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I Want The Last Cheque I Write To Bounce

Advantages: A reasonable follow up to the orignal
Disadvantages: Script wasn't quite as good as it could have been

...off the job in Vegas Ocean's 11 vanished into retirement, all taking a separate direction and enjoying their money. The day they all dreaded has arrived as Vegas casino boss, Terry Benedict turns up demanding his money back with interest within 2 weeks. As they are now too hot to work in Vegas they head to Europe to try and get as much cash as they can, as quickly as they can. This leads them into a head to head competition with a European master ...
...fair to say that while Ocean's Twelve isn't as good as Ocean's Eleven or even Thirteen, it is still a good movie and provides just over 2 hours of entertainment that holds your attention as you try and keep track of what's already happened and what might be about to happen. As well as the return of the original cast, director Steven Soderbergh returns to keep the original team together. He is obviously a well established director and producer and ...

Andy.mack 26.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Ocean's Twelve (DVD)

Not fantastic

Advantages: Schwarzenegger with guns...duh
Disadvantages: Fairly run of the mill stuff, Arny's early work.

...on the DVD certainly doesn't help matters. But all in all, Raw Deal is great as a budget film, but don't pay over the odds for it. Personally I'd prefer to get a newer action film with a bigger budget and descent special effects like many of his later offerings. ...

irishsquare 28.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Raw Deal (DVD)

No One Goes In... No One Comes Out

Advantages: Good action
Disadvantages: Not enough plot development

Jeff Talley is a hostage negotiator for the LA SWAT team, he’s currently dealing with a hostage situation featuring a Mother and her young son Sean, Jeff’s job is to get the perpetrator to surrender and he’s so confident in his abilities that at one point he’s laying on the floor casually smoking a cigarette. However before Jeff can calm the situation down things start to get out of hand, the gun man shoots himself, the Mother and Sean. Jeff rushes ...
...has given up being a hostage negotiator because of the fatal events of 12 months ago, he now works as the chief of police, he is having marriage problems and has a unruly daughter Amanda (Rumer Willis). When a rich family consisting of Dad Walter (Kevin Pollack), teenage daughter Jennifer and young son Tommy are followed to their state of the art house, the gang of three delinquents are planning on stealing their posh car, instead Mars (Ben Foster) ...

Great_reviewer07 09.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Hostage (DVD)

Action-packed with some witty dialogue but still flawed somehow

Advantages: Quite thrilling when it gathers pace, seemed an authentic depiction of London, some humour
Disadvantages: Something about Downey Jnrs depiction of Holmes didnt work somehow, not for all ages/the squeamish

...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson start out by catching a serial killer who dabbles in the the supernatural, an evil man called Lord Blackwood who is sentenced to death, indeed Watson confirms he's dead after he's hung. Things take a distinctly sinister turn, however, when they discover than Blackwood has apparently risen from the dead and Holmes recalls what he told him before he was hung, which indicated that more ...
...actor (Robert Downey Jnr.) played Sherlock Holmes, while an English actor (Jude Law), played his right hand man, Dr. Watson. Now of course I knew that before I went to see the movie, infact I quite like Robert Downey Jnr. as an actor and I have enjoyed some of his other movies and the fact that he plays the main character was one of the main reasons I wanted to see it in the cinema but there was something about him playing this role that I just didn't ...

IzzyS 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sherlock Holmes

What goes around comes around..

Advantages: Enigmatic
Disadvantages: Perhaps too long

...I wouldn’t say this was in that impact category but certainly a quality piece of film. The drama begins with the return of thirty-something award winning war photographer Paul Harris (Mathew McFadden) to the small rural town of Steimer where he grew up, his first visit for 17 years. The night bag over the shoulder arrival is for dad’s funeral, mum long returned to the Earth, Paul’s relationship with big brother Andrew (Colin May) still not good after ...
...As per normal in these movies Paul has awakened ghosts from his and others past on his return, none more so than a long lost relationship with Penny (Miranda Otto), the reason, we discover later, he skipped town. Deciding to stick around and sort out the family estate, his brother begrudging Paul’s promised third of the Will & Testament, the rest going to an unnamed charity, things take an unexpected turn in his closed world with the arrival of a ...

thedevilinme 22.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of In My Father's Den (DVD)