Bone Collector is a 1999 drama-mystery-thriller feature film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. The film was based on a crime novel written by Jeffery Deaver, concerning the quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme. It was the first book of the Lincoln Rhyme series.
A quadriplegic ex-forensics specialist, Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) and a patrol police, Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie), team up to resolve a string of murders all linked to a serial murderer by his signature: a single shard of bone is removed from each of the sufferers. Rhyme is bed-ridden, but communicates with Amelia through phone as she examines the numerous crime sites and collects evidence and reports back to him. Lincoln is fully unmindful to Amelia's wonderful beautiful looks - they operate on a completely professional height, and Lincoln's almost gruesome fascination in her is based on her professionalism and knack for crime solving.
The executioner poses as a New York taxi driver, and kidnaps and kills those who get in his cab. The first two victims are a married couple named Alan and Lindsay Rubin, who get a taxi home but then find themselves captured by the executioner. Amelia finds Alan's body buried in a Civil War-era railroad bed. She also uncovers a piece of shellfish, which finally leads Amelia - working with Rhyme - to Alan's wife, and a piece of paper. The detectives find Mrs. Rubin, too late, at a steam junction in a below ground services region of a building in the financial district, secured using old handcuffs or shackles at the mouth of a pipe which emits steam. She has been burnt to death from the steam. The assassin has also removed a bit of flesh and bone from her arm. Amelia uncovers another scrap of paper at the scene.
The assassin then kidnaps an NYU undergraduate. He is taken to a derelict slaughterhouse where he is tied to a pole and gutted with a knife, and left for rats to feed on. Amelia and Rhyme, using the clue left by the killer at the sight of Lindsay Rubin's death, find the victim, but again too late to rescue him. Again, the assassin has took a piece of the victim's bone. Amelia is able to collect the data, including another scrap of paper. The stress of the tense inquiry and bureaucratic challenges to both Amelia's and Rhyme's involvement with the case are having grave impacts on Rhyme's health and stability.
chasing piecing together the message the murderer was sending using the scraps of paper, Amelia and Rhyme are led to an old book of short stories, which in turn leads them to the executioner's next victims, a grandfather and granddaughter tied to a pier as the tide rises. The girl is rescued, but her grandfather dies. At the scene, Amelia discovers another bone, an old police badge, and an old subway map. These clues, and an earlier hint left by the killer at the sight of Mrs Rubin's demise lead Amelia to an forsaken subway stop, in which Amelia sees some numbers which have been tampered with to spell out Rhyme's police badge number. Amelia then figures out that the bone collector is chasing Rhyme.
The bone collector comes at Rhyme's house, and chasing slaying Rhyme's nurse Thelma (Queen Latifah) and Captain Howard Cheney (Michael Rooker) it is revealed that he is the medical technician who cares for Rhyme's medical equipment. The technician, Richard Thompson (Leland Orser), is an ex-forensic cop who wants settle scores because in the past, Rhyme's evidence helped condemn the slayer of planting forged facts at crime scenes. The result is that Richard was brutalized in prison and his life ruined. Despite the helpless state he is in, Rhyme manages to jam Richard's hand by flapping his bed horizontal, and in effort to release himself, Richard pulls Rhyme with him and they both collapse to the floor. Rhyme then manages to bite Richard in the neck, causing huge bleeding. Richard once again manages to free himself, grabbing a big knife and about to finish off Rhyme, Amelia suddenly appears with a gun, killing him before he has a chance to deliver the fatal stab.
The picture ends at a Christmas celebration at Rhyme's apartment with his sister and niece coming to visit him along with Amelia, Dr. Barry Lehman (John Benjamin Hickey), Kenny Solomon (Mike McGlone), Paulie Sellitto (Ed O'Neill) and his family, Eddie Ortiz (Luis Guzman) and his mother, and Lincoln's new nurse.
It was released on 5th November, 1999. Based on 82 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, The Bone Collector has an average approval rating of 28%, with an average score of 4.2/10. It is like Pavement (2002, Darrell James Roodt).
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
OCEAN'S TWELVE
Ocean's Twelve is a 2004 comedy film that takes place after the events of Ocean's Eleven (2001), which was a remake of the 1960 picture of the same name. Like its predecessor, the film used a celebrity group cast.
Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) rounds up the eleven members of Danny Ocean's (George Clooney) mob, and threatens them in order to compel them to pay back the $160 million that they stole from his Vegas nightclub from their previous robbery, along with $38 million in interest, within two weeks. Collectively, the unit is less by nearly half, and is pushed to stage one more burglary to gather the resources. The unit pick a European aim as they are too good recognized in the United States. For their first aim, recommended by an informer named Matsui (Robbie Coltrane) the team goes after the world's oldest stock record issued by the Dutch East India Company in 1602. Kept in a private home in Amsterdam, the worth would not be adequate to clear up the debt, but sufficient to postpone their due date. While the unit is able to break the security of the house, including physically lifting the house to gain the correct line of sight to turn off the security codes, they find they have been packed down by one more main robber, François Toulour, also known as "The Night Fox" (Vincent Cassel). Toulour invites Danny to his home, and informs that it was he that tipped off Terry on Danny's nightclub robbery, due to being upset that his mentor Gaspar LeMarc (Albert Finney) has believed Danny was the world's best robber. Toulour bets Danny to see who could first thieve the Coronation Egg within the week, offering to pay off Terry's debt if Danny be the victor
As Danny's group prepares to steal the Egg during its display at a museum, Europol detective Agent Isabel Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who has long been on the trail of LeMarc and Toulour, finds the stealing of the stock record. She tries to relate the robbery to Danny's unit due to her previous courtship with Rusty (Brad Pitt) and begins to trail them. As such, many of the group are captured in their first effort to lift the Egg, leaving only Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), "Basher" Tarr (Don Cheadle), and Turk Malloy (Scott Caan) free. Linus comes up with a second plot, in which Danny's wife Tess (Julia Roberts) is to masquerade as a pregnant Julia Roberts as to allow them to get close to the Egg, but the group is inadvertently obstructed by the arrival of Bruce Willis (playing himself) who recognizes Tess is not the real Julia Roberts. While Lahiri prepares her case against Danny's team, they are banished by Linus's mother Mrs. Caldwell (Cherry Jones) posing as a U.S. official.
Danny and Tess come back to Toulour's estate at Lake Como in Italy, where he discloses his excitement at their destiny and that he had stolen the Egg at night using his alertness to sneak past the laser sensors. Danny informs Toulour that he still lost the bet. Danny explains that when they arrived in Europe, they were contacted by LeMarc and told of the plans to move the Egg from Paris to Rome by way of a non-descript carrier while a show of an official band was made. Danny's team was capable to change the courier's backpack during transit with a same looking one carrying a replica of the Egg with no note, thus stealing the Egg before it even went on display. Toulour is forced to admit his defeat and pays the balance due owed to Terry.
LeMarc discloses in a meeting with Danny and Rusty that he had been playing a long con. LeMarc wanted to humiliate Toulour by taunting him into the bet with Danny, as well as to regain custody of the Egg that he had stolen himself long ago, only relinquishing it due to his wife's nagging. LeMarc wanted to be reunited with his daughter, discovered to be Lahiri, which could only be done after Danny's team was banished. With Rusty's help, Lahiri is flown in to an emotional meeting with her father. The unit pays the money back to Terry, though under watch by Toulour, and then enjoys a private poker session, with Lahiri rejoining with Rusty.
The film was released in the United States on December 10, 2004. The film received halfhearted reviews overall, receiving a rating of 58% at Metacritic. Ocean's Twelve grossed about $125 million in the United States and $351,331,634 after its worldwide theatrical run, while Ocean's Eleven made about $184 million domestically and grossed $444,200,000 worldwide in its entire box office run.
Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) rounds up the eleven members of Danny Ocean's (George Clooney) mob, and threatens them in order to compel them to pay back the $160 million that they stole from his Vegas nightclub from their previous robbery, along with $38 million in interest, within two weeks. Collectively, the unit is less by nearly half, and is pushed to stage one more burglary to gather the resources. The unit pick a European aim as they are too good recognized in the United States. For their first aim, recommended by an informer named Matsui (Robbie Coltrane) the team goes after the world's oldest stock record issued by the Dutch East India Company in 1602. Kept in a private home in Amsterdam, the worth would not be adequate to clear up the debt, but sufficient to postpone their due date. While the unit is able to break the security of the house, including physically lifting the house to gain the correct line of sight to turn off the security codes, they find they have been packed down by one more main robber, François Toulour, also known as "The Night Fox" (Vincent Cassel). Toulour invites Danny to his home, and informs that it was he that tipped off Terry on Danny's nightclub robbery, due to being upset that his mentor Gaspar LeMarc (Albert Finney) has believed Danny was the world's best robber. Toulour bets Danny to see who could first thieve the Coronation Egg within the week, offering to pay off Terry's debt if Danny be the victor
As Danny's group prepares to steal the Egg during its display at a museum, Europol detective Agent Isabel Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who has long been on the trail of LeMarc and Toulour, finds the stealing of the stock record. She tries to relate the robbery to Danny's unit due to her previous courtship with Rusty (Brad Pitt) and begins to trail them. As such, many of the group are captured in their first effort to lift the Egg, leaving only Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), "Basher" Tarr (Don Cheadle), and Turk Malloy (Scott Caan) free. Linus comes up with a second plot, in which Danny's wife Tess (Julia Roberts) is to masquerade as a pregnant Julia Roberts as to allow them to get close to the Egg, but the group is inadvertently obstructed by the arrival of Bruce Willis (playing himself) who recognizes Tess is not the real Julia Roberts. While Lahiri prepares her case against Danny's team, they are banished by Linus's mother Mrs. Caldwell (Cherry Jones) posing as a U.S. official.
Danny and Tess come back to Toulour's estate at Lake Como in Italy, where he discloses his excitement at their destiny and that he had stolen the Egg at night using his alertness to sneak past the laser sensors. Danny informs Toulour that he still lost the bet. Danny explains that when they arrived in Europe, they were contacted by LeMarc and told of the plans to move the Egg from Paris to Rome by way of a non-descript carrier while a show of an official band was made. Danny's team was capable to change the courier's backpack during transit with a same looking one carrying a replica of the Egg with no note, thus stealing the Egg before it even went on display. Toulour is forced to admit his defeat and pays the balance due owed to Terry.
LeMarc discloses in a meeting with Danny and Rusty that he had been playing a long con. LeMarc wanted to humiliate Toulour by taunting him into the bet with Danny, as well as to regain custody of the Egg that he had stolen himself long ago, only relinquishing it due to his wife's nagging. LeMarc wanted to be reunited with his daughter, discovered to be Lahiri, which could only be done after Danny's team was banished. With Rusty's help, Lahiri is flown in to an emotional meeting with her father. The unit pays the money back to Terry, though under watch by Toulour, and then enjoys a private poker session, with Lahiri rejoining with Rusty.
The film was released in the United States on December 10, 2004. The film received halfhearted reviews overall, receiving a rating of 58% at Metacritic. Ocean's Twelve grossed about $125 million in the United States and $351,331,634 after its worldwide theatrical run, while Ocean's Eleven made about $184 million domestically and grossed $444,200,000 worldwide in its entire box office run.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
AVATAR
Avatar is a 2009 American science fiction movie written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang.
In the year 2154, the RDA corporation is mining Pandora, the blooming, Earthlike moon of the planet Polyphemus, in the Alpha Centauri system. Parker Selfridge, (Giovanni Ribisi), the administrator, employs former marines as mercenaries to impart safety. The humans aim to ill-use Pandora's reserves of unobtanium, a valuable mineral.
Pandora is occupied by the na'vi, a Paleolithic species of sapient humanoids with catlike personality. Physically mightier and some feet taller than humans, the blue-skinned indigenes live in agreement with Nature and venerate a mother goddess called Eywa.
Humans cannot inhale Pandora's air. In order to move in relation to Pandora open, human researchers have genetically manufactured human-na'vi hybrid bodies called Avatars, which are managed by genetically matched human operators. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic ex- marine, arrives on Pandora to replace his killed identical twin brother, an Avatar worker. Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), the head of the Avatar Program, thinks him an poor stand-in for his brother, relegating him to a bodyguard role.
While Jake is escorting Augustine and biologist Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore) in their Avatar forms, the group is assaulted by a big predator, and Jake becomes separated and helpless. Trying to survive the night in Pandora's hazardous jungles, he is rescued by Neytiri (Zoë Saldaña), a female na'vi, Neytiri gets Jake back to Hometree, which is inhabited by Neytiri's tribe, the Omaticaya. Mo'at, (C. C. H. Pounder), the na'vi shaman and Neytiri's mother, directs her to coach him their methods.
Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), the mercenary head of the armed forces, comes to know of Jake's love affair with the Omaticaya, and offers him to walk again in exchange for providing intelligence on the citizens and learning what it will take to make them forsake Hometree, which rests above a large deposit of unobtanium.
Through the next three months, Jake becomes intimate to Neytiri and the Omaticaya, and begins to prefer the life he lives in the Avatar. Jake's affection begins to corrode his loyalty towards the firm and the humans and when he is finally initiated into the clan, he and Neytiri choose each other as acquaintances. Jake's change of faithfulness is exposed when he disarms a bulldozer as it destroys the Tree of Voices; upon seeing this, Col. Quaritch forcibly detaches him from his Avatar, and presents Selfridge and Augustine with a vlog in which Jake had accepted that his operation was futile; that the humans had nothing the Omaticaya considered to be of value and that they would never leave Hometree. This convinces Selfridge that negotiations would be ineffective and he orders the demolition of Hometree by a military hit.
Augustine, whose experiments suggests that all organisms on Pandora are associated in a vast bio-botanical neural network, protests at the devastation of Hometree, but Selfridge persists, allowing Jake only one hour to influence the na'vi to depart before Col. Quaritch's army get there. When he reveals the true nature of his project to the Omaticaya, Neytiri accuses him of betraying them, which results in Jake and Augustine's brief confinement. Jake's time runs out and Quaritch's forces devastate Hometree. Eytucan (Wes Studi), Neytiri's father and race chief, and many others are killed in the attack. Jake and Augustine are once over again disconnected from their Avatars and held for betrayal against the humans. Trudy Chacon (Michelle Rodriguez), a safety force pilot who is sickened by the bloodshed, breaks them out but Augustine is wounded by the cruel Quaritch in the course of their escape. With Augustine in a grave state, Jake turns to the Omaticaya for help. Searching for a way to regain their faith, he recalls that Neytiri told him that only five na'vi had ever tamed the Toruk, an immensely powerful flying creature. productively taming it, he flies to the na'vis, who have gathered at the sacred Tree of Souls. He pleads with Mo'at to heal Augustine, who is now dying. They attempt to transplant her soul into her Avatar but fail.
With the help of Neytiri and Tsu'Tey (Laz Alonso), the new guide of the Omaticaya, Jake vows defiance against the humans, and assembles thousands of na'vi from other clans. Col. Quaritch, seeing the na'vi's rising force, directs a defensive strike on the Tree of Souls, as it is the center of na'vi religion and culture; its destruction would leave the na'vi too discouraged to continue resisting the humans. As the humans move against the holy site, the na'vi fight back fiercely, but human technology and firepower outweighs their gallantry; they suffer heavy fatalities, including Tsu'Tey and Trudy. When all hope seems alone, the Pandoran wildlife suddenly attacks the humans in great numbers.
Col. Quaritch directs the bombing of the Tree of Souls but Jake demolishes the bomber before it can reach its goal. Quaritch flees in an AMP (Amplified Mobility Platform) suit. He finds the Avatar interface pod, where Jake's human body is located, and strikes it, damaging it and exposing Jake to Pandora's atmosphere. Neytiri kills Quaritch and saves Jake, seeing his human form for the first time. With the human attack successfully repelled, they reaffirm their love for each other. The defeated humans are expelled from Pandora, while Jake and his friends remain. Jake is seen wearing the insignia of the Omaticaya race guide, suggesting that he has become the new chief after the death of Tsu'Tey. The movie ends with Jake's soul being fruitfully transplanted into his na'vi Avatar.
Avatar premiered in London on December 10, 2009, and was released theatrically worldwide from December 16 - 18. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 83% of 229 critics have given the feature film a positive review, with a rating average of 7.4 out of 10. The feature film earned $27 million on its opening day, and $77,025,481 over its opening weekend domestically, making it the second largest December opening ever, behind I Am Legend.
In the year 2154, the RDA corporation is mining Pandora, the blooming, Earthlike moon of the planet Polyphemus, in the Alpha Centauri system. Parker Selfridge, (Giovanni Ribisi), the administrator, employs former marines as mercenaries to impart safety. The humans aim to ill-use Pandora's reserves of unobtanium, a valuable mineral.
Pandora is occupied by the na'vi, a Paleolithic species of sapient humanoids with catlike personality. Physically mightier and some feet taller than humans, the blue-skinned indigenes live in agreement with Nature and venerate a mother goddess called Eywa.
Humans cannot inhale Pandora's air. In order to move in relation to Pandora open, human researchers have genetically manufactured human-na'vi hybrid bodies called Avatars, which are managed by genetically matched human operators. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic ex- marine, arrives on Pandora to replace his killed identical twin brother, an Avatar worker. Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), the head of the Avatar Program, thinks him an poor stand-in for his brother, relegating him to a bodyguard role.
While Jake is escorting Augustine and biologist Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore) in their Avatar forms, the group is assaulted by a big predator, and Jake becomes separated and helpless. Trying to survive the night in Pandora's hazardous jungles, he is rescued by Neytiri (Zoë Saldaña), a female na'vi, Neytiri gets Jake back to Hometree, which is inhabited by Neytiri's tribe, the Omaticaya. Mo'at, (C. C. H. Pounder), the na'vi shaman and Neytiri's mother, directs her to coach him their methods.
Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), the mercenary head of the armed forces, comes to know of Jake's love affair with the Omaticaya, and offers him to walk again in exchange for providing intelligence on the citizens and learning what it will take to make them forsake Hometree, which rests above a large deposit of unobtanium.
Through the next three months, Jake becomes intimate to Neytiri and the Omaticaya, and begins to prefer the life he lives in the Avatar. Jake's affection begins to corrode his loyalty towards the firm and the humans and when he is finally initiated into the clan, he and Neytiri choose each other as acquaintances. Jake's change of faithfulness is exposed when he disarms a bulldozer as it destroys the Tree of Voices; upon seeing this, Col. Quaritch forcibly detaches him from his Avatar, and presents Selfridge and Augustine with a vlog in which Jake had accepted that his operation was futile; that the humans had nothing the Omaticaya considered to be of value and that they would never leave Hometree. This convinces Selfridge that negotiations would be ineffective and he orders the demolition of Hometree by a military hit.
