Even More Movie Reviews...

The Town (2010)
A really interesting movie about a group of armed robbers in an area called Charlestown. I'd recommend that non-Americans watch it with subtitles on. While you can mostly hear what they are saying, subtitles make it a lot easier to keep up with the slurring regional accent.
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Iron Man 2 (2010)

There were a lot of fairly lacklustre reviews for this, with a lot of people saying that Thor was a step up. I'm not sure I see it.
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The Way Back (2010)

The story of a group of prisoners in a Soviet camp in Siberia. They make plans to escape, but not all of them will survive.
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Abel (2010)

The problem with this movie is that the central plot seems to come out of nowhere. There's a rather slow start where the dysfunctional family has to deal with the young child Abel coming back into their home from the psychiatric care institution where he'd previously been staying. Then, all of a sudden without any clear explanation, Abel changes. The thing that annoys me most about this is that Abel hadn't even been speaking up until this point. The idea that he should suddenly be able to gain a sense of authority fails to match up with what we'd seen earlier on in the movie.
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Of Gods And Men (2010)

I didn't quite have the guts to write this review when I first saw it. This was raved about by Mark Kermode and a number of other reviewers, so I was expecting something special. I think perhaps these reviewers had their expectations too low and I had mine too high, because I was spectacularly dissappointed.
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The Fighter (2010)

I've never been terribly keen on Mark Wahlberg as an actor, but perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised to find this role suited him much better than others in the past. There's something very passive about his character in this (which feels like an odd thing to say, considering he's playing a boxer). He doesn't give the impression of being terribly bright and he's led around by other family members. His rather more introverted role is in stark contrast to the parts of Melissa Leo, Christian Bale and even Amy Adams.
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