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Advantages: A lavish tale of the gangster life
Disadvantages: Too long for some

...should not be an issue. Once Upon A Time In America is often criticised for being too long, but a movie of this type needs to have meticulous care and attention given to it, and that includes your time. If you enjoy the Godfather, you'll love this! Once Upon A Time In America is a gangster movie, it tells the story of 5 wannabe mobsters from childhood, and for those that make it, into their retirement. When the story begins it's 1910, and Noodles ...
...attention of the public. Once Upon A Time In America took almost 3 years to make and it's claimed that the stress of production ended Leone's life. The movie is fantastic, zipping around from 1910, 1933 and 1967. It does not just follow the gang, but it follows the stories of close friends too. It's structured in a way that compares to all those popular mini series of the time such as Roots, Return To Eden, and The Thorn Birds. In particular two ... Read review

Advantages: Offbeat, humorous and thought-provoking
Disadvantages: A little too offbeat for some

...The Basic Plot Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) is an assassin living in Jersey City (although, we're never told that) who holds true to Bushido, the ancient Japanese chivalric code of the Samurai, and is guided in particular by the tenets of Hagakure, a series of commentaries and guidelines that were outlined in the early 18th century. The Samurai is a servant or retainer who pledges his life and sword to a master, and in Ghost Dog's case his ...
...several years before (or so Ghost Dog thinks) and by so doing unwittingly earned the future assassin's loyalty. Between jobs Ghost Dog lives in a shack on the roof of a building with only some carrier pigeons and some books to keep him company. His only human friends are a Haitian ice-cream vendor and chatterbox, Raymond (Isaach de Bankolé), who can only speak French, and a precocious-but-sweet little girl, Pearline (Camille Winbush), with whom Ghost ... Read review

Advantages: great story
Disadvantages: n/a

I watched this film last night on sky and I cannot believe that I have not seen it sooner especially as I have always been a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio and I was not disappointed by this film in the slightest. This film does require some concentration and at just over two hours it is a long film, but it well worth the watch with a great plot with enormous detail in the film as it based on a real event of Sierra Leone on the 1990's. Solomon Vandy ...
...family, his son goes to school and loves it, one day on the way home from school the village comes under fire and Solomon hides his son and tries to save the rest of the family, unfortunately he manages to saves his family but he is captured and is a slave for a rebel gang and is forced to mine diamonds. One day he finds a rare giant pink diamond which he manages to hide. Solomon then meets Danny Archer played by Leonardo DiCaprio who is a South ... Read review

Advantages: Good story, Witherspoon and Metwally are great
Disadvantages: Gyllenhaal is disappointing, torture scenes are horrid

...on DVD to see it! Rendition was one such film. The adverts on the television looked great and I was keen on seeing it, but didn't round to it in time, so I decided last week to hire it out on my Online rentals service and got around to watching it this week whilst Harry was napping. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian by birth, but has living in America for 20 years, works as a Chemical Engineer, and is married to an all-American woman, Isabella Fields ...
...subject but such films as Rendition and The Kingdom have taken tentative footsteps in that direction. They have begun to examine terrorism from both points of views, have filmed tough torture scenes for us to watch and have really brought a humanist element to the whole scenario. For me, this was quite a hard watch due to some of the scenes included, but it really made it hit home for me how hard the US strikes when they suspect foul-play, no matter ... Read review

Advantages: Actors are good, ambiance
Disadvantages: Perhaps a little confusing by moments

*** I'm reviewing the movie, not the DVD because the version I have is the Belgian one ;) *** Der Untergang, known also in French as La Chute and in English as Downfall, is a German movie about Hitler's last days in his Bunker in Berlin, with his generals, his secretary, some servants and Eva Braun. You have also the point of view of a SS doctor, who chose to stay for helping soldiers and civils, instead of running away with fellow SS and a little ...
...fighting against the Russians before realizing his mistake and becoming a little boy again. Storyline is good, I mean, I love the World War II but sometimes, American productions are... too centered on American success during this war. Excepting Saving Private Ryan, I don't really watch WWII movies. I love documentaries, so, it's enough for me. Der Untergang isn't an American movie but an European one and what is more important for me, it's not ... Read review