John (Channing Tatum) is a soldier having his two weeks leave in his hometown, where he met Savannah (Amanda Seyfried), a college student visiting the town.

Although love was unexpected, it doesn’t mean they didn’t find it. With the knowledge of John having to leave for the army, their love still lives. While John is on duty, they keep writing letter to each other and maintain their feeling.

But when the 9/11 attack occurred, John has to re-enlist for at least another two years, and they have to be separated longer. Troubles invade and their love put on hold. One cannot bear it anymore; can the other?


Release Date: February 5, 2010 (wide)

Distributor: Screen Gems

Directed by: Lasse Hallström (Chocolat, The Shipping News, Casanova, The Hoax, Hachiko: A Dog’s Story)

Starring: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Henry Thomas, Scott Porter, Richard Jenkins

Budget: $25,000,000

Gross Revenue: $112,076,256 (worldwide), $80,014,842 (US)

Review:

There are many Nicholas Sparks’ novels that have been adapted to film, but only two deserve a credit, Message in A Bottle and The Notebook.

Watching movies and reading novels are a very different experiences. In a novel, our imaginations are set free, we can interpret the author’s writing in any way that we love. And when the director of a movie can’t interpret the movie the way we thought, the result is a wreck. Hence, Dear John following the footsteps of A Walk to Remember and Nights in Rodanthe as a failure to adept Sparks’ works.

The plot began when a soldier named John met a college girl named Amanda in his leave from duty. Apparently it only take a few moments for both of them to fall in love with each other. Unfortunately, John only two weeks in the town and have to get back to serve.

They have to split up for a year before John will be back for good. While being apart, they keeping contact with each other by writing letter. Trouble comes when 9/11 event takes place, John and his team choose to re-enlist for another two years. Can the couple that only been together for two weeks keep their feeling for another two years only by reading a handwriting note sent by each other?

In the first part of the movie, where John and Amanda spent their two weeks together, it was actually kinda sweet and romantic. We can see their connection and chemistry, and all of those first love experiences. Although, Channing Tatum was a little bit rigid in playing John’s character.

Now, the core part of the movie poses the bigger problem. The lovers were apart by distances, and keep in touch by sending a letter to each other. The letters should be meaningful and can shed the tears of the audiences. Instead, they were nothing, basically what they wrote in those letters were just “How are you?” and “I miss you”. No stories about how they holding on, or what they’re doing in all those times apart.

Well, if their letters only like that, no wonder their relationship won’t last, and that’s exactly what happened. In this point of the movie, the story completely focused on John. Again, being the one who dumped, there were no telling on how John managed to live without Amanda. The plot just keep jumping to the future, until John finally has to come back to his town.

The ending, although not a complete disappointment, has passed the climax, and rather flat (well, it was assumed that you can keep your eyes open to see the ending ).

One thing that can I can kept remembering from this movie, is what John and Amanda used to say when they were gonna parted, “I’ll see you soon, then….”


My Rating: C

IMDb user rating: 5.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 28%

Metacritic: 43/100

Yahoo! critics: C

Yahoo! users: B+

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The scientist family has five children that Shane need to looking after, including two babies. The kids prove to be difficult to handle, even with the help of nanny Helga. Now, Shane has to face the greatest battle he ever encountered, put aside his gun and riffle and change it to Mothercare equipments as a weapon.

The Pacifier was directed by Adam Shankman and released in 2005. Although received many negative reviews by the critics, the movie itself was well received by audiences, produced about $115 millions from box office list. Besides Vin Diesel, this movie also starred by Lauren Graham, Brittany Snow, and Faith Ford.

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The Story:

Evelyn Salt, a great and loyal CIA Agent is suspected by Russian Spy will kill the President of Russia, Boris Matveyev, when he visit the New York City to attend the funeral of the recently deceased U.S. Vice President. Ted Winter, Salt’s boss, didn’t believe that his great agent is a double agent, but Salt’s actions begin to raise his doubt.

Who is Evelyn Salt actually and what is she planning?

