The Terminal

Genres: Comedy, Drama and Romance

Running Time: 2 hrs. 8 min.

Release Date: June 18th, 2004 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief language and drug references.

Distributors: DreamWorks SKG

U.S. Box Office: $77,032,279

Acting___Rating:
Tom Hanks should at least get a nomination at this years big awarads ceremonies. I haven’t seen a trailer or anything for the film so I had no idea he would be speaking broken english with russian accent the entire film. Such a great actor, and he continues to impress me with roles like this. The supporting cast was typical I guess, but any good acting is over shadowed by Hanks in this film.
Story___Rating:
A man is in the air on a plan to New York when his country goes to war. Therefore the united States doesn’t recognize his country as a stable country or something like that. Hanks can’t set a foot outside the terminal or else he would be arressted. So he spends a good number of months in the terminal, surviving in various ways. One entertaining act is him retrieving carts that pay a quarter per return in the terminal. He makes a bunch of friends and the movie is basically about him living in the Terminal awaiting for his countrys war to be over. But they throw in the love interest of Catherine Zeta Jones which wasn’t all too necessary. The scenes with her, some are good scenes, mainly the early scenes. But when the scenes get a bit romantic, the film slows down a bit and I felt these were the only parts that really brought the pace of the film down. The film could have been completely wihout her and maybe been a better film because the pacing would have been more brisk.

Presentation – Visuals and Sounds___Rating:
The whole movie is simulated in an active Airport terminal. I don’t know if they built sets or filmed in an airport, I would assume they filmed in an airport, but I have doubts because of how airport security is nowadays. The sound and music is fitting for the film. When an emotional event is happening the music enchants the scene a bit more to make it more emotional than it really is. The enviorment is great though and simulates an airport atmosphere nicely.

Overall___Rating:
One of the best films of the year I would say. I foudn myself laughing and smiling more than I thought I would. I don’t know if my not knowing or expecting anyhting of the film helped in making it such a nice surprise. Hanks’ character is just amazing. I dunno who to credit for this, Speilberg as the director, the writers, hanks himself, or a combonation of the three. The movie has that Spielberg charm that he has seemed to sort of lost hold of in recent films where he relies more on special effects. Although Catch Me While You can was decent and not effects ridden, it was nowhere near the film this was. The charming Russian that hanks potrays has amazing character appeal. I was actually pissed off when the head security guy did negative things towards him, and I was happy for him when the better events occured in the movie.

Probably would make for a good family film. The film has a lot of comedy and a good Director’s touch to it that I haven’t really felt this year with any films. The movie is really simple, but the team of Hanks and Speilberg just present it a bit differently and it caught me off guard and I really enjoyed it. The Catherine Zeta Jones scenes did slow down the movie a bit, whihc will hurt and future viewings, and the way the movie ends and where her character stands is sort of lame, but you know what, it’s a realistic ending, and not a Hollywood one.

Check it out, Tom Hanks’s performance is worth seeing this one alone.

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Dodgeball

Duplex was pretty funny
Along Came Polly Sucked
starsky and Hutch Sucked
Envy was barely even watchable, in fact I never finished it. Poor Chris Walken…
Ben Stiller’s been having crappy flop after another but I found Dodgeball to be quite amusing. Maybe because Stiller plays a funny character for once, and he’s not the main character.

Acting___Rating:
It’s a comedy, nuff said. Comic delivery is okay from some people, others it sucks.

Story___Rating:
Play Dodgeball for the cash prize to save your Gym from the evil Ben Stiller Gym empire. Real cliched story.

Presentation – Visuals and Sounds___Rating:
It’s a comedy, nuff said.

Overall___Rating:
The movie as a whole though is pretty amusing. Not one character really stand out, but a fewclever cameos and funny slo-mo ball in the face hits make the film funny. The funniest character actally is probably the old dude in the wheelchair. Rip Thorn I think his name is, the Head guy in Men in Black and Tom Greens dad in Freddy Got Fingered. In an old film within the movie Hank Azaria plays him, funny stuff…..or was it a different Simpsons characters name… dunno, think it’s Azaria though. The best scenes involve Chuck Norris and a reference to Chuck Norris. I was in stitches at those parts, who the hell would have expect Chuck Norris to be in a film, in a role like this. Great stuff. His invovlement, although small, boosted the funny factor up a few notches. Dunno what ti is about that guy, but hes funny. Him and Steven seagal should do a full blown comedy together, that’d be so great hah!

