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Monday, December 16, 2013

The Collapsed Movie Review


The Collapsed
                                       

The Collapsed is a horror thriller movie released in 2011. This film is written by Kevin Hutchinson and Justin McConnell and directed by Justin McConnell. The four main characters of the movie The Collapsed are played by John Fantasia, Steve Vieira, Anna Ross and Lise Moule.

The Collapsed is about a family of four members, who tries to survive from some mysterious people who are on a hunt to kill everyone around.


A scene from the movie The Collapsed by Ocean's Movie Reviews
A scene from the movie The Collapsed


Plot:

The plot of The Collapsed starts with a family of four; the dad, the mom and the brother and the sister, hiding in a dark place in a city from some strange dangerous people. They find the existence of those dangerous people in their hiding place, so they leave that place very carefully and move to a basement train station. They spend the night there in the dark. Later at that night, the father hears some strange noise.

On the next morning, they finds a car with some dead bodies around (and inside) it and then they take the car to leave the city. Their target is to find the other brother who lives a little far away and they guess that place will be safer as it is a less crowded area.

On the way, they find that their car is running out of gas. So they stop at a gas station. Although they find the gas refill machines out of order, but they manage to get some supplies from the store there. But soon two masked man come there with guns, so the family runs away from the store through the back door and continues their journey through the woods by feet.

At one point, they stop to take some rest. The sister gets separated for a while but comes back to others safely. After a little argument, the father and the son goes back to the store again to get some more supplies and to take back their car. They find their car fully out of gas, while they manage to get some supplies. While coming back to the mother and the daughter, the son falls a little behind his father and they find that the mother and the daughter both have been killed in the meantime. They bury the bodies. The son wants to go after the killers, but his father stops him.

Now the father and the son continues their journey. They find a cabin in the woods with some foods and beers. They spend the night there, where the father and the son talk about some of their family issues.

On the next morning, they start their journey again. They spend that night open in the woods but they survive without facing any danger. On the next morning, they were on their journey again as usual before they sense someone's presence around them. Then a sniper shoots the son on the leg. He falls down and the father tries to save him, but the sniper finally kills him. The father follows the sniper, which leads him to cabin where some of those strange men and some survivors were residing. There the father tries to take the revenge of all the deaths of his family members but in return, he gets the horrible answers about the mystery happening around that place. 

  My review about the movie The Collapsed:

The whole movie The Collapsed didn't seem impressive at all, except the last five minutes.

The plot is very simple and straightforward until the ending. Throughout the whole The Collapsed, I kept wondering about those mysterious men who are trying to kill them. But almost nothing about their intention was shown until the ending, which, instead of keeping the thrills up, felt annoying. The direction and the screenplay also felt very poor. The charters didn't seem realistic all the times in The Collapsed. For example, when two killers were out there nearby with guns, how can a girl go away from the group to shave her legs? Again, in a situation like that, how come the father and the son get separated with the guns leaving the mother and the daughter defenseless in the jungle?

The whole movie kept on going boring and I can't blame anyone if he/she gives up watching this in halfway. But those who are patient enough to continue watching The Collapsed till the end, will be rewarded with some good excitement at the very end. The twist was somewhat unpredictable and I must say, impressive. Although it doesn't give a very good explanation or most of the answers that comes to the mind while watching The Collapsed (even some of the most basic ones) but as a fantasy, it felt good.

The acting of none of the characters of the movie The Collapsed were very good. To me, the acting of the leading character, the father, felt worst. The dialogues were also very poor. At some parts, the dialogues felt redundant.

On the good sides of The Collapsed are the music, the lighting, the location and the set design and the camera effects. The combinations of all these are good enough so that you won't get a feeling of watching regular B grade movie.

There are no nude scenes in The Collapsed. But this movie contains some gore scenes, so I think you shouldn't watch it with children.

So, finally, as I've written above, The Collapsed is a below average movie with a good ending. The twist in the ending makes this movie its worth, but the lack in other important issues (like acting, dialogues, screenplay and so on) pulls it down so much that the ending alone can't cover them up. I wouldn't recommend watching The Collapsed to others.

How did you like The Collapsed? Do you share the same feeling about it with me? Share with others in the comments.

To know more about it:
Wikipedia link: no wikipedia link was found for it.
IMDB link : The Collapsed IMDB
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Saturday, October 12, 2013

After Earth Movie Review

After Earth
                                              

After Earth is a science fiction adventure action thriller movie released in 2013. This movie is written by Will Smith, Gary Whitta and M. Night Shyamalan and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The two main characters of After Earth are played by Will Smith and his son, Jaden Smith. The other artists of this movie are Sophie Okonedo, ZoĆ« Kravitz, Sacha Dhawan and Chris Geere. This release date of this movie is close to Tom Cruise's Oblivion.

After earth tells the story of the future world, where a space ship crash lands on planet earth, living only two survivors. One survivor, the captain of the ship is severely injured, so its all up to the other one, his young son, to find a beacon in the hostile environment and send signal for help.

