Film Review: The Core

Genre: Action  Adventure  Sci-Fi

Cert: 12A

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: none

Violence & Gore: At the beginning of the film, some people die for an unknown reason.
A lightning storm devastates Rome, historical buildings including the Colosseum are crumbled into pieces . After that, we see in an aerial view that the city was badly damaged and there are fires all over the city.
The ray of sunlight lands on San Francisco, destroying the ozone layer and the middle part of the Golden Gate Bridge was destroyed. We see lots of cars explode.
A person is trapped in compartment that's closing in on him. It's implied that he is crushed to death.
A rock pierces a man's helmet and blood is seen trickling down his forehead and falls in magma 

Profanity: The F-word is used once.
  

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Dr. Zimsky smokes cigarettes frequently throughout the beginning of the movie


Frightening/Intense Scenes: A person is trapped in compartment that's closing in on him. It's implied that he is crushed to death maybe be a little disturbing to some viewers. 

Story: The Earth's core has stopped spinning. Disasters are appearing all over the world: Birds acting crazy, powerful thunderstorms, 32 people die within seconds of each other when their pacemakers quit working. Dr. Josh Keyes and his crew of five (total members: 6) go down to the center of the Earth to set off a nuclear device to make the Earth's core start spinning again or Mankind will perish.

Likes : This is a film that is has got some unfair reviews because this film despite the reputation it got is a dam good film, that give real facts on how the earth work's, if this happen like a event like this, this would happen to our earth minus the drilling through the earth to save it.
When i saw this film i though it was going to be another cheesy disaster film, but it was far from it, it start off pretty well with all sort of things going on then you see people drop dead this is what set the mood for the rest of the film as you start to see that the world is in deep trouble.
Along with it C.G.I special which on the budget this film had wasn't to bad, as most of the filming was film inside the drilling ship as they travel to the core,along with some great acting this film was brilliantly done for a Sc-Fi/Disaster film. Like any disaster film there has to be few death's to keep the emotion & concept of risk that the mission might fail which i think its cleverly placed through out the film, i think it worked for the film.
while they had a bit of a hook up between Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank it was very subtle and didn't happen till the end of the movie. Overall brilliant casting with Eckhart, Swank, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo, Richard Jenkins, DJ Qualls and Bruce Greenwood bringing a unique adventure traveling deep into the earth core.I really don't understand why so many people think this film is bad, i think most of it is jump on the bandwagon because everyone else is pulling it down instead of making their own mind up.
For the budget this film had,you couldn't get a better film than this because the scientific side of his film is spot on to true facts about the earth, ya drilling to the center of the earth to restart it is a bit far fetched but it just a movie & this is what sc-fi is for to stretch the imagination.
If you haven't watched this film yet i can say that you should believe in the comment about this film because this is a well made film from director Jon Amiel, this is the film for me that got me in to 30 second to mars who done the brilliant sound track at the end.

Dislikes : This is a little short but still good film

Overall : Great disaster film, good acting, good special effect.

Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 8.1 out of 10 for story-line/Real fact about the earth.

Film Review: One Missed Call

Genre: Horror Mystery 

Cert: 15 cert

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: Beth jokes with a friend about his desire to pursue Taylor while "the sheets are still warm" from his just-ended relationship with Leann. Beth and Taylor wear tight, cleavage-baring tops.

Violence & Gore:Although the cover of the film may look VERY scary, this film is not based on blood and gore and is more aimed for scares high intensity.
Note: The film does have violence, but the majority of it is relatively bloodless.
The theme of the film is racing against the clock to save someone you love.
A policeman crawls through a dark passageway, she finds a body that's severely burned, with distorted features and a bloody skin,
A man is thrown hard against a wall and is knocked unconscious.
A young woman appears fearful and apprehensive when she walks toward a door.
A young man is nearly struck by a car.
A young woman sees a woman being encircled in blowing leaves and then disappearing.
A young woman hears a phone message of her own voice screaming.
A young woman stomps on her telephone breaking it.
A man is impaled through the back and out the chest with a rebar.
A woman is struck by a train.
A woman's mangled body is seen and her severed hand dials a number.
A girl's face is grabbed and dragged into a pond and drowned.
A cat is drowned.
A woman's neck is strangled by an invisible force. Very intense as her neck contorts.
A centipede is seen burrowing into a woman's hand and through her vein.
Many dead bodies seen.
A little girl is abused.

A man is hung.
A little girl dies of an asthma attack, she is seen trying to scream, hyper-ventilating and suffering.
A girl cuts a little girl. 

