Reviews

The storyline was mildly interesting, about Statham attempting to rescue De Niro from the hands of a sheik who wants Statham to seek and destroy several people that killed the sheik's three sons. The story follows their brief investigations along the way. Statham also recruits Dominic Purcell (Blade Trinity) and another. The investigations give a hint of what they're looking for, then they search and almost always find their target without much trouble. That's the gist of the storyline throughout. No major spikes in the flat line story till the end. Just an observation.

Being a huge action fan, this is what I paid to see after a good storyline. The action fight scenes featuring Statham are poor at best, not because of Statham or his enemy, but do to the director of photography filming too tight on the action, and the editor cutting every split second to another angle, resulting in the infamous "What just happened? Who hit who? What the hell is going on here?" This style is mostly reserved for low budget TV shows, though I can think of one that puts this movie's fight scenes to shame. A wasted opportunity probably in an attempt to rush through the scene. If film makers think action fans don't care, they need to think again and stop giving us a jumbled, incoherent mess of a fight scene.

The shoot outs are decent, but De Niro barely has his moments, since the story line keeps him as the one needing rescue. (See Ronin for his best).

Beware to those looking for Jason Statham in a new classic fight scene. It's not found here.

GoBots War of the Rock Lords follows along the footsteps of the Challenge of the GoBots TV series and expands into a feature length 75 minute runtime, featuring plenty of action and adventure with some notable GoBots for all the GoBot fans out there. It's been a long time since I've seen it, but can tell you it was a great film for the GoBots, best know for CyKill, Leader 1 and more.

Since the first Transformers movie was released, Warner Brothers needs to take advantage of its license of the GoBots and release it to DVD. It's long overdue and there's plenty of robot fans and GoBot fans out there waiting for this film and the TV show box set. DVD/Blu Ray for 2011? Vote yes to the GoBots on DVD/Blu Ray, let Warner Bros know!

Is Romero's Day of the Dead a Great Zombie Film? Well, as of 2005, it's one of my favorites, up there with Dawn of the Dead 78 and Let Sleeping Corpses Lie/Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue. I could list a ton of others, some good, but plenty bad that I've seen, but in the end, Day of the Dead has had the biggest impact on me in terms of zombies, so I wouldn't be afraid to say it ties Dawn of the Dead in terms of enjoyment.

Not only do the zombies look great, but I actually enjoyed the characters and acting in this film, along with the storyline. OK, the storyline could've been set outside above ground, but if you think about it, it's actually smarter they decided to stay underground, where it's "safer", if they only got rid of that zombie corral.

Seriously, if you have any interest in zombies, this is the film to watch if you want to see some of the best zombie make up and gore effects ever put on film, by none other than the masters of zombie films, George A. Romero and Tom Savini, and Greg Nicotero if you want to get technical (Land of the Dead/Day of the Dead).

I'm really looking forward to Land of the Dead, which I hope has the feel of Day of the Dead, but the scope and range of Dawn of the Dead.

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