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Advantages: lots of action
Disadvantages: bit slow to start

16 BLOCKS. This is a story about a cop named Jack Mosley who at the end of a night shift is asked to take a prisoner to court.He has 118 minutes to get him the 16 blocks to there.It starts as a normal day till when he stops for a refreshment an unknown tries to shoot his prisoner.From then on it is full of surprises and suspence,it turns out that the prisoner he is escorting is to give evidence against a corrupt cop ring one of whom is himself,even ... Read review

Advantages: Cars and passing the time
Disadvantages: Lack of a storyline

...as I found '2 Fast 2 Furious' as the late night movie on ITV2. I have seen the whole of the Fast and the Furious trilogy, but I can barely remember the third one which I only saw a matter of months ago so you can imagine how my memory fairs when it comes to the other two. It's just a matter of fact, these movies aren't memorable. They're just brainless movies that you can watch at a drop of a hat, but they aren't half entertaining. I cannot even ...
...introduce a new lead character for every movie just because they did for Tokyo Drift, but a little trip down memory lane on IMDB.com has shown me that Brian O'Connor was also the lead character in the original movie, played by Paul Walker, who hasn't exactly got the acting credentials of an Oscar winner. The way they talk about the characters history doesn't jog any memories to me about the first film, however I think this is done on purpose to try ... Read review

Advantages: Batman all grown up
Disadvantages: Too long for some

...their big step in bringing Batman back to the big screen in 2005 with Batman Begins, and boy did they do it in a big way. I'm sure most people have seen a Batman film in the past, although with the special effects directors can now include in their movies, this was going to be something special. Batman Begins shows how the story starts, in this an era of when people want to know what started the chain of events. Christian Bale was cast the big role ...
...Bale has taken on, before Batman he appeared in 'America Psycho' (2000) and since this movie he has appeared in 'The Prestige' (2006). If you're going to be playing Batman, that means you're also going to be playing the man behind the mask. Bruce Wayne is the real man behind the mask. The film opens with a young Bruce Wayne playing around in the garden of his rich family manor with a female friend, who we later see the grown up version of as well. ... Read review

Advantages: Paul Bettany plays the suave bad guy really well
Disadvantages: It went on too long and was hard to get into

I was lent Firewall by my boyfriend who had just recently bought it, it was his first HD DVD he bought and although the quality is miles better than standard I don't see why he paid what he did for it. I had heard of it before, when it came out and I was interested to know what Paul Bettany was like as a bad guy. It seems life couldn't get better for Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford), a beautiful and clever wife, two bright kids and a wonderful home. ...
...meets Cox (Paul Bettany). His wife and kids are taken hostage by several armed men and Cox takes Stanfield hostage on his way home for pizza night. They are after $100 million from Landrock Pacific Bank, where Stanfield works as an I.T expert, and he designed the vault from which they want to steal. Stanfield must come up with a plan to get what his captors want otherwise they will start killing his family. Harrison Ford plays the role of the hero ... Read review

Advantages: Great acting, hilarious script
Disadvantages: Does jump around a bit so stick with it.

This film often gets passed by because of the title, I think everyone was like "hello" I know what this film is about, but trust me really you don't. From the second the credits roll you know this is going to be a slick movie, it combines a dark humour with the feel of a good old fashioned detective book. The basics of the story is that small time thief, Robert Downey Jr gets his partner shot, accidently lands an acting role in Hollywood whilst ...
...Eye Gay Perry played by Val Kilmer for detective lessons. Things go awry during the first lesson, a surveillance job, when a girl is murdered. Enter Harry's high school love, a range of badies and the body of the murdered girl appearing in Harry's shower, still dead and accidentally pee'd on by gobsmacked Harry. In keeping with the old time detective book feel there is a film narrator, Downey Jr. again, I don't think I have ever heard a narrator ... Read review