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Advantages: Some funny moments
Disadvantages: you will need some matchsticks to keep them eyes open

...heard about this latest film, Hollywood Homicide and seeing previews about it I was curious to get a taste of the action. Harrison Ford stars as Joe Gavilan, a well known detective who cannot capture the same success in his personal life as he does at work. There are 3 ex-wives in Joe's life and he is well and truly stuck with a particularly bad investment in a large house that he intended to sell as part of his side real estate business. His partner, ...
...when something exciting happens(yawn)* Hollywood Homicide is a cinematic misfire of epic and historical proportions. When the movie is obviously trying to be clever, no one is laughing because the jokes fall flat. The scenes were seriously jumbled and you couldn’t really get into the plot at times because it was so sloppy. There is only one amusing sequences that has Joe and K.C. being interrogated separately. They both do their best not to ... Read review

Advantages: A good film
Disadvantages: gets a bit boring

K19 is based around a true story about the first russian nuclear submarine and how it suffers a leak in the nuclear reactor which threatens the crew and the world. The story was well adpated and you get the idea what happened when this incident happened. Location filming in russia and out in the ocean was brilliant and added to the authenticness of the film. The acting by Harrison Ford was brilliant. His russian accent was good and he performed a ...
...performance. The way he challenges the captain is great but Liam's russian accent could be improved but it wasn't a bad attempt. The other actors had difficulty with the russian accent but they pulled off a good attempt. The model shots of the submarine were superb. Its hard to come by a film now a days which uses good models to create a proper effect. Also the use of a ex canadian destroyer and oberon class submarine and a ex russian juliet class ... Read review

Advantages: Good action and story.
Disadvantages: The Hovis tune.

This is another excellent Harrison Ford film, surrounding the war on drugs. A friend of the US President is involved with, and then killed by a Colombian drug cartel, the Cali Cartel. In retaliation the President indirectly orders the setting up of a team to destroy the cartel and all its members. Harrison Ford is cast as Dr Jack Ryan, the Deputy Director of Intelligence. The other members of the intelligence staff keep Ryan in the dark over the ...
...the truth. The film has a number of interesting twists in it and is extremely well directed and acted. The action shots are very well filmed and in some excellent locations. The only part of the film I did not like was the sequence when dead Americans were being fetched home in coffins. This sad moment was done in extremely good taste, but unfortunately the backing music was the same music used in the traditional Hovis Bread advert and this completely ... Read review

Advantages: Familiar storylines, some okay suspense and acting (Paul Bettany)
Disadvantages: Firewall (2006) - disappointing

This heist film comes courtesy of director Richard Loncraine, who directed Paul Bettany in Wimbledon and brings him in as the villain in this 2006 film Firewall. The Plot I.T. expert Jack Stanfield is the brains behind many security systems. A family man, he leads a pretty normal existence until his family are kidnapped and held to ransom. Jack must bypass his own security systems and rob a bank he is protecting in order to preserve the safety ...
...the desperate actions of a man for whom family is of the utmost importance. The Cast and Performances Harrison Ford is very good at playing distressed characters, with Han Solo and Indiana Jones being prime examples. This time round, although the Jack Stanfield character is distressed, Ford doesn't really pull it off. There is an unconvincing air about his character, and I am not sure whether this is down to the script or the acting. Paul Bettany ... Read review

Advantages: tells of various political factions and who is allied to whom
Disadvantages: why does house and family have to be involved?

Patriot Games is a combination thriller and political sideshow.It is fast moving film dealing with the factions of international discord and cliques. The storyline is heavily involved in the domino effect in which one scene of mindblowing disaster is interconnected with the intertwinnings of another cult wanting money or powerful demands. Side issues and how to illiminate them or move them on to someone else is what gives the main character ...
...true assets. He can call in favours to protect his family which drives the story to a hightened climax. Governments do not talk to other governments unless they have to. Surveillance is the key and how it is used.Watch for little side bits of getting one guy ahead of the other. ... Read review