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00Heaven?

Advantages: fresh approach to bond
Disadvantages: not the classic bond attitude

As I was lucky enough to get this movie on blu-ray for free from Sony, I had to watch it in high definition. Truly stunning, awesome quality on a pretty good bond movie. It has enough action in, and is generally a good movie, however I feel that Sony have placed too much in-movie advertising.. the sony viao laptops, the sony ericsson phones, and the sony blu-ray player and discs. But if you're into the movie you wont notice that, it doesnt exactly ...
...Daniel Craig plays in beautifully, although he's not quite the same 007 as what I am used to.It's the littel things really, for example when he is asked shaken or stirred... shaken right?... no apparently he doesnt give a damn. The movie gets straight into action, and then calms down, and then action, and calm and then action... it goes up and down over and over. But the ending is good and I'll not give away any spoilers. Now if I didn't get this ...

Dincht2006 23.04.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Casino Royale (Blu-Ray)

Good Morning Angels...

Advantages: Funny, entertaining, great characters
Disadvantages: A bit too cheesy for some

Alex (Lucy Liu), Natalie (Cameron Diaz) and Dylan (Drew Barrymore) have all come from very different backgrounds to end up working for Charlie. Charlie is someone who likes to keep his identity secret therefore giving away nothing for enemies to possibly use against him. Charlie communicates with the girls who he refers to as his Angels through a speaker box controlled by Bosley (Bill Murray). When the Angels hear of a kidnapping they are immediately ...
...a company of voice recognition software has been kidnapped supposedly for his software. His colleague Vivian is worried and goes to the Angels for help however when Knox is found safe and well it seems like there may have been a double cross somewhere along the line and it’s up to the Angels to solve it. So years after the famous TV series aired and ended in the 70‘s, a film version of the iconic TV series that made the late Farrah Fawcett a star ...

Great_reviewer07 31.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Charlie's Angels (DVD)

One of the nicest Disney's adventure movies

Advantages: Based on C.S. Lewis' book
Disadvantages: is unfaithful to the book

In my opinion, one of the most interesting movies produced by Disney, it is based ont one of the "Chronicles of Narnia, a book series about a magic place called Narnia. On "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", four brothers and sisters, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, refugees from the war, go to the house of Professor Kirke, and old and misterious man, and there they find a magic wardrobe that leads them to another world, on a place called Narnia, ...
...the White Witch, who stole the reign of Aslam, the Lion, and the four kids find out that they are destinated to free Narnia from the White Witch's hands, with the help of Aslam and the other magic animals that live there. Although the movie is unfaithful to the book (like all movies based on books), it is very nice, and good with the special effects. Like a Narnia fan, I recommend the movie, and, of course, the books. ...

larissinha77 17.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Chronicles Of Narnia - The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (DVD)

a duma classic remade for hollywood

Advantages: good cast and sets retains core ideas of the book
Disadvantages: cant think of any

...thankfully this film does do the book justice and this too is one of my favourite films. it captures the main themes of betrayal and revenge well from the dumas classic but is not completely faithful to the book. this is excusable as anyone who has read the book will know that it is very long far to drawn out for a movie. the added scenes do keep with the story and it is very clever the way they have invented these scenes whilst remaining true to ...

sim_simian 27.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Count Of Monte Cristo (DVD)

Great Idea, Mediocre Movie...

Advantages: It tries really hard to be a tense techno-thriller...
Disadvantages: ... but fails, mainly through poor editing and production style.

...I'm Chain Reaction starts off with an intriguing premise and goes downhill from there, despite trying really hard to be a tense techno-thriller. In The initial idea, of a new power-source being developed from water (we're not talking traditional hydro-power here though) - which supposedly has the capacity to use the hydrogen in small glass of water to power the whole city of Chicago for weeks -is brilliant. The idea of the rich and powerful oil companies ...
...it's not bad. Chain There's a brain behind this film (somewhat a rarity for this genre), but unfortunately it's been rather lost in the translation. It's almost as though someone said, "Hey, here's a brilliant idea for a film, let's turn it into a mediocre movie" - and lo! - it became so. It's certainly not a terrible film - watching it didn't leave me feeling that part of my life had been stolen - just that I hadn't made a profit on what time I'd ...

CaptainDisaster 17.05.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Chain Reaction (DVD)