The Man With The Iron Fists

 

      I am no stranger to the martial arts movies. which is why seeing this movie was a must.  Now this was no Bruce Lee kind of movie, but it was very interesting.  With that being said, let's get started.  Today's topic........

The Man With The Iron Fists

 

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      In this movie we have RZA (Blacksmith), Rick Yune (Zen Yi/X-Blade), Russell Crowe (Jack Knife), Lucy Liu (Madam Blossom), Dave Bautista (Brass Body), Jamie Chung (Lady Silk), Byron Mann (Silver Lion), Daniel Wu (Poison Dagger), Grace Huang (Gemini Female), and Andrew Lin (Gemini Male).  With all of these characters listed above, there was one that I found to be very funny.  That character is Silver Lion.  He just seemed so........pretty, and not in a good way.  He would wipe his hair and the way he talked, this man was just something else.  It was like watching the Dave Chappelle show where he would make fun of Prince.  This man was just funny.

 

      The movie starts with the story of a man who swore to protect a lot of gold.  Once the agreement was made, the man was killed by the Poison Dagger.  Zen Yi is the man's son.  He was ready to spend the rest of his life with Chi Chi.  Awaiting his father's return so that his father can marry them, he promises to never leave her side.  Unfortunately, that was a promise her couldn't keep.  When Zen Yi heard of his father's death, he knew what he had to do.  During his trip, he stopped for something to eat.  While he was eating, he was attacked.  This man was kicking a** and taking names.  Then he was captured, or at least that's how it looked for a moment.  He got himself free, but not before bowing his head killing the man in front of him as well as the other men and then continuing his journey.

 

      In the town where Zen and his brothers were headed, there was a man that only went by the name Blacksmith to many people.  Blacksmith was good at making weapons.  There was no weapon he couldn't make.  Also, in this town was a gentleman's club, owned and operated by Madam Blossom.  The Blacksmith was in love with one of Madam Blossom's girls named Lady Silk.  He was trying to help buy her freedom from Madam Blossom so that they could be together and run off somewhere.  After becoming worn out from all the work he had been doing, he went to go see Lady Silk as he always had after a days work.  Mean while, Zen Yi and his brothers had a run in with Brass Body, a man who is almost unstoppable.  With the two brothers dead and Zen very injured, the Blacksmith grabs Zen and tries to help him recover.  With the help of Lady Silk, Zen gets back on his feet in no time.  The Blacksmith on the other hand was captured and beaten nearly to death.  Brass Body was told to make sure the Blacksmith would never be able to work again.  With that being said, he chopped off half of the Blacksmith's arms.

 

      Now before any of that happened, a man who goes by the name Jack Knife walks into Madam Blossom's club.   When she saw Jack, she ordered her finest brown liquor for both of them to drink while she helped him out.  Jack stated he needed a room and her best girls.  She allowed him to choose three of her finest girls.  When he got ready to choose his third girl, he looked around and picked a young woman that was already taken.  The man she was with was BIG and the girl was clearly disgusted by the man.  Jack just knew this would be the end for her.  Jack felt she was with the wrong guy.  Well, that guy wasn't happy about that.  Jack was on "vacation" and wasn't planing on fighting, but the man wasn't backing down.  Jack has this knife that has a bit of saw action going.  Split the man's stomach open.  Ouch!!!!

 

      The gold that was suppose to make it to its destination was causing a lot of problems for everyone.  Too many wanted this gold.  The gold was being protected by the Geminis'.  The Geminis' were two great warriors, man and wife.  These two didn't need much help when it came down to defending themselves.  However, the Poison Dagger had other plans.  The Poison Dagger has a unique weapon.  Looking like a flute that shoots out very small and skinny needle like pins with Mercury on it.  The Mercury kills almost instantly depending on where it's shot at. The Poison Dagger took out the Geminis.  with the gold unprotected, Silver Lion and his crew took it.  As he made a deal with Madam Blossom to hide the gold and giving her a share of it, Jack and the Blacksmith were making other plans.  While the gold was being hidden in the basement of the club, Madam Blossom was making plans of her own to keep the gold.