Will Smith and Jaden Smith in After Earth by Ocean's Movie Reviews
Will Smith and Jaden Smith in After Earth


Plot:
After Earth tells the story of future, when humans have abandoned the earth and have moved to another planet. But they are not alone on that planet. There are some aliens, who start to haunt and kill human. Technically, those aliens can’t see. But they can sense human’s fear, so they hunt by this. Humans are always on a fight with theses aliens. The Ranger Corps are leading the fight, and General Cypher Raige a renowned soldier of them. He is fearless about these aliens, so to them, he is invisible. This technique is called ghosting
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Cypher has a young son named Kitai who is getting training to get in The Ranger Corps. In one examination, although he has very good result in theoretical part, he fails for his bad performance in the field.  That was the day when Cypher is returning from one of his journeys.

Kitai was feeling down, so his mother suggests Cypher to take him to journey with him. Cypher agrees and then he takes Kitai with him on his last mission before retirement. Their spaceship has several crews and soldiers and an alien which will be used for training. Suddenly their ship faces some asteroid shower. Cypher’s wisdom and experience saves the ship for the first time, but the environment damages the ship heavily.

They have no other option than to crash land on planet earth. The landing breaks the ship in two parts. All the crews, except Cypher and Kitai are dead. Cypher is badly injured and the beacon of the ship is broken. To send message for help, they need to find another beacon, which is at the tail part of the ship. But the accident has thrown the tail of the ship to far away from the head part, where Cypher and Kitai is currently located.

So, now its all up to Kitai to go and find the other beacon on the tail of the broken ship in this hostile environment. Cypher instructs him well about surviving in there. The planet becomes very cold during the night, so before night, Kitai must find the hotspots. Kitai also has communication system and different life support materials with him. The alien is free on the planet, which is another tension for Cypher.

Kitai starts his journey. He keeps constant communication with Cypher. Using the communication systems, from the ship, Cypher can see all around Kitai and he also has a map to guide Kitai. At first, Kitai gets scared and does something against the instructions of Cypher. He falls in danger for that but survives. Then he keeps on following Cypher’s instructions.

At one point, when Kitai was running out of his oxygen supplies, Cypher orders him to abort his mission and to come back to the ship. Kitai then reminds Cypher about their past family occurrences and finally jumps of a cliff to take a shortcut to his mission. He is saved, but at one point, his communication device breaks. From the ship, Cypher can only see Kitai, but can’t send in instructions.

So, now Kitai, a young boy, is all alone is a deadly environment. He does not have any further instruction or navigation. While his oxygen supply is running low, he must rely on his instincts to survive in this hostile environment and save his and his father’s life.

My review about the movie After Earth:
I found After Earth as a very average science fiction movie.

The plot is good, but its very predictable. There was not much surprise in the whole movie. Although the plot of After Earth is perfect for a science fiction movie, but the parts where Kitai was following the exactly what Cypher was saying to himself seemed too dramatic to be real. The family history and Kitai’s imaginations were good small touches.


The biggest problem of After Earth was its casting. The whole movie is centered on Jaden Smith. But his acting and maturity didn’t seem enough to carry him on this big task. He was not a good fit for the leading character of such a movie . I was missing typical Will Smith charm at the beginning of After Earth but it came on as the movie proceeded.  The acting of the other characters are good. The make ups and the dialogues were good too.

The special effects of After Earth were pretty decent and the alien looked scary. But I watched Oblivion just few days ago, so during the whole movie, the comparison between After Earth and Oblivion came in my mind. And I felt sorry that considering the set design, special effects and cinematography, After Earth is nothing compared to Oblivion. If you have watched Oblivion recently, I guess, you will also feel the difference, although both of them are different types of movies. This can be a common case, because both of the science fictions have been released in nearby time. You may miss the beautiful cinematography of Oblivion in After Earth.  

There is nothing is the movie After Earth, which may restrict a kid to see it.

So, the biggest flaw of this movie is the role of Jaden Smith. We have seen his beautiful acting in the movie Pursuit Of Happiness, when he was much smaller. I believe he will grow up as a great actor, considering who his father is, but in After Earth, it seemed like he is not ready yet.  It also felt like, the role given to him in this movie is too much for him at this age. The director could make the role of Will Smith stronger or could give him more screen time outside the spaceship to make this movie better.

Another thing is, as a movie of Will Smith, I felt a little disappointed by After Earth. Will Smith is one of my all-time favorite actors, and like other millions of his fans, I expect only beautiful movies from him. After all those beautiful movies, he has given us two consecutive just ‘good’ movies in recent times, Men in Black 3 and then After Earth. We all want to see those beautiful movies of him again.

So, overall, After Earth seemed just as a regular science fiction movie, nothing special. The presence of Will Smith in this movie is very limited and the main character seemed weak in acting. The score even goes lower, if you compare it with Tom Cruise’s Oblivion, which is also released in recent times. You can also see, After Earth holds a little lower than average IMDB rating of 4.9 while I’m writing this review. Finally, I’ll recommend watching After Earth to all movie lovers, although I’m, not sure how much it will be loved.

