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Movie Reviews -
Thriller and Action
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Written by Kevin Meehan
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Thursday, February 11, 2010 04:02 AM |
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 “War is a drug,” states the quote at the beginning of 2009 Best Picture nominee The Hurt Locker, the gripping drama about a bomb diffusing unit in Baghdad. As someone on the outside, having never been in war, as a great many viewers of this film surely were, that is a hard statement to believe. But if the suspenseful portrayal of life as a soldier in Iraq is at all accurate then it’s a little easier to see how the relatively boring routine of the life we live at home, the life that these very soldiers fight to protect, is hard to readjust to once the tour of duty ends and the soldiers come home.
The actual action of The Hurt Locker opens with a shot of a robot equipped with a camera inspecting a potential bomb. At the time Guy Pierce, Sergeant Thompson is donning the protective bomb suit as the head of the Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit when an explosion goes off and kills him. Thompson is then replaced by SFC William James played by Jeremy Renner who brings a more renegade style of work to the unit made up of Sergeant J.T Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge.
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Inglourious Basterds (2009) |
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Movie Reviews -
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Written by Matthew J. DeReno
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 03:12 PM |
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 So I finally got a chance to experience Inglourious Basterds. I am a "Basterd" for not having giving Basterds director Quentin Tarantino his due diligence on this Website long since the Nazis lost World War II and a million times again in war films done to death. How could anyone inject fresh life into this stale occupied genre?
Tarantino is not just anyone. Tarantino is the most unique and creative director alive today so far as I know from the foxhole of my Western ethnocentric view. His take on World War II is nothing short of a cinematic pulp blitzkrieg.
Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz and Mélanie Laurent. It tells the story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietor (Laurent) and the other by a team of Jewish Allied soldiers led by Lt. Aldo Raine (Pitt). The central villain in the film is SS colonel Hans Landa (Waltz). A significant supporting role is the German film actress and double agent, Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Krüger).
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Crank 2: High Voltage (2009) |
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Movie Reviews -
Thriller and Action
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Written by Nicole Sebula
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Sunday, January 31, 2010 01:53 PM |
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If you didn’t get enough of Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) in Crank then Crank: High Voltage is for you. This movie picks up right where the first left off – literally. The film’s opening scene shows Chev falling from a helicopter, which was the final scene of the original film.
In this installment it is a race against time for Chev to find his heart. You see, a group of Chinese mobsters pick Chev up after he crashes from that fall. While in their custody they cut Chev open and steal his heart and replace it with a motorized one that isn’t designed to last.
Before the doctors can remove anymore of Chev’s organs he gets out of the makeshift hospital (after kicking some ass) and starts his search for his heart. He enlists the help of his friend, Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam), who explains to Chev that he has been fitted with an artificial heart. Once the external battery pack runs out, the internal battery will kick in and he will have one hour before it stops working.
Now it is a mad race against time to find the heart. One disastrous thing happens after the other. The battery pack gets smashed up, the car Chev is driving gets wreaked, he gets into a few fights. In the midst of all of this he has to keep electrocuting himself to stay alive. |
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Written by Matthew J. DeReno
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 02:51 PM |
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 For a plot involving something as dramatic as a murder at the White House, Murder at 1600 is surprisingly mediocre, even with that built in interest factor. Luckily, the movie never really sinks to something really bad, but it never really takes off like Air Force one either. Somewhere on the continuum of our President getting blown by an intern at the Oval office and listening to a Congressional filibuster on anything, this movie falls in that broad middle. Here is what happens.
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Transformers 2:Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
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Movie Reviews -
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Written by Kevin Meehan
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 01:24 AM |
 Don’t see this movie. That’s my advice to you. “But why” you might say “didn’t it make hundreds of millions of dollars?” These would be reasonable questions to ask because, yes, this nearly two and a half hour long train wreck did make millions upon millions of dollars at the box office. But you know who else made a lot of money? A guy named Bernie Madoff. And actually, now that I mention it, I think the families of those who lost money because of that A-hole would agree with me – assuming they still had some money left to see the movie for themselves- when I say that while Mr. Madoff is serving his 150 year jail sentence he should be forced to watch this movie everyday. It might be the only way justice can truly be served. Sound ridiculous? Perhaps it does, one thing of which I’m sure, though, is that it can’t be any more ridiculous than the movie itself (Kevin's hit job continued below clip...). |
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