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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Chopper (2001) in Movies

Sep 19, 2020 (Updated Nov 26, 2020)

Chopper (2001)

2001 | Drama, Mystery

6.0

(1 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Coincidentally have mostly the exact same issues with this as I do with 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯 (rut in the middle, a bit too conservative with the weird style-heavy moments, etc.), but Eric Bana in this *smokes* Tom Hardy in that. Dude is a straight up machete, it's a crime that practically no films he's in let him use his natural accent because he thickens it up here to a riotous degree. While this does offer up a pretty complex portrait of a legit nuthouse-ready man who repeatedly wants something so bad until he finally gets it, it sadly doesn't offer up too much in the way of nuance as opposed to other crime movies of the genre. The two things it consistently has going for it are Bana's ripper performance and Dominik's sleazoid visual overload that resembles a seedy adult goods store past midnight meets intense vodka vision. Fortunately paired with the handful of honestly shocking moments, that does happen to be enough. Still feels slow even at 90 minutes, however.

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Flashlight Ω

Utilities and Productivity

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Easy & FREE flashlight app! Use your device L.E.D. for intense, bright light or use your screen for...

Beat the Boss 3 (17+)

Games and Entertainment

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『Beat The Boss 17+』 is the extreme version of Beat The Boss 3. NOT SUITABLE for children and...

GRID 2

6.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Be fast, be first and be famous as the race returns in GRID 2, the sequel to the critically...

Kim Pook (101 KP) rated The Theory of Everything (2014) in Movies

Sep 4, 2020

Unless you have been living in a cave you will have heard of Stephen Hawking, this movie is the story of how he met and came to rely on his wife Jane.
It starts in the 1960s, Stephen is an awkward and nerdy college student attending classes, wondering about the universe and meeting the love of his life. Straight away it is evident from little things that his disease is taking a hold on him even before his diagnosis. Eddie Redmayne does such a good job of portraying him that his decline is hard to watch and you feel the frustration he must have felt too. It not only shows Stephens struggles with his motor neurons disease, but also Jane's struggles with helping him, which understandably pushes her into the arms of another man.
The film has its ups and downs, you feel for Stephen and the people around him, but you also laugh as despite his disease his personality remained intact. It is a long movie (just over 2 hours) and very intense, but worth every minute.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Edge of Darkness (2010) in Movies

May 5, 2020 (Updated May 6, 2020)

Edge of Darkness (2010)

2010 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

6.0

(11 Ratings)

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The legendary TV mini-series is retooled for the big screen as a bog-standard Mel Gibson revenge thriller. A detective's daughter is killed, and his investigations lead him to discover she was a target of forces within the military-industrial complex operating above the law.

As well as two-thirds of the running time and most of the plot, the movie version of Edge of Darkness also cheerfully dispenses with virtually everything that made the TV show so memorable: theoretically a fiendishly convoluted thriller, it also contained an environmentalist subtext, an incest subtext, a subtext about Anglo-US relations, even some borderline SF & fantasy elements. All of this is gone and just replaced with Mel Gibson looking intense and beating people up. As a result it is very hard to care about what's happening, although the illogicality of much of it does manage to cut through (someone poisoning someone else and then deciding to shoot them as well is practically a motif). Ray Winstone is not bad as Jedburgh, but given the source material the rest of it is unforgivably lousy.

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Deano Arnott (28 KP) rated Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners in Video Games

May 11, 2020

Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners

2020 | Fighting, Horror, Shooter

8.0

(1 Ratings)

Video Game Rating

Intense (2 more)

Good story

Plenty to do

Controls can be iffy (1 more)

Requires PS move controllers

VR at its finest

What can I say about this quietly released VR game during a crazy time like this? Well if you were hoping for zombies during this virus outbreak, its here! In VR form at least.
This game has a strange intensity surrounding it the whole time your inside the game. With "walkers" coming at you, people to fight or help and scavenging everything you need to survive, this game packs a punch and certainly delivers a VR game someone can be proud of.
With so many games lacking the length and replay ability, Saints and Sinners looks to keep you hooked as there are so many things to unlock in order to stay alive. Having only scratched the surface if ths game so far, i look forward to revisiting a devestated New Orleans as much as i can. If you love action and horror, and are also a fan of VR then this is the game yoi have been waiting for.