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It all started yesterday in the heat, first the electronic fault light came on in the car. The car started up and as soon as I applied the pedal it cut out. I was hoping it would go but after a few tries I finally got the thing going.

The next I knew the engine warning light had come on, driving all the way home from work hoping nothing would happen. Well nothing did happen, the car felt mainly okay, mind you it did feel a struggle in the higher speeds, 60 to 70 miles an hour.

So I thought I would wait till morning to try again, the engine warning light came on, so I decided to take the car to the garage, but on the way it went out.

So I get to the garage and leave it there waiting to find out what is wrong with my car and how much it would cost. When I finally get the phone call back…, a micro-fracture! Apparently there is this micro-fracture in the wiring that could either cut out in one week of six months. This problem can be fixed in three hours of work and cost well over £700.

Instead of having some unknown garage perform the op, I thought the Renault garage would do it better, I’ve had botch jobs done before and lost a lot of money, so now I paying that lot more hoping it won’t be botched up!

Costs are high these days, but at least I got a job to cover the costs, even with so much money or so little, it is always frustrating to me no matter how much costs are.

It is important how a film starts and Transformers started very badly in my opinion. The story was explained in a very dumbed down fashion, war rages on ect. You get a little gist of what goes on and then you get metal mashing fun. Along with some clever jokes, very bad satire and some very bad acting. You are given a movie that is full to the hilt of an unreal teacher followed by dogs at it, to the love interest which looks… so very wrong.

Locations are also very poorly constructed together, as the team goes from America to Egypt to Jordan. But it so happens that Petra is exactly adjacent to the Red Sea, which it is not. Then somehow Petra which is hundreds of miles away from the Nile is only a few miles…

Next there is a scene where you clearly see Karnak Temple which is down the Nile in Luxor, in the same place as the Pyramids. So the locations are all randomized into a miss-match show which is about to be destroyed.

So along with an exceptional well made, unexplained Egyptian set which doesn’t really match it’s history. Is a weapon inside a Pyramid and unless you have watched the Discovery Channel then you will know how ludicrous that is.

At some point Michael Bay had lost the plot and all that is left is metal mashing and it was surprising to see these monsters performing moves which I know to be sequences from Jujitsu. It’s a shame that they couldn’t come up with something original.

The Egyptian thing has been done to death to hell and back! Transformers through time, well I am pretty sure there would have been more evidence than offered. A long and stupid film with plenty of jokes and entertainment. Exceptional CGI effects helped somewhat but it doesn’t save the fact that Michael Bay followed up a good film with a B movie.

2.5 out of 5

If you are a fan of the Dragonball TV cartoons then that is more than enough to entice you to go watch the film. For those that don’t know about the cartoon franchise, well, you might want to stay away.

The film is basicly a very flat storyline of what goes on in the cartoons. Lord Piccolo who is played by James Marsters is a rather boring character who has no dimension. He seems very angry with life and as the bad guy it seems as if he wasn’t directed at all. James Marsters is a good actor and he looked the part, but I would have to blame the director James Wong for failing to get the part right.

The lead character and hero Goku played by Justin Chatwin seems very lame and lacking. I don’t think I laughed once during the whole movie and for a character that is suppose to be full of life and laughs was very disappointing. In fact I would have to say this part is just bad casting.

The rest of the cast was okay and the storyline was simplified and destroyed in one. The animation mixed in with the filming didn’t blend too well and at times it didn’t look right on screen.

One of the worse things to do in a martial arts film is not too use it. This is the biggest problem with the whole film and one that stands out above all else. There seemed a lack of it along with style, grace and skill.

In the end I was disappointed with the whole film and thought their effort on the dragon was terrible. The dragon Shen Long turned up looking small and shiny, nothing like what I wanted to see.

1 out of 5.

It’s hard to imagine someone who was just into his 30s, looked as fit as you can be, probably kept to a clean diet and exercised a lot. But Andrew Martin just so happened to clock out of life at the age of 33.

Throughout most of his adult life Martin trained as a wrestler, became involved with WWE and TNA wrestling. He was billed as the character Test at 6 foot 6 tall and weighing in at 280lbs. A giant of men he brought strength and power to a business which had a lot of competition equal to what was needed.

As with a lot of other wrestlers they tend to lead their real life’s into their characters life. This is very hard for those fans that like to know the real person. Martin was one of these people, always viewed as Test the wrestler, always seemed to be angry and very often looked like he was powered up on something. At one point in February of 2007 he was terminated from his contract in the WWE for breach of the Wellness Program. (This was a program where the company would test it’s wrestlers for any illegal substances.)

This could be a factor into his death, but one can’t be too sure of all the facts. For instances in July 2004 Martin had spinal fusion surgery, there could have been some long term problems undetected that could of also resulted in his death.

But to say he didn’t serve his life well would be to kick oneself in the teeth. Martin met Bret Hart in a restaurant and had the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest wrestling legends of the time. He became a household name in the wrestling business. Acted out his character while winning a number of belts in the process. It is unknown what he has done since his retirement from wrestling in March 2008, unfortunately on the 13 March 2009 he passed away.

Very often trailers and reviews say one thing and when you see the film you might disagree with what was said. I was going into the theatre with high expectations and the opening scene wasn’t so bad.

The choreographed fight scene was nicely played out but there didn’t seem to be much rotation in the camera which left the fight feeling rather flat. After that you have a back and forth motion through time as the director decides to give his audience one hell of a headache.

