Hellboy (2004)

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, John Hurt, Karel Roden and Ladislav Beran.
Certificate:12
Genre: Action/Fantasy
Awards: best make up

Hellboy (Pearlman) is a demon/man who was brought from a baby by proffesor Trevor "broom" Bruttenholm (Hurt). He fights demons and monsters in his adult life with a fellow monster Abe Sapien (Jones). In the film hellboy John Myers (Evans) joins the group to look after Hellboy as he seems to get into trouble with the public, being red with devil horns and a pointy tale. Hellboy's love interst is Liz Sherman (Blair) who can engulf herself in flames.

The bad guys in Hellboy are a dark wizard man named Grigori Rasputin (Roden) who wants to bring the lord of chaos into the world for no apparent reason and Karl Ruprecht Kroenen (Beran): An undead nazi warrior who was Hitler's top assassin. He is loyal to Rasputin and helps him with his cause.

The best scene in Hellboy is the opening with the soldiers trying to stop Rasputin from summoning the lord of chaos for Hitler. Compared to Hellboy2 this film is inferior but I like Hellboy for my favourate charector: Karl the assassin.

****Good

Hellboy trailer

Meet the parents: Little Fockers (2010)

Director: Paul Weitz
Starring: Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro, Jessica Alba and Owen Wilson
Certificate: 12
Genre: Comedy
Awards: none


Little Fockers is the third film about nurse Greg "Gaylord" Focker (Stiller). After being probed for approval in Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers by his father in law Jack Burns (De Niro), He now has two 5 year old children and a happy family. But now with the in-laws coming to stay for his children's birthday he has to service another grilling and with Andi Garcia (Alba), A drug representative becoming more interested in him he has some explain to do. To make matters worse Kevin (Wilson), His wife's ex-boyfriend has come to say hi.

MTPLF is a fun film that has lots of cringy moments and laughs for the family to enjoy. It has some good film parody parts and a good story.

****Good

Little Fockers Trailer

Tron Legacy (2010)

Director: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Jeff Bridges!, Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde
Certificate: PG
Genre: Action
Awards: none

Tron Legacy is like a war of the stigs. Lots of people in helmets fighting each other. It is set in a game world where Kevin Flynn (Bridges) is trapped by a corrupted program: Clue (Bridges again). After being missing for almost 20 years his son Sam Flynn (Hedlund) goes to look for him while meeting a girl named Quarra (Wilde) on the way.

If Tron Legacy was not in 3D it would have failed as it's plot and story was not very good. With 3D it looked good but the plot is hard to grasp and confusing. If you want to watch this you should see it in 3D

***Okay

Tron legacy Trailer

LITERAL Tron Legacy Trailer

The Man who knew too much (1956)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie,Bernard Miles and Daniel Gelin
Certificate: PG
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
Awards: Best Music

The Man Who knew to much is about DR Benjamin Mckenna (Stewart) and his wife Josephine (Day) who go on a trip to Morocco with their son. After the death of  of  Louis Bernard (Gelin)- A spy for the secret service- they get tangled up in a plot for assassination. To stop the couple from telling the police an evil British couple (Banzie and Miles) capture their child. Now the Mckinna's must get back their boy and stop an assassination.

The Man who knew too Much was boring at points but it was alright. But nowadays there are better thrillers like this that I could watch.

***Okay

The Man Who Knew Too Much trailer

The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

Director: David Twohy
Starring: Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore, Karl Urban and Alexa Davalos
Certificate: 15
Genre:  SciFi Action 


The Chronicles of Riddick is the sequel of Pitch Black featuring the anti hero Riddick (Diesel). This time Riddick is being tracked down by an alien race called the Necromongers who want to rule every planet in the world. Leading the alien race is the Lord Marshal (Feore) who has been told that he will killed by a furien: another alien race. Unfortunately Riddick is the last Furien and he has been told by an elemental named Aereon (Dench) that he must kill  the Lord Marshal.Another Necromonger named Vaako (Urban) also wants to kill the Lord so that he can lead his people instead. The two survivors of Pitch Black are back including Jack (Davalos) - now named Kiera - who has become a killer to get glowing eyes like Riddick.


Many people were disappointed with The Chronicles of Riddick because it is so much different to Pitch Black. I thought this film was okay but it targets a different audience to its prequel which killed it. Pitch Black was definitely better but this film wasn't bad.


***Okay

The Chronicles Of Riddick Trailer

Avatar (2009)

Director: James Cameron
Starring: Sam worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang
Certificate: 12
Genre: Sci Fi
Awards: Best achievement in art, cinematography and  Visual Effects

Avatar is (if you don't count the changing worth of money) both the most expensive film ever made and the biggest selling film so far. James Cameron- Director of Terminator Aliens and Titanic-  spent 10 years making this film. Jake Sully (Worthington) is a marine who's life was torn apart when he lost the use of his legs in a war in Venezuela. When his brother is killed Sully can take his place in a scientist group on the planet Pandora. The scientists have technology that can turn humans into the alien creatures called Navi. soon after Sully goes into Pandora, He gets lost and meets a real Navi named Neytiri (Saldana). She teaches him the way of the Navi and he soon comes to like the people of Pandora. unfortunately not every-one agrees with DR Grace Augustine's (Weaver) Plan to become Navi and persuade them to leave their homes to get the diamonds underneath the soil. Colonel Miles Quaritch (Lang) thinks there is no diplomatic solution and wants to destroy the Navi before they cause any more trouble. Now Jake Sully is in a war and he doesn't know which side to take......

Avatar has the most stunning visuals that cinema has ever seen. The battles, Vehicles and aliens are amazing but the story is a little too eco-friendly. People have become dazed by Avatar and if the second one in 2014 is as good as the first then it could be the new Star Wars.

*****Brilliant

Avatar Trailer

Psycho (1960)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Janet Leigh
Certificate: 15
Genre: Horror

From now on my reviews will be posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays to give my blog a bit of organisation. Psycho about a woman named Marion Crane (Leigh) who runs away from Phoenix  with $40,000 worth of stolen money. In the night she stops at a motel. When Marion goes missing her sister (Miles) and boyfriend (Gavin) question the owner of the motel (Perkins) who acts very suspicious and the silo-et of his mother in the window opens even more questions.

Psycho is a very clever film with the changing  of main characters and camera shots so that your not quite sure who the Psycho is until the very end. The film is a classic but it is quite old fashioned now which makes some of the scary bits rather funny.

****Good

Psycho Trailer

Films I will probably review before new year

War Of The Worlds
The Chronicles of Riddick
Inception
Iron man 2
Alien vs predator