Movie review

The vote was 2 to 1 and I lost. Not surprisingly, the guys in the group wanted to see Quantum of Solace. My preference for seeing the movie Australia would have to wait until the odds were more in my favor.

I know nothing about Australia except that the picture in the ads looks a lot like the picture that has said Gone with the Wind all these years. And that Hugh Jackman is in it.

That's enough for me.

But it will have to wait.

So here's the synopsis on 007's latest:

Chase scene with cars -- check.
Chase scene on foot -- check -- with bonus: over rooftops of Sienna.
Chase scene in boat -- check.
Chase scene in airplane -- check.
Death defying leap from airplane -- check.
Broken glass -- check -- check -- check.
Destruction of historical renovation work -- check.
Destruction of contemporary complex -- check.
Destruction of you name it -- check.
Body count high enough to rid the world of all bad guys in one fell movie -- check.
Miraculous bullet dodging by main characters throughout -- check.
Gruesome murder of woman after sexual escapade -- check.
Relationship with strong-willed hard-to-guess-which-side-she's-on beauty -- check.
Tough-talking conversations with M -- check -- with bonus: she gets around more this movie.
Plot that's hard to follow -- check -- with bonus: has an environmental twist -- water over oil.
Anger and betrayal -- check.
Violence and destruction -- check.

Script writers these days have it pretty easy. They just take the above list and fill in a bit of conversation depending on whether their hero turns into a spider or a bat or is a British spy or an American with amnesia.

Chick flicks are in their own kind of rut. Fill in the conversation around the following and you've got one made:
Obligatory relationship with communication issues.
Obligatory argument over misunderstanding.
Obligatory ditching secondary someone at the altar.

Thank goodness there are movies outside the box.

But when you go to an action flick, you're saying that you're willing to suspend disbelief and love of innocence and peace and harmony and justice and take what comes, just as when you attend a chick flick you go in knowing you're going to have to suspend disbelief and accept that all the right people will eventually leave the wrong people for the right reasons at the wrong time. It's your choice.

So, did she like the movie, you're asking yourself?

I liked the shots of Sienna.