Movie Review: The Social Network

Facebook, a social-networking website that can simply be defined as internet-changing, thanks to its uses which include posting pictures, videos, status updates and more, all these uses made contact between friends, family, and even enemies much easier, but how did it all start? And where did the idea come from? The Social Network is a movie that answers those questions and some other questions about Facebook that may be on people's minds, but in order for the answers to be delivered, the Social Network has to be an entertaining and deep movie.

The Social Network is a movie about Facebook, but not only Facebook, it goes into the creation of Facebook and the early legal issues faced with the company, so basically the movie had to be deep and at the same time understandable, and as a result, it was strongly understandable for most of the movie, but I felt that the movie should have been deeper.

The Social Network has a unique style, the entire movie is actually being told by Mark Zuckerburg, Eduardo Savarin, The Winklevoss Brothers, the and loyars, the movie mainly takes place in an office, where they are dealing with two legal issues, one of them with Savarin, and the other with the Winklevoss brother, each main event in the movie starts by one of those people either explaining something, or reading a paper, and to be honest that style of directing is strongly appreciated.

Another thing to love about the movie is the acting, Jessie Isenberg shows us how flexible can he be by portraying Mark Zuckerburg, Andrew Garfield did an excellent job emotionally in the role of Eduardo Savarin, Justin Timberlake was surprisingly good as Sean Parker, and Brenda Song did a strong job as a paranoid girlfriend, by playing Eduardo Savarin's girlfriend, Christy Lee.

The movie could have easily been a once in a lifetime movie, but there were a few shortcomings in the movie, such as the lack of depth in some parts, some parts being strongly exaggerated, the rushed ending, and the slow and boring start.

The Social Network was overall a very strong movie, it had a few shortcomings, but even with the shortcomings, the movie gives a strong amount of details about the rise of Facebook and some of its early legal problems in a very entertaining style.

*Movie Rating:-

-Acting(out of 6)= 6 
-Story(out of 8)= 6
-Plot(out of 8)= 7
-Actions(out of 6)= 4
-Effects(out of 4)= 4
-Character Developement(out of 8)= 8 
*Overall Rating(out of 40)= 35
4 Stars

*Rating System:
0-7= 0 Stars
8-14= 1 Star
15-21= 2 Stars

22-30= 3 Stars

30-35= 4 Stars
36-40= 5 Stars

Movie Review: RED

How many star stunned movies where there this year? There was Grown Ups, which had a legendary comedy cast, but not legendary comedy quality, there was also The Expendables, which was a strong action movie that had a cast to match the quality of the movie, there was Due Date, which was the best comedy of the year, and now there is a new member of this group called RED, which brings together a legendary action cast starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malcovich, and Helen Merrin, but is RED as good as the other star stunned movies this year?

RED is about a retired CIA agent named Frank Moses, who is filed for assassination due to knowing valuable secrets about the CIA, so he brings back his old team in order to survive, and to stop the CIAs plans to assassinate Moses and his team, but in order to do that, they need break into the CIA's top secret headquarters and try to uncover one of the biggest cover-ups in CIA and US government history.

First of all, RED had a story that gave it allot of potential to be a great action movie, but what would potential be if the movie didn't live up to it? The answer is simple, the movie would be in many factors weak if it did not live up to it's potential, and that problem went with RED, it had allot of potential to be a great movie, but it unfortionetly wasn't.

RED is mainly divided to two halfs, the first half, which goes through the first hour of the movie, was very weak, the action was really nothing special, they only scored two or three jokes out of twenty or twenty five jokes, and the story felt like it was going nowhere, but the second half of the movie, which goes through the second hour of the movie, was very entertaining, the action was huge, most of the jokes where pulled off strongly, and the story actually felt like it was building up, therefore making the action seem more reasonable, making the characters develop in a stronger pattern, and it generally lifted the movie into going into a more positive direction.

RED was one of those movies that are commented on doing "too little too late" because the second half of the movie actually felt like it was going somewhere, unlike the first half of the movie which tried too hard to entertain by putting in allot of action that was familiar in allot of movies, and a handful of unfunny jokes, so overall I think the movie would be considered as a passable movie compared to all the movies out there, but compared to the talent that is has on set, it should have done allot better than what it did.

*Movie Rating:-

-Acting(out of 6)= 5

-Story(out of 8)= 4

-Plot(out of 8)= 4

-Actions(out of 6)= 4

-Effects(out of 4)=  4

-Character Developement(out of 8)=  4

*Overall Rating(out of 40)=  25

3 Stars

*Rating System:

0-7= 0 Stars

8-14= 1 Star

15-21= 2 Stars

22-30= 3 Stars

30-35= 4 Stars
36-40= 5 Stars

Movie Review: Due Date

Travel movies, better known as road trip movies, are movies that include people traveling from one destination to another in order to make it to a certain event or reach a certain goal, but are these movies successful? There was The Book of Eli, which was a fairly good movie, a second would be Are We There Yet, a funny, yet stupid movie, there was also Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a movie that fails to reach almost everything needed to be a good movie, so based on these three examples, it's hard to judge if road trip movies are generally good or bad based, so I think the decision should be left to whether 'Due Date' was a good or bad movie.

Due Date has a fairly simple, but funny plot, it's about an uptight architect named Peter Highman, who gets on the no-fly list of an airline, so he travels with travels with an idiotic actor wannabe named Ethan Chase, in order to get to LA in time to see the birth of his child, but the chances of that happening decreases, due to Ethan getting himself and Peter in trouble.

The story is very entertaining, because it has something that movies did not have for a long time, which is having two characters who are the complete opposite of each other, which resulted to the main characters of this movie getting into allot of hilarious situations, such as Ethan accidentally shooting Peter on the leg, Ethan crashing on the car door which trying to help Peter after shooting him on the leg, Ethan constantly asking Peter questions, and at one point questions about his wife, if there was a possibility that she cheated on him, and fusing that question with going to the Zoo, Ethan getting him and Peter in trouble in the border of Mexico, and allot more hilarious situations.

Other than being very funny, the movie showed allot of emotion towards Peter and Ethan, because while knowing Ethan screws up allot, people feel bad for him, and it's kind of heartwarming that Peter always finds a way to forgive him no matter what he does, also the fact that Ethan is dedicated to his promise that no matter how much of an idiot he is, and no matter how mean Peter is to him, shows that he is a better friend then allot of people in this world.

The movie did have some very minor setbacks, such as the fact that some jokes where repeated two or three times, some predictable jokes, and some jokes that where seen in other movies, but other than those minor twitches there is really nothing to worry about.

Due Date was a movie that I would recommend to anyone, it does have some small errors, but at the same time it has allot of things that are expected in a road trip movie, whether it's a good story, great character and acting performances, allot of great jokes, some heavily driven emotion, a little action, and a few great sights to see, so basically what I'm trying to say is that Due Date has a rare feeling that can make a person laugh and at the same time feel bad about something, which is a very rare feeling to have in a comedy, and the main reason on why this movie is entertaining.

*Movie Rating:-

-Acting(out of 6)= 6
-Story(out of 8)= 7

-Plot(out of 8)= 6

-Actions(out of 6)= 5 

-Effects(out of 4)= 4

-Character Developement(out of 8)= 8 

*Overall Rating(out of 40)= 36

5 Stars

*Rating System:

0-7= 0 Stars

8-14= 1 Star

15-21= 2 Stars

22-30= 3 Stars

30-35= 4 Stars
36-40= 5 Stars