The Messenger (2009) - ★★☆☆☆

In my opinion, two stars is the worst rating a movie can get on a five star scale. At least if a movie has one star, it means you felt strongly about it! But when a movie is only worth two stars, well, that just means it was kind of bad. Not awful. Not hateful. Not disgusting. Just kind of dumb. And that's no fun!

I was expecting for this movie to at least make me cry. Despite my general feeling that the army is bad and no one should join it, I have been known on many occasions to stop scrolling on Facebook if I see a video called, for example, "Soldier Surprises His Family By Coming Home For Christmas." And if I do stop to watch a video like that, I WILL cry about it.

But this movie couldn't even manage that (and trust me, it's not really a high bar)! It made me feel bad for the main character, and I did feel extremely sad and uncomfortable when I had to watch my hero, Woody Harrelson, cry. But it didn't make ME cry, and as much as this blog is about Woody, I'd say it's at least a little bit about me, too.

Also, the main character wore these really terrible sunglasses through the whole movie:

They really give me the heebie-jeebies.

Even looking at them makes my blood boil!

Fortunately, Woody, as always, managed to turn things around a little bit (as he always does!), especially when he wore these sick aviators:

The other good thing about this movie is it added two more hats to my list of Woody's hats! Before you log off, be sure to check out the updated rankings!!

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