Killers (2010)

Directed by: Robert Luketic

Written by: Bob DeRosa

Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Tom Selleck, Catherine O'Hara

Fairly entertaining due to the action scenes, it's not the best movie to provide an entertaining story though. It didn't excite me, although it did have its extremely funny parts. The paring between Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher was not believable. Jen Kornfeldt , played by Katherine Heigl , over powers Spencer Aimes, played by Ashton Kutcher, character by far. It could have been that is how they wanted the actors to play the roles but I honestly don't think that Ashton could carry himself next to Katherine. The love scenes where too "lovey dovey", you could tell they were acting-fake. It fell flat for me.

As for the story, there was really no story... it was pretty laid out from the beginning and the trailer. We knew that he was a secret agent and that Jen was going to get herself into a mess with Spensers past. Anyway, there was a twist, that did surprise me. I'm not gonna give it up but it was a surprise and I'm not talking about the ending because that was a given half way through the movie or even from the beginning. The movie was packed with action which was semi entertaining. I am pretty disappointed by Ashton's performance entirely, BUT... for those of you who like Ashton Kutcher you will love this movie.

Katherine Heigl was in a league of her own in this movie. She was witty and charming and completely blond at moments. I think I could relate to her character and that made her more enjoyable to watch. Her corniness in this movie made the funny parts funny. Her mother Mrs. Kornfeldt, played by Catherine O'Hara, was a great character to watch too! She was awesome.

This movie felt like a Mr. & Mrs. Smith low budget knock off. If you watch it you'll understand. This movie is a PG-13 movie, they used their one F-word at the end and made it extremely obvious. I'd rate this a 3 bunnies. It's entertaining but a movie you can wait to see. The trailer was well made and Katherine Heigl is becoming one of Americas Sweethearts, so I don't blame you for going to watch this movie.

Over all the movie is good, it happens to be charming, witty, and action packed from the beginning. Enjoy the movie ;)

Chocolate - movie

Directed by: Prachya Pinkaew

Martial Arts Choreography by: Panna Rittikrai

Starring: Yanin "Jeeja" Vismistananda

Chocolate aka Fury was made in Thailand and released in 2008.

Directed by: Prachya Pinkaew

Martial Arts Choreography by: Panna Rittikrai

Starring: Yanin "Jeeja" Vismistananda
Chocolate aka Fury was made in Thailand and released in 2008.

If you watched the trailer you would know that it's worded a little weird -

"...Comes a special needs girl...with a special need...to kick some ass!"

It sounds ridiculous and sounds cheesy and looks cheap and looks fake and not worth your time, but let me tell you, this movie is worth every minute you spend watching it. If you are a fan of action movies and old kung-fu movies you are going to love Chocolate. I first saw it on netflix, (I love netflix) I saw the preview a few years back on TV ON Demand but I too judged a movie by its trailer. I don't know how I came across it in Netflix again but I'm glad I did.

The beginning is a little slow and the story starts off week, it does however start off with a little supence and action so it's not too bad. Personally I enjoy watching subtitled movies, if you don't like watching subtitled movies watch Chocolate anyway, there is not much dialogue. It's packed with awesome stunts and action, you WILL fall in love with this movie. All the flaws in this movie are made up with the awesome fight scenes and Zen, played by Yanin "Jeeja" Vismistananada, is a diamond in the rough. She is beautiful as she is deadly. What a gorgeous girl with such talent, not only can she kick ass in real life but she can act!! This movie reminds me the older Jakie Chan movies.

Some parts of Chocolate you can tell that they are stunts but the hits look so real that when you're watching it, you are totally invested in each kick and punch and when a "bad guy" gets "it" you feel that too! It's exciting from beginning to end. I don't think that they used any type of padding for these stunt men, there are some parts that you can tell are totally fake but everything else is just way too real. Her fighting style is Muay Tai, she literally flies at her enemies. I'm a newbie to Muay Tai so it's all amazing to me but if you have seen the style before I think you'll still be surprised.

I wonder how many stuntmen they went through to make this movie possible... it all seemed pretty brutal, it's not gory, just people getting the shit kicked out of them.

She is in another movie called Raging Phoenix and if anyone knows where I can rent or get it leave me a comment. I'm hooked on this Actress and I'm excited to see what she will come out with next.

Official Chocolate-movie Page
Above is the link to the movie page, its all in Thai but its still worth looking at the gallery.

4 Rabbits, for the nonsense beginning.

Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time

Directed by: Mike Newell

Writing Credits: Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard

I'm no expert on movies but I do like to be entertained and when a movie that I had high expectations for fails to entertain me I just have to have my say in it. Now I haven't played all the Prince of Persia games, the first one came out when I was two but I did start playing when "Sands of Time" was released in 2003 for the PS2.

Prince of Persia as a movie for someone who has not played the games, it could be quite exciting and an adventure. The story was very well written and flowed really nicely, you were able to be transported into another world and live the life of an outlawed Persian for 2 hours or so, then fall in love with an exotic beauty and save the day. It's all good unless you have played the games.

Jake Gyllenhaal did a wonderful job as always, he has show so many sides of his craft that it was no surprise to see him performing this life changing role as Dastan. It could just be me but the exotic beauty, Tamina played by Gemma Arterton, was annoying, she was very exotic and very beautiful but her flirty character made me want to slap her upside the head in compared to Dastan, what a spoiled brat. Although, throughout the movie her character and cause did grow on you and once the two (Dastan and Tamina) started working together and their story unfolded together it became a whole new cause to watch it and invest in their story even more.

Now as someone who has played the games, there was not much of the game aspect in it(duh it's a movie but...). There was ONE puzzle that he had to figure out in the beginning and as we all know the games were full of the puzzles, it was puzzles left and right. I'm thinking having that one puzzle was just a lame attempt to trick game players to stay in their seats for the rest of the movie. It worked, we stayed in hopes that throughout the movie we would see more of our Dastan we know to come out at some point. The fight scenes in my opinion where not as elaborate as I thought they would be, they seemed to rely on his aerobatic skills to connect Dastan to the Dastan that we knew in the games.

The sets, the locations all looked like in studio locations, it didn't feel real, it all felt fake. some movies can be really convincing in that area but I guess in this movie they wanted it to look set up? The fighting scenes where probably true to Real Life fighting because they weren't choreographed or shot with much dynamic to make them as exciting as it could have been, perhaps it was another way to stay true to the game since most of the fighting was from a higher vantage point, but also in the games they had times when Dastan did a finishing move and there would be close ups and effects going on. But what can you really expect from a PG-13 from Disney.

The movie collectively felt like a Persian version of Indian Jones. Not even the funny, sarcastic parts where funny, they ended up just being stupid. What happen to the cool sword fights and the jumping acrobatic attacks, and the power attacks?!? It was always the best part of the game when you used the power attacks and unleashed hell the enemy in the game. What happen to the sword effects, and the different weapons that he was able to use in the game? Maybe it was just too much to fit into a movie? That's ridiculous?! They spent time on the stupid Ostrich Race and two goofy characters that came along with that story. The Hassasins where half decent, though in the game I remember them being much scarier and harder to defeat. The effects of the dagger were pretty accurate as to how they were in the game. If anything that was the only thing that was remotely similar to what they games where about, that stupid dagger. All in all, they played all the good action parts in the Teaser/Trailers, watching the movie was boring because the Trailer had showed everything already. I hate when they do that. I guess a lot gets lost when making a game with so much to offer into a movie with Disney.

This movie gets 3.5 rabbits from me, only because I played the game and knew what should have been.