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, Zoë 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

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
.

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.

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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.

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.

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A Good Day to Die Hard Movie Review

A Good Day to Die Hard
                                                                   

A Good Day to Die Hard is an American action movie released in 2013. This movie is the fifth installment of the famous movie series of Die Hard, which started at 1988. This film is written by Skip Woods and directed by John Moore. The iconic character of John McClane is played here by Bruce Willis, just like the previous movies of this franchise. Other major characters of A Good Day to Die Hard are played by Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Yuliya Snigir and Sergei Kolesnikov.

In A Good Day to Die Hard, detective John McClane learns that his son is in a great danger in Russia. So John heads to Russia to bring his son back. His visit turns into a big mission where he gets a new companion, Jack McClane.

Bruce Willis and Jai Courtney in A Good Day to Die Hard

Plot:

A Good Day to Die Hard starts in Russia where an ex-billionaire named Yuri is held in prison and people are demonstrating for him. He is believed to be a political prisoner and is held captured by a plan made by a corrupted government high official, who is also the candidate for home minister in the next election. The officer goes to prison on the day before the trial and threatens Yuri that if Yuri does not hand him a special file, Yuri’s life will be at risk. Yuri does not get scared by this threat and says he will give the officer nothing.

At that night, a young man shoots and kills someone in a bar stating that he is working for Yuri. When he is captured and then sent to interrogation, he tells the police that he will testify against Yuri, if they hold his trial with Yuri’s.

Meanwhile in USA, detective John McClane finds the whereabouts of his son, Jack, and learns that he is in a prison in Russia. So John heads to Russia and reaches there on the day when his son is going to be on the court. His taxi gets stuck in jam on the way to the court so he leaves the taxi and starts walking. When he gets near the court, in his detective eyes, he finds something strange happening around there.

At the court, Yuri and that young man is present. But before the trial begins, a bomb explodes. The young man takes Yuri out of there safely just before some armed people enter there looking for Yuri. The young man then takes a delivery van to move Yuri from there, but before he starts, John comes there and finds the young man as his son Jack, who is an undercover agent working for C.I.A. John’s presence delays Jack and Yuri’s escape and meanwhile, the armed people starts to chase them in their car. To save Jack, John starts to go after the armed group.

After a lot of chasings and actions, finally John and Jack manage to take Yuri to a secret safe house of USA in Russia. An agent was there. That agent and Jack convinces Yuri to give them the secret file in exchange of Yuri's and his daughter’s safety. Yuri says the key to that file is located at a hotel and he calls his daughter to be there. Then some armed men attack there and kill the agent. John, Jack and Yuri escape from there and go to that hotel.

At that hotel, Yuri finds his daughter. But those armed men again attack there and take Yuri’s daughter, who then turns out to be a team member of those armed men lead by that corrupted official and also against her father. Taking Yuri, his daughter and the secret key, they head for the location where the file is hidden. Some other people of that group try to kill Jack and John but fail. Jack and John manage to kill everyone in that room before being attacked by some more soldiers on a helicopter, but finally escape from there alive.

Yuri is taken to a secret vault in Chernobyl along with his daughter and the soldiers. Reaching there, the true face of Yuri’s daughter gets exposed. We see that the whole plan is different than what we’ve seen till now. John and Jack reaches there and soon they find the actual plan. They start to go after the original villains.     

My reviews about A Good Day to Die Hard:

First of all, to all Die Hard fans: prepare for disappointment with A Good Day to Die Hard.

I’m starting the review by stating that, like thousands of other people, I’m a big fan of the Die Hard series. But a lot of things I like about all the other movies of this franchise are absent here in A Good Day to Die Hard.

The plot is not bad itself. It has some twists, but still it didn't seem strong enough. Although the ending of A Good Day to Die Hard was pretty predictable but that is not a big issue, because it has been the case of all the Die Hard movies. These movies are never about exciting endings. The screenplay here also seemed good.

I don’t need to say anything about the acting of Bruce Willis. All other artistes have also done a good job in A Good Day to Die Hard. The dialogues are good, except the dialogues of Bruce Willis’. His dialogues severely missed the charm from the older movies of Die Hard. The make ups were also okay.

