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...Bang! Well thats the plot dealt with. Want more info? Hmmm...well ok, let me try to think...Well we have a movie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood along with the woman in his life at the time Sandra Locke. Clint plays a washed up Phoenix cop who looks like he has been sleeping in the same clothes for about a month and who has a drink problem. He opens the door of his car and out pours a stream of bottles, cans etc. Of course, this means that ...
...witness across country to the courthouse in which she is to testify. This witness is Sandra Locke, a prostitute(why does clint always have his wives girlfriends etc. cast as hookers, or molested in some way...hmm) who has more intelligence in her handbag than our dumbass hero has in his whole body. Everyone is out to get them but dear old Clint's character can't see this...well not until the first preposterous action scene. Ths movie excells in presposterous ... Read review

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Disadvantages: Oh...everything

...fly after him in another Firefox and then they have a dogfight and then I don't really care any more.... Firefox is a turgid piece of crap. Totally without redeeming qualities. The story plods along steamrollering logic and development as it goes. Things just happen, and then something else happens, and it's all so very easy and without any tension. Every character is a 1 dimensional stereotype. Big bushy moustaches and lots of 'niets', or long ...
...special effects to show the Firefox aircraft tearing up the skies. But struggling with mattes and variable back projection, Dykstra's efforts are pretty poor. The Firefox is rendered as a smudgy, wobbly, black rectangle moving erratically over speeded up skyscapes. Eastwood provides no thrills with his Tesco value direction (it's not right, but it's okay) and the air sequences drag like a church service. Eastwood plays his role as Eastwood, all ... Read review

Advantages: Trots along at a good pace, pretty compelling
Disadvantages: Very violent at times, arguably condones vigilanteism

'Dirty' Harry Callahan, a San Francisco cop, has got himself into trouble with his bosses yet again, so they take the opportunity of an out of city case to get him out of the way for a while. A man has been found shot dead in his car and Harry needs to find out who does it, especially when it looks as if the killing is part of a series. Unfortunately, the local police chief isn't overwhelmed to see him. Then Harry becomes involved with Jennifer, ...
...ten years earlier. Jennifer is badly scarred; her sister even more so - she is practically catatonic and living in an institution. As the killings continue, Harry must work out if Jennifer has anything to do with them and, if she does, work out what he is going to do with her. This is the fourth of the Dirty Harry movies, yet is the only one that I have seen. Although very familiar with the term 'Dirty Harry', for some reason the films seemed to ... Read review

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...occasional cheesy action move sequel. Universal Soldier was one of the better ones, which also starred one of Hollywood’s B-list Arnie stand-ins Dolph Lundgren, so naturally, Hollywood being what it is, a few years later Universal Soldier 2 made an appearance - twice as cheesy, half as good... For those who managed to skilfully avoid the original Universal Soldier movie the concept revolved around a new plan to save hundreds of American lives by ...
...a movie like this, but Universal Soldier 2 is quite a painful example of the cheesy B-movie genre. I’m somewhat at a loss as to where to begin in all honesty, it really is quite atrocious on so many counts. It starts off well, with explosions, a high speed water chase, bulging biceps, gratuitous use of heaving bosoms, a huge bad guy and cheesy lines a-plenty - enough to give it a 3 star rating for this kind of movie anyway. Then it all goes wrong ... Read review

Advantages: The best movie of 2008...... So far
Disadvantages: It needed to be longer, if thats a flaw

...now find myself having watched Hancock awarding the movie the highest accolade I can by stating that of the movies so far, Hancock is the best movie of 2008. I avoided everything I possibly could to do with Hancock because to be honest the trailer failed to impress me. To my surprise I laughed, enjoyed the action, and was almost caused to shed a tear watching this very different superhero movie. In the past superhero movies characters are for the ...
..."Super Heroes". Hancock's superhero John Hancock (Will Smith) is not the traditional form of hero, he is an alcoholic, is verbally abusive, and has an appetite for destruction. While he wants to do good, nothing is ever quite thought through enough, while he might stop a group of armed thieves he may very well destroy half the city doing so. And this creates Hancock with a problem, he is not a superhero in the eyes of the public, he is a menace. ... Read review