How did you feel about After Earth? Share with others in comments.
To know more:
Wikipedia Link: After Earth Wiki
My review of the movie Oblivion: Oblivion Movie Review

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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Betrayed At 17 Movie Review

Betrayed At 17
                                                   

Betrayed At 17 is a drama thriller TV movie released in 2011. This movie is written by Christine Conradt and Ken Sanders and directed by Doug Campbell. The major characters of this film are played by Amanda Bauer, Alexandra Paul, Jake Thomas, Andy Fischer-Price, Katie Gill, Paula Trickey and Joe Penny. Betrayed At 17 gives a message to the immature teens, like what we saw in the movie Girl Fight.

The movie Betrayed At 17 is about a teen girl, who’s sex tape has been released by one of her classmate and the consequences leads to her death. Then her mother and brother tries to find the one who is guilty for this and then tries to bring that person to justice.

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A scene from the movie Betrayed at 17

Plot:
Lexi is a shy teen girl who lives with her mother. Her father has passed away and her brother is living with his friends after her mother has kicked him out of the house for his drug problems. Lexi has a very good relation with her mother and brother. In school, she is regularly bullied by a girl named Carleigh.

One day, Greg, a popular guy and football player from Lexi’s school asks Lexi out for a dinner and Lexi agrees. Greg used to date Carleigh, so this make Carleigh jealous. After the date, Lexi and Greg go to Greg’s home and there they have sex. But what Lexi didn’t know was, Greg is taping their session, although he had no intention to circulate it.

Next morning, Greg shows a part of that video to his friend, who is currently dating Carleigh. Then his friend tells about this tape to Carleigh, who then goes to boy’s room and sends the video to other students from Greg’s phone without telling him.

At a party on that night, Greg and Lexi get to know about the spreading of that video. After knowing Greg has taped her and the tape is out now, Lexi runs out from the party in shame and then gets killed by getting hit by a car.

All the evidences put Greg as the only suspect. The police tell Lexi’s mother that as Lexi was 17, so according to the law, they cannot charge Greg with strong accusation. But Greg gets expelled from his school. Although he says Carleigh has done is, but no one can prove her involvement so she stays innocent by law. At one time, Greg accuses her in the school, but she lies in front of everyone.

Lexi’s death brings her mother and brother close again and they try to find who is responsible for it. Lexi’I brother beat Greg, but Greg swears that although he has recorded it, he has not sent the video to anyone.

Greg then finds a way to prove that Carleigh has done it. He manages to record his conversation with Carleigh where she says she has done it out of her jealousy for Lexi. But his mistake was, after Carleigh’s confession, he shows the recorder to her.

Carleigh gets mad to get the record and at one point, she kills Greg. Then she frames Lexi’s brother for the murder and the police arrest him.

Now, both of Lexi’s and Greg’s mothers get determined to find a way to get the killer of their children, to prove her involvements and to bring her to justice.

My review about the movie Betrayed At 17:
Although Betrayed At 17 was not a perfect pleasure to watch, but still it seemed as a good movie, specially considering its plot.

The plot of Betrayed At 17 is very good and realistic. It also gives a strong message to the young people about what the consequences of their action may lead to. The screenplay and the direction are also good.

I didn’t like the acting of Amanda Bauer, who is one of the leading characters of Betrayed At 17. Other than that, the acting of almost everyone else seemed natural and fluent.  The dialogues and makeups are also good in this movie.

At most of the parts of Betrayed At 17  the lighting and the camera effects didn’t seem proper at all. To me, this was the biggest flaw of the movie. Sometimes, the lighting seemed really poor, much like a B grade movie. This thing has ruined my total viewing experience of Betrayed At 17. This is the only issue for which I couldn’t completely like this movie, although everything else was pretty good.

Although the plot circulates around a sex tape, but Betrayed At 17 does not contain any direct nudity, so its totally safe to watch this movie with kids.

So, finally, Betrayed At 17 has an excellent plot, good acting and good screenplay. It could be a perfect movie if only the lightings and the camera effects were better. Still I enjoyed watching this movie. This movie also has a good IMDB rating of 5.0/10 while I’m writing this review. I’d recommend watching Betrayed At 17 to all drama movie lovers. But if you are fan of all genres of movies (like me), I don’t know how much you will enjoy watching this one (although I liked it).

To know more:
In some websites, I’ve seen that the plot of Betrayed At 17 is based on some true stories. You can search on google to know more about those stories.
IMDB link: Betrayed At 17 IMDB
Wikipedia Link: no wikipedia links were found for Betrayed At 17.

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

5 Souls Movie Review

5 Souls
                                     

5 Souls is a horror drama movie released in 2011. This movie is written by Colet Abedi and directed by Brett Donowho. The main characters of 5 Souls are played by Samaire Armstrong, Steve Bacic, Ian Bohen, Allison McAtee and Charles Solomon Jr.