The lighting and the camera works are good in A Good Day to Die Hard.  The special effects are brilliant. Specially, the car chasing sequence at the beginning was beautiful.

Like the previous movies, A Good Day to Die Hard does not contain any nude scene or any other scenes which may make it inappropriate for children.

Now, to talk about the things which I didn’t like about A Good Day to Die Hard, I should start with the plot. In all the previous four movies of this series, detective John McClane is put is such a situation that he has no other way than to fight. But in here its not the same case. A Good Day to Die Hard was completely about the mission of his son Jack, and John just runs with him all the time and fights. This is the first movie of this series where John is out of USA, so A Good Day to Die Hard was supposed to be very interesting about how he is surviving in a foreign land. But a lot of details are ignored and the director has completely failed to use this at his advantage.  Other than the location, almost nothing gave us the feeling that he was out of his comfort zone.

One of the most interesting sides about the Die Hard movies were the bold, dam care, rough and tough and bad-ass attitude of John McClane. But those seemed all gone now, in A Good Day to Die Hard, we see him as a softer person. I really missed his attitude here, where he had the guts to tell the villains that he was coming to get them. The villain in A Good Day to Die Hard is also not as strong as the previous villains and his character didn’t have the strong personality like them.

Remember the scene in Die Hard (part 1) where John’s wife got sure that John was alive by seeing the fury of an enemy and said “Only John can make someone that angry.”? I badly missed that John McClane in A Good Day to Die Hard.

The action sequences of A Good Day to Die Hard also didn’t look realistic like the previous films. How come he (and the villains) made such a mess in Moscow but almost no police was after them? Coming to Russia as a tourist, how can he get away after creating such a havoc? The part where Jack cut the ropes but the people standing behind him didn’t notice that at all didn’t seem logical. Somewhere over internet I read that, John McClane has killed 54 men in total in all the previous movies. But in the car chase sequence at A Good Day to Die Hard, he seems to have harmed (and killed) a lot of normal people, which doesn’t match with his reputation.

Several rumors are already all over internet about the Die Hard series. Some say, Die Hard will end with the sixth movie, which will take place at Japan. Another suggests, the importance of Jack McClane’s character given in this film, international location, political involvements – all these indicates that the time of John McClane has come to an end and his son will continue the series. Let’s see what happens in future days.

So, overall, although its not a bad movie itself, but A Good Day to Die Hard fails to satisfy a Die Hard fan. It doesn’t matter whether I recommend or not, action movie fans will watch this one just for its name and awesomeness of its prequels. But I’ll conclude by saying, I was disappointed by A Good Day to Die Hard.

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The Thompsons Movie Review

The Thompsons

                                                           

The Thompsons is an independent horror thriller movie about vampires,  released in 2012. This film is the sequel of the horror movie The Hamiltons. This sequel is written by Mitchell Altieri and Cory Knauf and directed by the Butcher Brothers (Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores). The roles of the siblings in The Thompsons are mostly played by the stars of The Hamiltons, who are Mackenzie Firgens, Cory Knauf, Ryan Hartwig, Samuel Child and Joseph McKelheer. The other characters of The Thompsons are played by Elizabeth Henstridge, Sean Browne, Tom Holloway and Daniel O'Meara. 

The Thompsons tells the story of five vampire siblings, who are looking for a shelter after committing a massacre. But soon after they find a shelter, they also find that they have fallen in a dangerous trap. 

A scene from the movie The Thompsons

Plot:

At the beginning of The Thompsons we see a boy (named Francis) is trapped inside a box and he starts saying how he has got here. He starts from a hotel and travels countryside looking for more people “like them”. His car breaks down on the way and he reaches a nearby village. He keeps telling us that they are fugitives. He enters a bar and looks for someone by name over the counter but the owners say that they don’t know anyone by that name. Then a local police comes to the bar, who thinks he knows Francis from somewhere, so being threatened, Francis kills him and takes everyone from the bar as hostages. In the meantime, we see a couple, who are trying to make love in a jungle, get chased and then caught by some very strange men.

