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A thoughtful look at the end of the world

Advantages: Concentrates more on plot then special effects
Disadvantages: A little meandering at times

...if a little silly Armageddon. Deep Impact, although a disaster movie, is different to these two films by concentrating more on the relationships between different characters then on the disaster itself. Directed by Mimi Leder, what I liked best about Deep Impact is the way it engages with its key characters so that we actually care about what happens to them, in comparison to something like The Day After Tomorrow where the characterisation is pretty ...
...disaster films such as Armageddon, Deep Impact is for me a better film because it takes a thoughtful look at the possibility of mass extinction rather then rushing straight in with special effects. Armageddon is an action film through and through, whereas Deep Impact is much deeper then that, looking at the human emotions and relationships which come together in the face of disaster. There are three main storylines which the film concerns itself ...

bigmike33 23.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Deep Impact (Special Edition) (DVD)

Jack Ryan vs Harrison Ford

Advantages: All Jack Ryan stories are together and in order
Disadvantages: Jack Ryan played by different actors

...Soviet nuclear sub heading for the US. The Government think he is going to attack but Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) thinks he wants to defect. Jack has a couple of hours to prove his theory before the US Government find the 'Red October' and blow it up. Sean Connery is brilliant as usual but I found The Hunt for Red October very slow to start with, although it got exciting towards the end. *Patriot Games* Patriot Games had me hooked from start to finish. ...
...then a race to stop the terrorist whose brother he killed from killing his family. Non-stop action and suspense. *Clear and Present Danger* Clear and Present Danger had me hooked from start to finish (although slightly complicated storyline). Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence aqnd heads off to Colombia to investigate the murder of one of the President's friends. This film is full of action and cover ...

samd4samh 03.05.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Jack Ryan Collection (Box Set) (DVD)

Deadly impact

Advantages: Special effects
Disadvantages: none

...an asteroid heading towards Earth. Deep Impact was one of these movies. Deep Impact is about a comet that is on a collision course with Earth and will result in mass destruction and extinction of the human race. A news reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni), stumbles upon this story by accident, whilst investigating a high level government officials, suspicious resignation. The US Preseident, Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman), initiates a plan to launch a spaceship ...
...safer pieces. As a back-up plan, he also randomly selects 1 million people who will relocate to specially designed caves in order to save the population from extinction. This is a decent film and has some good characters, including Elijah Wood, who plays the teenage astronomer who discovers the deadly comet and Robert Duvall who leads the astronauts on their all important mission. I’m not quite sure Tea Leoni is a good lead for a big film and it ...

mozzie76 10.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Deep Impact (DVD)

If you like Minority Report - this is for you!

Advantages: Good storyline
Disadvantages: Ending

BEWARE! The following review contains spoilers and plot! The film starts with Luke Gibson (played by Cuba Gooding Jnr) and his pregnant wife getting into their car. Moments later they are involved in a car crash. Luke has severe head trauma and his wife dies. He is taken to hospital but they find that he has no insurance to pay for treatment. He will die unless alternative treatment is found. This is where Hope Industries come in. They say they ...
...They place an implant in the back of his head. The results of this experiment are Amnesia for Luke and advertisements that appear right in front of Lukes eyes. Luke thinks he is going mad until one of the visions he has helps him to escape difficult situations. Luke is finally introduced to his rescuers, punk rockers Red and her brother Blue. They are helped by a young man called Keyboard and his father. They begin to try and get Luke to remember ...

rufusredcoat 07.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Hardwired (DVD)

Crank It Up

Advantages: Quality action scenes, Jason Statham THE MAN FOR THE PART!!
Disadvantages: If there is such a thing as too much action...

...movie than a blunt instrument, Crank is an explosion of sex, violence and drugs, which have their effects used in the short term, but showing in every scene becomes a tad tedious. From the look of it, first time directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor looked to make a compact film with a running time of 83 minutes. Although the size, the directors refused to leave out any graphic scene, which they had obviously been storing up for their cinematic ...
...hitman, Chev Chelios (One of the worst hitman names in cinematic history) who has been lethally injected with some sort of Chinese sh*t, which he realises when he finds a DVD on his of course, huge flat screen television. From the obscenity scrawled across his face you could tell that it was not there before he went to bed. The DVD is of a cringingly stereotypical Latino villain Verona (Jose Pablo Cantillo) gleefully gloating about injecting him ...

lukeblackburn 06.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Crank (DVD)