Profanity:  A half-dozen S-Words.There are also a few other uses of dammit, as well as hell.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: none


Frightening/Intense Scenes:  Many of the scenes contain jump scares and shocking imagery is used.
Knowing that someone is going to die and there is no way to stop it can be pretty frightening.

Story: After the death of their friend Shelley, Leann Cole receives a voice mail from the future of the date and time when she would die. On the scheduled day, Leann sees weird things and in the precise informed hour, Leann is attacked by a supernatural force on a footbridge over a train station while talking to her friend Beth Raymond. Beth meets Leann's boyfriend Brian, who also received a call, and witnesses his death on the street. When her roommate Taylor Anthony receives a call, Beth befriends Det. Jack Andrews, who tells her that his sister was the first victim of the phone call. They decide to investigate the connections of Jack's sister and find the name of Marie Layton, who apparently abused of her daughters. Jack and Beth run against time trying to save Beth from her fate.

Likes :  I get why people have put this film don't, but it like every remake of a film that from a Japanese original always gets put down, this really isn't as bad as everyone make it out to be.The ingredients for a horror to work is to kept the film dark & atmospheric with a creepiness that get under your skin, this film dose all of the above which make this a good horror film despite it being a remake of 2003s version.
There is something creepy that an evil spirit can use the telephone to kill you, but unlike the the film the ring with the video tape then the phone call, this is a phone call that will leave you your last moments of life, that to me is creepy in itself. Shannyn Sossamon plays role of an only child who father died when she was young, only to become faced with death as each one of her friends drop dead after a phone call, she plays this brilliantly to give a believable character.Edward Burns plays the reluctant hero in this film trying to track down what is causing this, he performance is good as always.
Alone with the special, the creepy moments when you see curtain things, you mind kind to start to drift in to this dark cold place you get a cold chill down your spine, despite what people may think of this film, this is pretty creep & dark. I've never seen the original film but then im not much one for Japanese film, i just cant get in to them of find them creepy when you watch the subtitles all the time, they don't have the same atmosphere to which you find creepy unless your from the country the film is from, but this isn't to bad, ive seen some worst horror film than this.
I wouldn't say its a perfect horror, but its still a great horror film to watch as it has everything a horror should be with some creepy scary moments to spine chilling moment's, what i will say though this film might not be for everyone as lot of people have expressed their disappointment in this film from the remake but a stand alone film its pretty good with a creepy child's tune.

Dislikes : I think this film could of done with more creepy death scene, i just think it was a little short on that but not a bad effect for a horror film.

Overall : Creepy moments, scary scenes, good acting

Rating: 4 out of 5 for entertainment / 6 out of 10 for story-line/ dark creepy theme

Film Review: A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Genre: Adventure  Drama  Sci-Fi

Cert: 12 cert

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity:A character is a male prostitute. We see him flirting with woman and preparing for sex, though nothing is shown. Discussion about sex.
A character asks for a ride to a town, promising teens in the car prostitutes in their destination.
A character eagerly wants sex.
A child interrupts a woman sitting on a toilet going to the bathroom. We briefly see her legs and her bare buttocks from the side.
A woman wears a cleavage revealing dress.
Sexual innuendos. 

Violence & Gore: One of Joes "women" is found lying dead in a hotel room. Her husband found out about her robot romances and killed her for it. Elsewhere, in a circus of sorts called a "Flesh Fair," robots are destroyed in gruesome ways. Since many of them look and act human, the spectacle takes on a dark hue as acid dissolves their faces, whirling propeller blades make mincemeat of their bodies and fire chars their skin. One machines grisly head flies through the air, landing right in front of David (and moviegoers). In a fit of angst and frustration, David attacks another identical robot asking to be friends, decapitating the being and bludgeoning it with a blunt weapon.


Profanity:  2 uses of d--n, and a uses of similar mild language and insults are scattered throughout


Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Adults drink wine with a meal.


Frightening/Intense Scenes: This is actually a very disturbing film - emotionally harrowing, and frightening in many scenes. It is definitely not for small children.
  

Story: In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting rise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. Withdrawn to the interior of the continents, the human race keeps advancing, reaching the point of creating realistic robots (called mechas) to serve them. One of the mecha-producing companies builds David, an artificial kid which is the first to have real feelings, especially a never-ending love for his "mother", Monica. Monica is the woman who adopted him as a substitute for her real son, who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an incurable disease. David is living happily with Monica and her husband, but when their real son returns home after a cure is discovered, his life changes dramatically.

