Film Review: The Fault In Our Stars

Genre: Drama  Romance

Cert: 12A

Director: Josh Boone

Screen writer: Scott Neustadter , Michael H. Weber

Based on a book by: John Green

Starring: Shailene Woodley , Ansel Elgort , Nat Wolff , Laura Dern , Sam Trammell , Willem Dafoe , Lotte Verbeek , Ana Dela Cruz , Randy Kovitz , Toni Saladna , David Whalen , Milica Govich , Allegra Carpenter , Emily Peachey , Emily Bach , Tim Hartman , Mike Birbiglia , Jean Brassard , Carly Otte , Lily Kenna .

Running time: 126 min


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

Sex & Nudity: A teen boy and a teen girl kiss in the attic of the Anne Frank Museum and tourists applaud; the two teens walk to his apartment, sit on his bed and kiss again as she unbuttons his shirt to reveal his full bare chest and he takes off her T-shirt; seen from the back, she removes her bra and we see the top of her hips (his hands appear to cover her breasts and the camera cuts away) and we see the two later as the camera pans from the foot to the head of the bed, showing the teen boy's bared chest as well as the girl's bare back (sex is implied).
A teen boy says that his girlfriend is smoking hot and in the parking lot later he kisses the teen girl several times and squeezes her breast with his hand over her shirt once.
A teen boy tells a teen girl that he is a virgin; he draws a picture of the circle of virgins with only himself inside it and she laughs.
A teen girl watches movies featuring brief scenes of a man and a woman kissing or sitting in separate bathtubs filled with bubbles and talking on the phone (only their arms show).
A woman walks out of a bathroom wearing a large towel and we see her bare shoulders.
A woman wears a short dress. 

Violence & Gore: A teen boy calls a teen girl at night from a gas station and begs for help; she drives there and finds him unable to move from his driver's seat and when he raises his shirt we see a large red infected area around a chemotherapy port; he cries and coughs up yellow and red phlegm as she calls 911 and EMTs load him into an ambulance with flashing lights (we do not see him as a patient, but when he comes home, he needs a wheelchair and the girl pushes him in it in a few scenes).
An 18-year old ex-basketball player is in remission from his osteosarcoma, but had lost one leg from the knee, down; we see the artificial limb several times and once the boy shows it to a man and says, "I didn't have this (leg) removed for the hell of it."
Video clips of WWII German wagons filled with dead bodies under tarps play in a display (we see some feet) in the Anne Frank House museum.
A teen boy and a teen girl go to his house where they meet his parents and descend some stairs that make her breathe heavily and on the wall is a sign with silhouettes of a cow and a car hitting head-on.

Profanity: At least 1 F-word, 8 scatological terms, 5 anatomical terms, 15 mild obscenities, 2 religious profanities (GD.)
Name-calling (weird, crazy, loser, failure, monster, mean, evil, sick kids, drunk, douche-pants and stupid.)
Stereotypical references to physicians, teenagers, children with cancer, parents, support group leaders, Americans, Christians, temperamental authors, alcoholics, fickle girlfriends and virgins and exclamations (Oh gosh.) 

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A teen girl asks her parents for a fake ID so that she can "buy a gimlet and take pot" and they laugh.
A teen girl with cancer takes eight prescription drugs three times per day and we see her swallow pills twice with water.
A physician says that she will prescribe Zoloft for a teen girl with cancer.
A teen boy and a teen girl drink champagne at a restaurant.
A teen boy and a teen girl drink champagne on a picnic.
We see glasses of wine on several tables in a restaurant and we see two men drink from their glasses.
A man drinks Scotch and soda and two bottles of Scotch are seen on his mantle.
A man drinks from a flask of alcohol twice at a graveside funeral.
An 18-year-old boy carries an unlit cigarette in his mouth in several scenes while visiting friends and at home as well as while driving and riding in a car and standing on a sidewalk and on an airplane (a flight attendant on the plane makes him put the cigarette away.)
A young man says that the cigarette he carries in his mouth is a metaphor for taking the deadly things into your teeth and not letting them harm you.
A teen girl takes a cigarette from a teen boy's mouth and places it between her teeth.
A teen girl wears a T-shirt with a picture of a tobacco pipe on it. 

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  The overall theme of the film is a little heavy: disability, cancer, death, etc. But it is dealt with in such a way that it's suitable for young adults.

 Story: Hazel and Gus are two teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on a journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous given that Hazel's other constant companion is an oxygen tank, Gus jokes about his prosthetic leg, and they met and fell in love at a cancer support group

Likes : wow this film is just beautiful made, the direction and cinematography is fantastic. Not a single shot felt odd or out of place. Every shot matched the scene and felt real. The editing was also great as shot after shot matched with the characters faces and where they were (typical good movie editing stuff).
The acting perhaps was one of the best aspects of this movie. Seriously it makes the two characters feel real and alive, and at times I forgot this was fiction and not based on a true story. Their performances were so heartfelt and definitely Oscar worthy in my opinion.
 From Scene to scene this movie just manages to suck me into this beautiful world of Hazel Grace Lancaster played by the beautiful Shailene Woodley and Augustus Waters played by Ansel Elsort . The chemistry between them is astounding and the performances were outstanding to bring what is the most heart breaking film your see this year.
From the beginning of the film you get to see the characters develop & see their story unfold, alot of this film is based on cancer so for those that have had or lost someone to cancer this film will bring back memories, there is a few moment at the beginning that makes it light hearted with some funny jokes & one liners but this film throws a curve ball by the end of the film your balling your eye out in tears, (yes it had me in tears, yes there is nothing wrong with a man crying, it take a real man to show feelings it show heart).
This is possibly the most heart breaking film this year, a love story with a unhappy ending that is so beautiful haunting that love is eternal,just show's its heart breaking when you loss someone you love with all your heart that make you a person this film really shows this well.
In my opinion i normal watch fast action type film but every now & then i like to watch these types of film's because it put life into perspective that life is to short, if you find true love like this in this film hold on to it because it could be the last moment you get the chance to be happy with someone.This is a film i recommend to everyone with a heart, because i promise you by the end of this film you will be in tears.    

Dislikes : Nothing wrong with this film.

Overall : Heart-breaking story, Beautiful romantic theme, Outstanding performance's, a must to see.

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

Film Review: Torment

 Genre: Horror  Thriller

Cert: R-rated 18 cert

Director: Jordan Barker

Screen writer: Michael Foster, Thomas Pound

Starring: Peter DaCunha , Katharine Isabelle , Stephen McHattie , Bill Colgate , Robin Dunne , Amy Forsyth , Sitara Hewitt , Nick Stojanovic , Asim Wali , Adrienne Wilson .

Running time: 90 mins

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

Sex & Nudity: A woman is in the shower and you can see the silhouette of her from the waste up, and you can see her breasts, in shadow, for a second.
The man and woman have sex in their bed. Nothing explicit.

