Friday, September 25, 2009

Surrogates

Willis has hair, well at least his surrogate does. Interesting Sci-Fi that has Bruce Willis playing an FBI agent who is looking for the reason why when surrogates(robots) die, the actual people controling them die as well. Surrogates(you can have one in any shape/style/looks/etc.) have taken over all the controllers functions by design. Once again Bruce saves the day! 21/2 bananas

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

This series is getting long in the tooth. Great special effects, plot just average. Harry again battling evil in the Hogwart kingdom. Time for Harry to dump the magic and get some loving! 2 bananas

Extract

Owner of an extract bottling company, who's not getting any nookie at home, decides that in order for him to be able to put it to one of his employees without feeling gulity, pays a supposed pool boy to service his wife. Well everything that can, goes wrong. Sometimes funny, sometimes just stupid. 11/2 bananas

Monday, September 21, 2009

The Informant

Loosely based on the ADM price fixing scandal of the early 1990s, Matt Damon plays the nerdy Bio-Tech VP who blows the whisle on ADM but continues to dig himself deeper into the situation with all his lies. Very funny and Damon gives an Oscar performance. Don't miss it! 31/2 bananas

Friday, September 18, 2009

The Final Destination

If you liked the first 3 Final Destinations, you'll like more of the same in this. Again one person has premonition of impending death/diaster only to find that the people who were saved can not cheat death. Some terrific gory death scenes. 11/2 bananas

District 9

You'll either love it or hate it! I loved it. If you like sci-fi mixed with creepy looking aliens and tons of gore this is for you. A disabled space ship finds itself parked over Johannsburg for 20 years. The aliens are powerless thus are herded into camps which soon become gettos. The South African government decides to move the gettos further out of town and this is when the fun starts. 31/2 bananas

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Whiteout

Kate Beckinsale is a U S Marshall stationed in an Antartic Scientific station and has 72 hours(last plane leaves for 6 months) to figure out a murder tied into events that happened 50 some years ago. Terrific opening but somewhat lack luster after. 2 bananas

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Inglorious Basterds

Tarantino at his Best. Entertaining, gruesome and sometimes comical adaptation of how WWII could have have played out. 2 different sub plots come together with dramatic and surprising endings. Brad Pitt leads a group of Jewish American soliders into France to create havic among the Germans by all sorts of VERY unusual means; meanwhile a cinema owner has her own plans for justice. Definitely a guys flick, not so sure about the ladies. 31/2 bananas