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Advantages: Tim Burton, Michael Keaton
Disadvantages: Batman and Robin, George Clooney, Nipples on the suit!

...set contains the first 4 Batman films, and the great thing about this box set is that it is cheaper than buying the films individually, and it chronicles the change in the Batman genre, from dark and moody (Burton), to more slapstick and comic-book like (Schumacher). And so we begin with Batman (1989). This is not an origin story, like Batman Begins, instead, the film picks up with Batman already well established as a masked vigilante, putting the ...
...a bell tower showdown. Batman is a very dark affair, but watching it, even now, it's not difficult to see why this film became (at the time) one of the top 10 highest grossing films ever. Burton paints a dark, decrepit, devastating Gotham City, whilst Michael Keaton was born to play the dark knight. Jack Nicholson, as usual, steals the film with one of the great super-villain displays, as the demented Joker. Next to Batman Returns, which sees the ... Read review

Advantages: great storyline
Disadvantages: none

Rocky Anthology (Ultimate Edition) films 1-5 starring sylvester stallone this rocky boxset: in the first film it is about a small time club boxing underdog rocky(sylvester stallone) who life changes when he get a shot at being world heavy weight champion but with only five weeks to train plus at the same time he is falling in love with the girl from the pet store(talia shire). in the second film with the world heavy weight champion apollo creed(carl ...
...decision apollo wants a rematch. rocky doe's not give into the rematch at first.but when he doe's his training is put to the side when wife adrian(talia shire) falls into a coma while giving birth to there child.now awake from her coma adrian tells rocky to win his fight and so he doe's becoming the world heavy weight champion. in the third film with rocky now champion and had to defend his title muitiple times he ends up fighting clubber lang(mr ... Read review

Advantages: Great characters
Disadvantages: -

...seeing the first series of Ultimate Force I eagerly awaited the release of Series 2 and I have to say that it didn't fail to deliver. Like the first series, this series is again based around 'red troop' a troop of SAS soldiers. In terms of characters very few changes have been made Alex Leonard who left at the end of the first series is replaced by the cocky and loud-mouthed Louis Hoffman (who is first seen in Series 1 Episode 3) and BOX, whose ...
...Akhurst), who provides a love interest for Red Troop's charismatic Staff Sergeant Henno Garvie (Ross Kemp). This series is more explosive than the last on many levels with more bullets flying and more people falling especially in the opening episode where Red Troop find themselves in a blue on blue situation on a ship docked in Southampton and have to come to terms with the fact that it isn't only those on the other side that are falling. Other ... Read review

Advantages: Ridiculously exciting, OTT extravaganza
Disadvantages: Morally disgusting

...his earlier Rocky Balboa. However, Rambo IV is still a ridiculously exciting, if politically disgusting, high-octane, uber-violent romp. Easily the equal of many of the fiercest horror films of recent times in terms of sheer gore and depravity - necks are ripped open, children are flung left and right, heads explode, innards spill to the dirt - the picture is considerably harsher than its predecessors. It is, though, just as moronic as the previous ...
...Religious, Cultural and Military Might. Rambo IV does nothing to reverse this trend, with Stallone being very open about the film's Christian values (a shame-faced attempt to ape Mel Gibson's success with similar audiences) and the piece as a whole stands as a justification for any amount of imperialist rampaging. That said - nauseating and barbaric it may be, but, much like the final third of Mark L. Lester's 1985 Commando, it's impossible not to ... Read review

Advantages: Great action movie with great actors
Disadvantages: Movie is not long enough

In my opinion by far the best movie of 2005. Not only starring two great HollyWood stars, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, but also directed by the great film director Doug Liman. This film is great action mixed with a little bit of humour, and both Brad and Angelina play their roles beautifully. This film begins with a unhappyly married couple, both of whom are high-class assassins, and both of whom are oblivious to each others true occupations. ...
...occasions, and when she fiinds out who her husband really is, she is even more determined to kill him, and they go on a rampage around the streets shooting at each other. But something is holding them back. Could it be the secret love they have for each other?? This film will keep you in suspense, right till the very end, where the outcome may surprise a few of you. ... Read review