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Die Hard with tumbleweed - literally gave me nightmares

Advantages: Stylish, ultimately moral
Disadvantages: Make sure the kids are asleep before watching

I'm feeling quite smug because it had occurred to me that this isn't a gangster movie. John Smith (Bruce Willis) arrives like a time-traveller to what is clearly the 19th century wild west, but with prohibition. Then reading the review by jpegington I found out this is indeed a remake of a Clint Eastwood movie. It also manages to be a remake of Die Hard, because once again we have Willis as a loner fighting back against the odds, with the same near ...
...violent film that more than lives up to its 18 rating. Not because the violence is gory, but because it is unrelenting. I honestly did have nightmares after viewing this. On the other hand like many uber violent movies it could be argued that this is a very moral film because it underlines the pointlessness of it all. Willis as so often surprisingly good. But I'll have to disagree with others about Walken who I felt was sleep walking this one. Same ...

southpause 05.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Last Man Standing (DVD)

The Warriors the fight for freedom

Advantages: Brillant fights
Disadvantages: Not long enough

The best movie i have ever seen in my life you don't like it you are not real. Why you should love it: *The plot is brillant the movie starts out when the warroirs gang leader Cleon decides that they are going to a meeting which Cyrus the leader of the Riffs which is the biggest gang in NYC. Cyrus wishs to get all gangs to work together to control the whole of NYC and more of course the meeting goes wrong. Cyprus is shot my the Rogues and the ...
...make their way through the armies of night number 60,000 strong. *They really show the life of a gang member and the fights they might have to go through. *Brillant music and none stop action its full of hate and a bit of love. You'll remeber this movie for the rest of your life. Good luck with your buy. ...

choass 09.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Warriors (DVD)

A Rock N Roll Fable

Advantages: Great alternative musical
Disadvantages: Enjoys only limited audiences

...seeing the VHS video of Streets Of Fire in my local video library some 23 years ago, the cover I always remember gave off an entirely different image of what the movie was about. For those of you old enough to remember The Exterminator movies it paid a similar nod to that genre, and certainly shared the same feel. Having waited a further 3 years to see the movie as it was always one of those movies I considered renting but never actually did, I finally ...
...menace depicted in the cover; Streets Of Fire is actually a musical, and a bloody good one. In a future world that echoes the past Ellen Aim (Diane Lane) is like the Kylie Minogue of today, a sexy singing sensation and an asprirational figure to all. Not everyone is a fan however, or maybe they are too much of a fan, when one night Ellen is kidnapped while performing live on stage by a Raven Shaddock, the leader of a gang known as the bombers. From ...

sghawken 21.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Streets Of Fire (DVD)

What Happens After 48 Hours?

Advantages: Eddie Murphy
Disadvantages: Limited comedy, not a great storyline

...killers to justice. 48 Hours is something that has recently been doing it’s rounds on the Sky Movies channels and I decided to watch it on the recommendation of my Dad after hearing how much he enjoyed it, we tend to have very similar tastes in films so I was expecting to thoroughly enjoy this. Being a big fan of Eddie Murphy is something that made me want to see this even more. Nick Nolte is someone that I’m not too familiar with, I vaguely remember ...
...he looked very different but other than that I haven’t seen him in anything else. After his performance in this film I’m not particularly interested in seeing him anything else again. He plays a very gruff, moody talking cop in this film. Some women seem to like the brooding and moody macho type, I’m not such a fan of it. He simply has no personality in this film at all and is nowhere near as likeable as his co-star. You don’t care about his character ...

Great_reviewer07 22.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of 48 Hours (DVD)

The Title Says It All...

Advantages: Some funny moments, decent enough ending
Disadvantages: Too much like the original

...which they very cleverly entitled Another 48 Hours and that’s exactly what this is, it’s a carbon copy of the original. I thought that first film was mediocre, it hasn’t aged well since it was released over 20 years so it can be forgiven for that however there was simply no spark in the film which would have enabled it to stand out from the crowd. Another 48 Hours manages to correct these mishaps from the inferior first film however it’s still nothing ...
...was very simple but effective. Another 48 Hours have again tried to use the simple but effective method but failed miserably. You never really know what the bikers have to do with anything and the Ice Man doesn’t really come into play until the last 30 minutes of the film despite several references to him throughout the film. I think in a way the comedy is better in this film however it’s blatantly obvious that the jokes have simply been recycled ...

Great_reviewer07 23.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Another 48 Hours (DVD)