Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Action/Adventure - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Jack Ging, Marla Heasley, Lance Legault, Melinda Culea, Mr T, Dwight Schultz, Dirk Benedict, George Peppard, Carl Franklin
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1977 - Action/Adventure - Director: Clint Eastwood - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
Advantages: Some lovely cineamtography and really good fight choreography Disadvantages: Rather overlong and hammy
breathtakingly inventive and often balletic martial arts smack-downs. Hark is a master of this, having previously helmed instalments of the "Once Upon a Time in China" and "Chinese Ghost Story" franchises. His take on epic Chinese cinema is faithful to its roots but, thankfully, with far higher production values. He knows his audience and provides romance, adventure, mysticism and cracking fight choreography. The cinematography is crisp and Hark's direction sharp yet reverential to the genre. He shoots in luscious colours that direct the audience in how to feel. The opening massacre appears in muted greys and saturated reds, while the pastoral idyll of Martial Vilage is presented in golden hues and Fire-wind's city in a range of unappetising greys and blacks. His attention to detail is superb, giving each of the sevenswords as much of a personality ...
Advantages: Fabulous ending Disadvantages: Some of it is quite dull
Detective Lieutenant William Somerset is just six days off retiring when he becomes involved in the hunt for a serial killer. Aided by Detective David Mills, it soon becomes clear that the murders, although initially random, do have something in common - each of them is the representation of one of the seven deadly sins. Gluttony, for example, is represented by a man so overweight that he was unable to escape from his tormentor. Slowly, the two detectives begin to piece the evidence together, and Mills almost catches the serial killer, nick-named John Doe, at one point, only to narrowly escape with his life. Will they finally catch up with John Doe? Or is he destined to always be one step ahead?
Made in 1995 and directed by David Fincher, this film was much praised on release for being excellent in just about every way possible ...
sunmeilan 13.09.2009
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Advantages: Powerful, acting, direction, cinematography Disadvantages: Will be too brutal for some
Every now and then, along comes a gem of a film that keeps you absolutely riveted to the screen, no matter how many times you watch it. Even writing it now, it is so vivid in my mind. A dark and disturbing psychological thriller, it features two cops as they hunt after a serial killer, who is using the seven deadly sins as a pattern for the killings.
Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman play the two detectives, and what starts out as a pair of hard nosed cops chasing another deranged psycho killer, soon turns into a psychological game of cat and mouse. Pitt is excellent as the frenetic and volatile young Mills, a doggedly determined detective who lets nothing stand in his way. He is contrasted by the ever serene Morgan Freeman as Somerset, an older and more experienced detective who would rather play out a scene in his head and plan his ...
pmcds 11.12.2009
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