Saturday 30 August 2014

Film Review: Let's Be Cop's

Genre:  Comedy

Cert: 15A (16+)

Director: Luke Greenfield

Screen writer: Luke Greenfield, Nicholas Thomas 

Starring: Jake Johnson , Damon Wayans Jr. , Rob Riggle , Nina Dobrev , James D'Arcy , Keegan-Michael Key , Andy Garcia, Tom Mardirosian ,   Natasha Leggero , Rebecca Koon , Joshua Ormond , L. Warren Young , Nelson Bonilla , Brian Oerly

Running time: 104 min

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

Sex & Nudity: A fully nude man attacks a man dressed as a police officer and we see the man's bare chest, abdomen, legs, back buttocks and scrotum (the man's genitals are covered by a roll of fat in the front; he knocks the other man down and crawls over him, dragging his genitals over his face and head before tackling the man.

Women wear low-cut tops and dresses that reveal cleavage in several scenes.

A man and a woman kiss; the woman removes her dress and we see her bare back and shoulders. No actual nudity at all is shown of the woman, not even her breasts. The man briefly reacts to seeing her nude and he asks her to put her dress back on and they kiss again (no sex is implied).

A man kisses a woman and then drops her to the floor (we hear a thud).

A woman invites two men into her apartment and she strikes sexually suggestive poses and makes suggestive remarks in a few scenes (we see cleavage and bare legs); she is shown eating a lollipop suggestively.

Two men dressed in police uniforms go into a dance club and are pulled into a back room where several women cheer them on to dance and strip for them; the two men dance and one thrusts on a woman's lap while three women grab at him and the other man opens his shirt (we see his bare chest and abdomen) and the women say "Ewww."

Men and women dance in a club scene where women wear cleavage revealing tops and tight-fitting dresses.

A man dressed in a police uniform makes five men perform a sobriety test that includes suggestive hips thrusting.

A man makes a sexually explicit remark to a woman and she leaves the room.

A woman tells two men that she once "Did a three-way with 2 paramedics."

Two women argue about one woman stealing the other woman's boyfriend and some suggestive text messages are read out loud.

A man talks about having done a genital herpes ad and we see a clip where he says, "I have genital herpes."

Violence & Gore: A man is shot in the chest by another man with a shotgun and the injured man falls out of a window (the injured man was wearing a bulletproof vest); he lands on a dumpster and runs away as the original shooter and several others shoot at him and chase him.

A man with a gun barges into a meeting room and shoots at a man; other people in the room scream and duck as the man shot at runs away and jumps over a railing to the ground below and he runs away.

A man points a gun at another man tied to a table and we hear a gunshot before the gunman falls dead on the man on the table (he screams and tries to push him off).

Two men dressed in police uniforms hide as another man with a gun shoots around a room; one of the two men is shot in the arm and falls to the floor; one man tackles another man and they fight while another man shoots and hits one man who stumbles to the floor and the other man is shot in the back (we see no blood from the bullet wound and two of the men have blood on their faces).

Profanity:  34 F-words and its derivatives

2 obscene hand gestures (i.e. middle finger)

56 scatological terms (i.e. shit, piss)

29 anatomical terms (i.e. ass, dick, tits)

27 mild obscenities (i.e. boobs, hell, damn)

8 exclamations (shut up)

2 religious profanities (i.e. goddamn)

5 religious exclamations (i.e. Jesus, Oh My God, Oh God)

name-calling (ball hog, loser, downer, idiot, stupid pigs, crazy, weird, psycho magnet, devil's nephew, terrible looking people, gross)

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A man hands another man a crack pipe and the man smokes from it (he is shown to have double vision afterwards)

Several men smoke a marijuana cigarette on a side-walk and two men dressed as police officers take the cigarette and smoke it.

We see beer bottles on a table in a restaurant but do not see anyone drinking.

A man dressed in a police uniform searches a vehicle where he finds a bottle of bourbon that he drinks from.

A man drinks a beer at home.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: Nothing really intense or frightening  If this film had less language it would have been rated (12A)
Recommended Age: 16+



Story: It's the ultimate buddy cop movie except for one thing: they're not cops. When two struggling pals dress as police officers for a costume party, they become neighbourhood sensations. But when these newly-minted "heroes" get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

Likes : First thing First don't be a dumb ass & try this in the film for real thinking it would be cool or funny, the law is real & you will serve 7 to maybe 8 years in federal prison for impersonation a police officer im not joking around (it is illegal ) .As for the film it has its moments, when I saw the trailers for it it looked pretty funny. But this movie has committed one cardinal sins in any comedy film and that is with all the trailers and TV spots they pretty much show you all the funny moments in the film which ruins the film funny moments when watching it.
 I don't understand why the movie companies keep doing this but they really need to watch what they put in trailers & TV spots im aware they need to sell the film but i feel it can be done better so not to show all the film entertainment.
 Take notes from some of the more successful R rated comedies like Ted, Paul etc. where you don't have to show every single funny moment in your trailer to get people to come in or show us some of the scenes that maybe didn't make it into the movie, this is why when watching the movie you find it funny.
 Jake Johnson , Damon Wayans From the Series (Girl next door Jess) Try the best with the comedy, although a little over acting which for these guys just didn't work all to well, because i find the only actors to get away with over acting are the late (Robin Williams R.I.P & Jim Carrey), but they did OK in other area's.
 Nina Dobrev i feel was put in just for eye candy because her involvement in this film wasn't real much, i feel this is don't to bad scribe writing for her because she seem a very talented actress.
To me this film felt like a straight to DVD film instead of a cinema release to be-honest, it wasn't bad but waste great so many flaws lets this film down.

Dislikes : The action scene didn't feel natural, it felt like they were staged, Most of the jokes were funny but other just completely fell flat just wasn't funny, this film did feel like the funny concept was force & tried to hard to be funny, it felt like they tried to go with the slight concept like national security it kind of failed on this point.This film had potential to be funny but sadly this just wasn't funny at all.
  Andy Garcia brilliant actor but i felt this role was bad for him, because his character just was written well in to the story felt more of a cameo role which was predictable.Sadly this is a film i would wait for the dvd or Rent it from your local DVD store or red-box/ netfex's really.


Overall : Some funny jokes but fall flat, Acting was ok but could of been funnier

Rating: 3.7 out of 5 for entertainment / 5.6 out of 10 for Comedy / storyline




Friday 29 August 2014

Film Review: If I Stay

Genre: Drama

Cert: 12A

Director: R.J. Cutler

Screen writer: Shauna Cross (screenplay), Gayle Forman (novel)

Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz , Mireille Enos , Jamie Blackley , Joshua Leonard , Liana Liberato , Stacy Keach , Gabrielle Rose , Jakob Davies , Ali Milner , Aisha Hinds , Gabrielle Cerys Haslett , Lauren Lee Smith , Adam Solomonian , John Emmet Tracy , Chelah Horsdal

Running time: 106 min

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

Sex & Nudity: Several scenes show a teen boy and a teen girl kissing passionately for a prolonged time in a bedroom, on the street, at a boathouse and in a parking lot and in one sequence the teen couple kisses while clothed and the scene switches back and forth to a close-up view: her hand stroking his bare shoulder, their hands clasping and their forearms bare, and finally, their bare shoulders as they kiss in a horizontal position as the sequence ends (sex is implied).

