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Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 – A Movie Review

January 17, 2010January 17, 2010 John Action, Crime Drama, Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Thriller, Tony Scott

In early afternoon, four armed men hijack a subway train in Manhattan. They stop on a slight incline, decoupling the first car to let the rest of the train coast back. Their leader is Ryder; he connects by phone with Walter Garber, the dispatcher watching that line. Garber is a supervisor temporarily demoted while being investigated for bribery. Ryder demands $10 million within an hour, or he’ll start shooting hostages. He’ll deal only with Garber. The mayor okays the payoff, the news of the hostage situation sends the stock market tumbling, and it’s unclear what Ryder really wants or if Garber is part of the deal.

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Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day – A Movie Review

January 2, 2010January 2, 2010 John Action, Billy Connolly, Boston, Clifton Collins, Drama, Julie Benz, Norman Reedus, Patrick Flanery, Sequel, Troy Duffy

When a priest is murdered in Boston, the MacManus brothers abandon their secluded life in Ireland to look into the case. Don’t let the lack of promotion for “Boondock Saints 2” fool you. The plot picks up in Ireland where brothers Connor (Sean Patrick Flannery) and Murphy (Norman Reedus) McManus are hiding out after the events of the last movie. A priest shot in Boston, in the same style the brothers are known for, makes them the prime suspects. Writer/ director Troy Duffy is going for the old-school Charles Bronson-style vigilante movie, and achieves something pretty close to that.

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Boondock Saints, The – A Movie Review

November 3, 2009November 1, 2009 John Action, Adventure, David DellaRocco, Gangster, Norman Reedus, Patrick Flanery, Troy Duffy, Willem Dafoe

Encouraged by the public’s praise, Catholic brothers Conner and Murphy MacManus bring a bloody brand of vigilante justice against Boston’s Russian mafia and crimelord Yakavetta. It was pretty good, and I’ll give it a 8/10.

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Monsters vs Aliens – A Movie Review

November 2, 2009November 1, 2009 John Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Conrad Vernon, Keifer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon, Rob Letterman, Seth Rogen

When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. Alerted to the threat of this new monster, the military jumps into action and Susan is captured and secreted away to a covert government compound. There, she is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of other monsters. I would give the movie 7/10. It is an animated movie that you can actually volunteer to take your kids to and enjoy it just as much as they can.

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Next Day Air – A Movie Review

October 28, 2009October 27, 2009 John Action, Benny Boom, Comedy, Donald Faison, Mike Epps, Wood Harris

When two bumbling criminals accidentally receive a package of grade-A cocaine, they think they’ve hit the jackpot. But when they try to cash in on their luck, it triggers a series of events that forever changes the lives of ten people. Smalltime hoods Brody and Guch have seen better days. But when a wacked-out courier accidentally brings them a box containing 10 kilos of high-quality cocaine meant for their next-door neighbors, it sets in motion a chain of events that could cost all of them their lives. Brody and Guch immediately arrange to sell the coke to Brody’s drug dealer cousin and his tightlipped bodyguard. But when the intended recipients of the package, wannabe gangster Jesus and his feisty girlfriend, realize the box hasn’t arrived, they set out on a desperate search to find it before ruthless drug kingpin Bodega Diablo notices it’s missing. But they’re too late. There’s some fun watching how we think delivery services handle our packages. But it was, otherwise, a bit predictable.