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New Amsterdam

8.3 (16 Ratings) Rate It

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Dr. Max Goodwin is brilliant, charming -- and the new medical director at America's oldest public...

Hearts of Stone

Simon Scarrow

5.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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1938. A perfect summer on the Greek island of Lefkas for three young people untroubled by the...

Eye of the Dolphin (2006)

6.3 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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Alyssa is a troubled 14-year old, suspended from school a year after her mother has drowned. Her...

David McK (3673 KP) rated The Rock (1996) in Movies

Jul 12, 2023

The Rock (1996)

1996 | Action

8.1

(21 Ratings)

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There was a period during the late 90s, early 90s, where Nice Cage was in full action hero mode.

We're talking the likes of National Treasure, Con-Air, Face/Off. And this, his first entry in that mold from 1996.

Also starring Sean Connery in a Bind-in-all-but-name role, this sees Cage playing the part of an FBI chemical expert who has to accompany Connery and US Marines on a mission to infiltrate Alcatraz (Connery's role being as the only man to ever escape from said prison) after a group of disillusioned Marines - led by Ed Harris - seize control of the island and have chemical weapons pointing at San Francisco.

I think this may be the first Michael Bay film I ever saw; looking back on it now I can see that, even back then, it has all the hallmarks of one of his films!

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David McK (3673 KP) rated The Suicide Squad (2021) in Movies

May 27, 2023

The Suicide Squad (2021)

2021 | Action, Comedy, Crime

7.9

(28 Ratings)

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Hmmm ... not Suicide Squad, but 'The Suicide Squad'.

Like Aliens and not Alien.

A sort-of sequel to the earlier movie (here, Suicide Squad), with some of the same characters - most noticeably, Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn - although it is by no means necessary to have watched that earlier movie.

This is also a fair bit bloodier/messier than I remember said earlier movie being, and has absolutely no mention of either Batman or the Joker (unless you count Quinn's aversion to personalised number plates? See The Jokers car ...) to distract from the plot here, which sees the group of super-villains (all with a tracker and bomb implanted in their head) all sent on a mission to the island of Corto Maltese to destroy a Nazi-era prison and laboratory.

Of the 2 movies, I think this is the better.

It's definitely a James Gunn film through and through!