A teen boy and a teen girl kiss in her bedroom and we see them in her bed with a quilt covering most of their bodies, apparently after sex; we see his full bare chest, shoulders and arms, and her bare shoulders and arms.

In a high school hallway teen girls wear tops that bare a few inches of midriff all the way around.

In one scene, a teen boy raises an arm, which pulls his shirt up to reveal about three inches of his bare side and back.

Teen girls wear scoop neck tops in several scenes that reveal moderate cleavage.

A woman wears a strapless gown that shows bare shoulders, arms and a little cleavage.

A female rock singer wears an open necked blouse that reveals substantial cleavage that bounces as she sings and hops up and down.

In a bar where a costume party is held, many women wear short skirts that reveal partially bare thighs, and tops that reveal some cleavage.

In a few scenes, a teen boy and a teen girl hold hands.

A teen boy tells his girlfriend that a female band member is "into girls" and we see a gay girl kiss another girl on the lips in the background.

A husband and his wife kiss quickly in several scenes at home.

A teen boy asks a teen girl to live with him and she agrees.

A teen boy tells a friend that he fell in love with his girlfriend the first time he saw her play the cello.

In a high school a teen girl tells another teen girl, "He's into you."

A man in a skeleton costume says to a woman, "Hey! Wanna bone?" (sex implied) and people laugh.

A loud rock song features the lyrics "I want what you've got. Give it to me," suggesting sex.

A teen boy says that guys join rock groups to get laid and let out rage.

A teen girl says jokingly that she plays classical music in order to get the guys.

A teen boy sucks the bee stinger out of a teen girl's hand; a woman says it is romantic and her husband says, "Settle down. You're already knocked up."

A band member autographs a woman's chest over her left breast; she is wearing a low cut dress with thin straps that reveal bare shoulders and some cleavage.

A woman, listening to a little girl playing a cello says, "This is the reason why I could never procreate" and weeks later, we see the woman pregnant, with a slightly bulging belly.

We see a pregnant woman with her belly very swollen, followed by a quick flash forward of her husband holding a tiny baby and we see only the top of its head.

Violence & Gore: The film centres on a teenage girl left in a coma in ICU after a car accident kills her family: her spirit or consciousness is shown wandering the halls of the hospital, barefoot, attempting to communicate with people and remembering her life in flashbacks.

A family drives on a wet road in winter with mom and dad in the front seat and a teenage girl and younger brother in the back seat; the father swerves to avoid an oncoming vehicle (no crash noise), and mist and smoke rise as the camera cuts to a fuzzy view of bare tree tops from the point of view of the ground; the teen girl rises from a prone position and wanders around the crash scene while the car sits on its roof with flames at the front axle; an EMT closes up a body bag that we later hear was the girl's mother and the girl walks to a group of crouching EMTs and sees herself lying in the snow with blood spreading under her, on her face and leg.

We see six long, bloody instruments extending from an injured teen girl's stomach as surgeons manipulate them.

A man on a gurney is shown with a gauze patch over one eye and a neck brace.

A man with thick bandages around his neck and a gauze eye patch are shown in a hospital bed.

A young boy lies sleeping with an oxygen mask on his face and an IV line and blood pressure cuff on his arm in a hospital room while monitors beep; we hear that the boy and a man died and we see and hear their families crying.

A young man enters an ICU room, but two guards forcefully pull him out of the room and off the hospital floor as he shouts.

A young man runs into a hospital and tries to enter the ICU room of his girlfriend several times, but a nurse and security guards shout loudly each time and stop him.

Medical staff in scrubs rush through hospital corridors as a teen girl's spirit runs beside her own gurney and looks horrified as a doctor says that she is in critical condition and needs to start fighting, because she has broken ribs, a collapsed lung, a damaged spleen, broken bones, and internal bleeding.

In an operating room, a nurse leans down to an injured teen girl's ear and says, "If you live. If you die. It's all up to you."

An older man sits by a teen girls bed in ICU and cries as her spirit stands by the bed and speaks to him and he seems to be hearing her; he says, "If you want to go, I want you to know it's okay" and the spirit says, "Thank you!"

A young woman sits by a teen girl's bed in ICU and says that it's OK if she wants to go, while crying a bit.

A young man pleads with a teen girl in a coma to wake up and live, but says, "It's okay if you want to go. I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go."

A teen girl in a coma sees a bright, hazy yellow light at the end of a hallway, followed by flashbacks of her life in a quickening sequence, followed by loud crunching sounds off screen and the screen goes white.

An injured teen girl's closed eyelids become progressively more red and sunken, finally turning purple.

Several scenes show the spirit of a teen girl walking through a hallway toward a bright but hazy light that fills the scene; in one scene, she runs down a hallway toward the camera, slides to a stop on her bottom, pounds the floor with her fists, and screams loudly, "God!"

A young woman tells a hospital guard that a girl is having a baby in a bathroom on the floor above, there is blood everywhere, and then she screams.

A few scenes feature a teen boy and a teen girl arguing about their future lives and careers, mostly about which one's career is more important and who should relocate for the other's work; she cries several times and they break up and reconnect a few times.

A teen girl tells her female friend about a teen boy, "He better be nice to you or I'll squash him like the bug he is."

A teen girl's friend tells her that "If you turn into one of those' girls (snobby band members' girlfriends) I'll shoot you" and the other girl says, "I'll give you the gun."

Profanity:  9 mild obscenities, 2 Shut Ups, 13 scatological terms (once by a 4- or 5-year-old boy), 3 anatomical terms and 14 religious exclamations (e.g. Oh My God, Jesus, Oh God, God, My God and Thank God.)

Name-calling (crazy, insane, dumb, liar, tool, job [like "nut job"], fools, ridiculous, riffraff, naïve and stinking mess.)

Stereotypical references to teenagers, parents, musicians, groupies, medical professionals, teachers, coffee drinkers and abandoned children.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking:Three patients in ICU receive IV fluids through a tube/needle in one arm and wear oxygen masks.

A patient on an operating table receives two IVs of clear liquids and one IV of blood through tubes going to the arms.

A man compares coffee for a child to crack cocaine and says that "You don't give crack to someone who is already on speed."

A teen boy says that his favorite song is "I Want to be Sedated."

A band leader says that his band drinks Red Bull energy drink (presumably to stay awake and perform).

Two glasses of wine and a wine bottle along with two beer bottles are shown on a table at a dinner (no one is shown drinking.)

A few party scenes feature high school and college aged boys and girls drinking beer from cups and bottles.

A party scene shows champagne being opened and drunk.

Bottles of beer are seen on a long table at a family celebration (no one is seen drinking.)

People have Mimosas with breakfast on New Year's Day (no one is shown drinking.)

A man orders shots of unknown alcohol and a teen girl refuses to drink at first but later chugs a shot.

Men and women drink from bottles of beer and from mixed drinks and some people drink as they dance in a bar scene.

A man angrily throws a drink off a balcony.

