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Mr and Mrs Pitt

Advantages: Exciting scenes
Disadvantages: Weak script

This Doug Liman film, Mr and Mrs Smith, received a lot of press on its release in 2005, thanks to the close relationship between the two lead stars, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Mr and Mrs Smith is about a married couple, John (Brad Pitt) and Jane (Angelina Jolie), who are dissatisfied with their unexciting marriage and are attending marriage counselling. However they are both trained assassins, which they keep secret from each other. Things get ...
...Danz (Adam Brody), to kill and end up failing to kill the target in the confusion. Their respective employers decide that they should take the other out as payback for the botched job. What follows is a battle of wills as the couple enter a deadly battle as they try to eliminate the other and in the process learn more about the other. This is an interesting film that is action-packed and has some amazing fight scenes, but I felt let down by the ...

mozzie76 26.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Mr And Mrs Smith (DVD)

Entertaining if you don't think too much!

Advantages: Watching Jason kick some a*ses!
Disadvantages: Some of the stunts are a little far fetched?

...and Lock Stock, I thought the Transporter (I and II) would be equally good. Unfortunately, it is far, far from being as good BUT.... if you are a fan of films like XXX and action packed movies with crazy stunts and mad fight scenes, then you should enjoy it. Jason (Frank Martin in the film) did most of the stunts himself, which is quite an achievement in itself. In my opinion, the first film was way better than the second one, in that the story ...
...a lot less dodgy. The car chases are most enjoyable in both but in the second one, one of the stunts in nothing short of 'appalling'. Frank Martin ends up with a bomb stuck under his car so he simply gets rid of the unwanted bomb by taking off sideways and grazing a pillar which knocks it off. Another pretty dodgy stunt was when he drives off the roof of a building and lands on the building opposite (but not on the roof!) a few levels down as the ...

lex20874 13.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Transporter/Transporter 2 (Box Set) (DVD)

Have A Good Life. Whats Left Of It

Advantages: Good fast paced action movie, decent martial arts scenes
Disadvantages: Could have done with another big name

...did really like the first Transporter movie and so it was really inevitable that I’d be seeing this regardless of my prior concerns about it. Statham resumes his role from the first movie as a Transporter, a man paid to deliver things from one place to another. Only this time he has moved to Miami and the films starts with him doing a favour for a friend and acting as a chauffer. When the little boy he is driving around becomes the target of a kidnapping ...
...This second instalment of the Transporter series sees Statham team up for the second time with Louis Leterrier. His direction seems to have come on a little from the first movie but with that in mind it still looks pretty good. The fight sequences are very well choreographed and look really well put together. The car and boat chases also look amazing with Leterrier really using some great angles and effects to create a film that looks really good. ...

Andy.mack 16.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Transporter 2 (DVD)

The volcano is hot, the film is not

Advantages: Good special effects
Disadvantages: Lack of characterisation, not enough human emotion

...Peak, which is similar to Volcano in every respect, except that Pierce Brosnan is in the lead role and not Tommy Lee Jones. Volcano isn't that terrible, but it definately doesn't class as one of the great disaster movies, even if it does contain some well cheoreographed action sequences and a solid (but not great) performance from Jones. This is definately Tommy Lee Jones's territory, allowing him to run around and save the day, as well as fix the ...
...same. The main problem with Volcano is that you don't feel any connection to the lead characters, with a lack of characterisation prevalent throughout. As the title suggests this film is all about a Volcano and its aftermath. The big difference is that the Volcano explodes in the middle of Los Angeles (which is scientifically impossible, but obviously nothing is impossible in Hollywood), leading to absolute chaos on the streets. The film starts with ...

bigmike33 13.11.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Volcano (DVD)

Hollywood Homicide is a drag

Advantages: Some comedic moments
Disadvantages: Just drags

...is what I experienced with Hollywood Homicide. The film stars Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett as two cops who moonlight as other things and pits them against some bad guys in investigating a multiple homicide. It hasn't received great reviews, and I could see why. The director, Ron Shelton, hasn't really grabbed the bull by the horns with this one. The actors appear uncomfortable and the plot is just too weak. The plot is one that has been used ...
...Joe Gavilan (Ford) and the rookie K C Calden (Hartnett), to investigate the murders of four men in a club shooting. They uncover corruption as they worm their way towards a bigger plot that they find themselves caught up in. And, naturally, there is an internal investigation going on in the department, and the internal investigator just happens to have a long term grudge against Gavilan. There are positives about the film. It does pass the time ...

pmcds 09.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Hollywood Homicide (DVD)