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Enter the mind of Ethan Hunt, a slick and clever spy working for the IMF. He's the James Bond of the new century, getting cool gadgets and working with a crack staff of team members. Mission Impossible, based upon the hit TV series, gives us a new look at spy's. Unlike Bong who gets all the girls and kills the bad guy in a matter of minutes, Hunt gets no women and can't even pin the villain in a matter of three days. Brian De Palma gives the spies in Mission Impossible a more human shell, which whom they really are and not some Super-Man hit-man. Mission Impossible, though unfaithful to the series it's derived from, sets itself up as a intelligent spy franchise. The only problem a person can have with this movie is it's confusing plot. But the only way we can get past the plot is just go with the films flow, and we do.

Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt, the point man spy in a group of agents under the control of their leader Jim Phelps, played by John Voight. They are assigned to crash a party and photograph a man who is said to have a computer disk containing every name of every IMF agent in the embassy and their aliases. Hunt and his team go to the party undercover and retrieve the photographs only to have each member of the team picked off one by one. Even Phelps gets knocked off and Ethan is the only one left alive. Ethan is then told the mission was a fake to flush out a mole who's been paying an arms dealer and they suspect Ethan of being that mole. It's now up to Ethan to find the real mole and save his name with the help of a few suspended operatives, including Ving Rhames. Now this plot may sound simple, but that's because your reading it. I had to watch the movie twice to fully understand the plot.

Mission Impossible may have this overly thought out plot but you forget all about it. Tom looks cool, the gadgets are cool, and the action is neatly done to give us a nice ride through a spy mission without even remembering what the plot was about. Tom's acting is perfectly done to give Ethan the on the run spy. Ving is awesome as Ethan's partner and Mrs. Beart as Claire Phelps is a nice touch. The special effects are nice. A little hokey looking though, especially the final chase scene on a train being fallowed by a helicopter. And the bad guy, even though there feels like there's three of them, is a clever plot twist that leaves us satisfied. Plus the gadgets are awesome. Exploding chewing gum, fluid spewing pens, exploding video cassettes, it's all here and not over used like any Bond weapon.

The only real beef with this movie is that there wasn't enough action. De Palma acts out by directing this movie with more brain then brawn. We have too much plot but little action. The real movie's blunder doesn't even pick up till half way in when we have the memorable shot of Ethan dangling about an inch over a pressure padded floor trying to retrieve the disk of aliases. With the name Mission Impossible, we expect plenty of action sequences but instead we have a warmed over plot going three different ways. Even the ending battle isn't that memorable and it leaves us with a feeling of, not awe, but shallowness. But that doesn't mean De Palma didn't do a good job. He does a great job giving his Hitchcock touch to the movie, giving us smart characters and a real atmosphere. Mission Impossible gets a 7 out 10 from me. It was cool, but does't get our attention right away. And if you had to choose one M:I movie to see, go see part 3. Part 3 was best, easily beating out this brain scratching film and John Woo's weepy sequel. Mission impossible= B.

Every director has his own sense of style. Brian De Palma is a Hitchcock stylist while John Woo is pure action. With the first Mission Impossible, De Palma made it slick and intelligent with a very in dept story line and crafty action. Woo on the other hand makes Mission Impossible 2 a low key love story filled with explosions and boring dialog. Woo diverts all our attention away from the previous M:I's feel into a whole new setting with a whole new tone. With Woo's non-stop rush of adrenaline, he turns Ethan Hunt from a cool super spy into a hardcore daredevil.

Tom Cruise makes his return as Ethan Hunt, a spy who is on holiday climbing cliffs who happens to be called in on a very impossible mission. Seems as though a rogue IMF agent, played by Dougray Scott, has crashed a plane and kidnapped a top secret disease only known by it's name, Chemira. Hunt is assigned to enlist a jewel thief to help find out the agents plan. Along with Ethan comes his super hacker pal Luther Stickell, played ounce again by the brute of a man Ving Rhames. Together, Ethan must save the world and the girl who he has fallen in love with. Wait, a love story in a Mission Impossible movie? That's what Woo is giving us?

