3x Rachel Weisz: The Brothers Bloom

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Rian Johnson's (Brick, Looper) 2nd movie with a teeny tiny JGL cameo. Seriously, you blink and you miss him :P And featuring other actors from Brick like Noah Segan and Nora Zehetner in small parts. The movie itself is about...



... Bloom, Penelope and Stephen and their nutty heist adventures that they undergo with their Japanese "I never speak" friend Bang Bang. The movie felt like a fairy tale, unreal and almost dreamy. In that regard, it reminded me of Brick - and there were other similarities. In the end, Bloom got what he wanted but the price was rather high. I actually cried like a baby when Bloom realized what Stephen had done.

I adored both Bloom - a sweet, sweet man, yet always so sad - and Penelope. Penelope was simply awesome. I loved the bit where she blew up her castle. Or that she always crashed her car. How socially awkward she was yet how brilliant! She was my favorite character! Stephen was quite annoying. But Bang Bang was hilarious, like when she broke the palm tree in half!

The film itself was a tad too long and too slow in places. I liked Brick better. This one felt a bit too... convoluted. You never knew what was a con and what wasn't and it was hard to keep that apart. But it was great to see it set in Prague! Overall, it wasn't a bad movie but I wasn't really wow'd.