From the bar, Francis calls his twin brother and sister, who are seducing (and later, kill) a lady in Paris. The brother gives Francis some information. Then two boys come to the bar who seem to be the cousin of the daughter of that bar’s owner. Francis holds them at gunpoint and asks the daughter of the bar’s owner to tie them, but they get free and attack Francis, who then becomes unconscious.

Then we see the whole story of the vampire siblings and Francis introduces them to us. The eldest brother is the one who looks after the family. The next two are twins, who do everything together. Then come Francis and his younger brother. They were travelling somewhere and on the way, they stopped at fuel pump. At the same time, a group of robber attacked there and accidentally, the youngest brother of vampire siblings got shot. The others became furious and killed everyone, including other innocent people. Their faces were caught on camera and thus they have become fugitives. They are now hiding at different places and Francis has set out to look for some other vampires who can help them.

When Francis regains his consciousness, he finds that the owner of the bar and his whole family are also vampires like him, excluding the daughter of the owner. Francis grows a special friendly relation with her, although he never gets along with her brothers. The bar owner then offers Francis his help and calls his other siblings to come and stay with them. Taking his offer willingly, the other siblings come there. But when they reach there, they find out that it is not what it seemed like. They realize, they have fallen in the trap of the bar owner. The hunter siblings are the ones who are being haunted now. They need to find a way to survive.

My review about The Thompsons:

First of all, I didn’t like the movie The Thompsons at all.

The plot is not that bad and neither is the screenplay. But The Thompsons is specially weak at the sides of acting and dialogues. The acting was very poor although most of the characters were good looking. The twist of the plot near the end of The Thompsons felt good. But overall, the plot seemed impractical even for a fantasy horror or a vampire movie.

I have a mixed feeling about the make ups in The Thompsons. Most of the characters looked good with their fangs, bloods and vampire faces, but the wounded peoples' makeups were nowhere near realistic.

This film clearly lacked some special effects. A very small amount of special effects were used in this movie. The Thompsons could be more enjoyable with some more and good quality special effects. Lighting and camera works looked pretty good at some places and also pretty poor at some others.

Mackenzie Firgens looked stunning in The Thompsons, even in very small screen time. I just wish she was given more screen time throughout the movie.

Due to some nude scenes every now and then and for the violent nature of it, The Thompsons is not suitable for kids.

So, finally, I didn’t like The Thompsons at all. At different reviews, I’ve read that this one is better than its prequel, The Hamiltons, but I can’t comment about that because I haven’t watched the prequel yet. This movie seemed to me like just a below average vampire movie. I will not recommend watching The Thompsons to anyone.

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1000 Times More Brutal Movie Review

1000 Times More Brutal

                                                     

1000 Times More Brutal is an American crime action thriller movie released in 2012. This film is produced, written and directed by Kamal Ahemd. The main characters of this movie are played by David Dastmalchian, Natalie Allen, Anthony Aveni, Rosario Aveni, Angelo Bonsignore, Peter Greene and Mark Love.

1000 Times More Brutal tells the story of a man and his friends who rob a mobster to take revenge. But after three years, when the mobster finds out who had robbed him and attach them back, they realize that all of their lives are now in danger.

A Scene from the movie1000 Times More Brutal

Plot: 
1000 Times More Brutal is about a man (named Antonio) and his three friends. At the beginning of the movie, we see one friend of Antonio gets kidnapped. While Antonio is enjoying with his two other friends at a bar, a man gives them a VCD, which, when played, shows how the kidnapped friend has been tortured and murdered.

Antonio knows that the other three of them are also in danger. So, by using his late uncle's reputations, he asks for help to a mobster. When the mobster asks him in details about what actually happened, we see how Antonio and his friends have fallen in this life threatening situation .

Three years ago, when the four of them were going somewhere one night, a car blocked their way in a cross section, even when the signal was green. They started shouting but unfortunately, that car belonged to some local gangster. The team of that gangster came out of the car and beat Antonio and his friends severely.

Few months later from then, one of Antonio's friends found the gangster and his working place. They planned to rob that gangster to get their revenge. They planned the whole thing and examined all their possibilities. They spent enough time for taking their preparations and finally, robbed the gangster. After the robbing, they went to some place far away and enjoyed with their money. At one time there, four of them dropped a few drops of blood on a bill and kept that as a symbol of their bond.