John Woo is a good director, I'll give him that, but he should have left this movie alone. Brian De Palma had already set up a clever spy franchise and Woo took it down within the first ten minutes when we see Tom Cruise scaling a cliff like he's Spider-Man. Ethan is totally different here than in the previous movie, looking like a regular Steven Segal poser. The acting is worse than part 1, total boredom. Woo, instead of entertaining us, bores us to tears. And the villain is horrible. The plot is a deflated idea used over fifty times and yet Woo decides to pump it up with air again and use it. The special effects, alright. We get some good CGi here and there, and an excellent shot of an knife about to stab Tom's eyeball out, but sense it's six years later after this movie was released, it's old.

The only real saving grace is the action. Woo throws in as many bullets and explosions as he can. We have a cool motorcycle chase, a glass room shattered to pieces with bullets, exploding sun glasses, and even a two man wrestling match atop a hill. Sadly, the action itself is either to slow or too fast and it looses it's willpower. The movie acts like a Dawsons Creek episode, a love triangle while death is involved. Sorry Mr. Woo but this movie was pretty bad. My advice to all the viewers out in the world, see Part 3. JJ Abrams made the best one, cooler then De Palma's and makes Woo's looks like trash. Mission Impossible 2 gets a 6 out of 10. C- on my grade.

What makes a hero? That is what the question is in Uncle Sam. Jody Baker thinks his enemy slaying Uncle Sam was the definition. Others like veteran Jed Crowley thinks there is no such thing as a hero, but a lunatic. Uncle Sam itself is a movie that asks a question, Am I A Good Movie? I caught myself a copy of Uncle Sam and popped it into my t.v, expecting a horribly bad and god awful movie just so I could laugh at it. But to my surprise, it wasn't what I expected.

Uncle Sam is about Sam Harper, a soldier in the war who died from friendly fire. He is brought home to be buried and his coffin is nestled inside his nephews house. His nephew Jody is very sad about his metal earning Uncle. Jody even tells his family he wants to recruit in the army one day. But on the morning of July Fourth, three flag burners wreck havoc in a cemetery and awakes Sam's spirit. His crisp corpse pins his war metals to his chest plate, kills a peeping tom and steals his Uncle Sam uniform, ready to show how evil the world has turned.

Uncle Sam to start is a cheesy B-Movie with horrible acting and bad effects. The storyline for start is the same old slasher crap. This time it's actually a soldier killing people like tax collectors who tax to much, or flag burners, or kids who beat up younger kids. As usual, the killer is deformed and wears a mask, but it works due to the creepiness of the Uncle Sam costume. The acting is horribly done, except for David "The Shark" who plays Sam wrecking havoc on the 4th of July. The characters are all badly molded, and the horrible acting doesn't make it better. Jody is horribly annoying, Jed is crazy, and Uncle Sam is blood hungry. Some of the characters aren't even needed, the dreaded Pointless Character curse. This one character is a kid who is scared for life from kids blowing fireworks at him. Due to this prank, Sam is nice to the boy and will bid the boys revenge by killing the bully's.

The special effects are nothing special as well. In the finale, you see Sam blown through his house with a cannon. And here's something to look out for, you see the wire pulling Sam through the house. The gore is nice from an Axe in teachers skulls to national anthem screecher's heads being sliced off. It's always going to be war when Uncle Sam is in town. Now I thought this movie was going to be so bad I would die of laughter but to my surprise I didn't. Uncle Sam sets itself up as a mediocre horror and tries to climb the latter of progress but gets no where. The movie though succeeds in good gore and cool death sequences. Sure this movie is bad and cheap but I was entertained so maybe you will too. Uncle Sam gets a 6 out of 10, pretty low brow and stupid but you might be able to enjoy it. Uncle Sam= C+

Remember those good old boys Bo and Luke Duke from the Dukes of Hazzard TV series back in 1979? Those two wild family members who rode around the town of Hazzard in their General Lee, outsmarted the evil Boss Hog, wacky officer Roscoe P. Coltrane, and got help from their Uncle Jesse and short shorts clad cousin Daisy in really bad mishaps. That show was pure old age entertainment. Well it's 2005 now and Hollywood is running out of ideas so what do they usually do? They either pile on more sequels to make a classic one stand alone film into a franchise or either remake it. Well they dug out the Dukesof Hazzard series and pinpointed an idea for a remake. Here is an outdated poor piece of remake crap that totally ruins the original TV series. Director Jay Chadrasekhar seems like an above average film maker, he even looks like a Dukes of Hazzard fan. Maybe he'll stay true to the TV series...wrong! He makes this film look totally offbeat from the original, it's like he's never even seen the series.

