glopezruelas

It had been quite a while since I last encountered a movie with such a great discrepancy between the critics' reviews and my own. I saw this movie last night at the theatre, and I still cannot believe the generosity of some of the grades/reviews this movie's received.

The best way to put it, simply, is that this is just another war movie. It falls flat, it bores, it is about 25 minutes too long, and, to top it off, it is completely unrealistic. (yes, movies in general are fiction, but this one being a war movie, and being so wildly unrealistic, it very much spoils what is supposed to be the effect of the film). It provides next to nothing new that you haven't already seen in other war movies. The scene juxtaposition (not necessarily the editing in general) feels extremely unnatural, even annoying to an aficionado. And, unlike good war movies, it completely fails to move you.

And it is not that I don't like war movies. In fact, I only recently watched Flags Of Our Fathers, as well as Letters From Iwo Jima, and both are excellent war movies (though of very different kind). Not to mention the half-dozen or so war classics that I love.

Actually, if you want to watch an effective version of The Hurt Lucker, watch Metallica's The Day That Never Comes music video - and you'll save about 2 hours and 15 minutes of your time. I'm only half-kidding about the music video.

This is simply not a good movie, for basically the same reasons bad movies are bad (inferior script, implausibility, trying-too-hard, mediocre acting, etc.), and at times it is pretty hard to watch because of how low it sinks.

However, I gave it a 5 (and not lower) for a couple of reasons. This movie does NOT bail itself out of situations with cheap scares (e.g. bursting a loud noise out of nowhere; do an extreme close-up so you can't see the surroundings). Also, while a lot of scenes, situations, and decisions by characters in the movie are highly implausible, the overall concept, and even a few of the scenes are more believable than most of your contemporary thrillers and "digital sci- fis".

Definitely not worth $10. A rental AT BEST.

To be brief, I love Will Ferrell's comedy, I love the stunts and cameos he's made as Ron Burgundy leading up to the release of this movie, and I very much enjoy what we all like to call "stupid funny" comedies. However, Anchorman was a total disappointment. It has two or three hilarious scenes and that is it. For the rest of the movie I was pinching myself to see if I was really awake or if it was just a bad dream. I can't believe Will Ferrell actually wrote this...I kinda refuse to believe that, actually. I'm not going to sit here and tell you to go or not to go watch it, I don't care, but I must tell you I don't really recommend it. Even if I hadn't had such high expectations for this movie, I'd still think it was bad.