I was surprised at how well Dustin Hoffman did at portraying an autistic guy, and at how big of a prick Tom Cruise’s greedy, money-hungry character was as well. After his father dies, Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) finds out he has a brother when his father’s will fails to bestow anything to him except for his classic car and his prized rose bushes. The rest of his fortune, to the tune of around $3 million, is left to a third party, whom Babbitt quickly tracks down at a mental institution. Babbitt decides to take his brother, in essence kidnapping him, only to find that his abnormal behavior is somewhat difficult to deal with.

I enjoyed Rain Man because of the development of Cruise’s character throughout the story, but also mostly because the ending was more realistic than it was happy-perfect-storybook. You get to see a relationship develop between two adult brothers and the way that each one change’s the others life. This one achieves a respectable 4.5 on our scale of greatness.

In case you haven’t noticed, Angelina Jolie is smoking hot. But that’s not what makes this movie so great; it’s great because the average guy wishes he could escape his humdrum life as a desk jockey, forced to fall on the corporate sword every day at a dead-end job while he struggles to keep his head above water. Don’t kid yourself, you know this to be true.

Wesley (James McAvoy) finds out that his father was an assassin who’s just been killed, and that he can pretty much own anybody he wants because, just like pops, he’s got super-human powers he didn’t even realize he had. Once he gets a grip on his abilities by training with an elite assassin’s guild, he sets out to find and kill the man who murdered dear ol’ dad. Wesley uses his super-sweet powers along the way to curve bullets, take revenge on his tyrannical boss and his two-faced friends, kill a ton of people, and make out with Angelina Jolie. Awesome flick, don’t miss it.