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Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is the biggest weapons manufacturer in America. He is a genius and billionaire. On a trip to the middle east to show off a new missile he is captured by terrorists who want him to build them the missile for them. While imprisoned he builds a high tech armor and escapes. When he gets back to [...]
Archive for the 'Action' Category
Iron Man
May 6, 2008Spider-Man 2
May 1, 20089/10
Spider-Man 2 is an awesome sequel that picks up two years after the first movie. Peter is struggling keeping in control between his two identities. His love is engaged to someone else, his once amazing grades are now slipping, and his best friend wants to kill Spider Man. Also there is a new villian Doc Ock(Alfred Molina), a [...]
Spider-Man
May 1, 20088.5/10
Of any comic book heroes spider-man is definitely coolest in my book. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is the local nerd who lives with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York. He is in love with the girl next door Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst). On a field trip he gets bitten by an experimented on spider [...]
Cinderella Man
April 21, 20089/10
Cinderella Man is the inspiring true story about James Braddock a boxer during the Great Depression. Braddock (Russell Crowe) is a down and out has been barely getting by, and trying to support his family. He goes every day to the docks looking for work and sometimes gets a fight at night. Braddock gets back into boxing and trains to fight Max Baer the champ [...]
The Day After Tomorrow
April 10, 20086.5/10
People rant and rave about global warming destroying the environment. In The Day After Tomorrow it really does when it causes a ton of natural disasters followed by the earth freezing. Dennis Quaid plays climatologist Jack Hall who knows somthing bad is coming because of the polar ice caps melting or something like that. He [...]
War of the Worlds
April 9, 20088/10
War of the Worlds is a sci-fi alien invasion flick. It is very loosely based on the H.G. Wells novel of the same name. Tom Cruise plays Ray Ferrier a divorced dad who takes his kids one weekend. During this weekend ALIENS ATTACK!! They come down in a lightning storm and pilot huge tripods that vaporize [...]
The Patriot
March 4, 20088.5/10
The Patriot occurs in America during the war for her independence. Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), a former hero of the French and Indian War, a widower and father of seven hopes to shelter his family form the Revolutionary War. His attempts are made useless when his oldest son Gabriel (Heath Ledger) enlists in the colonial army to battle the Brits. Eventually Gabriel returns home [...]
The Invasion
February 26, 20087.5/10
The Invasion is the fourth movie adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel The Body Snatchers. I personally have not read the book or seen any of the other versions of the movie so I don’t know how true this holds to the original, but in my opinion this is a decent movie. A space shuttle crashes with a [...]
Deja Vu
February 21, 20088/10
Déjà Vu is defined as the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously (an individual feels as though an event has already happened or has repeated itself). Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) experiences a situation somewhat like this when a ferry explodes killing hundreds of people. Doug an ATF agent [...]
Red Eye
February 14, 20088/10
Red Eye is a light thriller that stars Rachel McAdams as a hotel manager named Lisa Reisert. She has a fear of flying but has to because of a death in the family. One the trip back from the funeral while delayed for a flight to Miami she meets the creepy but seemingly nice Jackson (Cillian Murphey) and talks with [...]