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I rather enjoyed the film, the acting was good with a good cast. Lines were very well delivered and the trains did not run on time. At times it felt a little slow, other times you felt for the characters, but for some reason they didn’t make you feel claustrophobic down in those tunnels.

At one point of the film the police decided to do a crazy run trying to deliver the money on time. This seemed a stupid scene, but that was about it. And that was it, there was no twists or turns, no loose ends. Just a nice little small package with a typical ending.

2.5 out of 5.

Well this is a film of non-stop action and a bit too much all at once. I was surprised by the cast members know, a good cast in essence, some of the jokes were good. At times the CGI looked bad and many times I saw copies of other films.

Everything seemed to happen so fast I forgot what I was watching at some point, but going back, there are evil guys and good American guys. With a few French, English here and there.

The next thing I knew was that they took a long time on the streets of Paris in an effort doing their best to destroy the city. Next thing they were all under huge amounts of ice. Scenes seemed to be copied from Star Wars and all hell had broken loose.

Well I am glad that is over now! For me the best scene in the whole film was the first flashback of Snack Eye’s as a child. There we saw a very well choreographed fight scene between two foes who meet later in life. The few flashbacks certainly helped to explain a few things, but there wasn’t enough of them.

It still didn’t seem to explain how planet Earth evolved so quickly or why this is all suppose to happen.  And why the hell would anyone build an advance base under the sand in Egypt? That’s been done to death already, the base should of at least been in the US!

I don’t want to be too harsh, but after my head is spinning I am only going to give the film a score of.

2 out of 5.

I rather enjoyed this film and it was the first film I have seen in 3D from what I remember. Although I found that my eyes strained a little the animation in 3D was amazing.

My favorite character with this franchise has always been the squirrel and he didn’t disappoint. His jokes were the best, he fell in love with a sex red squirrel. The next has to be Simon Pegg’s weasel known as Buck who was a swash-buckling pirate character. However the main weasel Sid i never really found funny, a pathetic character full of pathetic jokes.

So Sid finds three T-Rex eggs and manages to go off on the journey making new friends and managing to get his old friends almost eaten. Nevertheless it was one happy ending.

3.5 out of 5

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.

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.

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.

The Transporter returns for a third instalment and it’s probably the best. Jason Statham who plays the character Frank Martin with fast cars, sporty women and a kick even Bruce Lee would be proud of.

It seems a friend of Frank had a delivery gone bad and the package which Frank could have had ends up being his no-so bargain of the week. So it ends up with a chase on the clock and for some reason the travel time seems to either be wrong or I am not calculating correctly. Either way I am pretty sure you can’t travel that fast across Europe in a car.

Well the package, about 5”6” ginger hair a little freckly but she grows on you. In fact she is cute when you get use to her. As the story unfolds and you work out who the bad guys are, the action starts to explode on the screen.

There is some pretty impressive fight scenes and the car racing scenes are pretty crazy too. But using a car against the train! That certainly is something to see. The acting is not that bad considering I thought it would be terrible and the lead actress Natalya Rudakova actually played her part really well.

There was something for everyone in the movie, action, computers, cars, fighting and love! It was pretty full to the brim. This is some good entertainment for a rainy day out.

3.5 out of 5.

When I think of James Bond, I think of a slick stylised action film with a lot of fun and crazy gadgets. When I watch James Bond which is nothing like the originals and is loosing everything that is Bond… Well this is another film all-together!

Bullets are flying everywhere, locations like underground caverns, boring hotels and a desert… not exactly exotic. The lead women, well they aren’t that impressive either, nor for that matter is Daniel Craig. I don’t like his looks and his acting is rather bland. His eyes have cold death behind them and he has no charm, style or substance within this role. In my view Craig has to be the worse James Bond ever to grace this franchise.

What was the storyline, well in fact it was really non-existent. Oil, water, what ever you want, the bad guy protecting it was useless, the script was worse than a B-movie and the action was poor. O yes, good photography can help, but not by much. Fancy computers with what looks like… wait, is that LCARS? O what a rip off of the Star Trek computer systems. That has to breach some kind of copyright surely?

What else could possibly go wrong? Like everything! O well, remind me not to go see the next one if it still has Craig in it.

1.5 out of 5