The Man (2005)

This is a nice, lighthearted comedy about dental supply salesman gets accidentally caught up in a cop's scheme to catch gun traffickers. I was wary of this before seeing it because these kinds of police comedy plot lines get pretty repetitive and dull, but this one was alright.

Samuel L. Jackson plays the role of a cop who is trying bust a gun smuggler who's in town. He sets up a meeting place to make a 'deal' with these guys, but when the gun lord's lackey gets there,he mistakes Eugene Levy, the supply salesman who is in town for a convention, for the so- called 'interested buyer', and gives him the gun by mistake. Samuel L. Jackson then comes in and arrests/ forces Eugene Levy to help him capture these guys by pretending to want to buy these guns.

This isn't a ground-breaking film, there are actually several other films just like it, but I really liked Eugene Levy's character. There was something about that oblivious, innocent, 'swell guy' character and his out-of-place reactions to the criminal situation. It's like bringing a grandmother to a rap concert or a skate park. Though this is neither Levy's or Jackson's best picture, they both bring sufficient talent so as to make the film watchable, but it's also lighthearted enough for you to let your guard down and just veg comfortably.

Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba

 This manga was really good. It was more intellectual than most mangas out there. 

It's about a guy who finds a notebook and by writing peoples names in the notebook he can kill them, and that sounds cheesy I know, but they play it out in a way that makes it work. The notebook is the belonging of a shinigami, a death god, and that's how people die in everyday life, but one shinigami's notebook fell down to earth and this guy picked it up. He then starts killing people he feels are evil.

It's pretty good. After a certain event takes place I was kind of mad and the story kind of went down hill a bit, but it was still pretty good. It is also an anime and a drama, but in those two, they change some elements of the story... the manga is always better.