Terrible Plan! Movie Reviews

One sentence: Not great as a spy movie or an action movie, but I am highly motivated to attend the featured music festival. What I liked: Let's start with what I thought was the most impressive element of the movie. The IMF team infiltrates a music festival in Paris. There are thousands of people enthusiastically dancing to the music in standing room only performances. The team trails the bad guy to a bathroom to kidnap and interrogate him. You guys, this bathroom was spotless, so spotless they are ok with touching the walls and doing a little wrestling on the floor. There was no line to get in the bathroom and there is even a 5 minute fight scene where the team and the bad guy have the entire bathroom completely to themselves. Any music festival I have ever encountered has bathrooms that are so terrifying that you and the bad guy would both agree to take your battle outside maybe even forgo the fight completely because you are too busy combating every germ known to man. And wh...

What I liked: The book A Man Called Ove is very funny and touching. It pretty much reminds you of every old grouchy person you know and love. The movie captures some of that. They do a good job of bopping around through his life history. I liked the way that they worked in the flashbacks on Ove's life. There was a lot of cutting but they did an admirable job of streamlining the story to drive the current plot. They also did a good job with Rune and I liked the clown. The main "White shirt" adversary was less evil, which I suppose is a good thing. I also liked the driving lesson. Mostly, I was glad that the whole thing felt right. It was a little movie about a little man, filled with complexity and emotion. The ending was well done. What I didn't: Pravaneh says it best "Ove, you are really terrible at dying." I imagine that Ove could commiserate with the guy from Groundhog's Day. The main thing that it seemed like it was missing was humor. The book is...