Shoot ’em Up

 

Shoot ’em Up (2007)

Starring: Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci and Paul Giamatti

Director: Michael Davis

 

Shoot ’em Up is exactly what it’s named. It’s a shoot ’em up, and a good on at that. Smith (Clive Owen) is a slightly irritated badass who has a thing for carrots. Who suddenly finds himself saving the life of a pregnant women he’s never met before while gun toting bad guys try to kill her. If you like shoot ’em ups then you’l love this movie.

Rating: 8.5 of 10
Sandra and Max

 

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Vanilla Sky

Vanilla Sky (2001)

Starring: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz and Cameron Diaz

Director: Cameron Crowe

Vanilla Sky is a psychological drama that involves David Aames (Tom Cruise) who seems to be on top world. He has all the girls he wants, all the money he wants, but when he truly finds love it turns his life upside down. This movie has a lot of twists and turns and at some points is quite delirious and deranged. We think that some people will like this movie, however we didn’t enjoy it.

Rating: 5.5 of 10

Max and Sandra

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Mystic River

Mystic River (2003)

Starring: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon

Director: Clint Eastwood

Mystic River is a murder mystery thriller that involves 3 guys who have known each other since they were kids. One a cop (Kevin Bacon), one an ex-criminal (Sean Penn) and the other one rape victim (Tim Robbins). The acting in this movie superb and it is another Clint Eastwood classic. The only downside is that it is a little bit of a dark movie.

Rating: 8 of 10

Max and Sandra

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Lucky Number Slevin

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Starring: Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman

Director: Paul McGuigan

Lucky Number Slevin is a criminal thriller about Slevin (Josh Hartnett) who is in his friend Nick Fisher’s apartment when a couple of The Boss’ (Morgan Freeman) thugs show up at the door and mistakingly think that he’s Nick Fisher. The covers the drama that unfolds between The Boss, Slevin and The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley). Honestly after watching this movie we looked for any fault in it we could find and the only one was that it is pretty bloody. So girls be prepared.

Rating: 9 of 10

Sandra and Max

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Confidence

Confidence (2003)

Starring: Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz

Director: James Foley

Confidence is a heist drama that involves Jake Vig (Edward Burns) who is a lifetime grifter. He and his team come up with an elaborate con to steal 5 million dollars from a banker and get away without anyone knowing who even took the money. It is a classic heist film and is on the level with Ocean’s 11.

Rating: 8 of 10

Sandra and Max

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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker

Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006)

Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Mickey Rourke and Sophie Okonedo

Director: Geoffrey Sax

Operation Stormbreaker is a spy movie about a young schoolboy who is called upon to be trained as an MI6 agent. It is based on Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider novels. There’s not much to say about this movie in terms of compliments, however the story would have the capacity to be quite good, but the casting and acting and writing really took away the possibility of it being a good movie. We don’t recommend that you watch it, however we’re sure the books are good.

Rating: 3 of 10

Sandra and Max

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Rendition

Rendition (2007)

Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard

Director: Gavin Hood

Rendition is a political drama that tells the story of the true policy of its title. Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) is kidnapped by government agents when he gets off a flight before customs at D.C. airport, leaving his pregnant wife (Reese Witherspoon) stuck waiting at the airport. While his wife is trying to figure out where he is, CIA Analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) finds himself suddenly in charge of overseeing the interrogation of renditioned terrorists. This is an intense well binded movie that really shows what goes on behind the scenes in our intelligence community.

Rating: 8.5 of 10

Sandra and Max

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Signs

 

 

Signs (2002)

Starring: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix and Rory Culkin

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

 

Signs is an intense thriller that has you on the edge of your seat the whole way. It starts with Rev. Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) who one day wakes up and finds that there is a crop circle on his farm. In the later days mysterious things happen that lead them to believe that big thing are to come. This movie tells the story of a seemingly true event of more than human happenings.

Rating: 8 of 10

 

Sandra and Max

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The Social Network

 

 

The Social Network (2010)

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake

Director: David Fincher

 

The Social Network is a riveting drama based on the creation of Facebook. Starring Jessie Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg who in 2004 founded Facebook from his Harvard dorm room. This movie portrays the well publicized battle for who came up with the idea of Facebook, and as well some internal battles that came to be inside Facebook in it’s early stages. It’s a very inspiring and interesting movie, however it isn’t 100% accurate in it’s portrayal of events.

Rating: 10 of 10 the perfect movie

 

Sandra and Max

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The Importance of Being Earnest

 

 

The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

Starring: Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon and Rupert Everett

Director: Oliver Parker

 

The Importance of Being Earnest is a romantic comedy about Mr. Worthing (Colin Firth) who used to names for convenience, Jack in the country and Earnest in city. One day he finds his true love, so everything is perfect. Except one thing, she always knew she would fall in love with someone with the name Earnest.

Sandra’s Rating: 5 of 10

Max’s Rating: 7 of 10 (I don’t know but I kind of like this movie even though it’s a chick flick)

 

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