Now after all these times, the gangster is attacking Antonio's group. After listening everything, the mobster (whom Antonio called) agrees to set up a meeting between Antonio and the furious gangster. When Antonio tells his other two friends about it, they become furious at first, but then agree to Antonio. His wife also gives him her support.

At the scheduled time, Antonio meets the gangster in presence of his guardian mobster. The gangster demands his money back. But its not possible for Antonio to get all these money back that he has spent already. Finally, the only solution that gets agreed by both is, Antonio will help the gangster to collect an amount of pending money from a party.

So, Antonio, along with his two friends, head to that place to collect the money. But everything doesn't go according to their plans.

My review about 1000 Times More Brutal:

First of all, I didn't like this movie at all.

The plot was okay. The ending seemed shocking and unexpected, but overall, the whole story of 1000 Times More Brutal looked realistic.

The weakest points of 1000 Times More Brutal are poor acting and bad screenplay. The director had the chance to make a better movie then this based on the same plot, but has failed completely. The bad direction and bad acting has ruined the whole movie. Specially, the acting of the leading character Antonio were the poorest of them all, followed by his friends. The acting of the villain characters of 1000 Times More Brutal were comparatively better.

The dialogues were also poor in 1000 Times More Brutal, had nothing to interest anyone at all. Dialogues are very important for gangster movies like this, but the director has also failed to realize their importance.

How their identities were revealed to the gangster seemed completely unrealistic. The director has also wasted enough time in 1000 Times More Brutal to show some unnecessary scenes, which didn't have much effect on the main plot.  

The screenplay were also poor, as I said earlier. Even with a plot like this, 1000 Times More Brutal will completely fail to keep you interested.

For the language, violence and nude scenes, this movie is not for kids.

So, overall, I didn't enjoy 1000 Times More Brutal at all. After watching this movie, I felt like I've wasted my time. I will not recommend watching 1000 Times More Brutal to anyone.

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Werewolf: The Beast Among Us Movie Review

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

                                                                                                

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us is horror thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is written by Michael Tabb, Catherine Cyran and Louis Morneau and directed by Louis Morneau. The main characters of Werewolf: The Beast Among Us are played by Ed Quinn, Guy Wilson, Nia Peeples, Stephen Rea, Rachel DiPillo, Adam Croasdell and Stephen Rea.

In the movie Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, we see a town where a very powerful werewolf in killing people at night. A group of werewolf hunters are hired to kill the werewolf and they find that, this extraordinary beast, disguised as a human, is living among the villagers. To stop it, they only have two days.
  

A Scene from the movie Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

Plot:

At the beginning of Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, we see a werewolf attacking the family of a little boy named Charles. Both of Charles’s parents die trying to save him, but finally Charles kills the werewolf and saves himself. Before dying, his father gives him a locket which was a sign of great werewolf hunters.

Years have passed and Charles has grown up. He is now the leader of a team which is renowned for hunting werewolves. One day, few men come to him asking his help, telling him that a werewolf has killed a lot of people in their village. Charles also finds that, that werewolf is of a special kind, which can hunt for three days in a row. He heads for that village with his team. On the way, they see a cart carrying dead bodies and also meet a zombie who has been infected by werewolf. As their regular procedure, Charles’s team shoots the zombie in its head and then burns the body.

Then we see a teenage boy named Daniel who is living in a nearby village where the werewolf has attacked. He is studying to be a doctor and has an affair with a rich girl. Daniel’s mother runs a hotel cum brothel in that village. Charles’ team reaches Daniel’s village just when a man was asking for the bounty of killing the werewolf to the local police chief, by bluffing the villagers. Charles exposes the bluff and then, by bargaining with the police chief, doubles the bounty announced by the police. Daniel becomes impressed by seeing Charles’s team and offers them his assistance. Charles politely declines. Charles’s team starts to stay at Daniel’s mother’s hotel.

