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A super low budget ninja period piece, where a ninja's skill is gauged by the amount of hair gel they use. The visual quality of the movie is awful and it looks like it was shot on digital video with cheap lighting. Just terrible. While some of the fight sequences are entertaining and well executed, they tend to be spoiled by under-cranking and overly exaggerated sound effects. The action performance is fierce, fluid, and graceful, which is nice to see. Sadly, other than a showcase for the characters' hairstyles, "Shinobi" has little else to offer. I'm not too happy that I went out of my way to purchase the 4 part mini-series.
This film is an utter masterpiece!!! Pacino should have won an Oscar for his performance as a land salesman/con-man. Alec Baldwin's five minutes of screen time here is his greatest work ever. When some breaks in to the manager's office and steals the good "Glengarry" leads, all hell breaks loose.
The plot concerns the brainwashing of military personnel, who return from combat (the Gulf War) praising one of their fellow soldiers as a war hero. Raymond Prentiss Shaw (Liev Schreiber), son of the powerful Senator Eleanor Shaw (Meryl Streep), is credited with saving his whole platoon from an attack in Kuwait when, in fact, he did nothing of the sort. Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) is one of several soldiers who begins to have dreams that contradict his programmed memory. When his views are corroborated by a troubled and psychologically ruined veteran (the great Jeffrey Wright), he begins to try and find the truth that has been wiped from his brain. He finds that he cannot go to the authorities because the authorities are in on the crime. He is a man fighting for a country that does not know it has been betrayed, trying to bring to justice the very powers that execute justice. Check this one out if you get a chance.
The Omen was one of the classic horror films of the 1970s. The cleverness of this new version of The Omenis that it managed to take perfect opportunity of the coincidence between the horror remakes fad and the timing to came out on June 6th, 2006 ie. 06/06/06. For the most part Seltzer (the original writer) repeats his original script, sometimes even word for word. Seltzer doesn’t really seem that interested in updating the political context of The Omen though – there are some excerpts of news footage of the Twin Towers going down, the Asian Tsunami and the Iraq War in the priest’s montage at the start. Still a modern day horror classic.
Produced by Vince McMahon's WWE Films and starring WWE champion John Cena. John Cena stars as John Triton, a U.S. Marine who saves many of his own men in Iraq after defying an order. Despite saving the lives of fellow Marines, Triton is still unceremoniously kicked out of the corps for disobeying an order. But when he gets back home to South Carolina, he barely has time to make love to his wife (Kelly Carlson) before she ends up getting kidnapped by a group of ruthless diamond thieves on the lam. Of course, Triton will then go into one-man-army mode and dispose of the bad guys one by stinking one while trying to save the little lady. Lots of explosions, big explosions. Although I'm a huge fan of WWE, Smackdown, RAW, and wrestling in general... I didn't like this flick much.
"Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror" is cheap, ugly, and written in crayon. But, for about 15 minutes, it's pretty damn hilarious. It's shame that once the first story in this anthology horror film wraps up, the rest of the film falls directly into the toilet. The first tale, focusing on a frustrated young woman (Daniella Alonso) who makes a deal with the devil (Danny Trejo) to exact true street justice on the local gang-bangers, kicks off the film with a bang. This chapter finds the right tone and snappy pace, briskly detailing savage revenge flecked with urban comedy that’s silly, but fits the mold that “Hood” is setting for itself. By the time we reach the moment when a gangsta slips on a spill of malt liquor and falls face first onto his own 40oz bottle, pushing it right through his brain, “Hood” proves itself as a chipper satire of urban culture and a sensible member of the gore club. I really thought it was going to better than it actually was. Don't waste your money on this one!!
After a massive earthquake in Tokyo, two American filmmakers document the "true cause" of the destruction. Claiming to be based on a true story I decided to pick it up at my local Hollywood video. Give me a break! A monster in Tokyo with 100 ft tentacles killing people? I guess Godzilla is real also? I turned it off after the first 15 minutes. Don't waste your money on this one!
