Frenzy


Though much more violent and gritty than most of his work, this is certainly a Hitchcock classic, and much better than some of his supposed "masterpieces".

There are no especially famous actors involved, but everyone does an outstanding job. Jon Finch is splendid as a man wrongfully accused of serial murders, and Barry Foster is just as phenominal as the actual murderer. His character, Bob Rusk, was a very interesting villain, far from the typical movie serial killer.

Hitch managed to make some scenes very, very uncomfortable. Most obviously, the imfamous rape scene, but his use of the camera elsewhere in the film also served to create alot of tension. He offset this with a good deal of black humor, witch I really enjoyed. The dinner scene was especially well done and subtly hilarious.

The only real flaw that I can think of is the pacing, which is a common problem in many of Hitchcock's works. Overall however, I think this is one of the better films from the "Master of Suspence".

7.5/10

Strange double feature? Yes, I know:p


Mortal Kombat: Annihilation


Well it's not really as bad as everyone says, but it's still a pretty awful movie.

Let's start with the plot, shall we? Not a lot to say about it really, other than the whole thing is a giant plot hole! It makes no sense what-so-ever, as it makes the entire first movie completely pointless. Even if it did make sense, it still isn't much of a plot. They have 6 days to save the word from total destruction. OK, whatever, not as bad as you might think, right? Wrng. The majority of the film could take place in less than a day, so I really wonder what the hell they were doing for the other 5. Stupid plot.

Moving on, I'll mention the actors. Oh God, the actors. Most of the returning characters from the first movie are replaced by new, even worse actors. I'm really glad that they killed off Johnny Cage within the first couple minutes, as that actor seemed to be the worst of the bunch. Sonja Blade's replacement was pretty awful as well, and saw fit to completely change the character.

Maybe I shouldn't be so hard on the actors. I mean, look at the script. This movie could have had Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, but even they would have looked terrible having to say some of these pathetically cheesy lines.

One thing that I'll give this film is that it has some half decent fight scenes. Nothing spectacular, and the CGI is really bad, but at least they were mildly entertaining.

In all honesty this isn't a whole lot worse than the first film, but it is really, really bad. Id avoid it.

4/10

Yeah, MK2 was a joke...I personally didn't mind the first one, it was at least a mile better than the attempt they made at "streetfighter" on film.
The second one was shithouse, from it's crappy sped up REUSED soundtrack, to the character replacements, to the overdone "boss" characters...and how about the "animalities", if it wasn't stupid enough that final fight scene sure did it.
Replacing Lambert with that guy from the warriors was a bad move too...I hated it.

I watched Transporter 2 last night...definately not the directors best work (of course there's the proffesional and danny the dog to contend with), and if you can look past the absolutely unrealistic driving scenes, it's a decent "dont have to think too much" action film with some excellently coreographed fight scenes, and a GREAT (as usual) soundtrack.
I guess I'll have to see the first one now...

I didnt min the first one either, it wasnt great but it was fairly enjoably. From memory, I think I gave it 5.5/10.

As for Street Fighter, I really enjoyed that one. It's just alot of fun.

Dead End wasn't "original", the same story/twist is used in a bunch of movies. Some worse, some better. Here's a few.

Dead End (2003)
November (2004)
Stay (2005 - but was made earlier)
Reeker (2005)

All involve the exact twist. All done differently. Three of the four use the exact car crash incident. All of them have the same reveal at the end.

I really want indepdant film makers to get off of this twist-style.

I'd say Stay was the first, and November wasn't aware of anything else. Dead End might have heard the idea somewhere, and Reeker was aplain rip-off of Dead End & Identity.

i would say that Stay owes a lot to Jacobs Ladder.
and traces of The Devils Advocate/Last Temptation of Christ

16 Blocks
Typical Bruce Willis flic.......nothing wrong with that.The only drawback in the movie was Mos Def's voice.....annoying as hell.

I really ought to pick up Jacob's Ladder...

cant go wrong with that one.

I dont see how you can say that a film isnt good just because it has a similar ending to other movies. I agree 100% that Dead End had a pretty weak ending, but the rest of the movie was incredible.

Thats just like saying 6th Sence is no good because it has the same twist as Carnival of Souls:rolleyes: