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Good fun 7.5/10
The acting was pretty good, but I could not understand the point of this film.
5/10
Rubbish film.
Not the sort of film I would normally watch, but lately i've gotten into Knightley's work. I never used to think much of her as an actress (admittedly I had not seen much of her), but I was wrong, I would like to retract anything disparaging I may have said about her acting in the past (not aimed just at this film).
I think it helped that P&P also starred Jena Malone, another favourite of mine.
Neat little film. I loved the first one and enjoyed this one thoroughly. There's a surprising amount of scares and fights in it. Not your average poor horror sequel but a surprisingly impressive effort.
There is also a 3rd film in the pipeline, Outpost 3: Rise Of The Spetsnaz.
I suggest you check it out instantly, Major. ;-) It's important you judge for yourself. However, I doubt it will let you down. Let me turn the one and only potential negative thing I could say about it into a positive thing right away: it doesn't entirely rely on the same dark and claustrophobic feel of the first one but then kudos for not trying to be a carbon copy of the first one. ;-) I hope it sounds as positive as I intended. ;-)
Yes! I know, and I can't wait. :P Good thing they aren't keeping this thing hidden from us for another 4 years. It's due out in '13 iirc.
Waiting for the P&P&Zombies film that mashup genius Seth Grahame-Smith, author of the fabulous The Big Book of Porn: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Movies and the hilarious horror meta guide How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills, is working on.
You should certainly check out A Dangerous Method. I enjoyed that film but I sometimes feel I'm one of a mere few such people. ;-) So if you give it a try, please let me know how you felt about it.
Everything Must Go is a terrific film and Ferrell is very good as the lead. The rest of the cast is equally satisfying. Especially Rebecca Hall.
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<center><font color = darkblue size = 6>COLLATERAL (2005)</font></center>
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Collateral is my first theatrical Mann experience and it's a film I welcomed with open arms. After two more or less 'real cases' (The Insider, Ali), he returns to the type of stories that made Thief and HEAT such tremendous films. We shall yet again see the face of crime at close range, this time personified in none other than Tom Cruise.
You either love or you hate Cruise. The first applies to me. He was the cute boy in Top Gun and Cocktail but swiftly grew up and became a talented and versatile actor. It isn't merely for his looks that the likes of Spielberg, Kubrick and Mann want(ed) to work with him. In Collateral, Cruise is well cast as Vincent (but why did he have to be called Vincent, like the Pacino character in HEAT?). His greyish looks ooze maturity, discipline, coldness and seriousness, which make him a convincing gun for hire. As before, Mann displays an extraordinary talent for picking out the right people. Cruise is brilliant here.
So is Foxx, and I'm not even a big Jamie Foxx fan. I will admit that the man has the skills, but I find him a bit dull at times. Mann must have thought so too, for he picked Foxx for the role of unexciting cab driver cum hero Max. Other great cast members include Mark Ruffalo, pre Hulk of course, Jada Pinkett Smith, Barry Shabaka Henley and Javier Bardem as a baddie (what are the odds, eej?). Notice please during one of the first scenes a quick cameo by Expendable Jason Statham.
The story seems simple enough and at first limits the expectations. Won't things end up repetitive, borderline boring? Won't the premise of the film restrict its scope and tension? No, and I should have known, for this genre of films is Mann's speciality and he knows what to do with it. The story builds tension, both via episodic conflicts, mostly between Vincent and Max, and by a grander threat overshadowing the fine memories of the heart-warming cab scenes with Max and Annie in the first act. You just know that matters won't be settled so easily; Mann wouldn't allow it.
Now, switch off the lights, amp up the volume and let yourself be taken for a ride. I find the images absolutely irresistible. Driving at night, downtown LA, in the comfort of a nice cab with neon signs and warm nightly breezes outside... I can feel it thanks to Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron's excellent digital photography. I can only imagine what Spinotti would have done with this - it would have been tremendous no doubt - but here's me being pleased as it is with what I'm seeing. Atmosphere is everything and LA by night, a classy jazz club, a dance club and an empty office building never looked better. Add to that a once again terrific soundtrack (score by James Newton Howard but with additional music by Vangelis, Paul Oakenfold and others) and the perfect mood is created. The story flows on the waves of an excellent setting.
Collateral pulls me in from the first moment on and never lets me go. It's a film about people forced into situations out of the ordinary. Ask yourself, what would you do if you were Max. Michael Mann crafted a very entertaining thriller, very well made in technical terms and supported by a great cast. I recommend you see this film.
<font color = red>Final score:</font> 8,5/10
DD's Michael Mann retrospective score card:
HEAT: 10/10
The Insider: 9/10
Thief: 9/10
Collateral: 8,5/10
Manhunter: 8/10
Ali: 7/10
The Last Of The Mohicans: 7/10
The Keep: 5,5/10
DD's David Fincher retrospective score card:
Seven: 9,5/10
The Social Network: 9,5/10
Zodiac: 8,5/10
The Game: 8/10
Panic Room: 8/10
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: 8/10
Alien³: 7,5/10
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button: 7,5/10
Fight Club: 7/10
Unfortunately, the last movie that I watched was 'Saw 4.' My girlfriend picked up the first five films on DVD for $5, so we've been going through them all. I've seen them all before, but she hasn't. 'Saw 4' is far from the level of the first 'Saw,' mainly because the plot gets convoluted, miscellaneous characters we couldn't care less about keep getting thrown in for cheap thrills and random traps, and the twists become incredibly outlandish. Still, I'm looking forward to getting through them all.
