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IMDB

4/5

When a Vagas performer decides that he wants to testify agains’t the mafia it turns out a lot of people want him dead, wouldn’t you know it? A conversation is heard and a hit is placed on Buddy Israel’s head of one million dollars, well it attracts the attention of the worlds best hitmen (and women) and puts his life in extreme danger, with the FBI getting involved and more plot twists we see a story unravel before our very eyes, quite an unbelievable one at that.

I really enjoyed this film. It has a good mixture of comedy, action, thrill and a great story that kept me excited until the very end. I saw this in the cinema when it first came out, and I was amazed that I hadn’t heard anything online about it from anyone else, but then I remembered that I hadn’t been online too much at that time, people had been talking, just I hadn’t been there to read it.

I remember coming out of the cinema and one of my friends being confused with some of the story, now this isn’t hard to do as the actual story behind it isn’t concentrated on in the film, until the very last scene when it all fits into place, now it can be confusing for some to get so much information and piece it together with the rest of the story all at once, but just thinking about it for a minute usually works, my friend understood once we explained it to them once more. Even without the main story this film is a great action flick, I think it needs to be recognised.

Now I bought it on DVD and I still find it an exciting film to watch. I have to watch the extras on the DVD soon, i’m sure they will be good. I’d recomend this film to anyone who can get their hands on a copy. If you like a good action film then this will keep your attention till the very end.

IMDB

4/5

The film follows a 35 year old games prgrammer, who seems to be really good at his job, just hasn’t got very far in life yet.

After his roommate spends all their rent money on Filipino hookers he gets thrown out of his house and has to find a new place to stay. After an incident with his best friends mum he ends up living with his grandma and her two strange roommates but to sound “cool” to his younger co-workers he pretends that he is staying with ‘three hot babes’. In the end his boss steals the game he is making (but has told no one about apart from his grandma) and tries to pass it off as his own. Thats the basic plot of the movie.

There is quite a lot of drug taking, nakedness and just plain weirdness in this film. For example there is a monkey which knows karate. I think I have said enough about that now. I will say that the film kept me laughing for a good portion of it.
I would recomend this film to anyone who likes a good comedy, if your a “geek” then you might like it even more.

IMDB

5/5

Serenity was the continuation of the cancelled series FireFly. I saw this in the cinema when it came out and it blew me away, it was the best film I had watched that year, and one of the best in my life - and it still is. At this time I hadn’t even seen FireFly and the film was still amazing. As soon as I could after I saw it I got FireFly and watched it, finally realising some of the jokes i’d missed in the film.

The story in Serenity is quite amazing. There is no clear good or evil sides, it follows the story of a band of fugitives just trying to make their way in a dangerous universe. Most people can relate somehow to this, okay so we won’t be flying around in space and we may not be fugitives, but most people are just trying to make their way in life by doing what has to be done.

The film is about this group of fugitives who will do any job - legal or illegal - just to put food on the table. In the crew are a doctor (Simon) and his sister (River) who are on the run from the government as River was a government experiment who can read minds amoung other things. During the film river shows the crew a past memory (which isn’t hers) of a planet far away. As it turns out the planet was created by the government and they put a chemical into the air to weed out aggression, instead people stopped doing anything and died, apart from 10% of them, who went insane and started eating people (this 10% are called reavers). In the end the crew have to spread the word that the goverment is responsable for these reavers but run into a few problems along the way.

Although the film has a serious storyline, it does have it’s humour, every so often there are jokes tossed about between the crew, which all adds to the characterisation which is possibly the best i’ve ever seen, I really cared about the characters in that film, even the ship (yes, I consider the ship to be a character).

There is a side love story in the film too (every good film has to have one), between the ship captain (Mal) and a companion (Inara), and also between the doctor (Simon) and the engineer (Kaylee). Both of these love stories follow on from the series and will make more sense if you have watched FireFly before the film.

There are rumours of a sequal because the dvd sales have made them so much money. A recent interview with the actor who plays Walsh told us all this:

“Everybody in the Firefly crew – and that includes the ones who died in the movie – are excited about the prospect of doing another,” he added.

So if there is a sequal, I will hopefully be there on the opening showing over here.

To conclude Serenity is a must watch film for anyone, even if you arn’t into sci-fi movies. If you havn’t seen it then I for one would recomend it, although you might want to watch the FireFly series before-hand so you will understand it much better.