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Tru Calling (2003)
Total waste of time.
The only thing it has to offer is the interesting opposites of Tru and Jack, their choices and viewpoints, and the philosophical questions that it raises. Tru feels that she is helping people who aren't supposed to die, and Jack feels that they are supposed to die, and she is messing with fate's plan, or the universe's plan, or such-whatnot.
But she is obviously able to change things, so there is obviously no such thing as fate in the series' metaphysics. Jack has no basis for believing that there is. And very conveniently, Tru never asks him the right questions. Nobody does. Which obviously proves that the makers of the series don't have an answer.
There simply is no plot!
Instead, they leave it murky in order for the series to be able to continue with it's boring girl stuff, only occasionally interrupted by Tru and Jack's racing against each other towards ends that are unknown...
It turns out that there is nothing to any of it. A teenage pop series with that pretends to be something else.
Your time will be better spent sleeping.
Ong-Bak (2003)
A milestone in martial arts
SOOO wonderful to have another actor, who refuses to use strings, since Jackie Chan chickened out. As a long time practitioner and fan of martial arts and martial arts movies, I can say without a doubt, that Phanom Yeerum (the lead actor) is the best ever. As a bonus, this movie also stars the most intoxicatingly adorable and mesmerizingly beautiful woman, I've ever seen - Pumwaree Yodkamol. I would have watched the movie for her alone. I give this movie a 10, and the version I saw doesn't even have subtitles. And no, I don't speak a word of Thai!
The Rookie (1990)
An Eastwood classic. Hilarious.
Perfect action-comedy, for the day. Sheen and Eastwood are amazing together. The lines are fun in the same way as all of Eastwood's oldies. They pull it off on sheer charisma, in the end looking like two totally stressed out, beat up bums, hanging on by the skin of their teeth. The only ones who don't like this film are morally concerned individuals, who can't take a joke like this, and complain about how this film favors breaking the law and using violence as a means to do the right thing. Highly recommended.
Underworld (2003)
Perfect (if you like vampires and action)
Great action, good plot and full of interesting and sympathetic characters, especially Viktor, who is played MARVELOUSLY by Bill Nighy. Few film characters have made such an memorable impression on me, seriously.
I liked everything about it except one little detail, which I can't reveal without spoiling it.
A must for vampire lovers.
Frost: Portrait of a Vampire (2003)
So UNBELIEVABLY bad, I despair
The movie's abysmal idiocy is not as terrifying as the fact that some of those who comment on it here on IMDb actually like it (like mortalli and coyote13). It's not just bad or disappointing. Someone should be made to PAY for releasing this onto the market. I actually went by Blockbuster's and complained, demanding my money back and for them to take the movie off the shelf. I LOVE the vampire concept, and stalk video stores for anything of the sort, knowing that I will be able to filter any bad things about such a movie out, and enjoy the good parts that I so love. Well, not this time. Absolute torture. Avoid at all costs. Seriously. It's not even funny.
Se7en (1995)
The greatest, deepest, most insightful film I have ever seen.
****SPOILER****
This is a philosophical comment to the POINT of the film, so it is quite in-depth. Although it does not go too much into the plot directly, the film is more enjoyable if one discovers said points of the films for oneself. Continue at own risk.
Somerset: "The first thing they teach you, is that if you are being raped, don't shout "rape". Shout "fire". THEN people will come running..... I just can't go on working in a place that nurtures apathy as if it were a virtue".
The point of Seven is moral more than religious. Its point concerns APATHY, and explains how apathy actually IS evil. A New Testament example of this is the story of Lazarus (Don't get me wrong. I'm an atheist and deeply loathe the bible as a whole. Nevertheless, in part, the bible has a point here.). The wealthy man is deemed evil (in the eyes of God/eternity/objectivity) because of his apathy towards the needy (Lazarus) - evil enough, in fact, to be cast into hell. The moral of the story (of Lazarus as well as Seven) is that active harm is not necessary for one to be evil. One merely needs to abstain from doing good. Not all evil people NEED to actively harm others to get what they want. Some already have it, and choose to let others die at their door.
So I have no doubt that the people that Doe killed were evil. I have no doubt that Somerset hated them as well. Only Somerset was to loving a person to take on the role of judge, jury and executioner. Both Somerset and Doe have let the apathy of the world drive them to give up. Doe wants to die and take some of those cold-hearted bastards with him, and, hopefully, make his point and thus change the world. Somerset merely wants to escape to some distant place in the country. But in the end, Somerset simply can't turn his back on the world. He wants to go on trying to help. Probably inspired by Mills passion for justice.
On a more depressing note, I believe that the moral of the story is, that these vices (seven deadly sins) are what make us human. Only one person has none of these vices - Somerset - and he is lonely and miserable. Inhuman(ly good). "With much wisdom comes much sadness, and he that furthers his wisdom furthers his sadness" (Ecclesiastes 1:18, loosely translated).
Mills has it sooo easy, not reflecting on life the way Somerset does. He is nevertheless truly good, in my opinon. And that is the only real hole in the pattern of the plot. Wrath need not be a vice/sin. Mills did not beat up his wife, nor run amuck and kill people or anything like that. His wrath was always just, and it never hurt the innocent. I completely love both him and Somerset.
This is the greatest, deepest, most insightful film I have ever seen.
U.S. Seals II (2001)
I cried and cried. Why didn't I spend the time sleeping instead?
Amazing, that movies like this are still being made. You know those sounds, that the clothes of martial artists make when they execute techniques at high speed? Well, in this movie, these sounds can be made by moving one's head - even shifting one's eyes. It is obviously not supposed to be a funny movie, so what the hell are the filmmakers thinking? Cheesy and ridiculous beyond belief. I'm stunned.
Nemesis (1992)
Great movie, with ONE, apparently overpowering, glitch (see below).
A low budget in a futuristic movie about cyborgs and technologically enhanced humans HAD to result in a scene (in the movie) of amazingly poor animation, that made everyone's stomach turn. The movie steered well around this pitfall throughout the film, by only showing partial mechanics sticking out of humans (through wounds), but I guess the makers felt that the typical "terminator" scene with the full cyborg, with all its synthetic flesh ripped and blown from it's body, just HAD to be there. The result was, that everyone focused all their attention on this one, poorly done scene. Which is a shame, because actually, it's one of my absolute favourite movies of all time. Olivier Gruner is excellent in all areas. Stunts, martial arts, the typical doomed-and-reluctant-champion role - everything. NOTE: None of my enthusiasm here applies to any of the so-called sequels to this movie, which are an unfathomable and ridiculous tragedy, for which I have no words. Literally the worst films ever. They have nothing to do with this one. Also, some of Olivier's later movies might scare people away from this one, but it really is a rose in the desert of sci-fi action movies.