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The Ipcress File (1965)
The on screen birth of Harry Palmer
Micheal Caine is one of my favorite all time actors, not an action man upgraded but a real actor, as is Anthony Hopkins.
This movie has such an impact on me that I keep hearing Harry Palmer talking day and/or night until long after viewing the movie!
Micheal Caine did not play or act, Micheal Caine is Harry Palmer! I realize that I write more about Caine than the movie I am sorry, I am just too emotional. Character actors come from the UK, thats a fact. Look at successful James Bond actors, I rest my case.
The movie is somewhat slow on moments, its not a USA action movie with a 200 million dollar budget. Its more like reading a book, taking the information to pound on, not looking at explosions and such a destruction of cars, boats, plains, houses and more. If I however do want to see that I choose for the real thing, not CGI!
Gone But Not Forgotten (2005)
Good triller mini
I saw this mini in one viewing at the cable in Pattaya(Thailand) without any intervals, very nice.
It keeps you in the dark about the identity and sex of the killer until near the end, good suspense!
Good acting, a real good thriller, suspense police/detective/crime movie.
Several times the plots changes, or really the viewer will change its perception of the killer.
And I like stories with a little bit more body, not one hour and a little bit, no at least 2 and even better more than 3 hours.
I give this movie 8/10.
Les rivières pourpres II - Les anges de l'apocalypse (2004)
excellent movie, great suspense and action!
Well this movie urged me to vote(10) and write comments to it! I am a great movie fan, in particular horror movies and detectives, one of my favorites is se7en.
This movie leaves the viewer guessing for a long time about the bad guys, what are they? Well I will not spoil it for ya(too much) but there is an explanation for everything! I really loved this french movie(English spoken).
If you can go and see/buy it, I liked it more than the first one and even more than a lot of other movies.
It has some great chases and unsuspected action.
Really this movie will be liked by horror fans as well as action fans.
Alone in the Dark (2005)
Nice action/supernatural flick, for fans of the genre!
I did not want to comment on this movie, but reading too much comments totally destroying it got me going! It is not (that) bad, in fact it is quite nice, with some tracing/tracing like detectives on a trail as well as firefights with demons end dragons with special ammo to be able to kill them. Christian Slater is not at all that bad in this movie, OK not top notch but it has not to be a Oscar candidate has it?
I liked it, in fact I bought an illegal copy which ended at 43 minutes, cause I liked it I bought another 2 weeks later(were told this one was good) to be able to see the movie until the end.
I gave it a 7(maybe it would be a 6- if there were not that much people giving it that much bad comments).
Ronin (1998)
Good actionpacked thriller, great acting by De Niro and Reno
For me this is one of my favorite De niro movies, in particular his way of not-talking/telling when asked to many questions especially by Bean's character in the beginning, feeling he does not like/trust this person.
Throwing down a coffee cup to see Stellan's reaction and setting up an ambush with yet another coffee cup this time filled with hot coffee to destract Bean, great.
There are some holes in my opinion, in particular the freeway where there car ends up and Price's party down, why not jump down a few meter knowingly that they land in a pile of sand to catch Stellan with the case?
But overall a great movie with one of the best(directed) carchase in film history, near the end of the movie doing it all over again with a second great chase.
My vote 9 out of 10
The Rookie (2002)
Great excellent sportsdrama, wanna cry go for it!!!!!
Well, tonight I saw this movie for the third time being the first 2 times sometime ago and I had to dry my eyes more than once!
This movie gives me a boost every time I see it, if it happens to be on cable when I turn on the TV to look a new bought CD/DVD I cant stop looking to start the movie until it is finished.
After seeing it tonight I just wanna check its rating but then my eye was caught by some fool(Filmjack3 from New Jersey) commenting on this flick that it was bad and Dennis Quaid was ill-casted, well sorry but that got me going to remove this comment being the current one with this great movie.
I my opinion all players are great in this movie, I must say I don't know the true story but as far as just seeing this movie, its great. In particular the first time with his own team when he throws a fast one and when he has his first appearance in the majors being asked by the coach to throw 3 fast ones, which he does when a dangerous player starts hitting, striking him out!
Again, great movie, I rate it 9 out of 10!
Mario de Soet
Cellular (2004)
Fantastic, nonstop-action, I did not have time to go to the toilet, eat or drink, you do have time to scream a.....e why did you drop this or c..t why did you not do that!
Its wonderful entertainment if one can scream or make other noise(or break something) if someone in a movie does/or does not do something. If everything goes by the book its no fun, no this is a new hitmovie, I love it, why did he do this, or why did he not do that(i.e. hold his phone better in his hands, or put it in his pocket before he jumps a floor down).
The list is endless, non-stop action, is very clever found all the angles they used in this story. Of course there are some wholes, but who cares.
I rated it 7/10
Catwoman (2004)
A must for lovers of halle berry, but hard to stay awake!
Well in fact all is said in my oneliner, I saw it last week on a cd bought on the beach. But to be true I remember only the appearance of halle berry and benjamin brat in oprha's show and forgot already details and storyline of the movie.
While most good movies I have seen I can predict second by second, sentences and actions I hardly remember anything of this movie.
The average is now 2.9 this in my opinion is not deserved but more
than a -5 I cannot vote for this movie.
The worst is what I do remember of this movie, the special effects seeing catwoman strutt her stuff, clearly showing a cartoonimage whereas halle berry only appears in closeups and standing/walking actions.
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Superb thrilling suspense
Again my comments are a reaction on those already given on this movie, I don't understand people always have to compare new made movies with those made earlier(same story, other actors, newer means). I am for one someone who likes newer made movies mostly cause special effects and props are better for the eye besides b/w vs color. Further lots of old movies have good actors, but mainly actors playing themselves other than living into the moviepersonage, nowadays top actors like meryl streep and denzell washington can be someone else every time they play a new role, accent, appearance and so on, whereas Gregory peck, John Wayne and others just are themselves.
I enjoyed this movie sitting upright(instead of laying down what I mostly do), top rank thriller, superb acting, who cares about a movie of some 30 odd years ago with some dinosaurs..... I prefer to see remakes(with top actors that is) over originals of 30 years and longer ago anytime, OK maybe there are exceptions of this rule there always are.....
I yet have to see the first movie with streep and washington which was not good!
Never Say Never Again (1983)
action packed "real" bondmovie AKA Sean Connery=bond
My comments are evoked by the comments of someone else, saying this is one of the worst bond movies, boring and so on.
I was delighted to see the one and only real bond(Sean Connery) back in action in a more modern dressed bond movie in this remake of thunderball. Moreover he preferred Octopussy, where I think Roger Moore is doing a bad job(besides the first=live and let die) of playing bond. Always making a comedy out of everything totally depleting the movies of any suspense and real thrilling action. Some characters seem unable to simply die, falling out of planes, space stations, waterfalls and so on(Jaws). No, Roger Moore's bondmovies are a laugh in my opinion. Connery, Lazenby and Brosnan do more credit to the books/stories of Fleming. In this movie though are some nice scenes like the one Bond throwing his urine in his opponent face burning him like acid.