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"Duplicity" could leave you feeling double-crossed

 

Movies like Pulp Fiction certainly mixed up the chronology to help make the film even more interesting.  And it totally works.  Films like Duplicity do this way too much to try to make the movie interesting, but it just makes it confusing.  And I'm not sure if it's because the stakes never really feel high enough to make the film solid on its own or if, and it makes me sad to even say it, Julia Roberts is getting just a tad too old to play the love interest.  Not that Clive Owen is any great catch, and not that Julia isn't still hot.  It just feels... off... or maybe Julia just feels... irrelevant.  Crazy to think it when she held ground as the top babe for so long and even had a film (Notting Hill) where she played the hottest female celebrity in the world.

Anyway, the film is pretty good.  Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkenson, as usual, killed it and even stole the show here.  Also, the film had an ending that left me a bit deflated.  Behind the pump on this one is Tony Gilroy who blew up directing his freshman effort, the amazing Michael Clayton, but the accomplished screen writer might have to consider putting down the camera with this sophomore outing or consider self-detention.  Judge for yourself... watch the movie trailer and read on because...

"Children of Men" or child of woman

I really want to find a great science fiction film that's different and exciting.  Children of Men can't quite pull that off, but it is pretty f-ing scary for the simple fact that it could happen, and it could start tomorrow.  Any sort of pandemic is so possible.  Ugh.

Here, Clive Owen and the rest of the population are just waiting until they all die off because women stopped having babies for some f*ing reason around eight years ago.  Now that's great and all for not having to worry about contraceptives, but for human existence, it kinda s*cks.  Ultimately, as you'll see in the trailer, he finds a pregnant woman.

FilmBender is Funny Movie Reviews.  Some great scenes in here though.  The one when they're all in the car is a white-knuckler.  And running through a war zone with a baby in your arms is pretty intense, in fact, it's almost too overwhelming.  Michael Caine plays a hippie dude that's pretty groovy.  By the end, you'll really want to contribute to mankind and a new mission statement: impregnate or die.  Julianne Moore's in it too.  She'll do.