The Alien and Predator monsters from the two film franchises meet on Earth once more and duke it out over planetary domination. This time the victims are the residents of an unsuspecting Colorado town. The film was loaded with (lame) fake scares, there were too many cutaway kills (it's rated R God-damnit), it looked incredibly cheap, the acting was laughably bad, the score was hammy (think Jason X), there was ZERO suspense, and the dialogue was so horrid that the entire theater was laughing non-stop. Seriously, the movie ends with a line similar to "The world isn't ready for technology of this world" (while showing a Predator gun in a case); Here's two hours of my life I'll never get back!!
The story follows (can't remember the stars name right now) as he awakens from a near-death experience with the ability to identify people who are about to die, but he eventually discovers that there's an exceedingly sinister element at work in his newfound powers. With shades of the Final Destination series and The Dead Zone, White Noise: The Light contains a number of highly improbable yet admittedly entertaining plot twists. 
In the original 1998 Rush Hour, the dynamic between Chris Tucker and co-star Jackie Chan was fresh, and the script was funny. Now, though, it is an awkward Greatest Hits Reunion Show, and neither one of them seem up to the task. The story is just an excuse to go road tripping to Paris, for the usual jokes about ugly Americans and Europe's begrudging love of them.The script seems like a collection of action movie cliches. While Jackie Chan is impossible to dislike, this is the kind of movie that I as one of his fans feel a duty to say I didn't hate. All I could really say is I'm glad I waited for it to come out on DVD.
The gang from the prior two films rejoin forces to rig slot machines, roulette, blackjack, and craps, al in the effort to make Willie Bank (Pacino) lose, well, his bank. This caper film has moments of fun, but I felt I was kept in the dark for long stretches, and when the plans came into play, I did not feel like I knew what they were doing. There was a lot of talking, but we are only given bits and pieces of the plot, of the caper, and of the reasoning. So, rather than pay attention to all of that, I decided to just sit back and enjoy the scenery and the collection of stars that turned out. Worth watching but not destined to be remembered.
This movie is about one of my all time favorite Salsa singers Hector Lavoe. Lavoe's life was a cycle of fame, drugs, money, and self-destruction. He was born in Puerto Rico and moved to New York in the mid-'60s, when he was 17. Most of the film is set in the '60s and '70s, as the salsa craze -- Latin music combining elements of mambo, rumba, merengue, and jazz -- is first catching on. Singing for Willie Colon's band (another Salsa icon), Hector quickly becomes a star, though his unreliability due to his heroin use and general flakiness creates conflict with his band-mates. This movie is about the rise and fall of Salsa legend. I really enjoyed this flick.
It is yet another mediocre but passably entertaining action movie set in the future. That future takes place in the year 2035, and differs from our present in the significantly greater concentration of robots. These mechanical humanoids are programmed so that harming humans is strictly forbidden , and people have found them an indispensable part of modern life. Robots do manual labor that people prefer to have done for them, as well as complicated tasks. One human, however, goes against the grain in refusing to trust the robots. I forget his on screen character name but it's played by Will Smith, and he's a Chicago police detective. Eventually iRobot proves to hold its own as action movie. 
The movie begins with darling, cute and loving couple desperately wanting to start their terrific life together. Her one wish is to get married in the church her parents got married in. It just so happens that the priest there, Reverend Frank (Robin Williams), has a little disclaimer if you sign up to get married at his church: a marriage prep course. Essentially, the film is nothing that hasn't already been seen before: boy loves girl, boy pisses off girl, girl hates boy, and then girl loves boy again. And then til death do they part. The laughs are few and far between. And the thought of Williams as a priest of the Catholic Church is an idea that doesn't quite live up to what could have been great but instead ends up mediocre, at best.
