Reviews

I just saw the "Apes" again with Mark Wahlberg and did not know what to expect from this one. It tells the story before all the "Planet of... etc."-films and they could not have done a better job!!!!

James Franco is an involved scientist to find a cure against Alzheimer, mainly to help his father with this. When he and his team discover that one of their test-chimpanzees show promising results the people with money are invited to get the example for where they donate their money for. The whole show is a total disaster, the monkey gets at the end killed and he almost loses his job. Al test-chimps must be killed, but apparently the test-chimp had a baby, and Franco takes him home to complete his research and finally he rediscovers the cure.

His father is rapidly cured and he starts to live his life he was doing before his dementia. The little baby-chimp is now a big chimpanzee, but as a side-effect of the test-drugs his brains grows like a smart human. But he gets too smart and here the seed is sown for the ape to turn against his "father".

When an incident with the neighbors runs out of hand, custody of his "child" is taken by the authorities and the chimp has to go to a chimpanzee-farm. The strong bond between Franco and the chimp is fading away. And after a long period of loneliness the chimpanzee takes life into his own hands. He escapes his prison and goes home, not to return, but to get the medicines. Back in the chimp-farm all the apes are "treated" and escape to bring mayhem to the world...

For the first time since years I had the feeling that I have when I watched Star Wars or Indiana Jones. It's a great story and the special effects or cgi is so clever. Unfortunately there had to be an ending of this movie, that is the weakest part, but okay, after 1 1/2 hour it's alright!

Here is another movie without huge amounts of advertisements. When family decides to spent the holidays in their house near the lake, daughter dearest becomes involved by a prison escapee and his family.

When the party tries to outrun the police they get stranded in the woods near the girl's house. When she tries to escape she is brutally raped and when she escapes for the second time she's shot, trying to swim away.

The parents of the girl are not at peace when the daughter doesn't show up in the evening. In stead they receive the stranded criminal with his three relatives and give them shelter for the night.

My expectations weren't that high, but in spite of the brutal action here the movie never derails. Of course the story is a bit predictable but I have seen many worse performances.

In search for my usual films that are under the radar of publicity i stumbled on this nice suspense full movie. I have to admit that the ending was predictable, but the story was until the last 15 minutes not so.

Julianne Moore is a psychiatrist who is asked by her father, also a shrink, to shine her light upon one of his schizoid patients. There are a few personalities shown and the story has some nice twists. Okay, it's not Hannibal Lector, but I have seen enough thriller/horror flicks to advise this one to anyone who likes to have a shiver or two...

In Holland this film has never been brought to a big audience, and I can't think of a reason why, because the production is good and there are actors who have proved themselves in many movies.