 

 

      When Zen Yi was completely recovered, he found out where the Blacksmith was hiding out.  When he found the Blacksmith, he wanted in on the plan.  The Blacksmith was good at making weapons, but this time he was making his last as well as creating a new suit for Zen.  I know what you're thinking, "How in the world can he do that without his arms and hands?"  He had help of course, but his weapon was the "Iron Fists," hints the title of the movie.  Silver Lion and his crew wanted to celebrate with Madam Blossom and her girls.  So, as everyone celebrated, everything else was in order.  the Lions had planed on killing all the girls.  Madam Blossom and her girls had planed on killing the Lions.  The Blacksmith, Zen Yi, and Jack had also planed on killing the Lions.  The General and his solders on the other hand, had planed on killing any and everyone who got in the way of them retrieving the gold.  The General was sent to retrieve the gold no matter the cost.  We soon find out that Jack was also sent to retrieve the gold.  Everyone had their reasons for killing somebody.  The Blacksmith's reasons was because they took his arms and his woman Lady Silk and Zen Yi needed to avenge his father's death.

 

      As Madam Blossom walks passed the rooms her girls were in, she tapped these wooden sticks together twice.  When the girls heard that, these silver things came out of their mouths and the tips looked like snake tongues.  They were supposed to stick the guys in the neck with them, but Lady Silk wasn't as lucky as the others because she had Brass Body.  When your body is nothing but brass, it's a little hard to get rid of you.  That is unless you know all the sensitive key points in the human body.  Brass Body tossed Lady Silk around like she was a rag doll.  Barely hanging on to live, she died in Blacksmith's arms.  Madam Blossom does good on her own as well, unless she turns her back or tries to save an innocent child.  In this case, she does both, but she did think that the other guy was already dead.  Jack had a different mission other than getting the gold back.  Jack was no stranger to the Poison Dagger.  In fact, he was living with a constant reminder, the scar on the side of his face.  The Poison Dagger wasn't leaving alive.  In the end there were only three men left standing before the General was ready to kill everyone, Zen Yi/X-Blade, jack Knife, and The Man With The Iron Fists:  Blacksmith.

 

      This was a different kind of martial arts movie for me, but still enjoyable.  It didn't fall to far away from a Kung Fu type of movie.  It did show off a lot of martial art moves.  I give this movie a 4 star rating.  Well, that's all for now folks, til next time.........

 

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                       The Twilight Saga Series!

 

For all my Bella, Edward, and Jacob fans,  all day Thursday I will be posting my ratings on Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn pt. 1.  After Breaking Dawn pt. 1, there will be a shot posting where we will talk about Part 2 and late Thursday night going into Friday there will be the posting of the Final Chapter of the Twilight Saga.  So stay tuned because it's going to be a very exciting day.

 







"I'm gonna wreck it!!!"

      There are times when I think Disney knows what they're doing.  Come to think of it, I'm not really sure if there's a movie by Disney that I 've seen where I thought it was bad.  So anyway, here's a family movie by Disney that was very enjoyable.  Today's topic.......

Wreck it Ralph

 

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      "I'm gonna Wreck it!"

"Fix it Felix!"

"I can fix it!"

 

      I thought Wreck it Ralph was a great movie.  Something the whole family can enjoy.  I give Wreck it Ralph a 5 star rating.  So take the kids, or just yourself, and go see this movie.

The characters in this animated video game based movie were the voices of John C. Reilly (Ralph), Jack McBrayer (Fix it Felix Jr.), Jane Lynch (Calhoun), Sarah Silverman (Vanellope), and Alan Tudyk (King Candy).  Although there are plenty more of these characters, I figured we would stick to the main ones.

 

      First of all, before the movie started they played this really cute skit.  This man was at the train station or metro (whatever you want to call it) waiting on his train to come and take him to another days work.  In the skit they called him the paper man.  A piece of paper comes flying passed him and then he noticed the pretty lady running after it.  As she stands next to him, a piece of his paper goes flying and lands on her face leaving a lipstick "kiss" on the paper.  She laughs and points at the paper.  When he looks at it, he starts to laugh too, but when he looked back, she was gone. She already gotten on the train.  Well to make a long story short, or I guess a short story even shorter, while he was at work, he noticed she was in the building across the street. He began making paper airplanes and kept trying to get her attention but they just kept missing.  Despite the fact that his boss kept coming out, he kept trying.  Finally, he gave up and left work. As he tried to walk away all the paper airplanes followed him and stuck to him causing him to go a certain way.  While at the same time, the one with the lipstick kiss found her and made her follow it til they were in the same place.  I thought this skit alone was just too cute.