Simple horror movie, scared the heeby jeebies out of me and made me paranoid when I went to bed. so...
8/10
I was lucky enough to catch the original film on the big screen when it was released in 2008. I loved it, it became an instant favourite of mine. Here we are 4 years later and we have a sequel. I was sceptical going into this, it turns out... ok. Though it isn't a bad sequel as such, it does lack that creepy & claustrophobic atmosphere of the original.
I have no clue where they're gonna go with Outpost 3. I just hope this series doesn't go the way of the Wishmaster films.
'The Rock' gave yet another great acting performance. Underrated I think.
Also watched - Lockout - with Guy Pierce. Needed a few more quid thrown at it to make it good. It was escape from New York in Space. No Luc Benson it was not an original idea as it said in the opening credits.
Go watch Faster now.
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Upon checking the cast list for O3, I feel like we're not going to have the main characters from O2 return for this one.
Yes, looks like it could be a clean break (other than the title).
I love 90's action thillers, David Keith (who's kinda cool in this), couldn't crash a helicopter into the side of an office building in 2012.
Stacy Keach
1. The Squeeze (1977)
2. Road Games (1981)
3. Doc (1971)
4. Gray Lady Down (1978)
5. Antigone (1972)
6. Battle Force (1978)
7. Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (1989)
8. Mission Of The Shark (1991)
9. Class Of 1999 (1990)
10. The Return Of Mickey Spillanes Mike Hammer (1986)
11. Intimate Strangers (1986)
12. Unshackled (2000)
**13. Good Cop, Bad Cop (1994) NE**
14. Meteor (2009)
15. Death Row (2006)
16. Weather Wars (2011)
I don't think this film deserves the criticism it gets. While not the greatest film I've seen, it was still a fun movie that I enjoyed. My only problem with it was that it was too corney at times.
1) Original theatrical version (this morning)
2) 2004 Coloured version (this afternoon)
3) 1998 30th anniversary edition (tonight)
This film is an absolute favourite of mine! Witness the breakdown of the American family. Witness one of the very first black 'heroes' to be cast in the lead part of a film. Witness total, unexplained nihilism. Though I hold the sequel, Dawn Of The Dead, in even higher esteem, I consider this the father of all zombie films, a true classic, a superb cult film.
You have to see it! You just have to. I'm not saying you will like this cheap, black-and-white film that needed even its own producers to fill essential parts, but you will respect it. Whether you are a fan of the genre or not is irrelevant. So much can be read into this film! Never was it made more obvious that even in an unthinkable apocalypse like this, the living will always face themselves as their major adversary.
Give NOTLD a fair chance, sit through it once and behold the quintessential indie zombie film.
Sadly my mother wanted me to watch this horrible film with her so here is Murdock's micro review...
Nic Cage
Nicole Kidman
Script entirely swearing and cliche
Joel Shumacher film...
Need I say more?
2/10
Movies with the exact same plot have been better than this come on! though I give Joel credit for not putting nipples on Nic's suit vest. :-&
Not a very funny comedy. 4/10
So bad it's good. ;-)
It's Night Of The Creeps level so-bad-it's-good, but without boobs, which is a shame. ;-)
The famous first meeting of cinema's greatest onscreen romance. To Have and Have Not is a wonderfully presented war romance film, with beautiful sets and atmosphere abound. This film is by no stretch of the imagination Bogie's greatest film, but it is a great one, and worthy of being included in his ranks. He plays his classic reluctant hero who soon springs into action once certain events give him the spirit to act, but this time he is a much more friendly man overall compared to the repressed Rick Blaine, or the stern man of the law Sam Spade. Lauren Bacall is in her first onscreen appearance at only age 19, yet she commands every scene toe to toe with Bogie and looks much older and mature than in reality. The dialogue between the pair is brilliant, every single line shared between them a delight. Bogie's grin goes out of frame, and Lauren's steamy sultriness steams up the screen. It is easy to see why the two were a perfect pair, and why this film is so enduring for that romance today.
*Hoagy Carmichael also appears, one of the inspirations behind James Bond.
"What are my chances of surviving this?
That was new.... seeing Panabaker survive a horror film I mean. Considering her track record of being stabbed (Friday The 13th), hung up (The Crazies) or having her brain fried (The Ward). Pity she could not have toplined and survived a tasteful horror film. Someone needs to get Ti West on the phone. [-O<
She is quite the sacrificial little lamb, isn't she? Though from what I have seen, her deaths only serve to end a film in what the director finds shocking and completely original, or to move a plot along sloppily with an increased body count.