Thriller & Mystery > Thriller Thriller & Mystery > 15 GBP to 20 GBP

Advantages: great thriller and a well written storyline
Disadvantages: can be a bit confusing???

Director: Robert Schwentke. Producers: Robert DeNozzi, Charles J.D. Schlissel and Brian Grazer. Writers: Peter A. Dowling and Billie Ray Stars: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean and Erika Christensen. Released in September 2005 this thriller seemed to be a mind playing game as a woman has to pursued the authorities that her daughter has gone missing. **BRIEF PLOT** When Kyle Pratt, (played by Jodie Foster) gets on a flight from Berlin ...
...Lawston) her life changes for ever. A few hour into the flight Kyle discovers that her daughter has gone missing from the plane but when she starts investigating it turns out that no one ever saw her daughter getting on the plane. When Kyle's behaviour starts to panic the other passengers the pilot, (played by Sean Bean) orders Carson, the on board Marshall, (played by Peter Sarsgaard) to restrain the now hysterical passenger. With Kyle then mistrusting ... Read review

Advantages: Like who you're supposed to, hate who you're not
Disadvantages: Some annoying characters/moments

...to make for a hard enemy to beat. When the police and the media get a whiff of what has gone down by this lake, there is no signs of foul play, although it is soon discovered that a bird watcher has a camera on the lake that was aimed directly at the site of the murder. The theme of the movie is an issue that still gets discussed today, in how survelliance is tracking each and everyone of us, especially in America. You've probably seen the car advert ...
...on camera every day, so you might as well look good. This makes for a lot of high-tech scenes in the movie, such as drop down views on scenes to show them from the satellites perspective, although this isn't done in a way so that you don't see the scene in normal view either. This movie isn't that artistic, but what it lacks in style it makes up for in presence. When the 'bad guys', lead by Reynolds (Jon Voight, who I most recently saw appear in ... Read review

Advantages: Jack is Back
Disadvantages: None of the above

...door and close the curtains! 24 can only be watched in one sitting, to split it up would only keep me anxious inbetween! For those of you who haven't heard of Jack Bauer... my only question is where have you been? Welcome back and let me give you a quick insight as to what has gone before... The idea is simple, 24 hours in 24 episodes Day 1 This was the first time that the viewing public was introduced to the Los Angeles CTU (Counter Terrorist ...
...David Palmer in the next 24 hours! So set's the scene, and over the next 24 episodes the twists pile up, which include Jacks family being kidnapped by the people involved, so that Jack will be the trigger man! Which of course doesn't happen. And at the end of the day a Mole in CTU is discovered, and what they do to escape capture is devastating to Jack! Day 2 Another day begins at CTU and Jack is in the centre of the day's events yet again. Terrorists ... Read review

Advantages: Johnny Depp and Heather Graham make a great acting duo.
Disadvantages: There are a few things in this movie better off not thought of.

...murders of Jack The Ripper, from the 1800s... you know the one I mean - the one who murdered all those poor hookers. Heather Graham plays Mary Kelly, a poor woman with barely no choice but to sell herself for survival. Together with a group of her friends (who are also prostitues), they walk the streets for money. There are a lot of dangers and threats out against them, one of which is a gang that insists to be paid the money the are owed. One of ...
...knife in her... ... somewhere that would certainly be very unpleasant. The group sets out to raise the unrealistic amount of money needed as quickly as possible since they know they do not want any trouble. Then one of the friends of the group who has a husband and daughter, is seen being kidnapped and taken away, and not too long afterwards, one of the group members is attacked and horribly murdered, with many more to follow. It is up to Johnny ... Read review

Advantages: A classic theme
Disadvantages: Terrible script, terrible acting and a disappointing ending

...quite stop myself from putting House of 9 in my Amazon basket – maybe Dennis Hopper would make up for it? The idea behind this film is similar to that of Saw 2 and based on the classic “And Then There Were None” theme of several people being forced together only for their number to be reduced until there is only 1 (or possibly 2 or even none) person still standing. In House of 9, 9 strangers are abducted from their everyday life only to be imprisoned ...
...they try to escape the house and the game until eventually some of them start playing along. The idea is simple, but as ideas go the simple ones are often more likely to create real tension and drama. Sadly, in this case, the film does not have much more than the classic theme going for it. If this film had tried a bit harder to be different from the stereotypical straight-to-DVD horror it would have fared much better. As it is it sticks absolutely ... Read review