hiwatt Reviews

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Wow

[10/10 · 18 January 2000]

I first saw this movie on TBS one night, and wasn't all that interested in it at first. But as the movie progressed, I found myself totally glued to the TV. This movie is quite possibly the best movie I've ever seen. Every single thing in this movie is perfect, the acting, chemistry, plot. Its all so wonderfully done. The ending of this movie was really great. Its really hard to describe how good this movie is. Just go get it, you'll never regret seeing it.

Predator 2 (1990)

biggest stinky c**p

[1/10 · 18 January 2000]

This movie plain sucks. I am a really big fan the original predator, but this movie is junk compared to it. This movie totally undermines the whole principal of the predator. The predator is a hunter, not a mass murderer. He doesn't go around killing everyone he can, he picks choice kills and hunts them. Why did he kill all those people in the subway? Who knows? He didn't even take trophies of them. The scene with Keys when he tries to capture the predator is totally predictable, woo, i wonder whats gonna happen. Maybe his whole team will get killed by the predator. Hmm, its a real toughy. Then we get the predator running into some apartment, crushing some wall tiles, and making some kind of healing substance. Is there something i dont know about wall tiles? or have they always had medicinal properties? Maybe its a pred thing. Then comes the ending scene, which totally baffled me. Danny Glover survives a fall down a elevator shaft, and ends up in a predator ship that somehow got into a underground tunnel. Well, how in the hell did the predators manage to get a ship into a tunnel in the middle of a city with no one noticing? Anyways, danny starts beating up a predator which has killed about 50 people through the movie with ease, but some how now has trouble killing danny, whose gotten his butt kicked throughout the entire movie. Well *surprisingly* danny glover kills the predator, when all of a sudden.. a bunch of other predators appear. They seem to have no problem with the fact that one of their buddies just died, because they dont do squat to him, besides giving him some old gun, which makes no sense at all. What does this old gun symbolize? I have no idea. Well danny decides its time to leave, so he jumps out, and we have almost the exact same ending as predator, only in a city setting. Everything in this movie is pretty bad. The predator couldnt hold a stick up to the one in the original, he just doesnt have the same amount of skill. The jamacian drug lords are laughable stereotypes, pot smoking, rastafarian, pimps with uzis. Danny Glover is the typical cop who cant stay out of trouble, with his rag tag posse of cops who all manage to get killed. I want to know why in every sci fi movie, they always have to have some scientist who wants to try and capture or make peace with some monster who has killed countless numbers of people. I have to agree with the person who was talking about danny glovers pants. They are freakin hilarious. At least 2 sizes too big and drooping all over. Everything in this movie stinks. Dont see it. Its got every hollywood cliche all rolled into one movie. Stay far away from this movie.

Aliens (1986)

One of the greatest science fiction movies ever.

[10/10 · 2 January 2000]

I first saw Aliens several years ago, and right away i was totally blown away by how good it was. This movie has everything you would ever want to see in a science fiction movie: good one liners, lots of action, excellent story, well developed characters etc etc. If you haven't seen this movie yet, your missing out on one of the greats, I greatly recommend it. If you can, get your hands on the directors cut VHS, or the Alien Legacy DVD's, I guarantee you wont regret it!