The Killing Room - 2009 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119191/
Watched this one by pure chance, I was looking for some other movie, but ended with this one instead. It's futile to spend words about it as it's horrific. There are a few known faces (mostly from TV shows) appearing in this "movie" and that's the only positive thing I can say about it.
The plot is quite simple, you put some people in a room, some guy comes in, splatters the brains of one of them all over the floor and lets them know that only the last man standing is going to leave alive. Only by chance did the guy kill the only girl present in the room leaving four guys to fend for themselves. Oh, he also drops a gun with a single bullet, just to spice things up. Interesting notion? Maybe, but not in this production.
Don't worry, I won't ruin the ending for you, as I haven't managed to endure to the closing credits and just gave up. I skipped a few minutes ahead and have seen some body bags etc, but who even gives a damn.
I post this only as a warning - DO NOT WATCH.
Public Enemies - 2009 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152836/
I'm a big fan of Johnny Depp, his performance in many moves (including but not limited to the everlasting Blow and Donnie Brasco) has left me astonished. I mean, his face alone makes even Pirates of the Caribbean watchable. Well, almost.
In this movie he takes up a role of John Dillinger himself and does a fine job portraying the gangster. The movie issues lie elsewhere, it's too long for it's content and gets boring at times with one too many repetitions of already been there/done that events. I mean, do they really need to rob like 7 banks in one movie? One or two would suffice. You see a few robberies, you hear about another few and instantly you get the feeling there was a lot of crime going on.
All in all, watchable and thanks to good ole Johnny somewhat enjoyable. Definitively a nice change of pace with it's 30es setting. The featured crime was quite brutal, but some camera angles did leave a lot to be desired, not often you see such technical faults in expensive productions.
Cloverfield - 2008 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/
a.k.a. Godzilla visits NY.
One issue I always had with this type of movies - the military brings on heavy weapons (even though, one has to wonder how come they could spare only a tank of two when imminent threat is posing to demolish entire New York) enough to move a Mount Rushmore 6 feet to the left and yet they can't blast this big ass mofo out the way? Aha, you will say, but this isn't a standard monster. And indeed it isn't. Not only can it withstand a barrage of uranium enriched 152 mm shells and more then one napalm-or-whatever-it-was bombardments (what, not even a minor abrasion?!), it also has these little minions (apparently thousands of them) that jump off and then run amok, reeking havoc in their path, reaching all those areas city where the monster can't fit hit his nasty tentacles. Oh yes, the little things have this one extra ability, they can infect you with something so you become a monster yourself, something new to this type of city-sees-monster-monster-crushes-city films.
When you forget about logic, this is a perfectly OK movie. The acting is OK, there is the imminent sense of doom all throughout the end, there isn't a fekking happy ending... Even the semi documentary approach fits well, with "hand held" camera. A bit shaky, but gets the job done and you always have the sense something is going on, even though nothing is at the moment.
Watchable, if you can accept the possibility there is some ill tempered (but without any laser beams) indestructible minion coated monster lying somewhere on the ocean floor waiting to awaken.
Hustle and Flow - 2005 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410097/
I realize this is a bit older movie, but I only watched it recently and have seen it a two or three times in the past few weeks.
I'm usually not into the gangsta rapper scene, but this movie I liked very much. Firstly it presents the ghetto and da hood decently, Howard's and Anderson's performances are very nice, the movie has some slick toons and the bitches are quite pleasant to the eye.
This movie is about some pimp who's rising from a mere pimp to a pimping rapper who fights with all he's got for his five minutes of fame. He finally get's the attention, but ends in the jail during the process.
I can honestly say, this is one of the rare motion pictures where you couldn't paint the ending happy nor sad. The movie just ends leaving you a notion that it may be worth watching it again.
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