‘The Tournament’ Download and Reviews

October 26, 2009 by Paul Wall  
Filed under Action

“The Tournament” Movie Details

The Tournament tagline: Every Seven Years The World’s Greatest Assassins Gather … Only One Will Survive
The Tournament - DVD Cover

The Tournament DVD Cover

Actors:
Scott Adkins Yuri Petrov
Harry Anichkin Very Rich Man
Velizar Binev The Owner
Robert Carlyle Joseph Macavoy
Craig Conway
Thomas Craig
Liam Cunningham Powers
Bill Fellows Pete Evans
Sebastien Foucan
Iddo Goldberg Tech Rob
Oliver Jones
Siso Kamburov Victor
Chris Kenyon
Rob Kenyon
John Lynch Faruk Samier
Directors: Scott Mann
IMDB Rating: 6.1/10 out of 6,208 votes

“The Tournament” Movie Review

“The Tournament” Plot Summary

Every seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world’s deadliest assassins…

Very Entertaining

The Tournament is not a serious film, let me just get that out of the way. It comes off as serious, sometimes, but it’s always laughable. What this film is, is seriously entertaining. It’s surprisingly brutal, with some messy, blood dripping kills and far more human bodies exploding that you would believe. But the films is far from serious

What we get is a story about the thirty greatest assassins hunting each other down in a tournament for money. That’s about it. There’s something in there about revenge, betrayal, blah blah blah. Who cares really, right? Honestly, if you’re looking for some kind of emotional story, you’ve come to the wrong place. The plot conveys the always fun killers in a killing tournament type story, which you can find sprinkles of Smoking Aces, Battle Royale, and The Comdemned in. What the film does do right, most of all, is not hold back. There is gore galore here, with decapitations, bullet wounds, people exploding, and lots of fingers flying off

The films is seriously flawed, yes. Ving Rhames is laughable as he cries through most of the film. He’s made to be a total bad ass, but only delivers half the time. It’s especially hard to believe when you have a whole lot of bad asses running around who could easily take out Rhames. Most notable of these bad asses are Kelly Hu, in what could easily be called the lead role, who once again displays her talent for kicking ass. We also have Sebastien Foucan, a parkour wielding bad ass who has one of the best action scenes in the film, and Scott Adkins, whose brief appearance leaves a lasting impression as one of the best one on one battles in the film. Overall, this is just a film of a bunch of bad ass people kicking each others…well, you get the point

I’m not going to say this is a good film. I will say it’s well directed and well filmed. Fights were actually enjoyable, as the director wisely chose to avoid the all too commonly used shaky cam and close ups. The script is paper thin, yes, and the acting leaves a great deal to be desired. But once again, this is a film about bad asses being bad asses. Kicking said ass and taking names. So forget about all the Oscar worthy stuff. Just sit back and enjoy some, well, ass getting kicked. Cause it’s a hell of a ride.

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‘The Longest Yard’ Download and Reviews

September 22, 2009 by Paul Wall  
Filed under Comedy, Drama, Sport

“The Longest Yard” Movie Details

The Longest Yard tagline: It was hard to put a team together… until they found out who they were playing.
The Longest Yard - DVD Cover

The Longest Yard DVD Cover

Actors:
  • David Patrick Kelly
  • Courteney Cox
    Rob Schneider
    James Cromwell
    William Fichtner
    Adam Sandler Paul Crewe
    Chris Rock Caretaker
    Burt Reynolds Coach Nate Scarborough
    Nelly Megget
    Michael Irvin Deacon Moss
    Walter Williamson Errol Dandridge
    Bill Goldberg Battle
    Terry Crews Cheeseburger Eddy
    Bob Sapp Switowski
    Nicholas Turturro Brucie
    Dalip Singh Turley
    Lobo Sebastian Torres
    Joey Diaz Big Tony
    Steve Reevis Baby Face Bob
    Unger
    Directors: Peter Segal IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 out of 36,910 votes

    “The Longest Yard” Movie Review

    “The Longest Yard” Plot Summary

    Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.

    Very funny movie!

    I saw this movie last night for the first time and I was laughing my head off from the beginning to the end

    IThis movie has a lot of gags and I had to run to the toilet cos I wet myself with laughter and i had to gasp for air cos i was laughing so hard

    From reading the negative reviews on this site – I don’t know why people hate this movie? it is so funny! it was one of my favorite movies starring Adam Sandler

    I thought the best performances were from Sandler and Rock. This movie is really good but I really like the original movie better

    I thought this remake was a lot more funnier than the original

    If you love Adam Sandler and Chris Rock then you will love this movie

    Def the most funniest movie I have seen in 2010.