Likes : This film is why Steven Spielberg is one of the best director's in the world this film stand as monument to Stanley Kubrick film's like 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, In A.I., Spielberg masterfully adopts Kubrick's hard, bare-essentials style of direction, letting the photography tell the story, rather than the dialogue. This style allowed Kubrick to develop an enormous scope of ideas, stories and emotions in his movies. He had difficulty finding the right treatment for A.I. so he handed the project to Spielberg before Kubrick's pass away in 1999 to which Spielberg done a brilliant job at making this film.
"AI" transpires sometime in the near future after the polar ice caps have melted and flooded coastal cities and reduced natural resources. Mechanical androids have become popular since they require no commodities. Reproduction has also become highly illegal. Machines provide sexual services and if anyone wants a child, they will purchase a robot. However, the difference between a robot child and a living child is that robots cannot love.
 That's the task professor Hobby (William Hurt) of Cybernetics Manufacturing has solved. He has made a robot child David played by Haley Joel Osment that can love, Haley Joel Osment is amazing, the robot/human emotion must be amazingly difficult to pull off effectively, but Osment does it with such relative ease to the point where you do believe he is a robot, not that he is just acting as a robot. Jude Law is excellent performance as Gigolo Joe , and so to is Frances O'Conner who plays a perfect performance as Monica Swinton. This one of those rare film that come out once in a while that astound the audience with an amazing heart warming story as well as perfect special effects that add to the magic of this film.
This is one of those film that will last a life time still be one of the greatest film to be made 30 years down the line, it one film i recommend watching & having in your DVD collection.



Dislikes : The pace of the film could have been a bit faster,it was a little slow but still a worth watching film.

Overall : brilliantly told story in a Pinocchio concept, great special effects, emotional journey

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 for entertainment / 8.1 out of 10 for story-line/ theme

Film Review: The Prestige

Genre:  Drama Mystery Thriller

Cert: 12A

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: People kiss, and a man and a woman showing her back hold each other and kiss.
A shirtless man and his wife talk, and then kiss on the bed. She lays back and he lays on top of her, they kiss and moan, the scene then rapidly ends but sex is implied.
A man and his wife are shown to have a child.
A man has an affair with a woman who is not his wife, and this leads to arguments. We are told many times that the man and woman sleep together, and in one scene we see them post-coitus in bed. She is obviously nude but covered by bed sheets, and he is clothed. We don't see anything, and we see them kiss and talk.
A woman wears revealing clothing throughout. We see lots of cleavage on her breasts and most of her legs, with occasional glimpses of her partially clad buttocks.the man actually is not having an affair as it turns out

Violence & Gore:A man cuts another man's fingers off using a chisel (the man screams loudly and we see the bloody and bruised digits later).
A man shoots a man in the chest, the man gasps and slumps to the ground dead. We see some blood on his shirt.
A woman hangs herself (we see her feet swinging off the ground).
A man has a noose placed around his neck, a hatch opens beneath his feet, and we hear a crack.
A bird gets smashed. We see its bloody and mutilated body later. At another point, a bird is smashed again. The camera cuts away just in time, but we see a a large blood splatter.
A woman's fingers break by getting caught in some mechanism (we see blood and hear the woman screaming) but this scene ends very rapidly.
A man shoots another man's hand, taking off two of his fingers (we see the bloody digits).
A man falls through stairs and into a box where he is trapped, the box is nailed shut and then buried underground (the man in the box shoots through it and strikes a man on the outside in the arm). However the man is soon dug up and rescued.
A man is held by police with a nightstick across his throat, and he thrashes and struggles to get away. 

Profanity: 1 scatological term, 1 anatomical term, 4 mild obscenities, name-calling (fool, stupid), 4 religious exclamations. bloody is used a lot. B****rd is used a few times
  

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking:Men are shown drinking alcohol in a pub, people drink alcohol in several scenes, and people drink champagne in a celebratory scene. Two magicians stick messages to each other onto the bottom of glasses of beer. One man is described as being perpetually drunk and is shown comically stumbling around and slurring his words.
Later, a man notices that something is upsetting his wife when she starts drinking more often at home.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: The film has an intense and frightening atmosphere throughout. Everything is very intense and realistic, and the theme of obsession only adds.
A man falls into a water tank that locks (he struggles to get out but cannot) and a man tries to break the glass but cannot before the man drowns (we see the dead man on an autopsy table, his eyes are open and his body is pale). We see bits of this scene multiple times.
A woman is lowered into a tank of water, the lid of the tank is locked, she is unable to get out and she thrashes and struggles. It is later implied that this has happened several times.
There's a scene where one of the main characters is hanged. We see him drop but the camera cuts away before his neck breaks.
A room full of men drowned in tanks of water is shown. 

Story:In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival magicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences.


