RSS feed for mattgeeknz

Recent activity

All films

Recent reviews

More
  • The Help 2011

    ★★★½ Watched 03 Mar, 2012

    A bit long and a bit saccharine but still a good film.

  • The Ides of March 2011

    ★★★½ Watched 18 Feb, 2012

    Good political thriller, great tragic character arc, and beautifully shot. Didn't complete believe some of the characters but still a good yarn.

Popular reviews

More
  • Captain America: The First Avenger 2011

    Watched 07 Jan, 2012

    Rubbish.

  • Thor 2011

    ★★½ Watched 21 Oct, 2011

    Hard to really get caught up in this. When your protagonist is immortal, what's really at stake? Brannagh solved that by robbing Thor of his powers, but it never felt like they were truly out of reach, and when you've got the strength of a weightlifter and the agility of a cat while thus diminished, you're doing pretty well. That's all an Arnie or a Batman or a Bond needs to be a one-man-army, after all. Godly powers would just…