Still More....

Little Miss Sunshine - four stars
While depressing at times (because what insanely disfunctional family isn't, outside of Al & Peg Bundy), this was a fantastic movie. Alan Arkin and Abigail Breslin are deserving Oscar Nominees, and Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, and Steve Carell are terrific. There were so many genuinely hilarious laugh-out-loud moments, all coming to a head with the last 10 minutes. If you don't already know, the title refers to a children's beauty pagent, and that itself is one of the most disturbing and infomfortable things in life to me. When you see it, you'll know what I am coming from.

Jet Li's Fearless - three stars
Having been on an action kick, I had heard ok things about this. Overall, it was good, and the plot was solid enough. The fight scenes, as one would expect in a Jet Li movie, were very good. I liked how the story was laid out: the main character of the story (set in early 1910-20 China) has to fight four men from various countries as part of a challenge. It is between the third and fourth fight that the movie goes back and tells you how he got to that point. If this is Jet Li's final martial arts movie, it was a good one. Personally, while I liked this movie, I liked The Protector more.

Waist Deep - two and a half stars
This was a decent movie, but nothing to carry on about. The action was good, the characters wasn't bad, and the plot was ok. The one thing that brought this movie down a notch were the holes in the story - how did this happen, why did this happen, what happened to this, and especially the very end - you'll be asking the same questions, probably. Also, if you hate rap, don't watch.

Next: not sure. Maybe The Sentinal, Flags of Our Fathers, School for Scoundrels, and hopefully I can get a nice early copy of The Departed.