Reviews

Meir Zarchi is back to his most infamous film that was banned for many years I Spit on your Grave. Jennifer is no much older with a daughter and is enjoying a quiet life in her senior years when relatives from the original movie find her to reek revenge on her for slaying their family members. The film is massively too long and devoid of any meaningful plot and the effects are very very amateurish, such as when the decapitated head of Jennifer Hills is thrown towards the church doors, we can all see it is a dummy's head, and why kill off the heroine from the original film just for shock value ? The movie is over 2 hours long and could easily be paired back to 90mins.

I remember watching the news in 1983 when this was banned and too my surprise it was release several years later so ones curiosity gets the best of you as if it is banned then why and i want to see it to make a judgement for myself. Unlike the 2010 version the original 1978 is poorly acted and the sound is incoherent at times which in a film dialogue is important. Times have moved on and the 2010 version of ISOYG is more professionally shot and the sound quality and dialogue have improved and for me this version is more brutal especially when it comes to dispatching the rapists. You really root for Jenifer and want the revenge on the male characters to bit fitting, such as having crows peck the eyes of Stanley the cameraman, he is a voyeur as well as a rapist so it seems fitting that he is dispatched in this fashion. It is a tough watch to be honest and not for the faint hearted.

Just watched this today, and i figured where the story was going from the outset as we know it is an origins tale. So this is an out and out prequel to the first and set out on who Damien came to be. Its a very slow start but you just know where the story is going, its also not as scary as The Omen the reason being the sound track. In The Omen you have more foreboding music which inself sends shivers down your spine. The film itself tries to implement the odd jump out of your seat moment but to be honest you are expecting them so they lack the element of surprise. There are however a few references to The Omen itself in a couple of scenes and the movie wraps up rather nicely at the end. It is well acted and not visually too dark which with Horror movies i dislike as i do like to see what is going on.

This is and out and out action flick with a very high and constant body count and a plot that slightly goes off the rails so you have to suspend belief. Essentially we have Adam Clay (Statham) who is a ghost in the system, retired until trouble comes knocking on a neighbour and friends door, so he comes out of retirement to avenge her suicide after she is defrauded by some online scammers. Now this is where I had the problem, as it transpires his friends daughter is an FBI agent who herself is torn between wanting revenge for her mothers death through what she eventually finds out who Clay is but also hunts him down to stop him. Putting that quandary aside (though it did bother me) the movie quickly marches on with everyone getting involved from the police to the FBI, hired mercenaries and even members from his secret organisation but why, well it becomes fairly obvious someone is that they all are trying to protect someone at the very top i.e the President. Statham does these movies very well especially the fight sequences as they are very inventive, so if you just want an all out fight fest then this is for you. No doubt if this makes money we will see more of the Beekeeper.

I spotted this on the BBC Iplayer and at first glance it looked interesting so I gave it a watch, well it was such a drag with 95% of it consisting of very wooden acting and over dramatic pauses. We have our lead character (Mr Fitzwilliam) who has just arrived in England from Nigera who bumps into an old lady on the train who just happens to be heading to Scotland Yard to report several murders. One begs to question why she can't do this locally and once she is dispatched Mr Fitzwilliam takes up the case, he has no experience of been a detective. You have to blame the directors of this story at times either pauses for thought far too often or for dramatic effect, it was like he had forgotten his lines or just looks whimsically to camera for no good reason, equally other characters were similarly afflicted by this strange affliction. We have a brief romance between Fitzwilliam and Brigit which fizzles out as soon as it starts and is merely a plot device to move the story along and is completely un-neccasasary. We also have quiet a few dream like sequences where Fitzwilliam imagines he is alone in the woods with some sort of wooden object or weapon. Staggeringly the last 10% of the drama the dialogue speed improves was this shot out of order? I would do you self a favour and avoid this like the plague. I won't give it away but you would never guess who the murderer is as there are zero clues along the way and the main culprit is barely in it.

Just seen the 10th addition in the long running Saw franchise and this one is head and shoulders above the rest. The acting by Tobin himself as a dying John Kramer is exceptional and i kid you not his performance alone if the movie wasn't in the horror genre is worthy an oscar . Tobins portrayal of a frail dying old man is brilliant, and this role stretches his acting abilities. The focus on this movie is John getting retribution on a bunch of scam artists who offered him hope of a cure down in Mexico only for the operation to be a fake and the scammers and fleece him and others of $250K. So Saw X is light on traps but that doesn't matter as here we have a story and it's nice to see Amanda Young back with a bigger role in the movie and you must and i mean must stay for the end credits to see a brilliant twist and reveal. Saw X visually is not as dark as the others that proceeded it and i liked that as watching a movie is a visual experience and most horror movies are set in the dark which kind of for me loose that visual appeal. The set up i strongly believe is set for SAW XI and hopefully we will not have to wait to long for it.

Generally an okish movie but i have seen this kind of thing before and it reminded me of a much older film called Deadly Pursuit. A Perfect Getaway has a very small cast and is a tight production but i figured out what was going on fairly early in the movie. I do like a film with Timothy Olyphant in it as i consider him a very good actor. So we have a story here of a newly married couple on their Homeymoon in Hawaii whilst there there is also a killer couple on the Islands pursuing them and other couples as well. Everyone they encounter could be the killers and as time goes on they become even more paranoid and twitchy. The final act of the film brings things back together as events are shown in flashback but as i stated earlier it was ver predictable.

Not to give too much away the film has some little promise but the way the female characters try to escape the male characters is not plausible. For instance if you are trying to sneak off an island in the dead of night you are going to do it quietly not screaming at the top of your voice. Your male characters are soldiers who seem to get picked off quite easily and even though armed to the teeth and all the females have is a small penknife Why are the males on a very small island we are informed their initial reason for been on there is to hunt, Hunt what ? The maps that the girls carry are bone dry even though they have been up to their necks in the sea.