The movie 5 Souls consists of two plots, where at one, a man whose wife and little girl have been killed in a collapsed building, is trying to find who is responsible for the accident. In the other plot, a man in coma is faced by a demon who is pushes him to kill five people.

Steve Bacic and Allison McAtee in 5 Souls by ocean's movie reviews
Steve Bacic and Allison McAtee in 5 Souls
Plot:
At the beginning of 5 Souls, we see a small clip where a little girl followed by her mother runs to a building and then the building starts to collapse.

Then we see a man named Sam, an ex-police officer and the father of that little girl, leaving a lonely, depressed life and attempts to commit suicide but refrains himself at the last moment. Another building has collapsed and he goes there. He enters the restricted zone and a detective, named Sara, questions him. He says that he is a government officer and convinces Sara to let him stay there. Then another police officer comes and recognizes him but Sam doesn’t tell him that he has already fooled Sara.

Later on, Sam and Sara meet at a bar and Sara thanks Sam for not making her look like a fool in front of her colleagues. Then they make out. After that, Sam tells Sara that the owner of that building is responsible for the collapses by using poor material and he is also the owner of the building where Sam’s daughter and wife died. Sara agrees to take his help in her investigation.

On another side, on the day when the building collapses, a man named Noah, who is going to get married soon, goes to a doctor to get some vaccine. But just after taking the vaccines, he feels sick and then falls into coma after he’s taken to a hospital.

In the hospital, he sees a man in his room who has some very special abilities. That man says he has come to kill Noah, but after Noah’s begging, he gives him a chance. He says, Noah has to kill five people to save himself. Seeing no way out, Noah agrees and then proceeds to the killing. He kills the first victim, and sees that nobody can see him. He also meets a blind girl who can see him and she offers him her help but he refuses.

Meanwhile, Sam and Sara start to live together and continue their investigation. They find some clues of using low grade materials by the building owner. They go to his office and meet him, and he grants them access to company’s files. Their further investigation leads them to Noah’s fiancĆ©e, who is an employee of that company. But in these times, some personal issues and Sam’s past records irritates Sara and she wants to stay away, but finally Sam convinces her to keep him in the investigation.


At the hospital, Noah keeps on filling his quota of killing five people. The ghosts of his victims come to haunt him, but it doesn’t stop him from killing. The demon is pleased on him and then according to the demon’s instruction, Jonah wakes up from the coma to kill his last victim, just when Sam and Sara reach the same hospital.

Ian Bohen in 5 Souls by ocean's movie reviews
Ian Bohen in 5 Souls



My review about the movie 5 Souls:
5 Souls seemed as a very strange movie, which has a good production value, but is very poorly written.

The plot of 5 Souls seemed very weird. Each of the two plots could make good movies alone, with the same cast. But none of them felt complete and their mixture also didn’t seem good. Though the whole movie, everyone can guess that the two plots will collide at the end, but the way they collided was not enjoyable. The character development also seemed very poor in 5 Souls.

But other than the bad scriptwriting and bad direction, almost everything else in 5 Souls was good. The actors and actresses did a good job. Almost all of the leading artists in 5 Souls have done a good number of TV series ago and their acting here seemed natural. The lighting and set design was also good and the special effects of the demon looked beautiful and scary. The sound effects were good too.

There is a small nudity in 5 Souls. For that and for the killing scenes, I think this movie is not good for children.

So, finally, 5 Souls is an example of how a poor plot can harm the beauty of an otherwise-good movie. I think, this one had a good potential to be a nice movie, but failed completely. I believe I’ve wasted my time by watching it. I will not recommend 5 Souls to anyone.

Have you watched this one? To you, what are the other flaws of 5 Souls? Share with others in comments.

To know more:
Wikipedia link: No Wikipedia link was found for 5 Souls.
IMDB Link:  5 Souls IMDB

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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Oblivion Movie Review

Oblivion
                                         

Oblivion is a science fiction action thriller movie released in 2013. The release date of this movie is near to Will Smith's sci-fi movie After Earth. This movie is based on Joseph Kosinski's unpublished graphic novel of the same name. Oblivion is written by Joseph Kosinski, Michael Arndt and Karl Gajdusek and directed by Joseph Kosinski. This movie has a very small set of characters, which is played by Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Melissa Leo.

Oblivion tells the story of future, where a drone technician finds a lady whom he has dreamt several times, in a crashed spaceship. Then the whole world, as he knows it, starts to change.

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Tom Cruise and Olga Kurylenko in Oblivion
Plot:
This is a story of the year 2077. Around 60 years ago, some aliens (called Scavengers, or scavs) has attacked earth. They have started the attack by destroying the moon, creating environmental imbalance in planet earth. Then they invaded earth. To stop them, the world leaders have used nuclear bombs, which made the earth uninhabitable even for human. Mankind has moved to Titan, one of Saturn’s moons.

