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The movie "Law Abiding Citizen" was AWESOME!
This is my review for the movie “Law Abiding Citizen”. First off, I’d like to say that this movie was astonishing!
I’d like to begin my review with a small summary of the movie. A summary in which will NOT spoil any of the good parts. I’ll present just enough information so that you can get familiar with the plot, and to see if this movie sounds like the right movie for you.
The movie starts out with the main character, Clyde Shelton, being played by Gerald Butler, in his house, with his family. He answers the door to find two men that decide to knock him down, and tie him up. After brutally attacking him and his wife (along with doing “other stuff” do his wife), the two men spot the daughter of the family, and take her into another room, and kill her. The wife also ends up dying. Unfortunately, Clyde can’t give the person who murdered her daughter a harsh punishment because the evidence of her death being caused by his hand was not strong enough. So ten years after the murdering of his family, Clyde plans a very elaborate scheme to “bring down the system”. He plans the deaths of several people, while making sure that the evidence doesn’t add up to make him guilty. The lawyer, Nick Rice, played by Jamie Foxx, cannot prosecute him, because of the weak evidence (despite the fact that he knows that he murdered the people). So will Rice be able to prosecute the one that he knows murdered the many people? Just how well did Clyde perfect his plan? Will Rice step out of his jurisdiction to convict this murderer? And just how well does Clyde make a fool out of the Justice System?
Well, I can answer that last question! Clyde PWNS the justice system! This movie just goes to show that our system is not perfect. People can still go to jail, or be let free, despite the fact that the person may have did nothing or something wrong. And the main objective of Clyde is to completely dismantle the system, to the point in which the entire city gets into turmoil.
The elaborately planned murders, the wicked explosions, and the intense plot made this movie very memorable! But the part that I enjoyed the most was the act of slipping right through the loopholes of our justice system. This is definitely something that could happen in real life, but very unlikely. This movie also teaches the lesson that our justice system is not perfect. And Clyde was the perfect example of the system’s imperfections. The events that happened ten years prior, and his schemes really helped prove this fact.
After pondering for a long time, I came to the conclusion that there is nothing in this movie that is worth mentioning in this review, that I found was negative. Well, now that you think about it…some of the murders were kind of sick…So I official give the movie “Law Abiding Citizen” a 10 out of 10!
This review was the script for my review "Law Abiding Citizen", which will be uploaded to YouTube shortly after this review gets published on this website. The video will be located at:
YouTube.com/DixonRants
The Hurt Locker is an intense portrayal of a bomb squad who work to disarm roadside explosives in the unstable areas of Baghdad during the war in Iraq. The plot focuses on only three main characters, so it avoids any type of stray-offs and allows you to grow a close connection with the characters as a viewer. Character development is at it's best in The Hurt Locker. You are presented with the emotional and physical turmoil that soldiers have to endure during war time.
The Hurt Locker is not the typical war film. It does not dwell on over-the-top action and explosion scenes that most recent war films are built on. The atmosphere of this film is very natural and realistic. It gives you an intimate, in-depth perspective of the grittiness of war. The Hurt Locker captures the insanely intense "do-or-die" moments that bomb squads experience every day during their term of war. Scenes like these are more powerful and emotional than the aforementioned action scenes of recent war films.
I want to proclaim that this is one of the best films of the year, and possibly, the most raw and honest war film of all time.
Moon is a sci-fi drama about an astronaut who is stationed on the moon working for an energy company in order to supply more efficient fuel or planet Earth. The astronaut is played by Sam Rockwell, who does a tremendous job in this role. His only companion on the moon is a sophisticated, talking computer. He experiences the psychological effects of being alone and isolated from home.
The wonderful cinematography and the shots of Earth from the moon are spine-tingling because it gives us the complicated and virtually unattainable perspective of being so close, but yet so far away from home. The moon setting captures the dark and lonely isolation that could make anyone go crazy.
Moon raises many ethical and moral subjects that present the dark side of certain technological advancements, which I considered to be the most powerful part of a slower-moving film. And just for this reason, I think everyone should go see it. This film may not be well-received by "mainstream" audiences, but anyone who likes a well-done thought-provoking film will appreciate this. Moon has been called by many people as "the Anti-Transformers" film. It was in independent theaters around the same time that Transformers 2 was in theaters. Transformers 2 made incredible amounts of money at the box office, and Moon made just a sliver of that, but I think we all know which is actually the better film.
After being separated for seven years after a summer of romance, Noah and Allie are reunited and Allie must choose between her new fiance and her first love.
