Hancock

Another movie review…Got mixed feelings from friends so I decided to find out for myself how good/bad is this film…

 Hancock (Will Smith)is not your typical hero, nor superhero. Yes, he does have some of the powers and abilities of what we would consider a superhero, but he is completely different than any you have heard or read of before. A perhaps misunderstood hero, Hancock heroics might get the job done, but he always seems to do a lot more damage than what is expected to happen. The public eventually has had enough of Hancock and his ways and want him gone! Hancock doesn’t really care what other think or say about him until one day he saves the life of an executive Ray (Jason Bateman), and the loner of a superhero begins to realize that he may have a vulnerable side after all. Hancock’s biggest challenge is soon to come and he least expects it and has everyone fooled even the audience!

Rating C

A Lot Like Love

Destiny:

.	something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune.

.	the predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events.

A Lot Like Love is a romantic-comedy about two friends who seem destined to love each other, if they can ever figure out themselves first. The first meeting is on a flight from Los Angeles to New York, where innocent Oliver (Ashton Kutcher) and hardcore Emily (Amanda Peet) join the mile high club, before learning each others names. Despite this spontaneous introduction, Emily is uninterested in getting to know the guy she just picked up, telling Oliver frankly that he’s not her type, and recording him with “3 strikes.” The two part ways, but end up running into each other hours later in what proves to be just the first of many destined encounters. After spending a fun day together in the city, Oliver gives Emily his home number and tells her to call him in 6 years, once he’s gotten his life and career figured out. When an unexpected breakup leaves Emily dateless for New Year’s Eve a few years later, she calls Oliver and they meet again. In the years that have passed since their first meeting, Emily has taken up acting, Oliver has started an internet diaper selling business, and both have gotten more mature and have started to find out their true selves. But Emily is disappointed to learn that Oliver is moving to San Francisco for business the next day. Over the course of a few years, Emily and Oliver grow to depend on each other in times of crisis, and develop a solid friendship. While each  encounter contains a glimpse of what could be love, the timing never seems to be right, with several bad relationships, job changes, and being relocated always seems to get in their way and hold things off. Could it be fate?

Rating: A 

A must see for all who love romance with laughter! Gives light to people that things really do happen for a reason…

August Rush

“There’s music in the wind and sky. Can you hear it? And there’s hope. Can you feel it? The boy called August Rush can.”

For the past 11 years, Evan Taylor (Freddie Higmore) has been an orphan, but that and his name is about to change.

Evan has “always heard the music,” even when it’s not playing, and one day he decides to follow it in hopes of finding the parents he’s never met and whose musical genes he has inherited.  As we learn in the beginning flashback, his parents, both musicians at the time, were an unlikely match: Lyla (Kerri Russell) was a shy, quiet cellist, while Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) was an Irish rocker. Their mutual love for music brought them together on a rooftop for just one night, of which was completley unforgetable and will soon bring them back together. But when Evan is born prematurely, Lyla’s father (William Sadler) does what he thinks is right for her future and gives the baby up for adoption without her knowledge. Lyla and Louis have eventually given up on music, but Evan begins to pick up where they left off, in New York City. While there, he is discovered by a self-proclaimed “manager” named Wizard (Robin WIlliams),who renames this young Mozart…August Rush. Before long, Wizard is using August in hopes of stardom and financial wealth, while August hopes to use his music for a better and less selfish purpose…reuniting with his parents.

Rating A-

Have seen several times before and love it everytime…you will be hooked till the end and rooting for August throughout the whole film!