A man holds a pipe in his mouth but does not smoke.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: There are some upsetting and devastating sequences, including a fatal car crash that's revisited throughout the movie which is sad, intense and it may scare children.

Mia talks about if she wants to live or not and that may be very sad too.

We see six long, bloody instruments extending from an injured teen girl's stomach as surgeons manipulate them.



Story: Mia Hall thought the hardest decision she would ever face would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at Juilliard or follow a different path to be with the love of her life, Adam. But what should have been a carefree family drive changes everything in an instant, and now her own life hangs in the balance. Caught between life and death for one revealing day, Mia has only one decision left, which will not only decide her future but her ultimate fate.

Likes : If I stay is a beautiful, moving film about a teenage girl and the life or death decision she must make. Mia is a teenage girl that has a wonderful, quirky family, a boyfriend who loves her to pieces, and a bright, ambitious future. But, all of that changes when she and her family are in a fatal car accident.
While Mia's body is in a coma, her mind journeys back to all of her memories, triumphs, heart breaks and future. She has to make the decision on whether or not to fight and stay alive, or let go and leave this world. Will Mia stay?
Watching this film brought back some suppressed memories for me as i was my self in a car crash that came close to this film, which kind of add to the emotional part of this film. This is clearly the best performance yet by the incredibly beautiful  Chloë Grace Moretz one of the most haunting, emotional role she ever played, as an actress this is where she shines, these are the type of roles perfect for her talent & well written character which made her scene so believable, just watching her on screen breaks your heart what's she going through.
What this also dose is make you think long & hard about what is most in important in life show that life is short & can be taken any time, which make you think live for love live for you family as every Min of your life is precocious shouldn't be wasted on material things.
 What is fantastic about this movie is has a little bit of everything. It makes you smile, it has music, a strong story, great acting and a lot of emotion that you can't help but be in tears over. The film doesn't centre mainly around her out of body experience but centres around Mia's love for Adam & her family life which give this film of an emotional edge when things are throw out of control.
 The film skips back and forth from her out of body experience to her memories with Adam and her family,which allows the audience to understand the love and bond that they have as it skips back to different points in their history to present time.
 The story is not about god or the afterlife but simply about a choice that she has to make, Does she leave with her family & cross over or does she stay and continue fighting through life with Adam by her side? this is portray brilliantly By Chloe, along side her co star Jaime Blackley who plays Adam who done a pretty performance on his part as the boyfriend who did want to lose her.
This is a film i highly recommend watching, if your a Chloë Grace Moretz or you just love these types of film's, but be warned this film deals with the concept of death, has a very heart breaking emotional concept that might bring back memory so this might be frightening to some younger viewers or people that have lost someone close in a car crash.

Dislikes : My only complaint is in some parts of this film the pace kind of ruins the mood & emotional concept a little as the pace isn't balanced & slow other than that, this film was brilliant.

Overall : Very emotional, darkly haunting, beautiful, perfect performances, best Chloë Grace Moretz film to date.

Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 10 out of 10 for Concept / storyline.




Tuesday 26 August 2014

Film Review: Leprechaun.Origin

Genre: Horror 

Cert: (R-rated) 18 cert

Director: Zach Lipovsky

Screen writer: Harris Wilkinson (screenplay)

Starring: Stephanie Bennett, Andrew Dunbar , Melissa Roxburgh , Brendan Fletcher , Garry Chalk , Teach Grant, Bruce Blain , Adam Boys , Mary Black , Emilie Ullerup ,Gary Peterman  

Running time: 90 min

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

Sex & Nudity: Couple kissing.

Violence & Gore: Guy get's slashed,
A man is seen with a spike sticking out from he chest,
 A man leg is torn to shredded blood is seen
A woman get an axe to the head
Group gets gun pointed at them.

Profanity: Few f words thrown through the film  

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Beer is seen drunk in the pub

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  Some scene maybe disturbing for some viewers, the creature might appear frightening. (R-rated violence) recommended age 18 



Story: Backpacking through the lush Irish countryside, two unsuspecting young couples discover a town's chilling secret. Ben (Dunbar), Sophie (Bennet), David (Fletcher) and Jeni (Roxburgh) quickly discover the idyllic land is not what it appears to be when the town's residents offer the hikers an old cabin at the edge of the woods. Soon, the friends will find that one of Ireland's most famous legends is a terrifying reality.

Likes : From what ive heard this is supposed to be a prequel or a re-imagine of the old films of the same name,but seriously this film was none of the above, the storyline didn't have anything to do with Leprechaun over than the gold.
Eleven years since the last Leprechaun film, Lionsgate and WWE Studios bring us a useless re-imaging of the cult classic Leprechaun horror villain from the early nineteen nineties. The original franchise lasted for ten years and had six films, one even involving the Leprechaun in Space. This re-imaging has nothing on the original film. The original film was different for its genre at the time, while this film simply tries to be the same as the other genre films, which is doesn't do to bad but the story is very weak.The acting is ok in place but this film is so flawed its awful.

Dislikes : If this film was supposed to be origins of the the first film's they should have had the Leprechaun in this instead of weird looking creatures they put in it because the only thing mention that says anything is the gold but this was not a  Leprechaun concept, maybe in mythological creature sense yes, but anything else no.
Some of the acting is a little wooden & moment you feel like this film has no intelligences special curtain scene when a creature is in the other room you run into the other, you stand in the door way to the room you just ran from is just how bad this film gets.
This is a film that supposed to represent Ireland.....where on earth did this film represent Ireland, this just looked like a normal village in america with a few people speaking Irish, this is a film that could of had potential to be a great film but the concept & storyline just complete falls flat.
This just looks like a cheap SyFy channel movie that seriously was shockingly god awfully to watch, nothing about this film scream scary or portrays the legend in an way, it just looks like another B movie creature feature on a low budget, sadly this is one i would avoid watching, but some may like this film.  

Overall : Weak storyline, Nothing to do with the legend that is  Leprechaun other than the gold, its just a poor film that could of been better done.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 for entertainment / 3.2 out of 10 for concept / storyline





Saturday 23 August 2014

Film Review: The Midnight Meat Train (Horror)

GenreHorror Mystery Thriller

Cert: R-rated (18 cert)

Director: Ryûhei Kitamura

Screen writer: Jeff Buhler (screenplay), Clive Barker (short story "The Midnight Meat Train")

Starring: Bradley Cooper ,Leslie Bibb , Brooke Shields ,  Vinnie Jones , Roger Bart , Tony Curran, Barbara Eve Harris , Peter Jacobson , Stephanie Mace ,  Ted Raimi ,Nori Satô , Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson , Dan Callahan , Donnie Smith , Earl Carroll.

Running time: 98 min

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

Sex & Nudity: A man and a woman start kissing.He then starts thrusting from behind, implying sex. They are fully clothed and only seen from chest up, so there is no nudity.

A young woman is confronted by a gang, one of them requests oral sex, she declines and someone intervenes.

A man is seen completely topless in bed.

A man press breasts of woman and start making love with her, the woman moans, but no nudity.

A woman is undressing his shirt and bra, not nude but her hands were on breasts, while posing for the snaps.

