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Say hello to my little friend

Advantages: A classic gangster movie with brilliant acting
Disadvantages: A little laughable at the old fashioned parts in places

...for only one day - Scarface was shown yesterday and, as neither my husband nor myself have ever seen it and everyone else seems to think it is a brilliant film, we decided to see it with our handy Unlimited Cineworld cards. I'd heard that the film was meant to be very violent and considering it's an 18 certificate I thought it must be. However, I didn't really find it very violent at all to be honest. There was a lot of people being shot and quite ...
...violence. There were moments were I thought something really horrible was going to happen, such as near the beginning where a chainsaw was brought out, but we didn't actually see anything apart from a splattering of blood - not that I particularly wanted to see someone's arm being chopped off with a chainsaw, but I felt that there wasn't really much violence at all. There wasn't too much swearing in it either so I can't really see why it was certified ...

frankiefromings13 26.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Scarface (DVD)

Old-school anime brilliance!

Advantages: Great story, action, cool lead character
Disadvantages: Dodgy CGI sequence, no DVD extras

...all time favourite Anime movie. The story features the supremely cool lead character of "Golgo 13" - an Asian hitman deadly to men and irresistible to women - who is hired to assassinate the son of the corrupt wealthy businessman "Leonard Dawson". Once Golgo fulfills his contract, Leonard uses his powerful influence to seek revenge on the hitman bringing in the FBI, CIA and the army, not to mention two sadistic, superhuman twin brothers. Featuring ...
...a Film-Noir type quality to the movie making it , "A Sophisticated Anime Thriller". At times you forget you are actually watching an animated movie! It's far from the anime we see today, with their over complicated plots, mind boggling imagery and annoying, silly characters. The film does contain an early ground-breaking CGI sequence, which probably looked quality back in 1983, but by todays very high standards it looks truly awful and completely ...

Yobbey 25.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Professional - Golgo 13 (DVD)

can I have some 80's cheese please ....BMX BANDITS MOVIE

Advantages: Sit back take a nostalgic journey back to the 80's -remeber your old bmx (if you had one)
Disadvantages: very dated ,and some people may not be able to take it as it is ....

...the role of JUDY in BMX Bandits. BMX Bandits was released in 1983 and seeing as I was a child of the 80's Bmx's were a part of my very own childhood as was probably true for most kids growing up in the 80's. So the main reason for me buying this movie ,now, 26 years on from its release, was to take myself back to my childhood and then see if it was as good as I could remember! There was something new for me personally first off, because, I actually ...
...90's my brother videoed BMX BANDITS off the telly,and he managed to miss the opening credits ! So the opening credits show bmx ers PJ and Goose riding around in all the BMX gear , full face helmets and full bike suits !with Sooo 80'S music in the background! In fact everything about this movie is SO 80's ,just as it should be, seeing as it was made then ., Nicole Kidman is one of the three lead roles . so we have JUDY ,PJ and GOOSE (two boys and ...

bobbetta 10.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of BMX Bandits (DVD)

ChiChi get the YAYO, You Say Hello to my little Friend -Scarface!

Advantages: Story, Charecters, good acting, good directing
Disadvantages: slighly older - shows in picture quality

...we ever see the sequel - i mean the guns available nowadays deserve to be in Scarface 3, woops we still need Scarface 2, but how do you follow up a classic? Its not just a review, its King Kong's view! Real reviews for real people! ...

kingkong218 11.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Scarface (Special Edition) (DVD)

Connery Returns as OO7 For The Final Time

Advantages: Connery is back!
Disadvantages: Its a remake of Thunderball.

...Octopussy with Roger Moore and Never Say Never Again with Sean Connery. I went twice to see Bond! The media labelled it as the Battle of the Bonds and this meant straight away that there was going to be a winner and loser, with Connery's entry being the unofficial rival meant that the odds were very much stacked against him. With Albert R Broccoli still producing the official franchise with Moore in the lead as 007, it came as some surprise that ...
...rival because Never Say Never Again was not produced by EON at all as it was based on a script written by Kevin McClory, who at the time of writing the script for Thunderball in 1965 obtained the rights to that film. It was from these rights that Never Say Never Again was made by Orion Pictures. So at 54 years old, Connery returns to the role of 007, looking far healthier and fitter than he did some 12 years earlier in 1971 for Diamonds Are Forever. ...

Timbo3107 17.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Never Say Never Again (DVD)