 

      Now, back to Wreck it Ralph.  Like they say in the previews, Ralph has been doing this for 30 years.  Always the bad guy.  However, Ralph doesn't want to be the bad guy, he wants to be the good guy for once.  He's never invited over, never gets pie, never gets a kiss on the cheek for doing a good job, and doesn't have any friends.  Ralph decides it's time for a change.  Ralph joins a group meeting for bad guys called Bad-Anon: One game at a time.  It's like an AA meeting, but for bad guys.  He listens to what the others have to say and he tells his story as well.  When Zangief announces himself, he talks about how he can crush peoples skull like an egg with his thighs.  He also said to Ralph, "You are 'bad guy,' doesn't mean you are 'bad guy.'"  Then the zombie announces himself telling Ralph, "....You must love you."  At the end of it, they say the "bad guy" affirmation which goes like this,

 

"I'm bad, and that's good.  I will never be good,

and that's not bad.  There's no one I'd rather

be then me."

 

Ralph wants to be good, he wants to have friends, but everyone is afraid of him and at home, they just don't like him.  So, Ralph decides to go game jumping and puts his game in jeopardy.  In order to get a metal, he has to find a game that gives out metals for doing something good.  So, Ralph went to Heroes Duty to get his "hero" metal.

 

"This is make your momma proud day."

"I love my momma!"

 

      Calhoun is the captain of these soldiers in the game Heroes Duty.  She is the one giving the instructions for the "first shooter" players.  Ralph starts to freak out and causes the player to lose.  When the arcade closes, the game characters leave and do their own thing.  Ralph, on the other hand, wanted that metal.  After reaching the metal and retrieving it, a computerized general and other soldiers appear to congratulate him.  As Ralph walks away proud of himself, he trips over a bunch of eggs and creates a big mess.  Inside these eggs are bugs and they grow in a very fast paste.  These bugs become whatever they eat and are naturally dangerous.

 

      So one of these bugs attacks Ralph and as he tries to get the beg off his face, he ends up in an air craft.  Leaving Heroes Duty, crashing into every wall in Game Central Station, and makes a crash landing in a game called Sugar Rush.  This game is a car racing game that features characters that represent some kind of candy.  This is also the game where Ralph meets Vanellope and King Candy.  Mean while Felix and Calhoun is trying to get Ralph and the bug back home where they belong.  With Ralph no longer in his game, the game is considered Out of Order with the possibility of being unplugged.  That is of course unless Ralph gets home before the arcade opens.  

 

    

 

      Calhoun needs to find the bug before it lays any eggs and destroy it.  When these bugs make it to another game, as Calhoun describes it, it becomes a virus.  Like any virus, the bugs destroy everything in its path.  However, like a fly or mosquito, they are attracted to that very bright burning light.

 

      Now, Vanellope has been described as the glitch and if she wins a race, she will be put in the roster and possibly selected by a gamer.  Once she is picked, the gamer will notice her glitch and the owner will have to unplug the game.  In the game world, if you are a glitch and you game gets unplugged, as everyone tries to escape, the glitch can not.  With that being said, if you are a glitch, you die with game.  King Candy was the reason for everything.  King Candy used to go by another name from another game that was unplugged.  So in short, as they call it in the gaming world, he went "turbo," jumping into other games.  King Candy stayed in Sugar Rush and reprogrammed everything and wiping out all the characters memories on the truth.  King Candy did everything to keep Vanellope out of the race because he knew if she won a race or just made it across the finish line, it would reset the whole game, including the character's memory.

      Vanellope and Ralph eventually established a bond.  They created a car that may have been fast enough to beat not only the other players but King Candy as well.  King Candy had a different idea.  He grabbed Ralph's metal and gave it back so that Ralph could go home.  However, before he let Ralph go, he told him the story that caused Ralph to trash Vanellope's car.  So Ralph, after going back home only to find out that he made a mess of thing's there as well, so he went back to Sugar Rush to help his friends.  Felix and Vanellope was locked up in King Candy's kingdom, an area he called "fungeon."  Now if you remember, Felix can fix everything.  He has a magic hammer, so whatever it touches it makes it better or just fixes it.  So, when Felix finds that he may be able to escape the fungeon, he taps the loose bar in his cell and the become bigger.  Once Ralph found Felix and apologized for what he did and the trouble he has caused, Felix agrees to fix Vanellope's car.  Once they reach Vanellope, the only way he can get her to accept his apology is by calling himself names.  Mean while, Calhoun discovered that the bug hatched dozens of eggs and the game was in trouble.  With the bugs busting out of the ground, this was even too much for Calhoun herself to do it alone.  Her only plan was to get everyone out of the game.  Ralph was on his way out with Vanellope, but as long as she was a glitch, she couldn't leave.  