A woman breasts were shown, who was lying dead.

Several naked dead bodies are seen in multiple scenes; bare buttocks and chests can be seen.

Violence & Gore: A man slips on a pool of blood, falls on the ground, and is therefore covered in it. He then sees a man hacking someone to death with a hammer; most of it is off-screen, squishing can be heard.

A person hits a guy's head from the back with a hammer so hard his eyeballs are dislocated and pop out; blood gushes and fills the floor of the train, and we see his eyes pop out in a slow motion. Another man is stabbed with a fish-hook. The same man tries to stop the killer and is hit again with the hammer on the face: blood splatters. A woman is then beheaded (off-screen).

Two men struggle in a train. An hammer is used to beat one of the opponent's hand, a man is stabbed, and then one of them is shot by another man; blood pours and sprays in close-up.

Many dead bodies can be seen hanging by hooks naked and with blood on them.

, mostly off-screen.

A scene shows two men fighting with lots of stabbings and slashes, during the scene a man is stabbed in the back of the head and the neck.

An heart is taken from a still living  chest, and it's implied that another person eats it.

A man pulls out another man's tongue and eats it.

In a graphic, disturbing and lengthy scene, a man can be seen shaving a body, removing its teeth, nails and eyes with tools, stabbing its ankles with a hook, and hanging it.

A young woman gets her head smashed with an hammer.

A character removes (and then keeps in a jar) gross and bizarre growths from his flesh by cutting them away with a knife (no blood).

There is a sequence taking place in a meat-packaging business; no living animal is seen being slaughtered, but animals bodies and parts are graphically and lengthy seen while the butchers handle them.

Profanity: A handful of uses of 'fuck'.
Some milder language.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A few characters are shown drinking beer at a bar.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: The killer is a fearsome and vicious person that kills without mercy.
The movie features blood and gore.
The tone of the movie is very dark, serious and psychological.
Many intense scenes, but nothing scary; Several scenes of stalking, running, and hiding. 



Story: The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she analyses Leon's work and asks him to improve the quality of his photos. During the night, the upset Leon decides to wander on the streets taking pictures with his camera, and he follows three punks down to the subway station; when the gang attacks a young woman, Leon defends her and the guys move on. On the next morning, Leon discovers that the woman is missing. He goes to the police station, but Detective Lynn Hadley does not give much attention to him and discredits his statement. Leon becomes obsessed to find what happened with the stranger and he watches the subway station. When he sees the elegant butcher Mahogany in the train, Leon believes he might be a murderer and stalks him everywhere, in the beginning of his journey to the darkness.

Likes : Clive Barker's more sanguinary inclinations are paid tribute here through a hulking golem, a malevolent meat merchant in his dapper best, named Mahogany (Vinnie Jones) who smashes, eviscerates and cleaves through unsuspecting commuters on the last train home. Adapted from Barker's seminal anthology, "Books of Blood", the similarly named "The Midnight Meat Train" is more than just an opportunity for some sophomoric snickering over its title but one of Barker's most revered short stories about a supernatural serial killer that ekes out fascination, fear and obsession from a lone photographer, Leon Kaufman (Bradley Cooper) stumbling upon the butcher's late night deliveries.
I will say Vinnie Jones has the face for horror as his performance in this film was seriously spine chilling & sinister, special with the way he look at you with those eye's, which pulls off the psychotic manic killer look perfect.From what ive read this is one of the best short short story adaptation from Clive barker, which lets face it has Clive barker written all over it, ive seen bloody film's before but ive haven't seen a blood feast film shown in such a sinister cold chilling way like this since Clive barkers Hell raiser back in the 80s, so this was the first time i watch this film although i did notice a few flaws that could of been done better but this was a great film for horror fans.
We've see alot of horror where a killer has used a knife, machete, guns, chain saw, axe. etc....but there is seriously something brutal about a metal meat tenderiser hammer being used in such a vicious way it just makes you blood turn cold, this is the way this film effects you.Which is great because it set a much darker cold chilling tone, which Bradley Cooper did well in, with a convincing performance special the way his character started to change from this claim mild man to this cold dark de-meaner which was clever showing the transaction, which lends to the ending, with a very good twist, because what you think is going on lends to a much darker story which i liked.  
Director Ryuhei Kitamura (of "Versus" and "Azumi" fame) offers up one of the year's most brutally alluring gore feasts in his American début which dose well to off set the audience with the gritty and detailed hard-edge of early 70's horror films, his flair for C.G.I augmented visuals and the intense seduction of experimental camera-work in a cinematic environment really increase sanitised of actual visceral terror bring you one of the best blood soaked horrors since hell raiser in my book.

Dislikes : The Girlfriend, making a women in a movies cliché really off set the concept off the film, don't get me wrong Leslie Bibb dose her best to come off as the loving girl but the way her character in written in she came across really dumb instead of a smart independent woman special in some scene. One scene in particular (spoiler alert) A scene where she see the bag on the table yet instead of run out the door she look for her friend. Really !!!!!!!.....
its scene like this that slow the film down & make the woman look dumb in film's because it make you scream at the TV don't go in there run for the door (come on you know what im talking about everyone dose it), when they start shrill and trying to run it comes off a bad cheesy movie, there were forced love scenes and quite frankly, the actress the way she was written in added to the slow pacing when she could of been written in to be more proactive & supportive of the leads journey into hell.
There is one other thing, now don't get me wrong Vinnie Jones performance was brilliant,cold & chilling, but i feel that his scene's could of been better if we didn't see he face until almost the end of the film, which would of add to the chill & scare factor of who this guy is, instead of showing his face midway through, because it took away the scare factor, even though the brutality of the scenes compensated for the lack of scare factor there, so really apart from these this film is a good horror special on shock value.

Overall : brutal, fast in place slow in others, cold dark chill performance from Vinnie Jones, brilliant performance from Bradley cooper, a great film for gore feast fans & fan of the Clive Barker film's

Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 8.1 out of 10 for gore feast / Twist in the concept.





Friday 22 August 2014

Film Review: Lucy

Genre: Action  Sci-Fi  

Cert: 15 cert

Director: Luc Besson

Screen writer: Luc Besson

Starring: Scarlett Johansson , Morgan Freeman , Min-sik Choi , Amr Waked , Julian Rhind-Tutt , Pilou Asbæk , Analeigh Tipton , Nicolas Phongpheth , Jan Oliver Schroeder , Luca Angeletti , Loïc Brabant , Pierre Grammont , Pierre Poirot , Bertrand Quoniam , Pascal Loison

Running time: 89 min

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

Sex & NudityA man looks down the blouse of a woman and reaches in to begin fondling her breasts before she slaps his hand away.

A woman is chained to a wall while sitting on a chair and grins at a man who enters the room; wearing jeans, she spreads her legs and he approaches, unbuckling his belt (sex implied but she kills him instead; please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).

Several scenes flash by containing animals mating: rhinos, frogs and birds and the last image is a car at night, rocking and we see human arms (sex is implied).

A woman briefly kisses a man.

A woman awakens in a bed, wearing jeans and a bra that reveals some cleavage.

