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The Lucky Ones (2008)
A long road to nowhere
After watching the trailer for this movie, my wife and I were interested in seeing it and jumped at the chance to go to a free, advance screening.
During the movie, it kind of felt like the story was going somewhere and even though it was fairly slow, I was interested. Then the movie ended, and it felt like nothing had happened at all. Despite the decent acting and the initial promise of the story line, the ending to the movie just made it feel like we had wasted two hours of our life.
My wife also hated the way Rachael McAdams character was written. She said that she thought her character was written to be the stereo-typical sad, unintelligent woman.
I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone, unless you need somewhere to go to take a nap for about 2 hours.
A History of Violence (2005)
A history of boredom
This has to be one of the worst and most boring movies I have seen in years. The movie starts off slow and somehow manages to get even slower as it progresses. The only decent action sequence was the diner scene, and after that everything else is laughable.
The "bad" guys all act unrealistically. They can't fight, can't aim a gun, and pretty much exist just to get killed. In most movies you hate the bad guys, in this movie I just wished they would kill Tom so the movie could end sooner.
The actors all do a decent job, but none of them truly shined or made their character interesting enough to save the movie. Even the softcore porn scenes weren't enough to interest me in the movie.
All in all, this should never had made it to the big screen.