I recommend it if you wanna see, lets say, a very toned down version of Baseketball. The mvoie has it’s moments, but it’s pretty typical. Compared to other Stiller releases recently though it’s award worthy. Not quite as good as Duplex, but just about there.

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Matrix Revolutions

How the hell the coolest flick on the planet could have evolved into a trite sci-fi in such short time is a mystery to me.

The first Matrix broke all bounds of cinema and set the standard for many flicks to come.

Matric reloaded was an embarassment with its orgy scenes and Matrix 3 was JAGDSFM (Just Another Goddam Sci-Fi Movie) with robot monsters vs. human underground dwellers.

Someone brought up a good point, that if Neo and Agent Smith were both in control of the Matrix, why did they need to kick each others’ ass for twenty minutes? Exercise??

The ending left you with a big “Did Neo die?” — Well, if not, he’s pretty fucked up. Trinity is dead and his eyes are cauterized, so there’s not much left for him. And the ending of the horns and strings swelling as the sun rises over the city and the Oracle and friends walk off into the sunset is classic B or D movie stuff.

You know, personal opinion here folks, if given the choice between living in the matrix (which may not be real, but it is comforting) and living in the hell-on-earth they called reality, I would tell them to stick the red pill up their ass.

Review by The Phantom

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In Hell

Acting___Rating:
Wow…Van Damme can act? There are pieces of this film when he actually shows some deep emotion in his facial expressions. You really think he’s suffering when he’s pretending to be hurt. WHen he’s trainging, it’s an intense atmosphere. Van Damme, in his last film as well (Replicant) showed he could do a bit of acting. Playing the scare feeble clone, he did a good job i thought. Funny, of all the cheesy 80′s action stars, Van Damme ends up being the one that can act. Stallone lost his ability to do so some time ago. If he pulls another ROcky out of his ass liek he says, maybe he’ll impress me again even though Rocky V was horrid.
Story___Rating:
Typical. Plagued by a voice over through most the film of Van Damme’s psycho cellmate who wants his peace and quiet. Van Damme goes to jail for chasing down his wifes Killer and taking him to court. The killer wins the case, so Van Damme steals a cops gun and shoots him dead in front of the court house. Van Damme goes to this Russian (he was doing a job in Russia) prison and after being pushed around trains to take place in the fights they hold there to resolve issues. Eventually, he wants to get out.

Presentation – Visuals and Sounds___Rating:
Another wow, good music in a Van Damme film? There’s a catchy theme type music to the movie. The theme was emotionally well done and added to the sadness of the priosn enviorment and the death of Van Damme’s wife. The visuals are pretty typical, it’s a prison film, but the Prison was a hell hole, and it looked the part.

Overall___Rating:
A fan of Van Damme (if those exist these days) will love this film. It’s one of the best things he’s ever done and it hardly has a cheesy moment. In fact, unlike his other films, I don’t think there was a single cheesy moment. Van Damme’s acting in the fim is impressive for his standards. Although the story is typical, it’s still an enterttaining film that should eb checke dout by action fans.

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Dreamcatcher

Rating:
Alls I wanna know is:

What the fuck did dreamcatchers have to do with alien invasion?
Why the hell is Stephen King still allowed to write?

Man, this is another Stephen King mishmash of ESP, retards, alien invasions and shit weasels. Four dudes that share a psychic ability, bequeathed from a retard they saved from getting his ass kicked, somehow get involved with an alien invasion when the woods their cabin in in gets crashlanded by a UFO.
Pretty soon people and animals start developing rashes and gastric problems and they’re shittin’ out aliens that look like peckers with teeth.
Throw Morgan Freeman, with some pretty fucking intense eyebrows, as a crazy military dude who has been hunting aliens for 25 years and you have a flick that will leave you with the same two questions I have above.

Coolest scene was when all the animals in the forrest were hauling ass out.

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