This is an energetic film that doesn't really fit neatly into one particular genre.Far from existing as an experience whose value would be shared by only those aficionados of Hong Kong Cinema, newcomers to this type of film should not let the subtitles scare them away from a potential viewing. It is well within the boundaries of a "kung-fu" film to allow its characters to disregard the laws of physics and this movie is no exception. Though the fight sequences do give the audience everything one would expect from a film that attempts to combine the world of the 1940's American mobsters and Hong Kong chop socky. Yes, that's mobsters and kung-fu together in one film. The film is a rewarding theatrical experience and should pleasantly surprise any viewer wishing to distance himself from the current offerings by Hollywood's elite.
Diamonds have been outed. Set during a bloody civil war in Sierra Leone in 1999, it concerns the wildly contrasting fortunes and outlooks of two Africans, one black, one white. Having narrowly escaped a machete severing his arm - the ultimate voter disincentive - Solomon is set to work in the diamond fields by the guerrillas, and by chance dredges up an absolute beauty, which he buries nearby. Eventually, word of this diamond, not quite as big as the Ritz but valuable withal, reaches one Danny (I forget his last name but he is played by Leonardo DiCaprio), a white mercenary from Zimbabwe who knows all the tricks of this hugely dishonest trade. Danny springs Solomon from the jail they both happen to have landed in, and strikes a deal: if he takes him to the diamond, Danny will help to recover Solomon's son, who by now is being trained as a child soldier in the RUF. (These scenes are the most horrifying in the film, because they describe precisely how rebel militias bully and cajole young boys into the ways of remorseless killing). I enjoyed this movie and recommend it.
In this installment (the 21st Bond movie), Bond has just obtained his "00" designation (having committed the requisite two murders). As in every other Bond film, there are fast cars (the 2007 Aston Martin DBS and Ford Mondeo), exotic locales (Italy, the Bahamas, the Czech Republic), and an implacable enemy. 
Spy movies are usually filled with gadgets and beautiful women. The Good Shepherd follows Matt Damon's character, a well-off, preppy Yale poetry student, from his college days to the Bay of Pigs and a successful career with the newly formed CIA. While Damon has portrayed a spy before in the Bourne series, this persona couldn’t be more different. He gathers intelligence through quiet meetings with contacts and his exposure to violence is limited to observation. Throughout the film, it is Matt's (his character at least) passivity and lack of emotional engagement that make him the perfect spy. Contacts feel they can trust him because he trusts them so little. The movie was well written and to tell you the truth I liked it!!
Let me start by saying I'm a huge anime fan. The first ever anime film to be nominated for the Cannes International Film Festival's highly prestigious Palme D'Or, Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence is a breathtaking technical and visual achievement four years in the making. It seamlessly combines 2-D and 3-D CG animation techniques to produce an action-packed, sci-fi fable of a solitary cyborg struggling to retain what's left of his humanity in a world where the human soul is gradually fading into obscurity. It is the year 2032 and Earth is a world where the few remaining humans coexist with cyborgs, human spirits inhabiting mechanized bodies, and dolls, robots with no human elements whatsoever. Before you pick up a copy of this one make sure to see the one that started it all... Ghost in the Shell: Ghost in the Machine. If you like anime then love this one.
By society’s standards, this man is a criminal. He deals drugs, peddles flesh, objectifies women, wastes time, gets drunk, gets stoned, philosophizes cynically, and lives a boring life of semi-existence in the Memphis ghetto. D Jay is played by Terrence Howard with much tenderness and ferocity, a middle aged man with nothing to show for his life except a ramshackle house, a slightly pimped out Cadillac (without AC), a stable of three hookers (only one of which is productive), a ratty clientele of potheads, and a shattered psychology of Where’s, as in, “where has it gone?” and Time’s, as in, lost and hopefully regained. His life, though pointless, is not without its poetry, as we see immediately as the film opens, in a tight close-up on D Jay, going on in a carefully worded monologue about Man as entity, as living, breathing being, and dog, as such, as his servant, but without the weight of the world hampering his existence. This movie is deeeep!! “Hustle & Flow” is solid gold.
