Angel-A

Dir & Writ: Luc Besson

Jamel Debbouze РAndr̩
Rie Rasmussen – Angel-A

Don’t you just hate when a film you’ve been enjoying falls to pieces in the final third?
Angel-A starts off well. We meet André as he tries to talk his way out of debt, on a few occasions. None of his smooth talking seems to go [...]

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Tagged:  6 Stars, Angel-A, angels, French, good premise, Jamel Debbouze, Luc Besson, overblown, Rie Rasmussen, romance, sff, stylish, subtitled, underwritten, weak ending

The Phantom of the Opera

dir. Joel Schumacher
Writ: Andrew Lloyd Webber & Joel Schumacher, based on book by Gaston Leroux
Starring:
* Gerard Butler – The Phantom
* Emmy Rossum – Christine
* Patrick Wilson – Raoul
I had expected to enjoy this. But no, it was over long, over crap, and just [...]

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Tagged:  3 Stars, Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on book, Emmy Rossum, Gaston Leroux, Gerard Butler, Joel Schumacher, musical, overblown, overlong, Patrick Wilson, romance, The Phantom of the Opera