Pure Action Movies

Based on Cormac McCarthy novel the movie is a simple story of survival told through a father and his son as they struggle through and apocalyptic wasteland where everything is slowing dying. We are not told what has happened but its clear that the world is in trouble. The father played by Viggo Mortenson struggles to survive with his son in tow all the while questioning himself should he live or just give up even to the point of showing his son how to end it.

The movie relies on the interaction between father and son and the threat of starvation and gangs of other survivors who have reverted to cannibalism. THe movie is not an action adventure move and shouldnt be viewed as such, its basically the struggle for survival and a father love for his son and his struggle for his own humanity.

Good movie and nice performances from the leads.

Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey and Jude is n ot your typical Holmes adventure. The director Guy Ritchie has created something that a lot of purists will hate and people not familiar with the books will enjoy. I am a huge fan of the books and the old Basil Rathbone movies and Jeremy Brett tv series so I consider myself a purist at heart. That being said I did enjoy the movie and the leads do a good job and there is good interaction between them and the story is well paced.

The story is pure boys own adventure set in a fictional London which is well realised with good production values, the Tower of London is one that stands out. My only gripe is that the movie is just a bit too long could shave at leasat 15 minutes but its just a minor quibble. If your looking for Adventure, Romance, Comedy, Drama and Martial Arts this is a great popcorn movie and you will not be bored.

Cant believe I spent movie to see this, ok its not totally crap the effects are good but nothing you havent seen before.

Plot, the world has been tisaken over by vampires humand are farmed for their blood and society continues to function. The only problem  the blood is running out and the vampires are regressing into a more subhuman animalistic state. Ethan Hawke plays a vampire with a heart who cares for the human race and attempts to create a fake blood solution so the humans can be saved.

The story starts of well and there is hope that this might actually go somewhere but halfway through things change and things start getting stupid. If your a vampire fan and love silly sci-fi this might be the movie for you.

Myself I cant get by the plot holes there are too many and the movie doesnt make sense.

Yes we know that vampires hate sunlight but not when they wear a hat or stand under a tree apparently, this is the first plot hole. The second is if their are only a few human survivors left why dont they simply go out in the day and kill the vampires when they sleep?. I mean come on if your going to make a big budget movie at least make it slightly plausible.

Pure Action Movies always has time for something different unfortunately Give em Hell Malone fails to live up to the mark, if your going to recreate a pulp film noir action hero in the vain of Mike Hammer or Sam Spade at least cast the right actor, Thomas Jane just doesnt cut it for me hes too wooden.

Another thing that bugged me was the villians, ripping of Sin City and Dark Knight especially the later with a very bad imitation of Heath Ledger’s Joker was insulting to watch and Ving Rhames looked as bored as he did in the Tournament.

The first ten minutes of the movie are good, plenty of action and well paced but after that it died bigtime and went straight to chimp screenplay. Using wirework to control falls may work for high falls but look shoddy in my opinion when done from say ten feet.

Its hard to pin down what this movie is supposed to be. Is it a film noir or a spoof it really is hard to tell and this does detract from it, and the ending makes no sense whatsoever only that there might be a sequel. Hopefully someone will make a fanedit and it will make it more enjoyable.

Sopme people will compare it to Sin City or Shoot em up, Let me tell you it is not. Very disappointing.

Pure action movies has always been an advocate of lost causes and backing the underdog. With this being the case here is my review of Universal Soldier: Regeneration (number 4 as checked on imdb).

Hard to believe someone had the balls to make a fourth, wow is the first superlative to think that the first one in the series wasnt all that good it come as a shock that this one ticks all the right buttons, good acting, great story and good production and locations.

Yes it has Dolph Lundgren and JCVD and its still a good move no…ITS A GREAT MOVIE. Finally a good movie thats not spoilt by stupid CGI or complicated plots and hamming acting.

What if you couldn’t pay the loan on your car, or your house? They would have to be repossessed. Now imagine you couldn’t afford the loan on your own liver…someone would have to come and take that too. That’s where the REPO MEN come in…In this futuristic action-thriller starring Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes, Closer), humans have extended and improved lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don’t pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property…with no concern for your comfort or survival.

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Synopsis:

In the futuristic action-thriller Repo Men, humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don’t pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property…with no concern for your comfort or survival.

