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Classic Arnie

Advantages: fully entertaining
Disadvantages: not long enough

...me and my friends from the first time we saw it. Arnie couldn't have played the Terminator any better than he did, and the movie is full of classic arnie quotes,there is pleny fo violence and action to keep you going. Ok maybe the effects aren't as good as some some of the more modern sci-fi movies out today but its got a gritty and dark feel to it that really improves the story. this was a great starting movie for the terminator series of movies,it ...

mooney1978 23.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Terminator (Definitive Edition) (DVD)

The Terminator

Advantages: Arnie; Michael Biehn; Love sub-plot; Scary; Concept of the Future
Disadvantages: Dated CGI

...cyborg. In this iconic role, the tight-lipped, square-headed Austrian warped into the minds of many 80s youths, such as myself, and made us truly believe there are killer robots aiming to wipe out our existence in the near future. Even today, the haunting science behind the fictitious tale of The Terminator contributes to my cynical outlook of men at war with machines. By now, it is common knowledge that John Connor is at the pinnacle of humanity's ...
...century. The machines, of course, fully aware of this threat, decide to send a T-800 model (Arnie) back in time to kill Connor's mother Sarah; thus, attempting to eliminate the child's existence prior to him being born. Fortunately, Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), is also sent back as one of the freedom fighters, and is prepared to protect the target from the seemingly indestructible cyborg right until the very end. The horrifyingly original concept, ...

andycarrington 10.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Terminator (Special Edition) (DVD)

Bay meets Bond on Alcatraz

Advantages: Connery, Cage, San Francisco
Disadvantages: The beginning of Girlfriend watching from the sidelines syndrome.

THE PLOT San Francisco. The present. When a ex-army General (Ed Harris) captures the Alatraz prison and threatens to attack all of San Francisco, Stanley Goodspeed (Nicholas Cage) a chemical weapons scientist is forced to team up with the only man ever to escape Alcatraz, John Mason (Sean Connery), convict and ex SAS soldier to thwart his evil scheme. REVIEW The Rock was movie script that had been kicking around Hollywood for a number of years before ...
...movie before his death in the same year. It's has all the elements of a standard Michael Bay movie it's loud, it's crammed with lots of filter shots and has editing so fast it could outpace a leopard. It also has other elements of his style the use of improvising actors with the example being Nic Cage use of music references and the coolest meet cute scene of the two main actors. This scene is called the coffee scene in my house and is the funniest ...

Pa8ax 14.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Rock (Deluxe Edition) (DVD)

3 of the best

Advantages: Action packed and all together
Disadvantages: Face/Off can be a little confusing

Nicolas Cage maybe my most loved actor ever! in all 3 films he gives incredible performaces combined with amazing action shots that would put a lot of films to shame. The Rock: With a rouge general and special forces team loose of Alcatraz with enough missiles and VX gas to destroy most of San fransico. Only an FBI lab rat has the knowledge and cool to disarm the weapons. Teaming up with Sean Connery the only man to ever break ou of the infamous ...
...he is trying to save but 5 million others as well. Face/Off: Sean Archer the governments top agent agianst terrorist Castor troy, first has to become him before he can stop him. When castor troy (Cage) kills Archers(Travlota) son. It becomes his personal mission to extract revenge. however when Troy is caught and put in a coma, the only way Archer can find out where he left a bomb is to immpersonate him and convince his brother to talk. This film ...

splatman2000 10.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Nicholas Cage Collection - The Rock / Face/Off / Gone In 60 Seconds (DVD)

I was thinking... neighbourhood rules

Advantages: Hi-tech, fast-paced action sequences
Disadvantages: cliched at times, a bit predictable

The Art of War was arguably a cinematic flop a few years back but it didn't deter me from purchasing the DVD when it came out. All I had seen or heard of the film up until that point was a trailer I saw with a friend when we went to the cinema to see another film. The film stars the always cool-headed Wesley Snipes as Neil Shaw. He is both agent and weapon for the United Nations. He runs a small covert unit that doen't exist, performing operations ...
...interests for the UN in general. They use unorthodox methods to get negotiations on track and resolutions in the bag. Their latest mission involves them surveying a hopeful trade agreement between superpowers America and China. But when the Chinese ambassador is assassinated and a container full of dead Chinese refugees is found in NYC Harbour, things don't look so good. Shaw (Snipes - "Blade", "Demolition Man") is pinned down with the murder of ...

DarkMark 07.03.2003 · Read full review
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Review of The Art Of War (DVD)