Now human have put several machines which generate power from the seawater. Scavs are still there in the earth, so human are using drones to protect the machines. There is also a space station named Tet near the earth, which is used as the control station of the whole program.

Jack is one of the very few people living in the earth. He is a drone technician. His job is to take care of the drones and repair them when needed. He lives in a secure high tech beautiful home with his partner and lover Victoria, who coordinates and navigates Jack’s mission according to the orders from the Tet. It’s been 5 years since Jack had a mandatory memory swipe, but regularly he dreams of another lady with him in a busy city.

Jack’s days pass by doing his job, while frequently he has to fight with scavs. In one situation, when he was face to face with a group of scavs, he finds that the scavs are no trying to kill him, but trying to catch him. He has a secret place, where there is still some trees left and there he has a cabin by a lake, where he goes secretly to relax.

One day, Jack and Victoria find a strange signal coming from a tower. Jack there place and before disabling it, he finds that, the signal is broadcasting coordinates of a location. Later on that day, Jack finds a crashed spaceship there with the crews in capsules. To Jack’s amazement, a drone comes there and starts killing them, instead of saving them. In one capsule, Jack finds the girl from his dream and saves her from the drones by risking his life. He brings her to his home.

As soon as she wakes up, she seems to recognize Jack. She tells her name is Julia and her spaceship was a mission by NASA. She then wants to recover the flight recorder from her ship, so Jack takes her to the crash site. There they are attacked by the scavs and the scavs take them to their hiding place.

After going there, Jack finds that the scavs are nothing but human. They ask Jack’s help to plant a bomb in the Tet. Jack refuses and then the scav leader lets him go free and suggests him to visit the restricted ‘radiation zone’ where, according to Jack’s instructions, he will burn if he enters.

Jack takes Julia to some place and asks her identity. Then Julia reveals that she is Jack’s wife. Jack then remembers some of his memories with Julia. Victoria sees the scene with her camera, and when Jack and Julia returns home, Victoria refuses to open the door. She also reports to the Tet that they are no more an effective team.

Suddenly, a drone gets activated and kills Victoria. It then tries to kill Jack, but Julia saves him. Then Jack and Julia get chased by some more drones and finally crash in the radiation zone. At the radiation zone, Jack finds a clone of himself and both of the clones start to fight. In their fight, Julia gets injured. So find treatment for her, Jack finds a home identical to his home in another zone, with the clone of Victoria as well.

To find answers, Jack and Julia go to the scav leader again. Here Jack tries to find the facts about the Tet, the scavs, his own past, Julia’s true identity and the mystery of the clones.

My reviews about the movie Oblivion:
I liked Oblivion very much, not for the plot, but for the beautiful cinematography and special effects.

The plot of Oblivion is very simple and predictable. There is no doubt that the plot is good, but we have seen a lot of movies with kind of similar plots, like I’Robot or the Eagle Eye. In a movie with Tom Cruise in it, we obviously expect something remarkable. There were a lot of hints throughout the movie Oblivion, so it became predictable that who the main villain was.

What made the Oblivion special was the beautiful screenplay, cinematography and the special effects. The use of special effects was extra-ordinary, even comparing with other high rated science fiction movies. The set design, lighting and camera works were perfect matches with the context of this movie.

Oblivion has a remarkably small set of characters but each of them has performed perfectly. I don’t need to write anything about Tom Cruise or Morgan Freeman, but everyone else did very well. The make ups and the dialogues were also extremely good. But this movie has very small amount of action sequences. More action sequences could make Oblivion more enjoyable.

Another downside of Oblivion is, a lot of screen time was given only to show Tom Cruise alone, specially on the first half. It was bearable only because it was extremely handsome Tom Cruise. With any other actor, it would look boring.

Although there is a small nudity at the beginning, but I still think it safe to watch Oblivion with kids.

So, finally, Oblivion is good movie, where everything, except the plot, were extra-ordinary. My time was well spent watching this movie and I’ll definitely recommend Oblivion to all movie lovers.

Did you like Oblivion? What do you think about its plot? Share with others in the comments.

To know more about it:
IMDB link: Oblivion on IMDB
Wikipedia link: Oblivion on Wiki 

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Thursday, September 19, 2013

247 Degrees Fahrenheit Movie Review

247 Degrees Fahrenheit
                                                             

247 Degrees Fahrenheit is a suspense thriller drama movie released in 2011. This movie is written by  Lloyd S. Wagner, Levan Bakhia and Beqa Oniani and directed by Levan Bakhia and Beqa Jguburia. The very small set of characters in 247 Degrees Fahrenheit is played by Scout Taylor-Compton, Travis Van Winkle, Christina Ulloa, Michael Copon and Tyler Mane.

247 Degrees Fahrenheit is about a group of friends who gets trapped in a sauna, unable to control the high temperature in it. They must fight for their survival until any help from outside comes.