Violence & Gore: A woman gets her head cut off by bush trimmers. The camera pans away quickly.
A man is hit in the head with a bat. The camera cuts away before you see anything. You see the blood spray across the wall.
A woman steps on a spike in the ground and it goes straight through her foot. There is a little blood shown. It then cuts to a scene of the man throwing the bloody spike in a bowl of water. You see some blood then as well.
A car explodes with a man inside it.
A man is electrocuted
A woman's head is bashed open with a rock
A woman is choked with an ax. She grabs a hook and hits it over the head of someone and applies pliers to a motor and electrocutes the man
A man wakes up tied to a chair with hooks coming out of his chest.
A man has a plastic bag put over his face and he starts to suffocate.
A person has bloody patches on their neck
A woman is shown with a bloody wound on her leg
A man is shot.
Someone is hit with the end of a gun.
A woman is hit over the head with a rock and it is bashed open and blood pools everywhere
A woman is punched in the face
The grotesque corpse of a dog is shown
Bloody pliers are shown shoved inside of a bag
An axe is slammed through a door
A woman has blood on the side of her face
A woman chases another woman with a meat cleaver/hatchet
The side of a man's deformed face is shown with shriveled skin and blood. Very gross and disturbing
Shears are put near a child's neck, covered in blood
A bloody man is shown tied up in a car

Profanity: Barely any the worst it got was a sh*t and you couldn't hear it over the screaming. 

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: One brief scene of smoking

Frightening/Intense Scenes: The whole film is tense from start to finish. The beginning is very creepy, scary and disturbing at the same time. While the film may be bloody, it is not excessive and relies more on sheer terror.
lot's of screaming and peril. There are some scenes of torture and only like one scene of gore.
The masks are very frightening throughout, especially when you realize it's from the stuffed animals of the child. The cult is also extremely sadistic and go to great lengths for what they want.
The ending is very disturbing

Story: Newlyweds Cory and Sarah Morgan take Cory's 7-year old son Liam up to the country for some much needed family time. When it appears as if Liam has run away, psychological suspense becomes straight-out horror, as Sarah and Cory must now confront a sadistic cult-like family who have been hiding in the house all along and have taken Liam for themselves.


Likes : This does has some promise with the creepy atmosphere & for most part intense, with some great acting, but this film has to much going wrong for it , the film Stars Horror icon Katherine Isabelle who takes on a new kind of role in this film as a step mother to a young buy that doesn't want to let her into his life because he doesn't want her replacing his mother. But when things takes a deadly turn in the film the three fight for their lives in this epic home invasion thrill ride of tension and chills.some might like this but i going to have to point out the bad parts.

Dislikes : The down fall of this film is the fact its try to copy different genres of horror like the stranger, wrong turn, your next, Texas chain saw massacre with a deranged family not to mention the thing that have been done before in other horrors like 1. deranged redneck family. 2. unsuspecting yuppies are stuck in a rural area with no cell phone reception. 3. decent actors wasted on a terrible script and poorly developed characters (although the kid was annoying). 4. long torture scenes where the victims are bound and gagged. 5. "BOOM!" jump scares whenever we see a shadow. 6. the heroine is pinned down by the villain but then finds a conveniently placed weapon nearby to defend herself with. 7. despite the fact that she's been through a physically trying ordeal through mud, blood, and grime, the heroine's hair, makeup, and nails are great. 8. the victims will knock the killer out but never make sure the killer is dead.all this is why this film is so predictable & generic instead of something new.

Overall : It ok for a horror could of been better, atmosphere & intense moments

Rating: 3.1 out of 5 for entertainment / 4.6 out of 10 for story-line / concept

Film Review: Raid 2 (original tile The Raid 2: Berandal )

Genre: Action  Crime  Thriller WARNING this film contain extreme bloody violence 

Cert: (R-rated) 18 cert

Director: Gareth Evans

Screen writer: Gareth Evans

Starring: Iko Uwais , Julie Estelle , Yayan Ruhian , Arifin Putra , Donny Alamsyah , Oka Antara , Tio Pakusodewo , Kazuki Kitamura , Alex Abbad , Cecep Arif Rahman , Ryûhei Matsuda , Ken'ichi Endô , Very Tri Yulisman , Epy Kusnandar , Marsha Timothy

Running time: 150 min
 
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: A man is forced to strip in front of three mobsters to prove himself and gets a new set of clothes. (Only the upper body of the man is seen)
Brief scene in a porn studio. Brief nudity showing a woman coming out from behind a screened area. She is naked and wearing a black sexual phallus strapped around her waist. We see only her breasts.We see the woman walk to a table several feet away then return behind the screen where we briefly see a silhouette of a sexual act.

Violence & Gore: Pretty much like the first film, The Raid 2 features strong bloody violence, grisly images, torture and a focus on bloodshed. However, a lot of the violence is fast-paced or done at a certain angle or distance that it's not shown too graphically.
Several people get shot with bloody results, some of them in the chest, stomach, or legs while head shots are depicted in a gruesome and realistic manner.
A violent riot in a prison ensues with a lot of bone-breaking, stabbings, and beatings. There is a brief occasion of a man splitting another man's jaw in half.
An intense, frightening scene where Uco
Prakoso, a loyal assassin/vagabond to mob boss Bengun, knocks several men down the street and stabs a target with a machete and we see the bloody blade enter through the fence before it slowly pulls out. Prakoso also fights several men in a nightclub and later .
The scenes with Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Man are brutal and violent. Hammer Girl's fight scene is extremely gory. The sequences overlapped with a beatened Japanese mobster getting executed by having an icepick stabbed over his head (it cuts away before impact) and we see his body falling down into a pit to be buried.
An extended scene of a man's face being pressed down on a grill. The graphic aftermath is shown with his deformed, scarred face. The man is clearly in shock/still conscious from this.
A very intense car chase sequence. Involves a lot of shooting and a fight scene within the car itself. A man gets shot multiple times in the face and we see his corpse being run over. Another man gets thrown out the window, is dragged along the road, and gets struck by a car door.
The ending fight sequences are extremely gruesome and violent. Several people are run over with a car, beaten to a pulp, stabbed, and sliced up. . A fight scene ensues between the main character and an assassin, with non-stop punches, kicks and throws until .


Profanity: Words: - "Prick" approx. 3 times - "Fuck" At least 60 times - "Shit" 1 time - "Jerk" 2 times
It's worth noting most of these are in subtitles, and the profanities are said in either Indonesian or Japanese. There is one audible F*ck in English. 

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Many scenes involving wine and alcohol, but not too much.
A few characters smoke, but same as above, not too much.
There is a brief mention of drugs (referred to as 'powder').

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  Very dark and intense from the start.
As mentioned above, the scenes with Hammer Girl, Baseball Bat Man, and the Assassin are all violent and brutal.
The finale is extremely violent, bloody, and adrenaline-fueled. Many people are beaten, stabbed, run over, sliced-up, or shot at.

