Edge Of Darkness
Mel Gibson plays a Boston police detective. His daughter, an MIT graduate and a nuclear engineer, comes to visit. She is deathly ill. The cop decides to take her to the emergency room and when they open the front door of the house, a car passes by and shoots her with a shotgun. The police are trying to determine if the killer meant for the father rather than the daughter. The mystery evolves explaining how the daughter was trying to blow the whistle on her employer, a defense contractor working with super nuclear weapons.
This movie is a revenge shoot-em-up. There is no bad feelings for the bad guys getting killed as they deserved it. Mel Gibson has had a string of films where he is a suffering hero. Come on Mel, get a life. I enjoyed the film as I enjoy the action genre. No shortage of violence. I feel if a movie is enjoyable, it is a good film.
Dear John
Dear John, starring Channing Tatum, Amanda Sayfried and Richard Jenkins. An army soldier comes back to South Carolina on leave in early 2001. He is staying with his father, an autistic coin collector. John meets Savannah and there is an immediate attraction not love at first sight. She goes off to College of Charleston and he returns to his military duty. He agrees to write her and tell her of his daily life.
9-11 occurs and his unit decides to re-up their enlistments. They are given a few days off to visit their families. John returns to South Carolina and tells Savannah about his decision. She is unhappy but professes that she loves him. John returns to his unit and is assigned to Iraq. He receives and sends letters. The letters from his girl friend stop coming. A couple of weeks later he receives a “Dear John” letter saying she had to break off the relationship and that she was engaged. He is heart broken and stays away from the US for about six years. He is shot and while in the hospital learns his father had a massive stroke.
John returns to South Carolina and his father dies. After the funeral he goes by Savannah’s home to visit and tell her how much he was hurt. You are going to have to see the movie from this point on. The story is based on a book by Nicholas Sparks a writer from New Bern, North Carolina and the author of the book and then movie, The Note Book.
I found the movie to be a simple and believable love story. Although the story is simple-boy meets girl, girl dumps boy, they get together again and live happily ever after. The actors appeared to be real people not actors which is a plus. Good shots of South Carolina and Charleston. Bring along a box of Kleenex and enjoy this wonderful movie.
2010 The Scoop Network
