Ryan's Daughter/Michael Collins/The Butcher Boy/The General (Box Set)

Advantages: All Jack Ryan stories are together and in order
Disadvantages: Jack Ryan played by different actors

...killing his family. Non-stop action and suspense. *Clear and Present Danger* Clear and Present Danger had me hooked from start to finish (although slightly complicated storyline). Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence aqnd heads off to Colombia to investigate the murder of one of the President's friends. This film is full of action and cover ups. *The Sum Of All Fears* I found The Sum of All Fears very action packed but very confusing. I think it is set before the Hunt for Red October. I'm still not really sure what it was about except for Russia and terrorists (I think I made need to sit down and watch it again). Morgan Freeman was his usual brilliant self in it and Ben Affleck played Jack Ryan. *Summary* I found it hard to relate to the character of Jack Ryan in Hunt... Read review

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Advantages: Good value, good quality all around
Disadvantages: May be a little hard to understand for a first time anime viewer

...This DVD Box set of Samurai X (Original Japanese Title : Rurouni Kenshin, Rurouni, meaning Master-less Samurai or wondering Samurai and Kenshin being the name of the main character.) This box set contains 4 DVD's; Trust Betrayal The Motion Picture Reflections All in all they run for about 5 hours. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The DVD's in this set tell the story of Hitokiri Battousai, a man famed (of so the story goes) for being the most powerful and deadly manslayer of the Meji Restoration in Japan, effectively an assasin. Samurai X is also linked to three series of Anime which are also available (the cost is about $100, it doesn't seem to be available in the UK yet). Trust and Betrayal are set before the series, The Motion Picture is set at a point during the series and Reflections... Read review

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Advantages: A collection of all the great Monty Python movies
Disadvantages: Some movies, ie., Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, have no extra features

..., as I found it unfunny mostly, and a waste of time. I have only seen it once, and that was when I first watched it after purchasing this DVD box set. The acting is brilliant and while scenarios are quite often absurd and sometimes feeling quite random, acting sometimes feels as though it could be real. The acting is naturally funny as well, backing to the jokes that are made, causing these films to be the funniest I have ever witnessed in my life. ~~~ The DVDs ~~~ So, the box set has 4 DVD cases in, compromising 5 DVDs. These are the three films; Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian and Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, as well as the movie of Flying Circus; Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different. ~~~ DVD Features ~~~ DVD features I found were generally lacking, following... Read review

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