Posts Tagged ‘death’

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

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The movie is not totally horrible, as action films go.

The main problem is the many plot holes in the narrative that the creators probably didn’t count on, or thought their viewers wouldn’t figure out how the whole mess was going to turn out.

John Herzfeld directed the screen play by Bob Krakower and Allan Lawrence.

The credibility gap is huge when the people involved asks us to accept things that don’t make too much sense.

Tim Kearney, a San Quentin prisoner with an “impulse control” problem, expects to spend the rest of his life in jail, until the FBI makes him an offer he can’t refuse.

He can go free if he agrees to assume the identity of the late drug lord, Bobby Z, so the Feds can deliver him to a Mexican kingpin in exchange for a kidnapped agent. 

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Warning:- this post does contain the films Goofs. May spoil the film.

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… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Director
John Herzfeld

Writers
Bob Krakower
Allen Lawrence

Release Date
17 November 2007 (Japan)

Genre
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline
You can’t out-run yourself.

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Death Race

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Set in an “Escape From New York”-style dystopic prison-culture (that sounds suspiciously like current American society), slaughter happens, stuff blows up, and the weak are culled like bunnies caught in the headlights of gas-sucking American muscle cars.

Jason Statham does his standard tough-guy job as the scowling Frankenstein, Joan Allen plays a ball-busting warden (perhaps a bit in the mold of Louise Fletcher’s Nurse Ratched), and Ian McShane of “Deadwood” has a solid cameo as the prison-wise mechanic, Coach.

Even Machine Gun Joe gets a new incarnation in the form of Tyrese Gibson, who thankfully is nothing like Stallone’s blustering Italian meatball.

enjoy! ;) magic

Warning:- this post does not contain the films Goofs.

Download it here

… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Director
Paul W.S. Anderson

Writers
Paul W.S. Anderson

Release Date
26 September 2008 (UK)

Genre
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline
Get ready for a killer ride.

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