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A Scene from the movie 247 Degrees Fahrenheit



Plot:
At the beginning of the movie 247 Degrees Fahrenheit, a couple is going somewhere in the car at night and they have an accident. The accident kills the boy, leaving the girl, named Jenna, injured but alive.

Three years later, Jenna, with her good friend Renee and her boyfriend Michael and Michael’s friend Ian, goes to a trip to spend their vacation. Renee and her boyfriend are trying to fix Jenna with Ian but Jenna is still trying to recover from her tragedy. The four of them goes to a lakeside cabin owned by Ian’s relative Wade. Wade welcomes them all to his beautiful cabin.

At that town, a special festival is going on and they have four passes for a special invite-only party. They all like the cabin very much. Renee and Michael start to make love as soon as they go to their room while Jenna and Ian start to arrange for dinner. Meanwhile, Jenna has refrained herself from taking her medicines, because she is trying to move on and live without her medicines.

They have dinner and then Wade leaves telling that he has some other things to take care of. But before going to the party, they find a beautifully decorated hot sauna in that cabin. Together they hit the sauna and enjoy there. But when they feel too hot, they goes out and together jumps in the lake. But the water of the lake was again too cold for them, so they again head to the sauna.

But before going to the sauna, the two boys have some drink and Michael becomes drunk. He tries to seduce Renee but she refuses. Michael becomes mad and leaves the sauna. He heads upstairs to go to the bathroom. Inside the sauna, Renee feels irritated. After finishing their sauna bath, when the three of them tries to go out, they find that the door is stuck by something from the outside and they are trapped.

They call Michael but the door is too thick to let out much of the sound. They find that, the temperature control system of the sauna is outside, so they can’t reduce the heat. There is a thermostat inside the room, but messing with it may even increase the heat. The system has a maximum heat to 250 degrees Fahrenheit, where they have previously set it at 185 degrees. Until any help from outside comes, they have to survive in this room with only a very small amount of water.

Renee become paranoid and starts to irritate Jenna and Ian. Several times she conducts personal attack on Jenna. Ian tries to find any possible way to get out of the sauna. After several of his attempts and bleeding from his hand, he manages to break a small glass window. It helps them to get some fresh air in the room, but with the risk of the temperature going higher.  He also tries to move that obstacle from the door, but fails.

One time, they hear the barking of Wade’s dog. They shout by the name of that dog and the dog understands their location. Then the dog runs to Wade to bring him for help, but Wade fails to understand the intention of the dog and goes somewhere else taking Michael.

Inside the sauna, Ian tries to blow the fuse by messing with the bulbs. His plan is to stop the heater by cutting the power. But instead of blowing the fuse, his attempts blow the lights and keep the heater running. He also gets a severe electric shock and passes out. He gains his consciousness and finally loses his mind.

Renee has already passed out. So now its all unto Jenna to save their lives.

But who has trapped them inside the sauna? Why there is no response from Michael? What is blocking the door? Why Wade is not returning to the cabin? Why is Michael not looking for them?  Let’s watch this movie till the end to find the answers.

My review about the movie 247 Degrees Fahrenheit:
First of all, 247 Degrees Fahrenheit was a good movie.

The plot is very simple, but interesting. It has kept me wondering throughout the movie about what is actually happening outside the sauna. The answers were hard to predict. At the end of 247 Degrees Fahrenheit, everything fits perfectly, answering all the questions that came in mind.

The acting of all the characters of 247 Degrees Fahrenheit was good and fluent. Although, several times it seemed a little weak on acting, but overall the performance was good. The dialogues were also good. Same goes for makeups.

The screenplay and direction of 247 Degrees Fahrenheit seemed very good. We must give credit to the director to manage to keep the suspense up throughout the movie with such a simple plot. The thrill grew up very slowly from the beginning and once it was up, it stayed till the end. Although the sound effects seemed irritating sometimes, but most of the times, it has helped the suspense. 247 Degrees Fahrenheit gives enough time to know the characters. The screentime was beautifully balanced between inside and outside of the sauna, so it didn’t seem boring at all. 

They way they were trapped was the result of an accident and at the end, we see what happened with Michael, so 247 Degrees Fahrenheit has no villain. The writers should also get some credit for creating such a good plot with no evil character.

I have a little complain about the name 247 Degrees Fahrenheit. Ian said, they have set the temperature at 185 degrees, where the maximum it can get was 250 degrees. So, i don't understand how the name fits.

247 Degrees Fahrenheit contains no nude or graphic scene, but has some small scenes with drugs. I think it can be watched with kids. But most part of this movie is inside a sauna and the artists are in their underwear. So considering the nature of this film, I think a little nudity could look good in it.

So, finally, 247 Degrees Fahrenheit seemed like a good movie. I think the IMDB users has done an injustice by rating it only 4.7/10 (while I’m writing this review), this movie deserves a little better. I’d recommend 247 Degrees Fahrenheit to all movie lovers.

