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Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007)
Honestly, one of the most boring films I've ever seen
I approached this film with an open mind and was looking forward to it. As the film progressed and passed the one-hour mark, I honestly have to say that this is one of the most boring, uninteresting and slow moving films I've ever seen. For the last 20 minutes I was just praying for it to end.
Tom Selleck is bland and completely uninteresting, and his character speaks entirely in "clever quips", ALL the time, which really grinds after a while. Although Selleck is bad, he still delivers the best performance in this film, because the other actors are so incredibly bad -- perhaps with the exception of Nigel Bennet who plays Harrison Pendelton who's good, but unfortunately only on screen for about a minute throughout the whole film.
The story is not exactly predictable, but written to a safe recipe of "crime mysteries" which stirs up no real interest - in me, anyway. Overall I found this an exceptionally drab experience and I wish I had spent the hour and a half doing something else.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
To my surprise, I found myself loving this film!
I honestly thought I wasn't going to like this film. I'm not a particular action fan, I can't stand kung fu movies, and for me, interesting angles and "arty" nonsense can usually not make up for the lack of a gripping story. But I found myself absolutely mesmerized by this movie. Everything about it is just so unusual, it's like completely new type of movie experience. The acting is superb, the gore is done with humour and style and I found it strangely satisfying (highly unusual for me). And despite a ridiculous detachment from the real world (nobody ever seemed to mind Uma keeping a samurai sword in the seat beside her onboard the airplane) ;-), this did not lessen the sheer experience that it truly was to watch this movie. 9 out of 10 from me!