Hook (1991)

[Movie 204 / Day 218]


In a twist on JM Barrie's classic play Peter Pan, Hook imagines what if Pan left Neverneverland and did grow up after all? Williams plays Peter, who is a high flying lawyer until he visits his childhood foster home in London and discovers that he is really Peter Pan - when Captain Hook (a marvelous Dustin Hoffman) kidnaps Peter's children and holds them to ransom pending the war he is craving.

Fun and imaginative, Hook is a nice little fantasy movie that my kids loved. It is a little on the long side though!

My rating: 5.8 / 10
IMDB rating: 6.2 / 10
Running time: 144 mins
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Duplicity (2009)

[Movie 179 / Day 196]


Julia Roberts and Clive Owen are ex-CIA/MI6 agents who now work for rival multinational companies, helping to safeguard their industrial secrets. What their employers don't know is they are also working together to steal $40million worth of information.

It's a fairly typical kind of plot and Owen and Roberts are both good, although their on-screen chemistry isn't as hot as it could have been.

The film excelled in building the tension in the closing scenes, and then threw in a couple of twists for good measure (one of which, the payoff to the entire film, was really nicely done).

I liked it a lot.

My rating: 7.7 / 10
IMDB rating: 6.6 / 10
Running time: 125 mins
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