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Advantages: Well-paced, all-star cast, superb special effects
Disadvantages: Somewhat hollow, inconsequential, outrageous

Following my review of the prequel to this last week, I give you now the second installment of the increasingly far-fetched premise that is Stefan Ruzowitzky's "Anatomie 2". Picking up where we left off, the Anti-Hippocratic Lodge is at large again, this time in a Berlin hospital. We see the story through the protagonist, Jo Hauser, a young doctor who moves to a classy upmarket Berlin hospital to work. Soon he joins the evil Lodge and starts to ...
...to help his crippled brother Willi who suffers from some muscular degenerative disease. He learns their unethical ways and discovers a new medical approach of implanting bionic muscles into the human body (illegally of course). With the help of a Filipino nurse he soon realises his folly and must work against time to save the many lives who are at stake. The movie is very slick and fast, a lot like "Confidence" and its all-star cast reads like a ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliantly directed and acted film
Disadvantages: Slightly unbelievable towards the end

...Vengeance (1995). His 2003 film Basic is a thriller with a twist: not so much an action film, although there are moments of action, it being a military-based film. The Plot Tom Hardy is a Drugs Enforcement Agent with ties to the military from his days as an Army Ranger. When he gets a call from an old friend, asking for help solving the disappearance of a special forces instructor, Sergeant Nathan West, and various members of his squad. Hardy soon ...
...has a minimum of resources and witnesses, and it will take all of his experience to extract the information from marines hiding secrets! Set in Panama, Hardy has to battle against the conditions as well as some underhand goings on in this excellent thriller with superb twists all along the way. The Cast and Performances John Travolta is on fine form, and plays Hardy with authority, both as an actor and as the character. Samuel L Jackson is the ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant film
Disadvantages: No DVD extras

...worth it! I would describe COPYCAT as a psychological thriller; a disturbing film most definitely not one to watch alone. Sadly I made the mistake of getting this when I had just moved into my first house by myself, oh what a bad mistake to make. I have watched the DVD since and as a film it grows on you, almost as if you can’t take everything in the first time you see it. It is a certificate 18, not due to sex, violence or bad language but purely ...
...fuss about? Released in 1995 COPYCAT tells the story of a mass murderer of copies the MO of famous past cases in American murder history. The film begins in the lecture theatre where Sigourney Weaver’s character Dr Helen Hudson is giving a lesson on serial killers and how they turn into what they do. While visiting the bathroom an escaped serial killer (Harry Connick Jr) who she helped imprison comes back and tries to strangle her in one of the tensest ... Read review

Advantages: The acting and direction
Disadvantages: none

This rates as one of the best films that David Cronenberg has ever made - based on the novel Twins (the title was changed due to a certain Arnie film threatening legal action) and tells the strange tale of identical twins Beverly and Elliot Mantle. Jeremy Irons plays both twins in an amazing and uderrated performance (the best of his career also). The film doesnt resort to the usual tricks of having the same actor playing twins (different clothes/different ...
...talent that 10 minutes into the film you know which brother is on screen just from the subtle nuances Irons imbues the characters with. The twins are wealthy and popular gynaecologists - Beverly is the shyest and more reserved of the 2 whereas Elliot is the brash arrogant one. The strange set-up they have involves Elliot charming the women into bed only for Beverly to finish what he started. This all goes fine for the brothers until a well known ... Read review

Advantages: Great Cast, great Storyline
Disadvantages: None

saw the cast and expected it to be a rom com but read review and thought id give it a go, how glad am i did, great film keeps you woundering what is going to happen next right down to the end, then when you think you have it worked out something else happens that you didnt expect, Cast of Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassell and Melissa George are all excellent in the roles they play, Jennifer Aniston truly suprised me. Starts off With Charles ...
...Aniston) on a train both seem to be stuck in a rut in there marriages and are instantly attracted o each other and having some excitement, they eventually get it on but disaster happens when they are robbed Lucinda is raped, then the plot thickens and Charles is being blackmailed not wanting to go to the police, in case each other partners find out they look to get out of the mess themselves without anyone knowing. Wont say anyomore but if you like ... Read review