Augustine, whose experiments suggests that all organisms on Pandora are associated in a vast bio-botanical neural network, protests at the devastation of Hometree, but Selfridge persists, allowing Jake only one hour to influence the na'vi to depart before Col. Quaritch's army get there. When he reveals the true nature of his project to the Omaticaya, Neytiri accuses him of betraying them, which results in Jake and Augustine's brief confinement. Jake's time runs out and Quaritch's forces devastate Hometree. Eytucan (Wes Studi), Neytiri's father and race chief, and many others are killed in the attack. Jake and Augustine are once over again disconnected from their Avatars and held for betrayal against the humans. Trudy Chacon (Michelle Rodriguez), a safety force pilot who is sickened by the bloodshed, breaks them out but Augustine is wounded by the cruel Quaritch in the course of their escape. With Augustine in a grave state, Jake turns to the Omaticaya for help. Searching for a way to regain their faith, he recalls that Neytiri told him that only five na'vi had ever tamed the Toruk, an immensely powerful flying creature. productively taming it, he flies to the na'vis, who have gathered at the sacred Tree of Souls. He pleads with Mo'at to heal Augustine, who is now dying. They attempt to transplant her soul into her Avatar but fail.
With the help of Neytiri and Tsu'Tey (Laz Alonso), the new guide of the Omaticaya, Jake vows defiance against the humans, and assembles thousands of na'vi from other clans. Col. Quaritch, seeing the na'vi's rising force, directs a defensive strike on the Tree of Souls, as it is the center of na'vi religion and culture; its destruction would leave the na'vi too discouraged to continue resisting the humans. As the humans move against the holy site, the na'vi fight back fiercely, but human technology and firepower outweighs their gallantry; they suffer heavy fatalities, including Tsu'Tey and Trudy. When all hope seems alone, the Pandoran wildlife suddenly attacks the humans in great numbers.
Col. Quaritch directs the bombing of the Tree of Souls but Jake demolishes the bomber before it can reach its goal. Quaritch flees in an AMP (Amplified Mobility Platform) suit. He finds the Avatar interface pod, where Jake's human body is located, and strikes it, damaging it and exposing Jake to Pandora's atmosphere. Neytiri kills Quaritch and saves Jake, seeing his human form for the first time. With the human attack successfully repelled, they reaffirm their love for each other. The defeated humans are expelled from Pandora, while Jake and his friends remain. Jake is seen wearing the insignia of the Omaticaya race guide, suggesting that he has become the new chief after the death of Tsu'Tey. The movie ends with Jake's soul being fruitfully transplanted into his na'vi Avatar.
Avatar premiered in London on December 10, 2009, and was released theatrically worldwide from December 16 - 18. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 83% of 229 critics have given the feature film a positive review, with a rating average of 7.4 out of 10. The feature film earned $27 million on its opening day, and $77,025,481 over its opening weekend domestically, making it the second largest December opening ever, behind I Am Legend.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
THE LONGEST YARD
The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports comedy remake of the 1974 picture of the same name starring Adam Sandler, Burt Reynolds, Chris Rock, Nelly and Michael Irvin and directed by Peter Segal.
Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) is a former NFL player dishonored for shaving points in a big game, after a heated argument with his well-off girlfriend Lena (Courtney Cox) about his failure. He locks her in a cabinet, gets drunk, and goes riding in her Bentley Continental GT throughout San Diego. After completely damaging the car, he gets arrested for three years in Ellenville Penitentiary in Texas, as it was set by the jail's superintendent Hazen (James Cromwell).
In prison, the superintendent asks Paul to aid the jail guards' football team. After being reluctant a bit, Paul decides to assist him. He informs the superintendent that what his players needs is a tune-up match. This gives the warden an idea: Paul, with the help of fellow inmate Caretaker (Chris Rock), will make a team out of the prisoners for them to play as their tune-up match. He starts off with a poorly arranged team, before being noticed by another inmate, former football player Nate Scarborough (Reynolds), who decides to help him by coaching the players.
Paul, Nate, and Caretaker find a rating scheme on the criminals (up to five stars, depending on how prone to aggression they are). They all set out to find and employ some five star inmates: linebacker Joey Battle (Goldberg); fullback Turley (Singh Rana); and at safety, Torres (Lobo Sebastian). Paul realizes he needs more players. Caretaker suggests that it is due to their lack of "brothers", as they only have one currently on their team defensive lineman Switowski (Sapp), an brainless, child-like, and friendly but large strongman.They go to the black prisoners leader Deacon Moss (Irvin), who declares that none of them want to play on his players because of Paul's point-shaving account. So Paul challenges them to a 1 on 1 basketball game where if Paul wins, the men will join the team. They play basketball and call their own fouls, with Paul getting physically punished during the match. Despite Paul losing, one of the black inmates, Earl Megget (Nelly), is overwhelmed by Paul's flexibility and joins the players. Megget becomes the team's running back by impressing Paul with his running ability.
After a tip from Unger (David Patrick Kelly) that Paul and Megget are the only real offensive threats on the team, Captain Knauer (Fichtner), the guards' quarterback, decides that the guards should try to stop Megget by trying to get him to attack one of them and sticking them in lone captivity. Three guards Dunham (Austin), Garner (Bosworth) and Engelheart (Nash) try to irritate Megget by using racial slurs and making him pick up books they dropped on the ground frequently. The guards give up after he does not react to their nuisance. Seeing this, Moss and Cheeseburger Eddy (Crews), convince the rest of black prisoners to join the football team. The warden and guards go to extreme lengths to stop Paul's squad, even flooding their field, but the players overcomes these problems.
Caretaker advises that since the guards have been playing dirty that the prisoners should swap Engelheart's anabolic steroids for estrogen pills, examining x-rays of guards with broken bones, and stealing tapes of the guards older games. The guards Garner, Engelheart, Holland and Lambert (Romanowski) then make a decision to do something about Paul, and have Unger plant a bomb, cloaked as a radio, in his chamber. After the final day of preparation for the big game, Caretaker leaves early and places a gift for Paul in his chamber and accidentally sets off the bomb, and is killed in the explosion. During game day, the prisoners overcome a rough opening and end the first half with the score tied.
The superintendent is enraged, and informs Paul that if he doesn't lose then he would be framed for the murder of Caretaker. Paul says meanly, "Fine, but you get a 2 touchdown lead and you coast". The superintendent accepts to Paul's face, but he tells the guards' quarterback to get ahead by three touchdowns and inflict as much pain as possible. After the guards score two touchdowns (and Paul steps out faking injury), they start hurting players before scoring a third touchdown. After the guards injure two of the players, Paul goes back in. The prisoners pay no attention to Paul, letting him get sacked twice and forcing him to run the ball himself. After losing his helmet and still getting the first down, Paul accepts his interference and they rely on him again. They get back in it, but Megget gets hurt. Scarborough comes in for one play as replacement, and scores a touchdown off a trick play involving a drop called a Fumblerooski. They make a decision to go for the two point exchange, and they succeed. They get up to the line and seem to be baffled, and Paul and Coach opening arguing. The play is really a trap, and then Moss gets the snap and passes it to Paul, who scores the winning exchange. Finally Captain Knauer respects Paul's move and lets him know he will testify that Paul had nothing to do with Caretaker's death.
The superintendent comes over and begins to scold Captain Knauer for losing a fixed match and notices that Paul is heading towards the exit along with the fans. Pulling a sniper over, he asks that Paul be shot for attempting to escape. The sniper hesitates because of the many people near Paul, so the warden grabs the gun and passes it to Knauer, demanding that he should take the shot. Knauer sights up Paul, but is reluctant, calling out Paul's name a number of times to get him to stay. Paul does stop, but he was actually going to pick up the ball and head back. Knauer furiously hands the rifle back to the warden and exits. Paul and Scarborough head back towards the locker room and agree that they should tell the others where Unger is hiding. As the superintendent watches them leave, Moss and Battle pour a cooler of Gatorade on Hazen in a mockery of a typical football game celebration
It was released on March 27, 2005. The film did well at the box office. Its $47.6 million dollar opening weekend was the largest of Sandler's career and only second to The Day After Tomorrow. It was rated 4.8/10 from 162 reviews counted by Rotten Tomatoes.
Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) is a former NFL player dishonored for shaving points in a big game, after a heated argument with his well-off girlfriend Lena (Courtney Cox) about his failure. He locks her in a cabinet, gets drunk, and goes riding in her Bentley Continental GT throughout San Diego. After completely damaging the car, he gets arrested for three years in Ellenville Penitentiary in Texas, as it was set by the jail's superintendent Hazen (James Cromwell).
In prison, the superintendent asks Paul to aid the jail guards' football team. After being reluctant a bit, Paul decides to assist him. He informs the superintendent that what his players needs is a tune-up match. This gives the warden an idea: Paul, with the help of fellow inmate Caretaker (Chris Rock), will make a team out of the prisoners for them to play as their tune-up match. He starts off with a poorly arranged team, before being noticed by another inmate, former football player Nate Scarborough (Reynolds), who decides to help him by coaching the players.
Paul, Nate, and Caretaker find a rating scheme on the criminals (up to five stars, depending on how prone to aggression they are). They all set out to find and employ some five star inmates: linebacker Joey Battle (Goldberg); fullback Turley (Singh Rana); and at safety, Torres (Lobo Sebastian). Paul realizes he needs more players. Caretaker suggests that it is due to their lack of "brothers", as they only have one currently on their team defensive lineman Switowski (Sapp), an brainless, child-like, and friendly but large strongman.They go to the black prisoners leader Deacon Moss (Irvin), who declares that none of them want to play on his players because of Paul's point-shaving account. So Paul challenges them to a 1 on 1 basketball game where if Paul wins, the men will join the team. They play basketball and call their own fouls, with Paul getting physically punished during the match. Despite Paul losing, one of the black inmates, Earl Megget (Nelly), is overwhelmed by Paul's flexibility and joins the players. Megget becomes the team's running back by impressing Paul with his running ability.
After a tip from Unger (David Patrick Kelly) that Paul and Megget are the only real offensive threats on the team, Captain Knauer (Fichtner), the guards' quarterback, decides that the guards should try to stop Megget by trying to get him to attack one of them and sticking them in lone captivity. Three guards Dunham (Austin), Garner (Bosworth) and Engelheart (Nash) try to irritate Megget by using racial slurs and making him pick up books they dropped on the ground frequently. The guards give up after he does not react to their nuisance. Seeing this, Moss and Cheeseburger Eddy (Crews), convince the rest of black prisoners to join the football team. The warden and guards go to extreme lengths to stop Paul's squad, even flooding their field, but the players overcomes these problems.
Caretaker advises that since the guards have been playing dirty that the prisoners should swap Engelheart's anabolic steroids for estrogen pills, examining x-rays of guards with broken bones, and stealing tapes of the guards older games. The guards Garner, Engelheart, Holland and Lambert (Romanowski) then make a decision to do something about Paul, and have Unger plant a bomb, cloaked as a radio, in his chamber. After the final day of preparation for the big game, Caretaker leaves early and places a gift for Paul in his chamber and accidentally sets off the bomb, and is killed in the explosion. During game day, the prisoners overcome a rough opening and end the first half with the score tied.
The superintendent is enraged, and informs Paul that if he doesn't lose then he would be framed for the murder of Caretaker. Paul says meanly, "Fine, but you get a 2 touchdown lead and you coast". The superintendent accepts to Paul's face, but he tells the guards' quarterback to get ahead by three touchdowns and inflict as much pain as possible. After the guards score two touchdowns (and Paul steps out faking injury), they start hurting players before scoring a third touchdown. After the guards injure two of the players, Paul goes back in. The prisoners pay no attention to Paul, letting him get sacked twice and forcing him to run the ball himself. After losing his helmet and still getting the first down, Paul accepts his interference and they rely on him again. They get back in it, but Megget gets hurt. Scarborough comes in for one play as replacement, and scores a touchdown off a trick play involving a drop called a Fumblerooski. They make a decision to go for the two point exchange, and they succeed. They get up to the line and seem to be baffled, and Paul and Coach opening arguing. The play is really a trap, and then Moss gets the snap and passes it to Paul, who scores the winning exchange. Finally Captain Knauer respects Paul's move and lets him know he will testify that Paul had nothing to do with Caretaker's death.
The superintendent comes over and begins to scold Captain Knauer for losing a fixed match and notices that Paul is heading towards the exit along with the fans. Pulling a sniper over, he asks that Paul be shot for attempting to escape. The sniper hesitates because of the many people near Paul, so the warden grabs the gun and passes it to Knauer, demanding that he should take the shot. Knauer sights up Paul, but is reluctant, calling out Paul's name a number of times to get him to stay. Paul does stop, but he was actually going to pick up the ball and head back. Knauer furiously hands the rifle back to the warden and exits. Paul and Scarborough head back towards the locker room and agree that they should tell the others where Unger is hiding. As the superintendent watches them leave, Moss and Battle pour a cooler of Gatorade on Hazen in a mockery of a typical football game celebration
It was released on March 27, 2005. The film did well at the box office. Its $47.6 million dollar opening weekend was the largest of Sandler's career and only second to The Day After Tomorrow. It was rated 4.8/10 from 162 reviews counted by Rotten Tomatoes.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
LOST IN SPACE
Lost in Space is a 1998 picture produced by New Line Cinema, starring William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, Matt LeBlanc, Gary Oldman, Jack Johnson, and Lacey Chabert, and is an version of the 1965-1968 CBS TV sequence Lost In space.
In the year 2058, Earth will be not fit to live in after the unalterable effects of pollution. The United Global space Force serves as the planetary government. Professor John Robinson, main scientist of the Jupiter project, will lead his family to the livable planet Alpha Prime to prepare it for colonization by building a hyper gate in orbit. The Jupiter 2 is equipped with a hyper drive that allows faster-than-light trip, which will be employed to vacate the people of Earth. However hyper gates must be constructed on Earth and Alpha Prime to provide steady points of departure and arrival. The mission is accelerated. Major Don West, a fighter steer from the hyper gate defense force is unwillingly drafted as the new steer of the Jupiter mission.
The Robinson family is having troubles of its own. John has been neglecting his family due to his work. His second daughter, Penny is a rebel teenager who doesn't want to go away from earth, Will, the youngest and only son, is a sharp boy (he builds a "time machine").
Dr. Zachary Smith, the Doctor overseeing the Robinson's health conditions for the journey, is bribed by the Global Sedition to disrupt the project via reprogramming the Jupiter 2's robot's commands to "Sixteen hours in commission destroy Robinson family. Destroy all systems". However before Smith can escape, he is ditched by his employers. The launch goes ahead without any problems. The Robinsons and Major West go into cryostasis before lift off.
Dr. Smith wakes up to realize the ship has taken off and the robot comes online and after damaging of several systems, Will is able to disable the robot. The sabotage causes the ship to swerve towards the sun. Major West and Professor Robinson decide to fly through the sun, using the ship's hyper drive without a hyper gate to distort through, the ship and its crew end up in a random (and apparently uncharted) part of the galaxy. Dr. Smith is immediately confined. Upon arrival, they come across a hole in space. Major West takes the Jupiter 2 into the hole, against John's instructions, where the crew comes across the Proteus, an Earth ship from the future. Attached to the ship is an unidentified, deserted alien ship except for a innocent, child-like alien life form. All soon discovers the ship has been infected with carnivorous and cannibalistic silicon-based spider-like life forms. Amidst the battle to flee the ship, a blast destroys the Jupiter 2, and they crash-land on the nearby planet.
On the planet, they find a feed source in the middle of a huge bubble. Professor Robinson and Major West realize it is in fact an area of time distortion where alternate future versions of Dr. Smith and Will have constructed a time machine, power-driven by their Jupiter 2's power core, and are to Earth before time to check the family from getting lost in the first place. Will (armed) and Smith both enters the bubble in search for Robinson and West, Smith having manipulated Will into thinking that the two adults are in danger. When Smith and Will come across the future Jupiter, Smith disarms Will through further manipulation and both enter the future Jupiter and controls the robot, via the remote he lifted from the Proteus. They are all betrayed by the future Smith, who is revealed to have changed into a huge space spider/human fusion as a result of the spider scratch he received on the Proteus. He knocks the human Dr. Smith unconscious, and imprisons the Robinsons and West.
West and Prof. Robinson plan an flee but Will frees the robot by removing the remote, while the rest of the group with the lifeless Dr. Smith head back to the Jupiter 2 of their time.The alternate Will soon discovers that he repressed reminiscences of Smith killing all the women and alters the time portal's size, limiting the size of a "man" that can enter. Smith then tells his plan to go back in time to Earth and spread his spider race across the Earth. Robinson soon fights Spider Smith, while Major West returns to the other Jupiter 2, without the power source, to try to empty the other Robinsons. Will fruitfully stops Spider Smith by slashing him across the face with a dagger and sticking it into the egg sac on his back, causing the baby spiders to come out and start eating Spider Smith. Spider Smith dies when Robinson kicks him into the time machine's field while it is too small for his giant form, killing him.
The family tries to flee, but the time bubble has made the planet unstable, and it is fiercely breaking apart. As a result of not retrieving more power core, the ship still does not have enough power to reach escape velocity. The marooned John Robinson watches as the Jupiter 2 is hit by remains and explodes in the sky. Future Will realizes his father loves his family, and lets John use the time portal and trip back in time to the Jupiter 2 just before it launched from his planet. The power core could only feed one journey back through time, and Future Will stays behind, wishing his family luck. Instead of trying to escape into the surroundings, John commands West to steer the ship through the planet's core as it is breaking up, enabling them to use the planet's gravity to thrust the ship through the other side. They escape, but the collapsed planet forms gravity well that begins to suck in the Jupiter 2. Once again the Robinsons must start the hyper drive; however, this time they are able to aim Alpha Prime using data downloaded from the Proteus' more detailed star charts. The film ends with the Robinsons and West activating the hyper drive, carrying the ship to Alpha Prime.
It was released on April 3, 1998. Reviews were generally negative for Lost in space, with a 25% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is like Supernova (2000, Thomas Lee). It was rated PG13 for some intense sci-fi action.
In the year 2058, Earth will be not fit to live in after the unalterable effects of pollution. The United Global space Force serves as the planetary government. Professor John Robinson, main scientist of the Jupiter project, will lead his family to the livable planet Alpha Prime to prepare it for colonization by building a hyper gate in orbit. The Jupiter 2 is equipped with a hyper drive that allows faster-than-light trip, which will be employed to vacate the people of Earth. However hyper gates must be constructed on Earth and Alpha Prime to provide steady points of departure and arrival. The mission is accelerated. Major Don West, a fighter steer from the hyper gate defense force is unwillingly drafted as the new steer of the Jupiter mission.