 

      To wrap things up, in order to save the game, Ralph knew what he had to do.  You see, Vanellope lived in a hidden cave that had an unfinished track.  In this cave there was an inverted volcano, but instead of lava it was hot cola.  Instead of sharp rocks forming from the top of the cave it was Mentos.  Every time a mentos fell into the hot cola, it exploded.  With that being said, Ralph had to cause all the mentos to fall into the hot cola and create that very bright burning light that the bugs are attracted to in order to get rid of all the bugs.  Calhoun and Felix created a bond of their own and got married, Vanellope still got the chance to finish the race first and reset the game.  Everyone form Sugar Rush got the memory back and remembered who Vanellope really was.  She was the Queen (or princess) of Sugar Rush.  Ralph and Felix made it back home before the arcade opened and was able to save their home.  In fact, some of the characters even found a new home in Wreck it Ralph.  You will find that at Game Central Station there are a lot of "homeless" or "gameless" characters.  Well anyway, they created a bonus round where Felix gets help fixing and Ralph gets help Wrecking.  With Ralph taking it one game at a time, he finally understood the meaning of the Bad-Anon affirmation.  The characters of Wreck it Ralph began to enjoy Ralph.  They were nice to him and he started making friends.  Ralph even began enjoying being thrown off the building, because now, when they pick him up, Ralph gets a clear view of Sugar Rush and he gets to see Vanellope all the time.

 

      Well, that concludes my review of Wreck it Ralph.  Like I said, 5 stars.  Sure, what I wrote may not seem like it, but you could always go see it for yourself.  Hope you enjoyed today's topic.  That's all for now folks, til next time........

 

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              another spoiler coming your way,

                                            

                                                            The Man with The Iron Fists

 

So look out for it later Friday. 



Two spoilers coming up

Ok, so last weekend we had a great time with kids. We all went to go see Wreck it Ralph, so 
expect my spoiler alert review on that later today. Also, today the DH and I went to see The Man with The Iron Fists, and it was great! Expect my spoiler alert review on that later as well.  Until then my movie lovers.........


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Premium Rush

 

      Ok, so I had a little time on my hands and decided to go see a movie about bike messengers.  Seems lame right?  Who would want to go see a movie about a bunch of kids or adults caring packages on a bike?  Well, when the package is something that can get you killed and the fact that these messengers can ride almost as fast as the cars in this movie, you better believer that I would go see that movie.  Today's topic.......

 

PREMIUM RUSH

 

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      If you haven't seen this movie don't "rush" to off to the movies for it.  Besides, I don't think it's in theaters anymore anyway.  I would wait a while for this one to come out on DVD.  Don't get me wrong, the movie was good......umm......it was "ok."  So, if you're wondering who's in it, let's get started.   In this movie we have Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Wilee), Dania Ramirez (Vanessa), Wole Parks (Manny), Michael Shannon (Bobby Monday), Jamie Chung (Nima), Christopher Place (Bike Cop), Kin Shing Wong (Sudoku Man), Aasif Mandvi (Raj), and Anthony Chisholm (Tito).

 

      Like I said, I movie was ok.  It wasn't half bad.  You have Wilee, who seems to be the fastest messenger in New York.  At least it seems that way to everyone but Manny.  Manny is you typical jealous guy who wants everything Wilee has.  From the very pretty Vanessa (girlfriend), right down to his title of being the fastest biker messenger.  Yes, I said title.  At some point in the movie, they show a part where all the bikers form all the messenger companies get together at a bar and declare a title for the fastest biker.  I guess that's one reason to call the movie Premium Rush.

 

      With the title being what it is, I feel that this movie was rushed.  I mean sure, it had it's normal movie running time, 1hr and 30min, but there was barely any down time.  When it was over, I felt like I had only been there about 10min.  Aside from all of that, I did enjoy the way the movie started.  It starts with Wilee getting hit by a cab and then hitting the ground.  I know that sounds bad but then they show the time and rewind back and show us what happened before the run in with the cab.  The other parts that I really liked was how Wilee could find an exit through all the traffic, except of course the one when he and the cab go to know each other a little better.

 

      Wilee is being chased by on NYPD who's name is Bobby Monday and has some serious issues.  Did I mention some anger management problems?  Bobby is having one hell of a day.  Bobby is your typical "I need to borrow money from a long shark" gambler.  You already know where this is going, right?  So they make a deal with him.  There is word that there is a ticket worth $50,000, if Bobby can retrieve the ticket, his debt will be whipped clean.  However, Wilee and the rest of the messenger don't make it very easy for him.