A man appears shirtless in a shot of his upper chest and shoulders that are covered in tribal tattoos.

Five Native Americans are shown shirtless with their chest covered in colorful paints.

A woman at home wears a bra that reveals a little cleavage and abdomen.

Violence & Gore: A woman shoots and kills several men in the hallway of a hotel and they fall with a little blood showing: she shoots through a door and we see a man fall dead with a bloody throat among dead men's bodies in pools of blood, she enters a tattoo room and stabs a man in both hands (we see blood running as the man screams) and he is later shown wearing bandages on both hands, and she presses her thumbs to the man's forehead and we see images of neurons and arteries, followed by images of passports.

A woman in a cell lets a man approach and as his hand reaches for her thigh, she smashes it between her legs, kills him with a punch and takes his handgun; outside, she shoots and kills a taxi driver (no blood) and forces another driver to take her to a hospital where she walks to an operating room, looks at an X-ray, shoots the patient, rolls him off the gurney and states that his brain tumor is in inoperable; the woman demands that a surgeon remove drugs from her belly and we see a scalpel cut stitches and remove a bloody bag of blue powder.

Police forces arrest three drug mules with some scuffling, the three male prisoners stand in a room and gunmen enter the building, shooting government officials and secretaries (we see blood flow), they shoot one prisoner and savagely cut his abdomen to remove a bag of blue crystals and we see blood flow; they cut open another abdomen as the victim shouts and they shoot the third prisoner, killing him with some blood shown; a woman enters the room and asks for the blue crystals as the gunmen point handguns at her until she sends the weapons to the ceiling, along with knives from pockets using her mind, and then levitates the gunmen to the ceiling (the woman jams her fingers into the last prisoner's abdomen and removes the bloody bag of crystals).

In slow motion, gunmen and police fight in a hallway, shooting, and some fall with a little blood flow; one gunman fires a bazooka into a room with a large flame discharging and a man enters with a handgun pointed at the back of a woman's head as she sits in a chair; the woman's face becomes black, the color rising from her throat, the man shoots several times, but the chair is empty and a tall mountain-like computer undulates and produces a large flash drive that a scientist takes and the computer turns to dust.

Several armed men shoot and kill men and women in a university building and we see some blood; in a hallway, a standoff occurs between gunmen and police.

A man shoots two other men and blood splatters a woman's face.

A man arguing with a woman about delivering a briefcase to someone in a hotel pulls her arm, and handcuffs the case to her wrist; the man is shot outside the hotel and we see blood covering the glass door.

Two sets of bloody legs, one set convulsing, are seen sticking out of an office door.

A man with a bloody face and hands walks out of an office and washes in a basin of water held by another man.

Five men in a hotel carry and drag a woman to another man, while she trembles and cries.

A woman in a warehouse room is punched in the head and kicked in the abdomen by a man, causing a bandage on her abdomen to turn bloody (she had slapped his hand away from inside her shirt and caused a finger to bleed; please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details).

When a woman refuses to work for a man, she receives a powerful slap in the face.

A woman awakens in a bed, groans in pain and we see vials of liquid and scalpels on a nightstand; there is a bloody bandage on her abdomen and blood shows on the bed quilt as men put her and a group of men in black hoods and take them to airports.

A woman on a plane loses a tooth into a glass of champagne and several other teeth fall out (we see their bloody roots); her hands become raw and we see streams of atoms flow from her nails, arms and hair as she pushes people away with mind control and locks herself in a washroom; in a panic the woman eats handfuls of a drug (please see the Substance Use category for more details) as her face melts; she reconstitutes and glowing blue and yellow light shines through her face, arms and hands as a man pounds on the door and the scene ends.

A woman chained to a wall with a handcuff and a long chain screams and rolls up a wall and across the ceiling, where fluorescent lights spark and flicker, and then rolls back to the floor, runs toward a wall and screams as the scene ends.

A doctor tells a police detective that a woman should sleep for 12 hours (please see the Substance Use category for more details) but she wakes up, handcuffed to a gurney and escapes and takes an officer's handgun; in a hallway, she causes two dozen officers to fall to the floor asleep and a detective's gun to lose its bullets; in a car, the woman pushes a detective to the passenger seat with her mind and takes over driving, she drives the wrong way on one-way streets and causes several cars to crash into each other in multiple scenes, one car skids with some sparks occurring and some cars flip over (occupants are unseen), and one car rolls over repeatedly through an intersection; five police cruisers smack into one another and one flips over the top of a pile of cruisers (no injuries are seen, no fires, no explosions).

Several men stand behind a glass wall, use police riot shields for cover and point handguns and shout at a woman as she opens a briefcase (nothing happens as the case opens).

A sequence of images of natural disasters include tsunamis, tornadoes, and thunder storms.

We see a cheetah stalking an antelope, run, catch it and carry it, dead and limp (no blood is seen).

A T-Rex eating an animal turns with a bloody mouth, roars and charges the camera.

We see a woman's body briefly with X-ray vision (blood, bones, nerves and organs are seen).

We see the birth of a horse with amniotic fluids and blood spurting to the ground, and in a long shot, the birth of a baby behind a surgical drape (the baby appears to be wet).

A man receives a tattoo from a tattooed woman (shoulders, back and arms under a crop top).

A woman in a chair spits electricity that fills a room causing some equipment to be thrown across the room; her arms turn red, then black and then grow glowing red-black roots that extend and expand to swallow the computers and servers all around the room and a large statue outside explodes into rubble and a shock wave blows everything away except a group of scientists and the woman.

A woman meets with a group of scientists, grabs the shoulder of one and narrates via telepathy how his daughter died at age six in a car crash; she says that as her brain creates additional neurons increasingly quickly, she is losing all emotion and she sits down and causes her hand to form two palms and 10 fingers, resume its shape, and then become a webbed hand, and then a claw.

A man says that he will kill a woman (he carries two large handguns and his band of thugs carry handguns and a bazooka).

Profanity: A possible F-word, 4 scatological terms, 2 anatomical terms, 2 mild obscenities and 4 religious exclamations (e.g. Oh My God, Lord Help Me).

Name-calling (crazy, fool. nut bar and silly.)

Stereotypical references to drug dealers, drug mules, drug addicts, mob bosses, scientists, men and women.  

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Drugs are heavily implied and are a main factor in the story

A woman and several men work as drug mules and carry plastic pouches of blue crystal drugs in their abdomens.

A briefcase contains four 2-kilo packs of a drug.

A man says that he will "blow some smack later" to a woman.

A man forces a drug addict with rotten teeth to snort a sparkly blue powder with a soda straw (the addict becomes stiff and then laughs hysterically.)

A woman eats handfuls of a drug in an airplane washroom and receives an IV of four kilos of the drug and we see the injection of the needle happen (her irises turn purple.)

We hear that European teenagers like a drug called CPH4 that is used in very small amounts to enhance the growth of unborn children.

A doctor says that a woman should sleep for twelve hours after receiving an injection and she awakens more quickly (we see a saline IV running to her arm).

A man and a woman drink shots of alcohol in a dance club amid flashing lights.

A man and a woman drink short glasses of alcohol in a meeting room.

