Dusk Before the Dawn

4 stars: the best non-martial arts sub-titled movie I’ve seen

Hey, I’m just being honest! Most of the subtitled movies I see (Fearless, Hero, Crouching Tiger, District B13) are martial arts movies. And my son will even see them with me.

My wife won tickets to see a movie called My Best Friend. She wins a lot of contests this year, and a lot of movies tickets from the local newspaper. She was trying for the Bourne Ultimatum, but won these instead. I checked it out, saw that it was subtitled, thought it might be fun after dinner and a bottle of wine.

It was more than fun, it was funny, charming, well filmed and well written. (more…)