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You're gonna love this, baby
Advantages: A great storyline, fantastic acting and a plethora of special features
Disadvantages: Some may find it a bit too violent
...Marley Shelton based on the Sin City short story, The Customer is Always Right. The soft wind instruments and dark setting establish the tone for the rest of the film. The audience hears beautiful dialogue brought to a close by a gunshot. This close relationship between beauty and death reflects the world in which the film takes place, a world where violence and socially unacceptable behaviour is the norm. .
Sin City, with its film noir style is ...
...years. This may be because Sin City is unlike most well known comics. The main protagonists do not take on the role of traditional heroes, it can be argued that no character is particularly good but this does not stop them from being liked by the audience. One could argue that they fit Aristotle's criteria of a 'tragic hero', people not necessarily good, nor necessarily bad. Sin City is truer to its original medium the most adaptations to the point ...
 shister_not 03.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Sin City (Collector's Edition) (DVD)
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Baby Bond
Advantages: A real crowd-pleaser for family audiences
Disadvantages: Some shoddy effects and a handful of duff performances
...has offered to donate a Stormbreaker computer to every school in the country. But Sayle isn't doing it out of the goodness of his heart; he has plans to use the machines to unleash a biological weapon on the world. So it's down to one boy to stop the criminal mastermind in his tracks…
Director Geoffrey Sax has created the best children's action film since the "Spy Kids" franchise. In his hands, Alex Rider becomes a mini James Bond of the old style. ...
...faceless henchmen and even a little romance. Not bad considering the main protagonist's only supposed to be fourteen years old. There's no preamble before we are thrown headlong into the life of an international spy, haring around the highways and byways in a souped-up car with bikers and helicopters in hot pursuit. It sets the pace for the rest of the movie that quickly bounds from one action sequence to the next, taking only brief pauses to introduce ...
 afy9mab 07.12.2006 · Read full review
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Will go down a storm with younger ones!
Advantages: Good actors
Disadvantages: More for young teenagers
...called Stormbreakers to schools. The Stormbreaker brings things like Dinosaurs and space seem real to the user.
MI6 dont trust Darius so they want Alex to go and find out what is really going on. What follows is a race against time to find out what Darius's real intentions are in giving away the computers.
This is a good film for younger ones. The girls will like the lead actor Alex Petyfer! There are some good actors in this film like Ewan McGregor, ...
rufusredcoat 24.11.2009 · Read full review
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Did You Enjoy Heaven's Gate? Well Shame On You!
Advantages: A clever look at the same story from two aposing sides
Disadvantages: Dislikeable characters and an overlong film.
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Year Of The Dragon is a winner and a failure all at the same time; what is fundamentally an excellent story is badly executed by its Director Michael Cimino. Cimino has a reputation for long drawn out movies that often bomb at the box office Heaven's Gate being a prime example. It's of little surprise that he has been missing from the movie business now for 10 years. The trouble with Year Of The Dragon is that its about 45 minutes too long; ...
...plot. In one particular scene Stanley goes to the apartment of his lover Tracy and explains that he feels isolated and alone; however Cimino stretches this scene out for 11 minutes and by the time the scene merges with the next your glad Stanley is alone. Cimino then makes the mistake of spending too little time on the areas that people enjoy i.e. the action scenes, these are over in a flash; no sooner has someone pulled a weapon and it's over with ...
 sghawken 15.04.2006 · Read full review
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Last Rites
Advantages: Faithful depiction of a popular novel
Disadvantages: Over powering musical score
A Prayer For The Dying is a faithful adaptation of Alex Higgins best selling novel. Mickey Rourke stars as Martin Fallon an faithful member of the IRA, but Fallon has been getting a bit disgruntled with the whole whole movement of late and the accidental death of a bus full of school girls because of a bungled attempt to blow up an army convoy strengthens his resolve. Fallon heads for the East End of London in search of a new life, but no sooner ...
...the police. While carrying out a hit for Meehan, Fallon encounters Father Michael De Costa and his niece Anna. This encounter causes Fallon to reassess his life and re-connect himself with God; but as things get to heavy Fallon may need more than the help of God to get through the next few days.
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Mickey Rourke .... Martin Fallon Bob Hoskins .... Father Michael Da Costa Alan Bates .... Jack Meehan Sammi Davis .... Anna Christopher Fulford .... ...
sghawken 19.10.2006 · Read full review
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