Director Rick Jacobson Staring Julia Voth, Erin Cummings and America Olivo Rated MA Score 1/6 Three bad girls travel to a remote desert hideaway to steal $200 million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin. The liberal use of green screen gave bitch slap a slight comic book feel to it, fans of 2006 movie…
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Total Recall
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Director Len Wiseman Staring Colin Farrell, Bokeem Woodbine, Kate Beckinsale and Bryan Cranston Rated M Score 1.5/6 A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall – a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led – goes…
The Raid Redemption
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Directed by Gareth Evans Staring Iko Uwais, Ananda George and Ray Sahetapy Rating MA Score 6/6 A SWAT team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs. I hope that The Raid got a cinematic release in Australia, though I am glad that I picked this…
The Devil’s Double
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Director Lee Tamahori Staring Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier and Raad Rawi Rated MA Score 6/6 Army Lieutenant Latif Yahia is summoned to Saddam’s palace, he is faced with an impossible request – to be Uday’s ‘fiday’ – his body double, or have his family condemned to death. In a world entrenched in betrayal and corruption,…
In the Name of the King Two Worlds
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Director Uwe Boll Staring Dolph Lundgren, Natassia Malthe and Lochlyn Munro Rating M Score 2/6 An ex-Special Forces soldier gets thrown back to medieval times to fulfil an ancient prophecy and ends up finding redemption for his own battlefield experiences. Okay, just like the previous In the Name of the King controversial German director Uwe…
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
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Director Timur Bekmambetov Staring Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell and Dominic Cooper Rated MA Score 2/6 Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them. I actually almost missed watching this one at my local cinema; though to…
Killer Elite
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Director Gary McKendry Staring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro Rating MA Score 4/6 When his mentor is taken captive, a retired member of Britain’s Elite Special Air Service is forced into action. His mission: kill three assassins dispatched by their cunning leader. This one is based on a novel called The Feather…
Hijacked
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Director Brandon Nutt Staring Dominic Purcell, Vinnie Jones and Randy Couture Rating MA Score 2.5/6 A special agent’s plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing. Despite what ends being a slight clever ending,…
The Dark Knight Rises
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Director Christopher Nolan Staring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Morgan Freeman Rating M Score 5/6 Eight years on, a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham’s finest, and the Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy. Finally, we have reached the conclusion…
This Means War
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Director McG Staring Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine and Tom Hardy Rating M Score 4/6 Two top CIA operatives wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman. I was actually surprised with this movie, for starters with action comedies I was not expecting that there would be any…