Action & Adventure > Willis, Bruce Action & Adventure > 15 years and over > 10 GBP to 15 GBP

Advantages: Great soundtrack, fascinating story, well acted,
Disadvantages: Brutally realistic at times,

Dead Presidents is a 1995 film, written and directed by (Allen and Albert,) The Hughes Brothers, known for directing 'Menace II Society' and 'From Hell.' It stars Larenz Tate (Menace II Society), Chris Tucker (Rush Hour) and Freddy Rodriguez (Planet Terror/Six Feet Under.) The documents a four year period between 1969 and 1973 in The New York Bronx district during the vietnam war and follows the fortunes of three schoolfriends and the other surrounding ...
...primarily set in New York. Dead President's contrasts these two settings to make a statement on the impact of war upon people and addresses alot of the issues faced by the soldiers when they try to reassimilate themselves back into everyday society. The Plot (A few spoilers, pretty detailed, but nothing too big I promise) The film begins quite light-heartedly with three friends casually joking around together efore their impending graduation. ... Read review

Advantages: Still Enjoyable
Disadvantages: None

Total Recall. *********** ~Introduction~ An uprising on Mars calls for a special kind of hero to step in, even one who doesn't know his own name! ~Synopsis~ Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) keeps dreaming of the wonders of Mars, much to the annoyance of his beautiful wife Lori (Sharon Stone). She is more upset because he keeps dreaming of a dark haired beauty, Melina (Rachel Ticotin), with whom he is obsessed. Doug decides to go to 'Recall', ...
...Subtitles: Dutch, English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish Region: Region 2 Number of discs: 2 Classification: 18 ASIN: B000056IFT Amazon Prices: £6.97 Run Time: 108 minutes Also included are: Trailer Teaser Trailer Making of Total Recall Featurette All are standard features. Greg. ... Read review

Advantages: Original sequences involving a Horse race.
Disadvantages: Morre is too old to be believable as 007.

The title of A View to a Kill is taken from Ian Fleming's short story called From a View to a Kill. Published in April 1960 as part of a collection of short stories in the novel For Your Eyes Only, the story tells of Bond going undercover to investigate the murder of a dispatch rider in France. This was Roger Moore's seventh and final outing as 007, at the time Moore was 58 and had been in the role of Bond for twelve years so the believability factor ...
...sequence begins with Bond recovering a microchip from the dead body of 003 in Siberia. The chip is the key to the whole plot of the film and from this Bond begins to uncover a web of intrigue and a plan for world domination that has disastrous consequences for the west coast of America. The plot has absolutely nothing to do with the novel at all; in fact the only similarities to the novel are the location of part of the story which begins in France. ... Read review

Advantages: Great stunts
Disadvantages: Can't quite put my finger on it

...worried about his new film Death Race, not because I thought he couldn't handle it, but in case the film was a flop. The film was released on August 22nd in the UK and is a remake of the 1975 version called Death race 2000. It was directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and based on lb Melchior's short story 'The racer' and is of the 'Action' genre. Plot - Four years on from 2008 the United States economy has taken a nose dive, crime and unemployment levels ...
...run most of the prisons for profit. The prison we focus on in the film is Terminal Island prison who hosts a show called 'Death race', they then charge people money to watch it over the net. The Film starts with a race near its end between Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson) and a masked driver called Frankenstein (David Carradine), Frank's defensive systems collapse leaving him wide open to Joe's attacks. Joe launches a missile attack and destroys Frank's ... Read review

Advantages: Good thriller
Disadvantages: SONGS - too many

Khakee is basically a film about a group of police officers escorting a captured terrorist from Chandangadh to Mumbai and trying to get between the locations whilst keeping their prisoner and themselves alive as there are forces hard at work trying to ensure the prisoner does not make it to his destination. What should have been a standard police escort journey turns into a journey of terror, confusion and major betrayals. Story sound familiar? ...
...(and possibly only) complaint about Khakee is the songs. They are SO inappropriate that they annoyed the hell out of me! The songs were nice enough if you listen to them as just songs but they were completely unnecessary in the film and detracted from the storyline. This is certainly one Bollywood film which needed no songs to glam it up. There are quite a few playback singers for the film including: Sunidhi Chauhan, Udit Narayan, Kunal Ganjawala, ... Read review