‘Atonement’ Download and Reviews
“Atonement” Movie Details
Atonement tagline: You can only imagine the truth.
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| IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 out of 69,994 votes |
“Atonement” Movie Review
“Atonement” Plot Summary
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.
Amazing!!! Favourite Romantic Movie.
I was completely stunned when I watched Atonement yesterday. From the funny lines to the sad moments, this movie does not fail to amaze me. James McAvoy is by far the shining star in this movie, endowed with unfailing charisma and absolutely adoring accent. The score was impeccable, especially the sound of the typewriter. I loved the scenes from Dunkirk, the hospital, and ,of course, the mansion. It’s truly an amazing movie that I consider to be the best of 2007’s. The ending was rather sad, but it fits perfectly. Keira Knightley was ineffably wonderful with her charming beauty and brilliant performance. One should really go and watch it because it’s a fulfilling experience. I personally give it 10/10.
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‘War’ Download and Reviews
“War” Movie Details
War tagline: One wants justice, the other wants revenge.
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| IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 out of 26,734 votes |
“War” Movie Review
“War” Plot Summary
An FBI Agent seeks vengeance on a mysterious assassin known as “Rogue” who murdered his partner.
Good fun, good action
Recap: FBI Agent Crawford and his partner Tom Lone happen to find themselves in the middle of a shootout between different factions of the Japanese mafia. Naturally they go in. Soon they find that one party is made up of the mysterious and feared assassin Rogue. It is only by Tom’s timely appearance that Crawford isn’t killed by Rogue. The yakuza, in revenge for Rogue kills Tom and his entire family. Since then Crawford has been on the hunt. Three years later Rogue appears again. But this time he has switched allegiance to the other faction. And suddenly Crawford and his agent find himself in the middle of a war
Comments: Just about what you would expect of a movie with both Statham and Li in it. Not very subtle but full of action, shoot-outs, fighting, car chases and explosions. It is high paced and delivers scene after action packed scene. If that’s what you want, you won’t be disappointed
Both Li and Statham are veterans in this kind of game and bring real solid performances. And I think Philip Atwell, who made his debut as full length movie director, did well too. He managed to keep the pace up and didn’t lose focus from the essential parts. There is a small element of surprise in there, but it is not given too much of attention, it just makes some interesting twists here and there.7/10
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‘A Good Year’ Download and Reviews
“A Good Year” Movie Details
A Good Year tagline: Everything matures… eventually.
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| IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 out of 20,739 votes |
“A Good Year” Movie Review
“A Good Year” Plot Summary
A British investment broker inherits his uncle’s chateau and vineyard in Provence, where he spent much of his childhood. He discovers a new laid-back lifestyle as he tries to renovate the estate to be sold. add synopsis
Incredible and Uninvolving
Watching this fantasy of cashing out to live a life of food, wine, sex and sunlit idleness in Provence, you don’t suspend disbelief for a minute. Right at the outset we are shown that Russell Crowe’s character is exactly what his beloved uncle calls him when he cheats at chess as a boy — ‘a little s**t.’ Now grown up, he enjoys making money by cheating, not so much for the money, though that’s nice too, but for the sheer pleasure of dominating others by being smarter, tougher and more ruthless than they are. Since, he’s surrounded by agreeably available women in London (the movie tries to make a running joke of flashes and cleavage shots) it is clear that he needn’t sleep alone. Nothing Crowe does makes us believe that he is less than perfectly satisfied with the life he leads, or that he would give it up to take up with a Provencal girl and contendedly guzzle home grown wine on the terrace. Nothing convinces that he and she are made for each other, or that she should see him as anything but a good looking rich foreigner who’ll be an enjoyable but short-lived roll in the hay. Because Crowe’s boss writes him a thumping severance check when he turns down a partnership and leaves the firm, his choice is too easy to be interesting. His buddy the real estate agent has it right. After six months he’ll be bored to death, up to his ears in some financial shenanigan, and probably fooling around on his honey just to prove to himself that he can get away with it
