Wednesday, August 10, 2011

i am number four (2011). directed by d.j. caruso.


the flight to houston from dubai took 16 long, tiring hours in which one has very little space to move. i for one can not for the life of me sleep on a plane. i don't know why. it took 21 hours to get from kl to houston and i failed to get a minute worth of wink. i ended up watching seven movies, back to back. 

this is one of them. 

first of all, i read a really bad review from roger ebert. i decided not to watch it when i was back home in kl. my brother the movie demi-god then said to me that ebert has gone bonkers and no longer reviews movies objectively, and he mentioned, how bad d.j. caruso can get. i've seen one of his earlier movies, the salton sea (2002) and really liked it. so i thought, on the plane where everyone was sleeping soundly, what the heck i am going to give this a watch. timothy "the body" olyphant was in it too - how bad can it be, right?

bad. purely because i am no longer 25 and don't enjoy stories like that - hold on, is there a story at all? i am not going to elaborate further. other than it passed my time on the plane and it could not make me sleep.  

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