Likes : The Prestige is a masterful exercise in storytelling with superb direction and powerful performances by a grand ensemble cast. From set and production design to cinematography, from script to presentation, Christopher Nolan has once again demonstrated why he is one of the film world's brightest up and coming directors. The Prestige only helps solidify his standing as one of the landmark directors of his generation.
 The success of an act of illusion solely depends upon the deftness with which its three parts viz. the Pledge, the Turn, and the Prestige are performed. Similarly, for a movie to be a success, its three main aspects i.e. screenplay, direction, and acting are ought to be top-notch. Christopher Nolan incredibly manages to strike all the right cords with The Prestige.
The movie is a roller-coaster of a ride with intriguingly intertwined subplots and masterful time switching, which makes it one of a kind and an ultimate masterpiece as it take you on one direction,then throw you in another leaves you think what the hell is going on right to the end of the film where the film reveal's the direction & the prestige of the final act in the film that you don't see coming.
Through the the film you cant help but think by the end of the film that Michael Caine character was the true mastermind in the end just by he way it ended,  Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) at the start of their careers are highly ambitious young men assisting an elderly illusionist named Milton. Borden's incessant longing for innovation leads to the accidental death of Angier's wife.This is where this film take on that dark obsession & deception concept as Huge Jackman's character become obsessed with Christian Bale characters magic tricks which become a dark dangerous obsession that lends to a dark road.
Alot of people don't seem to like Scarlett Johansson but i happen o think she a great actress although a little weak in some roles but that down to not being giving the right role but she brilliant in a supporting roles like this also supporting role ingenious scientist named Nikola Tesla played by (David Bowie) who dose a fantastic performance & fitted the odd scientist which they call the wizard.
This is a film i recommend you watch if you haven't already watched this, you wont be disappointed as this is a rare & beautiful made film from Christopher Nolan.


Dislikes : Nothing wrong with this film

Overall : brilliant performances, Brilliant twist & deception, a must to watch.

Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 9.4 out of 10 for story-line/ twist & deception.

Film Review: Most Wanted (1997)

Genre:  Action Thriller

Cert: 15 cert

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: Naked woman stepping out of a pool briefly breast showing

Violence & Gore: Alot of fight scene show brutal hits, man fall from a highway, blood is seen on the face, man gets shot in both legs, man get shot in the head body's are see on the floor,House explosion.

Profanity: There are a few f words throw, few sh*t words

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Cigar is seen being smoked

Frightening/Intense Scenes: Man seen being shot in the head maybe a little disturbing

Story: Sgt. James Dunn, who is wrongly accused of assassination of the officer he had a row with, is saved from death row and recruited for top-secret special operations squad led by Lt. Col Grant Casey. Their mission is to neutralise criminals who had avoided conventional law enforcement methods. On his first Mission, James is made the fall guy for the assassination of the first lady and everyone is looking for him and Dr. Victoria Constantini who was lucky to videotape what happened. One of the forces looking for him is military, led by Gen. Adam Woodward, which is in fact an alias for Grant Casey.

Likes : This is not as bad as some people make it out to be, it an average action thriller that works well with a great story-line of cat & mouse concept with a lot smoke, mirror & deception thrown in which make this an interesting film to watch. Throughout the '80s, we saw a trend toward more and more outrageous action films. The Die Hard series really pushed the limits of the suspension of disbelief, and that trend continued with a number of other films. Most Wanted is a continuation of this trend, perhaps the culmination of it.
 Keenan Ivory Wayans (Scary movie, Glimmer man) does a brilliant job as a hero, condemned for defending himself from an order he refuse to carry out get draw in to a fake assassination plot & it become a dangerous game of deception as he tries to uncover the truth of why he was set up, Keenan does this brilliant with a quote (we're marine, we don't plain, we improvise).  
 Jill Henessy (Crossing Jordan) does a brilliant performance playing the witness that get unwittingly involved which put her life in danger, together Gy. Sgt. James Dunn played by Keenan they must find the truth.Special mention to John Voight (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy , Pearl Harbor) playing as a crazed and evil General in a sensationalistic and overblown interpretation but played this role perfect for a believe character which gave this film a true villain of this film.
  The best part of this is it keeps twisting and turning right to the end which make this one of those film's you you can really sit down & watch all he way through with out being board depend on your taste of film, but this is a great film to watch.

Dislikes : This film could of done with a sequel, but clearly his film didn't get enough reception for being made which is a shame because of the best film can be see with a low budget in special effects with no C.G.I.

Overall : Great performances, good action scene, good twist in the story.

