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Watched Green Zone over the weekend. This movie is about an army platoon that’s in charge of securing sites where weapons of mass destruction during the Iraq war. After a few sites that turned out to be duds, the platoon leader, Chief Miller, (Matt Damon) decides to find out why the intel reports they have is false and find the Iraqi source that has mislead the US. This movie seems like a cheap political play by Matt Damon over the whole WMD mess. We all know they weren’t any WMDs in Iraq so no point dragging that story any further. Bush is gone. Thank you. Move on. Anyway that aside, the movie is quite enjoyable to watch although the story is a bit tricky to follow here and there. The action is quite good although not Bourne worthy like they try to tease you that it is. Anyway I give it a $6 rating.

Watched Public Enemies the other day. The movie is about the true story of John Dillinger who was a high profile bank robbers in the 1930s. The movie was like a cross between The Untouchables, Goodfellas, and Heat. Well probably more by like The Untouchables. The movie is somewhat hard to follow at the start but eventually settles and is very good. It was also weird to see Marion Cotillard in an English movie since I had seen her in French movies before and didn’t seem to me like an actress that could pull it off. Well I guess she earned an Oscar (for another movie) so I guess I was wrong. Johnny Depp was excellent in it (as usual). I give it a $7 rating.

Watched Angels & Demons last night. This movie is another Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) book turned into a movie. It is the story about how an underground scientist society called the Illuminati planned to destroy Vatican City right during conclave. Once again Tom Hanks is playing Robert Langdon, the Indiana Jones like super symbol specialist which can solve pretty much any puzzle thrown at him. I had read both books before seeing Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code and I have to say I preferred this movie over the other one. The Da Vinci Code felt too rushed while this one felt just right. Although it had been longer since I read the book for this one so perhaps my memory was more vague. Nevertheless, from what I recall, they followed the book pretty closely except for one part at the end which was probably the most unbelievable part in the whole book so probably good they took it out anyway. I give it a $7 rating. I see that they are planning to release “The Lost Symbols” so I best go read that book now.