Daniel‘s girlfriend tries to stop Daniel from becoming an werewolf hunter and also offers him to get admitted in a medical college, which Daniel declines. He keeps on working with the village’s doctor. They regularly get patients attacked by the werewolf and kill the ones who have got infected. Meanwhile, Charles takes preparation for hunting and on the next moon, sets a trap in the jungle to catch the werewolf. At the same time, a group of poachers were also after the werewolf. The werewolf leads poachers to Charles’s trap and thus, both of the teams fail to catch it. Charles understands that this werewolf is intelligent and thus, different from other werewolves. Daniel also gets chased and taken by the werewolf. Then the werewolf attacks Daniel’s mother’s hotel and kills some bad people.

Daniel finds a pattern in how this werewolf attacks people and proves to Charles that it only attacks low life. Being impressed, Charles listens to Daniel and together they go to the local gypsy head who gives them idea about how powerful and special this werewolf is. He also tells them that they must catch it in next two days, otherwise, it will be able to transform at its will and will be impossible to stop.

In the meantime, the villagers lose faith into the hunters and try to take matters in their own hands. They identify some persons who don’t have a strong alibi about them when the werewolf attacked last night and suspect them as werewolf. Daniel’s mother, his girlfriend’s father, the gypsy head, the police chief and some other people are kept into the jail for that night to see if any one of them is the werewolf. Charles also sets up another trap with the help of Daniel. They use one of the poachers as bait, as the werewolf is hunting lowlifes.  At the night, the werewolf attacks. This time again, all of Charles’s team’s efforts goes in vain and the werewolf escapes. But surprisingly, the werewolf hurts none of the members of Charles’s team when it has easy chances to kill them.

At the same time in the jail, the police chief feels seek. Becoming frightened, the guards kill all of the people in the jail, except Daniel’s mother who escapes. Then we get to know the human identity of the werewolf. We also see how he/she has become a werewolf and the reason why he/she has this special power. We can also see that an important person in that village is protecting and training the werewolf.

One member of Charles’s team finally finds out who the werewolf is and puts him/her in display in front of the villagers to reveal its true identity. But the werewolf breaks free and goes to hiding. Finally it comes face to face with that member, which also reveals another identity of that companion of Charles.

Can Charles or Daniel kill the werewolf? Can the human identity of the werewolf save the persons he/she love? Let’s watch the movie to find the answers.

A Scene from the movie Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

My review about Werewolf: The Beast Among Us:

First of all, I’ve found Werewolf: The Beast Among Us as a better than average werewolf movie.

The plot seemed nice and interesting. It was not easy to guess who the werewolf was and from time to time, the director has given signals to misguide us in that guessing in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, and it felt exciting. Finding the werewolf was not the end of the movie. We got that answer long before the movie’s end and a lot of other things happened after that. But overall, the plot of Werewolf: The Beast Among Us is good enough to keep you attached.

The acting and the dialogues in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us were good too. All the actors and actresses have done a good job here.

The makeups and special effects of Werewolf: The Beast Among Us were also good. The werewolf and its transformation effects seemed natural. Specially, the makeup of the werewolf was pretty good, so I wonder why the director has not shown it more on the whole movie.

I found a big plot hole in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us.  When you see the human identity of the werewolf, you can clearly remember that you saw that person being chased by the werewolf. But the whole movie is about only one werewolf, nowhere else it refers any second one. It is hard to accept this type of mistake in a movie like this.

What I didn’t like about Werewolf: The Beast Among Us was the graphic scenes used in it. The director could show less (or indirectly) of them without harming the sense of the movie at all. This movie could do better without them.

Although there is no nude scene in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, but for the body pieces and other scenes, this movie is not suitable for kids.

So, overall, I liked this movie. I’ll mark this movie as good, although not great. Werewolf: The Beast Among Us is surely worth giving a try.

What do you think about this one? Feel free to comment.

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The Cold Light of Day Movie Review

The Cold Light of Day
                                              

The Cold Light of Day is an action thriller released in 2012. It is written by Scott Wiper, John Petro and directed by Mabrouk El Mechri. The major roles of The Cold Light of Day are played by Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Verónica Echegui and Sigourney Weaver.

The Cold Light of Day tells the story of a busy executive, who goes to spend vacation with his family where suddenly he gets separated from his family member, discovers the hidden identity of his father and finally learns about the conspiracy which is threatening their lives.