First you seem to have a narrator then he disappears and comes back again. The crew slowly begin to form and the backgrounds takes for ever to develop. By the time another fight scene turns up I was wanting to leave the cinema! Then the sex scenes get in the way, what was the point of that anyway? I was confused by what I would call “distorted directing”. Every actor and actress was… boring, the blue guy was the most boring and Carla Gugino just looked like a young (Xena) “Lucy Lawless”.

There was no aliens, little fighting, an ending I didn’t like and after it all that, I was left wanting to go to bed! I was that bored.

1 out of 5.

Created by MAIET Entertainment and published on the web the first time round Gunz had a style and class of what was a good game.

The player could move their character around a 3D area with speed, style and grace. The way in which you could move and swing a sword became fun fairly quickly. So after a few rounds and a loads of bullets fired you could move on and up through levels which was very much the same. Each upgrade was exactly the same, the dynamics of the game suddenly seemed very poor and depth began to disappear. The sound and graphics were good, but this alone does not make a good game.

In an instant the clan in which I play internet games with began to find the game boring. In fact, there was no depth and it took a long time for such add’ons of quest mode. By then the game had been transferred to a company called ijji who decided to introduce other aspects. The changing of the login so you have to log in through a browser window which in turn present their G-coin system. A place where you had to spend real money to get other items for a game which started to breakdown with system problems.

(The login will want to load up Internet Explorer even if this isn’t your default browser which is a problem in it’s self!)

Hackers where able to create a godmode, admins didn’t seem to exist inside the system. This was in tow with Denial of Service attacks led to system failures. Along with bugs here and there, players unable to log in to the game led to a massive drop in the community.

I would have to say a good game broke in the hands of ijji!

4.9 out of 10
http://gunz.ijji.com

Love and revenge against the vampire overlords brings war. Another very simple storyline at heart but a well developed film with meaning and lots of brutality. The Lycans were developed from a werewolf who so happens to have a human offspring. This new half breed which is stronger and more intelligent and less raw than the traditional werewolf was created as a slave force. However as it always goes with slaves in all paths, is that they will revolt.

As soon as the forbidden love is discovered the little cross-plot spawns, revenge comes swift in the form of a werewolf-Lycan army. So the dark scenes has body-parts and blood crawling every inch of the set and before you know it, that is it. It’s back to the end of where Underworld 2 started, which is back in the future. It kind of points of a 4^th possible film, but one will have to wait and see.

3 out 5.

So you have two characters that are going around to schools to promote a drink right up till they manager to drive their 4×4 into a school statue. Then they have to do community service which so happens to end up having to help some kids that are out of place in today’s reality.

There were lots of fun and enjoyment to be had with the film and the mock fantasy battles which they all take place in looks like an enjoyable day out.

Role Models is well played out, although I felt the profanity was a bit much at times and the tits… well… I didn’t mind those so much. But there seemed to be a lot of it. The story and cast was very well executed and the ones that are suppose to irritate you did a good job at that.

I am very much a fan of the geek along with the fictional kingdom. The relationship between the characters could have been stronger and certain elements could have been shorter. The length of the film was about right although more could be said. In the end it is very basic one guy gets his girl all get along. A bit too convenient of an ending.

3 out of 5.

At the start of the game your characters father is the demo and dies right in front of you. It was a futile tutorial with controls that felt a little funny and very untraditional. Once I got the hang of things it started to feel better and the game started to evolve.

The thing that gets me is that the game feels too much like Grand Theft Auto. Navigation, the little compass in the corner, weapons, cars, kills, missions and contracts. Mind you, the cars were very lacking, being the fact there was only about five different cars across the whole of New York.

The game is quite a vast world to run around in and once you have done everything, which should take around 45 hours worth of game play. There is little left to do than shelf it.

So the graphics are good, the gameplay is a little left to be desired but works effectively well. The music is from the original Godfather. The cast have added most of the original voices. The buildings felt recycled across the board, hotels are all similar to each other, compounds and buildings are all very much the same. Even the same person can walk beside the same person!

The funniest thing has to be when you are charging round in a car, the people will be a hundred yards away from you and try to die out of the way. And why would there be so much crap on the roads. Surely only cars should be there!

A very enjoyable game in it’s own way, but at times can be very sickly. Although a gene I do like, I don’t have much emotion for this and hence I probably score it a little low of what I could give.

7.2 out of 10

Although this is simply a clone of Command & Conquer there is nothing wrong with the game. Well it plays exactly the same, the units are based on C&C units, all the items and buildings have a relationship to everything that is Command & Conquer. There is very little addition in the way of gameplay, well in fact, there is no addition in the way of gameplay!

The only true different thing has to be the cinematic’s of which they have a selection of actors playing the roles of whom? I am not sure where they wanted to go with the game, it seems far from the books and all about the quest for Dune.

Speaking of the cinematics, well Atredies was okay, but the Ordos is terrible, the guy that is acting the part… well he looks like a borg and plays the most boring of characters! At least there is Brian Blessed on Atredies to keep me company.

I do like playing know, but C&C was always a good game, so a copy of a good game just makes an average game. There is nothing great or bad, it’s just average and frankly that is boring! The only element I like watching is a worm swallowing a tank or two.

It is very hard to finish the game, I managed to complete the Harkonnen campaign but the other two I didn’t even finish. I just found the final missions far to hard.

So the graphics are good, the music is fine, the terrain is the same and that makes it rather boring also. I do like building up the base and sending massive armies to go kill the A.I. But to anyone that reads this I will tell them to stick to the Dune novels and stick to the real Command & Conquer series. No point in playing an adventure here, not worth wasting your time like I did.

6.1 out of 10