The subplot with the American cousin never gets its feet untangled because the conflict between them over who deserves the property and what to do with it isn’t fully developed. She’s supposed to be smarter, tougher and more knowledgeable about wine than her youth and good looks indicate, but she doesn’t get to do very much with those qualities. Crowe’s character can’t stand losing. It would have deepened him, and explained his change of life, to have this kid see through him, take him on and beat him at his own game. It would have been a more dramatically satisfying romance to have him try to seduce her, fail, and then fall in love and have to win her. The film hints at those possibilities and immediately backs away
There’s a lot else wrong with the picture. We never feel that Crowe is actually in serious trouble over the financial maneuver that gets him suspended for a week because he never acts like a man who’s job is on the line. There are a number of pointless sexual innuendos involving secondary characters that don’t go anywhere except, perhaps, the cutting room floor. The rental car foul up is formulaic, not credible and therefore not funny. The smack at a couple of clueless American tourists with Southern accents is smug, gratuitous and irritating. Albert Finney’s role of Bacchus as an English gentleman gone native is written by the numbers and phoned in on screen. The flashback structure allows Scott to pull out of the hat whatever rabbits he needs to keep the plot moving, like Crowe’s childhood ability to imitate his uncle’s handwriting and his one childhood encounter with the woman he falls in love with. That actress, by the way, is too young for a character whom we learn is about the same age as Crowe
The only really enjoyable performance is Archie Panjabi (who played Parminder Nagra’s older sister in Bend It Like Beckham) as Crowe’s hip, all knowing secretary. Her work I’d like to see more of
Bottom line is that this is an unsuccessful variant on the formula High Pressure Guy Finds Self And Love In Laid Back Town. Cars and Doc Hollywood did it better. The Luberon region photographs beautifully, but that’s it.
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‘Scream’ Download and Reviews
“Scream” Movie Details
Scream tagline: Don’t Answer The Phone. Don’t Open The Door. Don’t Try To Escape.
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“Scream” Movie Review
“Scream” Plot Summary
A psychopathic serial killer is stalking a group of teens just like in the movies!
A fun movie that effectively parodied the slasher genre
Following the big flop ‘New Nightmare’, which was not actually a bad film, Wes Craven came out all guns blazing, armed with a nice script from Kevin Williamson, and made the single biggest movie of his career
The script is a lot of fun with various in jokes, and it doesn’t take long for them to start coming. ‘The first nightmare on Elm Street was good, the rest sucked,’ was an obvious reference to Wes Craven directing the original and not the later ones, Craven later makes a cameo appearance as a janitor named ‘Fred’ wearing a green and red jumper. Several other classic horror films are also referenced including the Exorcist, Friday the 13th, Halloween 1 and 2, Hellraiser, Prom Night, The Howling and Rosemary’s Baby
The plot revolves around Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), a young high Schooler who’s mother was viciously murdered a year or so earlier. Sidney was convinced her mother’s murderer was Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) who was convicted of the crime and is in now in jail. Tabloid news reporter Gail Weathers however, has her doubts and has printed a series of articles and a tell all novel pleading Weary’s innocence. Her theory is given credence as a series of copycat killings, modeled after 80s horror movies, occur. Sidney soon finds herself living in a real life scary movie with no allies and everyone’s a suspect
I find it a bit hard to rate Scream as a slasher film, as I don’t see it as one. I see it as more of comedy thriller, which was successfully marketed as a horror film. Not that it was hard given the many litres of fake blood used in the story or the rather grisly subject matter
On the acting side, Skeet Ulrich easily steals the movie from under the rest of the cast, while Matthew Lillard and Jamie Keneedy are both delights. David Arquette is equal parts annoying and endearing, and Courtney Cox is convincing as a bitch, but not so much as a reporter. Neve Campbell puts in a strong performance as Sidney, while Rose McGowan is under used, and unlikeable in her few scenes. Drew Barrymore’s cameo in the opening ten or so minutes has become an iconic scene in 90s film making, and is some of the best work she has ever done
Craven’s affection for the horror genre has been evident in many of his movies and he does a fine job here of both sending up the genre he helped create, and also redefining it for a modern audience. Well done to Craven and his script writer Kevin Williamson for breathing life back into the slasher genre.
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