Release Date: July 23th, 2010 (USA)

Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Directed by: Phillip Noyce

Starring: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Daniel Olbrychski, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Budget: $110,000,000

Gross Revenue: $188,923,963

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Review:

Although it is not a 90 minutes boring movie, Salt is not as good as its teaser. Both the directing and acting are standard, the character of evelyn salt which is played by Angelina Jolie is not really strong, neither the whole story of the movie plus some ridiculous situation in the movie make it just a common “action movie”. Over the critics, I enjoy the movie enough if I don’t really think about its irrational situations and characters in the movie, so for you who really care about the detail of the movie plot, you can find the other action movies but if you fine with that “issues” which I mentioned above, Salt would be entertaining enough for you.

My Rating: B

IMDb user rating: 6.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 61%

Metacritic: 65/100

Yahoo! critics: B-

Yahoo! users: B+

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Former Special Forces, John “Hannibal” Smith (Liam Neeson), Templeton “Face” Peck (Bradley Cooper), Bosco “B.A.” Baracus (Quinton Jackson), and H.M. “Howling Mad” Murdock (Sharlto Copley), formed a group after they met in Mexico in an escape attempt from corrupt Mexican officers.

After that event, they became a highly-regarded special task unit in the military force. Later, they were sent into a mission in Iraq, only to found themselves being framed that led them to court-martial.

Motivated to clear their name, they broke up from prison and tried to chase whoever behind their set-up, even if they must fought against all odds.


Release Date: June 11th, 2010 (wide)

Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Directed by: Joe Carnahan

Starring: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bloom

Budget: $110,000,000

Gross Revenue: $73,923,594 (US), $131,963,942 (worldwide, up to July 9, 2010)

Review:

For those who not old enough and missed the original The A-Team on television a few decades ago, this TV series plot was about a group of mercenaries consist of four men with different characters. In order to completing a mission or task, they like to plan everything carefully, and then executed it with no mistake at all, thus they don’t need a “plan B”. Most of the time their plans seem reckless or impossible, but that what made it interesting.

Now for the movie, the story started on how the group gathered. Started with Hannibal who tried to save Face, where he got help from fellow Ranger, B.A Baracus, in the middle of the way. The trio then tried to escaped from Mexican corrupt officers by the help of a mad pilot, Murdock, who fly them out from Mexican border with hospital’s chopper. This was how The A-Team assembled, and also, how B.A got his fear of flying.

The story then jump to eight years later in Iraq, where after completed a lot of missions The A-Team become a highly respected special task unit in the military force. The command believe them in difficult and discreet missions, sometimes even for black covert ops.

I’m not gonna tell detail about the story, so, in short, they were framed of doing an illegal operation, where the general who sent them into the mission was murdered so no one will back-up their story. They then being court-martialed and verdict for ten years in jail. Having no more faith to the system, they planned their great escape and tried to find for themselves the man behind their set-up.

Like the original The A-Team series, the planning and execution part are the most interesting part of this movie. Fast pace, impossible stunt, intense action, and explosion everywhere, make this movie very entertaining to watch and successfully reboot the TV series.

Although, entertainment is the only thing that you will get. Don’t ever expected to get character and story development, or even some logic from the action scene. But, that doesn’t matter at all, because The A-Team was never about all those things. Mess, noisy, and fun action, are the most important aspects for you who looking for pure entertainment. So, enjoy as it is…


My Rating: B

IMDb user rating: 7.4/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 48%

Metacritic: 47/100

Yahoo! critics: C+

Yahoo! users: A-

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The only movies that I know often using ski as an action sequences are James Bond (007) franchises, although not as a main theme, like we saw in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) that filled with dashing skiing scenes.

Maybe this was due to the fact that skiing, if not dangerous, is a hard sport to master.

Some of the movies that featured ski in it

Ski, refers to long, flat device worn on the feet designed to help the wearer slide smoothly over snow. To skiing, people use two ski boards that need to be attached to ski boots in both legs using a binding mechanism. Originally intended as an aid to travel in snowy regions, they are now mainly used for recreational and sporting purposes.

Although included as an extreme sport, with proper equipment, skiing risks can greatly reduced. Nowadays, the injury rates per 1000 visits to the slopes only range from 3 to 10 (0.3% – 1%). Knee injuries and broken bones are the most common injuries. That’s why the best equipment need to be wore, including helmet, goggle, boots, and binding.

