mohamadnhd Reviews

The Runner (I) (2015)

It's not that bad

[6/10 · 9 August 2015]

the problem with this picture in my opinion is Nicolas Cage !

don't get me wrong , I don't mean his performance but the audience has a problem with him , it's like : oh this movie starring Cage , just give it 1 star !

this movie is about characters and I always liked this kind of movies , the movie takes place in 2010 , first scenes shows the aftermath of BP oil spill accident... Cage is an idealistic congress man from Louisiana called Colin Price who aspires to be nominated for the senate , he was defending the rights of fishers whose works were damaged because of the accident , and suddenly his reputation was ruined by sexual scandal with a fisherman's wife ! His wife left him , he resigned from the congress but continued his charity works to support the fishermen... Cage was not bad , he delivers a good performance for his role..

Peter Fonda as Colin Price's father , he was very good written character and his performance was very good...

Connie Nielsen as Deborah Price was not special and not bad in the same time..

Sarah Paulson as Kate Haber , I liked her role in the second half of the movie

the problem with this picture is that when you have these elements and these characters you could have done much better scenario..

sorry for my bad English..

Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

Great visuals

[7/10 · 9 August 2015]

First , excuse my English please

visually the film was great , I liked the cinematography very much and the locations also..

Carey Mulligan acting was very good as usual but I didn't like storytelling very much , I felt it was traditional and also I was not convinced , Is falling in love and getting married is that much easy !!

a few looks in the eyes makes a man fall in love with a woman and asking for her hand .... I didn't think this was logical...

Although he met her in the dark , A man tells a woman how beautiful she is and that's not the problem , the problem is that they fall in love with each other and get married !! .. I didn't read the novel by the way but I suppose in the novel these relations make sense and were given the good reasons to be happened