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Equilibrium

Advantages: Good action, nice moves
Disadvantages: Story could have been put in a little less confusing way

The movie is really good. The action is fantastic. A futuristic dictator has suppressed war events by destroying Art, Culture, Music, etc. and turned people into drones and working machines for him. To do so, they are periodicaly fed with dozes of Prozium, which is a mind altering drug which supresses all the emotions coming insid a person. Cleric John Preston who is a highly ranked officer who is supposed to destroy the ones who do not abide by ...
...and starts to become shakey. He starts to feel uneasy and slowly he realizes that hes started to feel emotions. He decides to stop taking the drug and feels that life without emotions is completely useless. He feels father of such kingdom should be stopped before he ruins the whole country. In this way he accidentally meets the people who are hiding from the clerics. He discoveres a whole underground network of the people who are working against ...

anurag440044 17.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Equilibrium (DVD)

Burn baby burn!

Advantages: Some amazing dragons...wow!
Disadvantages: The Americanisms in the film...just no need!

I was looking forward to this fantasy/sci fi Dragon epic of a movie...and I wasn't disappointed! The premis of this film is a good one...whilst digging extensions to the tube lines, engineers discover a spherical object...that opens up a can of worms...or in this case a huge dragon!!! What follows is a rush through what happens when the dragons hatched and the world was taken over by them.... pages of newspapers from the battles and the loss of countries....which ...
...a hard and lean existence and hoping that when the dragons die off...their lives will be able to start again. The film has loads of action - the helicopter battles with the dragons are adrenalin pumped and full of energy. The settings for the film, dark, deolate and full of despair..the world looks a mess and is permanently scarred. It may prove impossible to repair this damege without firm discipline and realistic expectations. Christian Bale provides ...

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Review of Reign Of Fire (DVD)

I will be back!!!

Advantages: Good special effect and good plot
Disadvantages: NA

...we would expect in the Terminator Saga, probably not too much surprises for fans. For people new to the series, it's proably a new story or a different way to understand the plot from a different angle. It brings together the ideas from the first three installments and brings us a new story. This is the only one so far without the real Arnie, not taking into account the rebot Arnie in the movie!! I also like the way they explain John's personal struggle ...
...not too much to see from Christian, apart from him repeating the famous " I will be back" phrase. On the contrary, I think Sam Worthington(Marcus) did a good job in expressing his emotion as a half human and half machine. Apparently, they will be two more in the series and I am looking forward to them, to see the "ultimate salvation"!! ...

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Review of Terminator Salvation

Interesting Sequel… Complete With CG Schwarzenegger

Advantages: Entertaining - good story - great special-effects.
Disadvantages: Colour is a bit bland - a few continuity problems caught on tape.

...the addition of a humongous Terminator that could not only transform into an aircraft, but also possessed removable motor-cycle ‘attachments’ with machine guns that could be deployed in order to hunt down humans. More than once I felt like I was watching a ‘Transformers’ movie. While I liked both ‘Transformers’ movies, I didn’t much care for the ‘Terminator’ version of a 3-in-1 robot. Also, when the motorcycle attachments are deployed and come off ...
...(character appears as girlfriend in Terminator 3) is expecting their first child - Cameron the lovable Terminator is missing, but then again, Cameron might still come along in yet another sequel because the Terminators in this movie are not as technologically advanced as Cameron, however, the inconsistency remains in the fact that there was never any mention made in the television series about John being married or having a child. The inconsistencies ...

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Review of Terminator - Salvation (DVD)

Terminator Salvation- An action flick that worked for me!

Advantages: Christian bale.Nice action.Camerawork.
Disadvantages: Sort of cliche.Story is thin

Terminator Salvation is the continuation of the terminator series which gained much popularity in the 90's. Following the trend of recently succesful sequels, this one comes with a newer look at the man v/s enemy battle;the latest addition being a futuristic concept,new technology and advatnced graphics. The story doesn't need to be elaborated,its a plain man v/s machine battle,set in 2018. I am not a fan of Wham wham thank you ma'm kind of films,i ...
...if the genre has to fall under action.Blame it on the technology or the craze of futuristic concepts,the order of the day seems to be robots and machines fighting it out with humans.I guess that makes the concept very novel,saving mankind and similar attributes. The director also emphasizes on human emotion and some time is spent giving both the principal characters some emotional backdrop which works for the film.Behind all the action bonanza and ...

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