A woman drinks champagne on a plane.

A man sits beside a glass of wine in a hotel room.

A man smokes a cigarette in an office.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: The first scene, which is lighthearted, becomes very intense very suddenly. Lucy is terrified by everything that happens around her. She visibly shakes throughout, and vomits at the sight of two dead bodies.

Characters are used as drug mules, and the drugs are sewn up inside their intestines, requiring several bloody surgeries throughout the movie.

Many chases and shoot outs with random death and destruction throughout.

Lucy is grabbed, manhandled, punched, and kicked in several early scenes.

The whole movie is very intense from beginning to end, because of the chases, shootouts, and constant suspense as Lucy builds how much cerebral capacity has gained from the fictional drug that her captors surgically implanted into her stomach, and three other captives.



Story: It was supposed to be a simple job. All Lucy had to do was deliver a mysterious briefcase to Mr. Jang. But immediately Lucy is caught up in a nightmarish deal where she is captured and turned into a drug mule for a new and powerful synthetic drug. When the bag she is carrying inside of her stomach leaks, Lucy's body undergoes unimaginable changes that unlocks her mind's full potential 100%. With her new-found powers, Lucy turns into a merciless warrior intent on getting back at her captors. She receives invaluable help from Professor Norman, the leading authority on the human mind, and French police captain Pierre Del Rio.

Likes : This movie truly is a masterpiece of  real science & fiction, that is, it's fictionalizes what happens if the limits of science are expanded. And it does that at a carefully measured pace. I was surprised that many "critics" (i.e. parasites of opinion that compete for the meanest words to retain readers) point quickly to the inaccuracy of the science behind Lucy, but they do not care to point to the physical impossibility of let say Captain America.

This is no superhero movie which some people seem to reference this film as, this is perfect example of what could happen if the human mind is unlocked to 100%, yes most people think we use 100% of our brain all ready which is not the case because we do use 10% of our brain. This to some might not seem alot to people but look at what we have done in the world with just 10% of our brain. The smartest mammal on this planet even smarter than any animal on the planet use's 20% of its brain that mammal is the dolphin, its human like brain which use's 20% has developed its echo sonar which wasn't just given to the animal it evolved to have this because of its capacity of the 20%, now imagine that in a human.

This is what is intelligent & beautiful about this film, from the start of this film the brilliant performance from Morgan freeman character Professor Norman give real science behind the human & nature's understanding so far with the genetic's of life & how far we have come to the point where science become science fiction because we haven't got that far. Right up to the point where Lucy played Scarlett johanson brilliant & mesmerizing performance as she start to gain a power. As she start's unlocking her mind we are thrown into a world which show a fantastic & beautiful science fiction behind what could be if the brain was unlocked beyond 10%.

This film complete just blow me away, there was a few critic that compare this to 2 other film which is understandable because there is somewhat of a concept from limitless & the matrix's, but this take those concepts & push's the imagination more further with stunning results.
  Luc Besson director & screen writing has truly made a masterpiece of a movie here, the scene are brilliant filmed, from the elegant reference to Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam", and another clever fundamental scene with Lucy drinking water happens in what looks like Gorges de l'Ardèche, where the Cahuvet Cave regards the oldest human paintings & Pay attention to the statue destroyed at the University. Perhaps many references are unintentional, and simply reflect the spirit of our time. This film also has some of the most beautiful cinematography & stunning visual effect ive seen in a film for awhile which really bring this film to life.

So don't listen to negative comment about this film, as most people will not understand this film as a whole, its a film you really have to sit & take in to really understand it, because once you do this, this film will blow you mind to the possibility of what could be.This is a must to see, i highly recommended film to watch, because the intelligence behind this film is outstanding & above most of what Hollywood produces which is refreshing to see a film worth watching with intelligence behind it.


Dislikes : Nothing wrong with this film.

Overall : Intelligent film, real science with science fiction, Outstanding performances, brilliant visual effects

Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 10 out of 10 for concept & storyline.




Thursday 21 August 2014

Film Review: Into the Storm

Genre: Action Thriller Disaster

Cert: 12A (13+) this should of been a 15 way to intense for a 13 year old.

Director: Steven Quale

Screen writer: John Swetnam

Starring:Richard Armitage , Sarah Wayne Callies , Matt Walsh ,Max Deacon ,Nathan Kress ,Alycia Debnam Carey ,Arlen Escarpeta ,Jeremy Sumpter ,Lee Whittaker ,Kyle Davis , Jon Reep ,Scott Lawrence , David Drumm  ,Brandon Ruiter , Jimmy Groce

Running time: 89 min 

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

Sex & Nudity: A young man and a young woman are shown kissing in the back seat of a car while another young man and young woman in the front seat tease them; the young woman in the front seat asks the young man in the back seat for something and he says that he's "kinda busy."
A teen boy and a teen girl hug as water fills the space where they are trapped and they prepare to drown.
A teen boy teases his older brother about talking to a teen girl that he likes ("swooning over her").
A teen boy tells his older teen brother to "get some skin on camera."
A teen boy says that he got a "Nice shot of Miss Bell's cleavage" and that she has a "Nice rack."
A teen boy talks about who he will be in the future and remarks about having an attractive girlfriend that he will have sex with (using crude terms).
We see a video of a woman wearing a low-cut top that reveals cleavage.
Teen girls are shown wearing low-cut tops and dresses that reveal cleavage along with short shorts that show bare legs to the thighs.

Violence & GoreA young man filming a tornado cloud that has sucked up a fire from the ground drops his camera and when he tries to retrieve it he is sucked away by the cloud; we see the young man swirling inside the cloud and he is seen in flames.
Two young men and two young women in a car watch street light poles explode in sparks in the distance and we see a swirling cloud approaching them; one young man gets out of the car to take pictures and we hear screaming and see the occupants being slammed around before the screen goes black (we hear that the four people were killed by a tornado).
Clouds swirl alongside a road and a van is pushed around before being toppled on its side (no one inside is injured), and the passengers are helped out and they run across the road to a building for shelter as a gas spill is set on fire.
Several people climb down through a manhole to a storm shelter as a huge swirling tornado cloud spins outside, the cover is blown off and the winds blow through pushing several of the people around, a semi-truck is slammed into one side of the shelter and another vehicle is attached to the other side to try to keep the people safe inside after one man is sucked out of the opening; other people struggle to hold on and are sucked toward the openings before the cloud breaks up and we see a few of the people with bloody scratches, but otherwise OK.
A giant cloud spins in the sky and lifts many airplanes and trucks off the ground and spins them around.
A teen boy and a teen girl are shown standing in an abandoned paper plant as a storm approaches and we hear winds blowing outside, the building crumbles and the two jump into an opening in the floor where we see them trapped later unable to move; the girl has a bloody leg wound that the boy wraps with a shirt, a pipe bursts and water floods down into the space where they are trapped and fills it as they struggle to get out before drowning and they are shown submerged before the girl is freed and the boy's leg is pinned by wreckage before being freed and pulled lifeless to land (a man performs CPR and revives the boy and he spits water and coughs).
After a tornado blows through a town, we see a small bicycle that has impaled the side of a mini-van, as well as an injured dog whimpering on the side of the road and his human companion trapped in his car with a bloody head wound; three men get the man out of the car and he seems OK.
A man rides a four-wheel vehicle toward a ramp that leads to a pool that has been set ablaze while other men drinking beer watch and film him; he jumps the ramp and crashes into the pool that breaks and the water floods out with the four wheeler and the man (no injuries are shown); a woman from inside the house runs out yelling at them and the men drive away in a pick up truck.
A teen boy talks about the last thing he said to his mother before she died in a car accident and that he was mad at her.
A teenage girl and a teenage boy record farewell video to leave for their loved ones as water fills the place where they are trapped.

