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Jun 09 2006

Poseidon

Published by Fence under Moving Pictures

Dir: Wolfgang Petersen
Writ: Mark Protosevich & novel by Paul Gallico

Kurt Russell - Robert Ramsey
Josh Lucas - Dylan Johns
Richard Dreyfuss - Richard Nelson
Jacinda Barrett - Maggie James

You know this was a surprisingly entertaining film. Okay, so the plot was wafer-thin, and the characters not so defined, and the opening shot of the boat incredibly boring, but ignore all that and instead enjoy the multiple deaths, the explosions, and possibly the world’s worst actor. Well maybe in other roles Andre Braugher isn’t too bad, I don’t know, I haven’t seen him in anything, but in his role as Captain he is totally unbelievable and deserves his fate for his lack of ability to deliver a line.

But back to the fun nonsense, because that is what this film is all about. Wondering who will make it, and who won’t. And more importantly how won’t they. Now the death count of the “core group” isn’t as high as a horror film, because this isn’t horror, it is a disaster movie, but there is still plenty of stunts and death along the way.

You know the plot right? Big ship, starts to sink, small band determined to fight their way out. A task made more difficult because the boat has been turned upside down by the rogue wave that hit them.

Fun, pointless and funny, although I’m not sure if they meant to be, I’d recommend this film for some totally mindless entertainment.

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Tags: 4 Stars, action, based on book, based on previous film, crap, disaster, Freddy RodrÃguez, Jacinda Barrett, Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Mark Protosevich, mindless fun, Paul Gallico, Poseidon, Richard Dreyfuss, special effects, Wolfgang Petersen

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Aug 18 2005

Stealth

Published by Fence under Moving Pictures

Josh Lucas …. Lt. Ben Gannon
Jessica Biel …. Kara Wade
Jamie Foxx …. Henry Purcell

It’s 2001 with added explosions and minus any thought. If you want to reduce Stealth down to basics of course Personally I kind of enjoyed it. I went in expecting shite, and I came out having seen shite. But enjoyable shite.

The plot revolves around an experimental AI plane that is being introduced sometime in the near future by the US navy. Only things don’t go according to plan, if they did there wouldn’t be any film now would there? Lucas, Biel and Foxx play the three fantastic pilots who fly around the world, much in the style of Team America only without that classy music. They are told about evil terrorists and off they head to blow them up, not a thought in their heads about the fact that they are violating other countries and if someone did the same to the US all hell would break loose. But lets not try to make this film reasonable. Because if you are looking for logic or thought, well you wouldn’t have gone to see a Rob Cohen film then would you?

As you can see instead of the characters, or the poster for Stealth I’ve used the picture of an explosion. Why? Well because that is what this film is all about. Mindless action. Ultra mindless.

Course fans of 2001: A Space Odyssey may be a little annoyed to find that HAL has been transformed into a killer plane called Edi, but what can you do.

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