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If you want to know more about this brand, I suggest you to check this video about Marker binding review. While if you’re interesting to buy their products, there is no best place to check it other than EvoGear.com. This is a respectable and trustworthy online store that provides every equipment you need for skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing and wakeboarding.

The Story:

A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. This situation leads to many of them hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy (Denzel Washington), a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life.

Creasy becomes a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos (Dakota Fanning), daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony) and his wife Lisa (Radha Mitchell). Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her.

Creasy’s new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being mortally wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him.


Release Date: April 23, 2004 (wide)

Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Directed by: Tony Scott  (Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Enemy of The State, Spy Game)

Starring: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Giannini, Radha Mitchell, Marc Anthony, Rachel Ticotin, Mickey Rourke

Budget: $70,000,000

Gross Revenue: $$77,894,965 (US) and $130,293,714 (worldwide)

Review:

This movie was the first collaboration of director Tony Scott with Denzel Washington. After this one, they were working together again in DejaVu (2006) and The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009).

Watching this movie was like watching two different films. At the first half you’ll see how John Creasy tried to fit in his new environment. He was hired as a bodyguard by Ramos family to take care of their little daughter.  Being a former assassin who fallen to alcohol, Creasy found a hard time to adept to a “family” concept, especially to little Lisa that desperately tried to get Creasy attention -and love.

Time after time, friendship grew between Creasy and Lisa, but it won’t last long. Later, come a part of this movie that gives a big shock, in front of Creasy’s eyes Lisa got kidnapped after a gunfighting. While Creasy was in hospital recover his wound, the negotiation gone mess, and Lisa was reported killed by her kidnapper.

Heard the sad news, Creasy gone berserk, vow to kill every single one who involved in the kidnapping. He took revenge by slaughtering the bad guys  one by one, only to found that closer he is to the truth, there will be some ugly disclosure behind Lisa’s abduction.

This second part of the movie is fill with well-built action sequence, and more importantly, lots of blood and gore. You’ll see Creasy cut the fingers of a gangster, stuck a bomb into somebody’s ass (literally ), or throw a missile to a corrupt police officers.

This much of violence made this movie receive a negative reviews by the critics. While for myself, it’s still acceptable. Despite there is a little girl on their cast, this movie was never meant for children. Although cliche, there were still some moral lessons we can get from this movie. Man of Fire also one of the best performance character played by Denzel Washington, that we rarely seen from his last few movies.

My Rating: B+

IMDb user rating: 7.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 39%

Metacritic: 47/100

Yahoo! critics: C+

Yahoo! users: B+

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1. Kate Beckinsale as Selena in Underwold 1 & 2 (2003-2006)

2. Gillian Jun Ji-hyun as Saya in Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

3. Peta Wilson as Mina Harker in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / LXG (2003)

4. Salma Hayek as Santanico Pandemonium in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

5. (late) Aaliyah as Akasha in Queen of The Damned (2002)

The Story:

Two years have passed since elite French police officer Damien Tomasso (Cyril Raffaelli) teamed up with reformed vigilante Leito (David Belle) to save the notorious District 13, a racially charged ghetto populated by violent drug dealing gangs and vicious killers.

Despite government promises to maintain order, the state of the district has deteriorated, and a group of corrupt cops and elected officials are conspiring to cause civil unrest in D13, looking for an excuse to raze the area and cash in on its redevelopment.

Now Damian and Leito must join forces again, and use their mastery of martial arts and their unique physical skills to bring peace to the neighborhood by any means necessary… before a proposed nuclear air-strike wipes it off the map.

Release Date: February 18, 2009 (France), February 5, 2010 (US)

Distributor: EuropaCorp France

Directed by: Patrick Alessandrin

Starring: David Belle, Cyril Raffaelli, Philippe Torreton, Daniel Duval, Elodie Yung

Review:

When I get bored with Hollywood movies, I always turn my eyes to French or Hong Kong movies, because they usually give fresh ideas, both in plot and action sequences. And what’s the best French cinema to watch other than Luc Besson’s (Leon, Taxi, The Fifth Element, Transporter) one? Although he was not the one who directed B-13, he was the producer and writer.


