johnproche

Justified is a good show. Most episodes have a plot start, middle and end with the veins of a more prolonged plot running through the entire season, usually culminating in the final episode.

Timothy Olyphant is a U.S. marshal with a point to prove about his mixed background, to himself as much as to anyone else either side of the line of justice. The best thing about this show is its ability to cast actors that seem to seamlessly fit their characters' personae.

This is none more evident in this episode. Roland Pike's (Alan Ruck) and Mindy Springer's (Michele Nordin) chemistry, with its light-hearted humour, adds great depth, making the episode much fuller.

Epic failure. I don't mind taking a little poetic license with history and I went into this film expecting it to be a no holds barred action film with very little finesse and I wasn't surprised to see that Channing Tatum was as lame an actor as his normal displays but I was disappointed by Jamie Bell who I thought was on his way to becoming a good actor.

Not even to mention I found: The plot (boy goes into unknown to recover artifact and honor) to be a little simplistic. 5/10

The script writing (at one point Channing Tatum's character changes the minds of an infuriated mob of people focused on killing Jamie Bell's character simply by shouting one word - quite the skills of persuasion) - huh/ doh? 3/10

The general film direction (in the woods there is armor strewn all over an old battle ground when the britons are fighting with fletched swords, 2nd hand equipment and wood and stone cutlery - metal is very valuable now don't mind back then). 2.5/10

And the lack of chemistry between any of the characters at all to hugely flawed. 4/10

The only neat part (slightly neat) was that the "gaelic" in this movie is Gaelige/ Irish, which, being Irish, was pretty neat to be able to understand without reading the subtitles.

Just to end, I went to see this with three other male friends, who mightn't normally be as particular about movies as me, but who all agreed on the disappointment at not spending the time in this movie doing something better like sleeping.

To use a fourth word: WOW To use a fifth word: Brilliant To use a sixth word: Weird

After watching this film I was stunned. I didn't know where to begin. But to be fair I was stunned inside in the cinema while watching the movie as well. This movie is unbelievably put together. The cinematography is all over the place, there's more nudity than most porno's, there's more gun-toting and fist-fighting than a Royale Rumble in a firing range, the acting is outlandish, the script is non-existent, the plot is too ... I'm speechless about the plot... AND YET this movie is wonderfully successful. It comes together in a mash up of odd scenes followed by even odder scenes with the sole purpose of being the most oddly funny adrenaline pumping junkie film I've ever seen.

There are parts of this film that are supposed to be stupid funny (and if you like stupid funny you'll love this movie). If you don't like stupid funny, like me, don't worry those parts are mostly oddly acceptable mainly because they're dwarfed by the amount of outrageously funny absurd things that happen (that last bit mightn't make sense, but it works). But not all those ridiculous parts escape, thence the reason I've docked the 2 marks out of ten.

If you liked "Shoot 'Em Up" , this is the next step up. Goodd (Good + Odd) would be my seventh word.