 

      As the day progresses, Wilee has been chased and nearly killed by Bobby while at the same time being chased by NYPD's Bike Cop.  Whom by the way Wilee out runs every time.  That is of course until the Bike Cop gives up.  After nearly getting killed, Wilee is ready to turn around and give back the package, until Nima tells him the truth behind this $50,000 ticket.  At this point, he has a change of heart and tries to get the package back so that he can be sure it makes it to the right person.  After chasing after Manny and racing Manny, Wilee and Vanessa get the ticket back for their friend Nima.  This is when Wilee and the cab meet.  Needless to say, Wilee realized this was too much for him and his girlfriend to handle alone and seeing as how it is the NYPD chasing them, they couldn't really get the police involved.  So, they called in the Calvary and Nima did what she was told to do when she purchased the ticket.  Nima was told not to get the police involved and if there was any problems, she was to call a number and let them know so they could take care of it themselves.  There's a happy ending in almost every movie.  In this one, every bike messenger company came together to help one of their own and the ticket made it to where it was suppose to go.  Althought Wilee, Vanessa, and Nima got their happy ending, Bobby Monday wasn't so lucky.  This movie gets 3 1/2 stars from me.  That's all for now, til next time folks.........

 

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I know, I know, I'm late......Taken 2

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      Although this wasn't as good as the first one, it still had me on the edge of my sit.  With that being said, I won't bore you with an intro, today's topic.......

TAKEN 2

 

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      OK, now you all have seen Taken, right?  If you haven't you should.  Let's take a quick review, shall we.  In Taken, we had Liam Neeson (Bryan Mills), Famke Janssen (Lenore), and Maggie Grace (Kim).  There were a lot more but I'm keeping this short.  Kim goes out of the country with a friend, meets some random guy, goes to the friend's house, and gets kidnapped.  Now in the process of getting "taken," she  calls her dad, Bryan, and tells him that she's made there safely, as she turns around she can see everything that's going on.  As she explains to Bryan what's happening, he's packing things up.  To sum this up, Bryan eliminates everyone in his path to get his daughter back.  Taken was a 5 star movie for me and was worth buying the movie on DVD, or if you have a blu-ray player, then it was worth buying it on blu-ray.

 

      Now, Taken 2 of course has the same main characters as well as Rade Serbedzija (Murad Krasniqi), Luke Grimes (Jamie), D.B. Sweeney (Bernie), Jon Gries (Casey), and Leland Orser (Sam).  Now as you all should know, Sam, Casey, and Bernie are all good friends with Bryan.  However, they're not really in this one but you do see them about 2 times. 

 

      The movie starts with Bryan going to Lenore's to pick up Kim.  However, Kim isn't home and Lenore tries her best to lie about where she is.  Bryan soon finds out and goes to pick her up at her boyfriend's place.  As Jamie answers the door he tries to introduce himself once Bryan lets him know that he is Kim's dad.  Highly embarrassed, Kim storms out and drives Bryan and herself back home.  Kim is still struggling with the fact that she was taken so she tries to live a normal life without fear.  As Kim and her mom, Lenore, try to plan a vacation with Lenore's husband, but something goes wrong and he cancels on them.  When Lenore explains this to Bryan, he invites them to his business trip.  Letting Lenore know how long the business part of it would take, he also let's her know that he can get them an extra room and they can stay a few days and enjoy some vacation time as a family.

 



 

      Just as Bryan finishes his last and final meeting he attempts to call Kim to see if they were coming.  As he is in the middle of his message, his daughter surprises him.  Now, before any of that takes place, there is a funeral going on.  Remember those men Bryan killed in the first movie?  Well, their bodies were finally sent back to their country and this was their funeral.  Remember the guy Bryan had tied up to a chair and electrocuted him?  Well, his father, Murad Krasniqi, wants revenge for his son's untimely death.  While Bryan, Lenore, and Kim try to enjoy their vacation, Bryan noticed a guy watching them, so Bryan proceeded with caution as he and Lenore left the hotel.  Leaving Kim behind (which was part of her plan), Bryan and Lenore head out to enjoy the day.  However, that was short lived.  Bryan noticed a vehicle following them since they left.  He tells Lenore to get out and gives her directions back to the hotel.  Sadly, she doesn't make it that far.  Lenore was taken.  As Bryan trys to get away, he ends up fighting a few men.  Finding himself surrounded, he noticed Lenore with a gun to her head.  At that point he called Kim and told her.......

"Kim, Listen carefully, you mother and I are about to be taken, and soon you will be too....."

