Category: reviews with a 1 of 5 rating

video review : The Hangover

video review : The Hangover

With all its outrageousness, The Hangover, about four guys on a bachelor party trip to Las Vegas, is short on laughs. I laughed once, when the fat jail-tour kid was about to take a photo of the fiancée’s brother, and smiled a few times. That’s it. The rest of the script is hack city, not amusing in the least, as hard as it tries to be, and the wandering plot isn’t interesting enough to make-up for that fact.

It’s all about what happens during the trip, much of which none of the guys can remember. They awake in their hotel room on their first morning in Vegas, the place is wrecked, there’s a tiger in the bathroom and one of the four guys, the bachelor, is missing. It’s a lazy plot device that allows for random wackiness that doesn’t have to be explained as the three try to piece together what happened the night before.

my rating : 1 of 5

2009

video review : 11-11-11

video review : 11-11-11

I’m posting this review on “11-11-11” because that’s the official release date of the movie. Not to follow its ideology that sets of the number eleven, as in a digital clock displaying eleven minutes after eleven o-clock, holds any significant meaning. It’s a superstitious (retarded) aspect of numerology that creeps upon the life of an atheist named Joseph Crone after the death of his wife and kid.

He awakes at 11:11. When he checks his watch, it’s 11:11. I bet when he gets gas, the clerk gives him eleven dollars and eleven cent in change. Sets of eleven have become the fabric of his life. It’s when those numbers start to bring him bad luck that things start to get creepy. At one point, he gets into a car accident. His friend yells for someone to “Call 911!” Nine, one and one equals eleven.

The premise might work for a comedy or mythical fantasy, but 11-11-11, which goes for horror and suspense, presents it as something real, which is ridiculous. Not that a movie like this has to be logical to be interesting or entertaining. It doesn’t. But this illogical movie is neither. It is, however, one of the worst I’ve ever had the displeasure of watching. Here’s another 1 to add to the mix:

my rating : 1 of 5

2011