Thriller & Mystery > Horror Thriller & Mystery

One of the best films of 2008

Advantages: Exciting, Thrilling
Disadvantages: I honestly can't think of any.

Liam Neeson plays a secret service type of guy, well a former secret service. . It reminded of The Bourne Indentity with a similar type of fighting role. The fight scenes are very well choreographed and the storyline doesn't lose its pace. Ok the storyline, Brian Mills's ( Liam Neeson) daughter is kidnapped by Albanians. She was on holiday with her friend in France touring U2's Europe tour. These Albanians traffic young women addict them to drugs ...

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Review of Taken (DVD)

I have been Taken by surprise.

Advantages: Good acting, great storyline!
Disadvantages: None,

We watched this film with my mum, dad and husband when they had it recorded on Sky Plus and nothing was on tv (once again it was a Wednesday night and it was just football which was on!!!!). As I have said before when writing reviews on these types of films, I've never been a big fan of films with guns and gangsters, they bore me most of the time, but this Thriller is actually quite good! Details *Directed By- Pierre Morel *Release Date- ...
...minutes *Starring- Liam Neeson Maggie Grace Plot When ex CIA agent Bryan's 17 year old daughter Kim wants to go to Paris with her best friend from school, her dad is apprehensive, whilst her laid back mum (and Bryans ex wife), is fine with it, pressuring him into signing the papers to allow her out of the country. As an ex CIA agent, he knows the dangers of the world, and knows the trouble 17 year old girls can get caught up in. But he ...

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Review of Taken (DVD)

It's a riddle all right

Advantages: Derek Jacobi
Disadvantages: Daft story, badly told

...dead, apparently killed. When Mike, the journalist, hears her message, he is intrigued, and eventually finds the manuscript. He teams up with Kate, a police press officer and a tramp to find out what happened to Sadie and along the way, he also becomes intrigued by a murder described in Dicken's manuscript. It soon becomes clear that if he solves Dicken's murder, then he will be a lot further forward in solving Sadie's. However, there are people ...
...he ever find the answers he is searching for? Directed by Brendan Foley, this film is rather individual because it became the first feature film to be distributed on DVD by a national newspaper - The Daily Mail. The Daily Mail bought the rights to the film and gave it away as a freebie to people who bought the newspaper. Many will think this automatically makes the film a dud - free DVDs with newspapers are usually either very old or very bad. And ...

sunmeilan 06.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Riddle (DVD)

Silence of the Lambs - Sink your teeth into this

Advantages: Iconic, powerful, mesmeric and brilliantly performed
Disadvantages: Seen as homophobic. Gruesome and disturbing

...the book by Thomas Harris, Silence of the Lambs is actually a sequel to the lesser-known and Hopkins-less "Manhunter" (later remade with Hopkins as "Red Dragon"). It features rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) on the hunt for serial killer Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb (Ted Levine), so named for his habit of skinning his female victims. To track this elusive killer, Starling is forced to enlist the help of the intelligent but insane Doctor ...
...the Labyrinth: The Making of Silence Of The Lambs Original Featurette Deleted Scenes Anthony Hopkins Phone Message Outtakes Reel Stills Galleries Teaser Trailer Hannibal Trailer Original Theatrical Trailer TV Spots Collectable Booklet Conclusion --------------- Winning all five major Academy Awards (Best Movie, Best Director, Best Leading Actor, Best Leading Actress, Best Screenplay) is quite an achievement. Doing it a year after the movie is released ...

stevek181 05.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Silence Of The Lambs (DVD)

Kingdom of the Idiots

Advantages: Plenty of bang for your buck.
Disadvantages: It's appalling portrayal of Arabs.

...Adam Leavitt. But once in the desert kingdom, Fleury and his team encounter cultural and political opposition to their presence. As they unlock the secrets of the bomb site they uncover evidence of an extremist cell determined to cause further destruction. Actor-turned-director Peter Berg takes what could be a potentially insightful movie on American foreign policy and turns it into a brainless, balls-to-the-wall action fest. It is a celebration ...
...Republican whipping boys; The Middle East. If only Berg had taken some time to research the current political climate, perhaps he would have come up with something far less offensive to anyone of Arabic descent. But instead he has decided to paint every non-American character as a backwards-thinking, anti-American potential terrorist. If they aren’t actively involved in bombing softball games with the intention of killing innocent families of hard-working ...

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Review of The Kingdom (DVD)