Archive for October, 2008

So with today being Halloween I decided I should review a horror movie, and with my lack of knowledge of the Saw series I decided to pick up this well received film starring Vinnie Jones.

Leon Kauffman [Bradley Cooper] is an aspiring photographer in New York, and he is out on assignment to get some gritty pictures for a showing. He comes upon an interesting subject, Mahogany [Vinnie Jones], who is a butcher who rides the late night trains in the subway.

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Max Payne [Mark Wahlberg] is a detective who had his family murdered almost right before his eyes. He now works in the cold case department and chases any leads he can find. After checking up on an old snitch of his looking for more leads on his wife’s murder he finds more than he wanted to and gets dragged into a drug addicted serial murder case. Payne runs this down, while getting closer to his wife’s killer.

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So to tie in with the feature review which will come later in the week of Max Payne I will be giving you the Top 5 Worst Movies that are based on Video Games.  Usually I’m listing the best, but since most people will agree that we are yet to get one good movie based a video game, much less to be able to name five would not only be difficult but a heart wrenching lie.  So here we go

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It’s Friday and Craig [Ice Cube] doesn’t have anything to do, so he’s hanging out in the neighbourhood with his friend Smokey [Chris Tucker]. While joking and enjoying the day Craig and Smokey end up smoking off all of Big Worm’s [Faizon Love] weed that Smokey was supposed to be selling. Now they owe him money and they are looking for how to get it before Big Worm kills them.

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Jerry Shaw [Shia LaBeouf] and Rachel Holloman [Michelle Monaghan] are two regular people who are being instructed by this mysterious voice over the phone to do various things for her, or face the consequences. Jerry is suspected of terrorism and Rachel’s son’s life is being threatened, they must cooperate with this unknown woman or else.

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So the post is a day late, mainly because I lacked inspiration for my Top 5 this week.  I wasn’t really sure what to to make it on.  Finally late last night I go the inspiration and decided to work out who made the cut.

So here we go….

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The famous Nicolo Bussoti violin is being auctioned off in Montreal, and we are taken through the story of how it travelled throughout the world and made a name for itself through its owners throughout history.

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Turk [Robert De Niro] and Rooster [Al Pacino] are two veteran cops on the NYPD and we are following them as they go through their day to day workings together. There is a serial killer running loose in the city killing bad guys, and they think it could be a cop. Here we go…

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The 666s have reformed and are back with a vengeance against the Victors. Pistolero [Larry Bishop], The Gent [Michael Madsen] and Comanche [Eric Balfour] lead the Victors in this bloodthirsty tale of deceit and revenge.

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So to work with my feature review to come later this week of the new Al Pacino and Robert De Niro movie, Righteous Kill.  This has definitely been one of the thoughest lists I’ve made since I’ve started this feature because I found so many that could be in and I had to throw down the axe, but here is the list.

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