Based off the 80s Saturday morning series a special forces team that works great together is betrayed by people they thought they could trust in the government. Set up for a crime they are innocent of they break from jail and set forth to prove their innocence, get revenge, and right the wrong done by the bad guy. Lots of great action scenes.
Liam Neeson is Hannibal, Bradley Cooper is Face, Quinton Rampage Jackson is Baracus, Sharlto Copley is Murdock. Jessica Biel is Sosa.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Robin Hood - May 2010
Russell Crowe plays Robin Hood, Cate Blanchett plays Maid Marian, Oscar Isaac does a wonderful Prince John. Eileen Atkins is Queen Eleanor Friar Tuck is done by Mark Addy, Little John by Kevin Durand. This is the story of Robin Hood before he became banished as an outlaw it follows him returning home after the crusades and bonding England together under King John after the death of King Richard to save England from the approaching French. A grand story of love, loyalty and betrayal, of doing the right thing even when you know its going to cost you.
Marmaduke - June 2010
Marmaduke is a great dane dog who plays himself with a voice over done by Owen Wilson. Its based on the comic strip that frequents the sunday papers. His owners move to California where the dad finds a good paying job. Marmaduke loves his family but they are quite busy with their own lives, the boy with is sports, the girl with her boyfriends and shopping and the dad with his new job. Dad works for a dog food company who meets his higher upper in the dog park where Maramaduke meets other dogs (with their own voice over people no less) and learns the lessons in love, loyalty, and friendship as well as sticking up for yourself and refusing to be bullied. Good movie with many lessons kids need to hear in it.
The Bounty Hunter - March 2010
Jennifer Aniston and Gerald Butler play Nicole Hurly and Milo Boyd. He is a bounty hunter and she is a reporter. They used to be married but had a pretty bitter divorce. She hits a a lead on a big story she is working on while enroute to answer court charges. She takes off to follow the lead leaving her poor lawyer in the judges wake to try to explain why she's not in court. Of course the bail is revoked and Milo gets the sheer joy of trying to find her and haul her butt to jail. She does everything in her power to make it not so easy on him and the movie is a delightful banter and funny punts as they keep one uping each other while staying a step a head of the bad guys who find out Hurly is on to them and are trying to shut her up.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - May 2010
Jake Gyllenhaal plays Dastan, a street rat who was picked up by the king after a show of unusual bravery and adopted as his son, thus becoming Prince Dastan, younger brother to the king's two natural sons.
After they are grown they get word that a city they have been allied with has been hiding weapons and plan an attack. The persians attack first with Dastan kicking butt in a wonderful series of movies that would make Lee or Norris proud! The Princess Tamina (played by Gemma Arterton) is captured and will become the wife of one of the princes' to insure an alliance. She is a wild one who will not be tamed.
During the declaration Dastan presents a cloak to his father (given to him by his brother, the next in line to present) as a gift. After the king dons the cloak he dies from burning poison. Dastan of course is accused and is on the run for his life, taking the princess with him. While on their journey to prove his innocence he learns the knife he took from her is powerful..it has the ability to turn back time..but only for one minute at a time.
VERY good movie I loved it and plan on buying it.
After they are grown they get word that a city they have been allied with has been hiding weapons and plan an attack. The persians attack first with Dastan kicking butt in a wonderful series of movies that would make Lee or Norris proud! The Princess Tamina (played by Gemma Arterton) is captured and will become the wife of one of the princes' to insure an alliance. She is a wild one who will not be tamed.
During the declaration Dastan presents a cloak to his father (given to him by his brother, the next in line to present) as a gift. After the king dons the cloak he dies from burning poison. Dastan of course is accused and is on the run for his life, taking the princess with him. While on their journey to prove his innocence he learns the knife he took from her is powerful..it has the ability to turn back time..but only for one minute at a time.
VERY good movie I loved it and plan on buying it.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - Febuary 2010
Percy Jackson is a teenage boy played by Logan Lerman. He lives with his mother and his stepfather, never knowing his father. It turns out that he is the son of Poseidon the great God of the Sea who has been absent because of a decree from Zeus that Gods will not have contact with their half mortal children.
