At The Movies: w/c 12 March 2010
Released in cinemas across the UK this weekend, we have: a bounty hunter, a tattoo'd girl, soldiers in Iraq, a dog, gay prisoners, and insane people...
THE BOUNTY HUNTER
Rom-com. A bounty hunter learns that his next target is his ex-wife, a reporter working on a murder cover-up. Soon after their reunion, the always-at-odds duo find themselves on a run-for-their-lives adventure.
Director: Andy Tennant Starring: Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis & Dorian Missick
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
Crime thriller. Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a journalist and a young female hacker.
Director: Niels Arden Oplev Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Peter Haber & Lena Endre Tomatometer: 91% (FRESH; based on 11 reviews)
GREEN ZONE
Action thriller. Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.
Director: Paul Greengrass Starring: Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Amy Ryan & Greg Kinnear
Tomatometer: 49% (ROTTEN; based on 74 reviews) "Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass return to the propulsive action and visceral editing of the Bourne films -- but a cliched script and stock characters keep those methods from being as effective this time around."
HACHI: A DOG'S TALE
Director: Lasse Hallström Starring: Richard Gere, Sarah Roemer, Joan Allen & Jason Alexander
Tomatometer: 80% (FRESH; based on 5 reviews)
I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
Comedy drama. Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life...
Directors: Glenn Ficarra & John Requa Starring: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann & Rodrigo Santoro
SHUTTER ISLAND
Mystery thriller. Drama is set in 1954, U.S Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Director: Martin Scorsese Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley, Ted Levine, John Carroll Lynch & Elias Koteas
Tomatometer: 67% (FRESH; based on 192 reviews) "It may not rank with Scorsese's best work, but Shutter Island's gleefully unapologetic genre thrills represent the director at his most unrestrained."