Whether or not 1996’s The Arrival works for you or not will likely boil down to whether or not you can accept the premise of Charlie Sheen as a scientist who stumbles into, and becomes lost in, a vast conspiracy of aliens on Earth altering the planet for their own ends. It’s B-movie sci-fi to be sure, but it’s held up fairly well over the years even if the film struggles at times balancing the higher-minded scientific ideas with the rampant paranoia.
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1963’s Charade was an attempt to cash-in on a Hitchcock-like thriller with more than a dash of screwball comedy thrown in similar to North by Northwest. It may not match up to one of Hitchcock’s best films, but Charade (despite some murky plot points) succeeds by throwing interpreter Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) into an uncertain world of spies and thieves after the sudden death of her husband who was in possession of something worth killing him, and her, over.
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I’ve tried to like The Jacket, but, despite the film starring one of my favorite actresses, I’ve never been been sold on its unusual premise which I’m not sure even screenwriter Massy Tadjedin complete understands.
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Samara Weaving stars as Caroline, a small town grocery worker smarter than her station but just naive enough to believe Oliver (Kyle Gallner), the charming con man who rolls into town, can provide her with a better life. Losing herself in the attraction of Oliver and the adrenaline of bigger and bigger scores, Carolina Caroline starts out as a breezy con movie romance before things start to go wrong and the consequences for the pair’s actions come due.
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Radha Mitchell stars as a retired Special Forces sniper living in the remote Australian countryside with her rebellious teenage daughter (Annabel Wolfe). The serenity of their isolated life is interrupted when an agent of an old enemy locates the former sniper and alerts his boss, a mad warlord (Tim Roth), to their location. The result is a solid, although not overly ambitious, thriller.
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