I have to say that is one of the few movies that actually made me stop and think about how important my real estate practice and my family are to me. The age-old problem of work vs. family. Of dealing with trying to succeed in life so that you can get to a place where you can enjoy life. Only to find you have missed life all together. Click displays this in a unique and humorous way. Sandler is like most guys in their 30’s with a wife, kids and career. So when he gets this remote that allows him to fast forward through all the stuff he doesn’t want to deal with like fights and traffic and family outings, so he can concentrate on work, he thinks he has hit the jackpot. Problem is like many he finds out too late that life has passed him by and the goals he obtained came at a price. It makes you think about what is important and for those of us in the career groove, I will be honest, it hits home pretty hard. My first reaction was, I need to call my mom. If you are not a fan of kid cursing, dog humping humor then beware. If you are willing to overlook that for what is a well written, superbly acted film that will make you laugh and think. I recommed you ALL see this movie!!
As scripts go, this one reeks. It never rises above the level of a really wretched sitcom. And in presenting a ludicrous scenario in which two straight guys pretend to be gay, it tries to have it both ways.The results are predictable. It does not aim high, yet it cannot even hit the low targets it sets for itself. I expected more... I didn't like this movie at all and honestly I turned it off before it finished playing!
The things are going, it does not seem to be that far removed from a possible reality. From the ratings that shows like American Idol and Survivor generate, combined with the wall to wall, twenty four hour coverage of such tragedies as the recent Virginia Tech shooting, Columbine, and the ongoing war in the Middle East, I would not be hard pressed to believe that there is some unscrupulous producer concocting a scheme to inject a little more shock and awe over what is presently acceptable for prime time television. The concept is sound, although it is a mash up of other films such as Battle Royale, No Escape, Running Man, Series 7, My Little Eye, and even Halloween: Resurrection. I have no problem with recycled plots, What I have a problem with is the fact that it is just a mash up, there seemed to be little to no thought put into the execution. I can picture it now, the writers are pitching the story: “It’s going to be great! You see, we take all these hardcore killers from around the world and put them on an island so they can fight each other to the death” “Well, OK, what’s the catch?” “This is where you’re really gonna get excited! It is actually a contest being broadcast over the internet! It’ll be a bigger event that the Super Bowl!” “Sold, cast Stone Cold in the lead and you got yourself a deal!” “Awesome! We can have a script for your approval in an hour.” This is a movie that would have been better left on the shelf, or at most go direct to video. The story is flat, acting is atrocious, direction unbearable, all adding up to an action movie without the action, a message film that fails to make a point. Oh well, at least it gave me something to write about.
After seen this movie all I have to say is - Where can I get a refund? You could fill a small junkyard with the films Jet Li and Jason Statham have made separately. Perhaps to cut down on waste, they've teamed up for a single trip to the dumpster!! The story is complicated and even sometimes deliberately unclear, it's not worth trying to figure out. Don't waste your money!!! Sorry Jet Li but this one sucked!!
The setting is an unnamed college in an unnamed city, where psychology student suddenly finds herself surrounded by death. Friends and acquaintances are getting voice mails sent from dead friends' phones, date-and-time-stamped two days in the future, and in these messages they hear themselves dying. Sure enough, when the time indicated in the voice mail arrives, some dreadful accident befalls them and death ensues. A few scenes in the film achieve actual creepiness. This movie allows way too much time to pass in between false and real climax. You think, OK, that was the false climax, so it should be ending for real pretty soon, wrapping things up, any minute now, let's get to the final scare, we're waitin' for it ... and, OK, finally, there it is, thank you, wow, that took forever, let's go home. Really I should have stayed home that day or gone to seeanother movie. I can't in good conscience recommed this movie.
