Gina Carano has developed an interesting pathway to Hollywood: through being a professional fighter. And a good one. Oh, and it doesn’t hurt that she’s good-looking, in a girl-next-door, slightly hard-edged but still a little vulnerable kind of way. You might even enjoy a lunch date with her. You just wouldn’t want her after you.
Mavis Gary is a pathetic character, and yet, somehow, we care about her. She’s self-centered, delusional, amoral, depressed, addictive and self-destructive, but she wants so desperately for the world to be as she wants it to be, rather than how it is, that we almost wish it with her.
We feel for Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg). In his younger years, he led a life of crime, but somehow he has been able to get out of “the life” and go straight, without anybody coming after him, either the law or his former cohorts. His successors in the international smuggling business have apparently felt no need to eliminate him as a potential informant.
“We Bought A Zoo” will be a crowd-pleaser. It’s charming, it’s sentimental, it’s hopeful, it has plenty of star power, and it’s based on a heartwarming true story. A little unevenness can be readily excused.
At the turn of the 20th century, there were a couple of brilliant minds developing what would become the established science of psychotherapy: Carl Jung in Switzerland and Sigmund Freud in Austria.
OK, it’s both weird and non-linear. To the point of impressionistic, what with its long introduction/foreshadowing with the classical music and the things falling out of the sky and freeze-frame images, collaged as if on a cinematic canvas.
This series is really enjoyable to watch. Robert Downey, Jr. makes a credible and athletic Mr. Holmes, a master of disguise and observer of nearly everything.
Yes, it’s a re-make. The original Swedish film was such a sensation that the English translation of the book caught on, then the two sequels, and now we make an English-language version of the Swedish film, still utilizing the cold remoteness of winter in Scandinavia, even occasionally showing newspaper clippings in Swedish, but everybody speaks English, whether or not with a Swedish accent.
