His whole life was a million-to-one shot

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My rating: 4 out of 5

Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time. Working in a meat factory in Philadelphia for a pittance, he also earns extra cash as a debt collector. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer, touting the fight as a chance for a “nobody” to become a “somebody”. The match is supposed to be easily won by Creed, but someone forgot to tell Rocky, who sees this as his only shot at the big time.

Det här är säkert en film som man ska ha sett som ung för att uppsakatta den riktigt mycket i dagens läge. Ungefär som Karate Kid. Tyvärr ser jag den först nu och.. Det är en bra film. Riktigt bra. Men den är ändå inte den toppfilmen som många säger att den är.

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When the system breaks down…
someone is about to get rich.

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My rating: 3 out of 5

Two mismatched lawmen are on the trail of an unusually talented criminal in this crime thriller. Quentin Conners (Jason Statham) is a veteran police detective who is less than pleased when he’s assigned a new partner, Shane Dekker (Ryan Phillippe). While Conners has been with the force for years, Dekker is a rookie, and it doesn’t take Conners long to realize his partner has a lot to learn about the nuts and bolts of investigation. However, the two are forced to put aside their differences when they’re given an important new case to crack — a brilliant thief (Wesley Snipes) has masterminded a series of high-stakes bank heists, and the police are baffled as to how he seems to know what they’re up to just as soon as they do. Chaos also stars Justine Waddell as a police officer who has become involved with one of the detectives.

Simpel film. Men det var vad jag förväntade mig. Är ju ett fan av Jason Statham. Han spelar sin vanliga roll i filmen. En liten tvist på slutet och Statham gör att det blir en trea.
Underhållande film, men den tillför inget nytt.
Synd att det aldrig blev en fight Statham vs Snipes.

If Someone Took Everything You Live For…
How Far Would You Go To Get It Back?

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My rating: 2 out of 5

In this modern retelling of a classic urban legend, a mother finds herself at odds with a unremitting flight crew and her own sanity when her daughter vanishes in the middle of a flight, with only a few clues left behind. She must now challenge the boundaries of her will and her mind in her desperate search.

Uj vilket sömnpiller. Visst var den spännande i vissa avseenden. En liten kul tvist framåt slutet som inte var allt för svår att lista ut. Men slutet är helt åt fanders dåligt.

Some journeys take us far from home.
Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

Product Image: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
My rating: 3 out of 5

Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are deported from London to the house of an eccentric professor during World War II. They find life in the house extremely dull, until Lucy discovers a wardrobe that leads to a magical world called Narnia, where animals can talk and all are ruled over by the wise and benevolent lion Aslan. The others don’t believe her at first, but soon all of them go through the wardrobe and discover all is not well in Narnia. The land is being kept in a perpetual winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis, who turns anyone who doesn’t obey her into stone. The children join Aslan and the animals loyal to him in an attempt to vanquish Jadis.

Har läst några av böckerna för länge sedan och sett den gamla filmen. Mindes inte allt som skulle ske, men en del kom tillbaka allt eftersom. Tycker inte filmen var så speciell, en hel del dåliga effekter vilket jag inte var beredd på. Men som barnfilm tror jag den är riktigt bra.

All That Stands Between Light And Darkness Is The Night Watch.

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My rating: 2 out of 5

Among normal humans live the “Others” possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a “Night Watch” of light forces, among them Anton, the movie’s protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage.

Trodde denna skulle vara riktigt bra efter allt man hört. Men tycker inte den var så bra. Det var himla kul att se en rysk film, den var snyggt gjord, men storyn var ingen höjdare, jag som gillar vampyrfilmer.

There are some things you just don’t do

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My rating: 2 out of 5

When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it’ll be the perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush on – his boss’s daughter. But he doesn’t plan on the long line of other houseguests that try to keep him from his mission. And he also has to deal with the daughter’s older brother, who’s on the run from local drug dealers.

Neah, jag älskar filmer där folk gör bort sig. Men ibland blir det bara för mycket. Att sedan försöka blanda ihop allt med en kärlekshistoria, då rinner bägaren över. Den är lika dålig som Ashton Kutchers andra film Just Married.

Heads You Live… Tails You Die.

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My rating: 3 out of 5

Based on the true story of Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley), daughter of film actor Laurence Harvey. Tired and unsuited to the pretentiousness of her high-society LA life, Domino leaves the glittarti behind and sets off to become a bounty hunter. She quickly falls under the wing of veteran hunter Ed Mosley (Mickey Rourke) and his crew and becomes an unlikely natural in the art of bounty hunting. But things really heat up when a masked gang pilfer the contents of an armored car, and before long the mob, a crazed TV producer, the FBI and a terminally ill child have all got caught up in the crazy situation.

Mycket härlig färgsättning av filmen. Även härligt med lite grynighet. Snyggt filmad. Massor med bra skådisar dyker upp här och var. Till och med lite folk från 90210 🙂
Ibland är det riktigt svårt att sätta betyg. Vet inte om det är en svag fyra eller en stark trea. Men efter att tittat igeom vd för filmer som tidigare fått fyror, blir det en stark trea.

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The law has limits. She Doesn’t.

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My rating: 3 out of 5

Lulu Wong (Michelle Yeoh) lives two lives. The first is as a much-idolised rock star and philanthropist, while the second is to fight injustice as a super heroine known as the Silver Hawk. She teams up with police detective Richman (Richie Ren) in order to stop the Wolfe (Luke Goss) who plans to use a special mobile phone microchip in order to broadcast subliminal messages to mobile users.

Kul att se en asiatisk superhjälte, eller ja, superhjältinna. Som vanligt i asiatiska filmer är fightingscenerna superba. Annars var väl filmen som de flesta andra superhjältefilmerna, medioker.

Driven by revenge…

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My rating: 2 out of 5

In eighteenth century Romania, Rayne, a dhampir (half-human, half-vampire), prone to fits of blind blood rage but saddled with a compunction for humans, strives to avenge her mother’s rape by her father, Kagan, King of Vampires. Two vampire hunters, Sebastian and Vladimir, from the Brimstone Society persuade her to join their cause.

Nu börjar jag förstå varför Uwe Boll har så dåligt rykte kring sitt filmskapande. Denna var riktigt usel. Fattar inte varför Michael Madsen eller Ben Kingsley ställde upp. Det enda som ger den lite plus var att den var hyffsat blodig 😀