Michiel Waaijer

After movies such as Space Cowboys, Blood Work and True Crime, Eastwood manages to direct an absolute masterpiece in the form of Mystic River.

Whereas the recent movies directed by Eastwood were pretty good, but not much more than that, Mistic River is a relief from the horrible movies that are comming to the movietheaters recently.

The lead actors were all extremely great, whith a definite oscar notch this time for Tim Robbins who plays the man who had the most troublesome youth of the lead actors.

This is also essential for the storyline, which is fairly simple really. Its a solve-the-murder case, which is Clint Eastwoods work of expertise. But the three dimensional characters makes it so worth-wile. Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon and Laurence 'Morpeus' Fishburne all contribute to a most beleivable storyline, and thus an fantastic movie.

This is a must-see movie, and one of the best movies of 2003.

The expectations for the sequel of The Matrix were scorching high. Let me put that in front of everything. I have read some other comments on the movie by other people and they all seem a little dissapointed because they compare the film to the first one. I believe they're all wrong. The Matrix 1 was a fantastic film in it's own way. The basic storyline invlolved little more then the transformation of Neo from computer hacker to the possible saviour of mankind. Reloaded HOWEVER is in all ways very different. It's almost impossible to compare Reloaded to Matrix 1. Reloaded works on so much more levels than the original, the relationship of neo and trinity becomes more apparent, the architect (which is a brilliant scene) explains the earlier versions of the matrix and more and the most important aspect: Zion. The main reason that Morpheus fights as passionately as he does.

For me the idea of the matrix fascinated me ever since 1999 and now, after seeing Reloaded, i am once again in complete and utter awe of the wachowski brothers. These guys are brilliant and deliver what is expected of them. Reloaded has it all, the BEST action in a movie ever combined with one of the most ingenious and creative storylines in history.

Four Feathers is the 3rd adaption to the big screen of the popular book from 1901 by A.E.W. Mason. The story sets in 1875 during the heyday of imperialism when country's in europe were trying to occupy and divide Africa among themselves. When an english army is destroyed in de Sudan, Another regiment of english soldiers try to find out what happened and go to war. Harry Feversham (Heath Ledger) is one of the "lucky" ones to go there, only one day before the shipment he chickens out. At least that's what his friends and fiancee (Kate Hudson) think. Truth is, he never wanted this. He tried to live up to his father's expectations and became a soldier. But when he is called to war, he realizes that this is not his cup of tea. He receives 4 feathers from 3 of his friends in his regiment symbolic to his cowardness. Harry now sees himself as a coward, and wants to clear his head. So Harry goes to the Sudan himself to aid the english in anyway he can, and return the feathers to his friends. He gets help in his quest from Abou (Fantastic role AGAIN from Djimon Honsou)

The motivations in the movie are beyond belief. Sorry for saying this, but personaly i think that harry is a bloody moron for going to Sudan on his own. Then there is Abou who suddenly helps Harry with almost everything whilst he's there strugling to keep alive. And in the final scene something so incredibly foolish happens, that - for me - Harry is just not a believable character anymore.

Good performances by Ledger, Bently and for sure from Honsou. And sure the way the stuck up and naive british army go they're way is truly a feast to watch, but mainly the script is too flawed. Otherwise, in my opinion, this could really be a contender for the oscars *** out of *****