Spy [Movie Review]

Spy

Director: Paul Feig
Writer: Paul Feig

l   Story line

Susan Cooper is a CIA analyst, and her job is to assist the CIA agent, Bradley Fine, to complete the most dangerous missions. But one day, all the CIA’s top agents have been exposed, and suddenly, Susan becomes CIA’s last hope. Therefore, she volunteers to go deep undercover and goes to Europe to track down the villains and protect the world from a nuke crisis.

l   What I like about the movie

1.          Though the story is kind of typical, a nobody with a big dream and finally wins her success, it is still inspiring and hilarious. Especially, the leading actress, Melissa McCarthy adds a lot of favor on the character and the movie.

2.          It’s really hard not to joke about Melissa’s weight and figure and sometimes it may goes too far. But the scriptwriter makes only as much sense as it absolutely must. 

Once In a Blue Moon [Movie review]

Once In a Blue Moon

Director: Koki Mitani
Writer: Koki Mitani (screenplay)

l   Story line

Emi Hoso is a lawyer with no talent. She is clumsy and screws things up all the time. The only reason why she became a lawyer was to honor her father who is as well a lawyer, Teruo Hoso.

One day, Emi gets a case which is a murder, the client was accused by killing his wife. Although her client claims that he was innocent, he wasn’t at home at the moment when his wife die, the only witness who can proof his absence is a ghost. In order to defense the case, Emi goes to the hotel where the client was staying at, and meet the ghost, the spirit of samurai, Rokubei.

Rokubei is a 400-year-old ghost, because he also died of a false accusation, he accepts Emi’s request without second thinking and is willing to do the testimony for her client. However, there is only a small group of people can see Rokubei, not to mention he is a died person legally. Besides, Rokubei is a ghost and can only appear after dark. How to bring him to the court and make his testimony be heard by the judge and jury is merely impossible.

l   What I like about the movie

1.          For comedy, it is kind of plane to create a funny person as a comic character, but if the comic character is someone who is very serious, then it could be very funny.

2.          A person can be funny be appearing in the wrong place.

3.          The performance of the actors are really good. It is not that easy to avoid eye contacting while acting, by their performing, it feels like the ghost is really transparent.