The ’80’s are over. Over long ago. If i would meet Steven Spielberg most probably this would be my starting line. This movie puts the R in retro, most probaly this was the whole idea, but i don’t think us youg people enjoy lame old-school movies.

The whole movie recreates that old feeling which is made by the previous parts of the movie, except that Harrison Ford is old, but in the movie he still beats up a whole russian army, so he must be in a really good shape.

The story-line is pretty good, but the way in which the movie is directed and the scenes and elements have a huge lack of 21xt century addons(except the explosions).

I’ve seen movies which present the 40’s and 50’s and they were 100% better, although they didn’t have a such great story line. Spielberg dissapointed me on this one. I have absolutely no idea how it  got such a good rating over at IMDB.

I watched it because i saw the previous parts and i expected something formidable this time, after about 19 years. Technology in the ilming industry also evolves.

Either way, my take is that i wasted my money on the cinema ticket and too bad i can’t yell GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK!

Trust me on this, this movie WILL SHAKE YOUR BONES! It isn’t the ordinary prison movie where a guy goes to prison and all the guards are with him and he gets out for some ass kissing. This movie is the real deal where the harsh life of newcome prisoners is presented and their survival.

The whole movie’s action is around Wade Porter(Stephen Dorff) who protecting his family accidentally killed a burgler with the baseball bat. He gets convicted for 3 years. On the bus a bigshot, Danny Samson kills a prisoner and one of his supporting underlings snatches the knife at Porter. Porter gets questioned by the guards but doesn’t admit that Samson killed the prisoner claiming he found the shanker below his seat on the bus.

For this he goes to the shoe, where every day he gets one hour in the yard, the rest: solitary. After a while he’s back to A BLOCK the regular prison cells section and he gets as cellmate John Smith(Val Kilmer) a guy who killed 14 men. He will later find out that the men who Smith killed were the relatives of the 2 burglers who broke into his house and raped and killed his wife and daughter. He made them feel just the way he did when he found his wife and daughter dead on the floor.

Porter notices that no one is picking on Smith and gets him to teach him the techniques of survival, which according to Smith is routine:“you get up, drink your coffee, go work out, just like at home” . The guards like watching the cons fight in the yard and they delete the tapes every time. For not testifying against Samson a chief guard, Lt. Jackson gets Porter prosecuted as an accomplice with Samson in the murder of that guy on the bus, by this way Porter gets extra 6 years.

Smith has a friend outside from the FBI who’s life he once saved, he gets Porter to get his wife to talk to him so they can grab the tapes from the yard before the guards delete them. The guards will shoot Smith, who will now be with his wife and daughter and die in glory. Porter gets released and united with his family.

The end. Of course there are many details which i didn’t include in this post, i didn’t want to spoil the whole movie. If this review got your attention watch the movie, because it’s worh it.

For the past month I was an Alias addict, I downloaded all 5 seasons and watched all 105 episodes from start to end.

To be honest the first and the fourth series were the most exciting ones, the other series were a bit boring, also a very annoying thing was that someone died and a few episodes later popped back again(a good example is Irina Derevko and Vaughn, well mostly Vaughn in whom they emptied almost a full clip of an automated weapon and he surived(he didn’t have kevlar(anti bullet vest) on him).

Starting with the second seaosn Alias mostly got oriented to SCI-FI starting with the scene when the name Milo Rambaldi popped in. Rambaldi was a 15th centuri prophet who saw and wrote the future, and in his writings he described Sydney as the chosen one who will bring destruction upon the world. 3 seasons pass with the pursuit of Rambaldi artefacts, people die, people reviwe, new people show up in the movie.

Here’s my favorite scene from the whole movie(the end of 4th season):

Now this is an ending which requires the next episode, which i watched.

The 5th season has only 17 episodes and it ends with the death of Jack and the immortality of slone who is capped beneath the rocks, and has to stay there for eternity. Vaughn and Sydney have an other kid who’s name is Jack(symbolic). Their daughter, Isabelle is about 4-5 years old and she builds that IQ level measurement structure which Sydney also built once in her childhood.

The movie ends with the scene in which Dixon visits the Vaughn family at their beach house and asks them help for a new mission.

The End.

Well…to be honest this isn’t what I expected, and to get straight to the point the movie sucked.

The most annoying thing was the poor way the animation scenes were made, you could clearly see that it’s 3d and not even close to real(c’mon I saw better animation scenes in movies from the ’90’s).

To be honest I only watched the movie because I really like Brendan Fraser, he always knows how to act and be ironic all the time. Jet Li didn’t have many performances in the movie, because in 3/4 of the movie his character was made on the computer.

I really liked the way the Yeti looked, you can notice the smoothness of the textures and that the animation/design is from 21st century, not like the other poor animations.

Overall the movie compared to the other 2 episodes from the series blows. The runtime is about 1:45 hours and trust me you already get bored in the first 15 minutes, the yeti scenes wake you up after which you can sleep comfortably till the movie reaches the last 5 minutes. It’s like a soap opera:it’s enough to see the beginning and the end of the movie.

Here’s the outline of the movie:

Alex O’Connellthe son of Rick O’Connell finds the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin and digs him out. Emperor Han was cursed 2000 years ago by a powerful sorcerer  A Chinese general awakes Emperor Han using a magical item(i can’t remember its name) and so the quest of getting to the magical place named Shangri where the emperor can get back his powers and raise his huge army.

Shangri is located in the Himalayas where our heroes are helped by the yetis, but still Emperor Han gets to Shangri and regains his power after which he transforms into a 3 headed dragon and flies back to his grave where he raises his army.

The sorcerer sacrifices her and her daughter’s immortality to raise those who were buried by Emperor Han under the Great Wall Of China. While the 2 mummy armies are fighting each other Our heroes kill the emperor,by this way destroying the mummy army of the emperor.

They return to Jonathan’s bar where they celebrate. Jonathan leaves to “a place where there aren’t any mummies”, in Peru to be more precise along with the magical diamond which awakened the Emperor. In the end of the movie a text pops up saying: “A few years later they found mummies in Peru” or something like that.

The end.

My suggestion is that unless your a kid who’s dying to watch the movie don’t buy cinema tickets, because you’ll regret it in the end, just go and watch an other movie.

WOW! I saw this movie on the weekend. I am not a real big Batman fan but this is a great movie and probably the best of the series. Heath Ledger made an excellent Joker with his funny jokes, insanity and just the darkness of his character that wasn’t shown in Jack Nicholson’s version of the Joker. Everyone knew that Ledger was behind the makeup but he did such a good job of acting as the Joker, you really thought it was someone completely different then Ledger. IMO it is Ledgers best work and unfortunately its was his last. One of my favorite parts of the movie was towards the beginning and it shows how dark this Joker is, he went into a room that was filled with mobsters, drug lords and other hooligans who were having a meeting. He was playing with a pen on the table and said “How about a magic trick? I’m going to make this pen disappear.” He grabbed one of the hooligans and slammed his head right onto the pen, therefore it disappeared and yes it was magic. lol It was evil yet funny at the same time. All I wanted to do was watch the Joker and forget about what Batman was doing cause the Joker was that much more interesting. Christian Bale did a good job as being Batman but the only thing that kind of bothered me was his voice when he was Batman, it was a little too raspy like he was forcing it. Overall it is a fun movie to watch and even Batman was a little darker then the rest of the movies in the series. If you haven’t seen it yet and like Batman or action flicks then go and see it, you won‘t be disappointed.