Movie Review: Time Lock (**1/2 out of 4 stars)
Year of Release: 1957
Country of Origin: UK
Director: Gerald Thomas
Cast: Robert Beatty, Betty McDowall, Vincent Winter, Lee Patterson
Plot outline: It's Friday afternoon and a boy is accidentally locked in an airtight bank vault which won't open until Monday morning. With less than 10 hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy (IMDb).
The story (**)
How the story unfolds (**1/2)
The characters (** young Sean Connery features in his debut-speaking role portraying a welder)
The acting (**1/2)
Overall rating **1/2 out of 4 stars
Movie Review: Bloodline (*1/2 out of 4 stars)
Year of Release: 1979
Country of Origin: USA, West Germany
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Omar Sharif
Plot outline: After her father is killed while mountain climbing, a reluctant heiress inherits her family-owned multi-national pharmaceutical company. Soon after an investigation determines that the cause of his death was not an accident but murder, she realizes that she is now a target (IMDb).
The story (*1/2)
How the story unfolds (*1/2 poorly interwoven subplots, inability to build up any suspense)
The characters (*1/2 shameful waste of talented actors)
The acting (*1/2 despite lack of chance to deliver a solid performance--many of Hepburn’s serious fans cringe at the thought of her being in a movie like this, she does actually give a good performance; managing to create a warm, sympathetic character that nevertheless has enough guts to stand up to all her cousins and not let them boss her around)
Overall rating *1/2 out of 4 stars
Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine (***1/2 out of 4 stars)
Year of Release: 2006
Country of Origin: USA
Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin
Plot outline: A hopelessly optimistic motivational speaker is desperately attempting to sell his 9-step program for success--without much success. Meanwhile he's determined to get his young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant, so he takes his family on a cross-country trip in a VW Kombi (IMDb).
The story (***1/2)
How the story unfolds (*** drag toward the end, nevertheless ...)
The characters (***1/2)
The dialogue (***1/2)
The acting (***1/2)
Overall rating ***1/2 out of 4 stars
Movie Review: Love in the Afternoon (**1/2 out of 4 stars)
Year of Release: 1957
Country of Origin: USA
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
Plot outline: A comedy about a middle-aged playboy who's fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client (IMDb).
The story (**1/2)
How the story unfolds (** flat, loose in the middle, implausible ending)
The characters (**)
The acting (**1/2)
Overall rating **1/2 out of 4 stars
Movie Review: Wait Until Dark (*** out of 4 stars)
Year of Release: 1967
Country of Origin: USA
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Plot outline: A recently blinded woman is victimized by a psychopathic killer and two desperate convicts while they search for a heroin stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment (IMDb).
The story (**1/2)
How the story unfolds (***)
The characters (**1/2)
The dialogue (***)
The acting (*** Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna)
Overall rating *** out of 4 stars
Year of Release: 1957
