M-N Movies

Matchstick Men (2003)

Rothe Blog MatchstickTwo Stars

A movie about a con artist, Nicolas Cage was the overwhelming obsessive compulsive in this movie, further blurring the line between his personal reality and acting. Obnoxiously quirky Cage’s conscience and obsessive personality overtakes him and he reaches out for his long lost daughter, another great performance by Alison Lohman. I was so bored that the major twist and the end of the movie was too little too late.


Murder on the Orient Express (2001)

Rothe Blog Movies Murder Orient ExpressTwo Stars

I watched this movie on TV because of Alfred Molina, who was an outstanding Doc Ock in the new Spiderman movie. With a fairly believable start, this movie quickly spirals downhill into TV movie wasteland. It did have a good point about supreme justice, but did not spare any cliche along the way.