With “Due Date,” the new film from Todd Phillips of last year’s “The Hangover,” your enjoyment of the film is going to hinge on whether or not you buy it as nothing more than “The Hangover 1.5” or a full-blown revamp of what comedy can be.
“Hereafter” is not a ghost story, nor is it a supernatural thriller in any way, shape or form, but a melancholy character-driven meditation on why it is that love endures long after it logically should and whether death is as bad for the deceased as it is for those they leave behind.
Listening to the plot of Robert Schwentke’s “RED,” you really couldn’t be faulted for thinking it to be nothing more than a bland sequel to one of this year’s many “team” movies like “The A-Team,” “The Losers,” or even “The Expendables.”
The Downtown Devil’s Vincent Burnton had the opportunity to sit down with Karl Urban, star of the new film “RED,” and talk to him one-on-one on Oct. 8. Urban plays the part of Will Cooper in the film.
As an audience member, you’ll feel much like the prisoners: desperate to escape, hopeless beyond all reason and quite possibly come to prefer death over having to experience the pretentious, purposeless and misogynistic “Stone” for a moment longer.
It’s the idea of love exhibited through art that Mark Romanek’s “Never Let Me Go,” based on the 2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, is so firmly rooted in; the idea that art stems from the emotions that can only seemingly come from a true human soul.
