Revolutionary Road
Sam Mendes

Very good. Loved Kate Winslet and Kathy Bates. Leo di Caprio was good too - he's best when his character is angry or hurt! It's a very carefully directed film, but all actors still have space enough to let their characters breath.
Breakfast-scene at the end is awesome and scary at the same time! Di Caprio is so good when he let his mind crack or let slip out the broken soul, like his character in The Departed.
I wish, he would find a director who let him be like this for an entire film.

Concerning films, 2008 was a lame year. I only watched 33 films...

Category: best films 2008
1. eastern promises, david cronenberg
2. le scaphandre et le papillon, julian schnabel
3. in bruges, martin mcdonagh
4. no country for old men, ethan&joel coen
5. i'm not there, todd haynes
6. sweeney todd, tim burton
7. flammen og citronen, ole christan madsen

Category: remarkable - exceptional performances
there will be blood, paul thomas anderson.
strong film, but in my opinion it's missing something, it's not complete. daniel day lewis's daniel plainview was the best acting performance in 2008! but that is one of reasons why i have problems with the film: it's a one-man show, an amazing one!!

the dark night, christopher nolan.
overall, a weak film, the story is a bit 'busy' with two bad characters. BUT: heath ledger was outstanding!! what a loss

things we lost in fire, susanne bier.
i expected much more of susanne bier, but to my disappointment the film was weak. benicio del toro's performance of a drug addict was pretty amazing, watching him caused almost physical pains in me!!

Category: disappointing - annoyingly disappointing
michael clayton, tony gilroy
la fille coupée en deux, claude chabrol
my blueberry nights, wong kar wai
elizabeth. the golden age, shekhar kapur

The Reader
Stephen Daldry

Good film, the sreenplay sticks close to the original.
Ralph Fiennes: good!
But: Kate Winslet was awesome for most of the time, last bits were a bit weak, but overall a very impressive performance.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Woody Allen

Sometimes funny, some kind of amusement here and there, but: a banal and trivial film, crammed with clichés and has no point!

Body Of Lies
Ridley Scott

Difficult to judge.
Brilliant cast: Leo di Caprio, Russel Crowe, Mark Strong.
The first 15-20 minutes were average action film, but then characters and story developed into some kind of claustrophobic nemesis.
After the bombings in Bombay, this film left me helpless.

Blindness
Fernando Meirelles

Very disturbing; ambivalent!
Julienne Moore was great!

Quantum Of Solace
Marc Forster

meow, ok.
Mathieu Amalric as the bad guy was nice!

I think, the "story" is frayed out: got the idea, Forster didn't really knew where he wanted to go when he began shooting - or he somewhen lost his storyboard...
Forster in interviews said he wanted a realistic Bond, who fit's in the 21st century. But what's the point in having, as Forster aimed to, a "realistic" James-Bond-character anyway? Every James-Bond-film follows a pattern, and the director's task is, to modiefy it's elements within it.
Forster wanted a "realistic" Bond: but there's no need for! Above, continuing so, Bond will become just any random hero of any random action film. In my opinion, there're plenty of those already existing, there's no need for more!
Overall, it was somehow entertaining, somehow boaring.

Burn After Reading
Ethan & Joel Cohen

Winner! Very entertaining.