Movie Review

"Empire of the Sun"

I love the 80's. It might be that I am a product of the eighties (manufactured in 88, to be exact). Therefore, most of my movie collection comes primarily from the 80's.
I saw "Empire of the Sun" sitting snuggle on the shelf at my local target store (a great place for anyone to go if they need to extinguish a nervous mind). Fascinated by the cover I decided to buy the movie. I would not suggest cover buying, it usually results with you wondering why in the hell you just wasted ten dollars on something your never going to watch again like the trash "8 seconds" and the Gary Oldman version of "Dracula."
Enough with chasing rabbits.
Empire is about a boy of goes through the hell of being separated from his parents and having to endure a Japanese Internment Camp. The boy is played by Christian Bale who gives a stunning performance. If you are familiar with any of Bales work now a days its funny to see the little things he does in this move and the little things he does in "American Psycho" and "Batman." I am not sure if I can capture what this movie means in words. It will require a lot more watching. It gives me the feeling of sorrow and abandonement. It's really hard to be connected to the characters in this movie. The one character, Bale, you want to love him but then you feel disconnected from him. It is difficult to explain. The screen shots in the film are beautiful and are characteristic of Spielberg. I kind of thought this would be a childs movie, but I am not even sure what kind of movie this was.
You may hate it. I love the movie "The Fountain" which almost everyone who watched it hated. The setting for this would be great for a night movie. Start it at six after dinner and get a pool of ice cream, three scopes vanilla with caramel on the side. John Malkovich gives a great performance, but when doesnt he, and Bale does fantastic. Nothing seems to come close to watching a good movie, but the thing that trumps that is watching a movie that makes you have to rewatch it.