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The A-Team Movie Review

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By Eddy First, let me start by saying I recommend you watch this movie.  If you like good old fashion action movies then The A-Team is there to fulfill your needs.  Fun movies are hard to find nowadays and there is so many Pixar like movies that one can wait for to enjoy.  That is what is so surprising about The A-Team , with all the disappointments hitting the screen this summer and even before; I came into the movie with D with extremely low expectations, hoping to not be too bored when I left the movie.  Instead of looking at my watch to see when it would end, I was looking at it to see how much more I would be able to get. I was into the movie from the beginning to end. Again this is The A-Team , it was not a critically acclaimed T.V. show and the film isn't going to be winning any awards.  It is meant to be a big dumb fun time for people, rather than War and Peace it is that mystery novel you bring to the beach. If you watch it in this context then I think you will … [Read more...]

Taken Movie Review

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By Eddy As a father of a child, I now get to live the nightmarish world of the "what if" zone.  "What if" something happens to my child (ie.  kidnapping, death etc.) It definitely isn't a fun zone to be in, and lucky for me it is going to last the rest of my life, huzzah! Taken brings us into the world of Brian Mills, a former CIA spy, played by Liam Neeson whose teenage daughter is kidnapped when she goes on an unsupervised trip to France and sold into a drug infested sex slavery ring (sorta like Hostel, but not scary).  We get to see Neeson, basically live out my dream of retribution and revenge on those who took his daughter. Now I haven't seen any of the Charles Bronson Death Wish movies which are supposed to be the genesis of these revenge type films, but I was hoping for a lot more rage and revenge filled carnage in the film.  At its best, Taken is a Bourne Identity version of Man on Fire , both the Scott Glenn (1987) and Denzel Washington … [Read more...]