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Parkour + Fighting = Decent Action Flick
Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago on 14 October 2008 04:26
(A review of District B13)I've always been amazed by people that parkour and heard that this movie has a lot of it in it I wanted to see it. And the movie was filled with parkour and enough action to keep my interest and be a good action film. The movie is set in 2010 in Paris where one district overrun by gangsters, drugs and violence that the government built giant wall around it and abandoned it, leaving its inhabitants to survive without formal education, proper utilities, or police protection. Leïto is one of the district residents that obeys the French formal laws and fights one gang lords, Taha, to keep him, his sister Lola and his building safe to live in. Leïto manages to captures Taha and brings him to the only police station in the district but Taha is release as the police was ordered to abandon completely and Leïto is arrested and put in prison outside of the district. Six months later outside of District 13, a police officer named Damien, is assigned to recruit Leïto to get into the district and help stop Taha from setting off a nuke that he captured from a armored truck. The rest of the movie has Leïto and Damien find and undercover the real purpose of the nuke. The acting is par for a action movie so nothing special or bad. Sound is pretty good both on the original French and dubbed English and also the FX are on par with other films like it and music is filled with the normal techno like music that fits well. But the real point of interest is the parkour, which is always sight to see and this movie is filled with it from a couple parkour chase sequences and also adding parkour elements to the hand to hand fights. Overall it's decent action film but with the parkour inclusion adds just enough to give it a extra point from me.  0 comments, Reply to this entry
Stone Sour v2?
Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago on 14 October 2008 03:40
(A review of All Hope Is Gone (Special Edition CD/DVD))I'm not a major fan of Slipknot but when I heard the band was back from the hiatus I was interested in what they would come up with. And All Hope Is Gone is what their result and it's not good, let alone great. Anyone who has ever listened to some of Slipknot's previous songs should know that their songs are hard, fast, filled with rage. In interviews before the release of All Hope Is Gone members of the band stated that this album would be their heaviest to date with some experimental parts to shake it up. Well I would have to say they put in a lot of experimental parts and forgot to include the heaviness. Most of the songs fell like their really are a bunch of Stone Sour songs as they feel like a bunch of metal ballads filled with political ramblings and have no real intensity that Slipknot is known to exhibit. It's really hard for me to review this album as it's a real disappointment and would suggest anyone to just pirate the album and check it out and make up their own mind. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Near perfect sandbox of crime
Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago on 16 September 2008 04:16
(A review of Grand Theft Auto IV)Being a big fan of the GTA franchise when I heard GTA4 was coming it was both inevitable and a joy to hear. Now that I've finally finished it, I am not disappointed. GTA4 revolves around Niko Bellic, a immigrant from Bosnia trying to start his life over in Liberty City. But later on in the game Niko explains that his coming to Liberty City wasn't just to start over but to find who he thinks betrayed his former army unit. On the way Niko makes friends and finds work with lots of different interesting people; from a Russian loan shark, a Jamaican arms dealer, a loud mouth (slightly gay) steroid user, to a family of Irish mobsters. Graphics are pretty stunning and have forgone the cartoony look for a more realistic look and it pull that off really well. Sound is a big plus in almost every aspect. The voice work on all the characters sound perfectly matched, the sound FX's are spot on, and the radio is full of tunes and talk stations that anyone is sure to find one or two that like. Gameplay is fairly the same as the other GTA's as far as missions go but the rest has taken a major overhaul since the last GTA. Shooting is a lot better with the lock-on system being really good at picking the dangerous targets before random passer-by and also the manual aim with the PS3's new triggers felt really natural. The cover system is also new for the series and while not original or the best out there it's a welcome addition as with previous GTA's you almost had to have armor on all the time when fighting and the cover system gives the player a better chance against multiple enemies. One of the more radical changes is the driving as there is now a physic engine and so driving doesn't feel as arcady and now more realistic and takes time to get used to. Overall the game is great and near perfect and should be picked up by any 360 or PS3 owner. 1 comments, Reply to this entry
Meaning lost on me
Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago on 16 September 2008 03:24
(A review of Elephant)This is going to be short as both the movie is a short one and nothing really can be said about it. The movie is set it Northern Ireland during "The Troubles", which was a time of basically a civil war from the late 1960's til the late 90's, and really the whole movie is just depiction of eighteen murders and some were based on police reports from the time. There is no music, sound FX are non-existent any most of it is just real sounds. It's really a minimal film that's meaning is lost on me as I live in the United States and was born in '86 so everything was foreign to me. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
I know the Creed... now what?
Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago on 30 July 2008 04:21
(A review of Assassin's Creed)The Crusade's, parkour, stealth, and assassinations all sound great and Assassin's Creed promised all of those things and that sounded great but after playing the game it fell a little short. You play Desmond Miles, a man from 2012 AD, who is kidnapped and forced to entered a machine called the Animus that searches a persons DNA and extract memories from the users ancestors. Well one of Desmond's ancestors turns out to be a member of the Assassins Order during the Third Crusade named Altaïr. Altaïr is tasked to help stop the Crusade by killing 9 leaders on both sides of the war. As he continues to kill the men, Altaïr finds out why he was sent to kill them and also why Desmond was kidnapped. In order to assassinate the leaders, Altaïr must gather information by pickpocketing, beating a confession, eavesdropping, or helping a Order informer on the target that is in a sector and then get approval from the Order leader in the city with the information. Also he can do a couple side missions by saving citizens that go can help getting into a place with scholars or having vigilantes that while hold on to guards as Altaïr gets away. All of this is the real problem with the game as getting the information is all the same in every level of the game and gets really boring fast. Visually the game looks great even on a standard def TV and I bet looks better on a HDTV. Controls are tight most of the time and only feel loose when fighting but not so loose to be killed too many times. But another fault is that story is weak as its pretty confusing and a bit convoluted. Overall the game is a good game and worth borrowing to play but its seems like the game needed a little more work in some areas that could have make it a great game. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Season 1 Review
Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago on 30 July 2008 03:17
(A review of Burn Notice)What happens when you take MacGyver and make him a international spy? You get Burn Notice. Jeffrey Donovan plays Michael Westen who is a covert operative that is "burned", an unreliable or dangerous agent, and is on a mission to find out who and why he was "burned". He is placed in Miami and the only people talking to him is a ex-girlfriend Fiona, played by Gabrielle Anwar, former Navy SEAL and agent Sam, played by the legend Bruce Campbell, and his mother. Most episodes consist of his friends having friends or people that they meet that need help from loan sharks, mobsters, drug dealers, etc.. The writing on the show is really great adding nice bits of humor to the drama of the situation. Like I mentioned it's has bits of MacGyverisms showing some how to "make" items like maltov cocktails, remote surveillance device, bulletproofing something, and other things that never go into detail but are possible. The acting is also great as Mr. Donovan plays Westen very well giving him a smooth, calm, and charming image. Mr. Campbell gives Sam that old and a bit cranky but very cool and funny as always. And while I don't like Ms. Anwar looks in comparison to everyone else she does play a good ex-IRA/gun happy girl. I don't know why I didn't write this review back at the end of the season but since the new season just started and it reminded me of how great the show is and how it needed to be reviewed. 1 comments, Reply to this entry
More real then GSH but not better
Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago on 10 July 2008 07:16
(A review of The Firm)When I first watched Green Street Hooligans, I thought is was a great film but I forgot the reason why I looked it up but I read that The Firm was much better. But I would have to disagree. The movie is Inter City Crew, a British football hooligan firm, which is lead by Clive "Bex" Bissel, played by Gary Oldman, who is trying to unite the three main firms in England to create and lead a national firm for the European Championships. But the other two firms don't want to join together and if they didn't they didn't feel Bex was the man to lead them. But Bex did convince then to join but only if his firm beat their firms. So the rest of the movie is him and his firm preparing for battle. Acting and writing is par for a TV movie and is nothing special even if Gary Oldman is staring in it. Writing and sound isn't great but again it's a TV movie so not to surprising. While I enjoyed the grittier more realistic feel I personally like the more stylized version of GSH. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Good but not America's Godzilla
Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago on 10 July 2008 06:41
(A review of Cloverfield)I was really young when I first watched Godzilla and fell in love with the monster and when I heard this was suppose to be the American version of a Godzilla monster so I got excited. Then I heard it was going to be filmed with just hand held camera ala Blair Witch and that excitement faded. But after seeing the movie the camera wasn't the issue, it was the monster. The movie really starts with a farewell party in a New York apartment when a blackout hit and building shakes the partygoers head outside and notice a giant explosion on the other side of the city. As debris falls near them, including the head of the Statue of Liberty, the camera man captures a glimpse of a giant monster. The rest of the movie follows the 6 people trying to both find out what's going on and to escape the city. Acting wise the movie is solid as the actors conveyed the sense of urgency and fear really well. Sound in a music sense is nonexistent but that was okay as the sound FX's were great and the lack of music just makes the filming feel more genuine. What really killed most of the movie was that it was filmed from the ground and the monster wasn't shown much. Now in Godzilla movies, Godzilla was the main protagonist and was featured most of the time while the Cloverfield monster seemed like a afterthought and so the film makers failed at what they said they wanted to do. While the overall movie is good and would recommend to someone that likes monster movies to see and judge for themselves, I wouldn't recommend it for someone trying to find America's Godzilla as the film makers said it was. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
And what a accidental revolutionary he is
Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago on 10 July 2008 03:50
(A review of Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary)If your a technology geek like me you know what Linux is and you know that Linus Torvalds was the programmer behind it. Well Just for Fun tells Linus' whole life story. The book is split into two parts, the book even says that, with the first part being from his childhood to college and writing Linux and how it changed the computer world and the second part is Linus' thoughts on the computer industry, life, and other philosophy subjects. As I said before I'm a tech geek and really like hearing about tech and found the first part of the book really enjoyable but the second I didn't fully enjoy but that was because of my personal beliefs but was a good insight to Linus' way of thinking. And the writing is good for a ghost writer as instead of making the book sound like Linus was writing it and was written more like a interview. For geeks like me this is a must read into learning how the whole open source movement really started but if your not this books first might be way over your head. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
When's the nipper?
Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago on 22 June 2008 02:48
(A review of The Weather Man)I've had a little bit of a affinity for archery and so when TV spots showed the movie with Cage's character shooting with a bow and arrow I was really interested. Nicolas Cage plays David Spritz, a Chicago weatherman, who has so many things going on that most of his life seem like a daze. For one he doesn't like his job as a local weather man as all he does is point and speak, and every once a while gets food thrown at him by "fans". Next he's separated from his wife and is heading towards divorce. He's got one daughter who is overweight, smokes, and called "camel toe" at school because of her tight clothing. And has a son with a past of drug problems that befriends his creepy rehab counselor. And to top it off his father, played by Michael Caine, is diagnosed with lymphoma and only has a few months to live. And the whole movie is how David tries to handle each of those situations, sometimes failing miserable. While the scenes with Cage and Caine are good and thought provoking the rest of the movie is really bland and sometimes boring as all the actors felt like they were just reading the script and not putting anything else in. Writing wasn't too bad just not great and music was the same. With average characters in average real life scenario's really this movie a average movie. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
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