Reviews

I'm not a fan of Steven Seagal - his films, so a work colleague pointed out - usually have a hidden "envirionmental awareness" agenda. Yet his greasy hair must release more emissions than a D Reg Ford. This film is OK though, its a good watch. Its plot is entertaining enough and Tommy Lee Jones puts in a good performance as William Stranix. Stranix and his mercenaries take over a US warship by posing as entertainment for the captains birthday party. As the staff are taken hostage (or killed), all hope looks to be lost - but, wait - the saviour is in the shape of cook (yes, cook) Kasey Ryback (Seagal), an ex SEAL who is an expert at one-on-one combat and explosives (but not acting) A great appearance from ex Baywatch star Erika Eleniak who you first see jumping out of a birthday cake topless (nice) A good enough film to watch, in a nutshell the good and bad points are:

+ Tommy Lee Jones, OK Plot

• Steven Seagal

a moderate 5/10

Friday is one of the best films I have ever seen. It has such a simple easy feel about it, at no point does the film try too hard to be funny with cheap gags or silly stunts, it just flows along nicely. The film is about a day in the life of two young black Americans in the suburbs of LA, Craig Jones (Ice Cube) and Smokey (Chris Tucker), who are superb in their own ways. The supporting cast feed off brilliantly, Craig's dad (John Witherspoon) is equally humorous. Craig loses his job because he is accused of stealing, so his friend Smokey decides he's gonna get him high. Unfortunately, Smokey is so addicted to weed that he smokes up what he was supposed to be selling. He gets himself into some bother with drug-dealer Big Worm (who is one funny dude - check out his orange car with air-suspension and matching seats), the story rolls on as Smokey and Craig try and tackle the problem, as well as steering clear of local thief Deebo. It's a film that you can sit and watch over and over - every time you see it you will find yourself laughing at something different,

Excellent film, excellent characters

and you know this, MAN!

Top Gun is a good film from the classic 80s era...in which Tom Cruise stars and plays the lead role well as usual. I love the 80s music in this film, especially Highway to the Danger Zone - how quality is that? Hollywood veterans Michael Ironside and Tom Skeritt also star as instructors at the Top Gun academy - and also the guy who played the Headmaster in Back to the Future, he one who called McFly a slacker, he's there too. So its a good cast all round, but Val Kilmer steals the show as Iceman with his wooden acting... Another plus point is the use of the word "Johnson" instead of penis, to add a bit of comedy as well. Its a shame there wasn't more dog fighting in the movie, if Cruise didn't spend so much time fooling around with his lady friend it would have been better. All in all though, a good 80s film - probably good enough to be labelled a classic.

Imagine, its, say 12-1am - your at home, your bored, your not tired. This scenario occurred about, say 4 or so years back..I turned on the TV and flicked over a few channels and found that this film was on. OH MY WORD this is the worst film I have ever seen! A runaway car that cant be stopped (cos the brakes have been cut or something) in caning it down the freeway - whats gonna happen?! This film was so bad its actually funny - I think the stunts cost about $2 to make, there was one instance where a baby/small child is being winched from the car by a helicopter - in an attempt to excite the viewer - a conveniently placed bridge is nearing ahead...THIS IS THE BEST BAD BIT OF A FILM EVER - it shows the child narrowly missing the bridge but it looks so bad - you can almost see the make of the dummy that they used - total low budget classic! Cant remember the end of the film, though but I bet it was GREAT

I doubt they will ever show this film again so I'm glad I got to see this piece of trash!

If you type in "pearl harbour" into your Internet search engine, the two likely results will be: 1 - an event during WWII when the Japanese attacked the US Navy - causing thousands of casualties.. or 2 - a pointless love story

I'm not a historian - so lets concentrate on number 2 for now. Let me start by saying I have only seen this film once at the cinema when it first came out so my memory may be a little hazy.. I was genuinely excited about seeing the film - and although glorifying war is not right, I was looking forward to some good special effects and action scenes. The first half an hour or so was very good, when the Japanese were attacking it was edge of seat stuff - great drama. But then something happened, maybe someone lost the script? Maybe the dog ate it..but the rest of the film was a complete mess.

The cast is led the ever-terrible Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and the amazingly beautiful Kate Beckinsale. In a nutshell, Affleck and Hartnett (who play good friends in the film) compete in a tug of war over Kate Beckinsale (who wouldn't) - Ur, and thats it...nothing much else happened...its almost like it cant decide what it wants to be, either be a war drama or a love story, it starts off being one thing and turns into another.

Add a soundtrack more cheesy than a pack of Edam - and you have one of the worst "blockbusters" of all time.