The Robinson family is having troubles of its own. John has been neglecting his family due to his work. His second daughter, Penny is a rebel teenager who doesn't want to go away from earth, Will, the youngest and only son, is a sharp boy (he builds a "time machine").
Dr. Zachary Smith, the Doctor overseeing the Robinson's health conditions for the journey, is bribed by the Global Sedition to disrupt the project via reprogramming the Jupiter 2's robot's commands to "Sixteen hours in commission destroy Robinson family. Destroy all systems". However before Smith can escape, he is ditched by his employers. The launch goes ahead without any problems. The Robinsons and Major West go into cryostasis before lift off.
Dr. Smith wakes up to realize the ship has taken off and the robot comes online and after damaging of several systems, Will is able to disable the robot. The sabotage causes the ship to swerve towards the sun. Major West and Professor Robinson decide to fly through the sun, using the ship's hyper drive without a hyper gate to distort through, the ship and its crew end up in a random (and apparently uncharted) part of the galaxy. Dr. Smith is immediately confined. Upon arrival, they come across a hole in space. Major West takes the Jupiter 2 into the hole, against John's instructions, where the crew comes across the Proteus, an Earth ship from the future. Attached to the ship is an unidentified, deserted alien ship except for a innocent, child-like alien life form. All soon discovers the ship has been infected with carnivorous and cannibalistic silicon-based spider-like life forms. Amidst the battle to flee the ship, a blast destroys the Jupiter 2, and they crash-land on the nearby planet.
On the planet, they find a feed source in the middle of a huge bubble. Professor Robinson and Major West realize it is in fact an area of time distortion where alternate future versions of Dr. Smith and Will have constructed a time machine, power-driven by their Jupiter 2's power core, and are to Earth before time to check the family from getting lost in the first place. Will (armed) and Smith both enters the bubble in search for Robinson and West, Smith having manipulated Will into thinking that the two adults are in danger. When Smith and Will come across the future Jupiter, Smith disarms Will through further manipulation and both enter the future Jupiter and controls the robot, via the remote he lifted from the Proteus. They are all betrayed by the future Smith, who is revealed to have changed into a huge space spider/human fusion as a result of the spider scratch he received on the Proteus. He knocks the human Dr. Smith unconscious, and imprisons the Robinsons and West.
West and Prof. Robinson plan an flee but Will frees the robot by removing the remote, while the rest of the group with the lifeless Dr. Smith head back to the Jupiter 2 of their time.The alternate Will soon discovers that he repressed reminiscences of Smith killing all the women and alters the time portal's size, limiting the size of a "man" that can enter. Smith then tells his plan to go back in time to Earth and spread his spider race across the Earth. Robinson soon fights Spider Smith, while Major West returns to the other Jupiter 2, without the power source, to try to empty the other Robinsons. Will fruitfully stops Spider Smith by slashing him across the face with a dagger and sticking it into the egg sac on his back, causing the baby spiders to come out and start eating Spider Smith. Spider Smith dies when Robinson kicks him into the time machine's field while it is too small for his giant form, killing him.
The family tries to flee, but the time bubble has made the planet unstable, and it is fiercely breaking apart. As a result of not retrieving more power core, the ship still does not have enough power to reach escape velocity. The marooned John Robinson watches as the Jupiter 2 is hit by remains and explodes in the sky. Future Will realizes his father loves his family, and lets John use the time portal and trip back in time to the Jupiter 2 just before it launched from his planet. The power core could only feed one journey back through time, and Future Will stays behind, wishing his family luck. Instead of trying to escape into the surroundings, John commands West to steer the ship through the planet's core as it is breaking up, enabling them to use the planet's gravity to thrust the ship through the other side. They escape, but the collapsed planet forms gravity well that begins to suck in the Jupiter 2. Once again the Robinsons must start the hyper drive; however, this time they are able to aim Alpha Prime using data downloaded from the Proteus' more detailed star charts. The film ends with the Robinsons and West activating the hyper drive, carrying the ship to Alpha Prime.
It was released on April 3, 1998. Reviews were generally negative for Lost in space, with a 25% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is like Supernova (2000, Thomas Lee). It was rated PG13 for some intense sci-fi action.
Monday, December 21, 2009
RAMBO
Rambo is a 2008 action picture starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam veteran John Rambo. Stallone also co-wrote and directed the feature film. It is the fourth installment of the Rambo series. This feature film is devoted to the remembrance of Richard Crenna, who played Col. Sam Trautman.
Burma is under the iron-fisted rule of Than Shwe and takes severe stances against the nation's pro-democracy movement. Rebels are thrown into a mine-infested marsh and then gunned down by the Tatmadaw.
Former U.S. combatant John Rambo lives in a village near the Burmese border line. He makes a living capturing snakes and selling them in a close by village. He also transports roamers in his boat. A missionary, Michael Burnett (Paul Schulze), asks Rambo to take him and his associates up the Salween River to Burma on a humanitarian mission to give aid to Karen tribespeople. Rambo is reluctant but is won over by Sarah Miller (Julie Benz) to take them.
The boat is stopped by pirates who exact Sarah in exchange for passage, which Rambo knows will lead to her rape, torment and most likely death of all on the boat. After negotiations fail, Rambo kills them all. Although his motives save the missionaries, it deeply hurts them. Upon arrival, Michael says that they will go by road and will not need Rambo's assistance for the return trip. The mission goes well until the Tatmadaw, led by Major Tint, attack. They kill most of the villagers and two missionaries and capture the rest, including Michael and Sarah. When the missionaries fail to come back after ten days, their pastor (Ken Howard) comes to ask Rambo's support in guiding hired mercenaries to the village where the missionaries were last seen.
Rambo agrees to escort the armed forces. After seeing the destroyed village, they plan to rescue the hostages at a camp. The Tatmadaw unit finds the hostages gone and organizes a massive manhunt. Everyone except for Rambo, Sarah, and the mercenary School Boy is abducted. Just as the group is about to be killed, Rambo hijacks a truck-mounted with machine guns. Karen rebels join Rambo and the armed force to win. Confident by Sarah's words, Rambo comes back to the United States.
It was released on January 25, 2008. It was the second highest grossing movie for the weekend in the U.S. and Canada behind Meet the Spartans. It earned a 37% rating on movie review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes.
Burma is under the iron-fisted rule of Than Shwe and takes severe stances against the nation's pro-democracy movement. Rebels are thrown into a mine-infested marsh and then gunned down by the Tatmadaw.
Former U.S. combatant John Rambo lives in a village near the Burmese border line. He makes a living capturing snakes and selling them in a close by village. He also transports roamers in his boat. A missionary, Michael Burnett (Paul Schulze), asks Rambo to take him and his associates up the Salween River to Burma on a humanitarian mission to give aid to Karen tribespeople. Rambo is reluctant but is won over by Sarah Miller (Julie Benz) to take them.
The boat is stopped by pirates who exact Sarah in exchange for passage, which Rambo knows will lead to her rape, torment and most likely death of all on the boat. After negotiations fail, Rambo kills them all. Although his motives save the missionaries, it deeply hurts them. Upon arrival, Michael says that they will go by road and will not need Rambo's assistance for the return trip. The mission goes well until the Tatmadaw, led by Major Tint, attack. They kill most of the villagers and two missionaries and capture the rest, including Michael and Sarah. When the missionaries fail to come back after ten days, their pastor (Ken Howard) comes to ask Rambo's support in guiding hired mercenaries to the village where the missionaries were last seen.
Rambo agrees to escort the armed forces. After seeing the destroyed village, they plan to rescue the hostages at a camp. The Tatmadaw unit finds the hostages gone and organizes a massive manhunt. Everyone except for Rambo, Sarah, and the mercenary School Boy is abducted. Just as the group is about to be killed, Rambo hijacks a truck-mounted with machine guns. Karen rebels join Rambo and the armed force to win. Confident by Sarah's words, Rambo comes back to the United States.
It was released on January 25, 2008. It was the second highest grossing movie for the weekend in the U.S. and Canada behind Meet the Spartans. It earned a 37% rating on movie review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
PAPER HEART
Paper Heart is 2009 American film starring Charlyne Yi and Michael. The name "hybrid documentary" was made by the filmmakers to explain the blend of fiction and non-fiction substance in the feature film. The plot for the feature film is based on Charlyne Yi's first idea of a documentary, which Nick Jasenovec suggested would be accentuated with a fictional storyline. It is written and directed by Nicholas Jasenovec.
The film follows Charlyne as she embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one and only matter she doesn't fully comprehend, considering her complete understanding of all subjects except one: love. As she and her good friend. Nick hunt for answers and advice about love, Charlyne talks with friends, strangers, scientists, bikers, romance novelists, and children. They each offer diverse views on present day romance, as well as numerous answers to the age-old question: does true love really subsist?As the movie begins, Charlyne meets a young man Michael Cera. As their courtship begins, her chase to discover the nature of love takes on a fresh new need. Charlyne doesn't want to risk losing the person she finds closest to her heart.
It was released on 7th August 2009. Paper Heart received mixed reviews by critics and currently holds a 61% new rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is similar to Juno (2007, Jason Reitman, Joe Drake). One can grab the first DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can see for released.
The film follows Charlyne as she embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one and only matter she doesn't fully comprehend, considering her complete understanding of all subjects except one: love. As she and her good friend. Nick hunt for answers and advice about love, Charlyne talks with friends, strangers, scientists, bikers, romance novelists, and children. They each offer diverse views on present day romance, as well as numerous answers to the age-old question: does true love really subsist?As the movie begins, Charlyne meets a young man Michael Cera. As their courtship begins, her chase to discover the nature of love takes on a fresh new need. Charlyne doesn't want to risk losing the person she finds closest to her heart.
It was released on 7th August 2009. Paper Heart received mixed reviews by critics and currently holds a 61% new rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is similar to Juno (2007, Jason Reitman, Joe Drake). One can grab the first DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can see for released.
Friday, December 11, 2009
TRANSYLMANIA
Transylmania is a 2009 mystery/farce sequel to the 2006 comedy National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2, the film is directed by the brothers David and Scott Hillenbrand and written by Patrick Casey and Worm Miller, starring Patrick Cavanaugh, James DeBello,
Tony Denman, Musetta Vander, Jennifer Lyons, Oren Skoog, Paul H. Kim, David Steinberg and Irena A. Hoffman
A group of American high school students tour to Romania on an international studies program, only to find that the strange legends surrounding this odd land are all too real. Oren Skoog and Patrick Cavanaugh headline this horror parody skewering every ogre movie formula possible. The group does a semester abroad in Romania and find that if the celebrating doesn't kill them, the vampires might kill them.
It was released on 4th Dec. The picture currently holds a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, receiving not one positive review. The film received very poor response from the critics and the box office, making it one of the biggest flops of 2009. It is similar to Scary Movie 2 (2001, Keenen Ivory Wayans). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free movies online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for free.
Tony Denman, Musetta Vander, Jennifer Lyons, Oren Skoog, Paul H. Kim, David Steinberg and Irena A. Hoffman
A group of American high school students tour to Romania on an international studies program, only to find that the strange legends surrounding this odd land are all too real. Oren Skoog and Patrick Cavanaugh headline this horror parody skewering every ogre movie formula possible. The group does a semester abroad in Romania and find that if the celebrating doesn't kill them, the vampires might kill them.
It was released on 4th Dec. The picture currently holds a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, receiving not one positive review. The film received very poor response from the critics and the box office, making it one of the biggest flops of 2009. It is similar to Scary Movie 2 (2001, Keenen Ivory Wayans). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free movies online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for free.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
EVERYBODY'S FINE
Everybody's Fine is a remake of the Giuseppe Tornatore movie Stanno Tutti Bene that is written and directed by Kirk Jones and stars Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale.
Eight months after his wife's demise, a widower's kids all of a sudden cancel a visit to him that weekend. He decides to see all his four kids, discovering that their lives are not perfect. After visiting his physician and being cautioned about his health, Frank Goode (Robert De Niro) goes to New York, and sits on his son David's doorstep. David never comes, but Frank sees one of David's paintings in an art gallery. He slips an envelope under David's door.
Then he visits his daughter Amy (Kate Beckinsale), who says it's not a good time to visit. The next morning, Frank goes with Amy to her lavish office and hears her agency's pitch for a TV ad. She takes him to the bus station to see Robert.
As Frank travels to each of his kids's homes, the film cuts to phone conversations between the siblings. David is in some type of problem in Mexico, and Amy is going there to find out what is going on; the sisters and Robert (Sam Rockwell) agree to not tell their father about David until they know the fact.
Frank arrives in Denver expecting to see Robert perform the orchestra. It turns out Robert is only a percussionist. He also says Frank's visit is at a bad time, so within hours Frank goes to Las Vegas to meet Rosie (Drew Barrymore). Frank is adamant that each visit is a surprise, but Robert calls Rosie to caution her.
Frank is harassed by a assailant who destroys Frank's prescription tablets. Frank manages to escape and scrapes up some of the trampled tablets. He has a dream that his son David is in jail.
He arrives in Las Vegas. Rosie picks him up in a stretch limo and tells him she was in a big show that just ended. She takes him to her elegant apartment, where her friend brings over a child for last-minute babysitting. Frank overhears a message being left on an answering machine, indicating the apartment is borrowed from Rosie's friend. He is not happy, knowing all his children are lying to him.
Frank flies back home without his tablets when he has a heart attack in the toilet. Frank has another vision of his kids as young kids; in the vision, he knows Amy's husband has left for another woman and Rosie's friend's child is really Rosie's kid. The kids and their mother always kept the unpleasant truth from Frank. While Frank thought he was encouraging his kids, they thought he was pressuring them and would be let down in how their lives really turned out. Then in the hospital, where he wakes up in bed with Amy, Robert, and Rosie standing there. They inform him David has died.
Frank goes back to New York to buy David's painting but it has already been sold, the gallery sells him another painting by David that is more appropriate to him, a landscape showing PVC-covered power lines (Frank made PVC-covered cable for years). He visits his wife's tomb and talks to her.
The feature film opened on December 4, 2009. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 47% of critics gave the picture positive reviews based on 85 reviews with an average score of 5.3/10. It is a version of Everybody's Fine (1990, Giuseppe Tornatore)
Eight months after his wife's demise, a widower's kids all of a sudden cancel a visit to him that weekend. He decides to see all his four kids, discovering that their lives are not perfect. After visiting his physician and being cautioned about his health, Frank Goode (Robert De Niro) goes to New York, and sits on his son David's doorstep. David never comes, but Frank sees one of David's paintings in an art gallery. He slips an envelope under David's door.
Then he visits his daughter Amy (Kate Beckinsale), who says it's not a good time to visit. The next morning, Frank goes with Amy to her lavish office and hears her agency's pitch for a TV ad. She takes him to the bus station to see Robert.
As Frank travels to each of his kids's homes, the film cuts to phone conversations between the siblings. David is in some type of problem in Mexico, and Amy is going there to find out what is going on; the sisters and Robert (Sam Rockwell) agree to not tell their father about David until they know the fact.
Frank arrives in Denver expecting to see Robert perform the orchestra. It turns out Robert is only a percussionist. He also says Frank's visit is at a bad time, so within hours Frank goes to Las Vegas to meet Rosie (Drew Barrymore). Frank is adamant that each visit is a surprise, but Robert calls Rosie to caution her.
Frank is harassed by a assailant who destroys Frank's prescription tablets. Frank manages to escape and scrapes up some of the trampled tablets. He has a dream that his son David is in jail.
He arrives in Las Vegas. Rosie picks him up in a stretch limo and tells him she was in a big show that just ended. She takes him to her elegant apartment, where her friend brings over a child for last-minute babysitting. Frank overhears a message being left on an answering machine, indicating the apartment is borrowed from Rosie's friend. He is not happy, knowing all his children are lying to him.
Frank flies back home without his tablets when he has a heart attack in the toilet. Frank has another vision of his kids as young kids; in the vision, he knows Amy's husband has left for another woman and Rosie's friend's child is really Rosie's kid. The kids and their mother always kept the unpleasant truth from Frank. While Frank thought he was encouraging his kids, they thought he was pressuring them and would be let down in how their lives really turned out. Then in the hospital, where he wakes up in bed with Amy, Robert, and Rosie standing there. They inform him David has died.
Frank goes back to New York to buy David's painting but it has already been sold, the gallery sells him another painting by David that is more appropriate to him, a landscape showing PVC-covered power lines (Frank made PVC-covered cable for years). He visits his wife's tomb and talks to her.
The feature film opened on December 4, 2009. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 47% of critics gave the picture positive reviews based on 85 reviews with an average score of 5.3/10. It is a version of Everybody's Fine (1990, Giuseppe Tornatore)
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
UP IN THE AIR
Up in the Air is a 2009 American humorous-drama movie directed by Jason Reitman and co-written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner. It is a feature film adaptation of the 2001 book, Up in the Air, written by Walter Kirn. The story is about a corporate cut back in his travels and obeys his solitary life and philosophies, along with the people that he meets along the way. It casts George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick and Melanie Lynskey.
George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man who travels around the country to terminate company workers.Walter Kirn avowed in the film's press notes: "Ryan is like a masseur who comes in and sort of rubs your shoulders while rolling your desk chair into the elevator." Ocassionally he delivers motivational speeches about the pro of a lonely life. He relishes the coziness of being anonymous during his perpetual travels. He does not have a personal life. His company chooses to ground him and keep him at the corporate H.Q. in Omaha, Nebraska. When his superior hires haughty young Natalie, she develops a method of video conferencing that will allow termination without ever leaving the office - essentially bullying the existence Ryan so cherishes. Confident to show the immature girl the error of her logic, Ryan takes her on one of his cross country firing expeditions, but as she starts to realize the frightening realities of her career, he starts to see the downfall to his way of life.
There was a limited release of this picture on 4th December 2009. The movie at present holds 89% 'Fresh' Rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 105 reviews, 93 of which are fresh, and 12 rotten. It is alike Jerry Maguire (1996, Cameron Crowe) The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man who travels around the country to terminate company workers.Walter Kirn avowed in the film's press notes: "Ryan is like a masseur who comes in and sort of rubs your shoulders while rolling your desk chair into the elevator." Ocassionally he delivers motivational speeches about the pro of a lonely life. He relishes the coziness of being anonymous during his perpetual travels. He does not have a personal life. His company chooses to ground him and keep him at the corporate H.Q. in Omaha, Nebraska. When his superior hires haughty young Natalie, she develops a method of video conferencing that will allow termination without ever leaving the office - essentially bullying the existence Ryan so cherishes. Confident to show the immature girl the error of her logic, Ryan takes her on one of his cross country firing expeditions, but as she starts to realize the frightening realities of her career, he starts to see the downfall to his way of life.
