Dead Man Walking (1995, directed by Tim Robbins)

- Matt, the Death Row inmate, his hair was perfect throughout the movie; the hair on his head as well as his facial mustache and goatee.  Does the prison allow him to have and use his own scissors (ie sharp objects) to trim his hair?  Due to security reasons he's probably not allowed access to any form of knife, blade, scissors or any metal object that could be formed into such.  So the prison barber trims it everyday for him?

This movie was pretty good and I would pay money to watch it.

Apocalypto (2006, directed by Mel Gibson)

- they should rename this movie Deus Ex Machinapocalypto.  Jaguar's Paw (the hero of the movie) is saved once by an eclipse and then again by the sight of the arrival of Europeans on the beach.  How lazy and lame for a scriptwriter.  Jaguar's Paw didn't have to do anything.  He could've just sat down and played in the mud and the scriptwriters would've had aliens from outer-space come down and save him

- after the eclipse the captives are to be "disposed" of so they use them for sport.  So do they not need any more human sacrifices?  Ever?  Was that it?  And then afterwards when the hero gets away, the rest of the movie is basically an extended chase sequence.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.  The Road Warrior and Terminators 1 and 2 end in chases.  But those chases had more at stake (such as helping a whole group of people to escape and saving the earth from a robot apocalypse).  This was just one person (and his wife and kids I guess).  Not that I'm saying the just one person doesn't matter but it was really inconsequential if Jaguar's Paw lived or not on the grand scale of things.  Maybe if he went back to rescue his people, or not just his, all the people,  it would be more interesting.

I wouldn't pay any money to watch this movie.

Insomnia (2002, directed by Christopher Nolan)

- how many cabins does that author (Robin Williams) have?  He has an apartment in the city, but he also has two other cabins?  The one cabin at the beginning of the film by the beach where he killed the girl, and then another cabin at the end of the movie where he keeps his stuff?  I don't think he made a lot of money from sales of his books so I guess cabins are really cheap in Alaska.

- this movie has an underwater action sequence.  While chasing the suspect, the main character gets caught under some logs in the water.  He was under water for a couple of minutes, does a lot of physical activity trying to surface and yet still had enough air and energy to find his way out of the water and all this while wearing a suit jacket and tie and his shoes and being in near arctic cold water.

- earlier in the film the police talk about what sidearms they carry.  This includes their primary as well as their backup weapons.  But at the end of the movie during the shootout, neither of the police officers have a backup weapon.

- why did the hotel that the LA Police officers stay in have decent drapes?  I've only stayed in hotels in cities where the sun does not stay up for 24 hours but they still had pretty good drapes that blocked out the light in the morning when the sun did rise.  Why didn't that Alaska hotel have those drapes?  (Yes, I know the point of the movie is to not allow Al Pacino to sleep...)

This movie was pretty good.  I wouldn't mind paying for it as a rental DVD.

The Postman (1997, directed by Kevin Costner)

- so the bad general drafted Shakespeare/The Postman.  The general gave lectures to the postman and even invited him to his office to talk about stuff.  Smart stuff too, not just about the weather but how smart each of them was.  Then later in the movie, when the postman goes to negotiate with the general to not raze the town, the general doesn't recognise him?  Granted that the postman shaved his beard and mustache, but still, the general didn't recognise him?  That's lame.

- Shakespeare, before becoming the Postman, is running away from the bad guys in the rain, slips, and then he finds himself inside a US Postal Service truck.  The driver is long dead and mummified.  Shakespeare rummages through the corpse's clothes and find a lighter.  And the lighter still works?  It's been years since the lighter was last refilled with lighter fluid.  After all those years the lighter fluid would have long evaporated/dried out.  I don't think the lighter would work.  But this point doesn't affect the plot at all though so I'll let it go.


Don't pay money to watch this movie.

The Lovely Bones (2009, directed by Peter Jackson)

- the bad guy dug sort of an underground bunker he used to trap and kill Susie.  He drew a sketch of this bunker and I think the figures said it was six feet deep and six feet long and I'm guessing six feet wide.  (But in the movie the bunker looks much bigger than that and in practical terms, it would have to be.)  So even if we took at a minimum the bunker was six by six by six it would take him longer than one night to dig it and then 'furnish' it.  He did it in December so the cornfield where he dug it was bare.  The corn was not growing yet.  It was an open field.  And this cornfield was in the middle of a suburb, not out in a rural area.  And it's next to the school and we see that many people pass through the field.  So no one saw a guy digging a giant hole?  And where did he put the dirt that he dug up?  There was no mound of dirt around.  I guess he could've put it in his truck but his truck would not be able to fit all of it.  He could've dumped it somewhere and made multiple trips with his truck.  But the thing is, after he committed the murder, he then filled in the bunker.  Where did he get the dirt to fill in the bunker?

- when the bad guy brought the safe to dispose of in the sinkhole, he and that other guy spend 5 minutes turning the safe on its ends to get it to the sinkhole.  Why didn't he just park his truck closer to the sinkhole?  But going back a bit, how did the bad guy get the safe into his truck in the first place all by himself?  Going back even more, how did he get it up the stairs out of his basement by himself?

- at the end of the movie Susie possesses the body of that other girl.  If Susie could possess a physical body, why didn't she possess a body right after she died and then write down the name of the bad guy (she was his neighbour and did know is name afterall) or give the police some other obvious clue or lead so that he could be caught much faster?  It's better than letting your family go through all that turmoil and also you could go to heaven faster.

I wouldn't pay money to watch this movie.  Good thing I didn't.

Hanna (2011, directed by Joe Wright)

- the main flaw in this movie was already addressed in the movie.  Eric trains Hanna for 15 years or so to assassinate a woman but Hanna doesn't have a sure-fire way of verifying the identity of that woman.  Granted Hanna asked her, Marissa (the target), a few questions.  However, as we saw, that wasn't good enough.  Hanna killed the wrong woman.

- to raise a kid in isolation for 15 years and then expect her to get captured then taken to a secret location, perform an assassination, escape, and then make it to Berlin is ridiculous.  And this kid, even though she's skilled in hunting and escape & evasion, she hasn't seen a light and a lightswitch, a television, or an airplane before in her life.  When she broke into her "grandmother's" house, she broke the window, reached in and unturned the latch.  How did she know to do this?

- why didn't Eric pick up the gun from the fight in the subway station?  He could've used it later on.  Also regarding firearms... Eric trains Hanna to use a pistol while in the arctic.  But just because you become good at one type of pistol doesn't mean you'll be automatically good at every type of pistol you come across.  Each pistol type has different characteristics (different barrel lengths, different mechanics inside, different trigger pulls) and even ammunition of the same calibre can have different characteristics (different bullet weight, powder grains). 

It was an OK movie.  I still wouldn't pay to watch it though.

Salt (2010, directed by Phillip Noyce)

- I don't know the details of the President of the United States' underground bunker and nuclear weapons control room but I hope in real life that if the nuclear control room is locked down that you cannot get into it by shooting away a part of the wall with a handheld rifle and get to the door's control panel buttons to open the door.  They made the glass observation window bulletproof (why do they have a glass observation window anyways?) but they didn't make the wall bulletproof.  The government contractors should've made the whole control room out of the glass.

- Further, the bunker's door itself, once it was closed, the SWAT team only needed a portable welder and less than 10 minutes to get it open.  They should need a barrage of artillery to get that door open but they didn't.  There must be bank vaults that have tougher doors than that.  You would think that the President's personal safety and the nuclear weapons control room would have a better door.

It was an OK action movie however I'm glad I didin't pay money to watch it.