      In short, he tells her to get to safety.  When he hung up, he smashed the phone and tossed the gun and was jumped by the guys that were surrounding him.  With a sack over his head not knowing where he was going, he began to count the seconds, right up until he heard something each time or until they stopped.  He heard a bell, a man playing an instrument, and a dog barking.  When he came to again, he was tied up hanging by his hands just barely on his knees.  At that moment he also saw Lenore on the ground.  He manages to still have a way to call someone in case of an emergency.  Bryan pulls out this small, one button, square phone with a very small screen.  This phone only displayed numbers and was a (I think) phone only.  So first he tries his friend Sam at home, but he gets the answering machine.  His next call is his daughter.  Kim wants to help her dad so that everyone gets home alive.  Bryan tries so hard to say no, but even he knew she was his best shot at getting out alive.  Bryan can hear someone coming so he hurries off the phone.  Murad and a few of his goons come in and have a chat with Bryan.  As Murad explains to Bryan why this is happening to him and his family, he tells Murad why he killed those men and why he killed Murad's son.  Murad didn't care, that was his son and he wanted justice, he wanted revenge for his son, revenge for his family, and revenge for his people.  One of his goons puts a small cut on Lenore's neck and hung her upside down which causes the blood to drain faster and for her to pass out.  His goal was for Bryan to watch Lenore die, but we all know that wasn't going to happen.  Bryan manages to break free and get Lenore down.  He calls Kim back and tells her to throw a grenade up high where there were no innocent people standing, so that he can see if he can hear it.  Once he heard the boom from the grenade, he was able to tell Kim which way to go. 

 

      The closer she got, the more dangerous this got for her.  When she threw the last grenade, he knew she was close.  Bryan made it to where white smoke was coming out from a building.  When Kim got to the building, she threw a gun down the whole.  Time was running out for the both of them.  The last grenade set off some alarms for the goons, so they went to check it out.  Two or  three chase Kim while others go check on Bryan and Lenore.  They noticed Lenore on the ground and not hanging upside down anymore.  Then they noticed Bryan was missing, or at least they thought he was.  Bryan came from another end of the room once he was able to retrieve the gun and shot all of them.  Bryan takes out everyone in the building.  He even chased the men that were chasing Kim.  However, when he came back for Lenore, she was gone.  Unfortunately, Murad and three other guys got to her first.

 

      Knowing how dangerous this mission is, Bryan's main concern is getting Kim to safety.  Kim is the driver in this scene because, as Bryan puts it, she can't shoot.  As they're being chased, Bryan has Kim crash right into the U.S. Embassy.  To ensure they don't get shot down, Bryan takes out his small phone and calls Sam on his cell.  He informs Sam that they're in some trouble and crashed into the U.S. Embassy and needs him to make a call so that they stay alive.  Once everything is worked out, Bryan heads back out to save Lenore.  As he eliminates more men in his way, getting closer and closer to Lenore, it begins to look like he has met his match.  Bryan has to face one last guy before reaching Murad.  During this brutal fist fight, it almost looked like he had this look on his face that read, "I'm getting too old for this shit."  However, in the end, Bryan is the last man standing.  When finds Murad, he trys to reason with him because he knows it will be a never ending battle with their families.  Bryan wants to end the feud so that he can go home with his girls and Murad can go home to his other sons and grandchildren.  Murad agrees and Bryan tosses the gun and starts to walk away.  With his back to Murad, he hears the empty clip of the gun click.  Murad had no intentions on letting Bryan walk out of there alive.  You see Bryan's not stupid.  So he turns back around, shows Murad the bullets in his hand and then smashes Murad's head in the wall up against faucet.  Yeah, he's dead.  

 

      Bryan gets the girls home safely and Kim passes the drivers test.  To celebrate, they go out for shakes.  The only problem is there's one too many shakes at the table.  Lenore has invited Jamie, Kim's boyfriend.  In a playful manner, Kim and Lenore keep asking if it's ok for Jamie to be there.  Of course Bryan allows it and ask Jamie to have a seat as the properly introduce themselves.

Always with the happy endings.  This movie was great, I give it 4 1/2 stars.  That's all for now folks, til next time..........

 

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PREMIUM RUSH 

 

 



(LATE, I KNOW) LOOPER

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      Ok, so despite the fact that I'm late with this movie, on September 28, 2012, a futuristic, time traveling movie came to the theaters.  Although it was nothing like Back to the Future or the Time Traveler's Wife, it did bring a different perspective to how things could turn out in the very near future.  Just not quite the same way.  With that eing said, todays topic is

 

LOOPER

 

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    As always, we start with the actors and actresses along with their characters.  Starting with the two main leads, we have Joseph Gorden-Levitt (Joe) and Bruce Willis (old Joe).  With them is Emily Blunt (Sara), Pierce Gagnon (Cid), Paul Dano (Seth), Frank Brennan (old Seth), Noah Segan (kid Blue), Piper Perabo (Suzie), Jeff Daniels (Abe), Qing Xu (Summer), and Garret Dillahunt (Jesse).

