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For the last week I’ve been catching up with several movies of 2005 I hadn’t seen yet. So my selection was a bit random, I pick-up what I found.

War of the Worlds

The movie was directed by Steven Spielberg and is starring Tom Cruise as Ray Ferrier who has to survive along his family an alien invasion of apocalyptic proportions. The movie is fair and good enough for rent. The acting and the story made sense. The end is not surprising if like me you saw the original 1953 (on rerun!) but it makes sense and made me think a lot about hour planet and how we live on it and treat it. It’s not amusing, takes the alien invasion seriously and with the emotion you would expect from a Spielberg movie.
I give it 4 out of 5 stars.

A Home at the End of the World

That’s in fact a 2004 movie, that was not popular at all. It features Colin Farrell in a very disturbing role and clearly states he can perform emotionally demanding characters. That movie focuses on Bobby Morrow, a kid that lost his family in rather weird circumstances and how he must piece his identity back together. That movie is about love, family, sexuality and how one defines himself. I did not find it fun to watch, there was sorrow and sadness all the way. Like a kind of bored bitterness. A bit like the novel (Tin Flute/Bonheur d’occasion), it’s just about the ups and downs of life. I give it a 3/5 because there was some humor and was not worthless, it’s hard to define… you should wait until it comes out on TV, that way you can easily change channel if you can’t stand dialogue only movies.

Æon Flux

That was an up-beat Sci-fi movie that I was expecting to see when it came out. That movie was fun. You had some action, cool moves, gun fire, and a women who likes to fight. What more do you want? A great script, logical story line, fair actor play? Lucky you because Aeon Flux has it all! It’s not blazing with special effects, it’s simple and daring. The action takes place in a future where only about 1% of today’s human population survived a deadly virus. The last city on Earth is ruled by the Goodchild regime that oppresses it’s people in giving them boundaries. Imaging Big Brother weeding out traitors, people disappearing with no reason and secret experiments done on citizens. Now Æon, played by Charlyze Theron is an assassin who’s mission is to kill the leader of the government. But as she attempts to complete her job, the plot thickens! That a must rent DVD, you don’t have to wait much, if you have a spare evening and what to see a movie worth renting, that’s the one 4/5 stars is good enough for everyone!