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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October Baby Movie Review

October Baby

                                                       

October Baby is an American drama movie released in 2011. This movie is written by Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin, Theresa Preston and Cecil Stokes and directed by Andrew and Jon Erwin. The leading characters of October Baby are played by Rachel Hendrix, Jason Burkey, John Schneider, Jasmine Guy, Jennifer Price and Colleen Trusler.

The movie October Baby is about a teenage girl who, all of sudden, learns that she was born premature, was adopted and was a failed attempt of an abortion. Then she starts her journey to her birthplace and  to find her real mother. 

Rachel Hendrix A Scene from the movie October Baby

Plot:

October Baby starts with a teenage girl named Hannah preparing for her role in her school play. Her good childhood friend (and apparently, her crush) visits her before the performance and they have a little chat. Hannah is feeling uneasy and nervous about her performance and soon after the drama starts, she has a seizure and faints on the stage. Her parents are in the theater to see her play, so they take her to hospital.

After staying at the hospital for one day, Hannah feels better and goes to home. Then she, along with her parents, has a session with her doctor. The doctor talks about her mental issues and says, the reason for her physical and mental issues is the fact that she was born premature. She already can not take this easy but then, she learns that her parents, as she knows them, are not her birthparents. She was adopted and her present parents do not know the name of her actual parents. She also gets the information that her actual mother tried to abort her and she is a result of a failed attempt of abortion.

After hearing all these, Hannah becomes confused, angry and depressed. She shares her feelings with that childhood friend (named Jason) and decides to find her real mother. From her parents, Hannah learns the name and location of the hospital where she was born. Then suddenly, some of her friends (including Jason) invite her to join a road trip they are having, which will pass through the place where she was born. Hannah agrees, and then starts that trip with her friends.

On the night when they stop at a hotel, Hannah shares room with Jason’s girlfriend and before sleeping, Jason’s girlfriend says offensive words to her about her situation. Hannah leaves the group instantly and starts walking. Next morning, Jason finds her by using a rental car and then the two of them spend a good day together. On that night, they rent a room at a hotel, but end up sleeping in the sofa of that hotel’s lobby.

On the next day, they go to the hospital where Hannah was born and find it abandoned. They break in and get caught by police. Hannah tells the police officer her story and fortunately, the officer knows the nurse who signed her birth certificate. The officer frees them and she goes to that nurse. That nurse is now a retired person and she tells Hannah all about the history of her birth. She also gives Hannah her real mother’s name and tells her about the brother that Hannah had.   

Hannah then goes to meet her real mother. But there everything doesn’t go fine. Then Hannah’s father comes there who has got information from Jason’s girlfriend. She takes Hannah home from that place.

Will Hannah go to her birth mother, or will she live with her present patents? Can she find her peace? Will she grow a relation with Jason? The last part of this movie is about her attempt to find the answers and also her attempts to find her inner peace.

A Scene from the movie October Baby

My reviews about the movie October Baby:

First of all, I loved this movie.

The plot of October Baby is very good. The story felt realistic and touchy. The psychological conflicts, the confusions, the angers and all other emotions in a teenage girl are portrayed beautifully in this movie. The ending is also good. The filmmakers have tried to give us a message through October Baby and they have given that message loud and clear to us. 

The acting of almost all the characters in October Baby were good, so were the dialogs. Same goes for the makeups. The screenplay also seemed nice. Rachel Hendrix has performed perfectly here in her debut film and her appearance in this film was really charming. She looked extraordinary beautiful in the whole movie. But I must say, at some parts of October Baby, especially for only a very few seconds, the camera works didn’t look good at all.

Although all the artistes in October Baby have done a good job for themselves, but this movie could be better with some superstars in it.

There is no nude scene in this movie and you can watch October Baby with kids.

So, overall, October Baby is a nice movie. The strongest part of this movie is its plot and the combination of good casting, good acting and good screenplay has helped this beautiful plot to become a great movie. I’d recommend this movie to all movie lovers, because I believe, everyone will love watching October Baby.

