Independence day (1996)

Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith and Bill Pullman
Certificate: 12
Genre: Sci Fi
Awards: Best effects

Independence day is a film where aliens come and try to take over the earth. The only people who can stop them are a techno wizard David Levinson (Goldblum), Pilot Steven Hiller (Smith) and the presidant of the USA (Pullman). together they need to come up with a plan to save mankind.

Independence Day had a good story and good acting and it was overall an enjoyable film.

****Good

Independence Day Trailer

How To Train Your Dragon (2010)

Directors: Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler and America Ferrera
Certificate: 12
Genre: Cartoon, Fantasy
Awards: None

How To Train Your Dragon is about a young Viking named Hiccup (Baruchel) who wants to kill dragons. But when he gets his chance he misses it and becomes friends with it. As he is weak and scrawny he is a disappointment to his father (Butler) who hates dragons and kills them on sight. He is also becoming suspicoius to Viking girl Astrid (Ferrera) who tracks him and his dragon down and tries to tell the tribe. Can Hiccup be a dragon rider and a Viking?

HTTYD is a fun and witty film that is a good family film. If you like animations you will like this.

****Good

How to Train Your Dragon Trailer

Inception (2010)

Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Dileep Rao and Cillian Murphy.
Certificate: 12
Genre: Action
Awards:  best cinematography, Best sound editing, Best sound mixing, Best visual effects

Inception is a film about dreams. In dreams people reveal their secrets. Cobb (DiCaprio) is a dream expert who uses dreams to get information for his clients. After getting a job offer from rich business man Saito (Watanabe) that could get rid of his criminal charges so that he can see his kids again Cobb sets up a team to infiltrate Robert   Fisher's (Murphy) mind. The team include his partner in crime: Arthur (Gordon-Levitt), Creator of the dreams: Ariadne (Page), Forger Eames (Hardy) and Dream scientist Yusif (Rao). Unfortunatly Cobb's dead wife Mal (Cotillard)  can get into any dream he is in and stop the mission.

Inception is one of the cleverest films of all time. The actors are good and the ending is Brilliant in the year 2100 Inception will still be in the top 10 films of the century.  Inception is one of my four films that I will give six stars.

******Genius

Inception Trailer

The man who would be king (1975)

Director: John Huston
Starring: Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer
Certificate: PG
Genre: Adventure
Awards: None

The Man Who Would Be King is about two Englishmen named Daniel Dravot (Connery) and Peachy Carnehan (Caine) who were officers in the British empire but are now getting into trouble with the law. So the two men decide to go to Kafiristan to become kings and conquer the country. The only man who knows about it is  Rudyard Kipling (Plummer) who is based on the writer of the novel.


The Man Who Would Be King Was a film that I would recommend to anyone who liked Lawrence of Arabia or Zulu. The characters are well made acted and the story is good.


****Good

The Man Who Would Be King Trailer

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Winnona Ryder and Dianne Wiest
Certificate: 12
Genre: Fantasy
Awards: none

Edward (Depp) is a person created by a scientist but the scientist died before he could make him hands so he has scissors instead. For many years he lived on his own but one day a kind lady named Peg (Wiest) invites him to join her family were he falls in love with her daughter Kim (Ryder). Unfortunately the townsfolk turn against him and he has to deal with them.

Edward Scissorhands is the weirdest and serial film I have ever seen. It was funny and sad at parts but the film is quite dated now.

***Okay

Edward Scissorhands Trailer

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel , Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies and Matt Damon
Certificate: 15
Genre: War
Awards: Best cinematography, Best Director, Best effects, Best editing, Best sound.

Saving Private Ryan is a film based on the second world war. It starts on d-day and then goes on into french territory. Captain John Miller (Hanks) is the leader of an eight man squad including Sargent Mike Horvath (Burns), Medic Wade (Ribisi), Corporal Upham (Davies) and Privates Reiben, Jackson, Mellish and Caparzo (Burns, Pepper, Goldberg and Diesel) . They are on a mission to find a private James Ryan (Damon) and bring him home.

This war film is the grittiest and most realistic film ever made. It started many of the actors careers up and gave Spielburg a big name.

*****Brilliant

Saving Private Ryan Trailer

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

Director: Rob Cohen

Starring: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Luke Ford

Certificate: 12

Genre: Adventure

Awards: None

The Mummy 3 sees Rick O'Connell (Fraser) and wife Evelyn (Bello-New Actor) taking on China's mummified Emperor (Li) with old face Jonathan Carnahan (Hannah) and their son Alex (Ford). They have to stop the mummy from becoming immortal and killing everyone. You know, The usual.

The Mummy 3 is definitely the worst in the trilogy . Everybody who i was watching it with either left or fell asleep. There was too much "Oh no. You need to give our child more love and stuff" and not enough interesting plot line. At one point the writers must have been so bored they decided to add random yetis into the story that were never explained. Maria Bella was not a good replacement for Rachel Weitz and they should not have changed the actor.

**Pretty Bad 

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Trailer

Did you hear about the Morgans? (2009)

Director: Marc Lawrence
Starring: Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliot and Micheal Kelly
Certificate: PG
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Awards: None


In Did You Hear About The Morgans? Hugh Grant stars and Sarah Jessica Parker star as the separated couple Paul and Meryl Morgan who while trying to talk about their marriage they witness an assassination. Because the assassin (Kelly) saw them they somehow become a target and have to live in an isolated village somewhere where typically their marriage is sorted out and they all live happily ever after.

DYHATM? was quite a boring film which had some funny parts but i had expected more from a comedy. There was also some pretty bad acting. Overall not very good.

**Pretty Bad

Did You Hear About the Morgans? Trailer