Film 319/365, Day 338/365 – X-Men: The Last Stand

Too many characters and not enough substance.  This is definitely the worst of the three X-Men films, the story is nowhere near as strong as the previous two.  It would appear that what happened to the third Austin Powers film has happened here, where they have tried to accommodate everyone that wanted to be involved at the expense of the story.

Synopsis:  A cure for mutations has been developed and the government are looking to eradicate mutations and Magneto is determined not to allow that to happen.  Also Jean Grey has returned from the dead and isn’t acting like herself.

Film 205/365, Day 220/365 – Swordfish

If you enjoy a good twist, a little bit of deception and some excellent action then Swordfish is the film for you.  Ok, so there are some bits which are obviously not real, like the virus Hugh Jackman’s character is creating being shown as a 3D object where as it would really be just lines of text, which wouldn’t look as good on the big screen.  Still I like and it’s definitely one that I would watch again and again.  Great opening scene.

Synopsis:  A hacker who is attempting to put his life together so that he can rescue his daughter from her mother and step-father / porn tycoon is given an opportunity to make enough money to make it all possible.  All he’s got to do is help a renegade counter-terrorism organisation steal billions of dollars of dirty government money.