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Another Silence Movie Review

Another Silence

                                                 

Another Silence is a thriller movie released in 2011. This movie is written by Santiago Amigorena and Nicolás Buenaventura and directed by Santiago Amigorena. The main characters of Another Silence are played by Marie-Josée Croze, Ignacio Rogers, Tony Nardi and Benz Antoine.

Another Silence tells the story of a mother who seeks vengeance against the murder of her husband and son. Her journey leads her to another country where she finally comes face to face with the murderers.

Marie-Josée Croze in a scene of Another Silence

Plot:

At the beginning of Another Silence we see a female cop, named Mary, leading her peaceful life with her husband and her only son. Everything around them is going fine, until one day, when her husband and son head out to see a game, another car stops them on the way and someone from that car shoots them. Both of the father and the son gets brutally murdered there.

At first, the lady breaks down completely. She stops answering the phone and plays with her son's toys for hours. One day, her boss takes her to his office and shows him the videotape of the two cars. She asks her boss to give her the case to solve, but he refuses.

In the meantime, we see two Spanish-speaking boys, who have done some kind of job successfully and have got paid a handsome amount. After returning home, one of them finds that his wife has been sick and has gone to her village. He then starts for that village with his car.

Mary starts inquiring about the murders. She meets a gang leader, with whom, she seems to have some kind of history. The gang leader feels sympathy for her, but can only tell the name of the driver of the killer's car. He tells Mary that he doesn't know anything about the killer, as it was not a job by that gang family. Mary then finds the driver and realizing his innocence, doesn't kill him. She shoots him in his legs, but before that, learns the name of the killer of her husband and son. Meanwhile, the Spanish-speaking boy in another place has already reached the village to his wife and son.

Mary looks for the name of the killer in her police database and finds his location. She then heads for Argentina (shown later on). She finds the address of the killer and goes there. At that place, she finds the killer's friend, the another Spanish-speaking man. From him, he takes the location of the killer (the name of the village) and again heads there.

On that village, before Mary reaches there, the boy's (the killer's) bosses come and take him out of there. After going there, Mary finds the killer's wife and son. They cannot tell Mary much about the killer's whereabouts, but after getting some information, Mary goes to the border. There she bribes a policeman to learn information about the killer. She learns that, he is coming back through this border on the next day. In the meantime, we see the journey of the killer with his bosses.

Mary rents a hotel and gets a little friendly with the grand-daughter of the owner of that hotel. At night, one man, who gave a file to Mary earlier, enters her room and tries to kill her. But she gets saved. That man also tells Mary that why they have killed her family.

She waits for the killer on the next day at the border and when the killer enters the border in a truck with his bosses, Mary follows them by hijacking a car. When the killers stop at a cabin, then Mary leaves the car and finally, comes face to face with the killer of her family.

My reviews about Another Silence:

First of all, I'll mark Another Silence as a below average thriller movie.

The plot is good and so is the ending. But the problem with the plot of Another Silence is, it is very simple. Actually, it will seem too simple to keep you attracted. A twist of plot could make it much more interesting. Although, Another Silence is about the desire of revenge of the main character, but this movie felt more about her journey than about her revenge.

Acting of all the main characters in Another Silence were good. Marie-Josée Croze looked stunningly beautiful but simple in the whole movie. The makeups were also good, where the dialog were very simple.

This movie clearly lacked some action scenes. Even with a plot as plain as this, Another Silence could do better with some more action scenes. Here, several times, the director has shown different part of the journey of the main character in details, which seemed unnecessary and boring. Actually, in Another Silence, there is not much of excitements. From a thriller movie, the lack of excitements is a big turn off for viewers like us.

What seemed unnatural in Another Silence is, at the end, when Mary saw the killer in a truck, she recognized him instantly, although she has not seen his face or photo ago.

There is no nude scene in the whole movie, and overall, you can watch Another Silence with kids.

So, finally, although Another Silence has some good elements, overall it did not seem as a good movie only for the missing elements of excitement. I will not recommend to watch Another Silence to anyone.

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