Soilheart's One Sentence Reviews

Keeping it to one sentence

Toy Story 3 (3D Version)

A pretty funny and kinda cute movie that makes you rembember your time as a kid, which means both watching the first two movies and playing with your old toys, all made in the in the usual wonderful Pixar style. – 4/5

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

A really intense and captivating crime novel written by Stieg Larsson which while it keep up the large mysteries for a majority of the book do not have the really interesting and thrilling twist that I appreciate most in thrillers and crime novels. – 4/5

Memento

A completely mind-blowing movie where you are placed in the mind of a person with anterograde amnesia as he is searching for this wife’s killer, the same man who coincidentally also is the man who caused his memory issues. – 5/5

Avatar

An amazing and very well produced movie with beautiful special effects and a quite good story that even though it is more than 2½ hours makes you want to see more. – 5/5

Enigma

A captivating thriller written by Robert Harris where two parallel stories unfold around a single unwilling but sympathetic protagonist all concluding with a few good story twists as any good thriller should. – 5/5

Righteous Ties

A Korean gangster movie with a fresh feeling that tries to combine a well written drama story with some entertaining and silly humor, creating a good but unfortunately confused and unconcentrated movie. – 3/5

Veronika Decides to Die

An short but concise novel by Paulo Coelho about the sickness of not daring to live your life because of fear and bitterness with the “everyone is crazy” cliché brought forth in a good way and a plot twist at the end that feels like its already been done. – 3/5

Wuthering Heights

A classic novel written by Emily Brontë that are supposed to be one of the greatest romantic classics, but to me appeared only as a book about how a childish and mad man ruins the life of the people around him to get “revenge”. – 2/5

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

An anime movie showing once more the Japanese ability to show the “other sides” of the human behaviour, creating a well done thriller full with emotion, or lack of emotion, bound together with a red string from Rotkäppchens cape. – 4/5

The Great Gatsby

A rather short but captivating book by F. Scott Fitzgerald that despite it’s length has a deep plot with several subplots and a lot of imagery, but sadly much of the latter is lost to a non-american born in the late 20th century. – 4/5