbles around like he's taken far too many of those Ambien pills he's seen swallowing. SHE'S a lonely, sixtyish woman who works selling mattresses in a department store and hallucinates she's living w/her (non-existent?) daughter and dead grand-kid. She does in-person speed-dating and during the process runs into a rough-trade character. During a sex hook-up with the dude she kills him in self-defense and can't remember the killing happened, much less that she did the deed herself. OY VEY Bernie! She ALSO doesn't remember that while day-dreaming during a babysitting stint she got forgetful (again) and let her grand-kid run off and get killed by a car. So she goes to the park and pushes an empty swing. Bernie gets to investigate the gory murder and despite his attraction to Anna, comes to suspect her and when he comes in for the arrest, she steps out onto the edge of the high-rise and threatens to jump. He pulls Anna (now the love of his heart) back. End of film....
The Dark Tower (2017)
Bigtime Waste of Superb Talent
Dreadful. Dreadful. Mind-numbingly awful. I just caught this on Xfinity Comcast for a $5.99 rental. This POS made $111 million at the box office - can't figure out why . Good actors thrown in the trash bin of poor plotting, writing, - this was a video game, not a movie. Idris Elba, he of "Luther" brilliance with Ruth Wilson, Matthew McConaughy ("True Detective" with Harrelson), Katheryn Winnick absolutely great as Lagertha, Ragnar's wife in the "Vikings". Are they that desperate for money? TV these days offers a lot more than the big screen - the acting, character arcs are so much richer. Example: Peaky Blinders (where Cillian Murphy excels as Tommy Shelby) for great writing, editing, cinematography, music and characters.