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Monday, September 16, 2013

Breaking the Girls Movie Review

Breaking the Girls
                                                          

Breaking the Girls is an erotic crime thriller movie released in 2013. This film is written by Mark Distefano, Guinevere Turner and directed by Jamie Babbit. The main roles of Breaking the Girls are played by Shawn Ashmore, Agnes Bruckner (whom we saw also in The Pact), Madeline Zima, Shanna Collins and Kate Levering.

Breaking the Girls is about a girl who gets a new friend all of a sudden and gets very intimate with her. Then she tries to find a way out of the scene where she is framed for a murder by her that new friend.

Agnes Bruckner and Madeline Zima in Breaking The Girls by Ocean's Movie Review
Agnes Bruckner and Madeline Zima in Breaking The Girls

Plot:
Sara is just a regular girl who is studying law. At the evening, she works in a bar. She has a crush on a guy, but that guy’s girlfriend always seeks for opportunity to humiliate her. At one evening, a beautiful and rich girl named Alex comes to the bar and Sara saves her from an irritating boy. Sara and Alex soon becomes friends and after drinking, Alex become unstable to drive herself home, so Sara takes Alex home in Alex’s high valued car.

Alex sees Sara’s embarrassment about her crash and then takes Sara to a high class party. Sara’s crush and his girlfriend are there at that party, but for coming with Alex, Sara is in a better situation here. At that party, Sara also meets Alex’s stepmother. Later on, Alex, Sara and her crush come together Alex’s house and they start making out, but after sometime, the two girls make out, leaving Sara’s Crush.

Next morning, Alex tells Sara about her affection to Sara. Later on, after going to class, Sara finds that her scholarship has been cancelled and her crush’s girlfriend has used her connection to do it. Sara gets mad and then threatens that girl. Then Alex comes there and takes Sara for a ride. Then she takes Sara to her parent’s home where she grew up. It is also the place where her mother died in a pool.

At night, Alex’s father and her stepmother comes home while Alex and Sara are there. Alex’s father scolds Alex for her behavior. Then Alex tells Sara how her friend has become her stepmother by seducing her father and now enjoying his wealth. Later on that night, Alex proposes Sara to kill Alex’s stepmother and in return, Alex will kill Sara’s crush’s girlfriend. In this way, none of their motives will be known by police.

Sara takes the proposal as a joke. But few days later, Alex kills that girl. Considering her threat to that girl few days ago, Sara becomes a suspect. A police officer comes to interrogate Sara, but Alex gives her alibi. Sara becomes terrified and leaves Alex’s home. She moves in with her crush, who is now her boyfriend.

But Alex keeps pushing her, so at one point she goes to Alex’s parents’ house with a gun in hand. But there she finds the dead body of Alex’s father. Meanwhile, someone else has tipped police about her, so reaching there, police finds Sara at the crime scene. They take Sara to station and Alex comes there and gives false statement against Sara, which puts Sara into jail.

Later, Sara’s professor and her boyfriend come to the police station and take her out. Then Sara moves in with her boyfriend. Then we see that, Alex and her stepmother have planned the whole thing. They have killed Alex’s father to get all property which they will divide themselves and framed Sara for it. Alex also has some sexual relation with her.

In the next few days, Alex finds some connection between that lady and Sara. She starts to get suspicious. On another side, Sara seeks for revenge on Alex for framing her. Finally she plans to get her revenge.

Can Sara prove her innocence? Is she really innocent?  Will the identity of the true criminal gets revealed?  Lets watch the movie to get the answers.

My reviews about Breaking the Girls:
First of all, I liked this movie.

The plot of Breaking the Girls is good and interesting. The ending is has a big twist, which is perfect for a thriller. What happened at the ending was hard to predict, specially the identity of Alex’s stepmother was impossible to guess. The ending has made the movie really interesting. The twist of plot at the end of Breaking the Girls is pretty balanced, its not too much twist like what we saw in the Wild Things series, where it seemed irritating.

 The acting of almost all the characters of Breaking the Girls seemed good, except Madeline Zima. Somehow, her acting didn’t seem all natural. But all other artists were very good fit according to their characters. Agnes Bruckner looked amazing throughout the movie.

The makeups and dialogues of Breaking the Girls are very good. The screenplay and directions are also impressive.

What this movie lacked badly was some nude scenes. The lesbian relation between Alex and others is a big part of Breaking the Girls. But this movie has absolutely no frontal nudity. The appeal of an erotic thriller movie surely decreases with the lack of enough nudity.

Although I’ve said it has is no frontal nudity, but the nature of Breaking the Girls has made it not suitable for kids.

So, overall, I’ve enjoyed watching Breaking the Girls. Although the lack of nudity is on the negative side of this movie, but the combination of good plot, good acting and good screenplay has made this movie enjoyable. I’d recommend all movie lovers to watch Breaking the Girls.

