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Reviews
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
He still looks 13 to me!!! Diego Luna I mean.
Doesn't he? Seriously now... he looks like a little kid. Half the movie I was screaming at the TV screen: "Don't do it Katey! It's child molestation!"
Ah, big fan of the original. A perfect mix of romance, music and drama, and I'm a total sci fi geek head tomboy kind of a girl so if it reached me you could tell it was something. So i watched the sequel with mixed feelings, because I knew it would never surpass the original. Still, maybe I could get a few kicks out of it. So, bottom line, it's an okay movie that takes itself way to seriously given that the acting is... well... is it acting? To me it looked more like reciting lines in front of a camera, which, sorry, not acting. IMHO
The dancing was good, don't get me wrong. In a movie like this, it BETTER be good or heads are gonna roll. Luna can dance, can't take that away from him but the kid can't act to save his life. And his female counterpart wasn't much better. That scene where she was lying down with her head on his shoulder saying "I'm so glad I'm here to share this with you" I cringed. It was so bad. She had this blank stare on her face... probably because she contemplated child molestation.
Ah, the rest of the cast ain't much better. It's such a waste because I liked the dancing, I liked the ending, I liked the idea of a romance going on with the revolution in the background but the "acting" ruined this movie for me. It seems actors that can dance and actually act at the same time are very rare these days, and those who are probably are expensive. Ah well. Still got my Moulin Rouge...
Sumuru (2003)
Michael Shanks. No seriously... Michael Shanks
The reason... the ONLY reason I sat through this 2 hour dribble of a movie. The characters were silly, the dialog's were horrid(his sister dies in his arms and the kid complains he can't bring his dog with him... nuff said), the editing didn't make ANY sense. And don't get me started on the outfits. Cheesy second rate sci-fi movie that proves some people just have TOO much money.
But then again... Michael Shanks. The eyes, the arms (oooooh, the arms), the oh so sexy jazzy stubble that he actually makes it work! Amazing work, Well plaid mister Shanks. Now please, don't leave the Stargate Vancouver set again.
The Island (2005)
To coin the terminology of the movie, "The Island" is a good product, but it has no soul.
First let me say that cloning Ewan MacGregor has to be one of the most brilliant ideas ever! Now with that out of the way... I enjoyed watching The Island. The idea appealed to me, and so did the wonderful soundtrack. It's the kind of music that stays with you even though you can't replay it in your mind. I'm a sucker for these "victory of the human spirit" type movies. That being said, although this movie had all the makings of a good product, it pretty much sold its soul. We have tons of product placement (Puma and Nokia for example), Hollywood clichés and huge plot holes. I love Ewan Macgreggor, but his character was so bland and unidimensional that virtually ANYBODY could've played him. Same goes for Scarlett Johanson and Sean Bean. Djimon Honsou was OK, but I could tell from the get-go he's gonna turn by the end of the movie, and Buscemi was simply there as a plot device. I still love to see these actors on screen, all of them. This movie has a higher concentration of actors I love then any other in previous history. And yet I feel it had a lot of potential, potential to really teach us a lesson about what our future holds if we're not careful. But who cares the future when you got a box office in the present to worry about.