Story: He thought it was over. After fighting his way out of a building filled with gangsters and madmen - a fight that left the bodies of police and gangsters alike piled in the halls - rookie Jakarta cop Rama thought it was done and he could resume a normal life. He couldn't have been more wrong. Formidable though they may have been, Rama's opponents in that fateful building were nothing more than small fish swimming in a pond much larger than he ever dreamed possible. And his triumph over the small fry has attracted the attention of the predators farther up the food chain. His family at risk, Rama has only one choice to protect his infant son and wife: He must go undercover to enter the criminal underworld himself and climb through the hierarchy of competing forces until it leads him to the corrupt politicians and police pulling the strings at the top of the heap. And so Rama begins a new odyssey of violence, a journey that will force him to set aside his own life and history and take on

Likes : First of all comparing this sequel to the first film the story this time is him going under cover to infortrait a war lord gang & it seems that the fighting is the main draw of this film as for the fast pace action the first film is better although the fight scene in this film make up for the lack of pace which works. Martial arts films are frequently under-appreciated because critics tend to downplay the artistry of orchestrating a fight sequence.
In some ways it's like staging a complex dance with extremely difficult performances by physical talents who have spent their entire lives perfecting their craft in the world of martial arts. In many cases it can be even more challenging than executing a good dramatic moment as some of these fight scene have to be carefully done so not to injury anyone although they come off on screen very fast & brutal.
With that said, "The Raid 2" is an exquisite ballet of death with an incredible variety of expertly crafted action sequences that have a grounded, realistic feel to them despite the insane action there's very little outrageous moments apart from extreme moments of blood violence & brutal fighting scenes.
The choreography is spot on to show realism in the action & martial arts which bring the incredible fight scene's, if you love the first film you love this squeal.

Dislikes : Not as fast paced as the first film, but make up for with the fight scenes.

Overall : Brutal Fight scene, Violence is slightly doubled, brilliant choreography

Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 8 out of 10 for story-line.

Film Review: Chinese Zodiac (original tile "Sap ji sang ciu" )

Genre: Action Adventure

Cert: 12A

Director: Jackie Chan 

Screen writer: Frankie Chan , Jackie Chan ,Edward Tang ,Stanley Tong

Starring: Jackie Chan , Oliver Platt , Qi Shu , Daniel Wu,  Caitlin Dechelle , Laura Weissbecker , Sung-jun Yoo , Stephen Chang , Xingtong Yao , Sang-woo Kwon , Paul Philip Clark , Emilie Guillot , Tomer Oz , Alaa Safi , Ken Lo , Fan Liao , Max Huang.

Running time: 103 min

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

Sex & Nudity: The "Brief Nudity" Is a painted full frontal portrait of an unclothed woman. While not the direct focus of the scene it is quite obvious as it is close to 5ft tall hanging on a wall. This is around 25 minutes in the movie.
Also there is a somewhat immodest scene where a woman in leather boy-shorts is seen doing the splits and the words "Bikini tan line" come to mind so...

Violence & Gore: Bloody is seen on the nose, guy leg is seen snap, lot of the movie is martial art fighting so expect violence there.

Profanity: mild language  

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: The wine seen being drunk

Frightening/Intense Scenes: Some scene might seem disturbing but nothing major

Story: Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals which was looted by foreigners in the 1800s. Assisted by a Chinese student and a Parisian lady, Hawk stops at nothing to accomplish the mission.

Likes : When viewing a Jackie Chan film you cant expect a serious film  as most of dialogues is corny and the plot is borderline ridiculous but seriously funny & entertaining. But do you really go to a Jackie Chan movie for its story?
The stunts & some of the fight scenes in this movie are simply amazing as once again Jackie prove that you can use anything to fight with, i don't want to spoil anything for those who haven't watched it yet, but if you grew up watching Jackie's earlier films (80s and 90s), you're gonna be pleasantly reminded of his golden days. He's not as fast or as nimble, but it is still he's still got the spark to move fast, not surprised the guy hasn't crippled him self yet with doing he own stunt but fair play to him.
For me ive always loved Jackie Chan film not just because of his amazing martial arts but he comical side doing it, it that slap stick humor that make his film all that more entertaining.This is totally worth watch if you haven't watch it already, full of entertaining moments & great martial fights you cant go wrong.

Dislikes : Almost at the ending was a little ridiculous & unrealistic but apart from that this film is worth watching.

Overall : Brilliant fight scene, slap stick humor, all round great film

Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 7.2 out of 10 for story-line / martial arts fights

Film Review: Snowpiercer

Genre: Action Drama Sci-Fi 

Cert: (R-rated) 18 (cert)

Director: Joon-ho Bong 

Screen writer: Joon-ho Bong , Kelly Masterson , Jacques Lob , Benjamin Legrand , Jean-Marc Rochette.

Starring: Chris Evans , Kang-ho Song , Ed Harris , John Hurt , Tilda Swinton , Jamie Bell , Octavia Spencer , Ewen Bremner , Ah-sung Ko , Alison Pill , Luke Pasqualino , Vlad Ivanov , Adnan Haskovic ,Emma Levie , Steve Park , Clark Middleton , Marcanthonee Reis

Running time: 126 min

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

Sex & Nudity: Early in the film, there is a very brief suggestion that a character is a paedophile but that is later confirmed not to be the case as he is using children as slaves to run the train.
A man asks another man that when was the last time he got laid.
No sex or nudity.

Violence & Gore: Several bloody fight sequences that involves weapons such as axes, hammers and various other melee weapons.
A character has his arm put outside of a moving train where temperatures are extremely low - although you do not see his arm being explicitly frozen - after several minutes, his arm is brought back in and shattered by a hammer but it is mostly off screen and you only see the remnants of his arm for a few seconds. It's more so disturbing than gory.
Several shootouts that is more so intense than bloody.
A pregnant woman has a knife thrown into her throat - its intensity is weighed down by the fact that she is an assassin.
An explosion derails the train, causing hundreds of deaths - more so intense than violent or gory
A couple of main characters are shot in the head - one is shot on-screen explicitly and the other is shot off-screen.

Profanity: Frequently usage of various derogatory terms used intensely
  

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Frequent drug references and usage.
Two main characters are addicted to a drug known as 'Kronal' - where they sniff its contents to hallucinate. It's appearance is similar to clay blocks. They are also used as explosives.
During a nightclub sequence - there are shots of various people that appear to be high from the drug.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: The entire film is rather intense and depressing.
The brutal fight sequences, although not extremely graphic, it is still bloody and unsettling.
Close to the end, a man talks about when they first boarded the train and how they starved. The man explains that most of the people ate the weak. He even refers how babies tasted the best. This whole piece of dialog is very disturbing and emotional.
The ending can be quite emotional and upsetting. 

Story: In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off all life on the planet except for a lucky few that boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system evolves. 