Sorry about this review but I fell asleep. My wife seemed to like it. 
The origins of Michael Meyers and the makings of a monster is the focus of this Halloween remake. A topic that should have been left alone. I'ts a million times more scary not knowing who the psycho behind the mask is. Now, the thing that made Michael Meyers such a compelling character was that there was no reason for his evil. Nothing. Nada. He was from a nice suburban family living in a nice suburban home. There was not a single hint of the evil that lurked behind the face of an innocent child until one Halloween night, he snapped. This is a scary idea. There’s no doubt that this movie intended to make a more realistic, case historied, criminal profiler bullshit story about how an abused kid could become a killer. A sort of “How Columbine Could Happen” tale. The long haired, KISS-loving, animal torturing, snot nosed little kid who gets verbally abused by his stepfather eventually goes on a murder spree. After a looong first act and an endless murder rampage, Michael is dropped off in the Mental Hospital under the care of a hippie version of Dr. Loomis, who really needs to make a public apology for this performance. I would’ve liked to have see a more realistic recreation of the “Halloween” story that was actually made. This movie is OK... if you come across it and are somewhat bored then then pick it up (unless you come across something else).
Another movie I should have left on the shelf at my local Hollywood video. After endless jokes about flatulence and bodily secretions, the American Pie franchise has finally run out of gas. For many years a Stifler (cousin of the original Stifler from the movie that started it all) and his friend have been looking forward to their freshman year at the University of Michigan. They want to become alumni of the legendary Beta House fraternity. But before being accepted into the fraternity, the two pals must complete 50 insane challenges which his fellow frat brothers have devised. The tests are far from ordinary. For instance, the boys must steal an ostrich and leave the big bird in some unsuspecting victim’s room while he or she is asleep plus marry a member of the same sex, pose naked for a magazine, and so on. The movie has alot of sexual content, graphic nudity, foul language and excessive drinking. Like I said I should have left it on the shelf.
It seems that the original intention of the filmmakers here was to create a full-on comedy but, somewhere in the process of putting it together, they realized that the humor present wasn’t able to carry the entire film. The end-product isn’t quite as uninspired as what might’ve resulted had Mr. Woodcock limited itself to tackling one genre, but it doesn’t exactly make for a stimulating motion picture, either. In other words: the film earns a few points for ending up an interesting failure rather than a boring or painful one, but isn’t worth seeking out because it’s still a failure nonetheless.
Watching this remake of the 1974 classic is like watching a high-school production of your favorite musical. Let's start with Sandler. Who on earth thought it was a good idea for him to take on Paul Crewe, the role that made Burt Reynolds a star? The casting directors should have their accreditation revoked. Reynolds was suave, tough, substantial. Sandler is—at best—endearing and sweet. But not really. Mostly he's completely unbelievable as a has-been football star who puts together a motley assortment of fellow prisoners to play an exhibition game against the semi-pro prison guards. The soul has been ripped from The Longest Yard. The original was never meant to be a comedy. It evolved into a comedy-drama because Reynolds had the charm to pull it off. The 1974 film dealt with oppressors—violent criminals—who had become the oppressed. It was about reclaiming some dignity, about pride, even about racial tensions within the prison system at that time. This one is all about Sandler's fantasy that he's New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady. This one should have been called When Bad Movies Happen to Great Actors. 
