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Just Wright (2010)
Had a lot of potential, but...
It just wasn't a good movie, and the culprits, as usual, was the very poorly written script and horrendous game-play. It's hard to pinpoint one particular part of the script, because it was mostly all bad. It was bad to the point that Queen Latifah, a very credible actress, looked amateur, proving you cannot act your way out of a terrible script. Common, who was to make his mark as a leading man, had no chance in this one. I'm wondering if his star will lose a bit of luster in some regard, due to what will seem to most like bad acting - which is, again, directly related to the script. So what was wrong with the script? It was the following: unoriginal, predictable in every way, and generally not very believable. The other downer was the game-play was horrendous. Not that Common doesn't look like a ball player, but the shooting of the hoop scenes, just had no reality to them - the pacing of the games were incredibly slow, they didn't feature enough real players, and situations weren't realistic. How many die-hard Nets fans are there? Die-hard, physical therapists? That meet pro basketball players at a gas station? One of the killers was that it's highly, highly doubtful ANY player, even LeBron James, comes back from a serious knee injury, to play a game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals, and play well at that. Just not well done at all, and I was trying hard to enjoy it.
Veronica Guerin (2003)
This movie was somewhat disappointing
It was a nice looking movie, in terms of scenery. They should made Farrell into the monk's character at least, in my opinion.
But there was absolutely no character arc. They were actually one scene, probably the most important, where Guerin smugly approaches Gilligan, at his home - a known felon with a serious history of violence. Why would anyone, who is trying to cover a story run up on someone like him and think there would not be repercussions? I mean, even his wife was evil. To a certain extent, I saw it coming, and she, to a certain extent, deserved what she got. That was actually not brave, but basically irresponsible and dangerous. Throughout the entire movie, she is this was, just reckless with herself and her family. I understand the martyrdom, but the chain of events leading to that can hardly be called heroic.