GREAT STORY
This is based on a true story which is the base for countless good movies out there.
The direction, acting, and script were all good.
Its about a woman, Betty Ann Waters, played by Hilary Swank, whose brother is wrongfully convicted of murder. She puts herself through law school while being a working mother to represent her brother in his murder conviction after he exhausted all of his appeals with public defenders.
A feel good movie. I love seeing someone wrongly convicted of murder and left rotting in a prison for life set free. What set him free? DNA. Sibling love is laced throughout this movie.
She fights through law school is put on probation. Her kids willingly want to move in with their dad. She damn near drops out. She passes the bar. The gets in touch with the Innocence Project who specialize in helping free the wrongly convicted through DNA evidence. They help her find that her brother is not the killer. But the DA knowing they were wrong refuses to let him out and wants to try him as an accessory. Gay ass shit. I know. But it makes for a good movie as she has to circumvent bullshit throughout the whole movie.
Cops lied, ex-bitches/witnesses lied, prosecutors did what they do, and voila you got an innocent nigga in jail. Dirty motherfucking cops.
Good movie. I didn't feel this to be a forced movie. Shit just went smooth. The casting was cool. TI and Chris 'beat a bitch down' Brown didn't fuck the movie up, unless your just hating on either of them then do what you do. TI came off as player with a mouthpiece. Chris Brown had a dope chase seen where he did all kinds of acrobatic jumps, leaps, pop locking, and Jackie Chan type shit(pretty sure he had a stunt double here and there but the majority was him). They got my boy Stringer Bell (Idris Elba) in here talking with his English.accent. Matt Dillon with his down syndrome looking ass. Fine ass Zoe Zaldana is in this too. And some other cats in this that do their job.
Basically these dudes are a bunch of thieving dudes about they money. Hence the name of the movie, Takers. They don't do simple shit. The types of jobs they do the risks are equal with the rewards.
TI is an old member of the crew that got caught doing whatever. He gets a out and come with an job offer for his old crew that he came up on in his 2 year bit in prison. Well the old crew doesn't trust him as he is a slick talking ass dude with ulterior motives. The squad is cautions but they move on it as the loot is too great to pass up. And this action ensues.
Along the way they pick up some static with Matt Dillon's character who is a cop and his partner. The drama ensues as he gets closer on the trail of the 'takers' team.
Good movie.
Hoe Up or Blow Up. Bar-B-Q or Mildew
I LIKED THIS MOVIE.
Little old wholesome Jennifer Love Hewitt took off the low heels and put on her hoe heels LOL.
Well the story goes as this the recession hit a small Texas town. Little old Jennifer's character, Samantha Horton, an unemployed ex-beauty queen, is a mother of 3 and wife of a man/injured/unemployed whatever the fuck. Well the family aint doing so well. They got a situation of foreclosure on the horizon as the took one of those adjustable rate mortgages. They can't pay the bills, for the kids extracurricular activities, or the mortgage. What is they gon do?
Oh would you look at that? An ad for an opening at a massage parlor.
Samantha can do that.
Samantha did that.
Initially she was down to work at the parlor. Once she found out that they specialized in happy endings she changed her mind and bounced. Now its back to life, back to reality. Well them bills are still there. Those hungry kids are still there. All the problem are still there and she come around to it and starts hoing, and takes to it like a fish to water. She is fine and a seemingly genuine person to her clients who come from far and near to get at her.
The life takes over her and she picks up a habit introduced to her by one of her clients after she damn near died falling asleep on the road. It became hard for her to play momma and hoe without something giving, you know. She had to bake cookies for a fund raising drive and just didn't have the energy, snort snort snort.
Well the operation gets busted. All good things must come to an end. Samantha is caught up and they found nothing but hoes and johns in the parlor. Oh and a bag of coke belonging to Samantha. Well this little white girl went from fucking to snorting to exposed to ______. She GOT EXPOSED and what happens when people who aren't true to it get put out there. I don't want to give away the movie but its str8 and look at the title to get an idea of what she went to.
This is a bit over sensationalized in the ending, but its a cool flick. Lifetime flick, but not your typical my husband beats me lifetime type movie.
Generic.
