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First of all, the original plan was to watch the movie in an IMAX theater at the Mall of Asia. Unfortunately, we did not make it to the 10:45 AM slot — next screening was 1:15 and already sold out — so we ended up buying a regular premiere pass for a regular movie screening instead.

Second, having enjoyed the first movie installment, I was already imagining that it’s going to give me the same degree of fun and excitement despite the movie’s more than two hours total running time, not to mention the long queues that greeted us when we bought our tickets.

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Forty-five minutes into the movie I was already beginning to yawn and feel sleepy no matter how spectacular the fighting robots were. Even Bumblebee, who happened to be my favorite Autobots, did not help in reviving my interest. Seriously, I just thought Michael Bay tried so hard to squeeze in a lot of things just to make the movie entertaining — from Megan Fox’s overboard seductiveness, to Sam’s (Shia LaBeouf) forever-debating parents, to the non-stop babbling twin Autobots.

There were also too many sentimental scenes in the Revenge of the Fallen which somehow made me feel like I am watching some local soap opera. And finally, I didn’t like that the movie started with all the fight scenes going on too soon, making it quite predictable as what’s gonna happen next.

If you haven’t watched No Country For Old Men, I recommend you do. First of all, I got to know about this movie not by publicity, but thru my husband. He said it was a good movie based on numerous reviews he read online. So, I decided to give it a try.

No Country For Old Men is a film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same title and stars Tommy Lee Jones (playing Sheriff Tom Bell), Spanish actor Javier Bardem (Anton Chigurh), and Josh Brolin (American Gangster).

The movie follows the character of a Texan hunter Llewelyn Moss, who finds a number of murdered drug runners and a bagful of money while trekking the desert. What Moss did not realize when he decided to keep the $2 million he found, is that a psychopathic hired killer, Anton Chigurh, is out to recover the money, which is easily traced thru a location device hidden underneath those millions of bucks.

If you want a feel-good movie, definitely this isn’t for you. Some may even be put off with the kind of violence it shows. In No Country For Old Men, things happen unexpectedly. It keeps you guessing what will happen next, from the beginning up to the end. This makes the movie rather interesting because it allows you to think and really concentrate on the story.

To be honest, I’m not so much into this kind of movie. I don’t enjoy a movie that doesn’t have suspenseful musical scoring and doesn’t take me back from where I started. But I did like the cat-and-mouse plot and the intelligent treatment of the story in general!