The Big Bang (2011)

Put up the first five minutes from this movie and then put up 'murder my sweet' on and glimpse the originality. That's actually positive, getting good references. Not a good casting, good actors in wrong roles, and unnecessary lame special effects. I get it, got to keep yours eyes on screen, but that ending scene was too much. The rest of the effects, lightning, filters, psychedroad movie scenes were OK, but not really his style, Not really, but OK, though.

Let's start with the voice-over. This can be an effective atmosphere- or plot- enhancing technique when done well. It is not done well. Antonio Banderas mumbles and whispers his way through the entire movie and this can really get on one's nerves, especially as he does it even more when he's on screen. I wonder if he thought to himself, Oh, this movie is so bad it doesn't matter what I do so I'll just assume this whispery persona and everyone will think I'm a great actor. Guess what. It doesn't work. It comes across as bad acting and did I mention how annoying it was? Now let's get to the plot. Must we? Can't we just forget about it? I wish we could but movies do have plots, especially action thrillers (yes, there is action, people do move around and drive cars and stuff, but whether to thrilling effect or not is debatable), so let's just say that the plot is almost as absurd as the acting. I can't for the life of me figure out why Banderas is put through so much grilling when the bad guys only need to know one thing. I guess they make him tell his life story as a way to move the plot along. And why, when he's driving his beautiful car near the end of the picture, why oh why doesn't he immediately swerve away from the danger? Sigh...OK, enough negativity. Let me say that Sam Elliott's appearance toward the end of the film almost makes sloughing through the dreck worthwhile. Where Antonio mumbles, Sam booms. You know his voice. It's inimitable and it's a mighty refreshing thing that it comes in when all seemed doomed. You know, I always check out reviews before I watch a movie to see if I'm going to like it. Skimming through, I noticed a lot of people did, and one professional reviewer, who shall remain nameless, thought Banderas was brilliant. This is because, as the old maxim goes, there is no accounting for taste. And this is a very hopeful thing. Maybe someday someone somewhere will find a use for my poor, lonely, neglected songs and put them in a movie. I wouldn't even say no to one as bad as this.

This movie is such a blatant ripoff of Murder, My Sweet (1944) a great film based on Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely. And nowhere in any of the film's info is Chandler even mentioned. Here are some of the similarities:-The opening scene in the interrogation room. -The detective is hired by a very large man to help find the man's girlfriend.-They both go to the club the girl used to work but the place has changedAnd that's just a few of the plot devices lifted from Murder, My Sweet. I don't mind films that are homages to other films, or even parodies, but sheesh, give the original some credit. The director is quoted as saying he was inspired by the movies Touch of Evil and HUD. Okay, yeah whatever.Judge for yourself.

This movie, is in a nutshell, god awfully bad. It is just a bad detective film mixed with sci-fi and romance, not a good 3 way of genres! OK so here's the basic summary:Antonio Banderas is hired by James Vanderbeek to find his girlfriend stripper, they search at a stripclub, find her, then she disappears again. Then Banderas has a small break from his job and visits a small desert town, where he meets a waitress who is actually a hooker for free. They have a 1 night stand and while they are lovemaking she chants lots of nerdy science stuff, then he learns about a scientist who says 2 proton beams will collide underground in the desert, thus reversing time back to the beginning(yeah, I didn't understand it either, but hey I'm no scientist..........). He says they have to go back in time to see what really happened in the big bang. I won't say anymore, you'll have to see for yourself(that is........if you want to see the movie I advised to you was bad.......)