B-13 Ultimatum is the sequel of Banlieue 13 (2004). Although I haven’t see the first movie, I know that it was well received around critics and audiences.


The plot began when special agent Damien Tomasso was framed for drug possession that wasn’t even belong to him. Knew that something bigger is happening and he was jailed so he can’t involved in it, he asked help from his vigilante friend, Leito, to released him from jail.


The pair then found out that some bigger conspiracy to destroy District 13 was initiated by industrial corporate, and the president who doesn’t realize it, plan to evacuate and nuke D-13 because chaos is started to happening there.


With the help of native clans of D-13 that usually fought each others, Damien and Leito set a plan to storm the presidential palace with bare hand to notify the president and save him from surrounding corrupt administrators.


Like the original movie, this sequel also presenting Parkour, martial art that focused on how to move between one spot to another with great speed and agility. This technique also very useful in hand-to-hand combat. Leito cast, David Belle, is the founder of this Parkour art.


B-13, fill with great stunt sequences that were completed without the use of wires or computer generated effects. The scene where Leito jump from building to building using his Parkour when he was chased by the police is very energizing, and he made it look so easy that I want to try it by myself.


The final action scene, when 30 unarmed men raid the heavily guarded presidential palace, and attacked without killing anyone, is also very eye-catching.


This movie is only 96 minutes length and has very fast pace, you won’t get bored even for just a sec. It’s a very fresh getaway from CGI and digitalized actions that dominated the market nowadays.


My Rating: B

IMDb user rating: 6.4/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 73%

Metacritic:64/100

Yahoo! critics: n/a

Yahoo! users: B+

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Distributor: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks

Directed by: Jim Field Smith

Starring: Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, T.J Miller, Mike Vogel, Nate Torrence, Krysten Ritter

Budget: $20,000,000

Gross Revenue: $31,584,722 (US), $45,328,317 (worldwide)


Review:


Nothing new with the idea of  a 5-points guy who tries to get the perfect-10 girl, like we already saw in Nothing Hill or I Love You Beth Cooper. But She’s Out of My League has its own natural touch.


The story began when Kirk, who worked at the airport security helped a gorgeous plane passenger, Molly. When Molly’s cellphone left at the airport, she asked Kirk to delivered it to her in a party. This meeting continues and they started to felt for each other. All friends and families from both sides couldn’t believe that they were together, because Molly is why out of Kirk’s league.

At first they seem didn’t care, but deep in their heart they were feeling that something is wrong. Not because people said so, or because Molly think Kirk doesn’t deserved her, but merely because Kirk has a very big self-esteem issue. He’s ugly, uncoordinated, not a college graduate, and his paycheck is way below Molly’s.


Nonetheless, Molly at first dated him because she’s looking for a safety and a guy that won’t hurt her. When time goes, she gradually in love with him because he’s caring, funny, warm, and honest.


What I said above why this movie is natural, because usually in this kind of theme the guy character is so nerd, weird, and absurd that you might think that this kind of person can’t possible exist in real word. Even if they do exist, who will want to be with this kind of guy? But then suddenly in the end part of the film, the character shows all of his good side and the girl finally realized it and wanna be with him.


Thankfully this cliche doesn’t occurred in She’s Out of My League. While Kirk character is a pure looser, it’s still real, and his good sides were balanced with his bad sides. Molly trully felt in love with Kirk despite for who or what he is, and the chemistry between those two are well built.


The movie also quite funny and has its own joke’s style and smart dialogues. It also surprisingly not try to sold slapstick scenes and sexual approachment as its main joke, there were only small amounts of them with the right proportion.


What lack in this film is the conflicts between the pair. Their love story pretty much smooth until Kirk suddenly realized how he can’t be with Molly in the later minutes of the movie. Their ending scene, though sweet (whoops…spoiler ), also not giving much surprise, if you ever expecting one.


My Rating: B

IMDb user rating: 6.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 58%

Metacritic: 47/100

Yahoo! critics: C

Yahoo! users: B+