Vanilla Sky

Vanilla Sky (2001)

Starring: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz and Cameron Diaz

Director: Cameron Crowe

Vanilla Sky is a psychological drama that involves David Aames (Tom Cruise) who seems to be on top world. He has all the girls he wants, all the money he wants, but when he truly finds love it turns his life upside down. This movie has a lot of twists and turns and at some points is quite delirious and deranged. We think that some people will like this movie, however we didn’t enjoy it.

Rating: 5.5 of 10

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Confidence

Confidence (2003)

Starring: Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz

Director: James Foley

Confidence is a heist drama that involves Jake Vig (Edward Burns) who is a lifetime grifter. He and his team come up with an elaborate con to steal 5 million dollars from a banker and get away without anyone knowing who even took the money. It is a classic heist film and is on the level with Ocean’s 11.

Rating: 8 of 10

Sandra and Max

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Rendition

Rendition (2007)

Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard

Director: Gavin Hood

Rendition is a political drama that tells the story of the true policy of its title. Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) is kidnapped by government agents when he gets off a flight before customs at D.C. airport, leaving his pregnant wife (Reese Witherspoon) stuck waiting at the airport. While his wife is trying to figure out where he is, CIA Analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) finds himself suddenly in charge of overseeing the interrogation of renditioned terrorists. This is an intense well binded movie that really shows what goes on behind the scenes in our intelligence community.

Rating: 8.5 of 10

Sandra and Max

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The Social Network

 

 

The Social Network (2010)

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake

Director: David Fincher

 

The Social Network is a riveting drama based on the creation of Facebook. Starring Jessie Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg who in 2004 founded Facebook from his Harvard dorm room. This movie portrays the well publicized battle for who came up with the idea of Facebook, and as well some internal battles that came to be inside Facebook in it’s early stages. It’s a very inspiring and interesting movie, however it isn’t 100% accurate in it’s portrayal of events.

Rating: 10 of 10 the perfect movie

 

Sandra and Max

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The Interpreter

 

 

The Interpreter (2005)

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn and Catherine Keener

Director: Sydney Pollack

 

The Interpreter is an international drama that is about a translator at the U.N. Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) who hears something that she wasn’t supposed to about an assassination of a foreign leader. And the subsequent investigation by Tobin Keller (Sean Penn) a secret service agent. It is very interesting plot and keeps you guessing till the end.

 

Rating: 8 of 10

 

Sandra and Max

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The Game

 

 

The Game (1997)

Starring: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn and Deborah Kara Unger

Director: David Fincher

 

The Game is a psychological drama that is about the turning point in the life of Nicolas Van Orton (Michael Douglas). When his brother Conrad Van Orton (Sean Penn) gives him a birthday present from CRS (Consumer Recreation Services) The Game begins.

Girl’s Rating:  7 of 10 (She thinks The Game is too cruel to Nicolas)

Guy’s Rating:  8 of 10

 

Sandra and Max

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The Ghost Writer

 

 

The Ghost Writer (2010)

Starring: Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan

Director: Roman Polanski

 

The Ghost Writer is a suspenseful political mystery about a ghost writer (Ewan McGregor) who is hired to finish writing the memoirs of the ex british prime minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan). He got the job because the previous ghost writer was found dead.

The film has a great storyline and wonderful acting. It really hooks you in and has you wondering what will come next.

Rating: 8-10

 

Sandra and Max

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