Released on: 2005
Rating: 2.70
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Could Keanu Reeves Tackle Akira?
Despite screaming from fan quarters that was louder than Tetsuo shouts in Katsuhiro Otomo’s beloved anime version, Warner Bros. is ploughing ahead on its plan to make a live-action take on Akira. And now the studio is talking to Keanu Reeves about playing Kaneda. It’s been a long, hard road for Warners as it tries to get the film going. The script has been through multiple drafts and more than one big name (including James Franco, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Robert Pattinson) has flirted with the idea of playing one of the two lead roles.But if the executives and director Albert Hughes can convince Reeves to play the motorbike gang leader who tries to help his friend when Tetsuo becomes part of a dangerous experiment that threatens Neo-Tokyo, that might just have a domino effect in convincing other actors to sign on board.It remains to be seen»
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Movie Reviews: Something Borrowed
Several critics are expressing sympathy for Kate Hudson for having had to make the most of a role in a dreadful wedding-day-themed movie. “If it weren’t so sad watching her pick away at this skimpy, overlong romantic lie, she might be entertaining,” writes Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times argues: “One of the curious problems with Something Borrowed is that Kate Hudson’s performance is too effective.” He explains that Hudson plays her role “so well that she almost forces the film apart at the seams; her character is too strong for it.” Claudia Puig in USA Today remarks that Hudson’s “obnoxious bridezilla roles make no use of the gently ditzy comic talent she displayed more than a decade ago in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous.” But A.O. Scott comments in the New York Times: “Liberated from the role of ingйnue, Ms. Hudson is a whirlwind of brassy vulgarity, but her good-humored, unembarrassed energy only highlights the dire timidity of the movie itself. She acts almost as if this were a real comedy.” The movie received not a single positive review from a major newspaper critic.»
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