Extract

Extract. Mike Judge's 2nd movie since Office Space. It was good to see him stick to the mold of Office Space, and stay far, far away from Idiocracy. Also, he went for a better cast: Bateman, Kunis, Affleck, Simmons.

However, the movie wasn't Office Space, nothing will be. But I can settle for a decent comparison. Bateman plays the owner of an extract company who has some crazy characters who work for him, he has a wife (Kristin Wiig) who he can't any loving from, and he has a lawsuit to settle so he can try to sell his company. Enter Mila Kunis and trouble erupts.

I'm not going to spoil too much, but the movie is pretty funny. It isn't a flowing funny, but its a consistent funny. Affleck isn't as funny as the commercials appear, either. Bateman is his responsible, yet he gets shit on character.

The movie isn't as good as I thought it was, but it was definitely watchable. The only upsetting part was that it could have easily been 300 times better, which was really disappointing. It was a let down.

I rate this movie 6.7 out of 10.

State Of Play

State of Play despite a few setbacks and cast changes, was still a movie full with talent and big actors. The movie stars Russel Crowe as a journalist for a major Washington D.C. paper who is entirely too committed to his work. It has destroyed his life outside of the job, however, he is one of the best at what he does. His boss is played by Hellen Miren, and he is befriended by new 'online' journalist Rachel McAdams, whom he doesn't like at first. The movie centers around a conspiracy focused on a military security company, and their alleged involvement of an assistant to a congressman, who is played by Ben Affleck, who is also Crowe's characters old roomate. Affleck's character is against giving this company the contracts that would enable them to provide us homeland security and make them rich. From there, we learn twists and turns and up until the final minute, have no clue why any of this has happened.

And the movie does a good job of it, except for one clue which I won't mention.

In addition there is a few spots from some notable actors, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman (as a sleezy character...again, he's getting typecasted it seems), and Jeff Daniels.

I can't find too many faults with the movie. It is very watchable, kind of remniscent of say... U.S. Marshals, you know in the sort of, good political/conspiracy driven thriller. Reminds me of a 90's movie in that. Which isn't bad because these movies are very good, and there aren't much of them anymore. I guess, I'll say thanks to director Kevin Macdonald.

I rate this movie 7.4 out of 10.