Movie Beat 1/27/12 – One For The Money, Albert Nobbs, Man On A Ledge, And The Grey

Elizabeth Banks and Sam Worthington in Man On A Ledge

Wow, is this a mediocre weekend?! You’re hard-pressed to find something you’ll get really excited about, but here’s what we’ve got: One For the Money, Albert Nobbs, Man On A Ledge, and The Grey.

One For the Money:

A lot of chicks read this book (including Lisa May). Katherine Heigl stars as Stephanie Plum, an unemployed, newly divorced woman, who lands a job at her cousin’s bail bond business. See… she’s like a real girlie girl, and then she has to make a living, so she becomes Dog the Bounty Hunter! This is the first, of what they’re promising is many, Stephanie Plum movies because there have been many books.

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Albert Nobbs:

You’ve heard a lot about this movie because Glenn Close has been nominated for a lot of different awards for this role, where she plays another woman who can’t get a job, just like Katherine Heigl’s character, only this time, this woman decides that she’s going to pretend to be a man and become a butler. If you look at Glenn Close in this, you know she wasn’t gonna get a man, so she became a male impersonator. Boy, that seems like a long movie to me!

Man On A Ledge:

A police psychologist has to work to talk down an ex-con, played by Sam Worthington, who’s threatening to jump a Manhattan hotel rooftop while the biggest diamond heist ever is in motion. He’s the distraction while they’re stealing the diamond. He was wrongly accused of a crime and here’s his chance to prove himself innocent.

Elizabeth Banks plays the police psychologist, and Ed Harris returns to films, thank God. I hadn’t seen Ed Harris in a long time. He’s a great, great actor! This has got some potential. A ledge is not the greatest location for an action film, but I’m guessing they make it work.

The Grey:

Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, and James Badge Dale star in this. In Alaska, an oil drilling team struggles to survive when their plane crash strands them in the wild, in the snow. Then things get worse because they become hunted by a pack of wolves who see them as intruders. They are not singing wolves, like in Twilight. Sadly, these wolves just eat you.

At the least, I think this looks interesting. It looks like one of those bleak, desolate, man against nature films that keeps you on the edge of your seat. It looks like there’s a lot of snow. That’s for sure.

I think they should have combined The Grey with One For the Money, called it One For the Grey, and had the wolves eat Katherine Heigl and her family. That would have been a movie I found enormously satisfying. Eat Albert Nobbs while you’re at it too.
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