Likes : The plot is simple : ecologist have pushed governments to unleash a gas in the atmosphere to control global warming, which in turns cause global warming to stop but it worked to well & turn the earth in to a new ice age. The only survivors are all aboard a revolutionary train that goes on and on making loops around the world like a Noah's Ark, but including the the very thing that destroyed the world i the first place politics that come with it : first class, second class, workers, fraudsters, the ticket is your fate - for generations. And the consequences are extreme, to such and extent that you can't conceive.
Prepare to be shocked at times. Imagine the vertical multistoreyed humanity of Lang's Metropolis, the horizontal way. Some of the tail section fraudsters decide to rebel against their condition and progress to the head car of the train regardless of the risks. Every car they go through bears its grotesque and mind-bending surprises. And tells us more about how this society actually works and what it relies on.
The film dose have promise as thing start to happen, it start to get brutal The good: the plot, for the most part. Although your find the idea of a train being humanity last home extremely weird, it makes for a nice backdrop. The tone of the movie reminds me a lot of The Hunger Games. Chris Evans who plays  Curtis does pretty good actor role in this. The wagons themselves have amazing character. The Art Director should be praised the most out of the entire film crew. but the film is flawed with so many question that kinds of keep you from love this film. So it a type of film not everyone with like.

Dislikes : The bad: Well, let me sum it up in questions. Questions keeping me from loving this:
1. Why divide the train into classes? This makes no sense. The train ecosystem would function fine with some rules regarding population control.
2. Their great plan is to have a regular uprising to kill off people and keeping the population down? WHAT? See my first point.
3. They used to eat people and babies, but are now disgusted by eating protein bars made by cockroaches? How does that work? And furthermore:
4: WHERE did all those bloody cockroaches come from?
5: If you've invented perpetual motion; why the hell use it in a train? Why not use it to power a generator in a camp, or heat a underground city? The train is death on tracks, with ice regularly blocking the path.
6: Why is everyone on this train ready to kill? Seriously, 90% of EVERYONE is ready to throw down here.
7: People take loosing their limbs SHOCKINGLY well in this movie. Like it's just a flesh wound, really.
8: What the hell happened with that one bad guy who got stabbed through his guts and choked? He just gets up? Why did the korean guy stop his girl from stabbing him? And the korean girl later misses him by 7-8 shots? Furthermore: Tilda Swinton gets a knife through the leg, but walks fine right afterwards.
9: Those weird antics of the characters. The woman in the yellow dress licking her blood off her fingers. Tilda Swinton with her strange comedic performance (although I did like the character, I found it a bit distracting), that incredibly weird Korean couple acting all over the place, things like the masked guy just smiling at Evans when they are sitting down. Sometimes I felt like I was watching Charlie and the chocolate factory.
10: The starved people of the tail takes out an army of axe wielding fighters with night vision? After apparently yelling for help through the entire train, and a kid lighting a torch, and running up to them in no time? Stretching it thin, movie!
11: The soldiers had bullets, but they weren't using them at the ONE PLACE they needed bullets? Are you serious??
12: The shootout between Chris Evans and what I can only assume was Terminator. On opposite sides of the train, probably 1000ft from each other. Sniping with a submachine gun. Through a blizzard. Nice aim there, fellas.
13: Mr. Terminator shooting his comrades all the time. Seriously. What was to be gained from that? He did it several times. Who is this guy??
14: The only way the train can function is to stuff small kids down small holes to keep the engine running? Really? Was the train designed to stuff small kids down there, or did it just appear to be the perfect solution? How convenient.
15: The wagon closest to the engine is the RAVE-CLUB where all the freaks go to party? Incidentally, the elementary school is next to the slaughterhouse.
16: There is no policy on drugs on this finely tuned train? Everyone just goes buck wild with this incredibly potent drug next to the engine room? And furthermore...
17: The drug of choice is basically C4? And it just lies around everywhere - again - next to the engine room?
18: Why not pay attention to what the korean guy is doing to open the doors and then open them themselves instead of having him slow them down?
19: The people with axes putting fish blood on their weapons before fighting? That was random.
20: The other wagons are TOTALLY unaffected by the explosion in the first wagons. Wow. They don't really notice until they derail. What a masterfully crafted train.
21: I know it fits with his story, but did Mr. Evans really need to sacrifice his arm to pull that kid out? He could probably stop the machine with something else than a limb and take better care of that child.
22: The people who jumped off the train still haven't been covered up by snow after 15 years in a never-ending blizzard?
Those were some of the things that will stop from truly loving this movie. the ending just got pointless. There was definitely promise in this film, but I felt this could have become an excellent movie with more thought put into it. It came off extremely unrealistic & the sci-fi part, it's all about fooling the audience into thinking this could happened. That's the "science" part.

Overall : Film had promise but fall apart slightly, the ending didn't really make sense but apart from that the film was ok

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 for entertainment / 5 out of 10 for story-line.

Film Review: No Clue

Genre: Comedy Crime 

Cert: 12A 

Director: Carl Bessai

Screen writer: Brent Butt

Starring: Brent Butt , Amy Smart , David Koechner , David Cubitt , Dan Payne , Kirsten Prout , Dustin Milligan , Garwin Sanford , Leanne Lapp , Jamie Hutchinson , Kendra Anderson .

Running time: 96 min

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

Sex & Nudity: woman in a sexy dressing gown

Violence & Gore: body on the floor blood is shown

Profanity: mild to strong language 

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: drinking at a party & smoking is seen

Frightening/Intense Scenes: none

Story: In Canada, a woman named Kyra goes to the office of the middle-aged clumsy salesman Leo Falloon by mistake believing that he is a private detective. She hires him to help her to find her missing brother Milles Severeign and Leo is so spellbound by the blonde that he does not tell her that he is not who she is looking for. Leo decides to pose as a private detective and he gets involved in a complicated scheme of computer game corporations seeking high profits.

Likes : It not a film i would go in to with high expectations as it a pretty average dark comedy with a 50s style detective story where a woman looking for answer about some man goes to a man in office & ask for help only this guy isn't a private detective more of a salesman caught up in a web of lies.
Brent Butt (Corner Gas) plays Leo Falloon, a bumbling middle-aged logo salesman who's so smitten by the mysterious blonde named Kyra (Amy Smart) who asks him to help find her missing brother that he neglects to tell her she's in the wrong office. That sets up a long-winded plot about corporate espionage in the computer game world with steely eyed corporate chiefs and an over sized goon. Butt is a decent word-spinner and self-deprecating funny man, but the decision to have the rest of the cast play it straight maybe is not the best decision. A few scenes of Leo Fallon exchanging banter with his buddy Ernie (David Koechner of Get Smart & Anchorman 1 and 2), prove more rewarding than the cliché murder plot that occupies most of the movie. The overall rating of the movie is not bad, if you looking for a little bit of smirking & chuckles nothing really laugh out loud comedy this is one film to watch. No Clue is definitely worth watching for the light heart comedy.