There was a limited release of this picture on 4th December 2009. The movie at present holds 89% 'Fresh' Rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 105 reviews, 93 of which are fresh, and 12 rotten. It is alike Jerry Maguire (1996, Cameron Crowe) The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
Monday, December 7, 2009
ARMORED
Armored is a 2009 American crime suspense movie directed by Nimród Antal, written by first-time writer James V. Simpson, and starring Matt Dillon, Jean Reno and Laurence Fishburne.
Ty Hackett, a war hero, having bagged the Silver Star in Iraq (Columbus Short) is getting ready for work. He wakes up his younger brother, Jimmy (Andre Kinney), to get ready for high school. Ty is picked up by Mike Cochrone (Matt Dillon), and they carpool to work at the Eagle Shield Armored Truck Co.
Ty, Mike and Baines (Laurence Fishburne) go to a bank. They pick up the cash and on the way back, Baines notices a black van speeding towards them. The van stops, and cloaked men get out and attach an explosive machine on the back of the armored truck. Ty is scared and braces for the outburst, which turns out to be just a bottle rocket. Mike and Baines cackle hysterically, and the men take off their hoods: it was Ty's final test and now he is a full-fledged guard. The guys go out for drinks to celebrate.
While drinking, they tell him a story about a hijacked armored truck in Abilene years ago where they got away with $4 million; the thieves were never caught and the cash was never found. At work, Ty asks Ashcroft for more shifts; he is in trouble of losing his house to the bank. While they are driving, Mike talks again about the Abilene heist, and tells him that he thinks it was a false that the guards took the money.
At a hot dog stand, where local Sheriff Eckehart (Milo Ventimiglia) is there, Mike tells Ty that tomorrow they will most likely be carrying $42 million in their truck. Mike tells him that the other four guys on the team are in, and they are going to jack the entire $42 million, and sham they were really hijacked. Ty is in ordeal at the plan of robbing the firm and refuses a ride, and runs the whole way home.
Once home, Ty is met by a lady from Child Protective Services. Jimmy has missed more school than he's attended, and she is of opinion of putting him in further care, especially when she hears they may lose the home. The next morning, Mike is at the bus stop and waits for Ty, but he never does. In the locker room, suddenly Ty shows up and makes Mike promise that no one will be injured. Mike swears.The two trucks go the bank, and each has three agents: one team is Mike, Baines and Ty, and the other truck has Quinn (Jean Reno), Palmer (Amaury Nolasco), and Dobbs (Skeet Ulrich). The money is divided into the two trucks, while be guarded by powerfully armed guards. The two trucks drive off and radio in at the checkpoint. Ashcroft OK's the position and expects them in 51 minutes.
The trucks pull into an deserted steel mill, which is next to electrical transformers and they lose radio contact due to interference. Inside, they put it in duffel bags and then down deep in one of the smokestacks. They see an old homeless man move past a window, and chase him but he leaps off the barrier in a worried leap of faith. Ty rushes down and drags him towards a truck. Baines shoots the homeless man in the back. Ty is angry. Mike is angry at Baines for shooting him, but comes to know they had no other choice. Ty runs to one of the trucks, and locks himself in. Mike takes the other truck and follows him in a high-speed chase through the steel mill. Mike finally gets ahead and rams Ty's truck. The trucks crash. Ty turns on the siren, and Mike fumbles with the hood and then pulls out the fuse, turning off the alarm bell.
Meanwhile Sheriff Eckehart hears a faded siren, and goes Mike and the gang realize Ty isn't coming out, and they only have 40 minutes left, so they conspire to hit the bolts on the hinges of the armored truck's back doors. They will kill Ty and tell the cops he died a hero trying to stop the hijacking. They begin hitting the thick steel hinges. Ty whispers to Dobbs while the others are striking the hinge, and gets him to help him. Dobbs attempts to get the fuse from the other truck to give to Ty, and Baines catches him. He beats up Dobbs and then pours gas all over the engine. But Mike stops him. Palmer then stabs Dobbs.
Sheriff Eckehart drives around the lot, and loses radio contact. Before he can enter the building, Mike comes out, and tells him he is the security guard for the property and also the handyman.Ty makes an effort to hook up the siren, it sounds, and Baines fires the sheriff with his gun. While they are distracted with the sheriff, Ty sneaks out of the truck and lights the heap of stolen money on fire with a flare, and runs back. The guys run to the money, and Ty takes the sheriff to the armored truck and locks him in with himself. Without saying anything, Quinn drives the other truck away.While Quinn is gone, Ty sticks dollar bills all over the windows so they can't see in, and he sneaks out with the sheriff's radio, to go to the roof and try to get a signal. He does and gets a call out.
Quinn comes back with Jimmy, who he has kidnapped. Mike threatens to shoot Jimmy in the head, and so Ty opens the truck doors. After a long effort Ty wins over Mike and then Ty regains consciousness in the hospital. Ashcroft walks out, and tells Ty that Sheriff Eckehart explained all that Ty did to save him, and he mentions there might even be a prize.
It was released on December 4, 2009. The movie received mixed to positive reviews, getting a 57% (fresh) rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The cinematography of Andrzej Sekula (whose work also appears in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction) helps capture that mood, according to Scott.
Ty Hackett, a war hero, having bagged the Silver Star in Iraq (Columbus Short) is getting ready for work. He wakes up his younger brother, Jimmy (Andre Kinney), to get ready for high school. Ty is picked up by Mike Cochrone (Matt Dillon), and they carpool to work at the Eagle Shield Armored Truck Co.
Ty, Mike and Baines (Laurence Fishburne) go to a bank. They pick up the cash and on the way back, Baines notices a black van speeding towards them. The van stops, and cloaked men get out and attach an explosive machine on the back of the armored truck. Ty is scared and braces for the outburst, which turns out to be just a bottle rocket. Mike and Baines cackle hysterically, and the men take off their hoods: it was Ty's final test and now he is a full-fledged guard. The guys go out for drinks to celebrate.
While drinking, they tell him a story about a hijacked armored truck in Abilene years ago where they got away with $4 million; the thieves were never caught and the cash was never found. At work, Ty asks Ashcroft for more shifts; he is in trouble of losing his house to the bank. While they are driving, Mike talks again about the Abilene heist, and tells him that he thinks it was a false that the guards took the money.
At a hot dog stand, where local Sheriff Eckehart (Milo Ventimiglia) is there, Mike tells Ty that tomorrow they will most likely be carrying $42 million in their truck. Mike tells him that the other four guys on the team are in, and they are going to jack the entire $42 million, and sham they were really hijacked. Ty is in ordeal at the plan of robbing the firm and refuses a ride, and runs the whole way home.
Once home, Ty is met by a lady from Child Protective Services. Jimmy has missed more school than he's attended, and she is of opinion of putting him in further care, especially when she hears they may lose the home. The next morning, Mike is at the bus stop and waits for Ty, but he never does. In the locker room, suddenly Ty shows up and makes Mike promise that no one will be injured. Mike swears.The two trucks go the bank, and each has three agents: one team is Mike, Baines and Ty, and the other truck has Quinn (Jean Reno), Palmer (Amaury Nolasco), and Dobbs (Skeet Ulrich). The money is divided into the two trucks, while be guarded by powerfully armed guards. The two trucks drive off and radio in at the checkpoint. Ashcroft OK's the position and expects them in 51 minutes.
The trucks pull into an deserted steel mill, which is next to electrical transformers and they lose radio contact due to interference. Inside, they put it in duffel bags and then down deep in one of the smokestacks. They see an old homeless man move past a window, and chase him but he leaps off the barrier in a worried leap of faith. Ty rushes down and drags him towards a truck. Baines shoots the homeless man in the back. Ty is angry. Mike is angry at Baines for shooting him, but comes to know they had no other choice. Ty runs to one of the trucks, and locks himself in. Mike takes the other truck and follows him in a high-speed chase through the steel mill. Mike finally gets ahead and rams Ty's truck. The trucks crash. Ty turns on the siren, and Mike fumbles with the hood and then pulls out the fuse, turning off the alarm bell.
Meanwhile Sheriff Eckehart hears a faded siren, and goes Mike and the gang realize Ty isn't coming out, and they only have 40 minutes left, so they conspire to hit the bolts on the hinges of the armored truck's back doors. They will kill Ty and tell the cops he died a hero trying to stop the hijacking. They begin hitting the thick steel hinges. Ty whispers to Dobbs while the others are striking the hinge, and gets him to help him. Dobbs attempts to get the fuse from the other truck to give to Ty, and Baines catches him. He beats up Dobbs and then pours gas all over the engine. But Mike stops him. Palmer then stabs Dobbs.
Sheriff Eckehart drives around the lot, and loses radio contact. Before he can enter the building, Mike comes out, and tells him he is the security guard for the property and also the handyman.Ty makes an effort to hook up the siren, it sounds, and Baines fires the sheriff with his gun. While they are distracted with the sheriff, Ty sneaks out of the truck and lights the heap of stolen money on fire with a flare, and runs back. The guys run to the money, and Ty takes the sheriff to the armored truck and locks him in with himself. Without saying anything, Quinn drives the other truck away.While Quinn is gone, Ty sticks dollar bills all over the windows so they can't see in, and he sneaks out with the sheriff's radio, to go to the roof and try to get a signal. He does and gets a call out.
Quinn comes back with Jimmy, who he has kidnapped. Mike threatens to shoot Jimmy in the head, and so Ty opens the truck doors. After a long effort Ty wins over Mike and then Ty regains consciousness in the hospital. Ashcroft walks out, and tells Ty that Sheriff Eckehart explained all that Ty did to save him, and he mentions there might even be a prize.
It was released on December 4, 2009. The movie received mixed to positive reviews, getting a 57% (fresh) rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The cinematography of Andrzej Sekula (whose work also appears in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction) helps capture that mood, according to Scott.
Friday, December 4, 2009
KUNG FU HUSTLE
Kung Fu Hustle is a 2004 Hong Kong action comedy movie directed and produced by, and starring Stephen Chow. Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Danny Chan Kwok Kwan and Bruce Leung co-starred in leading roles.
In the 1940s numerous gangs in Shanghai vie for power, the most feared of which is The Axe gang, led by the notorious Brother Sum. In the dearth of law enforcement, people live peacefully only in poor areas which do not charm mobsters. An example is Pig Sty Alley, a tenement home to people of various trades, administered by a lecherous landlord and his overbearing wife. One day, two troublemakers, Sing and Bone, come to the alley impersonating Axe gang members in order to command respect. This fails miserably and Sing's antics draw the real gang to the site. In the massive scuffle, the mobsters are conquered by three tenants who are in fact great martial arts masters: Coolie, Tailor and Donut.
After the war, Sing and Bone are in custody of Brother Sum for bringing problem and publicly embarrassing the Axe mob. The two barely escape death when Sing impresses Sum with his lock picking talent. Sum tells them that if they slay just one one, they will be accepted to join the mob. The next day the twosome goes to Pig Sty Alley to assassinate the Landlady, but foolishly fail due to incompetence. The two part ways and barely escape from the furious Landlady. Sing is awfully injured and works off his injuries in traffic control pulpit, he pounds the steel sides and floor with great force, deforming the solid metal with deep handprints. After he has fully recovered, he rejoins Bone but has no memory of his puzzling cure.
Sing and Bone lament their failure and Sing describes his childhood. He spent his measly life savings to buy a Buddhist Palm instruction booklet from a beggar He practiced his skills, but when he tried to protect a dumb girl from bullies attempting to steal her lollipop, he is beaten and urinated on. Sing concludes that good guys never succeed and decides to become a bad person. Then the duo steal ice cream from a street hawker, laughing maniacally as they escape from her on a tram.
Angered by his mob's defeat, Brother Sum hires the Harpists, a pair of skilled assassins who clash using a magical Guqin. They strike Pig Sty Alley at night as Coolie, Tailor and Donut are preparing to leave, having been driven out for upsetting the mob. The three are swiftly plagued, prompting the landlord and Landlady, discovered to be Kungfu masters, to intervene. Although the assassins and the Axe gang are driven off, the three evictees bear deadly wounds. The Coolie is decapitated, the Tailor dies from severe stab wounds, and Donut dies from a sustained injury. The proprietor and Landlady empty Pig Sty Alley out of concern for their tenants' safety.
The following day, after being humiliated and pummeled by a clerk he had previously antagonized, Sing mugs the female ice cream vendor from the earlier sight. She is discovered to be the mute girl from his childhood whom he had vainly tried to defend. He recognizes the old lollipop she offers him as a gesture of her thanks, but becomes upset, refusing her and scolding Bone. Later, while despairing in the gutter, he is picked up by the Axe mob and joins their ranks. Brother Sum, having earlier witnessed Sing's ability to swiftly pick locks, directs him to slip into a mental refuge to rescue a notorious executioner, the Beast, the Ultimate King of killers.
Brother Sum is firstly doubtful that Sing has freed the right man because of the Beast's flippant approach and casual look, but is eventually influenced when he stops a bullet between his fingertips. Immediately afterward, the Beast approaches the landowner and Landlady, who have come to Sum's casino. Landlady tells that the good cannot coexist with the bad, changing Sing for the better. The Beast, landowner and Landlady then engage in intense clash and, using a massive funeral bell as a megaphone to magnify the Landlady's Lion's Roar, the couple nearly defeats the more powerful Beast. His desperate move, however, successfully pins them in mutual joint locks. Sing, stimulated by his newfound virtuous personality, approaches the Beast and smashes his head with a table leg. The Beast furiously retaliates, pulverizing Sing. Fortunately, Sing is spirited away to safety by the landowner and Landlady when the Beast's back is turned. The Beast casually murders Brother Sum.
Back in the Alley, Sing, wrapped head-to-toe in bandages and treated with Chinese medicine, undergoes transmutation. He swiftly recovers from his wounds, and his latent ability as a Kung Fu gift is realized. He engages the Axe gang and the Beast, fending off the gangsters with ease. However, the Beast's Toad Technique sends Sing flailing high into the sky, where Sing realizes how to exert the Buddhist Palm and dives back downwards with his palm extended and body ablaze. He creates a giant hand-shaped crater in the ground and easily subdues the Beast's last move. The Beast concedes beat, and Sing tranquilly offers to make the Beast his student; weeping in appreciation, he kneels at Sing's feet and calls him "master".
Later, Sing and Bone open a candy store that specializes in lollipops. When the mute ice cream vendor walks by, Sing goes out to meet her. The two see each other as their childhood selves and managed happily into the shop. Outside, the same beggar who sold Sing the Buddhist Palm manual offers a selection of martial arts manuals to a boy eating a lollipop.
The feature film was released on December 23, 2004 in China and on January 25, 2005 in United States. It received extremely positive reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 90% fresh certificate. Its box office tally made it the highest-grossing feature film in Hong Kong history, surpassing the previous record holder, Chow's Shaolin Soccer.
In the 1940s numerous gangs in Shanghai vie for power, the most feared of which is The Axe gang, led by the notorious Brother Sum. In the dearth of law enforcement, people live peacefully only in poor areas which do not charm mobsters. An example is Pig Sty Alley, a tenement home to people of various trades, administered by a lecherous landlord and his overbearing wife. One day, two troublemakers, Sing and Bone, come to the alley impersonating Axe gang members in order to command respect. This fails miserably and Sing's antics draw the real gang to the site. In the massive scuffle, the mobsters are conquered by three tenants who are in fact great martial arts masters: Coolie, Tailor and Donut.
After the war, Sing and Bone are in custody of Brother Sum for bringing problem and publicly embarrassing the Axe mob. The two barely escape death when Sing impresses Sum with his lock picking talent. Sum tells them that if they slay just one one, they will be accepted to join the mob. The next day the twosome goes to Pig Sty Alley to assassinate the Landlady, but foolishly fail due to incompetence. The two part ways and barely escape from the furious Landlady. Sing is awfully injured and works off his injuries in traffic control pulpit, he pounds the steel sides and floor with great force, deforming the solid metal with deep handprints. After he has fully recovered, he rejoins Bone but has no memory of his puzzling cure.
Sing and Bone lament their failure and Sing describes his childhood. He spent his measly life savings to buy a Buddhist Palm instruction booklet from a beggar He practiced his skills, but when he tried to protect a dumb girl from bullies attempting to steal her lollipop, he is beaten and urinated on. Sing concludes that good guys never succeed and decides to become a bad person. Then the duo steal ice cream from a street hawker, laughing maniacally as they escape from her on a tram.
Angered by his mob's defeat, Brother Sum hires the Harpists, a pair of skilled assassins who clash using a magical Guqin. They strike Pig Sty Alley at night as Coolie, Tailor and Donut are preparing to leave, having been driven out for upsetting the mob. The three are swiftly plagued, prompting the landlord and Landlady, discovered to be Kungfu masters, to intervene. Although the assassins and the Axe gang are driven off, the three evictees bear deadly wounds. The Coolie is decapitated, the Tailor dies from severe stab wounds, and Donut dies from a sustained injury. The proprietor and Landlady empty Pig Sty Alley out of concern for their tenants' safety.
The following day, after being humiliated and pummeled by a clerk he had previously antagonized, Sing mugs the female ice cream vendor from the earlier sight. She is discovered to be the mute girl from his childhood whom he had vainly tried to defend. He recognizes the old lollipop she offers him as a gesture of her thanks, but becomes upset, refusing her and scolding Bone. Later, while despairing in the gutter, he is picked up by the Axe mob and joins their ranks. Brother Sum, having earlier witnessed Sing's ability to swiftly pick locks, directs him to slip into a mental refuge to rescue a notorious executioner, the Beast, the Ultimate King of killers.
Brother Sum is firstly doubtful that Sing has freed the right man because of the Beast's flippant approach and casual look, but is eventually influenced when he stops a bullet between his fingertips. Immediately afterward, the Beast approaches the landowner and Landlady, who have come to Sum's casino. Landlady tells that the good cannot coexist with the bad, changing Sing for the better. The Beast, landowner and Landlady then engage in intense clash and, using a massive funeral bell as a megaphone to magnify the Landlady's Lion's Roar, the couple nearly defeats the more powerful Beast. His desperate move, however, successfully pins them in mutual joint locks. Sing, stimulated by his newfound virtuous personality, approaches the Beast and smashes his head with a table leg. The Beast furiously retaliates, pulverizing Sing. Fortunately, Sing is spirited away to safety by the landowner and Landlady when the Beast's back is turned. The Beast casually murders Brother Sum.
Back in the Alley, Sing, wrapped head-to-toe in bandages and treated with Chinese medicine, undergoes transmutation. He swiftly recovers from his wounds, and his latent ability as a Kung Fu gift is realized. He engages the Axe gang and the Beast, fending off the gangsters with ease. However, the Beast's Toad Technique sends Sing flailing high into the sky, where Sing realizes how to exert the Buddhist Palm and dives back downwards with his palm extended and body ablaze. He creates a giant hand-shaped crater in the ground and easily subdues the Beast's last move. The Beast concedes beat, and Sing tranquilly offers to make the Beast his student; weeping in appreciation, he kneels at Sing's feet and calls him "master".