Tony Jaa is destined to join the ranks of martial arts legends such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and yes even Bruce Lee. The youthful, naïve, and very earnest warrior Kham (Tony Jaa) has been raised by his father to respect the old ways and values, including the belief that elephants embody nobility and power, and as such, must be respected and protected. The Protector turns quickly into another version of Jaa’s first film, Ong Bak: Thai Warrior in that he sets out on a retrieval mission. His elephant is stolen by Thai gangsters and then loses track of the elephants and the thieves. At this point in time, he heads to Sydney, where villains are accumulating exotic animals to cook and eat (this being just one of their several illicit, lucrative activities). The Protector is one fight scene after another, each a set piece in a location that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the scenes that come before or after. The fight scenes are sensational, whether drawn directly from previous martial arts films or imagining new ways to defy gravity and bend bodies backwards. Tony Jaa dives in and out of train cars and trucks in a warehouse, running up walls and flipping and spinning with elegant speed and in thrilling slow motion, all real (non-wired) action stunts, the sort that Jackie Chan used to break real bones doing. The violence escalates as the movie progresses as Jaa keeps breaking every limb and neck that comes his way (these in a throng of black-suited thugs who just keep coming and falling, and falling again). All of the fight scenes involve impressive choreography and staging. I liked the movie so much that I bought it!!!
The story opens with the medical miracle that, ultimately, will spell mankind's downfall: A cure for cancer. Within three years, however, an engineered virus wreaks havoc on humanity and kills 90 percent of the world's population. A small number were immune while the remainder have transformed into "dark seekers" who feed on the healthy. They are howling, hairless beings with partially translucent skin who move with the speed of animal predators. Successfully eluding them, up until now, has been military virologist (Will Smith), who lives near Washington Square Park with his German shepherd. The first hour or so follows him on his rounds as he charts where the mutants hide, engages in pastimes such as driving golf balls off an aircraft carrier and labors over a serum to cure the virus. The end of civilization is told in jagged pieces, from flashbacks to evidence such as the clipping headlined "Mass Graves to Fill Central Park".Without a doubt, its mutants are the most frightening with their cries, which sound like primitive dinosaurs or demons unleashed from hell, and habit of hurling themselves at prospective victims make this film absolutely one of the better ones I've seen lately. It flirts with the Almighty's role in all of this, from a sign in the abandoned city proclaiming "God still loves us" to the main characters opinion about the existence of God. I absolutely recommend this flick!!!
I'ts the story of two horny teenage geeks looking to lose their virginity before college. They're hoping to end high school on a high note, and when one of their crushes invites them to a graduation party, the boys are ecstatic. That is, until they become responsible for supplying the party with alcohol. They hurriedly concoct a scheme to use their friend "McLovin's" horrendously fake ID, but trouble soon arises when McLovin becomes the victim of a liquor store robbery. The cops show up, and the evening quickly disintegrates into a hilarious mess of misunderstandings, crackhead sing-alongs, and beer mixed with laundry detergent. This is a flick I wouldn't want my kids to watch for a minute... Characters use the f-word nearly 200 times during the 110-minute film-one every half minute or so. You would think they wouldn't have time to say anything else, and yet they do: The s-word clocks in at around 75 times, and countless crude and obscene references are made to male and female body parts. Other than that Superbad is funny stuff for the young at heart. It had me laughing my @$$ off!!!
This flick is about a bong-hitting slacker and how he somehow scores a drunken one-night stand with an ambitious E! red-carpet interviewer. They couldn't be more mismatched. But she ends up pregnant, thrusting them back together for nine months of personal growth and indecent comedy. He's initially taken aback, much like his friends, but he eventually realizes the right thing to do is be the child's father, meaning they must become a couple. As their friends and family observe from the sidelines, the unlikely duo try to forge a relationship, despite their obvious differences, as her pregnancy continues. Without getting on a soapbox, the film comes off as pro-life. The language here is as intense as Superbad. 
The Messengers centers on the dark spiritual forces manifested by a slain family that haunts the farmhouse. There is no positive spiritual counterforce, just the malevolent ghosts seeking revenge.The film opens with a black-and-white flashback to a mother trying to protect her young son from an unseen threat. He hides under the bed as the door is kicked open and the woman is thrown against a wall. She slides down leaving a bloody smear behind. The boy's older sister is then struck, tossed through a stair railing and dragged by her feet into the basement, leaving fingernail scratches in the floor. The boy himself is done in last, and the scene is thankfully implied rather than shown. But fragments of this brutal encounter are shown later in the film, too Some of the scenes may seem overly familiar, but this remains an engaging, well acted horror flick that is both stylish and genuinely suspenseful. Worth seeing.