Profanity: 3 sexual references
22 scatological terms (i.e. shit, piss)
6 anatomical terms (i.e. ass, dick, tits)
16 mild obscenities (i.e. hell, damn, boobs)
1 religious profanity (i.e. goddamn)
6 religious exclamations (i.e. Oh My God and Christ.)
Name-calling (typical annoying brother, losers, idiots and crazy.)

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Men drink beer while watching an amateur daredevil jump a four wheeler into a flaming swimming pool.
Two men hold beer bottles while watching a huge tornado approach them in a few scenes.
A young man talks about "sipping margaritas."
Two men are drunk for one scene.

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  The storm sequences are violent and deadly; each one leaves more devastation to buildings and people.
Characters die, sometimes horrifically, during the storms, especially those who are swept up into a tornado vortex.
The body count includes a few prominent characters.
Everyone is in life-threatening peril.
This movie might scare some younger or some older viewers depending if they can handle realistic depictions of weather disasters.
Recommended Age: 15+



Story: In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even as storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while others run towards the vortex, testing how far a storm chaser will go for that once-in-a-lifetime shot.

Likes : This film does start of with some promise as you get a pretty intense scene at the beginning but sadly if you looking for a plot or some sort of storyline to feel for the characters sadly this film doesn't haven't that which is a shame because it left you not caring about the character which is the flaw in this film, although i will say this is more realistic than twister & extremely intense.
This is a film more about showing off FX of the movie which is Some of the best C.G.I effect ive seen in a movie in showing a more realistic storms. This is a Found footage disaster flick type directed by Steven Quale and written by John Swetnam. Quale previously directed the horror sequel 'FINAL DESTINATION 5' and also co-directed the underwater documentary 'ALIENS OF THE DEEP', with James Cameron; he also served as a second unit director on Cameron's 'AVATAR' and 'TITANIC'. Swetnam also wrote the horror flick 'EVIDENCE' and the dance film sequel 'STEP UP ALL IN' (which was released the same weekend as 'INTO THE STORM', for some reason). The movie stars Richard Armitage (of 'THE HOBBIT' films fame), Sarah Wayne Callies and Matt Walsh. I thought it started out slow but ended up with a bang; which is highly intense & entertaining despite the lack of story or lot, so it kind of worth watch just for the Special scenes as some of them really have you on the edge of your seat, there are a few emotional moments & scary scene but his was not a perfect film it dose have flaws.
 The tornado scenes were pretty intense. The effects were impressive and the destruction on display was very entertaining & realistic. The climax with the giant tornado was the highlight of the film, featuring a scene that is both ridiculous and awesome.

Dislikes : Even for a disaster movie, it was really weak special for the storyline & characters they should have been given a bit more character so the audience could get emotional attach to them. I don't normal look for depth in storytelling or even great characters but it dose help in a film like this, its why 2012 was one of the best disaster film so far, but all the characters here are really one note or straight up clichés. No one really stands out or interesting it kind of suck the fun out of the movie when the tornadoes are out of the picture. The comedy fell flat and it all just felt like a bad SyFy disaster movie with a bigger budget special the way it ended so unreal would never end like that with what happened.

Overall : Very intense Disaster film, storyline is weak, but still a great film for the special effects.

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 for entertainment / 6.1 out of 10 for storyline/concept





Wednesday 20 August 2014

Film Review: Deliver us from evil

Genre: Crime  Horror  Thriller

Cert: 15 cert, but i strongly say this was bordering on 18 cert

Director: Scott Derrickson

Screen writer: Scott Derrickson, Paul Harris Boardman , Ralph Sarchie , Lisa Collier Cool

Starring: Eric Bana , Édgar Ramírez , Olivia Munn , Chris Coy , Dorian Missick , Sean Harris , Joel McHale , Mike Houston , Lulu Wilson , Olivia Horton , Scott Johnsen , Daniel Sauli , Antoinette LaVecchia , Aidan Gemme , Jenna Gavigan.

Running time: 118 min - (1hr 58mins)

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

Sex & Nudity: A priest tells a colleague that he had sex with a parishioner who became pregnant.

Violence & Gore: A man chases a another man, pistol-whips him until his face is bleeding down the full front of his shirt, and finally punches him to death and keeps on punching the body below the frame; after this incident, the man hears static, sees the man's bloody face and hears children laughing in several scenes while no one else can see or hear these things.
A woman has a bloody face from a beating and sits crying as her husband runs outside, away from police, who fight him with fists, headlocks, knives and a thrown baton (his mouth is bloody).
American soldiers in Iraq shoot rifles and we see men fall dead (no blood is seen).
A man with two knives fights with a zombie-like man that has a narrow-bladed hatchet; after a few minutes of swiping at each other, the zombie-man wounds the other man in the chest (blood gushes from the wound) and the attacker leaves and we see a pool of blood under the wounded man.
A detective finds a dead baby wrapped in a blanket and in a dumpster (we see the infant's ankles and feet).
On an outside staircase landing, we see the scratched and bloody lower legs of a 6-year-old girl sticking out from behind a toppled waste can and hear that she is dead by murder.
A bloody female psych patient falls from an upper window onto the window of a police vehicle, cracking the front glass; we see her on the ground, twisted and with eyes open, bones sticking out of her knee and a demon-possessed man later says that he killed the woman.
In a dirty maximum-security psych ward, we see food trays scattered along a hallway; a man lies on the floor of a cell with his right arm convulsing and a woman covered with blood about the hands and face nearby; the woman crawls over the man's body, carrying a ring of keys in her mouth and moves off screen as the man's twitching arm stops (the man is presumably dead).
A possessed man chews two large pieces of flesh from one of his lower legs and we see blood on his mouth as he spits the two pieces onto the floor; we see bloody flesh on the floor, but not the leg wounds.
A man bites into the thigh of one man and the arm of another man, but we do not see the wounds; the men shout in pain.
An intense sequence in an interrogation room shows a priest and a police detective performing an exorcism
A detective's forearm is sliced open and we see a bloody wound; we later see the stitched arm bitten (blood gushing from dark brown stitches) by a female psychiatric patient that is foaming at her dirty mouth and has bloody fingers and a bloody, gray face; the detective shouts that he needs an HIV test and in the next scene, the man's arm is completely wrapped in a bandage.
A criminal fights with a detective in his home, fist fighting until the cop puts him in handcuffs.
A zombie-faced man looks at a woman on a video of zoo footage and she throws her two-year-old child into the lion enclosure, but he hits his head on a low wall and falls into a ravine; we hear that EMTs took the child to a hospital and he will be OK.
We hear that 11 children have been molested by a man called Marvin the Molester.
A woman tells a man that her husband returned from the Iraq War and began scratching and clawing the floors at home and we see scratch marks.
We see a dead cat nailed to a crucifix in place of Jesus and its dried-up body is slit open from throat to tail to reveal bones and dried flesh.