Later, Sing and Bone open a candy store that specializes in lollipops. When the mute ice cream vendor walks by, Sing goes out to meet her. The two see each other as their childhood selves and managed happily into the shop. Outside, the same beggar who sold Sing the Buddhist Palm manual offers a selection of martial arts manuals to a boy eating a lollipop.
The feature film was released on December 23, 2004 in China and on January 25, 2005 in United States. It received extremely positive reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 90% fresh certificate. Its box office tally made it the highest-grossing feature film in Hong Kong history, surpassing the previous record holder, Chow's Shaolin Soccer.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
EAGLE EYE
Eagle Eye is a 2008 action/thriller picture directed by D. J. Caruso and starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan. The two portray a young man and a single mother who are brought together and coerced by an unnamed caller into carrying out a plot by a possible terrorist group.
The United States armed forces have a lead on a supposed terrorist in the Middle East, but as the man is a outsider, getting a positive ID proves difficult, and the DoD's computer system recommends that the venture be aborted. The Secretary of Defense (Michael Chiklis) agrees with the abort approval, but the President orders the project be carried out anyway. This turns into a political criticism when all of the victims turn out to be civilians, and retaliatory suicide bombings intent US general public in response.
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) is a Stanford University failure who is out of way and faces monetary trouble. He realizes that his more ambitious twin brother Ethan, an Air Force lieutenant with expertise in parallel algorithms and quantum electronics, is dead. After the funeral in January 2009, he goes to take out some money from an ATM and is surprised to see that he has $750,000 in his bank account. When he comes back home, he locates his apartment filled with a large amount of arms, explosives, and forged documents. He receives a phone call from an unidentified woman, who explains that the FBI will apprehend him in thirty seconds and that he must escape.
Not believing her, he is arrested by the FBI and sent to an interrogation room where he meets Special Agent Thomas Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton). When Morgan leaves the room to meet with Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agent Zoe Perez (Rosario Dawson), the mysterious woman arranges Jerry's escape over a phone and has him join up with single mother Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan). The unknown woman is coercing Rachel into assisting Jerry by menacing to assassinate her son, Sam, a trumpet player on his way to Washington, D.C., from Chicago for a band recital.
The woman helps the duo to avoid the Chicago Police and FBI units, representing the ability to remotely control virtually any networked machine, such as traffic lights, cell phones, computerized cranes, and even electrical wires. While Jerry and Rachel obey her directives, the woman has other 'agents' create a crystal explosive made into a necklace and its sound-based trigger placed inside Sam's trumpet. They reach a Circuit City electronics shop to which the woman instructs them. Over some television screens she introduces herself to them: she is undercover supercomputer called "Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst" (ARIIA) programmed with gathering intelligence from all over the world.
Because of the mistake made by the President at the, Ariia decided that the executive branch is a danger to the public good and must be eliminated. Ariia plans to destroy the President's cabinet, and calls this Operation Guillotine. She has decided to leave the Secretary of Defense, who had agreed with its proposal to abort the project, as the descendant to the presidency. Ariia does not disclose this to Jerry or Rachel, simply explaining that she is helping the citizens of the United States.
At the Pentagon, where Ariia is housed, Agent Perez discovers that Ethan worked as a technician for the computer and locked it down to stop Ariia from carrying out her plot. Perez warns the Secretary of Defense and they converse the situation in a sealed room to check Ariia from hearing their chat. Jerry and Rachel arrive at the Pentagon and are led to the supercomputer, where Ariia forces Jerry to impersonate Ethan and use his own biometrics to dominate the lockdown, letting her to go ahead with the plan.
Ariia shows Jerry CCTV footage displaying Ethan's untreatable car crash, explaining that she orchestrated his demise because he was a threat to her intentions. Ariia then instructs Rachel to eliminate Jerry to check the lock from being reinstated, but Rachel cannot do it. Rachel is led out of the building by Ariia while Jerry is caught by Agent Morgan. Having been cautioned by Agent Perez, Morgan believes Jerry's tale and takes him to the United States Capitol. Ariia sends a MQ-9 Reaper UCAV after them. They hardly escape the drone's first pass, and Agent Morgan sacrifices himself to eliminate the drone and save Jerry. Meanwhile, Agent Perez returns to the supercomputer and destroys it.
Rachel is unintentionally given the explosive necklace by an official who was also coerced by Ariia and sent to watch the President's speech. Sam's class, whose recital has been moved from the Kennedy Center to the Capitol for the President's State of the Union Address, starts to play. The trigger that will set off the explosive necklace is set to activate when Sam plays a sustained "high F" on his trumpet corresponding to the word "free" in the last verse of the U.S. national anthem. Jerry enters, dressed as a Capitol policeman and shoots into the air, hindering the feat and emptying the room. Jerry is then shot numerous times by a Secret Service agent, who is uninformed of the Jerry's actions.
In a trial, the Secretary of Defense urges that any more supercomputer should not be built, he warns them. Ethan receives the Medal of Honor while Jerry, wounded but alive and well, receives the Congressional Gold Medal.
It was released on September 26, 2008.As of November 29, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 27% of critics gave the film clear reviews based on 159 reviews. It is like The Game (1997, David Fincher).
The United States armed forces have a lead on a supposed terrorist in the Middle East, but as the man is a outsider, getting a positive ID proves difficult, and the DoD's computer system recommends that the venture be aborted. The Secretary of Defense (Michael Chiklis) agrees with the abort approval, but the President orders the project be carried out anyway. This turns into a political criticism when all of the victims turn out to be civilians, and retaliatory suicide bombings intent US general public in response.
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) is a Stanford University failure who is out of way and faces monetary trouble. He realizes that his more ambitious twin brother Ethan, an Air Force lieutenant with expertise in parallel algorithms and quantum electronics, is dead. After the funeral in January 2009, he goes to take out some money from an ATM and is surprised to see that he has $750,000 in his bank account. When he comes back home, he locates his apartment filled with a large amount of arms, explosives, and forged documents. He receives a phone call from an unidentified woman, who explains that the FBI will apprehend him in thirty seconds and that he must escape.
Not believing her, he is arrested by the FBI and sent to an interrogation room where he meets Special Agent Thomas Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton). When Morgan leaves the room to meet with Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agent Zoe Perez (Rosario Dawson), the mysterious woman arranges Jerry's escape over a phone and has him join up with single mother Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan). The unknown woman is coercing Rachel into assisting Jerry by menacing to assassinate her son, Sam, a trumpet player on his way to Washington, D.C., from Chicago for a band recital.
The woman helps the duo to avoid the Chicago Police and FBI units, representing the ability to remotely control virtually any networked machine, such as traffic lights, cell phones, computerized cranes, and even electrical wires. While Jerry and Rachel obey her directives, the woman has other 'agents' create a crystal explosive made into a necklace and its sound-based trigger placed inside Sam's trumpet. They reach a Circuit City electronics shop to which the woman instructs them. Over some television screens she introduces herself to them: she is undercover supercomputer called "Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst" (ARIIA) programmed with gathering intelligence from all over the world.
Because of the mistake made by the President at the, Ariia decided that the executive branch is a danger to the public good and must be eliminated. Ariia plans to destroy the President's cabinet, and calls this Operation Guillotine. She has decided to leave the Secretary of Defense, who had agreed with its proposal to abort the project, as the descendant to the presidency. Ariia does not disclose this to Jerry or Rachel, simply explaining that she is helping the citizens of the United States.
At the Pentagon, where Ariia is housed, Agent Perez discovers that Ethan worked as a technician for the computer and locked it down to stop Ariia from carrying out her plot. Perez warns the Secretary of Defense and they converse the situation in a sealed room to check Ariia from hearing their chat. Jerry and Rachel arrive at the Pentagon and are led to the supercomputer, where Ariia forces Jerry to impersonate Ethan and use his own biometrics to dominate the lockdown, letting her to go ahead with the plan.
Ariia shows Jerry CCTV footage displaying Ethan's untreatable car crash, explaining that she orchestrated his demise because he was a threat to her intentions. Ariia then instructs Rachel to eliminate Jerry to check the lock from being reinstated, but Rachel cannot do it. Rachel is led out of the building by Ariia while Jerry is caught by Agent Morgan. Having been cautioned by Agent Perez, Morgan believes Jerry's tale and takes him to the United States Capitol. Ariia sends a MQ-9 Reaper UCAV after them. They hardly escape the drone's first pass, and Agent Morgan sacrifices himself to eliminate the drone and save Jerry. Meanwhile, Agent Perez returns to the supercomputer and destroys it.
Rachel is unintentionally given the explosive necklace by an official who was also coerced by Ariia and sent to watch the President's speech. Sam's class, whose recital has been moved from the Kennedy Center to the Capitol for the President's State of the Union Address, starts to play. The trigger that will set off the explosive necklace is set to activate when Sam plays a sustained "high F" on his trumpet corresponding to the word "free" in the last verse of the U.S. national anthem. Jerry enters, dressed as a Capitol policeman and shoots into the air, hindering the feat and emptying the room. Jerry is then shot numerous times by a Secret Service agent, who is uninformed of the Jerry's actions.
In a trial, the Secretary of Defense urges that any more supercomputer should not be built, he warns them. Ethan receives the Medal of Honor while Jerry, wounded but alive and well, receives the Congressional Gold Medal.
It was released on September 26, 2008.As of November 29, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 27% of critics gave the film clear reviews based on 159 reviews. It is like The Game (1997, David Fincher).
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
THE TWILIGHT SAGA : NEW MOON
New Moon (marketed as The Twilight Saga: New Moon) is a 2009 American romantic fantasy movie. It is based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer and is the sequel to 2008's Twilight. It is directed by Chris Weitz, the feature film casts Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, reprising their roles as Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and Jacob Black, respectively.
On her 18th birthday, Bella Swan wakes up from a dream in which she sees herself as an old lady. She tells her distaste to becoming older than her boyfriend Edward Cullen, a vampire who stopped aging at 17. Edward's family throws Bella a birthday bash. While opening a gift, Bella gets a paper cut, which causes Edward's adoptive brother, Jasper, to be overwhelmed by her blood's odor and makes an effort to kill her. Understanding the hazard he and his family pose to Bella, Edward decides to break up, and the Cullens move away from Forks, Washington.
Edward's exit leaves Bella dejected and miserable for months. However, when her father, Charlie, attempts to send her to live with her mother, Bella accepts to spend time with her friends. After seeing a picture with Jessica, Bella sees a crowd of men who prompt her of a time when Edward saved her previously, and she is stunned to see a vision of Edward alerting her against approaching them. Bella finds that all thrill-seeking behavior allow her visions of Edward. She also finds relief in her deepening friendship with Jacob Black, a jovial friend who soothes her disturbance over losing Edward. Bella then finds that Jacob is a werewolf. After learning that the vampire Victoria is searching for Bella, Jacob's gang members begin continuous patrols, giving Jacob little time for Bella. Alone, Bella returns to seeking thrill-inducing activities.
A series of misunderstandings leads Edward to think that Bella has committed suicide while cliff-diving. Distressed over her believed suicide, Edward flees to Italy to stir the Volturi, a powerful coven of vampires who are capable of killing him. Alice, Edward's adoptive sister. Bella rushes to Italy to save Edward, and save him in time. But, the Volturi decide that Bella, a human being who knows that vampires live, must either be murdered or changed into a vampire herself. Alice stops them from murder her by showing them a vision of the future in which Bella has been changed. Once they return home to Forks, Edward tells Bella that he has always loved her and only left town to protect her. She forgives him, and the Cullens vote in favor of Bella being changed into a vampire, to Edward's dismay. But, Edward gives Bella a choice: either she lets Alice change her after their graduation, or, if Bella accepts to wed him, he will change her himself.
The feature film was released on November 20, 2009 in most countries, and set domestic box office records as the biggest midnight screening with US$26.3 million surpassing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Based on 174 reviews collected by the movie aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, New Moon has received a "Rotten" rating of 29%, with a weighted average score of 4.7 out of 10.
On her 18th birthday, Bella Swan wakes up from a dream in which she sees herself as an old lady. She tells her distaste to becoming older than her boyfriend Edward Cullen, a vampire who stopped aging at 17. Edward's family throws Bella a birthday bash. While opening a gift, Bella gets a paper cut, which causes Edward's adoptive brother, Jasper, to be overwhelmed by her blood's odor and makes an effort to kill her. Understanding the hazard he and his family pose to Bella, Edward decides to break up, and the Cullens move away from Forks, Washington.
Edward's exit leaves Bella dejected and miserable for months. However, when her father, Charlie, attempts to send her to live with her mother, Bella accepts to spend time with her friends. After seeing a picture with Jessica, Bella sees a crowd of men who prompt her of a time when Edward saved her previously, and she is stunned to see a vision of Edward alerting her against approaching them. Bella finds that all thrill-seeking behavior allow her visions of Edward. She also finds relief in her deepening friendship with Jacob Black, a jovial friend who soothes her disturbance over losing Edward. Bella then finds that Jacob is a werewolf. After learning that the vampire Victoria is searching for Bella, Jacob's gang members begin continuous patrols, giving Jacob little time for Bella. Alone, Bella returns to seeking thrill-inducing activities.
A series of misunderstandings leads Edward to think that Bella has committed suicide while cliff-diving. Distressed over her believed suicide, Edward flees to Italy to stir the Volturi, a powerful coven of vampires who are capable of killing him. Alice, Edward's adoptive sister. Bella rushes to Italy to save Edward, and save him in time. But, the Volturi decide that Bella, a human being who knows that vampires live, must either be murdered or changed into a vampire herself. Alice stops them from murder her by showing them a vision of the future in which Bella has been changed. Once they return home to Forks, Edward tells Bella that he has always loved her and only left town to protect her. She forgives him, and the Cullens vote in favor of Bella being changed into a vampire, to Edward's dismay. But, Edward gives Bella a choice: either she lets Alice change her after their graduation, or, if Bella accepts to wed him, he will change her himself.
The feature film was released on November 20, 2009 in most countries, and set domestic box office records as the biggest midnight screening with US$26.3 million surpassing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Based on 174 reviews collected by the movie aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, New Moon has received a "Rotten" rating of 29%, with a weighted average score of 4.7 out of 10.
Monday, November 23, 2009
NINJA ASSASSIN
Ninja Assassin is an upcoming martial arts film directed by James McTeigue and starring Rain and Naomie Harris. The film was produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers.
It is a story of a competent assassin who was taught by a legendary secret society, and patiently waits for the day he will take revenge of the death of his good friend. Swept off the streets as a little boy, Raizo (Korean pop star Rain) is transformed into an unstoppable killing machine by a confidential society known as the Ozunu Clan. The Ozunu Clan is so adept at keeping their survival a secret that most people think they are only a story, but the moment Ozuno assassins slay Raizo's friend, their days in the darkness are numbered. In the aftermath of that murder, Raizo stages a heroic escape, subsequently biding his time until the day he can take the complete Ozunu Clan down.
Later on, in Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) finds a cash trail involving numerous political murders to a strange network of indescribable assassins from the Far East. While her chief Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles) commands Mika to back down and stop asking questions, she quietly begins searching throughout classified agency files on a unyielding venture to unearth the reality about the murders. Singled out as a goal as a direct result of her analysis, Mika is marked for death by lethal Ozunu assassin Takeshi (Rick Yune). Just as Mika is about to be silenced forever, Raizo saves her from certain demise. But Raizo knows that Takeshi and the rest of the Ozuno Clan won't stop until he and Mika are both dead. Now, as Raizo and Mika are sought through the meandering streets of Europe, their only faith for existance is to rely on one another and stay alive long enough to bring the Ozunu empire crumbling to the ground.
The feature film is scheduled to be released on November 25, 2009.It is alike Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino). It is rated R for violence and language.
It is a story of a competent assassin who was taught by a legendary secret society, and patiently waits for the day he will take revenge of the death of his good friend. Swept off the streets as a little boy, Raizo (Korean pop star Rain) is transformed into an unstoppable killing machine by a confidential society known as the Ozunu Clan. The Ozunu Clan is so adept at keeping their survival a secret that most people think they are only a story, but the moment Ozuno assassins slay Raizo's friend, their days in the darkness are numbered. In the aftermath of that murder, Raizo stages a heroic escape, subsequently biding his time until the day he can take the complete Ozunu Clan down.
Later on, in Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) finds a cash trail involving numerous political murders to a strange network of indescribable assassins from the Far East. While her chief Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles) commands Mika to back down and stop asking questions, she quietly begins searching throughout classified agency files on a unyielding venture to unearth the reality about the murders. Singled out as a goal as a direct result of her analysis, Mika is marked for death by lethal Ozunu assassin Takeshi (Rick Yune). Just as Mika is about to be silenced forever, Raizo saves her from certain demise. But Raizo knows that Takeshi and the rest of the Ozuno Clan won't stop until he and Mika are both dead. Now, as Raizo and Mika are sought through the meandering streets of Europe, their only faith for existance is to rely on one another and stay alive long enough to bring the Ozunu empire crumbling to the ground.
The feature film is scheduled to be released on November 25, 2009.It is alike Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino). It is rated R for violence and language.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL
A Christmas Carol is a 2009 feature film, an edition of Charles Dickens' 1843 story of the same name. The picture is written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, and casts Jim Carrey in a large number of roles, including Ebenezer Scrooge as a young, middle-aged, and old man, and the three spirits who haunt Scrooge.
On Christmas Eve in Victorian England, Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter and miserly old moneylender, holds everything that symbolizes the joys and spirit of Christmas in hatred, refusing to meet his nephew Fred's Christmas dinner party, and forcing his low paid employee Bob Cratchit to plead to take the day off for his own family. That night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his ex- business coworker, Jacob Marley, who had died seven years before on Christmas Eve and is now forced to spend his afterlife carrying heavy chains forged from his own stingy ways. Marley cautions Scrooge that he will endure an even worse outcome if he doesn't repent, and foretells that he will be haunted by three ghosts that will assist him.
The first spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Past, shows Scrooge visions of his own past that take place around the Christmas time, reminding him of how he ended up the stingy man he is now. He had spent much of his childhood neglected by his father over the holidays at boarding school until he was finally brought home by his loving sister Fan, who died too early after delivering to his nephew Fred. Scrooge afterward began a flourishing career in business and money lending and became engaged to a woman named Belle, though she later called off the engagement when he began to grow obsessed with accumulating his own wealth. Unable to bear having to see these events again, Scrooge extinguishes the ghost.
