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Discover Yourself Today.

Advantages: Jackson, dialogue, gets you thinking.
Disadvantages: Willis is a little below-par, meandering pace.

...situation whilst encountering Elijah. Unbreakable is, as with any other Shyamalan picture, a trick of the mind. It lulls you into one way of thinking, only to differ in perspective once you encounter it's twist (generally situated just before the ending). The performances on the whole, are sound; Jackson is the stand-out as the questioning Elijah, whilst Willis is amicable in the part of David, a security guard who probably wished he'd never encountered ...

RockBoi 12.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Unbreakable (DVD)

They are all around us.

Advantages: Meaningful, thought-provoking & very emotive
Disadvantages: It is very hard to translate fantasy into reality

...(I hope this doesn't defeat the object of my review altogether!). I have seen this one a couple of times before & it is pretty well known, so most readers will probably already know the story, but my outline will be as always - hopefully not too patronising! The story Having just celebrated receiving an award recognising his achievements practising in child psychology - for all the children he has helped or 'saved' - Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) ...
...feeling he was abandoned by the doctor when he needed help. Malcolm remembers him with some guilt, but still has no idea what to do. Unfortunately it is too late for that patient, now a grown man in a dreadful state, & he pulls out a gun, fires on shot at Malcolm, then shoots himself. Sometime onwards, Dr. Malcolm Crowe, permanently burdened by the guilt of failing that one patient, is approached by a boy (Haley Joel Osment) that somehow reminds ...

Ayesha- 08.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition) (DVD)

The Happening Review.

Advantages: There aren't any.
Disadvantages: Everything.

When I go to the cinema, one of the joys happens to be the trailers where you can see what's being released for us movie buffs in the near future. When I saw The Happening for a brief 30 seconds or so, it really got my juices flowing. Firstly it had Mark Wahlberg starring in it who, after seeing The Departed and Invincible really impressed me as an actor. 'This could be a good'un' I thought, secondly the story appeared interesting, people dropping ...
...would consider it one of the worst movies I've seen in a very long time. So, why doesn't the Happening cut it? Well where do I start? The acting is atrocious, Mark Wahlberg, a usually competent actor seems to fall victim to the fact he's in a terrible movie and poorly delivers. The female lead part played by Zooey Deschanel is poorly played, one minute she appears to be, shoch horror, acting and the next it's almost laughable some of the facial expressions ...

Owen1818 17.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Happening (DVD)

** Will that happen? **

Advantages: Good idea
Disadvantages: Actors, director, music, special effects

...nice to watch this movie... the last show began five minutes later, so we quickly bought the tickets. Sure having as a director the same who directed "The sixth sense" and "Signs" seemed to be a good "business card": two well-done movies, with the right suspence, I really appreciated. Moreover we both would like to see it... Well, it hasn't been a good idea. •• THE MOVIE •• Central Park, New York, a day like all the ...
...some kind of toxin and the first post-mortem examinations confirm in the bodies there was a natural toxin. When this phenomenon starts to spread in other places, the panic grows. They soon understand all these deaths cannot be caused by criminals and they think about another explanation. Maybe plants, that can change their metabolism in a few time, see human beings as a threat and try to protect themselves by giving off substances which induce ...

MonyMax 14.12.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Happening

Another fairly typical M Night Shyamalan movie

Advantages: Some good camerawork, its quite creepy at times and its quite intriguing
Disadvantages: The ending might well disappoint, Wahlbergs over acting, seemed a bit too short & OTT at times

- Story - The Happening is all about one morning in central park in New York when suddenly people seem to self destruct, randomly throwing themselves off building sites and otherwise committing suicide but not just a few people, large volumes of people are doing it and it appears to spread right down the east coast of the US. What could be causing this, is it a terrorist attack? we follow a high school science teacher, Elliot, his wife and his friends ...
...Opinions - I thought the movie was a bit too over the top, with the almost ubiquitous disaster movie scenes like where people go their different ways, the emotional moments with the classical score adding to the atmosphere and so on. I thought that Wahlberg overly used his panic stricken facial expressions. Its a typical M Night Shyamalan movie in as much as the intrigue keeps you watching and you know there'll be that twist that explains it all, ...

IzzyS 28.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Happening (DVD)