It’s the year 1940 in Seabrook Island, South Carolina, and the local country boy, Noah Calhoun, is clinging to a bar at the top of the Ferris wheel at a local carnival. His intentions? To gain the affections of seventeen year-old heiress Allie Hamilton, whom he has just met. Noah speaks to Allie as he dangles at an alarming distance from the safe ground, and in her desperation, she agrees to go on a date with him. Despite her promise, Allie proves to be stubborn, and Noah’s continued efforts result in rejection. One magical night, however, Allie’s stubbornness inevitably fades.
The Notebook received several awards following its release in 2004, including the MTV Movie Award and the Golden Satellite Award. Its total box office earnings were over $115 million worldwide. The film, which is directed by Nick Cassavetes, is based on the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks, whose timeless love stories warm the hearts of teenagers and adults alike.
The story is being told by the aged Noah, who is reading from a notebook to a sufferer of Alzheimer’s disease in a present-day nursing home. As he reads, the viewers are taken back in time and experience Noah and Allie’s heart wrenching tale from the lovers’ perspective. Their love appears at first to be flawless and indestructible, but trouble soon intervenes with their otherwise perfect summer. Allie’s parents disapprove of Noah because of his low income and social status, and eventually insist that Allie not see him anymore. When Allie returns to her hometown at the end of the summer, Noah is left desperate and alone. Allie is heartbroken when she receives no letters from Noah, and believes that he has moved on.
Seven years later, Allie becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon, whom her parents enthusiastically approve of. As her excessively publicized wedding day approaches, she decides to return to Seabrook to “take care of some things,” and visits Noah for the first time since they were separated against their will. She finds more than a casual friendship with Noah, and now she must make the decision: will she be faithful to her fiancé, or will she be courted once again by her first love?
There were several elements that made this film so successful, including its powerful characters and well-drawn plot. Each actor and actress stayed true to their character, embodying them to the fullest extent. They made the film believable, and they carried the emotions of each situation down to the last line effortlessly. Their movement and dialogue were both perfectly maneuvered together to create awe-inspired responses.
After observing the outstanding performance presented by this cast and crew, viewers will be forced to think about the choices they make, and whether or not to follow their heart. The Notebook is essentially about Allie and Noah creating a destiny for themselves, but it moreover narrates the human story of what we long for, what we settle for, and who we're meant for.
Alex Zuckerman - The New Animated Film You Have To See!!!
Alex Zuckerman is caught in circumstances out of his control when he is abducted by aliens. They implant a mind control device inside of his brain so that he would become an insurgent in their upcoming invasion of Earth. With the help of Sir Psycho; Alex Zuckerman assembles a scary crew - ascending into space on a mission to save Alex’s mind, soul, and ultimately the entire human race.
The story wanders, and the soundtrack is minimalistic. Alex Zuckerman has a unique storyline, and unparalleled graphics. As an entire package - Alex Zuckerman is different than anything you'll find anywhere else.
This cartoon features alien carnage!
You may view Alex Zuckerman at the following URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7wx9WExfzs
Nights in Rodanthe is an unashamedly romantic and likable drama about love, loss, and second chances.
Nights in Rodanthe is an unashamedly romantic and likable drama about love, loss, and second chances.
Richard Gere and Diane Lane reunite for a third on-screen collaboration, following Cotton Club and Unfaithful, their characters brought together by the fates as each faces middle-age turmoil.
Gere plays one Dr. Paul Flanner, Lane Adrienne Willis. They meet at a beachfront inn in the tiny coastal beach town of Rodanthe in North Carolina's windswept Outer Banks.
She's the temporary proprietor, standing in for a close friend who's away for the weekend. He's the inn's lone guest, as he's got personal business nearby, on a weekend that weather forecasters have said will bring violent weather. But the imminent hurricane is only a secondary concern for these two: it's the major storms in their personal lives that are on their minds.
Adrienne is estranged from a wayward husband who now wants to come back to her, and her teenage daughter -- who already resents her for just about everything -- blames her for the lack of a reconciliation because it is she who does not want to resume the marriage.
Preoccupied surgeon Paul is already estranged from his own son (played in a cameo by the uncredited James Franco), who is also a doctor. But Paul is there to look in on a man who continues to blame him for the death of his wife because of an operation that defied the medical odds and went tragically wrong. Paul seeks redemption on both fronts.
These two agonizing souls end up having dinner together, and quickly come to know each other. Each has a crisis of conscience to deal with, each is at a crossroads, neither is necessarily looking for more than a bit of pleasant company and unobjectionable platonic companionship.
Uh huh.
George C. Wolfe, a Broadway and television director making his feature-film debut, works from a screenplay by Ann Peacock and John Romano that is an adaptation of the 2002 best-seller by Nicholas Sparks, who has had three other romance novels turned into movies -- The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, and A Walk to Remember.
The script doesn't end up being nearly as formulaic and predictable as the early going may indicate. And it offers intriguing motifs along the way -- things happening against all odds, for example -- in addition to its central theme of second acts in real lives.