Dislikes : i feel his film could of had a bit more funny moments but as for the film as a whole it was ok.

Overall : Smirk chuckles comedy, very light heart, not bad acting.

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 for entertainment / 6.1 out of 10 for comedy / story-line.

Film Review: Veronica Mars

Genre: Comedy  Crime  Drama

Cert: 12A

Director: Rob Thomas

Screen writer: Rob Thomas , Diane Ruggiero

Starring: Kristen Bell , Jason Dohring , Enrico Colantoni , Chris Lowell , Percy Daggs III , Tina Majorino , Krysten Ritter , Martin Starr , Gaby Hoffmann , Andrea Estella , Jerry O'Connell , Francis Capra , Ryan Hansen , Brandon Hillock , Maury Sterling , Sam Huntington , Max Greenfield , Daran Norris , Amanda Noret , Jonathan Chesner , Christiann Castellanos .

Running time: 107 min

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

Sex & Nudity: We see a video of a man and a woman having sex playing on a large screen in a room with many people watching: the woman is shown straddling the man lying in bed and she removes her top (we see her bare back and bra strap) and we see his legs as she thrusts on him briefly.
A man watches a sex tape and we hear moaning and see bare legs from the knee down moving rhythmically.
A woman kisses a man and he lifts her up; she wraps her legs around him, pulls his shirt open (we see his bare chest) and they continue to kiss while pressed against a wall; sex is implied when we see him waking up in bed shirtless.
A man caresses a woman's shoulders and kisses her bare neck; they go into another room and we hear sexual moaning.
A man wearing a skin suit with the top open to his hips opens the door to a woman and belches loudly; during a brief conversation, he tells her that "Your boobs look bigger."
A woman wears a short bathrobe that reveals cleavage and bare legs to upper thigh.
A woman wears low-cut tops that reveal cleavage in many scenes throughout the movie.
Several women in a bar wear low-cut dresses that reveal cleavage and short skirts that reveal legs from mid-thigh.
We see a photograph of the cleavage of three women wearing low-cut dresses.
A shirtless man is shown and we see his bare chest, abdomen and back.
A teen boy and a teen girl kiss passionately and we hear that their relationship did not last.
A man and a woman kiss in a few scenes.
A man kisses a woman on the forehead.
A man and a woman hug.
A shirtless man (his bare chest, abdomen and back are seen) is shown sitting on a woman's bed and it is implied that they had sex.
A man shows a woman a line drawing of male genitals and she reaches into her purse and pulls out her hand displaying an obscene gesture and uses the finger to pantomime applying lipstick while looking at the man.
Two men make sexual gestures behind two women.
A joke is made about the difference between a lawyer and a prostitute and that the prostitute stops f**king when you're dead.
A man tries to seduce a woman in a bar and she dismisses him with a verbal insult.
A man tries to seduce a woman in a bar and she tells him that her boyfriend is a hit man and that he kills people for money.
A man invites a woman to dance in a bar and he makes a sexual gesture with his tongue (she declines).
A man approaches a woman in a bar and tells her that another man just "prematured in his pants" while looking at her.
A man says that a woman was making finger hearts on his leg while he was driving.
A woman makes a reference to another woman having sex with a priest.
Men and women dance together at a party.
A man confronts his adult daughter and her boyfriend about sleeping together in his house and she talks about their love making being silent.
A woman talks to a man and asks if he remembers her and that they, "Used to make out"; he replies that the dress she wore last time he saw her made him think "impure thoughts."
A man makes a remark about something about Anne Hathaway having genitals.

A man makes a comment about another man getting some "hot man-on-man action" at a bath house.
A woman talks about a man and another woman having "4 minutes of sex."
A man tells another man that he heard him having sex over the radio (using crude terms).
A comment is made about a woman giving a baby up for adoption.
During a job interview, a man asks a woman about a sex tape.
A woman talks to her boyfriend about a sex tape and says that she hopes that her next interview with a law firm will include a conversation about STDs.
A man tells another man, "We'd love to see your dirty picture collection."

Violence & Gore: Several motorcycles ride around a stopped vehicle and the woman inside is shown on the phone calling for help and saying, "They are going to kill me" when a man knocks on the window to ask if she needs help and she shoots him through the car window (we see him with a bloody wound lying on the ground and he is shown recovering in the hospital later).
A woman stands in front of a window and she is shot in the abdomen (we see blood on her abdomen as she lies on the floor moaning).
Two men in a car are T-boned and we see them both with blood on their head and face; the car that crashed into them speeds back toward them as another man is pulling one of the injured men out of the car, the car is struck again and it spins around (we see one man recovering in the hospital and we hear that the other man died).
A man with a gun searches through an apartment for a woman, who jumps out from a cabinet and tasers him in the leg; he falls down and she runs away, but he follows her to a dark storage room where he shoots into closed garbage cans until she hits him in the head with a golf club and he falls unconscious (we see him later with a bandage on his head).
A man fights two other men with punches and a head-butt; other men join in the fight and we see one with a bruised eye and cheek later after a woman sets off the fire alarm and everyone leaves the building.
A police officer slams a man onto the trunk of a car while another officer teasers another man running away and then threatens him with more.
A woman punches another woman in the face and she falls off-screen.
We see photographs of a fist fight at a party and a punch landing on a man's face.
A young man is shown punching several people and striking a car with a baseball bat or a club in anger and frustration.
We see several shadowed and masked figures kicking someone on the ground and we hear thuds.
A teen girl becomes angry when performing in a talent show and threatens the audience with "I'll burn the place down."
A man walks through a house as the alarm rings and finds a woman dead in her bathtub; we see a limp arm hanging over the side of the tub and her head turned to the side.
Police officers confront a woman who has gained entrance to another woman's apartment under false pretenses.
A woman reaches into her purse and pulls out her hand in an obscene gesture and uses the finger to pantomime applying lipstick while looking at a man across from her.
A man is insulting to another man wearing a monkey suit and dancing around on a boardwalk.
A police officer threatens a man and a woman.
We hear a news report that a woman was found dead in her bathtub and we later hear that she was electrocuted. We see a video of a man telling a woman to "Get rid of them or you are going to end up dead."
A woman tells someone on the phone that their work would not include "shooting the damn."
We hear that a woman on a boat fell overboard and drowned.
We hear that a woman's dead body was weighted with a ship's anchor and dropped into the ocean.
A woman says that a man would become famous for killing someone.
A woman makes a remark about another woman revealing that the first woman's father was a pedophile.
A woman talks about another woman having been found barely breathing and then later she was dead.
A man talks about having bone fragments in his orbital socket (jokingly).
A man jokes about waiting for a head coach to die so that he can have his job.
Jokes are made about a woman's job being "clubbing baby seals".
We see a man wrestling with a pair of "skinny jeans" while trying to put them on.
A woman's voiceover explains that her best friend was murdered when she was 15 and the only way to get over the pain was to try to find her killer.
We hear a number of voices saying, "I need your help" during opening credits.
A woman's voiceover says, "Kids can be cruel" referring to teenagers.
A man talks about a video of Nazis looking at a pile of human skulls.
A reference is made to someone having a bowel movement in a friend's cat box.
A man makes a comments about a woman "blowing chunks" over the side of a boat.
A woman opens a box that contains a taser and fake I.D.s.
A man opens the door to a woman and belches loudly.