The second ghost, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows Scrooge the contentment of his fellow men on Christmas day. Among them are his nephew Fred, who jokes with his family at Scrooge's expense, and Bob Cratchit and his people, who are just hardly able to make do with what little wage Scrooge gives Cratchit. The Cratchits also lean to a ill young son, Tiny Tim, whose promise to the spirit of Christmas touches Scrooge, who is dismayed to learn from the spirit that he may not have much longer to survive. Before the spirit vanishes, it cautions Scrooge about the troubles of Ignorance and Want, showing them as petrifying, coarse children doomed to grow into savage, shameful persons.
The third and last spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, shows Scrooge the last consequences of his greed. Tiny Tim has died, leaving the Cratchits to weep for him on Christmas. Scrooge has also died, though there is more relief than misery in the wake of his funeral. Fred finds profit from inheriting his wealth, and Scrooge is even robbed by his former maid. Reluctant to let this grim future come to surpass, Scrooge pleads to be given a second chance as the spirit forces him into his deep and empty grave leading all the way to Hell.
Scrooge awakens to find himself in his bed on Christmas morning, the three spirits having guided him over the course of one night, and instantly sets out to atone for his mistakes, making donations to the poverty-stricken, attending Fred's dinner party, and giving Cratchit a raise to take care of his family, allowing Tiny Tim to be in this world. Scrooge spends the rest of his life as a new man embodying the spirit of Christmas itself.
It was released on 4th Nov and 6th Nov in UK and US respectively. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 56% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 159 reviews with an average score of 5.9/10, branding it 'Rotten'. It is alike A Christmas Carol (2004, Ric Machin).
On Christmas Eve in Victorian England, Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter and miserly old moneylender, holds everything that symbolizes the joys and spirit of Christmas in hatred, refusing to meet his nephew Fred's Christmas dinner party, and forcing his low paid employee Bob Cratchit to plead to take the day off for his own family. That night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his ex- business coworker, Jacob Marley, who had died seven years before on Christmas Eve and is now forced to spend his afterlife carrying heavy chains forged from his own stingy ways. Marley cautions Scrooge that he will endure an even worse outcome if he doesn't repent, and foretells that he will be haunted by three ghosts that will assist him.
The first spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Past, shows Scrooge visions of his own past that take place around the Christmas time, reminding him of how he ended up the stingy man he is now. He had spent much of his childhood neglected by his father over the holidays at boarding school until he was finally brought home by his loving sister Fan, who died too early after delivering to his nephew Fred. Scrooge afterward began a flourishing career in business and money lending and became engaged to a woman named Belle, though she later called off the engagement when he began to grow obsessed with accumulating his own wealth. Unable to bear having to see these events again, Scrooge extinguishes the ghost.
The second ghost, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows Scrooge the contentment of his fellow men on Christmas day. Among them are his nephew Fred, who jokes with his family at Scrooge's expense, and Bob Cratchit and his people, who are just hardly able to make do with what little wage Scrooge gives Cratchit. The Cratchits also lean to a ill young son, Tiny Tim, whose promise to the spirit of Christmas touches Scrooge, who is dismayed to learn from the spirit that he may not have much longer to survive. Before the spirit vanishes, it cautions Scrooge about the troubles of Ignorance and Want, showing them as petrifying, coarse children doomed to grow into savage, shameful persons.
The third and last spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, shows Scrooge the last consequences of his greed. Tiny Tim has died, leaving the Cratchits to weep for him on Christmas. Scrooge has also died, though there is more relief than misery in the wake of his funeral. Fred finds profit from inheriting his wealth, and Scrooge is even robbed by his former maid. Reluctant to let this grim future come to surpass, Scrooge pleads to be given a second chance as the spirit forces him into his deep and empty grave leading all the way to Hell.
Scrooge awakens to find himself in his bed on Christmas morning, the three spirits having guided him over the course of one night, and instantly sets out to atone for his mistakes, making donations to the poverty-stricken, attending Fred's dinner party, and giving Cratchit a raise to take care of his family, allowing Tiny Tim to be in this world. Scrooge spends the rest of his life as a new man embodying the spirit of Christmas itself.
It was released on 4th Nov and 6th Nov in UK and US respectively. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 56% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 159 reviews with an average score of 5.9/10, branding it 'Rotten'. It is alike A Christmas Carol (2004, Ric Machin).
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
PIRATE RADIO
The Boat That Rocked is a British humorous picture. The feature film was written and directed by Richard Curtis. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh.
Carl (Tom Sturridge) arrives on the pirate radio ship, Radio Rock, to stay with the boat's Captain, his Godfather, Quentin (Bill Nighy), to expectantly put his life on a different track after being barred from school. Here he meets Radio Rock's band of ramshackle disc jockeys, led by The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman), along with the polished and coarse Dave (Nick Frost) and the immature but good hearted Simon (Chris O'Dowd), the self proclaimed New Zealand "nut," Angus (Rhys Darby), the mystifying Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom) and the more mystifying, secluded and absolute disillusioned late-night Disc Jockey Smooth Bob (Ralph Brown). Helping as the ship's group are the bashful lesbian chef Felicity (Katherine Parkinson) and radio assistants, Harold (Ike Hamilton) and the suitably nicknamed Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke).
Dave introduces Carl to women, only for both of Carl's tries to be blocked by Dave himself, including Carl's first affair, Quentin's niece, Marianne (Talulah Riley), although, by the end of the feature film, Carl and Marianne make up and get together. Simon also is doomed in love, meeting and marrying Elenore (January Jones) only to find her love is really kept with the recurring "king of the airwaves", Gavin (Rhys Ifans). The Count objects to Gavin's antics with Elenore, leading to a conflict of egos that ends in a peace after both endure physical injuries jumping from the top of the boat's radio post in a match of courage.
Kevin points out to Carl that Radio Rock is clearly no place to be sent to clean up his action and suggests that the true reason Carl's mother sent him there is that his father, who he has never known, is among the group, nominating Quentin as the most likely suspect. When his mother Charlotte (Emma Thompson) visits for Christmas, Carl asks her about Quentin, but she declines it. As she leaves the boat, Carl leaves on a cryptic message from Smooth Bob ("Muddy Waters rocks"), which leads to the startling revelation that Bob, not Quentin, is Carl's father, something that throws both father and son.
Radio Rock's controversial on-air antics have tangled the feathers of a government minister, Dormandy, (Kenneth Branagh), who instructs his subordinate Twatt (Jack Davenport) to find a way to take down pirate radio, despite its popularity amongst the pop hungry masses. After a couple of tries to rob the center of marketing funding flop, Twatt comes across a news story of a fishing boat whose cry for assistance failed to get through because of Radio Rock's strong signal swamping the frequency and realises that this can be used to bar pirate radio for good. He offers the creation of the Marine Offences Act, which passes through Parliament without any shown resistance.
With the Act due to come into force, the troop of Radio Rock choose to defy the act, for various separate personal reasons, and continue to broadcast. Twatt leads a group of boats out into the North Sea to board the pirate boat and arrest the crew, only to find a fishing vessel anchored there instead. Quentin has given the instruction to fire up the ship's aging engines and move their position. Unfortunately, the strain proved too much for the old ship: the engines blow up and the boat begins to sink as the DJs broadcast their position. The group assemble on the upper deck, Carl rescuing the oblivious Bob from his cabin, leading to an apparent understanding between the pair, while the Count vows to continue broadcasting as long as possible. Dormandy prevents Twatt from sending out rescue craft, though, many fans have also heard the broadcast and come to rescue the group as the boat sinks below the waves, with the Count rising from the water at the very last minute.
It was released in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2009. After the feature film's commercial and critical failure in the UK it was re-edited and re-titled Pirate Radio for release in the United States and Canada on 13 November 2009. The film holds a 54% 'Rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 39 reviews. It is alike Good Morning, Vietnam (1987, Barry Levinson) .
Carl (Tom Sturridge) arrives on the pirate radio ship, Radio Rock, to stay with the boat's Captain, his Godfather, Quentin (Bill Nighy), to expectantly put his life on a different track after being barred from school. Here he meets Radio Rock's band of ramshackle disc jockeys, led by The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman), along with the polished and coarse Dave (Nick Frost) and the immature but good hearted Simon (Chris O'Dowd), the self proclaimed New Zealand "nut," Angus (Rhys Darby), the mystifying Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom) and the more mystifying, secluded and absolute disillusioned late-night Disc Jockey Smooth Bob (Ralph Brown). Helping as the ship's group are the bashful lesbian chef Felicity (Katherine Parkinson) and radio assistants, Harold (Ike Hamilton) and the suitably nicknamed Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke).
Dave introduces Carl to women, only for both of Carl's tries to be blocked by Dave himself, including Carl's first affair, Quentin's niece, Marianne (Talulah Riley), although, by the end of the feature film, Carl and Marianne make up and get together. Simon also is doomed in love, meeting and marrying Elenore (January Jones) only to find her love is really kept with the recurring "king of the airwaves", Gavin (Rhys Ifans). The Count objects to Gavin's antics with Elenore, leading to a conflict of egos that ends in a peace after both endure physical injuries jumping from the top of the boat's radio post in a match of courage.
Kevin points out to Carl that Radio Rock is clearly no place to be sent to clean up his action and suggests that the true reason Carl's mother sent him there is that his father, who he has never known, is among the group, nominating Quentin as the most likely suspect. When his mother Charlotte (Emma Thompson) visits for Christmas, Carl asks her about Quentin, but she declines it. As she leaves the boat, Carl leaves on a cryptic message from Smooth Bob ("Muddy Waters rocks"), which leads to the startling revelation that Bob, not Quentin, is Carl's father, something that throws both father and son.
Radio Rock's controversial on-air antics have tangled the feathers of a government minister, Dormandy, (Kenneth Branagh), who instructs his subordinate Twatt (Jack Davenport) to find a way to take down pirate radio, despite its popularity amongst the pop hungry masses. After a couple of tries to rob the center of marketing funding flop, Twatt comes across a news story of a fishing boat whose cry for assistance failed to get through because of Radio Rock's strong signal swamping the frequency and realises that this can be used to bar pirate radio for good. He offers the creation of the Marine Offences Act, which passes through Parliament without any shown resistance.
With the Act due to come into force, the troop of Radio Rock choose to defy the act, for various separate personal reasons, and continue to broadcast. Twatt leads a group of boats out into the North Sea to board the pirate boat and arrest the crew, only to find a fishing vessel anchored there instead. Quentin has given the instruction to fire up the ship's aging engines and move their position. Unfortunately, the strain proved too much for the old ship: the engines blow up and the boat begins to sink as the DJs broadcast their position. The group assemble on the upper deck, Carl rescuing the oblivious Bob from his cabin, leading to an apparent understanding between the pair, while the Count vows to continue broadcasting as long as possible. Dormandy prevents Twatt from sending out rescue craft, though, many fans have also heard the broadcast and come to rescue the group as the boat sinks below the waves, with the Count rising from the water at the very last minute.
It was released in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2009. After the feature film's commercial and critical failure in the UK it was re-edited and re-titled Pirate Radio for release in the United States and Canada on 13 November 2009. The film holds a 54% 'Rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 39 reviews. It is alike Good Morning, Vietnam (1987, Barry Levinson) .
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
THE FOURTH KIND
The Fourth Kind is a science fiction/thriller/horror feature film directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, starring Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas and Will Patton.
1n 1972, a scale of measurement was established for extraterrestrial encounters. When a Flying saucer is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When proof is collected, it is called as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with outer space, it is the third kind. The next level, kidnap, is the fourth kind. Modern-day, Alaska, where-strangely since the 1960s-a disproportionate number of the inhabitants has been reported missing every year. Despite numerous FBI investigations of the region, the fact has never been discovered. Here in this isolated region, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing facts of extraterrestrial abduction ever documented. The Fourth Kind exposes the terrified revelations of numerous witnesses. Their accounts of being visited by extraterrestrial figures all share terrifyingly identical details, the authenticity of which is investigated during the movie.
It was released on 6th Nov '2009. The movie currently holds a 16% 'Rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 75 reviews. It is similiar to Communion (1989, Philippe Mora). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual pictures of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can view for free.
1n 1972, a scale of measurement was established for extraterrestrial encounters. When a Flying saucer is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When proof is collected, it is called as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with outer space, it is the third kind. The next level, kidnap, is the fourth kind. Modern-day, Alaska, where-strangely since the 1960s-a disproportionate number of the inhabitants has been reported missing every year. Despite numerous FBI investigations of the region, the fact has never been discovered. Here in this isolated region, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing facts of extraterrestrial abduction ever documented. The Fourth Kind exposes the terrified revelations of numerous witnesses. Their accounts of being visited by extraterrestrial figures all share terrifyingly identical details, the authenticity of which is investigated during the movie.
It was released on 6th Nov '2009. The movie currently holds a 16% 'Rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 75 reviews. It is similiar to Communion (1989, Philippe Mora). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual pictures of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can view for free.
2012
2012 is a 2009 science fiction movie directed by Roland Emmerich. The picture has an assembly cast, including John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Woody Harrelson.
In 2009, American scientist Adrian Helmsley travels to India to meet his buddy Satnam, who has found that neutrinos from a massive solar flare have penetrated the Earth and are causing the temperature of its core to increase speedily. Adrian returns to Washington D.C. to inform White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser and US President Thomas Wilson that this will start a chain of events that will put an end to life in the world. At the 36th G8 summit in 2010, other heads of state and heads of government are made alert of the condition. They team up to begin a secret mission proposed to make sure the continuity of human life, intentionally choosing 400,000 people for admission on a series of enormous arks to be constructed in the Himalayas. To help fund the mission, extra persons are allowed to purchase tickets for one billion euros respectively.
In 2012, Jackson Curtis is a separated father who works as a limousine driver and writer in Los Angeles. His ex-wife Kate and their children Noah and Lily live with her new boyfriend, plastic surgeon and amateur pilot Gordon. Jackson takes Noah and Lily on a camping trip to Yellowstone National Park, where they meet Charlie Frost, a radio show host and conspiracy theorist. Charlie supports a hypothesis that says the Mayans predicted the world would be destroyed in 2012. The family returns home as cracks begin to build up along the San Andreas Fault in California and earthquakes occur in the San Francisco Bay area. Jackson grows suspicious and hires a private airplane to rescue his family. His family and Gordon when the Earth's crust dislocation begins and they flee Los Angeles as it collapses into the Pacific Ocean.
As millions begin dying worldwide, the group flies to Yellowstone to get from Charlie a map detailing the site of the arks. The group narrowly escapes as the Yellowstone Caldera erupts but Charlie is killed by the explosion. Realizing the arks are in China, the group meet Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov in Las Vegas, one of Jackson's limousine clients. Yuri, his twin sons, girlfriend Tamara, and pilot Sasha join up the group as they acquire a larger plane and go across the Pacific. Also bound for the arks aboard Air Force One are Anheuser, Adrian, and First Daughter Laura Wilson. President Wilson stayed back in Washington D.C. and addresses the nation one last time about what's happening. He is shortly killed by a tsunami. Anheuser appoints himself acting Commander-in-Chief.
Yuri, who bought ark tickets for himself and his sons, deserts the Curtis family, Gordon, and Tamara upon arriving in China in a crash-landing that kills Sasha. However, the deserted group is picked up by Nima, a Buddhist monk. Together, they begin sneaking on an ark with the help of Nima's brother Tenzin, an ark mission worker. Adrian gets a call from Satnam, who shortly dies in a tsunami. Learning that a second tsunami is approaching, Anheuser orders the arks be sealed before the boarding is complete, trapping thousands outside. Adrian manages to persuade the other G8 leaders to let the left behind people on board. As the ark's drawbridges are lowered, Gordon is crushed between the gears, which soon become tangled with a thick cable. Yuri sacrifices his life to get his two sons on in time, but the cable stops the gate from closing, rendering the ship incapable to start its engines. The tsunami arrives and starts to flood the ark, drowning Tamara and setting the ark helplessly drift. Jackson and Noah fix the closing mechanism.
When the floodwater from the worldwide tsunamis ultimately decreases, satellite data shows that Africa rose in relation to sea level and may not have flooded at all. In fact, the tallest mountains in the world have been repositioned from the Himalayas to the Drakensberg mountain range in South Africa. As three arks set sail for the Cape of Good Hope, Jackson reconciles with his family, and Adrian starts an affair with Laura. The movie ends with a view of the Earth showing the dramatically-changed African continent.
It was released on 13th Nov' 2009. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 39% of critics gave the movie a positive review, based upon a sample of 174 reviews, with an average score of 5 out of 10. It is similar to The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich).
In 2009, American scientist Adrian Helmsley travels to India to meet his buddy Satnam, who has found that neutrinos from a massive solar flare have penetrated the Earth and are causing the temperature of its core to increase speedily. Adrian returns to Washington D.C. to inform White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser and US President Thomas Wilson that this will start a chain of events that will put an end to life in the world. At the 36th G8 summit in 2010, other heads of state and heads of government are made alert of the condition. They team up to begin a secret mission proposed to make sure the continuity of human life, intentionally choosing 400,000 people for admission on a series of enormous arks to be constructed in the Himalayas. To help fund the mission, extra persons are allowed to purchase tickets for one billion euros respectively.
In 2012, Jackson Curtis is a separated father who works as a limousine driver and writer in Los Angeles. His ex-wife Kate and their children Noah and Lily live with her new boyfriend, plastic surgeon and amateur pilot Gordon. Jackson takes Noah and Lily on a camping trip to Yellowstone National Park, where they meet Charlie Frost, a radio show host and conspiracy theorist. Charlie supports a hypothesis that says the Mayans predicted the world would be destroyed in 2012. The family returns home as cracks begin to build up along the San Andreas Fault in California and earthquakes occur in the San Francisco Bay area. Jackson grows suspicious and hires a private airplane to rescue his family. His family and Gordon when the Earth's crust dislocation begins and they flee Los Angeles as it collapses into the Pacific Ocean.
As millions begin dying worldwide, the group flies to Yellowstone to get from Charlie a map detailing the site of the arks. The group narrowly escapes as the Yellowstone Caldera erupts but Charlie is killed by the explosion. Realizing the arks are in China, the group meet Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov in Las Vegas, one of Jackson's limousine clients. Yuri, his twin sons, girlfriend Tamara, and pilot Sasha join up the group as they acquire a larger plane and go across the Pacific. Also bound for the arks aboard Air Force One are Anheuser, Adrian, and First Daughter Laura Wilson. President Wilson stayed back in Washington D.C. and addresses the nation one last time about what's happening. He is shortly killed by a tsunami. Anheuser appoints himself acting Commander-in-Chief.
