There is only one thing good about this movie: Jennifer Garner. Yes, she, who has so-far only graced our goggle boxes as an action heroine in spy drama ALIAS, had finally stooped into doing.. (*gasp*shock*horror*) a lame romantic comedy! The story is riddled with so many loopholes, it makes spongebob squarepants look good. Garner plays 13-yrold Jenna Rink, who with the unplanned help of some magic dust, gets to fast-forward her life to when she's a high-powered, influential bitch at thirty. Magic dust indeed~!!! Small-kid-trapped-in-adult-body plots are common enough (think Tom Hanks in Big and Jamie Lee Curtis in Freaky Friday) and when done with panache and a touch of credibility, can be rather entertaining. However, 13 Going On 30 is, I thought, abit too much of a stretch in imagination; yet it's marvellous to see Garner working overtime to bring out the best from such a dull and trite script. There ARE some shining moments but these are too few and far inbetween to save the movie from becoming a true stinker. Moreover, Jennifer Garner is too darn sexy to play cutesy Meg Ryan-ish roles convincingly...
My ratings -- 2.9/5 stars!
It's Jaws-meets-the Blair Witch Project in this tale of two divers stranded by accident in the middle of the ocean. The former was a box-office hit in the early eighties that spawned a couple (or more?) of almost equally as successful sequels while the latter was an over-hyped yet still-quite-successful film in the late nineties. Frankly speaking, I am not a fan of either but both are tonnes more watchable than Open Water. In fact, I think watching documentaries on ArtsCentral is much more preferable than to sit thru this awful movie one more time. Perhaps, I cannot appreciate the full value of this movie, which some critics have called "quiet", "low-key" and "real"... but these are hardly compliments. The dialogue is kept to a minimum; the cinematography is mostly grainy and mild as if shot by any tom, dick or harry amateur. There was nothing to be awed by and no epic life lessons to be learnt here except maybe, to never, ever dive in shark-infested waters in the first place :p Oh.. did i forget to mention that you'll get a glimpse of a pair of boobs in a meaningless scene in this film?? Absolutely meaningless...
my ratings -- 1/5 stars~