Profanity:  About 1 F-word, 1 obscene hand gesture, a woman says "effing" and "effidy," 16 sexual references, 11 scatological terms, 13 anatomical terms, 1 line drawing of male genitals, 17 mild obscenities, 1 religious profanity (GD), 6 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus, Oh My God, God, Thank God) and exclamations (shut-up)
Name-calling (marshmallow, compulsive, addictive, perv, punk, personality, surly, celebrity, gossip, shyster, clown, lazy, venal, insane, corrupt, crazy, junky, joke, gross, pedophile, stupid, skeazy, nosey, strange, sexual shark-nado, Lucifer, loser, no-class and crazy ass murderer.)


Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A man tells people in the room not to eat the brownies unless they want to take a strange trip as he puts one in his mouth.
A woman talks about a man always having the best drugs.
A man is shown holding a bong, and a reference is made to a woman "getting clean."
Two women and a man drink beer on a front porch, people are shown drinking alcohol in a couple of bar scenes.
A man pulls a flask from out of his belt and drinks from it after offering some to a woman who declines.
A woman at a reunion asks, "Where's the bar?" several times.
Men and women drink alcoholic beverages at a house party.
A woman drinks a bottle of beer at her father's house.

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  Logan starts a fistfight after he sees that Piz and Veronica's sex tape being shown. Other characters including Piz and Weevil join in. Some blood and bruising are shown after this.
Logan is recounting his last memory before he was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend: Right before he was arrested, he found her in her tub unmoving (later ruled dead); he ran to her but slipped and hit his head, blacking out.
The climax of the film. Veronica is being chased by someone who has already shot someone and still has a gun.
There is a car wreck that is very frightening.

Story: Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown - just in time for her high school reunion - in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls, who's embroiled in a murder mystery.

Likes : As most Series on Tv go sometime they get cancelled or the series ends, but sometime some one has a great idea of making a film out it which to be honest not alot of them have made that feel of a film & just end up coming across as a normal tv feature length episode to name two that had that feel sadly x-files film's & Simpson movie (Sorry) to any fan out their but that sadly is how they felt. Which im glad to see that Veronica mars is the one ive seen that was made in such a way it didn't feel like watching a feature length episode on tv & more like watching a film with a bit of edge in solving a murder which kind of gave this film a darker tone Kristen Bell pull off the serious grown up don't take any cr*p perfect from the way she use to be in high school in the series of veronica mars which was a refreshing look to see in stead of the quiet vulnerable girl she use to be.
This is one of those film you really have to watch the series before watch this to get a understanding  of who veronica is as a person & the traits she had to face being a investigator, im sure fans of the series will completely love this film as its not a let don't & it really does give the series its justice after this series ended.
There is a few Cameos that are used to hilarious effect special James Franco scene so funny, The reason why fans would say that it is bittersweet, is because the movie is a reminder of what should have been, and, while watching the movie, fan's of the series cant help but feel those pangs of sadness that I felt when the series was canceled. This was ameliorated, however, by the satisfaction for fans that they were given the final product of a great movie honoring the series.I think with this film fan's sincere hope that this could be the genesis of a new age for Veronica Mars resulting in more movies, or even another run of the series maybe.
As to the mystery of the film, it's more layered than a standard episode without becoming so tangled as to be deterring for a new viewer with no background knowledge of the show.
For those who did see the series, your liken it to the complexity of the Dean O'Dell case, streamlined due to the lack of "case of the week" action getting in the way. Although, don't be fooled: the major mystery isn't the only action the Mars family sees in the film. That said, if you're used to Thomas' style, you will probably spot the evildoer fairly readily if you're actively looking for clues along the way, but the final reveal of the motive will still surprise you, As well for fans of the series the original cast have returned to do this movie so their isn't any one new apart from the cameos but this is a worth watching film., nothing really wrong with this film with steady pace & the movie doesn't reveal its ending until the end which is good.


Dislikes : nothing

Overall : Great acting, fans of the series will love this, great mystery story.

Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 8 out of 10 for story-line/ mystery

Film Review: Animal (2014)

Genre: Horror Thriller

Cert: R-rated 18 cert

Director: Brett Simmons

Screen writer: Thommy Hutson, Catherine Trillo

Starring: Jeremy Sumpter , Joey Lauren Adams , Elizabeth Gillies , Keke Palmer , Amaury Nolasco , Parker Young , Eve , Paul Iacono , Thorsten Kaye

Running time: 86 min

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

Sex & Nudity: Young girl with her button undone show a bit of cleavage.

Violence & Gore: teenager being torn apart, gory scenes

Profanity:  strong language 

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: none

Frightening/Intense Scenes: Some scene might seem in intense for some viewers 

Story: When plans for a weekend vacation hit a dead end, a group of close-knit friends find themselves stranded in unfamiliar territory, pursued by a menacing, blood thirsty predator. Holed up in an isolated cabin, tensions mount as long-buried secrets are revealed. As the body count rises, the group must put their differences aside and fight for survival.

Likes : Straight off the bat this film had promise but very quickly became predictable with alot of scream & running around.There isn't much in a way of well known actors apart from Elizabeth Gillies who ive seen in a few other film that does a pretty good performance in this film & (law & orders star) Amaury Nolasco who play a pretty convincing scary but losing his mind to the situation. This is not a hatch & slasher type movie this is what you call the creature feature type horror film, as you see a bunch of teenage on a hiking trip for a nice day of fun when the sh*t hits the fan when they come across this creature that hungers for blood it becomes a fight for survival.
There is few moments that you thinking WTF to holy hell didn't see that coming which makes some parts of this film intense & make you jump but the rest of the film is pretty much predictable in some way you kind of find your self think how dumb are these teenage not to realise curtain things about this creature, you kind of find yourself shout at the screen at them lol which yes is pointless but you just cant help yourself sometimes.
Dont get me wrong this film is one of those film if you into the cheesy creatures film your going to absolutely love this film, although i do find some low budget film good, this one is slightly entertaining or tho a little predictable with flaws so this film is not really going to be for everyone.

Dislikes : I think this film could of been better if we didn't see the creatures until the very end really it kind of left the film predictable because of it,but still entertaining.

Overall : Pretty entertaining creature feature, ok acting although a little wooden, fan of these film might love.

