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jason is back
Advantages: great plot
Disadvantages: fair fetched car moves
This is a great film that I caught on telly on Saturday night and I cannot believe that I have not seen it before, I think I caught it at the right time as the third is to be released soon and if it is as good as the second I am in for a real treat.
Jason Statham plays Frank Martin, a chauffer who takes being precise to the extreme, but as you find if you get in his way there will be serious consequences. As a former Special Forces agent he now ...
...Billings played Matthew Modine the dad and his wife Audrey played by Amber Valletta, but on his watch their young son Jack played by Hunter Clary is kidnapped on a trip to the Doctors by a drug lord, Gianni played by Alessandro Gassman he has a mysterious virus and anti-virus as part of a plot in the story, I will not go into too much detail. Frank makes a promise to Jack and will stop at nothing to find the criminals who are holding him for ransom ...
 jo_field26 17.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Transporter 2 (DVD)
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The Axis of Evil, Allegedly
Advantages: It's a reasonably good idea for a film
Disadvantages: The execution of that idea is incredibly poor
...lights a Navy SEAL's operation behind enemy lines, but when it comes to the crunch and the SEAL's are in position to jump the President pulls the plug on the mission. By this time it's two late and one way or another 4 of the team are already out of the plane. Now the team must do what ever it takes to keep themselves undercover and survive until they can be rescued or escape.
After the surprise success of the first film staring Owen Wilson I suppose ...
...a patch on the original Behind Enemy Lines.
This is the first time I've actually heard of Director James Dodson. He has previously been involved with a few other movies but nothing I can honestly say I've seen or at least can remember. I found quite a bit of his direction to be rather annoying and in particular the flash back scenes. The lead character kept having flash backs to his training with the SEAL's and rather than helping to expand the ...
 Andy.mack 13.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Behind Enemy Lines 2 (DVD)
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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)
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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.
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Andy.mack 16.05.2007 · Read full review
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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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