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District 9 (2009)
People need to quit with the gag reviews and ratings.
I looked at ratings and was tricked into seeing this. Normally with a bad review I would start by stating what was wrong with the movie, but this time, I'll do the quick part first.
The ONLY redeeming features were decent special fx and cool looking explosions. But by the time you see any of that you're already bored by the lack of a plot and mockumentury "style" filming and nauseas from the crazy cameraman. Now the bad. EVERYTHING ELSE. I couldn't really get into the movie for a half an hour because they don't explain anything. Even with all of the puking you see in the beginning it never gets any easier to watch because the aliens are bugs. Of the 3 major characters, only one had any significant amount of lines which led to a poor story that was handicapped at best by the subject matter. Aliens stranded in Africa getting evicted to a different reservation? Seriously, who thought that up? Next come the plot holes... We don't want the aliens here, which is why we're evicting them from the town. So why does the Alien have to escape to get help to rescue the rest? Also, why couldn't he take the main character with him and help him during the 3 year trip instead of making him wait on a hostile planet? Did I mention the Cameraman? He seemed to be an epileptic on meth with the shaking and quick zooming in and out. It was what i would expect from an 8 year old ADHD child on a roller coaster. My advice is to skip it. If you want to see a horribly filmed movie without a plot yet had cool explosions, check out Cloverfield.
Driven to Kill (2009)
Under Siege 3: Soprano Style
He breaks arms, fights with knives, finds interesting ways to send shrapnel into people, and now he comes with his very own accent! If you're looking for a good action movie, look somewhere else. If you just wanna see Seagal hurt some mobsters, queue this one on your netflix.
I spent the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what accent he was going for. and since the rest of the actors have varying accents, you have to follow the (and I use this term very loosely) story to figure out it's supposed to be Russian. After you finally start breaking through the horrid accents to figure out they're speaking English, you still have to ignore the awful music that seemed to be composed entirely by an accordion.
The story itself wasn't terrible, but the whole revenge plot seems a bit over done. The little tweaks it got to add flavor just seemed weird. For instance: a frag grenade which he uses toward the end is made to kill with shrapnel which is made when it explodes and bursts the casing. But the writer felt the need to have him add more metal objects on top of the grenade to send them into the victim. I also didn't see why he would waste a grenade when he has a ton of guns, unlimited ammo (as usual) and the guy's attention was on the tape recorder so he could have used a knife. And what police dept doesn't check fingerprints? He dropped the M-4 in the hallway of the apartment building where they killed the first thug. It might not have been enough for a conviction, but they would have mentioned it.
When it's all added up, I don't see me recommending this to anyone ever for any reason. There are just too many other movies out there that are less bad than this one.