Rating: 3.7 out of 5 for entertainment / 6.2 out of 10 for story-line / creature design

Film Review: RIO 2

Genre: Animation Adventure Comedy

Cert: U CERT 

Director: Carlos Saldanha

Screen writer: Don Rhymer , Carlos Saldanha , Jenny Bicks , Yoni Brenner , Carlos Kotkin

Starring voice over's: Jake T. Austin, Carlinhos Brown ,  Kristin Chenoweth , Jemaine Clement , Jim Conroy , Rachel Crow ,Bernardo de Paula , Nola Donkin , Jesse Eisenberg ,Miguel Ferrer ,Jamie Foxx ,Pierce Gagnon ,Andy Garcia , Jeffrey Garcia , Bebel Gilberto , Jason Harris , Anne Hathaway , Amy Heidemann , Kevin W. Keane , Philip Lawrence , Gracinha Leporace , George Lopez , Leslie Mann , Bruno Mars , Sergio Mendes , Kate Micucci , Janelle Monáe , Natalie Morales , Rita Moreno , Tracy Morgan ,Rodrigo Santoro , Amandla Stenberg , Will.i.am .

Running time: 101 min

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

Sex & Nudity: none

Violence & Gore:none

Profanity: none

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: In the beginning of the movie, champagne bottles being popped off are shown and people carrying filled glasses as well during a party.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: The Scene involving the tarantula is quite bad for arachnophobia sufferers 

Story: It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.

Likes : This is family entertainment at its best lovable character, laughable moments slap stick humor, great music, what more could you ask for in entertainment like this, after watching the first Rio film this without a doubt is the best one for laughs as Blu voice by (Jesse Eisenberg) up to his clumsy self  in the amazon jungle, everyone's favourite domesticated macaw, is happily married to Jewel (Anne Hathaway) after their adventures in the first film. Worried that their three beautiful children are becoming too city-bound, Jewel entreats Blu to take the family to the Amazon to connect with their roots. Once in the jungle, Jewel discovers that she and Blu aren't the only surviving adult blue macaws in the world after all: she reconnects with her family, including her dad Eduardo (Andy Garcia) and childhood friend Roberto (Bruno Mars). Suddenly, Blu is the odd one out, and must desperately try to fit into a wild, raucous world that seems to have no place for him and his civilized ways.
 The animation is amazing with lots of vibrant detail especially in the backgrounds and nothing looks hurried or static. The colours are even more brighter and colorful than the first film too. The music has that Brazilian flavor and the songs are incredibly catchy. Don't Go Away is a very touching song, but the highlights are the piazza-personified Poisonous Love and the hilarious rap version of I Will Survive by Nigel voice by (Jemaine Clement) was pretty well put together in mix match up songs.
 One thing about this film is that fact if your feel down or depressed this really is the film to watch as its a feel good movie that fun for all the family to watch, you really can't go wrong with this type of movie with some of the best animation in animated film's with the use of c.g.i., this is a film i recommend for all the family.

Dislikes : nothing wrong with this film, great family entertainment

Overall : lovable character from the original & well as new ones, great music & great entertainment

Rating: 5 out of 5 for the entertainment / 10 out of 10 for story / animation

Film Review: The Call

Genre: Crime  Thriller

Cert: 15 cert

Director: Brad Anderson

Screen writer: Richard D'Ovidio , Nicole D'Ovidio ,Jon Bokenkamp

Starring: Halle Berry , Abigail Breslin , Morris Chestnut , Michael Eklund , David Otunga , Michael Imperioli , Justina Machado , José Zúñiga , Roma Maffia , Evie Thompson , Denise Dowse , Ella Rae Peck ,Jenna Lamia ,  Ross Gallo , Tara Platt , Sammy Busby , Michael Linstroth , Lisa Grady , Rakefet Abergel , Jay Potter ,

Running time: 94 min 

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

Sex & Nudity: A man chloroforms a teen girl (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details) whose blouse reveals cleavage
In two scenes a man changes the appearance of two teen girls to look more like his dead sister: we see him tie a girl's hands to a chair and wash her hair while he hums and licks her face, and he then cuts her blouse off to reveal a bra and moderate cleavage and abdomen. For the rest of the film, the girl remains only in jeans and a bra.
A scene includes a pixelated video of a dead teen girl; her knees are very red and the body above the knees is pixelated.
Several teen girls wear short skirts and short shorts, revealing most of their bare thighs and lower legs; their blouses reveal cleavage.
An overweight woman displays significant cleavage in the stretched neckline of her top.
We see several photos of a pre-teen boy posed and embraced by his teen sister and a second set of photos shows her bald and sitting in a chemotherapy chair; we see photos of a teen boy kissing his sister on the mouth as she receives chemotherapy.
A man has turned half of his home office into a shrine for his dead sister, with photos, mementos and framed poetry that he wrote.
In a prolonged scene, a man kisses a Styrofoam head that wears a human female scalp and removes the scalp, inhales the scent from the inside of the scalp.
Two police officers walk into their 911 room where one of them asks a female dispatcher, "Did someone call for some male strippers?" and kisses her briefly; the dispatcher takes a break and they walk outside to the roof where they kiss passionately and plan to spend the night together and the scene ends.
A teen girl speaks to a teen boy on her cell phone, shouting, "You want to do what to me? Is that even legal?" (a reference to sex is implied).
A teen girl tells another teen girl that a boy at their high school wants to "bone" her.