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Monday, September 9, 2013

No Tell Motel Movie Review

No Tell Motel
                                                 

No Tell Motel is a horror thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is written by T.J. Cimfel and directed by Brett Donowho. The different characters of this film are played by Rileigh Chalmers, Johnny Hawkes, Chalie Howes, Andrew MacFarlane, Angel McCord and Chelsey Reist.

No Tell Motel is about a group of friends who have an accident in the highway and the goes to a nearby abandoned motel to stay at the night. But the terrifying history of that hotel haunts them and they start to get killed one by one.

A Scene from the movie No Tell Motel by Ocean's Movie Review
A Scene from the movie No Tell Motel

Plot:
At the beginning of No Tell Motel  we see a small clip, where a little girl gets killed on the highway by a speeding vehicle. Her parents rush to her, who were just a few feet away from her, in front of a motel.

Five friends (two couples and another girl, where the two boys are brothers) are heading to a cottage in their RV to spend a vacation. They stop at a store to buy supplies, where one of the girls secretly buys pregnancy test kit. A boy is seen severely addicted to some special drugs. They again start from the store. The boy who was driving the RV is speeding ignoring all other’s warnings and finally has an accident.

Now, in the highway at the middle of the night, they are at a loss. But soon they find an abandoned motel nearby (the same motel which we saw in the clip at the beginning of the movie) and they all goes there to spend the night. The addicted boy gets busy with his tablets, a couple starts to make out and another girl, with her pregnancy test, finds out that she is pregnant. She shares it with another girl of the group and also says that she doesn’t understand how this has happened, because she always uses protection with her boyfriend. The other girl also shares some of her secrets with her.

A girl from that group sees a little girl (who died at the beginning of the movie) and while following her, she gets killed by a speeding truck. The others finds her dead body holding a little girl’s shoe and a scar on her face, which she saw on the little girl. They also find the injured and unconscious driver of the truck which caused that accident and carries him to the motel.

While a girl from the group was roaming around the motel, the wooden floor breaks and she falls in a room in the basement. She finds someone else’s presence in the room and a wooden horse moves itself towards her, so she hides in the next room. The addicted boy finds her from the ground floor, and while looking for something to save her, he finds some more drugs. By taking those drugs, he loses his mind. Meanwhile, the girl in the basement has some sort of vision from the past where she sees a lady in the bathtub, cutting her own wrists.

In another room, the dead girl’s boyfriend start to hit on the addicted guy’s boyfriend, but the addicted guy comes there and the two boys head for the basement to save the girl. But meanwhile, she has seen the little girl again and while trying to escape from there, she dies. The two boys go to the basement where one of them gets mysteriously locked in a room. There the again see some vision where a lady is tied to a table.
In the meantime, the driver of the truck that killed the first girl wakes up and then he tells the last girl about this motel. He says, after their little girl got killed on the accident, her parents got insane and the mother tried to commit suicide. The father saved her and kept her inside the basement tied to a table, where he used to feed her.

In the basement, the door of the room opens on its own and the man there sees another vision of the father of the dead little girl raping his wife. He then comes upstairs and taking the girl, goes to basement again and find another girl’s dead body. In the meantime, the addicted boy has come upstairs and traps himself inside a bathroom and keeps on taking drugs. He sees the little girl sitting in the bathtub, staring at him. When the two from the basement comes upstairs, they find his dead body. Then the man tells the girl that one time he drugged and then raped her. Hearing this, she leaves the room and starts to make contact with the ghost of the little girl to know her intentions.  

Following the little girl, she finds the horrific facts which happened in this motel long ago. She also learns the true identity of the truck driver and then she, along with her friend, fights to come out of this motel alive.

My review about No Tell Motel:
First of all, I didn’t like No Tell Motel at all.

The plot of this movie is not bad, but its too common to interest anyone. We have seen a lot of horror movies like No Tell Motel. The ending is also predictable.

The regular things in No Tell Motel didn’t seem realistic at all. For example, a group of friends were on a trip, but when the accidents happened, none of them seem to have any deep emotion for the death of their friends. One of them even started to hit on his brother’s girlfriend just minutes after his girlfriend died in No Tell Motel. In an abandoned hotel in the middle of nowhere, no one had someone to watch his/her back.

The acting of all the characters in No Tell Motel are a little below average, nothing impressive. Same goes for the dialogues.

The direction and the screenplay were really poor. None of the characters looked realistic. The character development also in No Tell Motel seemed very poor. None of the characters seemed to look at the real problem throughout the whole movie, even after their friend’s death. The scenes from the past didn’t look scary or pleasant at all. The whole movie No Tell Motel has failed to give a scare to me in any way.

The use of special effects in No Tell Motel was very limited. But they seemed okay.

There were no nude scenes or gore scenes in this movie, so you can watch it with kids.

So, finally, I didn’t find No Tell Motel worth watching. After watching it, I felt I’ve wasted a good amount of time. If you are looking for horror movies, there are a lot other better alternatives and you can view the other posts of my blog to get some names. I will not recommend No Tell Motel to anyone.

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