Okay so I watched this movie and I will say that in the beginning, the middle, and close to the end I was really wondering why this movie was made. I mean the movie is shot in a foreign land, check on the location. Venice is where it went down at and that place looks absolutely fly. The location goes only so far for me though. Once the flyness of the set wears off I am still wondering what this movie was made for. Yes, entertainment, I know. Looking at the cast, you got Johnny Muthafucking Depp and Angelina 'I like adopting African babies' Jolie, you would think they would sign up for something dope. This movie is not dope.
To the average watcher of movies they might see this as a movie with a good twist. But I'm not the average movie watcher and I seen the punch coming. I predicted the ending.
It took me through a long period of time anticipating shit to pick up, it didn't happen. The shit was just lackluster.
Angelina Jolie is some sort of an agent working for some euro agency but she went rogue or something because the agency she works for is on her ass from the get go trying to find someone she fell in love with who stole money from them, Alexander something. Dude was suppose to be a dope thief and stole some big money from an old Russian gangsta who isn't really selling gangsta to me. He too damn old.
Well Angelina meets some dude, J. MF Depp, who is just a tourist on a train. So she talks to J. MF Depp to get the agents following her to believe that Depp is the man they want. They never seen this Alexander thief. Well they find Depp's identity out hella quick and he is a school teacher from Wisconsin, wrong dude. Well she gets to macking Depp, or should I say assist macking with Depp to help him mack her correctly. Depp falls for this broad. She brings him along to throw off the scent of the agents. Yadadadadayaa.
You find out in the end why this movie was made. The script coulda been way doper and hollywood needs to come better than this. Marketing a generic ass movie with two top celebrities isn't going to get me to like this movie. I wouldn't even say rent it but it can occupy a bring ass night.
Okay, So I got around to seeing this. I really don't like westerns, but Ive seen enough to know what other consider a good western. This is remake of an older version with John Wayne and if you are fan of the original(which I did not see and you more than likely aint seen that shit either) I am pretty sure this newer version will not disappoint.
Now the story is about a little girl, Mattie Ross, whose father got killed trying to help some 2 bit criminal(yeah I said it) Tom Chaney. Now little Mattie is a 14 year old girl who is in search for the man, Chaney, who murdered her father. Mattie isn't the most likable character, in fact, off the back I didn't like her, but she was respectable. Her goal was to get shit done and she wasn't taking no for an answer.
She hires a US Marshall, Rooster Cogburn, who she thinks is fit for the job of this manhunt. After hearing his testimony of killing men and not feeling a damn regretful about it she was convinced he had the "Grit" for her task. I feel she seen some of herself in this dude, who was also an asshole but an aging one. He didn't really want to help her but this little bitch was persistent(I dont care! I didn't like the character-good acting on the actress part obviously).
While waiting in town staying at a relatives house she found a Texas Ranger by the name of La Boeuf(Matt Gamon) was also looking for Tom Chaney for busting a cap in a Texas senators ass. Yeah, this Tom Chaney is a baaaaaaddddddd guy! Through a discussion and some sass she finds he wants to take Cheney back to Texas. She threw a serious spitfire disrespectful responses at La Boeuf in conversation and he expressed he should whip her ass and she responded back with SURPRISE, sass.
Her 'grit' won La Boeuf and Cogburn over as they tried to leave and get Chaney themselves but she was determined to go with them out in the 'Injun' country and see Chaney killed or captured. She damn near drowned crossing a river with her horse getting to the other side. Well that incident let Cogburn know she wasn't going to be deterred and caved in and let her ride along.
Fast forward, they catch up to Chaney and turns out he is just a bitch ass underling in a gang headed by - Ned Pepper. I know, that is a cool name. Well Ned lightweight bitched him in a situation which eventually led to Chaney's demise.
Cool for a one time watch. Again I am not a big fan of westerns something about them just aint my cup of tea, but I have watch quite a few in recollection. Its no Unforgiven by long shot but its str8. Look for this shit to be given praise by the mainstream as one of the best movies of the year and blah blah. Make no mistakes on my review the direction in this is decent, as westerns go, nothing groundbreaking though. The images they portray are effective in portraying this "glorious" story though. But, again, all in all its str8.
Halle Berry gives a performance for every crazy bitch in America to look up to.
I thought she did a great job acting in this one. I never seen Monsters Ball......Okay, okay, okay, in it's entirety. I seen the scene and that was some soft core porn, period. Not to take away from her performance in the scene, it was entertaining, but she did her thing(no pun intended) in this new movie.
