Taking Lives: A flat and unoriginal serial killer procedural

https://youtu.be/Nfoa6QKe4e0

Well, it passed some time but that is about all that can be said from it. No-one seemed to be particularly involved with Jolie giving her usual detached performance and Ethan Hawke somewhat better but still with a sense of ‘phoning it in’. Gena Rowlands was good as the mother and her relationship with her two sons was the most inte5resting part of the story but it was, sadly and predictably, used simply as a plot device. And the ending was pretty ridiculous although ‘neat’ in tying everything up.

 

Hollyblood: Raucously amusing and silly Spanish spoof vampire rom-com.

Ponyo. A sweet little gem from the undisputed, only and best animation studio. Suck on that, Disney.