A solid comedy in the American Pie mold with some memorable performances and some serious laugh out loud moments.
Category Archives: DVD
Rush Hour
A typical buddy-cop movie for fans of Jackie Chan or Chris Tucker (are there any?) only.
Aliens (Special Edition)
The additional footage extends and enhances what is already a genre-defining action sci-fi flick and although these days the movie looks dated it’s impossible to deny the impact it had on subsequent films, giving it a deserved place in movie history.
Pitch Black
An exciting and thrilling movie with enough scares to keep you on the edge of your seat and enough sarcastic banter to keep the most bitter of movie fans engaged, well worth watching.
The Last Boy Scout
Ex-Secret Service turned self-hating PI (Bruce Willis) wise-cracks his way through a high body count silly but thouroughly entertaining action movie to help an ex-American Footballer get closure.
Last Man Standing
Brooding re-working of A Fistful of Dollars (et al.) set in prohibition America where Smith (Bruce Willis), the man with no name, plays two gangs in a deserted town against each other to deadly and tense results giving us a solid performance and totally enjoyable viewing experience.
I Am Legend
While this generally disappointing film lacks solid structure and suffers from sudden changes in pace it still delivers some exhilarating scenes and good performances, but it will leave you in the lurch at the altar without a week of honeymoon fun to look forward to.
Transformers
A totally engaging and adrenaline fueled summer blockbuster with ‘good enough’ performances from the cast and simply breathtaking special effects, Transformers delivers what it promises as long as you don’t dig too deeply or think too hard about the likelihood of the American Military listening to a couple of teenagers, no matter how ‘hot’ either of them may be (depending on your gender preference).
Serenity
For fans of the TV series this movie provides a cathartic experience bound up in an exciting story with solid performances and emotional scenes but people who’ve not seen the TV series may find the lack of back-story troubling and wonder what the fuss is about.
I Am Legend
Short review of this one. I’d heard from a few people that the special effects let this film down, but really I didn’t find that. I feel the film was a let down, but it was the story and the structure which did that for me, there really was no obvious middle and the end appears to have been tacked on and very overly abrupt. The start is good, I really engaged quickly with Will’s character and I was really looking forward to the development of the ‘bad guy who’s getting more intelligent’.
Which is why it was such a let down for the movie to go from a thoughtful but action based story to an all-out zombie fest in the last 15 minutes.
Maybe the director needed another 30 minutes to extend the story and give us a better look at what was going on, maybe the screenplay was better before it made it to the cinema, either way I Am Legend was more disappointing than entertaining, by no means a bad movie, but no where near the quality it should have been.