Jun 19 2006

X-Men: The Last Stand

Directed by: Brett Ratner

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Tagline: Take a Stand

Plot Outline: When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier (Stewart), and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier’s former ally, Magneto (McKellen).

My Rating: 9.0 [rate 4.5]

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Stewart, Ben Foster, Dania Ramirez, Ellen Page

What is there to say I was waiting for this movie for too long. I am not at all happy with it, but I am giving it a 9/10 because it’s a great movie and has very nice special effects. Anyway I’ve read a lot of X-Men comics, which by the way don’t come cheap, and I am sorry if I am going to spoil it for some people but the Professor Charles Xavier doesn’t die and neither does Scott. I don’t if what they are trying to do, but I thought there were sticking to the storyline already been set by the comic books.

Anyway it’s a great film but it’s not the comic books coming to life on the big screen it’s a different storyline which is welcome by me, but I don’t know if everybody, especially X-Men fanatics will do the same.


Jun 19 2006

Aeon Flux

Directed by: Karyn Kusama

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Tagline: The Perfect World Meets The Perfect Assassin

Plot Outline: Aeon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is a sent on a mission to kill the “chairman” a whole new mystery is found.

My Rating: 7.0 [rate 3.5]

Cast: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Frances McDormand, Pete Postlethwaite, Amelia Warner, Caroline Chikezie, Nikolai Kinski, Paterson Joseph, Yangzom Brauen, Aoibheann O’Hara, Thomas Huber, Weijian Liu, Maverick Queck

It’s a nice film, I am only giving it a 7/10 because it could be better if it had a bigger budget. I think that a lot of people even before they’ve seen the film are considering some things that we see in the movie. That’s all I have to say, if you have time I think it’s a good film to watch.


Jun 12 2006

Flightplan

Directed by: Robert Schwentke

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Tagline: If Someone Took Everything You Live For… How Far Would You Go To Get It Back?

Plot Outline: A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.

My Rating: 7.0 [rate 3.5]

Cast: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Kate Beahan, Erika Christensen, Jana Kolesarova, Marlene Lawston, Sean Bean, Greta Scacchi, Michael Irby, Assaf Cohen, Christian Berkel, Shane Edelman, Mary Gallagher, Haley Ramm, Forrest Landis

A nice film with enough suspense to keep you to your chair until the end. I am not saying that it’s perfect, but I am not going to say that it’s not. Imagine flying home with your children, relatives, friends and suddenly you realize that someone is missing. I personally wouldn’t want to go through it. I think the one thing that made this hole movie even more interesting is that she knew the plane inside and out.

The moral story of the movie? Personally I would say that don’t mess with people on a plane since you never know what they do for a living. ;)


May 4 2006

Doom

Directed by: Andrzej Bartkowiak

Genres: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Tagline: Hell Breaks Loose

Plot Outline: Based on the hit computer game about Marines sent to investigate what went wrong on a scientific research center on Mars where they face an evil unlike any other.

My Rating: 6 [rate 3]

Cast: Karl Urban, The Rock, Rosamund Pike, Dexter Fletcher, Ben Daniels, Al Weaver, Richard Brake, Yao Chin, Razaaq Adoti, Deobia Oparei, Brian Steele, Robert Russell, Daniel York, Ian Hughes, Sara Houghton

Nice film, a bit dark in the sense of not giving enough lighting to create suspense, mystery and make it more scary. Of course it didn’t work, because they only cared on making it dark enough so they could get away with some special effects.

Anyway, that’s just my opinion.


Apr 9 2006

King Kong

Directed by: Peter Jackson

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Tagline: The eighth wonder of the world.

Plot Outline: In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with leading lady Ann Darrow.

My Rating: 8.5 [rate 4]

Cast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Evan Parke, Jamie Bell, Lobo Chan, John Sumner, Craig Hall, Kyle Chandler, Bill Johnson, Mark Hadlow, Geraldine Brophy

I think that this version of King Kong was one that the digital effects really payed off. If you’ve seen previous versions of King Kong then you should see this one. If you didn’t then, what are you waiting for?


Mar 26 2006

Hostage

Directed by: Florent Emilio Siri

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Tagline: Would you sacrifice another family to save your own?

Plot Outline: A failed police negotiator turned small town cop, must save the lives of a family held hostage, which draws him into a much more dangerous situation.

My Rating: 6 [rate 3]

Cast: Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jimmy Bennett, Michelle Horn, Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker, Marshall Allman, Serena Scott Thomas, Rumer Willis, Kim Coates, Robert Knepper, Tina Lifford, Ransford Doherty, Marjean Holden, Michael D. Roberts

A former hostage negotiator, turned town sheriff, finds himself facing a past he would rather forget… A failed robbery leaves a family in a house containing incriminating evidence which would see a major crime lord do time. The sheriff must face the danger posed by the hostage takers and the gangsters who will stop at nothing to retrieve what is theirs.