Jude Law plays Remy, one of the best organ repo men in the business. But when he suffers a cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself fitted with the company’s top-of-the-line heart-replacement…as well as a hefty debt. But a side effect of the procedure is that his heart’s no longer in the job. When he can’t make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, Remy’s former partner Jake (Academy Award® winner Forest Whitaker), to track him down.

Now that the hunter has become the hunted, Remy joins Beth (Alice Braga), another debtor who teaches him how to vanish from the system. And as he and Jake embark on a chase across a landscape populated by maniacal friends and foes, one man will become a reluctant champion for thousands on the run.

Release date: April 2, 2010

Genre: Futuristic action-thriller

Rating: Rated R for strong bloody violence, grisly images, language and some sexuality/nudity .

Cast: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber, RZA, Alice Braga, Carice van Houten

Directed by: Miguel Sapochnik

Screenplay by: Eric Garcia & Garrett Lerner

Based on the Novel “The Repossession Mambo” by: Eric Garcia

Producer: Scott Stuber

Executive Producers: Miguel Sapochnik, Jonathan Mone, Mike Drake, Valerie Dean, Andrew Z. Davis

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Yep ! Just come back from seeing Avatar sneak preview, its out there as the most technicial movie ever made nothing comes close to touching this forget Star Wars or Bladerunner this is the new benchmark the Matrix has had its day this is the new daddy.

The 3-D is stunning I’ve never seen such detail in almost every scene, they must have broken a lot of PC’s for this one. The backdrop to the alien world is incredibly realised as for the aliens the Naavi are incrediblely designed by WETA.

Yes there is a but coming and here it is……the story! Its a bit of a let down imagine Dances with Wolves set on a different planet and thats the story throw in a bit mother earth and eco hippy stuff and thats about it.

Action yes there is action lots of action and well paced which is just as well considering its 160 minutes long.

Lastly the 3-D glasses are not glasses there goggles and there heavy and no you cannot keep them (why would you).

So Independence Day was not enough for Roland Emmerich he had to freeze the world in Day after tomorrow and drown almost the entire humans race in 2012. I think this guy needs help, no but seriously how far can you stretch the idea of the earth doomsday prophecy ?

Well in his latest offering pretty far, the story goes that the Sun produces a solar flare full of nasy neutrinos that penetrate the earths crust and start heating things up which causes massive upheaval off the continental plates and destroys every major continent and country except bits of China and Africa. Yes this is a spoiler and you be glad of it considering the movie is 158 mins long. Oh forgot to mention that John Cusack and Oliver Platt are in it along with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton,Woody Harrelson,Danny Glover, and George Segal amazing cast for such a bad movie.

Bad movie yes but wait how a bout a B movie well if you look at as a B movie it does kinda work the ridiculous story and effects do give it some merit but you have to ask yourself is it warranted I leave it to you to decide.

If you really want to see it wait for the DVD and fast forward through the boring bits.

Kung Fu Grip and batteries included.

Managed to view G.I. Joseph over the weekend, and what do I have say about it…..

As you all know I have a distinct hatred of bloated  and heavily laden fx movies with the dreaded cgi and stunts (created by wintel). But as that maybe…it works for G.I. Joe all the gadgets and characters are there and while there is no plot or story somehow it manages to pull it off (in a totally tongue in cheek way) throw in some incredibly hammy acting from Dennis Quaid and it works.

One word of praise is Sienna Miller who dominates every scene without her the whole thing would fall apart, another big suprise is Joseph Gordon Levitt (nice to see him sneaking away from the independents for a while) kudos to you.

I like 300, I like Gerald Butler in an action role, I like Crank and Crank 2

However  I DO NOT LIKE GAMER !

You would think it would have everything going for it, christ it even has the guy who plays Dexter as the villian.

But no unfortunately thats not the case here, what we have is a stereotypical unoriginal piece which takes it story from the Running Man and thats the story taken care off oh and before I forgot Avalon (suprised the producers of that movie didnt sue as the story is a direct copy)

Now for the action what little coherent set piece’s  were ruined by hyper editing and shakycam with some stupid graphics thrown in. It was impossible to see who was shooting who, even some of the stunts looked CGI enhanced.

One last word you know your in trouble when the best thing in an action movie is the dance scene, I kid you not !