Posted by jonamerica on July 25th, 2007
The summer action hit, Live Free or Die Hard, the fourth in the Die Hard series, is non-stop action, and delivers exactly what you’d expect a cookie cutter action film to have. Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) returns as possibly the unluckiest detective in the world as he once again becomes involved in a larger than life battle with a criminal mastermind. This time McClane is up against computer hacker Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant), who is bent on destroying America by hacking the nation’s infrastructures.
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Posted by jonamerica on April 30th, 2003
I’m not a big fan of flashback movies, and Confidence is no exception. The problem with flashback movies is that you know how the movie is going to end before it begins. In a movie about confidence schemes this isn’t the best of ideas. The hope is, at the end of a movie such as this, the audience walks away and says, “Wow, I never saw that coming.”
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Posted by jonamerica on October 17th, 2002
There isn’t much I can say about Sweet Home Alabama except that it was pretty much exactly what I expected it to be. The film was predictable, trite, poorly written with mediocre acting, and extremely stereotypical characters.
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Posted by jonamerica on August 12th, 2002
Signs is a very appropriate title for this movie. You might ask “Why?” but then it would be obvious that you haven’t seen the film. The message that the movie intends to make, I do not regard the message as a spoiler, is that everything happens for a reason. In fact I think Mel Gibson might even say that at some point.
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Posted by jonamerica on August 8th, 2002
The third movie of the Powers trilogy is almost exactly what I expected. The funniest parts are shown in the commercials, the jokes from the first two movies are repeated almost verbatim, and it is relatively funny (see it with a big crowd of people).
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