Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Film This Week in Film: Blood: The Last Vampire and The Hurt Locker
Posted by Lindy West on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Brendan Kiley liked Blood:
The fight choreography is satisfying (if not revolutionary), the few dashes of CGI have a rubbery aftertaste (don't they always?), and Edo-era fetishists (quaint villages with everything made of rope and bamboo!) get their fix in an extensive series of flashback battles. The best fight of the whole film, in fact, pits a graybeard with a perpetually surprised expression against a host of black-clad demons who keep popping out of the leafy ground like whack-a-moles. Whack-a-moles with deadly swords and nasty attitudes.
Jonah Spangenthal-Lee LOVED Hurt Locker:
In spite of the lack of historical perspective, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker manages to be a completely engrossing war film. Unlike recent Iraq war movies such as Stop-Loss and Redacted, The Hurt Locker communicates the absolute insanity, chaos, tension, psychological impact, and sudden brutality of war without beating you over the head with the war-is-bad stick.
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