Sunday, November 25, 2007

The Good and Bad

As promised, Assassin's Creed and No Country For Old Men.
One Good, One Bad. Let's start with the bad.

In no way does the following contradict my previous review.
Assassin's Creed was a great game up until the end. Instead of taking the fun aspects of the game, the stealthy killing mixed with rooftop jumping, and ramping it up to match a climax, it instead matches it with dull fights with hordes of enemies. When you think you're finished, you're not. They probably wrapped the ending together for sake of time. It also leaves out key details in the ending to leave an opening for a sequel, and by key details I mean all details. It's a real cliffhanger. Serious disappointment. I knew from the grapevine it was coming, so I've just been telling myself to go ahead and beat the game and get it over with.

Aside from the ending it's a great game.

The Good.
Most movies are fairy tales. They play with our emotions and get us riled up in some way or another, but they always hand us our hearts still beating at the end of the movie. No Country For Old Men (NCFOM) is not one of these movies. It's gritty, it's real, and it'll break your heart if you can't face the truth. It's a no holds barred movie, reflective of the real world. Albeit, psycho killers with air pressure guns aren't all that common in the real world.
What's gonna get people is the ending. They're gonna be taken by suprise, and they might be a little disappointed at first. But if you look at the tone of the entire movie you'll see the ending could really be no other way. It sticks to it's path through and through.
All in all, don't expect to leave NCFOM with a warm feeling from a fairy tale, but expect to leave pleased and thinking to yourself, "That wasn't a movie, that was real."

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