http://www.markreviewsmovies.com Film reviews and criticism by Mark Dujsik http://www.markreviewsmovies.com/favicon.ico en-us Copyright 2010, Mark Dujsik mark_reviews_movies@hotmail.com (Mark Dujsik) http://www.markreviewsmovies.com/images/mrmweb-logo.gif http://www.markreviewsmovies.com/ 144 144 Film reviews and criticism by Mark Dujsik http://www.markreviewsmovies.com/reviews/S/safehouse.htm Review by Mark Dujsik | February 9, 2012 2 Stars (out of 4) Safe House is mindless but also innocuous stuff; we concentrate on its holes of logic and the unnecessary redundancies of its storytelling because, without them, the movie is habitually commonplace. Its loopy particulars are the only things that keep it from excessive mediocrity. http://www.markreviewsmovies.com/reviews/V/vow-2012.htm Review by Mark Dujsik | February 9, 2012 2 Stars (out of 4) At one point in The Vow, Paige (Rachel McAdams), who suffers from the sort of specific amnesia in which she can recall everything except the key elements of her present life, watches her wedding video. Her face is twisted in confusion as her former self reads some vows off a menu, and then it becomes even more exaggerated as her husband reads his own vows off a menu from the same restaurant (which, by the way, is oh-so-cutely called the Mnemonic Café). One interpretation of Paige's look is of the general, garden-variety kind, in which she's clearly frustrated that she can't remember such a life-altering event; another--one that's vaguely raised as Paige reverts back to her old life before her husband (though McAdams' excessive contortions and the aw-shucks nature of the romance put it in my mind)--is a bit darker: As she watches, she can't help but be annoyed with the life she has now, thankfully, forgotten. http://markdujsik.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/dvdblu-ray-releases-2712/ New options for your home viewing this week.