Zeus' lightning bolt has been stolen and Percy is the one being accused of taking it. He has until the summer solstice to return it or the Gods will war against mankind and the Olympians will have to choose sides. It turns out his best friend, Grover, played by Brandon Jackson is actually a satyr who had been charged to watch over him and protect him. One of the fates attack Percy at school and for his safety he must be whisked away to Chiron's school of heros where he is taught who he is.
During which his mother is kidnapped and held for ransom and he must journey to the underworld to save her. He is accompanied by Annabel, daughter of Athena, and his watchman Grover as they battle against a ticking time clock to find the bolt and to rescue Percy's mother.
Zeus' lightning bolt has been stolen and Percy is the one being accused of taking it. He has until the summer solstice to return it or the Gods will war against mankind and the Olympians will have to choose sides. It turns out his best friend, Grover, played by Brandon Jackson is actually a satyr who had been charged to watch over him and protect him. One of the fates attack Percy at school and for his safety he must be whisked away to Chiron's school of heros where he is taught who he is.
During which his mother is kidnapped and held for ransom and he must journey to the underworld to save her. He is accompanied by Annabel, daughter of Athena, and his watchman Grover as they battle against a ticking time clock to find the bolt and to rescue Percy's mother.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
The Book of Eli - January 2010
A huge natural disaster has hit and wiped out the majority of Earth's population. Following this is a war in which God is blamed and every Bible save one is burned. The bad guy - Carnegie - played by Gary Oldman is trying to find a remaining Bible so he can use it to control people and rule the remnant of the world by gaining followers of the Word which he controls. He sends out search crews who cannot find it.
Eli - played by Denzel Washington has the remaining Bible which he faithfully reads everyday and follows a spiritual prompting, with promises of protection, to take it west (where there is a working printing press waiting) He befriends Solara, who is played by Mila Kunis, when he stops to buy some water which is now scarce. Carnegie finds out Eli has a Bible and Eli tries to evade bad guys trying to take it from him for their own evil purposes. He must evade people who may not be evil per say but are desparate as resources are scarce and violence to take what is needed is rising, while trying to run out west to get the Bible reprinted.
Eli - played by Denzel Washington has the remaining Bible which he faithfully reads everyday and follows a spiritual prompting, with promises of protection, to take it west (where there is a working printing press waiting) He befriends Solara, who is played by Mila Kunis, when he stops to buy some water which is now scarce. Carnegie finds out Eli has a Bible and Eli tries to evade bad guys trying to take it from him for their own evil purposes. He must evade people who may not be evil per say but are desparate as resources are scarce and violence to take what is needed is rising, while trying to run out west to get the Bible reprinted.
Wolfman - Febuary 2010
This exciting movie stars Benicio Del Toro as Lawrence Talbot. He is an actor whose brother has gone missing. His brother's fiance seeks him out and talks him into coming home to his estranged family to try to help find his missing brother. Balking at first he relents and shows up at the family home to learn from his father, played by Anthony Hopkins that his brothers body has been found mutilated from a werewolf attack.
While visiting gypsy caravan for information the beast attacks again and Lawrence is bitten but survives, being nursed back to help by one of the gypsy women and then by his brother's fiance, Gwen, played by Emily Blunt. of course when one is bitten by a wolf one becomes a wolf and so the story goes on with the country folk on the hunt. It had a surprise ending, one I didnt see coming. It turns out Hopskin's charactor is not the lonely old goat of a father as the movie first appears. A very good watch.
While visiting gypsy caravan for information the beast attacks again and Lawrence is bitten but survives, being nursed back to help by one of the gypsy women and then by his brother's fiance, Gwen, played by Emily Blunt. of course when one is bitten by a wolf one becomes a wolf and so the story goes on with the country folk on the hunt. It had a surprise ending, one I didnt see coming. It turns out Hopskin's charactor is not the lonely old goat of a father as the movie first appears. A very good watch.
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