Thriller & Mystery > Caine, Michael Thriller & Mystery

children of men

Advantages: fantastic actors, effects and storyline
Disadvantages: none

Children of men is a movie by Alfonso Cuarón It is based in 2027 where the uk is at war with itself and especially immigrants, Women are no longer fertile and the youngest person in the world who was 18 years old has just died, It follows a story about a man called theo (actor clive owen) who lives in london,Theo hears from his ex wife julian (actress Julianne Moore) who needs theos help to get certai papers to help an immigrant she has with her, ...
...dark and war torn, The drama was amazing and i really enjoyed the whole film, Effects were good, great variety of amazing actors and a good story line that had never been done before. All in all a fantastic film but not suitable for children under the age of 15. ...

vikkiz 19.10.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Children Of Men (DVD)

The Ipcress File DVD

Advantages: It's got Michael Caine in it !
Disadvantages: Looks a bit dated now...

Based on the novel of the same name by Len Deighton, The Ipcress File (1965) is a story about a Harry Palmer, a counter espionage agent (Michael Caine) dealing with bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and subsequent "brain draining" of a nuclear physicist. Along the way, caught between Colonel Ross, his former boss, and his new boss, Dalby, things begin to get pretty "exciting" for Harry.... That's all the plot you're going to get. Go ...
...The Ipcress file is the first of three films with of Harry Palmer (the other two being Funeral in Berlin (1966) and Billion Dollar Brain (1967). "The Ipcress File" takes a fresh (in 1965) look at the spy film genre, very different to the James Bond movies that were hugely popular at that time.. For one, the locations chosen for "The Ipcress File"; cold, rainy, dreary London, lots of red busses and telephone boxes, mark it out as a very British ...

matt_fantastic 11.04.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Ipcress File (DVD)

The most ridiculous film ever made?

Advantages: Michael Caine
Disadvantages: Everything else

Now, sequels and spin offs are notoriously rubbish and this is no exception. It was released in 1987, 12 years after the excellent original and in between that and this, we had the passable "Jaws 2" and the awful "Jaws 3". Here is the basic plot. Ellen Brody's (Lorraine Gray) son Sean (Mitchell Anderson) is killed by a Great White shark so she decides to leave Amity and moves to the Caribbean to be with her other son, Michael (Lance Guest) and his ...
...due to the stress he has suffered over the years. Ellen just wants to get out of there. However, a shark in the Caribbean just won't leave her and her family alone. Is it the same shark and did it really follow her? Now this might have worked as a psychological thriller. If it really had all been in her head, we would have been given a very human dimension to these shark films and what such accidents can do to people. However, it's not all in her ...

Mel27 22.10.2005 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Jaws 4 - The Revenge (DVD)

“The Statement”

Advantages: brilliant crew
Disadvantages: far too serious

...are out of fashion. On the territory of UK or USA there are hardly any audience who enjoy watching it. Apart from the Jewish communities as most number victims of holocaust. However, Michael Caine is brilliant choice for such role. Michael Caine is a brilliant actor, just as well, but his choice of roles is notoriously wayward when it comes to commercial issues, of course. Like he’s, on porpoise choosing only the once he wants. However, if we take ...
...kill him for working with the Nazis in II World War. Plodding and predictable, it follows Caine's on the run as he seeks help from the Catholic Church. All those years Catholic clergy is giving him financial support, to live comfortably undercover. Well, better say Catholic sects orders, but eventually, the Pope is cutting the help off him. The most terrifying detail in the film, is that Catholic monks and priests, at the convents and sect secret ...

barefoot777 07.10.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of The Statement (DVD)

Quick shag better please

Advantages: a high budget visual style picture for those who are into it
Disadvantages: the same old story

“Quicksand” An other commercial crap that makes a lots of money from 2001. This is an exciting and rapidly growing genre of commercial and one way thrillers. If there wasn’t Michael Keaton, Michael Caine and Rade Sherberdzija “Quicksand”, wouldn’t make to television, maybe it would become one episode of the“L.A. Cops” serial on the telly. Film is directed by video making chap who’s probably a ...
...(Keaton), who is sent off to Europe to check up on a film production. He gets to be blamed for the assassin of a politician. Everyone is involved in this affair. The main villain is of course Russian Mafia boss Rade Sherberdzija, whose film production is a cover for porno and people trafficking business. Michael Caine is the star of the film that will never be made. Barely a day passes before a government official gets shot, and Keaton is holding ...

barefoot777 01.07.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Quicksand (DVD)