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Advantages: A rock-solid story line, promises to keep you fascinated / interested throughout
Disadvantages: Morality versus Immorality, both chucked in but neither wins?

This story tells of 2 men who reach a crucial point in their lives, they are totally unknown to each other, yet their broken up lives (though they both are "socially functional") seem almost uncannily similar, yet so different in many respects. The finer things in life, which have eluded them thus far on an emotional scale, are about to be aired out in public, hung out to dry like dirty laundry, when these two men collide in a car accident, both ...
...be, the biggest mistakes of their lives. The successful hotshot lawyer (Affleck) is just about to execute, what he half ignorantly believes, is just the normal turn of the mill case of an old man's testament, which is under serious question by a family member who had once been a friend of Gavin (Affleck) but now no longer is because she believes the firm for which he works, is perverting the course of justice by some underhanded scheme to rob their ... Read review

Advantages: Decent Plot and Acting
Disadvantages: DVD Problems

...brilliant author, and one of the men who has a definate gift for being able to come up with several completly plausable plots to basically end the world. The sum of all fears is part of the Jack Ryan series which has translated so well into films such as 'Hunt for Red October', 'Patriot Games' and 'Clear and Present Danger'. The actor playing Ryan might have changed (from Alec Baldwin to Harrison Ford) but the action and multi-layered plot have ...
...to start a war against the mutually sucpicious American and Russian superpowers and bring about the re-emergance of Fashism. Jack Ryan is the only one of the characters with his head screwed on and it is left to him to try and unravel a very thin thread before WWIII can erupt. The idea of the neo-nazi's being influencial men from a nuber of different countries was a nice tough and the constant air of cold war suspicion was very well done. The acting ... Read review

Advantages: good action scenes
Disadvantages: ending

It's been a few weeks since I have had time to watch any films but since it is the Easter holidays for me I have had a bit more time to watch some films. My friends are always giving me DVD's when they are finished with them that they will no longer watch so among this pile was the film 'Smokin' Aces'. I had heard of this being advertised a year ago and I remember hearing that Ben Affleck was in it but at the time I didn't remember it really getting ...
...at the cinema. However, having been given the DVD I decided this was no excuse to not watch it so I took a chance and put it on. The plot is based around a plot to kill Buddy 'Aces' Israel (Jeremy Piven) who is a Las Vegas showman and former gangster member of La Cosa Nostra, a large America criminal organization. In exchange for him getting a disappearance agreement with the Witness Protection Act he agrees to testify against his former teacher ... Read review

Advantages: It's a great movie, not your typical action and with a great cast!
Disadvantages: Few DVD extras

“I had better sex in prison.” Rudy Duncan When you think of those season Christmas movie treats that have been given to us in the past, such classics as ‘Miracle on 34th Street’, ‘It’s a wonderful Life’ and a whole parade of Santa meeting Martians, Tim Allen and rude little kids who never say thank you. But cinema has never touched on the true meaning of Christmas until now! And what is the purest theme of the Christmas season, lying your arse of ...
...kicking, blood pouring, cringe worthy action humour. Yes folks, this is not the film you want to watch with the kids of Christmas Eve. ~ Plot ~ Ok, I hear you say, just shut up and tell me what the film’s about. Two very charming, good looking and funny cellmates, Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck, I could list his great films from the past but the list would go on and on, we know who he is.) and Nick (James Frain, Devil’s Advocate) are finally going to ... Read review

Advantages: Uma Thurman
Disadvantages: Everything else

2004's Paycheck only made it into my DVD collection by a matter of sheer luck. I had some spare cash, and decided to pick something up from the new releases section. Definitly an impulse purchase, seeing as I hadn't never heard anything about the film.. if I had I may have known that it would only take a month for a film of this standard to be put in the bargain bin. Or the regular bin. Paycheck is directed by John Woo, the man behind 'Mission Impossible ...
...these scientific experiments, it makes Paycheck truly a sci-fi movie. Shorty (Paul Giamatti) is responsible for clearing Michael's memories and he explains that if his brain temperature goes too high during the process then he could be turned into a vegetable. Michael and Shorty are more than just work colleagues though, and are actually good friends. It is Shorty than will try to keep Michael level headed. As Michael's memories are cleared they ... Read review