Profanity: About 8 Fucks, 11 variations on the word "shit", 4 anatomical terms, 2 mild obscenities, 6 religious profanities (god-damn, etc.).  

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A doctor says that a patient is heavily sedated.
A priest says that he used to do drugs until he woke up nude in a public square in a pool of urine with a needle for a speedball (heroine-cocaine mix) still in his arm and he joined Narcotic Anonymous.
Police officers ask several people if drugs are connected to murders and beatings (the answer is no).
A man drinks a bottle of beer at home.
A man drinks whisky and a woman drinks wine at a bar where there are bottles of liquor lined up along the back.
Two men drink whisky in short glasses in a bar.
A woman smokes at home.
A priest smokes cigarettes in several scenes (in a car, in a police station and on a sidewalk.)
A cigarette is lit in close-up and the camera cuts to a priest exhaling smoke.

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  There's heavy, gory, bloody violence; disgusting corpses; struggling and fighting; guns and knives; children in peril; and scary demons.Lots of gory wounds, with gurgling and spurting blood; crazy, scary, demon-possessed people; and gross dead bodies.
Nearly all the scenes featuring the demon-possessed are disturbing, the climactic exorcism scene is pretty intense and frightening.
There's also a subplot about a child molester/murderer.
A crucified cat is shown.
A woman tosses a baby into a ravine at the zoo.



Story: In DELIVER US FROM EVIL, New York police officer Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana), struggling with his own personal issues, begins investigating a series of disturbing and inexplicable crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest (Edgar Ramirez), schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the frightening and demonic possessions that are terrorising their city. Based upon the book, which details Sarchie's bone-chilling real-life cases. 

Likes :  Unfortunately nine times out of ten horror film have been disappointing at least some are just seriously bad, but this was definitely the exception. Absolutely the best horror film I have seen in a very very long time. I noticed the one reviewer felt it was more a crime drama and thus should not be called "horror". In my opinion...the true horror is that which is real. This story behind this film is very real & based on real crimes, which scared the living daylights out of me.
You don't have to jump and scream to be scared....it is more scary to view first hand the deep depravity of man and of evil, though i did jump about 6 times through out the film sacred the hell out of me.
Allot of people will say that movies that claim true story are fake & just made up to look real but this is no fake story, it might be slightly dramatise for the film but the real story behind this is truly frightening, i my self have faced a pure demonic evil its no funny matter, but these are personally experiences which i wont do in to, but i can relate to this film in the way of dark forces trying to play with your mind, which is why this film was even more scarier because that what demonic force do, they take your darkest sin & use it against you. Do i believe this film should of been given a high certification yes in some ways because it was borderline to a 18 cert not quite R-rated but pushing it, but shouldn't of been a 15 due to its content & theme because there are some moment in this film that are extremely disturbing, that chill you to the bone.
What make this one of the best horror so far is the fact of the atmosphere...through out the whole film the atmosphere was kept steady & always there in ever scene which gave the film its whole dark tone added to the disturbing scenes, which some parts really make you jump.  
Eric Bana play Ralph Sarchie down to a perfect tee, truly was the best casting for this film although i think this is the first time ive seen Eric do a horror film which is great because he suit the role, special with the rest of the cast Édgar Ramírez playing the priest one of the best performance ive seen in a a horror film, Olivia Munn who was perfect for the role as the mum, with the daughter played brilliant by Lulu Wilson who scene were disturbing specially for a young girl to go through.
If you are looking for the best horror film this year this is the best film you'll see, that will scare the living hell out of you.

Dislikes : nothing wrong with this film.

Overall : Dark Tone of this film is brilliant, based on a true story brilliant done, Eric bane has a future in horror genre

Rating: 5 out of 5 for Entertainment /  10 out of 10 Concept/ true story-based





Tuesday 19 August 2014

Film Review: The Sacrament

Genre: Horror  Thriller

Cert: 15 cert

Director: Ti West

Screen writer: Ti West 

StarringAmy Seimetz, Joe Swanberg , Kate Lyn Sheil , AJ Bowen , Gene Jones , Kentucker Audley , Shawn Parsons , Derek Roberts ,  Donna Biscoe , Graham Reznick , Debi Day , Conphidance , Shaun Clay , Madison Absher , Cal Johnson

Running time: 95 min

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

Sex & Nudity: It is implied that a man has a threesome with two women whom he doesn't know.

Violence & Gore: Marks from physical abuse are seen on a young girl.
Numerous people are shot, with copious amounts of blood seen.
A woman slits her young daughter's throat with a knife. The woman is then shot. The bloody corpses of both are seen.
A woman covers herself in gasoline and lights herself on fire.
A bloody man is seen tied to a chair.
A man puts a gun in his mouth and shoots himself. Blood splatters behind him and drips from his nose.
A man hides under a corpse, with foam from the corpse's mouth dripping on him.

ProfanityThere is scattered usage of profanity, including the words "fuck" and "shit". 

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: There is discussion of drug and alcohol addiction.
A woman is implied to be high.
A man briefly snorts cocaine. 

Frightening/Intense Scenes: There is a strong sense of dread and unease throughout, with the film becoming progressively more intense, eventually depicting  quite graphically.  



Story:A newsteam trails a man as he travels to an undisclosed location to find his missing sister. Upon entering "Eden Parish" and meeting the community's leader, it becomes apparent to the newcomers that this paradise may not be as it seems.

Likes : from what i have read this film is based off a real event which i cant believe they made this, This movie is a rip off of the real life tragedy that occurred at Jones town in 1978. I'm guess anyone that lives near that area or know of this story  know what's going to happen in this film.
This is one of Eli Roth film's directed Ti West, it start off with a little promise but seriously fall flat as a horror as you come to realise the whole film is based on a wacko, religious cult concept, where a man has convinced alot of religious people to follow him,to be honest i cant really say this film is worth watching, it may appeal to the low budget fans but this was a film in poor taste of a real event shouldn't of been made.

Dislikes : The fact this film is advertised as being frightening is funny..........not one part of this film was frightening, ya some part are a little disturbing in one scene but seriously this film had no atmosphere to even get scary worst of all they said it was bone chilling....really (WTH) was bone chilling about it, a bunch of people willing to drink poison from some sick man bone chilling WOW.....i suppose the Easter bunny is bone chilling as well come on. this seriously is the worst pile of cr*p ive had to sit through.The fact that empire & total magazine gave this a 4 star rate ....who payed them off to give that rating, sorry but ive seen better Eli Roth movies this one one just had no heart & was in poor taste to family's that lost family member in this event.

Overall : Wasn't bone chilling or frightening, no atmosphere what so ever, poor excuse for a movie

Rating: 2 out of 5 for entertainment / 3 out of 10 for concept/story line