The first half, when the principals are tentatively tiptoeing toward each other, registers solidly because of the charm of Lane, the charisma of Gere, and their unforced chemistry. It works works better than the ensuing relationship itself or the wrapup, which contains a false ending or two.
You'll notice Nights in Rodanthe recalling The Bridges of Madison County in several ways as the plot unfolds. That's both a compliment and a complaint. The film is, for one thing, decidedly weepy, both on-screen and off. But it's also, in spots, legitimately moving.
And the two leads in this agreeable two-hander of a romantic melodrama are first-rate: gracefully assured and appropriately appealing.
With old pros Lane and Gere taking care of the amenities, this inn offers both a scenic view and pleasantly emotional viewing.
SEGA's Epic Failure
"Scrape your knuckles, Catch some tails"
...WTF
THIS MOVIE IS HOORIBLE!!!!!
The movie is awful and I mean AWFUL. For the SEGA fans and the video game lovers for Sonic the Hedgehog, this movie will make you cry. You will cry endlessly for a whole 60 minutes (Yes, this movie's a WHOLE hour long, that's sixty seconds to long!) For those who were lucky enough not to watch it, here's the plot.
"Sonic and his friends are back!..."
This is a sequal!?!?!?(Not really, it's the only sonic movie)
"Eggman has been banished from the land of darkness..." his own home (eggman is the supposed bad guy)
"by the evil metal robotnik!" yes, we haven't heard THAT one before (Sarcasm)
"And if that's not bad enough..." yes, it SAYS the plot is bad
"Eggman tells sonic that he has created his greatest enemy..." here it comes, the ULTIMATE ENEMY OF SONIC! It's going to be awesome right!?!?
"METAL SONIC!!" ****
That's right, the only bad guys here are robot rehashes of other characters. Not only that, but the semi-enemies (one's that are never mentioned or noticed) are the same enemies from the video game "Sonic the Hedgehog" on the Sega Genesis. Here's the question, you add so much into the movie that you have already in the game, WHY DOES THE MOVIE SUCK!?!? Well, i'll tell you why it sucks. For one, THE VOICE ACTING IS THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD! It makes a mockery of every Sonic chracter EVER! Sonic's voice is to stereotypically teen, Tails' voice has a FEMALE VOICE ACTOR (just like in Sonic '06 on the Xbox 360), Knuckles is Southern, and the onlyperson with voice acting that fits is eggman, annoying and awful. Just like him.
Oh don't worry, there's more. Listed in the top of the review is the actual, real, SUBTITLE!!! Holy ****!!! What were they THINKING!? Do I really even have to address it!? Crap! I don't know about you, but I don't get it! So after an over-dramatic speech, Eggman deals out some comedy with some new charactr (Sera) wo happenes to be a "Cat girl" as som most people call her. The comedy skit was funny, I will give it that. Later sonic and tails have a travel montage (with the video game references) and continue on to the land of Darkness. When the reach there, it doesn't really loo like a "Land of Darkness". It looks more like Tokyo after Godzilla hits. They go on to defuse a bomb (Yes, a bomb) that will cause the apocolypse otherwise. Wow... just wow. And right in the middle of their trip comes Metal Eggman. They have a actually funny battle, but they lose. Oh, wait, here comes the epic antics of.. Knuckles in a Cowboy hat. Wow. He kicks it's *** in, like, 5 seconds. half the time it took to nearly kill both sonic and Tails. Sonic helped, a little bit in killing it. Tails did practically nothing except whine, ad whine, and whine. The trio continue on to defuse the bomb (which still sounds SO WEIRD) with no interruption. They enter the castle and who do they find? The ressurectin of the epic... Metal Sonic. Luckily, Metal Sonic is an ACTUAL Sonic the Hedgehog Character from a few video games. So this one is exceptable. The have a short battle, but not with Metal Sonic, with a reverse convetor belt. It's fast, so Sonic (the supposed fastest thing alive) can't outrun it. 3, uh oh, 2, It's gonna blow! 1, NO! at Zero (0) seconds knuckles happily flies over and pulls the lever. The irony is that Tails did the same but the lever was to tough. wa wa waaaaa.
After the whole "You saved the day, whoopty doo" speech. Comes the final battle with Metal Sonic, finally. It's actually pretty good. It was DEFINANTLY epic, it was a close battle, and Metal Sonic dies by!... a pool of Lava. Yet another video game reference. (Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega Genesis, Zone 2, Acts 1, 2, and 3).
That's the movie. I know you probably think I'm being to harsh on it an admitadly I am, I mean, maybe they did they could maybe... nah, they just ****ed up.
There's my review, have a nice Freaking Day everybody
I'm the CinemaCritic, I watch it so you don't have to!
