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A very watchable independent rom-com that delves deeper than the usual Hollywood studio version. A film about maturity and growing up and the beauty of words and music.

I particularly liked the intelligence and wit of the script, the use of Classical music and what it can do to you and the highlighting of the difference in location from bustling grey New York to the beautiful quiet greenery of Ohio.

I did find that the main character, written, directed and portrayed by Josh Radnor was too perfect. He was intelligent, sensitive, funny, moralistic and empathetic all rolled up in this cute little package. However, if he had not written it for himself it may not have annoyed me as much. I also found Olsen as the wise beyond her years 19 year old to be rather annoying at certain points, but take out those slightly annoying characteristics, some predictable elements and a pretty awful sub-plot involving Zac Efron and the screenplays words and meaning are too enjoyable to let those things spoil it for you.

Oh and Allison Janney and Richard Jenkins steal every scene they are in.

"nobody thinks they're adult, it's the worlds darkest secret" or words to that affect...

The opening sequence before the traditional Bond credits and title song is worth the price of admission alone. This a high quality made action film. It's beautifully shot in some amazing locations, not often seen on film and features some excellent performances from Craig, Bardem (he does creepy so well, it's well creepy...), Dench and one of the Bond girls in newcomer to English language films and stunner in general, Bérénice Marlohe.

I thought it dragged a bit in the middle where there was too much Bond flirting with the ladies and not enough action or suspense and the other Bond girl played by Naomie Harris irritated me. Although I found moments in the film rather amusing, in particular some gold from Judi Dench, the script was a little too cheesy, even for a Bond film, but it was a very enjoyable and fun film and the action sequences were excellent.

This is the first 3D film I have seen where I actually couldn't imagine it any other way. The imagery and the film itself were so enhanced by being in 3D. A film not for the faint hearted, as it is bloody and very violent.

A simple tale, that doesn't delve into any real back story or character development, but the three leads do really well with the material. Karl Urban is almost robotic, yet completely believable as the title character, Olivia Thirlby is fantastic as the rookie psychic and Lena Headey is incredibly deranged and menacing and unfortunately not attractive (so not the norm!) as the big bad.

The set design and special effects are great and there was a very clever ploy by the script writer to include a street drug that's affect is to make one feel as if they are in slow motion, which allowed the director to go for broke with the use of super slow mo to fantastic effect, especially in 3D.

The film was also surprisingly dead pan and funny.

A good action film. See it in 3D if you can.