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No Ordinary Family (2010)
Mostly entertaining
This series is wicked slick, but the writing can be hit or miss. At times it can be incredibly entertaining, and at others, insulting towards your intelligence. The characters and plots are both engauging with good relations. When the writing is good, it's great and very entertaining. When it's off, you're throwing popcorn. I thoroughly enjoy the series for the approach they take, but there are definitely more than a few moments where I'm forced to yell at the screen in frustration for the message, or strong armed, over bearing, attempt at delivering a message. Generally, a great television series, despite these shortcomings. I recommend it to anybody who enjoyed Heroes, Supernatural or any such show.
Babylon A.D. (2008)
Where's the kaboom?
I'm a fan of the action based Vin Diesel romp through explosions and splatter. I enjoyed Doom, and Chronicles of Riddick, Crouching Tiger and this movie.
Every character's acting is the finest action movie grade, with Vin at the head of his game: Being Vin. Turreto, I mean Toorop is a fast paced frenetic alpha male and half the time with such high speed camera shake I couldn't tell if any technique or fighting skill was involved. I was convinced people were doing things though, so it was great.
There weren't any drifting/driving sequences of note.
The gun work throughout was reminiscent of Rambo, or anything with Dwayne Johnson in it (such as the Rundown).
Fans of Stalker will love this movie as well, as the entire first half of the movie is based in a post nuclear Russia. Absolutely wicked setting, looking forward to Fallout 3! Not that Fallout 3 takes place in Russia, but I digress--
There is no explicit nudity or sex scene, although you get a moment of heavy breathing between Diesel and Thierry.
To put it bluntly though, this movie is missing it's ending. I think the editor may have cut it, intending to paste it, and forgotten. Instead exporting his master version, and then shipping it, to remember said clipboard remnants afterwards. Still, the credits were most excellent!
If you like V.D. or Michelle Yeoh, it's got a Fast and the Furious trailer where they steal gasoline tankers, and he's got lots of scars, and they don't kill Yeoh off until the last half.