What can I say about Stargate?? It seems to have everything any action movie needs: Ancient Egyptian artifacts, space, science fiction, and the United States military. This is the story of a nerdy professor named Daniel Jackson, who is given the thrill of his life when asked to decipher the writing on an ancient Egyptian artifact known as the Stargate. Soon he, along with a military battalion, heads through the gate, arriving in an unknown world where slaves are used to mine a mysterious mineral that no one could really explain the importance of. It's no Star Trek, but offers much more than your cheap sci-fi special. The premise of a stargate is a great idea, and for the most part, the first half kept me locked in. But the remainder becomes the shootout of the century, with many reused scenes, such as the classic ticking time bomb. If you like sci-fi, Stargate will offer average entertainment for older kids and adults.
Bourne finds himself in another film in which he's on the run, chasing his past while eluding a throng of tech-savvy bad guys who would rather Bourne (and all the secrets locked in his brain) do them the favor of kicking the bucket. Bourne isn't happy to oblige. He wants his memory back-and he wants the people who took it to pay. Sure, Mr. Bourne may be an assassin. But he feels really, really bad about it. The fact that he knows about 20 different languages and can beat the living daylights out of pretty near anyone is no consolation to him for the fact that he is, in some respects, a monster. "I can see their faces," he mourns. "Everyone I ever killed. I just don't know their names." Constantly on the run and always needing to be one step ahead of his superiors and their goons, Bourne tries to uncover the final piece to the puzzle about who he really is, a quest that will increasingly put him in danger as he sets out to find the man responsible. If you want to know how it turns out for him then make sure you check it out!!!
Scary Movie 4 is pretty frightening all right. It's positively terrifying that the Scary Movie franchise continues to soldier on when it should have been dead and buried years ago. Somebody actually greenlit this mess? What were they smoking? Too many of the movie's scattershot targets-Saw, Million Dollar Baby, The Village, Mike Tyson munching on Evander Holyfield's ear (come on, that was nearly a decade ago!)-are simply past their sell-by date in terms of extracting humor. It sucked... Leave it on the shelves!
Hmm... This little horror flick is definitely an odd one... Time travel, crazy Nazi experiments, spooky ghosts... I'm not talking about another "epic" sci-fi channel weekend movie, I'm referring to the ridiculously awful horror thriller that is 'Unholy'. When I first started this movie I recalled seeing magazine adds for it saying, "The movie they don't want you to see!"-- Whoa! Crazy! It must be quite the daring film! That said, a word of advice to all "independent" horror filmmakers; quit this pathetic pissing contest of who can pack more gore, torture, gruesomness, etc... Especially when your film is really neither... And it just sucks. I'm guessing that little ditty of a tagline wasn't just referring to the violent content, but the subject matter as well... Because it's about Nazi experiments... So are "they" the ones who don't want me to see this fictional story? Geez... I really don't care actually. Dismissing the misadvertised catch phrase, nothing could have really helped this sinking ship sail.
I'm as shocked as anyone that "Wild Hogs" could be so much fun. "Hogs" isn't a comedic triumph, but a good portion of the jokes connect, and the acting is, at rare times, truly inspired work. It's a sitcom, but a funny one. Finding their lives have been swallowed by routine and disappointment, a few buddies decide to take their weekend hobby of riding motorcycles to the next level: a week-long road trip. Heading off to see America, the boys find only mishaps and accidents as they snake their way across the land. Their biggest offense is irritating the leader of a Hells Angels-like gang, forcing them to take refuge in a tiny New Mexico town, where they find love, friendship, and the motorcycle gang right on their tail. Not a bad movie at all... Check it out if you get a chance.
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