 

    The year is 2044 (or somewhere close) and there are people called Loopers who assassinate people from the future.  These people have blocks of silver or gold strapped to their backs and put in the time traveling machine.  Now if a Looper finds gold strapped to the back of the person they assassinated, that meant that they were done with being a Looper. Sort of like a retirement.  Why, you ask?  Because the just assassinated their future selves.  When I saw this, I thought that if you killed your future self, you would disappear.  Not in this movie.  As long as you killed your future self, you retire as a looper and hope to continue living for at least 30 more years, if you're lucky.  If not, well then you end up like Seth. 

 

    Seth got his person, however he did not kill old Seth.  Seth's older vergin of himself starts saying things only he knows (unfortunately we don't get to hear it).  As Seth stands there looking lost, old Seth asks for a cigarette and then runs.  Seth trys to hide while old Seth trys to run, but neither of them are lucky enough to get away.  No, instead Seth turns to the only friend he knows, Joe.  Joe agrees to help Seth for a short time.  When Joe see Abe, Abe makes things very clear to Joe.  Abe is willing to give Joe a scond chance but only if he gives up his friend Seth.  Joe sees no other way out, so he tells Abe where Seth is.  When Seth is captured they find a way to get old Seth as well by torture, and old Seth meets them somewhere to finish the job as his body starts to disappear.   

 Kid Blue is a young guy who is desperate for Abe's approval.  Kid walks with a limp because he shot his foot.  Kid is also the guy Abe calls when someone doesn't kill their mark.

 

    Joe desperately wants to help this stripper/whore who happens to be a single mother named Suzie.  Unfortunately, she turns him down.  Joe wakes up the next day to do his job, only his mark is late.  When his mark arrives, the man's face isn't covered like all the others and this makes Joe freeze.  When the man raises his head, Joe knows it's his future self and attempts to finish the job but gets knocked out.  At first, this scene looks like a dream to me because when Joe is found and falls off the fire excape, they jump back to him waking up again for another days work.  Once he's at his spot and waiting for his mark, the man shows up again, only this time he's on thime and covered.  Joe does his job and kills his mark, never revealing the man's face, he rolls him over and sees the gold and then, at that moment, he knew he had killed himself.  From there, he parties to celebrate his retirement and moves to China.  He got a job with what looks like a mob of some sort.  As Joe got older, he finds a woman that changes everything for hime, her name is Summer.  She makes things better for Joe and they get married.  However, her role was short lived.  When a group of 3 or 4 men show up to take "old" Joe away, Summer is killed right in front of him.  When he fights for his life, he enters the time machine and there stands Joe.  Before Joe shoots, he realizes his mark isn't wearing a mask and it was at that very moment when he knew who that was.

 

    A very short fight broke out between the tow of them, it ended with old Joe knocking out young Joe.  When young Joe woke up, he noticed a note in his pocket that, in short, read, "Run!"  Of course young Joe didn't want to run, he wanted his life back.  The first thing young Joe does is he trys to get to his stash of silver but he's a little too late for that.  Kid and some other guys were already there.  As Joe trys to run, Kid catches hime and Joe manages to lock Kid inside of the safe.  Just whn it seems he can make a clean break, Joe is caught again by one of the other guys.  Lucky for Joe, old Joe was outside waiting, wondering why Joe didn't do what he was told, why he would think he could run home first.  With both of them on the run for two different reasons, Joe comes up with a plan to lower old Joe to the dinner he always goes to after he finishes the job.  Old Joe tells young Joe how one of his friends figured out what was going on in the future that was changing the past.  This friend gave hime some numbers that was linked to 3 babies that was born on the smae day in the same hospital.  These 3 kids still lived in the same city.  The difference between all 3 of them is one of them is very smart yet so very dangerous.  The smallest amount of fear or anger can set this kid off.  Old Joe's plan is to kill this kid so that he cna continue his life with Summer.  However, things get a little too complacated.  While both of them are still on the run, young Joe starts to get sick because of the drugs had taken, he was beginning to have withdraws and stumbeled across a home in the fields.  This home has one of the 3 children Joe is looking for.  This is when Joe meets Sara and her son Cid.

