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The Transporter: Directed by Cory Yuen, a Hong Kong action filmmaker proves it that action beats'em all. Staring Jason Statom, Shui Qui and some maglev BMW's the flick turns out to be a worth a watch. Statom plays Frank an ex-military officer set in picturesque France is the Transporter. He follow's his rules and happens to break one which turns out to be disastrous. He is car freek who transports packages with sophesticated analysis and gets mangled in a human smuggling organisation with a so called cook who owns a Merc, whoes father is the head of the organisation. There's so much hot Hong Kong-style action, you'll be halfway into the film before you realize that there's hardly any plot. But who cares--this is the kind of guy who beats people up with their own arms! And we won't complain if you won't.Don't get late for the movie, as the first scene is not what you want to miss, it involves a great Style. Must we say anymore, so rush to the thetre. -
The Ring:
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The film opens as teenagers Katie (Amber Tamblyn) and Becca (Rachael Bella) are having a sleepover and spooking each other with ghost stories. Trouble is, the urban legend Becca retells is all too true, as Katie is just about to find out in the most grisly of ways. The story centers on a mysterious videotape that, should you be so unfortunate as to view it, will kill you in seven days (you know this because someone calls right after you watch it to alert you that you're gonna kick). Katie and her friends watched it, and sure enough, they're all dead a week later--sparking Katie's aunt, an investigative journalist named Rachel (Naomi Watts), to uncover what happened and why. When the trail leads her to the sinister tape, she watches it, receives the foreboding phone call, and consequently sets off on a race against time to somehow save her life by finding out the meaning of what she's seen. She enlists the help of Noah (Martin Henderson), the father of her rather strange and solitary young son Aidan (David Dorfman)--who, like all kids in horror movies these days, is seeing frightening visions too--and over the course of seven days, the two find themselves embroiled in a mystery that involves the tape, a twisted family and dying horses. Bottom Line Beware of plot holes you could drive a Mack truck through, and enjoy this well-done thriller-slash-horror movie that has some good, scary jolts, provocative images and an intriguing premise.
Story Hanks is Michael Sullivan: by day a devoted family man, by night a gangland enforcer in Depression-era Chicago, carrying out brutal missions for the patriarch of the Irish mob, John Rooney (Newman). Rooney also happens to have been a surrogate father to the orphaned Sullivan, and the actual father of a witless, conniving offspring, Connor (Daniel Craig). Connor causes one of Sullivan's jobs to go awry--and worse, the bullet-riddled outcome is witnessed by Sullivan's eldest son, Michael Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin). Suddenly, the Sullivan family is marked for death by the Rooney clan, with tragic consequences. As Michael Jr. struggles with the horror of his family's murder and the knowledge of his father's bloody business, Sullivan embarks on a vicious, vengeful quest to even the score--discovering various levels of deception; encountering real-life Chicago mobster Frank Nitti (Stanley Tucci); battling the eccentric, photo-obsessed hit man Maguire (Jude Law); and all the while struggling to salvage his son's soul as he travels, literally and figuratively, down the road to perdition. Bottom Line Road to Perdition is certainly a film worth watching, especially for the vibrant performances of Tom Hanks, Paul Newman and Jude Law; the wonderfully rendered visuals; and the challenging moral questions. But it isn't perfectly satisfying, proving even a blazing Tommy gun can miss the bull's-eye
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