    I also really liked the soundtrack 10/10 for a great comedy movie

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    ‘Looney Tunes: Back in Action’ Download and Reviews

    August 26, 2009 by Paul Wall  
    Filed under Adventure, Animation, Comedy

    “Looney Tunes: Back in Action” Movie Details

    Looney Tunes: Back in Action tagline: Real life has never been so animated
    Looney Tunes: Back in Action - DVD Cover

    Looney Tunes: Back in Action DVD Cover

    Actors:
  • Mary Woronov
  • Brendan Fraser DJ Drake/Himself/Voice of Tasmanian Devil and She-Devil
    Jenna Elfman Kate
    Steve Martin Mr. Chairman
    Timothy Dalton Damien Drake
    Heather Locklear Dusty Tails
    Joan Cusack Mother
    Bill Goldberg Mr. Smith
    Don Stanton Mr. Warner
    Dan Stanton Mr. Warner’s Brother
    Dick Miller Security Guard
    Roger Corman Hollywood Director
    Kevin McCarthy Dr. Bennell
    Jeff Gordon Himself
    Matthew Lillard Himself
    Acme VP, Bad Ideas
    Directors: Joe Dante IMDB Rating: 6.0/10 out of 8,022 votes

    “Looney Tunes: Back in Action” Movie Review

    “Looney Tunes: Back in Action” Plot Summary

    The Looney Tunes search for a man’s missing father and the mythical Blue Monkey diamond.

    Quite frankly, the BEST MOVIE EVER MADE!!!

    Well, it took over 4 years but I finally have a new best movie. And not only that but it’s the funniest movie ever also. It’s quite possible you’ll die of oxygen deficiency, you’ll be laughing so hard

    Taking place in what is essentially the same universe as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the movie begins with both Daffy Duck and DJ Drake (Brendan Fraser, who also plays himself as well as Taz) getting kicked off the Warner Brothers lot at the same time. Daffy follows Fraser home only for both of them to make the astonishing discovery that Brendan’s movie star dad Damian Drake (Timothy Dalton, who doesn’t appear to have aged a day since License to Kill) is a REAL secret agent as well as playing one in the movies. He’s been kidnapped by the Chairman of the evil Acme corporation in an attempt to find a mysterious diamond called the Blue Monkey and Brendan and Daffy team up to rescue him

    But the Warner Brothers soon realize that without Daffy the Bugs Bunny cartoons are not worth anything. So Bugs and the Head of Animated Comedy (Jenna Elfman) go looking for him, inadvertently getting dragged into the Blue Monkey plot

    It’s not only a wild collection of increasingly insane set-pieces. Looney Tunes Back In Action is quite possibly the most intelligent and brilliantly crafted film of 2003.

    It’s devastating that cheap nonsense such as Scary Movie 3 makes over $100 million while Looney Tunes barely scrapes $20 million. I blame the marketing

    The trailer for this film was absolutely awful. And even I thought it looked really bad. Only my dedication to the Looney Tunes made me see it out of obligation. Thank God I didn’t judge it by the trailer. I’m assuming most of the potential audience did. Plus it did have to go up against stiff holiday competition such as Return of the King and Elf (!). Both of those movies had stronger marketing campaigns which is the only explanation I can offer for Elf doing so well

    A few critics blasted Looney Tunes for being no more than an exersize in boosting sales for the Warner Brothers catalogue of characters. This is in no way true. While it’s true that merchandise follows this movie (as does every family film) I simply do not see how it’s pure exploitation. Space Jam was pure exploitation and an unashamed merchandise excuse. Back in Action fixes everything that went wrong with Space Jam. So much so that Joe Dante nicknamed this the ‘Anti-Space Jam movie’. Back in Action is good, old-fashioned Looney Tunes mayhem

    I can’t think of a more perfect director for this movie. Joe Dante is the most underappreciated director in recent history. It’s obvious from his previous movies that he just loves the Looney Tunes and Back In Action surpasses even Gremlins 2 in terms out wall to wall madness (and correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t the Looney Tunes run riot in that movie too). This is his most perfect movie to date and I am sure it will be appreciated by a wider audience once it hits DVD.The best thing about this movie? The fact that Daffy Duck gets the most amount of screen time. And his outrageous, anarchic antics never fail to amuse. At one point Daffy and Bugs are chased by Elmer Fudd through a bunch of paintings in the Louvre art museum. It’s a crazy sequence in which you simply cannot deny the movie’s genius

    The merging of live action and animation is seamless. It looks like Brendan Fraser and Daffy really are acting together (and for all we know, they are). Their chemistry is perfect and when Bugs joins the team there’s so much going on that just one viewing isn’t enough

    There’s hundreds of in-jokes (as you would expect from a Joe Dante movie) and none of them are of the cheap, post-modern kind. Looney Tunes Back In Action has more class and more genius than any other comedy in the past few years. Even Steve Martin’s performance as the man-child chairman of the Acme Corporation is a return to his edgier roles in movies like The Jerk and is far better than the ‘family man’ trash he’s been doing for the past 10 years. He’s practically an animation himself in this wonderful movie that’s bursting at the seams with madness.

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