Rating: 4.8 out of 5 for entertainment / 7.6 out of 10 for story-line/ action

Film Review: The Right Kind of Wrong

Genre:  Comedy Romance

Cert: 18 r-rated due to sex scene's

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: Scene of nudity & sex

Violence & Gore: blood is seen from the nose & mouth after a crash with a hand-glider, teenage beat up a man, woman punch a man in the face

Profanity:  mild to strong language a few f word are throw

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: drink in bar scene

Frightening/Intense Scenes: none

Story: In this romantic comedy, The Right Kind of Wrong, Leo Palamino is a failed-writer-turned-dishwasher made famous for his many flaws and shortcomings in a blog called "Why You Suck," a huge Internet success written by his ex-wife. Then Leo meets Colette, the girl of his dreams... on the day she is marrying the perfect man. And so, the ultimate underdog story begins as Leo, a fearless dreamer, risks all to show Colette and the whole wide world all that is right with a man famous for being wrong.

Likes : Filmed in beautiful Banff, Alberta. About a failed writer whose ex- girlfriend writes a blog about what a loser he is, that goes viral. After the break up he see a woman of his dreams & falls in love with her on her own wedding day to someone else.Which start off Fairly tame but actually gets better in the second half with some funny but tragic moment that you ive cry at or laugh at.
one thing that make this film good is the beautiful surrounding this film is set in such a beautiful place to live, it give this film its romantic feel as Leo Palamino played by Ryan Kwanten (star of true blood) try to win the heart of Colette played by the beautiful Sara Canning who hate the corruption & greed but she marride to the wrong person which Leo Palamino see's, this is where this film take on a comical but romantic concept as try to win her heart is not so easy.
One thing about this film is the character grow on you, you come to love them all & start routing for leo even tho what he was going was wrong.
Also with this film, it has a life lession in relationships & love, that is to not settle down to fast with someone because at first they may seem to be the one you think you want to be with but that love blinds you to the real personally traits of someone you cant stand to be around, it why it best to to slow down & take your time to get to know someone because the right guy/woman could be passing you by your with the wrong person, that is the beauty behind this film with the two character's.This is a film i recommend on a valentine date movie or a lazy afternoon film.  

Dislikes : nothing wrong with this film.

Overall : Beautiful surrounding, great romantic story, funny in part, all round good film.

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 for entertainment / 7.8 out of 10 for story-line

Film Review: Knight of Badassdom

Genre: Adventure Comedy Fantasy Warning this film does have violent content

Cert: 18 R-rated 

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: brief scene of sexual nature in a dream state, two girl's kissing

Violence & Gore: Hearts being torn out, brief scene of blood all over the wall, head being torn off as well as limbs

Profanity: Mild to strong language

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Weed is seen being smoked through a bong & alcohol drinking

Frightening/Intense Scenes: a demonic woman face changes & heart, limbs & head being removed might be a little disturbing for some viewers.

Story: A group of geeky nerd larping unwittingly summon a demon from an ancient book which they though was just a normal role book, now there face with impossible odd to destroy this demon before hell on earth begin's

Likes : First of all this film scream's 80s era, special with the special effect very low budget it the 80s style of special effect concept of this film which isn't to bad but i cant say this was a brilliant film, its enjoyable to watch but i wouldn't go out of my way to said this is a fantastic film.

This is for sure a geek film, just because of the theme & concept of larping, if you a geek your going to love this film.Peter Dinklage (star of game of thrones) does a pretty good job in this film and im pretty shocked to see Summer Glau in this film as well which her performance was brilliant. Let face it She is every geek's wet dream of course. But she really delivered the whole "I'm not really into this but I'm playing along with it" role. She looked amazing in her costume! Her on screen chemistry with the other characters was excellent. She is definitely one of the underrated actresses out there.

The film itself the plot is that of a very standard evil-monster movie and even though it had a very low budget - it manages to escape the feel of a B-movie. It even had some not bad CGI animation on the budget.The rock Ballard at the end kind of make up for the fault in this film, it reminds me of Tenacious D, the movie has that kind of feel to it,it one film i wouldn't rush out to buy your better off renting really unless your n to these types of film's, its does have some funny moments if you find them funny but as i said this isn't the greatest of film, it enjoyable good effort to entertain but fall short of being a great film unless your in to larping (Live action role play) at first it did have that dungeon & dragon feel to it but that kind of fades away during the film,this is one film that not going to be for everyone.

Dislikes : I think this film had potential to go a different way in the story line, like having them transported to a different realm i think this film would of been better than it was,but it failed slightly in that plot line which i think could of worked for the film, its not a bad film but i would pay £10 to see this at a cinema or on DVD.

Overall : Great acting, weak story-line, This is For the geeks really but still a funny film to watch.

Rating: 3.1 out of 5 for entertainment / 5 out of 10 for story-line/concept