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"3:10 to Yuma" and "The Kingdom"

Watched a couple of movies over the MLK holiday and I had to comment on how much I loved 3:10 to Yuma and how much I enjoyed the Kingdom.

3:10 to Yuma was an amazing movie. Christian Bale is a rancher down on his luck who runs into the crazy Australian Russell Crowe.

Crowe is a bad guy with a heart of gold.

Fortunately for the story line Crowe has to be transported across desolate lands to a train that will transfer him to prison.

Bale needs the money and agrees to take Crowe the distance. There's gun play and outstanding acting by Crowe's No. 2, Ben Foster, who at times steals the show.

You may remember Foster as the archangel character from X-Men 3.

3:10 to Yuma was a good movie. Even my wife thought so, and we typically don't agree on movies.

Kingdom was a completely different animal. It had an awareness about it. Jamie Foxx plays the lead character out to solve a suicide bombing in the Kingdom that killed one of his beloved coworkers.

Foxx, an FBI agent supreme, takes a team overseas to solve the puzzle with Middle Eastern red-tape.

A lot of people die and many explosions. It all adds up to a good movie. It's not a hunk of junk like Foxx's Stealth, so don't concern yourself with his previous film tanking. Foxx is a star -- plain and simple.

Jason Bateman takes a break from my dream of his Teen Wolf 2 role to play a the funny-guy-who-almost-who-gets-his-head-chopped-off role.

Go Bateman.

Posted by Clayton Hein at 8:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)