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A Body's Just as Dead

Cathy Adams

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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In the town of Drayton, Alabama, the once high-paying manu-facturing jobs have been replaced by nail...

Murder Lo Mein

Vivien Chien

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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The third in a tasty series, Murder Lo Mein by Vivien Chien is a delight! Everyone agrees that...

Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated Rush Hour 3 (2007) in Movies

Dec 12, 2021

Rush Hour 3 (2007)

2007 | Action, Comedy

6.8

(12 Ratings)

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Foreign detective's in Paris

At the time of its announcement I was very sceptical and was 50/50 upon its release.

Plot - Inspector Lee and LAPD detective James Carter travel to Paris to protect a French witness from the attacks of the Chinese triads. The two battle it out against the world's most deadly criminals.

The threequel received very mixed reviews from both critics and movie goers.
Although not the worst movie ever and was still packed with its usual high octane and action packed movie scenes and fight sequences, the plot itself felt recycled which was a shame as a new setting was a great idea but wasn't enough to carry it.

Still a fun film to watch that sits nicely with its predecessors, a forth installment is said to be in the works, so with any luck we may have some of that 90s magic back.. Even if its for one last run.

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Thirteen Souls: Martial Arts Fighting Games

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*This app has no In-App Purchase. TouchArcade – “Thirteen Souls is an upcoming fighting game...

Mayhawke (97 KP) rated Ocean's Twelve (2004) in Movies

Feb 7, 2018

Ocean's Twelve (2004)

2004 | Action, Comedy, Drama

6.6

(19 Ratings)

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That moment when all the ingredients that should have made Cordon Bleu curdle and, instead, turn to liquid shit...

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The follow up to the remake of 'Oceans Eleven' this is one of the best examples of Hollywood producers not knowing when to leave well enough alone, and trying to cash in on the success of an earlier film with trite rubbish.

It has all the technical quirks of the first that gave that film it's 'feel' but this is the proof that making a good film is like making a good quiche - you can have all the right ingredients but if you don't do it properly you just end up with a plate full of sludge.

It also helps to have a plot. What passes for the plot in this film is so absurd that it can't sustain a film even as lightweight as this.

Don Cheadle is still speaking his rather quaint Dick-Van-Dykelish, and the two brothers are still squabbling, but the other characters all seem to have undergone a peculiar metamorphosis. They appear to have been written by someone lacking descriptive skill, who has drawn clumsily on second-hand clichés. Damon has become the weak-kneed, over-eager social conscience of the group; Gould has become bland; the Chinese acrobat still can't speak English but everyone else can understand him. Worst of all, Andy Garcia who was so wonderfully, and chillingly menacing in the first has become a joke of a bad-guy: a cane-carrying renaissance man who can tinkle the ivories, speak fluent Chinese and illogically doesn't kill the Eleven when finds them - because a total stranger asked him not to. They are no longer characters but caricatures.

Then there's Catherine Zeta-Jones. She plays the beautiful (naturally) daughter-of-a-thief cop who specialises in 'master thieves', and has previously been involved with Pitt's character [yawwwwwn]....

You would have thought it would be impossible for a cast like this to make something so dire. Apparently it isn't.

Tediously predictable ending.

What a waste of time, money, effort and people.