Violence & Gore: A male driver pulls up to a stopped car to see if the other driver needs help, he calls 911, the other man bashes in his window with a shovel and hits him in the head, he then pulls the injured man out of the car and hits him three more times and we see the man unconscious and in the trunk of the car with a teen girl, who screams causing the unconscious man to wake up and shout loudly; the attacker pulls the car over, opens the trunk and stabs the injured man in the stomach half a dozen times with the screwdriver, killing him in a gush of blood as the girl screams and the killer shuts the trunk again.
At a gas station, a teen girl trapped in a car trunk pulls out a panel and crawls into the back seat to yell for help; the attendant sees her, pulls out a box cutter to defend himself from the driver, and tries to open the car door but the driver pumps gas onto the attendant and lights him on fire with his cigarette lighter (we see the attendant completely on fire, flailing and falling to the ground as the car drives away).
A man uses a scalpel to cut a teen girl's hairline in order to remove her hair and scalp: her eye is badly swollen and bruised and her forehead bleeds until a woman rushes up and knocks the man out with a piece of crockery, the man recovers and fights with the woman, crashing into several walls, shelves, the floor and furniture (we see previous pools of blood on the floor from past crimes as paint cans and tools come crashing down loudly); the teen girl rushes forward, slicing the man's face deeply all the way down the side with sharp shears and then stabs them in his side (we see a lot of blood on his face and head and on his back as he shouts and pulls the shears out), he chases them, scrambling and grabbing, the woman kicks the man backward down a ladder, and she binds and shackles him into a bloody chemotherapy chair (he comes to and spits blood on the floor).
Two teen girls argue at a mall as one girl tries to provoke the other girl to use profanity, especially F-words, and the second girl refuses; walking to her car in the parking garage, the second girl is nearly hit by a car that backs out quickly, the driver exits his car and grabs the girl as the scene abruptly ends and we later see the girl wake up inside the trunk of the man's car and panic, crying, kicking and flailing her arms.
A teen girl locked in the trunk of a moving car calls 911 and the dispatcher tells her to kick out a tail light and wave her hand around to attract attention, which she does; the girl sees a shovel in the trunk and cries that the driver is going to bury her until the driver pulls over under a bridge, opens the trunk, and tells her to shut up or he'll kill her right there with a screwdriver.
A serial killer stops his car in a rural area, pulls a teen girl from the trunk and holds her on the ground with his hand covering her mouth as he looks around and the scene ends.
A teen girl home alone at night calls 911 as we see the shadow of a man break in the front window of her home, the intruder searches the house twice and finds the girl under a bed, from where he pulls her out by the ankles (she screams), he holds the girl by the throat on the floor in the dark and looks like he has a knife to her throat and in a longer shot he stabs and punches her, but we don't see blood; the phone goes dead and the 911 operator panics, cries and hurries off to the Quiet Room to recover, shaking and we later see a pixelated video of the girl, found by police officers in a shallow grave with a large mound of dirt beside it, ready to be shoveled in (the camera cuts to the 911 operator waking up in a cold sweat).
A cell phone line stays open during a kidnapping and the 911 operator can hear the driver's heavy breathing and the girl's cries and whimpering.
A woman drives to a rural cabin at night and finds a large trap door in the ground that leads to a subterranean level of rooms and we hear a female voice crying somewhere; a man wheels a teen girl in a wheelchair to a room at the far end of the place where he gives her nitrous oxide as a sedative (please see the Substance Use category for more details), forcibly washes her hair and cuts it with long sharp shears; the girl escapes and walks into another room where she stops, shakes and screams until the man comes and says, "You're not gonna want to see that" and we later see that the room is a mock-up of the man's sister's room before she died of cancer, decorated in pink, but blood-splattered over bed linens, makeup table and walls.
A man kisses a Styrofoam wig head that wears a human scalp, and taking the blonde-haired scalp in his hands, lies back and inhales from the bloody scalp area as a woman watches from a hiding place.
We see a small refrigerator that contains long haired scalps of women with blood around the scalps.
Over the opening credits, we hear several 911 calls: "There's been a stabbing and someone is dead; my girlfriend jumped off the 12th floor ledge; I hit someone with my car; you shot your wife? daddy's on the floor... how old are you?; someone's been shot in the arm and face and there's a lot of blood; I think I overdosed and I think my wife did too."
Several scenes feature a 911-dispatch office and parts of emergency reports: A man stabs his wife; a woman screams that she ran over someone with her car; a woman screams that a bat is flying around her sister's bedroom; a woman says she thinks she hears a burglar; a drunken man asks why he is in jail; a woman says that her mom was stabbed; a dispatcher tells a potential suicide to put down his gun, but the call is disconnected and she groans; on big screen monitors along the walls, we see enlarged photo IDs of crime victims and criminals, news clippings about the kidnapping and murder of a teen girl and newscasts of police finding missing crime victims.
A serial murderer with a kidnapped teen girl taunts a 911 operator, saying, "It's already done" to indicate that he has killed the girl; he later repeats the call to the same operator after having kidnapped another teen girl.
Police and SWAT teams raid a cabin and find nothing.

Profanity: About 3 F-words and its derivatives, 3 scatological references, 6 mild obscenities, 2 religious profanities and 3 religious exclamations.
Stereotypical references to teen girls, teen boys, parents, 911 callers, sex deviants, housewives, men and women.
Name calling (jerk.)
Not the most vulgar, but still not the cleanest we've seen. 

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A teen girl tells another teen girl that a boy at high school uses too much dope.
A 911 caller says he thinks he and his wife overdosed (the drug is not named.)
A woman takes a tablet out of a prescription bottle and swallows it with water.
A woman places a prescription bottle beside two other prescription bottles on a shelf.
We see a medium sized cardboard box filled with empty prescription bottles.
A killer chloroforms a teen girl and administers nitrous oxide to her several times with a mask and line attached to a canister labeled NO.
A man drinks from a beer can while driving on a highway. 

Frightening/Intense Scenes: A teen girl is is the victim of a break-in at her home and speaks to 911 while hiding under a bed. The robber eventually finds the girl and beats her while the 911 operator is forced to listen. The girl is found dead the next day.
A teen girl is kidnapped and terrorized throughout the film, to the point where she begs the kidnapper to kill her.
A teen girl is sliced halfway across her forehead with a scalpel
Extremely frightening tension throughout and several jump scares.
A teen girl gets thrown into the trunk of a car.

Story: Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But then teenager Casey Welson (Abigail Breslin) is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911. And Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save Casey, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

Likes : The one thing i will say about this film is Halle Berry & Abigail Breslin performances are spot on you can really feel their character's emotion & stress they are going through on screen in the situation, although this film offers no originality because this type of film has been done before, this still is a good film full of intense moments & emotional scene.
I can imagine just how stressful the call center is in the police station with the amount of  911 call's coming special the ones with this situation, i would imagine that it takes alot for the call operator to not panic in a situation like that & having to here that someone is being murdered over the phone, this film portray that brilliantly. Michael Eklund play the psychotic-mentally ill serial killer does a brilliant convincing character which showed on screen, but i find this film missed alot of opportunity to be a big more suspenseful than what it was.  
 The one thing this does do is  keeps your interest and will make everyone watching this film wanting to scream at the screen and tell the characters what to do and urge them along because it just one of those film that keep you on the edge of your seat. The characters would alternate between overcoming their emotions and rising to the challenge and falling prey to them at just the wrong moment. Good thing is there was a constant sense of tension during the 911 call and the walk through of getting the girl to safety which really works for the film. but i would be prepared to feel that adrenaline and tension for longer than your body is normally used to You may feel just as drained after a call as a 911 operator does as he film progress's.

The story-line isn't to bad pretty average as you so find out why this guy is doing what he doing for some sick reason as serial killers do, so don't really expect much in the way of a killing spree as its a little short on that,i would amite i love the ended, because the look on his face was priceless. but overall this is a worth watching film although slightly flawed.

Dislikes : One thing about this film is the lack of extreme tension this film could of had, it was intense slightly but it could of been better, i think it had missed opportunity to have more murder's to build up the story of this serial killer that Michael Eklund was playing to give him more of a profile to the character, it felt to fast & to short in the story-line that we got to see the killer's face, it kind of took away the suspense of the film where they could of keep him in the shadows with him killing girls, making it more of a challenge for the call centre girl played by Halle Berry.  

Overall : Some intense moments, Not a bad story-line, great thriller type film.

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 for entertainment / 6.8 out of 10 for story-line