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Posted by Richard Greco (Member # 2032) on 02-28-2006, 01:01 AM:

WOW

This is the BEST movie so far this year!!! I'm sure a few of you won't like it due to the camera jumping a bit, but VERY well made and Walker did a great job in his part.

This movie was sick, twisted and made you jump out of your seat not knowing what will happen next, obviously the point of a thriller, but it was FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!!

10/10

All I can say is WOW!!
This is VERY intense.

No Greco factor on this one, the wife had a nice ass though.

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 02-28-2006, 01:49 PM:

Richard, I had no idea this movie came out 18000 years in the future and you had a time machine to go and see it then come back and tell all of us?

I liked it for much of the same reasons Richard mentioned.

I hated the overuse of eye candy in this movie. Just way too much of it.
And the wife was ok, but her underwear seemed to have just as big a part in this film as she did!
Overall it was a decent show.

Posted by Richard Greco (Member # 2032) on 02-28-2006, 03:25 PM:

hehehe, my bad...

fixed

Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 03-05-2006, 03:15 PM:

CINEMA: Century 20 at Jordan Creek, West Des Moines, IA
AUDITORIUM: 18
PRESENTATION: Dolby Digital/THX
PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: None [Cool]

RATING: Two and one half stars (out of four)

WARNING: Leaving guns accessible to children can result in traumatic spoilers

Hasn't this title been used already like a half dozen times?

As I walk up to the right side auditoriums ticket taker, she's trying to get some guy to show her his ticket. He's digging in his pockets and giving her that smile that every one of you gave the liquor store clerk at seventeen. Idiot. I hand her MY ticket and head for the bathroom. On the way to my auditorium, I walk past a table full of literature for some church. And I hear preaching. Then I realize there's a worship service going on in Auditorium 12. The First Church of the Auditorium 12 is in session.

So I peek in the door. There's some spotlights aimed at the screen, and just in front of the stadium tier stands No Ticket Guy. He apparently talked his way into the church service. But he's only staying a couple of minutes. Then he goes out and kind of looks nervously at Satellite Snack Bar Guy.

Idiot.

Speaking of idiots, pretty much everybody in this movie IS one. The lead is stupid, his thug buddies are stupid, the Russians next door are stupid, the dirty cops are stupid...yeah. Stupid. They mostly die anyway. There's so many dead by the end that they may as well have ended the movie Hindenberg-like with a yearbook picture page stating who survived and who didn't. "Dead. Dead. Dead. Survived. Dead. Dead. Dead. Survived. Survived." Then the announcer could say "Screw this...I'm going to go make Joey's hot wife suck my dick." Why not...At least two characters in the movie used that line. It's attitudes like this that give dick sucking a bad name.

The movie basically involves a wild goose chase for a gun that can be tied to the wrong people in a dirty cop killing. The dirty cop who lived states he's going to find that gun and tie it to the shooting or come up with some fake charges to get them on. So why are they trying to find the gun? By the end of the movie it's been through a dozen or more hands, and he's just going to find some other thing to get them on anyway. Just kill the bastard. How hard is THAT to figure out?

But if they did that, the little Russian boy couldn't go on his magnificent adventure. He gets to shoot his abusive drug-addict father (who may or may not actually be his father...I can't remember), help some bum rob some guy, save, befriend, and hang out with a hooker, get kidnapped by pedophiles (a bizarre highlight of the movie, actually), and stay out all night fighting bad guys. Also, we need to build to the SHOCKING SWERVE~! Two of them, actually. The second one was completely unnecessary.

I would not have thought it possible that a movie this full of sex, abusiveness, cartoon violence, and killings could be this silly. But it is. And sort of fun too.

Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 03-14-2006, 12:42 AM:

#1 - If someone has a version where Paul Walker is shirtless in this movie... I'd like to have it. [Razz]

Because is seems to have been "cut out" of one of the reels.

I was told by a fellow classmate that this movie was interesting and the way it leads you through the movie and how it ends was cool. So I go watch with my friend today and she's giving me the "I dunno, but I'll be nice and watch it with you". About 10 minutes into the film... *****SPOILER**** ...........
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Some "activity" [sex]

happens... my friend turns to me and says. If we came to watch a porno we should have just rented one and watched it at home. And then about half way into the film there's a strip club scene... my friend turns to me again... "You are so not choosing anymore movies from now on." I knew it would be graphic but not this graphic... I was ok with it of course but the camera work during a lot of the scenes made it out to be like a horror flick. And I absolutely can't stand those, makes me cringe every time. But I do have to say I liked the camera/effect but wish it wasn't taken the "dark" route. Reminds me too much of the movie Saw and Saw 2.

As for the story itself, Paul can never seem to play the "bad" guy. I knew from pretty much 1/4 of the way in he was probably a cop or something. *hint hint * Fast and the Furious. Better acting this time around though.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-17-2006, 04:30 AM:

Finally caught this tonight.

BIZARRE!

I don't think I've ever seen a movie quite like this. I don't want to give out any spoilers, and hopefully those who haven't seen the movie have not read the spoilers above yet, but be prepared for a truly bizarre action movie. The biggest surprise of the movie is just a bit past the halfway point, and is totally unexpected, creepy-disturbing and way over the top. (Once you see the movie, you will know what I mean.) The movie is so random with its events, you would think Quentin Tarantino had something to do with the script.

The photography has a "burned" dark look to it which I was fine with, but there was one specific scene in which Paul Walker is discussing the radio with the kid in which there was WAAAAAAAAY too much camera movement to the point of completely bringing me out of the movie. Also many of the action scenes weren't edited together very smooth, such that it is difficult to follow some of the action. The sound mix does help make up for those shortcomings though, as this is a truly top notch mixing job.

I think I need to watch it again before I give it an actual rating, but it's up there.