Yuri, who bought ark tickets for himself and his sons, deserts the Curtis family, Gordon, and Tamara upon arriving in China in a crash-landing that kills Sasha. However, the deserted group is picked up by Nima, a Buddhist monk. Together, they begin sneaking on an ark with the help of Nima's brother Tenzin, an ark mission worker. Adrian gets a call from Satnam, who shortly dies in a tsunami. Learning that a second tsunami is approaching, Anheuser orders the arks be sealed before the boarding is complete, trapping thousands outside. Adrian manages to persuade the other G8 leaders to let the left behind people on board. As the ark's drawbridges are lowered, Gordon is crushed between the gears, which soon become tangled with a thick cable. Yuri sacrifices his life to get his two sons on in time, but the cable stops the gate from closing, rendering the ship incapable to start its engines. The tsunami arrives and starts to flood the ark, drowning Tamara and setting the ark helplessly drift. Jackson and Noah fix the closing mechanism.
When the floodwater from the worldwide tsunamis ultimately decreases, satellite data shows that Africa rose in relation to sea level and may not have flooded at all. In fact, the tallest mountains in the world have been repositioned from the Himalayas to the Drakensberg mountain range in South Africa. As three arks set sail for the Cape of Good Hope, Jackson reconciles with his family, and Adrian starts an affair with Laura. The movie ends with a view of the Earth showing the dramatically-changed African continent.
It was released on 13th Nov' 2009. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 39% of critics gave the movie a positive review, based upon a sample of 174 reviews, with an average score of 5 out of 10. It is similar to The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich).
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Mr. Bean's Holiday (also called as Bean 2, Bean on Holiday and French Bean) is a 2007 comedy movie starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. It is the second film based on the television series Mr. Bean, a sequel to 1997's Bean. Rowan Atkinson said that this is most likely the last appearance of the well-liked titular character.
The movie opens with Mr. Bean attending a raffle . His number is 919, the winning number. But Bean misreads it upside-down as 616. Upset that he lost, he throws the ticket onto a toy train. Seeing the ticket upside down reading 919, he grabs the ticket and yells out that he won in his mumbling deep voice. The reward is a holiday including a train journey to Cannes, a Sony video camera, and €200.
Because of a mistake, Bean is forced to make his way unorthodoxly towards the Gare de Lyon to enter his next train towards Cannes. So he has time to try French seafood at Le Train Bleu restaurant. He accidentally orders oysters and langoustine, which he cannot eat. He stealthily pours the oysters into a nearby lady's bag, and eats the whole langoustine without taking off the crust in front of everybody.
Back on the platform, Bean asks a man, who happens to be a Cannes feature film Festival jury member and Russian movie critic Emil Dachevsky (Karel Roden), to use his video camera to movie his walking onto the train. By the time they are done, the TGV is about to leave. Although Bean manages to get onto the train, the doors close before Dachevsky can get on. Dachevsky's son, Stepan (Max Baldry) is thus left on enter by himself. Bean tries to befriend Stepan, the boy slaps him in the face and when he gets off at the next station, Bean gets off too and accidentally misses the train, along with his bag on the train. The train that Stepan's father has boarded does not stop at the station, and he holds up a cell phone number, but with the last two digits covered. Their attempts at calling the number prove unproductive. They get on the next train, but since Bean has left his ticket and passport on the station public telephone, the duo are soon thrown out of the train.He attempts at busking by miming to Puccini's O mio babbino caro prove successful, and Bean buys them a bus ticket to Cannes. Bean loses his ticket by getting the ticket fixed on a chicken's foot. Mr. Bean then steals a nearby bicycle and follows the chicken which has been placed onto a Peugeot 504 pickup and ends up at a chicken pen. On his return, he notices that the bicycle has been run over by a tank, but the camera is still unbroken. After attempting to lift a motorcycle and almost getting killed by a lorry, Bean stumbles on to the set for a TV advertisement, which he accidentally blows up, injuring the director Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe).
Bean then tries to get a ride again; a yellow Mini picks him up, driven by actress Sabine (Emma de Caunes) who Bean encountered both at the commercial filming and earlier, who offers him a lift to Cannes. She is on her way to the 59th Cannes picture Festival where Carson Clay's picture in which she makes her first appearance is going to be presented. At a service station, Bean locates Stepan in a café. He joins them. Bean and Stepan now attempt, again in vain, to call Dachevsky with Sabine's phone. When Sabine falls deeply asleep, Bean then drives the car himself, but he keeps falling asleep. Bean and the other two finally make it to Cannes.
When Sabine goes into a gasoline station to change for the premiere, she sees a newsflash, wherein the police have made up a rumor about Mr. Bean kidnapping Stepan and Sabine being his accomplice. However, since she does not want to miss the premiere, she is hesitant to go to the cop to clear up the "mistake". They thus plan to get into Cannes without being identified. Stepan dresses up as Sabine's daughter, while Mr. Bean dresses up as Sabine's mother, who is allegedly Spanish and deaf. They manage to get through the hunt and Sabine arrives at the premiere on time.
After sneaking into the premiere, Bean is disappointed to see that Sabine's part has been (rather poorly) scratched from the picture (Carson Clay is seen nodding at the woman beside him at this point, implying that he cut down the scene as a favour to his green-eyed wife), and ends up plugging in his camcorder to the projector, where his video record is suddenly played out. But, the strange story it tells fits director Clay's narration well, so that the director, Sabine, and Bean all receive standing ovations. Stepan is finally reunited with his father.
It was released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and on 24 August 2007 in the United States and Canada. On Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 107 reviews (54 "fresh", 53 "rotten") and was rated PG13.
The movie opens with Mr. Bean attending a raffle . His number is 919, the winning number. But Bean misreads it upside-down as 616. Upset that he lost, he throws the ticket onto a toy train. Seeing the ticket upside down reading 919, he grabs the ticket and yells out that he won in his mumbling deep voice. The reward is a holiday including a train journey to Cannes, a Sony video camera, and €200.
Because of a mistake, Bean is forced to make his way unorthodoxly towards the Gare de Lyon to enter his next train towards Cannes. So he has time to try French seafood at Le Train Bleu restaurant. He accidentally orders oysters and langoustine, which he cannot eat. He stealthily pours the oysters into a nearby lady's bag, and eats the whole langoustine without taking off the crust in front of everybody.
Back on the platform, Bean asks a man, who happens to be a Cannes feature film Festival jury member and Russian movie critic Emil Dachevsky (Karel Roden), to use his video camera to movie his walking onto the train. By the time they are done, the TGV is about to leave. Although Bean manages to get onto the train, the doors close before Dachevsky can get on. Dachevsky's son, Stepan (Max Baldry) is thus left on enter by himself. Bean tries to befriend Stepan, the boy slaps him in the face and when he gets off at the next station, Bean gets off too and accidentally misses the train, along with his bag on the train. The train that Stepan's father has boarded does not stop at the station, and he holds up a cell phone number, but with the last two digits covered. Their attempts at calling the number prove unproductive. They get on the next train, but since Bean has left his ticket and passport on the station public telephone, the duo are soon thrown out of the train.He attempts at busking by miming to Puccini's O mio babbino caro prove successful, and Bean buys them a bus ticket to Cannes. Bean loses his ticket by getting the ticket fixed on a chicken's foot. Mr. Bean then steals a nearby bicycle and follows the chicken which has been placed onto a Peugeot 504 pickup and ends up at a chicken pen. On his return, he notices that the bicycle has been run over by a tank, but the camera is still unbroken. After attempting to lift a motorcycle and almost getting killed by a lorry, Bean stumbles on to the set for a TV advertisement, which he accidentally blows up, injuring the director Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe).
Bean then tries to get a ride again; a yellow Mini picks him up, driven by actress Sabine (Emma de Caunes) who Bean encountered both at the commercial filming and earlier, who offers him a lift to Cannes. She is on her way to the 59th Cannes picture Festival where Carson Clay's picture in which she makes her first appearance is going to be presented. At a service station, Bean locates Stepan in a café. He joins them. Bean and Stepan now attempt, again in vain, to call Dachevsky with Sabine's phone. When Sabine falls deeply asleep, Bean then drives the car himself, but he keeps falling asleep. Bean and the other two finally make it to Cannes.
When Sabine goes into a gasoline station to change for the premiere, she sees a newsflash, wherein the police have made up a rumor about Mr. Bean kidnapping Stepan and Sabine being his accomplice. However, since she does not want to miss the premiere, she is hesitant to go to the cop to clear up the "mistake". They thus plan to get into Cannes without being identified. Stepan dresses up as Sabine's daughter, while Mr. Bean dresses up as Sabine's mother, who is allegedly Spanish and deaf. They manage to get through the hunt and Sabine arrives at the premiere on time.
After sneaking into the premiere, Bean is disappointed to see that Sabine's part has been (rather poorly) scratched from the picture (Carson Clay is seen nodding at the woman beside him at this point, implying that he cut down the scene as a favour to his green-eyed wife), and ends up plugging in his camcorder to the projector, where his video record is suddenly played out. But, the strange story it tells fits director Clay's narration well, so that the director, Sabine, and Bean all receive standing ovations. Stepan is finally reunited with his father.
It was released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and on 24 August 2007 in the United States and Canada. On Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 107 reviews (54 "fresh", 53 "rotten") and was rated PG13.
FACE
Face is a 2004 South Korean horror picture directed by Yoo Sang-gon. It stars Song Yun-ah, Shin Hyeon-jun, and Kim Seung-wook.
Hyun-min works for the law, reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting their skulls. His daughter undergoes a heart transplant, and as her situation deteriorates, he loses his interest in his profession. Hyun-min suspects that his daughter's sickness after the surgery is caused by the heart, although her doctor, Dr. Yoon, tell him that his daughter is experiencing only minor complications.
Distraught, Hyun-min quits his occupation to care for his daughter full time. Meanwhile, the police are dealing with a sequence of bizarre murder cases, where the prey has had all their flesh dissolved away with acid, leaving only the bones behind. Sun-young (Song Yoon-ah) brings the skull of the fourth sufferer to Hyun-min, hoping that he'll be able to recreate the face. With the skull in their house, his daughter starts to go through visions of a upset woman in a white housecoat.
Hyun-min rebuilds the face of the prey, and it soon transpires that they all suffered from a (fictitious) suffering known as 'beta-allergy'. Tests reveal that Hyun-min's daughter has the condition, meaning that she has got the heart of someone who did. Romance blossoms between Hynu-min and Sun-young, and as they explore, they come across an organ transplant conspiracy: The murder sufferers were murdered for their body parts, and it becomes apparent that Dr. Yoon knows more than he's letting on.
It was released in 2004 and was rated 5.9 out of 10 from 491 votes. One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free pictures online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can view for open.
Hyun-min works for the law, reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting their skulls. His daughter undergoes a heart transplant, and as her situation deteriorates, he loses his interest in his profession. Hyun-min suspects that his daughter's sickness after the surgery is caused by the heart, although her doctor, Dr. Yoon, tell him that his daughter is experiencing only minor complications.
Distraught, Hyun-min quits his occupation to care for his daughter full time. Meanwhile, the police are dealing with a sequence of bizarre murder cases, where the prey has had all their flesh dissolved away with acid, leaving only the bones behind. Sun-young (Song Yoon-ah) brings the skull of the fourth sufferer to Hyun-min, hoping that he'll be able to recreate the face. With the skull in their house, his daughter starts to go through visions of a upset woman in a white housecoat.
Hyun-min rebuilds the face of the prey, and it soon transpires that they all suffered from a (fictitious) suffering known as 'beta-allergy'. Tests reveal that Hyun-min's daughter has the condition, meaning that she has got the heart of someone who did. Romance blossoms between Hynu-min and Sun-young, and as they explore, they come across an organ transplant conspiracy: The murder sufferers were murdered for their body parts, and it becomes apparent that Dr. Yoon knows more than he's letting on.
It was released in 2004 and was rated 5.9 out of 10 from 491 votes. One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free pictures online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can view for open.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
WILD THINGS 2
Wild Things 2 is the second episode in the Wild Things trilogy. It casts Susan Ward, Leila Arcieri, Isaiah Washington, Michael Chieffo and Linden Ashby. It recycles most of the plan and twists from the original movie, including the courtroom scenes, the inheritance, and the threesome scene. This movie, like the other two in the sequence, maintains a strong lesbian sexuality content theme throughout it.
Brittany Havers (Susan Ward), a well-to-do school-lass, is soon to inherit the fortune as her stepfather Niles Dunlap (Anthony John Denison) had accidentally died in a crash of a light plane. Her classmate Maya (Leila Arcieri) all of a sudden claims that she is an illegal daughter of Brittany's stepfather being a child of an extramarital affair when her mother was in love with by Niles Dunlap. She is asked to get a DNA test and the DNA test shows she is the daughter. Brittany is heading to the wine room suddenly she hears a noise in the corner and goes to see what it is and only turns out to be just rats. But Maya is there too and they make out and the doctor who did the DNA joins them. Terrence Bridge, an insurance researcher, considers both girls as criminals, believing they are trying to steal Dunlap's riches. Bridge investigates that it is all a corruption thus he asks them for the half money or he will tell the police. Brittany says she will not give up the money so she gets a gun to assassinate Bridge but instead she slays Maya. She tells him that he has to win it. They are at a traffic light and she goes out of the car and she ditches him and Bridge goes to lockup. Later Brittany runs away with her dad but murders him too, where her mother is waiting for her.
It was released on March 6th 2006. It is preceded by Wild Things (1998, John McNaughton). One can grab the initial DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can view for open.
Brittany Havers (Susan Ward), a well-to-do school-lass, is soon to inherit the fortune as her stepfather Niles Dunlap (Anthony John Denison) had accidentally died in a crash of a light plane. Her classmate Maya (Leila Arcieri) all of a sudden claims that she is an illegal daughter of Brittany's stepfather being a child of an extramarital affair when her mother was in love with by Niles Dunlap. She is asked to get a DNA test and the DNA test shows she is the daughter. Brittany is heading to the wine room suddenly she hears a noise in the corner and goes to see what it is and only turns out to be just rats. But Maya is there too and they make out and the doctor who did the DNA joins them. Terrence Bridge, an insurance researcher, considers both girls as criminals, believing they are trying to steal Dunlap's riches. Bridge investigates that it is all a corruption thus he asks them for the half money or he will tell the police. Brittany says she will not give up the money so she gets a gun to assassinate Bridge but instead she slays Maya. She tells him that he has to win it. They are at a traffic light and she goes out of the car and she ditches him and Bridge goes to lockup. Later Brittany runs away with her dad but murders him too, where her mother is waiting for her.
It was released on March 6th 2006. It is preceded by Wild Things (1998, John McNaughton). One can grab the initial DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can view for open.
Friday, November 13, 2009
THE BOX
The Box is a 2009 horror movie based on the 1970 short story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson, which was earlier modified into an episode of the 1980s incarnation of The Twilight Zone. The film is written and directed by Richard Kelly and stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a pair who receive a box from a mysterious man that offers them one million dollars if they push the button sealed within the dome on top of the box.
Once at the daybreak Norma and Arthur get a box up on their doorstep. Inside, they find a wooden box with a button protected by a glass dome, locked with a key, and a note, reading Mr. Steward will come at 5:00 pm.
Arthur goes to work at NASA, where he works in optics, and helped in designing the camera on the Viking Mars probe. Norma goes to her job as a educator at an elite private school teaching literature, where they are discussing Sartre's idea of Hell. Later that day Norma returns home and confesses her fear of losing their home, due to lack of money. That is when Arlington Steward appears and offers them one million dollars if they press the button sealed in the dome. The catch is that somebody they do not know will go dead. Norma and Arthur think of whether or not they would be able to deal with with somebody's death on their hands.
Arlington returns and presents Norma and Arthur with the million, without asking whether they pressed the button or not. He informs the couple that whoever gets the offer next, they will surely not know, implying that when the next people press the button, one of them, or their son, will be at risk. Arthur storms after Arlington and tries to give back the million, but Arlington drives off. A 911 call is shown, where somebody has been shot. The police enter the house and get a lady shot through the heart, and a little girl locked in the washroom upstairs.
Arthur and Norma then attend a marriage ceremonial dinner, where Arthur is instructed to select a present from a table. Arthur then sees a box much like the one left on their front door, with the button in it, and chooses that one. He and Norma find a bad quality picture of Arlington inside. Arthur meets and asks Norma's dad (who is a police officer) to run the license plate number of Arlington's car. Norma gets a phone call from Arlington, who scolds her for letting her husband to contact with the police. He then storms out of the party, with Norma following him. As they shock their car, they see "No Exit" (the title of the Sartre play they went to see earlier) written into the frost on their windshield.
When they get home, Arthur takes their babysitter, Dana, home. Dana had earlier gone down into the basement with their child Walter, to see Arthur's Mars collection. As they are driving, Dana acts oddly, telling Arthur to "look into the light" to work out his problems. Her nose begins to bleed and she faints. Arthur tries to wake her up and finds her drivers license, which shows her name is not Dana, but Sara, and she is from Boston. He reaches the motel, where "Dana" has been staying and she wakes up with a shock. She tells Arthur it's not secure for him there, and to look in the mirror because that's the only place with the answer. She then hurries away in the motel. She reaches her room, where she has a large chart and photos of Arthur, Norma, and Walter.
At a supermarket, Norma is approached by a panicked woman who tells her to look up a certain call number in the library, and not to rely on her husband, before passing out with a bleeding nose. Arthur finds out that Arlington's license plate is registered to the NASA. He asks Norma's father if he can go with him to see the house where the shooting mentioned earlier took place. Once there, he finds photos of Arlington and a picture of a Human Resources book, and a library call number. Norma and Arthur both visit the library, separately. Norma discover a feature film reel, which shows Arlington prior to his disfigurement. Arthur approaches a woman he learns is Arlington's wife, and she tells him to follow her. He is presented with three "gateways", made of floating water. Two lead to everlasting damnation, one to salvation. Remembering the student who held up two fingers, Arthur picks gate two.
More drama takes place and eventually, at the wedding of Norma's sister, their child Walter is abducted. Arthur is taken away by a gun-toting former employee of NASA. He is the same man who shot his wife, as earlier seen in the 911 call. He reveals to Arthur that he had to choose between his wife or his daughter. He shows Arthur the book seen earlier in the picture, and the water portals or "triptychs". Arthur and Norma give back home and see Arlington in their kitchen. He informs them they get two final options. Their son, Walter, is now deaf and blind. They can either live on with their million dollars, and their disabled son, or Arthur can shoot Norma through the heart, at which point Walter's sight and hearing will be back and the million will be placed in a high interest bank account for Walter.
Arlington leaves, telling Norma and Arthur on his way out that their son is in the bathroom, locked upstairs. The two of them run upstairs and try to get him out, but cannot. They decide that they must make a choice. Arthur then shoots Norma through the heart, and runs upstairs to find Walter. Walter is passed out on the floor. Soon the cop get there, having been called about the shooting. Walter wakes up and calls out, as Arthur is lead out of the house. While this is happening, we see another pair make the decision to push the button. As Arthur leaves, we see Arlington arrive at the new pair' house. Arthur's NASA friend informs him he and his son will be taken care of, and Arthur is taken away by policemen.
The movie was released on 6th November 2009. The Box currently has a certified "Rotten" rating of 47% at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 76 ratings from critics.
Once at the daybreak Norma and Arthur get a box up on their doorstep. Inside, they find a wooden box with a button protected by a glass dome, locked with a key, and a note, reading Mr. Steward will come at 5:00 pm.
Arthur goes to work at NASA, where he works in optics, and helped in designing the camera on the Viking Mars probe. Norma goes to her job as a educator at an elite private school teaching literature, where they are discussing Sartre's idea of Hell. Later that day Norma returns home and confesses her fear of losing their home, due to lack of money. That is when Arlington Steward appears and offers them one million dollars if they press the button sealed in the dome. The catch is that somebody they do not know will go dead. Norma and Arthur think of whether or not they would be able to deal with with somebody's death on their hands.
Arlington returns and presents Norma and Arthur with the million, without asking whether they pressed the button or not. He informs the couple that whoever gets the offer next, they will surely not know, implying that when the next people press the button, one of them, or their son, will be at risk. Arthur storms after Arlington and tries to give back the million, but Arlington drives off. A 911 call is shown, where somebody has been shot. The police enter the house and get a lady shot through the heart, and a little girl locked in the washroom upstairs.
Arthur and Norma then attend a marriage ceremonial dinner, where Arthur is instructed to select a present from a table. Arthur then sees a box much like the one left on their front door, with the button in it, and chooses that one. He and Norma find a bad quality picture of Arlington inside. Arthur meets and asks Norma's dad (who is a police officer) to run the license plate number of Arlington's car. Norma gets a phone call from Arlington, who scolds her for letting her husband to contact with the police. He then storms out of the party, with Norma following him. As they shock their car, they see "No Exit" (the title of the Sartre play they went to see earlier) written into the frost on their windshield.
When they get home, Arthur takes their babysitter, Dana, home. Dana had earlier gone down into the basement with their child Walter, to see Arthur's Mars collection. As they are driving, Dana acts oddly, telling Arthur to "look into the light" to work out his problems. Her nose begins to bleed and she faints. Arthur tries to wake her up and finds her drivers license, which shows her name is not Dana, but Sara, and she is from Boston. He reaches the motel, where "Dana" has been staying and she wakes up with a shock. She tells Arthur it's not secure for him there, and to look in the mirror because that's the only place with the answer. She then hurries away in the motel. She reaches her room, where she has a large chart and photos of Arthur, Norma, and Walter.
At a supermarket, Norma is approached by a panicked woman who tells her to look up a certain call number in the library, and not to rely on her husband, before passing out with a bleeding nose. Arthur finds out that Arlington's license plate is registered to the NASA. He asks Norma's father if he can go with him to see the house where the shooting mentioned earlier took place. Once there, he finds photos of Arlington and a picture of a Human Resources book, and a library call number. Norma and Arthur both visit the library, separately. Norma discover a feature film reel, which shows Arlington prior to his disfigurement. Arthur approaches a woman he learns is Arlington's wife, and she tells him to follow her. He is presented with three "gateways", made of floating water. Two lead to everlasting damnation, one to salvation. Remembering the student who held up two fingers, Arthur picks gate two.
More drama takes place and eventually, at the wedding of Norma's sister, their child Walter is abducted. Arthur is taken away by a gun-toting former employee of NASA. He is the same man who shot his wife, as earlier seen in the 911 call. He reveals to Arthur that he had to choose between his wife or his daughter. He shows Arthur the book seen earlier in the picture, and the water portals or "triptychs". Arthur and Norma give back home and see Arlington in their kitchen. He informs them they get two final options. Their son, Walter, is now deaf and blind. They can either live on with their million dollars, and their disabled son, or Arthur can shoot Norma through the heart, at which point Walter's sight and hearing will be back and the million will be placed in a high interest bank account for Walter.
Arlington leaves, telling Norma and Arthur on his way out that their son is in the bathroom, locked upstairs. The two of them run upstairs and try to get him out, but cannot. They decide that they must make a choice. Arthur then shoots Norma through the heart, and runs upstairs to find Walter. Walter is passed out on the floor. Soon the cop get there, having been called about the shooting. Walter wakes up and calls out, as Arthur is lead out of the house. While this is happening, we see another pair make the decision to push the button. As Arthur leaves, we see Arlington arrive at the new pair' house. Arthur's NASA friend informs him he and his son will be taken care of, and Arthur is taken away by policemen.
The movie was released on 6th November 2009. The Box currently has a certified "Rotten" rating of 47% at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 76 ratings from critics.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
S.W.A.T
S.W.A.T. is a 2003 action crime picture and is based on the 1975 television series of the same name. It was directed by Clark Johnson and stars Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, LL Cool J and Michelle Rodriguez.
The movie begins with a hostage situation in Los Angeles. Officer Jim Street (Farrell), a hot-shot cop from the Los Angeles Police Department and his SWAT team are sent to prevent a mob of robbers who have taken over a bank. His high-tempered collaborator and best friend Brian Gamble (Jeremy Renner) declines an instruction, and hurts a hostage. Gamble and Street are demoted by Captain Fuller (Larry Poindexter), the commander of LAPD's Metropolitan Division, who is portrayed as a picky martinet. Gamble quits following difference in opinion with Fuller and Street, the latter of whom is taken off the SWAT team and sent to work in the "gun cage," where he looks after gear and armaments.The Head of Police calls on Sergeant Dan "Hondo" Harrelson (Jackson) to help re-organize the SWAT division. Hondo is transferred in, and soon puts together a diverse team, including himself, Street, Chris Sánchez (Rodriguez), Deacon Kaye (LL Cool J), T.J. McCabe (Josh Charles), and Michael Boxer (Brian Van Holt). The team trains together and develops bonds of friendship.
Meanwhile, a drug lord by the name of Alex Montel (Olivier Martinez) murders his father and uncle for control of the family's corruption empire. The L.A.P.D. stop Montel for a ruined taillight, confine him, and find out through Interpol he is an international escapee. As they are transferring him, his friends, clothed as LAPD officers, attack the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department bus Montel is on, in an attempt to free him. Hondo's SWAT team foils the assault. As Montel is being brought into the police station in front of a group of journalists, he yells to them, "I will give one hundred million dollars to whoever gets me out of here."
The L.A.P.D. makes plans to transfer Montel into federal custody. They plan to fly him away, but a strange assailant (later exposed to be Gamble) shoots down the helicopter. The police next send out a big fleet, which is attacked by mob members. It turns out to be a trap, and Hondo's team has spirited Montel away in two S.U.V.s. However, T.J. has been planning with Gamble, and the two win in taking Montel from the other officers. Hondo and the rest give chase, and there is a final violent war, Gamble's group against the SWAT officers. Hondo's team is victorious. T.Jcommits suicide rather than be captured, and there is a nasty hand to hand war between Street and Gamble, with Street emerging the eventual victor when he kicks Gamble under the wheels of a passing train. The SWAT team delivers Montel to a federal prison to await judgment.
It was released in the United States on August 8, 2003. Reception for the picture was mixed, with a 48 (out of 100) on the movie reviews website Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie begins with a hostage situation in Los Angeles. Officer Jim Street (Farrell), a hot-shot cop from the Los Angeles Police Department and his SWAT team are sent to prevent a mob of robbers who have taken over a bank. His high-tempered collaborator and best friend Brian Gamble (Jeremy Renner) declines an instruction, and hurts a hostage. Gamble and Street are demoted by Captain Fuller (Larry Poindexter), the commander of LAPD's Metropolitan Division, who is portrayed as a picky martinet. Gamble quits following difference in opinion with Fuller and Street, the latter of whom is taken off the SWAT team and sent to work in the "gun cage," where he looks after gear and armaments.The Head of Police calls on Sergeant Dan "Hondo" Harrelson (Jackson) to help re-organize the SWAT division. Hondo is transferred in, and soon puts together a diverse team, including himself, Street, Chris Sánchez (Rodriguez), Deacon Kaye (LL Cool J), T.J. McCabe (Josh Charles), and Michael Boxer (Brian Van Holt). The team trains together and develops bonds of friendship.
Meanwhile, a drug lord by the name of Alex Montel (Olivier Martinez) murders his father and uncle for control of the family's corruption empire. The L.A.P.D. stop Montel for a ruined taillight, confine him, and find out through Interpol he is an international escapee. As they are transferring him, his friends, clothed as LAPD officers, attack the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department bus Montel is on, in an attempt to free him. Hondo's SWAT team foils the assault. As Montel is being brought into the police station in front of a group of journalists, he yells to them, "I will give one hundred million dollars to whoever gets me out of here."
The L.A.P.D. makes plans to transfer Montel into federal custody. They plan to fly him away, but a strange assailant (later exposed to be Gamble) shoots down the helicopter. The police next send out a big fleet, which is attacked by mob members. It turns out to be a trap, and Hondo's team has spirited Montel away in two S.U.V.s. However, T.J. has been planning with Gamble, and the two win in taking Montel from the other officers. Hondo and the rest give chase, and there is a final violent war, Gamble's group against the SWAT officers. Hondo's team is victorious. T.Jcommits suicide rather than be captured, and there is a nasty hand to hand war between Street and Gamble, with Street emerging the eventual victor when he kicks Gamble under the wheels of a passing train. The SWAT team delivers Montel to a federal prison to await judgment.
It was released in the United States on August 8, 2003. Reception for the picture was mixed, with a 48 (out of 100) on the movie reviews website Rotten Tomatoes.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
JURASSIC PARK
Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction thriller feature film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the work of fiction of the same name by Michael Crichton. John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) invites a group of scientists, played by Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern, to examine the park before its public opening. Interference sets the dinosaurs unfastened, and the technicians and visitors attempt to flee the island.
In Jurassic Park, located on Isla Nublar, an member of staff for the genetic engineering company InGen is attacked and killed, prompting a lawsuit from his family. CEO John Hammond is pressured by his investors to let a safety scrutiny by experts before opening the park. He invites paleontologist Alan Grant, paleobotanist Ellie Sattler, chaos theorist Ian Malcolm, and his investors' lawyer Donald Gennaro to carry out the scrutiny. At the park, they learn that InGen produced the dinosaurs by cloning genetic material found in mosquitoes that fed on dinosaur blood, preserved in Dominican amber. The DNA from these samples was spliced with DNA from frogs to fill in sequence gaps. Only female dinosaurs are created in order to avoid uncontrolled reproduction within the park. The team is also shown the inclusion of the Velociraptor, dubbed "raptors", extremely intelligent, aggressive and ferocious predators.
Malcolm, Sattler and Grant meet Hammond's grandchildren, Tim and Alexis "Lex" Murphy, and go on a vehicular tour of the park. Ellie leaves the visit to superintend and take care of a sick Triceratops with Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Gerry Harding. A tropical tempest hits the island as most InGen employees leave for the day leaving only Hammond, game warden Robert Muldoon, chief engineer Ray Arnold, and leading computer programmer Dennis Nedry to manage the park and the visitors. Bribed by InGen's rival Lewis Dodgson, Nedry takes an opportunity to shut down the park's security system so he can pilfer dinosaur embryos and deliver them to an informant at the secondary dock. As a result, the safety systems of the whole park are shut down, allowing the Tyrannosaurus to break through the deactivated electric barrier surrounding its pen, devouring Gennaro, attacking Tim and Lex hiding in the car, and wounding Malcolm. Just after they flee the wreck, Sattler and Muldoon arrive. At first, they believe the only survivor of the attack is Malcolm, but upon further search they find footprints belonging to Grant and the kids. Just then, the T-rex returns and Malcolm, Muldoon, and Sattler barely run off her in their Jeep. Meanwhile, Nedry crashes his Jeep and, while trying to lift it, is killed by a Dilophosaurus. Grant, Tim, and Lex spend the night in a tree. While hiking to security the next morning, they notice hatched eggs, indicating that the dinosaurs are actually reproduction. Grant learns that the frog DNA is liable: some species of frog are known to unexpectedly change sex in a single-sex atmosphere.
Arnold tries to hack Nedry's computer to turn the fences back on but fails. When he does not return from the shed, Sattler and Muldoon follow and notice the raptors have escaped, the shutdown having cut off power to the electric fences around their pen. Muldoon comes to know that they are near and tells Sattler to go to the utility shed herself and turn the power back on while he tries to distract the raptors and chase them down. Sattler arrives at the shed and manages to reset the breakers when she is chased by a raptor, finds Arnold's corpse, and manages to escape the maintenance shed. Muldoon is attacked and killed by a second raptor while hunting the third raptor. Grant and the kids finally arrive at the Visitor Center, after Tim is electrocuted when the fences turned back on and revived by Grant. Grant leaves them to find the others and finds Sattler first, then joins Malcolm and Hammond in the emergency bunkers.
Raptors enter the Visitor Center and Lex and Tim closely flee them in the kitchen (locking one in the freezer). Grant and Sattler take Lex and Tim to the Control Room where Lex is finally able to restore the Park's computer systems in order to call Hammond to request a helicopter rescue of the survivors. Grant and Sattler hold off a raptor trying to open the door to the computer room, until the power is restored and the electromagnetic locks begin working. With the door secure, the raptor breaks into the room through the window, and the unit climbs up into the ceiling crawlspace and arrives at the Visitors Center rotunda, help comes from an unlikely source: the Tyrannosaurus abruptly appears and strikes the raptors. The T-rex and raptors fight while Grant, Sattler, Lex, and Tim flee. The four escape, climb into Hammond and Malcolm's jeep and leave. Grant says he will not endorse the park, a choice with which Hammond concurs. Meanwhile inside the T-rex tears apart one of the raptors and kills the other by hurling it at a Tyrannosaurus skeleton on display. As the unit fly away in the helicopter, the children fall asleep beside Grant, who thoughtfully looks out the window over the horizon at a flock of birds flying nearby, the current relatives of the dinosaurs that once lived.
Jurassic Park became the most financially successful picture released worldwide as of that time, beating Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Based upon a sample of 33 reviews Jurassic Park bagged 83% on the tomatometer.
In Jurassic Park, located on Isla Nublar, an member of staff for the genetic engineering company InGen is attacked and killed, prompting a lawsuit from his family. CEO John Hammond is pressured by his investors to let a safety scrutiny by experts before opening the park. He invites paleontologist Alan Grant, paleobotanist Ellie Sattler, chaos theorist Ian Malcolm, and his investors' lawyer Donald Gennaro to carry out the scrutiny. At the park, they learn that InGen produced the dinosaurs by cloning genetic material found in mosquitoes that fed on dinosaur blood, preserved in Dominican amber. The DNA from these samples was spliced with DNA from frogs to fill in sequence gaps. Only female dinosaurs are created in order to avoid uncontrolled reproduction within the park. The team is also shown the inclusion of the Velociraptor, dubbed "raptors", extremely intelligent, aggressive and ferocious predators.
Malcolm, Sattler and Grant meet Hammond's grandchildren, Tim and Alexis "Lex" Murphy, and go on a vehicular tour of the park. Ellie leaves the visit to superintend and take care of a sick Triceratops with Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Gerry Harding. A tropical tempest hits the island as most InGen employees leave for the day leaving only Hammond, game warden Robert Muldoon, chief engineer Ray Arnold, and leading computer programmer Dennis Nedry to manage the park and the visitors. Bribed by InGen's rival Lewis Dodgson, Nedry takes an opportunity to shut down the park's security system so he can pilfer dinosaur embryos and deliver them to an informant at the secondary dock. As a result, the safety systems of the whole park are shut down, allowing the Tyrannosaurus to break through the deactivated electric barrier surrounding its pen, devouring Gennaro, attacking Tim and Lex hiding in the car, and wounding Malcolm. Just after they flee the wreck, Sattler and Muldoon arrive. At first, they believe the only survivor of the attack is Malcolm, but upon further search they find footprints belonging to Grant and the kids. Just then, the T-rex returns and Malcolm, Muldoon, and Sattler barely run off her in their Jeep. Meanwhile, Nedry crashes his Jeep and, while trying to lift it, is killed by a Dilophosaurus. Grant, Tim, and Lex spend the night in a tree. While hiking to security the next morning, they notice hatched eggs, indicating that the dinosaurs are actually reproduction. Grant learns that the frog DNA is liable: some species of frog are known to unexpectedly change sex in a single-sex atmosphere.
Arnold tries to hack Nedry's computer to turn the fences back on but fails. When he does not return from the shed, Sattler and Muldoon follow and notice the raptors have escaped, the shutdown having cut off power to the electric fences around their pen. Muldoon comes to know that they are near and tells Sattler to go to the utility shed herself and turn the power back on while he tries to distract the raptors and chase them down. Sattler arrives at the shed and manages to reset the breakers when she is chased by a raptor, finds Arnold's corpse, and manages to escape the maintenance shed. Muldoon is attacked and killed by a second raptor while hunting the third raptor. Grant and the kids finally arrive at the Visitor Center, after Tim is electrocuted when the fences turned back on and revived by Grant. Grant leaves them to find the others and finds Sattler first, then joins Malcolm and Hammond in the emergency bunkers.
Raptors enter the Visitor Center and Lex and Tim closely flee them in the kitchen (locking one in the freezer). Grant and Sattler take Lex and Tim to the Control Room where Lex is finally able to restore the Park's computer systems in order to call Hammond to request a helicopter rescue of the survivors. Grant and Sattler hold off a raptor trying to open the door to the computer room, until the power is restored and the electromagnetic locks begin working. With the door secure, the raptor breaks into the room through the window, and the unit climbs up into the ceiling crawlspace and arrives at the Visitors Center rotunda, help comes from an unlikely source: the Tyrannosaurus abruptly appears and strikes the raptors. The T-rex and raptors fight while Grant, Sattler, Lex, and Tim flee. The four escape, climb into Hammond and Malcolm's jeep and leave. Grant says he will not endorse the park, a choice with which Hammond concurs. Meanwhile inside the T-rex tears apart one of the raptors and kills the other by hurling it at a Tyrannosaurus skeleton on display. As the unit fly away in the helicopter, the children fall asleep beside Grant, who thoughtfully looks out the window over the horizon at a flock of birds flying nearby, the current relatives of the dinosaurs that once lived.
Jurassic Park became the most financially successful picture released worldwide as of that time, beating Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Based upon a sample of 33 reviews Jurassic Park bagged 83% on the tomatometer.
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