Valentine's Day (2010)

Valentine's Day
Grade: D+ (Skip it)
Review: Annoying cast members, annoying story and retarded message equals an irritating movie.

Legion (2010)

Legion
Grade: D (Skip it)
Review: God loses faith in Mankind, and sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. For some reason (it remains unanswered) an unborn baby needs to be saved from God's zombies and angels with "titanium" like material wings, and high tech weapons. Movie ends without answering important plot questions and with cheesy battle/dialog between Archangel Michael and Archangel Gabriel.

Invictus (2009)

Invictus
Grade: C+ (Rent it)
Review: Unfortunately Clint Eastwood takes one iconic figure like Nelson Mandela, the end of the South African apartheid, and one of the most dramatic sporting events ever - the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final; and reduces them to a timid movie. What should have been an inspiring movie ends up being a slow, emotionless, and with no peaks. Good cast and strong topic makes it still worthy.

In the Loop (2009)

In the Loop
Grade: D+ (Skip it)
Review: Way overrated by critics. Unintelligent and unfunny political satire of UK/US government rationalization of going to war. Saying curse words is funny for the first five minutes, the rest is unbearably boring.

Spread (2009)

Spread
Grade: C+ (Rent it)
Review: A movie exploring the concept of mimbo (or himbo). As much as Ashton Kutcher is annoying, he does a good job playing a young man going after older successful woman (I guess it came easy ;)). Overall entertaining movie but ending was predictable.

Iron Man 2 (2010)

Iron Man 2
Grade: B- (Watch it)
Review: A decent sequel. High octane superhero action movie. Robert Downey Jr does a great job playing the narcissistic Tony Stark. Some of the crew seems unnecessary but overall well executed.

The Messenger (2009)

The Messenger
Grade: B (Watch it)
Review: Very powerful and emotional soldiers life drama. Story follows two Army Casualty Notification Officers dealing with mission of bearing the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers. Great acting from the leads and supporting actors. No political statement just moving, humorous, and very human portrait of the grief and struggle.

Daybreakers (2010)

Daybreakers
Grade: B- (Watch it)
Review: Very interesting premise of a fast developing vampire society dealing with scarce food resources - humans. Even in this society the corporate monopoly has profit rather than common good in mind. A vampire movie that is not romantic and with gay vampires. These vampires respect classic horror rules: they love blood, eat humans, get killed by the sun, you cannot see them in the mirror, and they try to avoid getting impaled.
The story and directing is strong; but some action sequences seem forced and the ending bloodshed seems unnecessary.

It's Complicated (2009)

It's Complicated
Grade: C+ (Rent it)
Review: Terrible premise; but astonishing actors like Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin make this watchable and entertaining.

Edge of Darkness (2010)

Edge of Darkness
Grade: B- (Watch it)
Review: Good acting and exciting story. Mel Gibson does a great job playing a cop who's looking for his daughters killers. The conspiracy theories make this thriller very exciting, but while the ending is brutally righteous it leaves few unanswered questions that make you feel there was a little more to this story.

Green Zone (2010)

Green Zone
Grade: B (Watch it)
Review: A fiction that is sadly too close to the tragic reality of the Iraqi war case. This is an action/thriller movie, but marketing this movie as an action movie was a moronic decision. The core of this movie is attempting to get to the heart of how unreliable intelligence about WMDs was cherry picked and used to start a war. An unnecessary war that has caused the loss of American life and wealth; it has cost us more than 1 trillion dollars and undermined our moral high-ground, our credibility and foreign policy for decades to come.
Movie explores a handful of fictitious characters who clearly have the corresponding real person (the name in the brackets is the real person).
- An opportunistic war cheerleader journalist (aka Judith Miller) who was used as a useful idiot by the administration to make the case for war.
- Incompetent administrator (aka Paul Bremer) who disbanded Iraqi Army and singlehandedly helped the start of sectarian violence and prolonged the conflict.
- Veteran intelligence officer (aka Jay Garner) who was pushed aside and his warnings and ideas for managing post occupation Iraqi were ignored.
- The “reliable” Iraqi informant (Rafid Ahmed Alwan aka 'Curveball') a conman that simply lied to German intelligence in order of getting his immigration status (green card) fixed.
- Main character (aka Richard "Monty" Gonzales the Army chief warrant officer charged with finding the WMDs) who believes in our reason for going to war but quickly becomes disheartened by false intelligence as he visits an empty site after an empty site.

Repo Men (2010)

Repo Men
Grade: D (Skip it)
Review: A futuristic dystopia where health-care is really out of control. An organ transplantation is reduced to a high interest equity loan; if you don't pay than organ is repossessed and patient dies. Even if we let Goldman manage health-care it is unlikely it would degenerate to this unrealistic scenario. Movie has some gory scenes that serve no purpose. The ending twist is interesting but unfortunately doesn't make up for the unrealistic boring story and poor acting.