Henry Cavill and Bruce Willis in The Cold Light of Day

Plot:
A guy named Will goes to Spain to spend the holidays with his family (against his will). His father apparently works for USA embassy and right now, posted in Spain.  He, along with his parents, brother and brother’s girlfriend goes for fishing in the sea. Will is continuously busy with his works and that causes an accident which injures Will’s brother’s girlfriend. Will’s dad throws Will’s phone to the sea. To make some important calls and to get some supplies, Will swims to the shore.

When he returns to the beach, he sees that their boat has disappeared. Finally he finds the boat abandoned with no one in it. He runs to the local police station. After knowing his name, the police take him near the boat and another man comes there, who wants to take Will to the place where his family is. Sensing danger, Will tries to break free and suddenly his dad appears. Together they fight the police and escape. Will then learns from his dad that his dad’s job is not what it seems and his actions are the reason behind the kidnap of his family.

Will’s dad takes him to a CIA agent and he tries to find a briefcase, which, the agent said, is passed to other hands.  While returning to the car, his dad is shot to death by a sniper. Will takes his dad’s phone and gun and runs for his life while that sniper keeps chasing him. He manages to enter U.S. embassy. The people of the embassy can’t help him, moreover, they frame him for killing a police officer. Then the CIA agent (lady) comes to the embassy and offers him her help. But sensing danger again, Will runs away from the embassy.

Will gets a call on his father’s phone from the kidnappers who address his father as Tom. They give Will a timeline to return the briefcase. Then he sees a name on the dial list for several times. He calls that number and finds an address.

He goes to that person’s office and finds a girl there who is the niece of the person whom Will wants to find. The man from the embassy appears there and tries to kill them both, but Will manages to kills him. Then they go to the girl’s uncle’s home but find him dead there. The CIA agent comes there and while escaping from there, Will gets shot. But he, along with the girl, finally manages to escape. The girl takes him to a nightclub and the people at the  nightclub (the girl’s friends) help them.  The girl gets surprised to find Will’s father’s photo in his phone. Then they find out, she is Will’s sister.

Will then goes to meet the kidnappers at their scheduled time and place. He finds his family there with the kidnappers. The kidnappers are Mossad agents and after they become sure that Will is innocent, they tell Will the facts about the briefcase. Will learns that the CIA agent is the culprit behind all these. The Mossad agents hold Will’s family for the briefcase and also warn him, they have no reason to keep Will’s family alive once the briefcase has been sold to wrong hands.

To get the briefcase, Will then lures the hitman to him in the nightclub by using the girl’s credit card. The hitman is then caught by the nightclub’s bouncers. But they fail to get any information from him. According to Will’s plan, they let the hitman escape and then follow him, which takes them to the CIA agent. 

The last part of the movie is all about securing the briefcase, Will’s attempts to save his family and to get revenge of his father’s murder.

My reviews about The Cold Light of Day:
First of all, I’ll mark The Cold Light of Day as an average action movie.

The plot of The Cold Light of Day is good enough, there is no question about that. But this movie is a little weak on acting and special effects. There are not much flaws on acting, but still it could be better. A better reputed actor at Will’s character could take The Cold Light of Day higher. The make ups and the dialogues were just okay, nothing special. 

I have another complain about the casting. When you start an action movie with Bruce Willis’s name on it, obviously you will have some high expectations. But the death of the character who is being played by him in just about half an hour from the beginning of The Cold Light of Day, was a big turnoff for me. 

The screenplay of The Cold Light of Day seemed good, but the direction felt a little weak to me.

The Cold Light of Day has almost all the things you’ll want in an action thriller, such as powerful villain, good plot and car chases, but almost all of these lacked good special effects. You will specially feel it at the car chasing scenes at the end.

The Cold Light of Day also lacks a romantic touch. The main female character is the sister of the hero. It would be better to watch if that was not the case and the girl was somehow got attached with Will. 

It also looked ridiculous to me that a highly trained evil CIA agent who could shoot to kill a handful  of Mossad agents at the end, missed Will who were just a few feet away from her at the middle of the movie.  

Although The Cold Light of Day doesn't contain any nude scenes, still it doesn't give any reason to watch it with kids. 

So, I won’t recommend this movie to action movie lovers. But still, its not so bad, so if you are looking to kill your time, Watching The Cold Light of Day can be an option.   

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