Reviews
Le retour (1996)
"Le Retour": Facing the Past, In Present !
"Le Retour" is one the best t.V. show ever made on t.v.! The characters of the Landry's family facing "the return" of Madeleine Beaulieu-Landry the mother, the ex-wife, the former sister-in-law with all the anger, pain, hate, doubt, insecurity and dignity in that case! Angèle Coutu (curiously, her father Jean Coutu; played in the fifties the role of a man called "Le Survenant" whom came in a little town and changed all over the lives of the people)played the role of Madeleine; a woman whom quit his family after a drama 28 years ago! Without any words she leaves her husband and children! All these years, they have to face the hurtful fact that she abandoned them without any news for what happened to them! The kids was raising by their overprotective paternal aunt, and Maurice, Madeleine's former husband whom never understand what happened! They all lives their lives, when she's comeback! The psychology of the characters was well wrote! Her return change their lives again! The consequences are unexpected and dramatic! All of them have to face the past, deal with the present and look for maybe a new future! The only thing whom are not good; few characters with no impact on the story lines...
Les poupées russes (2002)
Ending A Lame Show...
"Les Poupées Russes" the show start with a lot possibility. Soon after the show became predictable and boring. Many story lines are simply drop dead dull! After the first season, the show writes a lot stories with no impact! François Papineau (Pierre) asks too often for a leave of absence. That's makes no sense, since he is the lead role! That cause a lot of minor story lines without payoff! The show rebound when the character of François was murdered! Soon after that, they return to the lame stories... as usual! The last effort to create a good storyline is when the character of Thomas Darcelle (Normand Canac-Marquis) came to the show! Stupid plot! The actor give a good performance with the worst material possible! At the end, a cheesy ending with emotions close this show...
Loverboy (1989)
Delivery Guy ... a his special service!
"Loverboy" is so funny! This is a really good teen movie! I saw and buy the movie many years ago! Patrick Dempsey (Randy) was the Male-Molly Ringwald in teen movie for years! A lot of good actor work in this underrated movie: Carrie Fisher (Ex: Princess Leïa Ortega, Star Wars # IV,V,VI), Kirstie Alley (Look Who's Talking,...Too,...Now) she was so gorgeous in the blue leather dress, Kate Jackson (Charlie's Angels:The Series/Scarecrow & Mrs. King), Barbara Carrera (Ex: Angelica Nero, Dallas), Nancy Valen (A very beautiful actress who doesn't have her deserved career). Dempsey has chemistry with all the ladies... I like the finale of the movie at the Restaurant! With is father who discovered his son is not gay! Ladies goes to the police station for their Hubby. Honorable mention to Robert Picardo, Vic Trebak, Robert Ginty.
A feel good movie!
Éryck Bergeron
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
M:I # III: All For/About TOM CRUISE...!
Mission: Impossible # III, is an excellent popcorn movie! Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) take a break from the M:I. He was just engaged with his fiancée Julia (Michelle Monaghan). Suddenly, he received a call from his chief: Mustgrave (Billy Cudrup)! That's start again! A villain; Owen Devian (This Year Oscar Winner: Phillip Seymour Hoffman; really good as a villain but not enough scenes to do!) take hostage a M:I agent Lindsey Feris (Keri Russell; Ex-Félicity). Ethan Hunt with his M:I team; Luther (Ving Rhames; only actor with Cruise to appear in all M:I movies!), Declan (Jonathan Rhuys-Davies; Velvet Goldmine), Zuan (Maggie Q.)and all of them (the master chief of the agency is played by Laurence Fishburne; not enough used) try to save Lindsey... One of them is a traitor to the M:I Agency; guess who ...
The movie travel from U.S.A. to Vatican to Singapour! Sometimes in a few minutes without any logic explanation... But with a good sense of humor! The Tech-Lab; Bengy (Simon Pegg) give a lot of good moment of humor! The action-packed movie is well directed by J.J. Abrams ("Lost", "Alias"), but he overuse the shaking camera. Sometimes you not always see what really happens in the scene. You realize after... The other thing is the movie use too many cliché from the previous M:I movies! Many references to other movies: "True Lies", "Charlie's Angels". The Screenplay is rarely logical! The lines too much predictable! We always could say the lines before the actor! The Movie is produced by Tom Cruise so like as the previous chapter all the action and the story is around the character of Ethan Hunt! I Know he is the central character but all the other actor(Fishburne, Russell, Cudrup, Monaghan, Rhuys-Davies, Rhames, Q., Pegg, and Hoffman are all supporting nothing more than that!), So All About Tom! Many of them could give to the movie so much talent and intensity, but Cruise is the HERO! P.S.: As in the M:I:2, don't search the plot! You will dying before finding it! That's a GOOD POPCORN MOVIE FOLKS, That's It...
Éryck Bergeron