Back on the topic. She plays a schizo n this movie. To be more specific she has dissociative personality disorder, google it for details.
She has 3 roles to play in this movie and she does all well. There is Frankie, which most would consider to be a hoe/exotic dance. There is Alice, a country white woman who cant stand niggers, whodathunk?. And genius, a young child. This role requires some talent as you would guess and being a seasoned and talented actress, Halle delivered.
Just like most crazy bitches Halle's character Frankie has some issues she didn't get over when she was in her childhood/teens. Unable to cope with the reality of a few traumatic experiences in her early ages Frankie developed alter personalities-Genius and Alice.
A doctor took a liking to her when she came in the crazy house he worked at after she was found in the middle of the street with half a tiddy out in some 70's cowgirl outfit or some shit. This wasn't the first time she'd been at the crazy house but he started to see pattern in her behavior that raised a flag to him. Well one thing leads to another, somebody got cut by one of the crazy bitches in her head and voila, the doctor is out to cure her.
Its a cool movie and look for her to be nominated for her performance in this role.
Rampage
[n. ram-peyj]
violent or excited behavior that is reckless, uncontrolled, or destructive.
This movie is crazy as shit. I mean columbine suburban white boy got a good life and want to lash out on this fucked up society white boy crazy. The main character is a crazy ass muthafucka plain and simple(lazy, yet accurate description).
Funny thing is throughout this movie you get flashes of the madness to come but it isn't deflating at all. Its like watching an accident that you know is about to happen, someone is driving and they just don't see another car coming from that blind side. Not too fast but fast enough to where the reaction time on either parts will not be fast enough. And then...BAM! Instead of just a fender being bent, a bumper falling off a door being smashed, think of some silly ass movie crash where the car flips over ten times and then explodes from a seemingly non-fatal crash.
This movie delivers. Its seemingly B-movie look turns into something you will be shocked watching. Entertaining. Shocking. Craziness.
Its a good watch.
"I cant move"
"Your paralyzed from the neck down. I didn't have any rope or duct tape"
DAMN!!!
This is a revenge movie that I heard of from another revenge movie The Horseman (okay movie gave it 3 stars). This is a movie where the revenge had to be delivered and exacted.
Well a family goes on a fam vacation in the woods. The teenage daughter, a nice wholesome white girl who is a good swimmer, leaves the family vacation house in the woods to visit a friend. The friend works at a local thrift type store who is a less wholesome white girl, but wholesome nonetheless. Well a younger man comes in the store and wants a pack of cigarettes. The friend who works at the store asks him for ID. That leads to a "you do for me I do for you" situation and the young man offers some grade A marijuana back at his hotel.
They go.
Im gonna go back for second now. This movie began with a jail/custody break in the beginning. 2 hillbillies ambushed a cop car and rammed the fuck outta it with their truck. The cops were fucked up bad, but not dead, well these hillbillies fixed that. And the man who was in the back of the patrol car on his way to prison- now free was happy to help out in offing those dirty cops.
Now back to the motel. The not so wholesome white girl who worked in the store went in the room with the young man tryna get those cigs and left the wholesome swimmer in the car she borrowed from her parents back at the vacation house. The swimmer gets impatient and as it is taking her friend longer than expected to bring out the weed the friend was craving.
She goes in the room and they start fucking around, partying and bullshitting. Well the young man is in that room with his family who weren't there and then they come. And I'll be damned if the young man family isn't them damn hillbillies who performed the jail/custody break and killed those cops. Well they are wanted and not chancing letting the girls go now.
Fast forward to some car jacking, kid-napping, choking, rough housing, stabbing, raping, and shooting and you have yourself a new found hatred for those hillbillies and you want to see them get theirs. And they do.
The swimmer girl caused a crash near the vacation home that her parent were still at. Her friend ends up getting killed and she got raped and then shot in the back after trying to flee by swimming.
Well a storm was brewing and those hillbillies got to see what nice wholesome parents that little wholesome whitegirl had. The same one they shot and raped. Unbeknownst to the parent they treat these dirty mouthafuckas like old friends and let them stay in the guest house. The wholesome whitegirl who was in shape and knew where she was made it back to the house. Those wholesome parent then find out who and what happened to their wholesome daughter. Well the guests weren't getting any good sleep for the rest of that night.
Didn't see the original but this is a good remake.
