Reviews

The second improves greatly upon the animation standards. Although the drawing is done to geometric accuracy, too much CGI is used and looks weird at many places. It in fact, does not even look as good at the GITS movie. Technically speaking, the GITS series may be the best animated in the world but as far as the final perspective is concerned, it certainly does not look that or look that realistic or deep. It sometimes looks quite bland and more like computer rendering meaning that the CGI is way too obvious. Those flaws have been fixed to certain extents in the 2nd Gig which also pays homage to the original movie through certain scenes which should look familiar. The new intro is not great though.

Nothing great or even good in this film but its worth wasting time on in a good theatre once. Jet Li delivers his usual half assed formula of bad acting and mediocre kung fu mixed with Rapper attitude and the same old cast and comedians from all the previous movies which were similar and used the same formula. He tries really hard each time but doesn't really deliver. There's no great plot, basically some nuclear crap got stolen from Taiwan (yes Taiwan, and its not a nuke weapon state by any streach) and the bad guys wanna sell it to terrorists. Its extremely embarrassing to see DMX do martial arts. I did'nt know whether to laugh or vomit. DMX goes around kicking butt and eventually teams up with Jet Li and defeats the bad guys. Stupid but can be quite entertaining.

Robocop has to be one of the most perfect and flawless transitions of sci-fi concepts/comics/cartoons into a real motion picture. While those are normally recipies for disaster, for once it actually looks better and luck may have even played a huge part given how the concept fits perfectly. The movie is not all about action either and has a huge emotional element to it. Plenty of surprises and an excellent plot await if you have not already seen this movie. The special effects are as well developed as those times allowed. Unfortunately, the sequels have been highly disappointing. Even the TV series cannot touch this and may even kill interest in this franchise.

While a lot of such Special Forces operations make occur worldwide, their translation into movies may themselves not be so good. Not in this movie's case. The Israeli raid on entebbe is quite unique as far as anti hijacking operations go but this movie is pretty flawless in portraying what and how it happened? Authentic weapons, equipment, aircraft and settings have all been used. The acting is excellent and even the general human reactions to the hijacking have been portrayed quite well and the reality of civilian casualties which occurred has also been included. From beginning to end, this movie never drags and is one of the best I've ever seen.