HOP - Colombiana and Fright Night

Two movies from which I did not know what to expect, but I did figure that I was not going to be watching any Oscar-worthy performances or gripping story-telling...

COLOMBIANA - Zoe Saldana is a beautiful woman, and that seemed to be what this movie was all about.  At least that is what I got out of it.  There were so many goofs and continuity glitches, I found myself distracted from whatever threads of storyline that there were.  The best scene in the whole movie, in my opinion, is at the beginning when as a young girl our main character performs feats of parkour while making a mad escape through the streets of Bogota.  The opening credits were pretty sweet too...

FRIGHT NIGHT - Not having yet seen the 1985 original I cannot speak to how this re-make stood up, but with this un-biased viewing I have to say the film was unexpectedly enjoyable.  A little long, no need for it to clock in at two hours, but an interesting combination of goofy and scary.  Also it had a solid amount of both predictable and unpredictable parts, so that kept things spicy.  Some odd directorial choices, such as the weirdly foggy "look" whenever characters were inside a dark house, or the apparent confusion as to how dark "night" actually is haha  And while they may not have been award-winning performances, Anton Yelchin and especially Colin Farrell certainly had fun in their roles