 

    You learn that when a peron relives the same life over and over agin, they tend to remember the things that have happened before.  Take Cid for example, Cid knows that when he gets older, he plans on changing the world.  Finding a way to it better due to all the "voilence" from the past.  One of Cid's memories is one that no child should ever have to wittness which is seeing his mother's death.  It's this memory that has Cid convenced that he is going to change things forever.    Has it clicked yet?  Are the pieces coming together for you?

At the same time that young Joe is protecting this mother and child, old Joe has already killed one of the three kids on his list.  Since there was no change in his future, he knew that wasn't the kid.  As he makes his way to the next kid, he recongizes the kids' parent.  It's Suzie, the stripper and her kid.  When he gets ready to make his move, young Joe, Sara and Cid get a visitor from the Looper business.  Young Joe recongized him and called him Jesse.  Infoming Sara that Jesse won't hessitate to kill her if she makes a move.  While Cid is upstairs being quiet, Jesse and Joe have a conversation.  Jesse didn't want to kill nor bring Joe in to Abe, so he was willing to let Joe go as if he never saw him at Sara's place.  However, they were interupped by Cid walking down the stairs.  Catching Jesse off gauard, he points his gun at Cid which scares him and he steps down on the next step the wrong way and falls down the stairs.  Jesse releases his gun when he realizes it's just a kid, Joe trys to catch Cid before he hits his head on the ground, and Sara tackles Joe all the way out the house.  I know what your thinking, why wouldn't she let Joe save her son, or why didn't she save him herself?  Well, Cid needed no saving because, if you haven't figured it out yet, Cid is the ultiment weapon.  It just takes fear or anger and this kid makes sure you don't wake up the next day.  How you ask?  With his mind and a very powerful scream.  His mind controls gravity, so first lifting everything off the ground and then comes the very powerful scream.  When Cid screams, it's very high pitched making things, or in the case, Jesse explode.  It was at that moment when both young and old Joe knew which kid it was.  Old Joe finds out because anything that happens to the young vergin of yourself, your future self gets or remembers.  However, in the middle of trying to get rid of another child, old Joe gets caught by Kid Blue.    Kid brings Joe to Abe.  

 

    Now earlier in the movie, you learn that it is Abe that gives Joe the Looper job.  So, I guess you could say that because of Abe, Joe is a pretty damn good shooter, he never misses his mark.  With that being said, Abe's biggest mistake was putting a gun in a very young Joe's hands and teaching him to be great, no, the best at this job.  Abe paid for that mistake when old Joe killed everyone including Abe, well almost everyone.  When he was finsihed, he continued to his mission and made his way to the field.  Young Joe, still determined to keep Cid alive despite what he knows about the kid and what he is capible of doing.  Needless to say, Kid Blue finally dies at the hands of young Joe while old Joe makes his way to Cid and Sara.  From a distance, young Joe starts to remember everything from his future.  As Sara continues to stand in the way and protect her son even though he doesn't believe she is his mother, at least not until this very moment.  Once again, Cid gets very scared and begains to control gravity, lifiting both Sara and old Joe in the air.  It takes the soft and calm voice of Sara to calm him down and that's when he knew that she was his mom.  Once Cid is calm, Sara tells him to run as she continues to block Joe form killing her son.  While young Joe was keeping them safe, Cid told him how his mother dies.  Cid said his mother was killed by a man.  It was at that moment when young Joe realizes that it is him, his future self that kills Sara.  She said to Joe, things will be fine as long as he has me.  Sara believes that as long as she is around, Cid won't change things, he be "bad."  So, to end it all, instead of just killing his future self, he kills himself.  Turning the gun away from old Joe and turning it on himself, he pulls the trigger and old Joe disappears.  Leaving both Sara and Cid safe and with a truck load of silver bricks. 

 

    I give this movie a 4 star rating.  I enjoyed this, it was different, but still enjoyable.  It didn't have a whole lot of action to it, but I'm ok with that.  What I liked the most was the part when old Joe gets brought in by Kid and starts shooting up the place.  It had a kind of Die Hard kick to it.  ;-)

Well folks, that's all for now, but stay tuned cause there's more coming.  Til then.........

 

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Next up.............             Taken 2 (and it's another spoiler)      

 

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OK SO I'M A LITTLE UPSET WITH MYSELF FOR GETTING TOO FAR BEHIND ON MY MOVIE POST. HOWEVER, ALL IS GOOD. I WILL BE POSTING MOVIE REVIEWS WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS OR SO. WATCH OUT, THERE ARE GOING TO BE 2 SPOILER ALERTS.  SO, KEEP A LOOK OUT FOR SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN, AMERICAN REUNION, PREMIUM RUSH, LOOPER, AND TAKEN 2.