Johnny Knoxville and Sean W. Scott play moonshine racing cousins Bo and Luke Duke. They are usually being seen all round Hazzard in their General Lee, smuggling Uncle Jesse's (Willie Nelson) moonshine and kissing girls. Right when they are about to enter a race to go up against an old rival who's now a big time racer, the evil Boss Hogg (poor Burt Reynolds) schemes up a plan to shut down the town of Hazzard and mine it for gold. With his henchman Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane, they shut down the Duke farm for smuggling illegal moonshine and pay for the race to be rigged. Now it's up to Bo, Luke, and their cousin Daisy (Jessica Simpson) to step up and save Hazzard ounce again!

This remake has the worst casting for a remake of all time! Knoxville and Scott play the Duke boys totally wrong. In the series, the Dukes were smart and witty. In the remake, they're a couple of boozed up yahoo's who have too much of women and cars on the mind. Jesscie Simpson does a poor job as the beautiful Daisy Duke, making the short shorts look way to long on her legs. I never thought such good talented actors like Nelson and Reynolds would be pulled into this greed trap, playing poorly doubled versions of the original. Nelson plays Uncle Jessie as some old crumpled farmer who packs punches and tells bad stand up jokes. Reynolds plays Boss Hogg as a not so rough and tough villain with a slim figure and cruddy attitude. And who the heck thought of making Roscoe P. Coltrane a evil guy? In the series he was a bumbling fool and that's why he was so funny. In the remake he's a hard boiled snake, shame on the director!Cooter is here as well except he is more handy in bad acting then car tune ups. We also have new characters like a dim witted geek named Sheevs who doesn't like to wear pants.

The plot is terribly lame. The movie scrambles together a bad plot that the show some how never used and cobbles it together with meaningless swerves of landscapes. First Bo and Luke find soil samples, then they go to the city to find some girl, go to a lab, go to the hood, wind up in jail, and it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse! The jokes though are the worst part of this wreck. Bo and Luke do nothing but swear and make out which shows no relationship with the TV series. They hit each other with books, drag safes down the street, blow up clay, light up cocktail bottles, and party with topless collegians. And the worst joke in the movie is what makes the film racist. They roam on into a black neighborhood, faces blackened with soot, and have the confederate flag pained on top of their car. Sorry but I don't like movies that make fun of other races, sorry Jay.

Now here's the only good thing about this movie, the General Lee. In the beginning of the film, it has no similarities with the series General Lee except for the paint job. After it gets torn up, Cooter transforms it into that beauty we all know from the 1979 series. It jumps sky high, smashed up cars, and doesn't take no for an answer. The stunts in this film are really good, the only real redeemer in fact. The stunt men must have been crazy to jump as many cliffs as they did in the film. But still this film just overruns with wheezes of lame jokes and bad acting. It all gets molded into a bad remake that just gets worse by every second. It keeps bringing in bad language, nudity, and vulgar humor which destroys the image of a ounce beautiful TV show. Dukes of Hazzard gets a 4, cool stunts but it totally doesn't succeed. As it's own film, it's good but as a remake of the classic series, it's a major crap fest! The Dukes of Hazzard=D

Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Bid Daddy. These are just a few of my favorite Adams Sandler films, and his best may I add. But some people consider The Waterboy Sandlers best film ever. Well I'm sorry but I beg to differ. Sandler plays Bobby Boucher Jr. who is considered an idiot because of his annoying accent and slow mind. His devil hating mama pampers him too much and he just got fired from his job as water boy distributer from a big college football team. Bobby then becomes the new water boy for the worst college football team ever The Mud Dogs, being coached by mentally broken down Coach Klien played by Henry Winkler. Bobby gets insulted by his new team mates only for the coach to tell him to stand up for himself. Bobby then pictures the people who has made fun of him in his life on his targets shoulders and tackles them to the ground! Thanks to Bobby's anger tackles, he becomes a tackler for the Mud Dogs and leads them to the Burbon Bowl. Problem is along the way, his momma goes into the hospital with a "broken" heart, Bobby's jail bird girlfriend disrespects him, and his old football team are the ones who will be facing him at the Bowl. What will Bobby do?

I'm not saying this is a bad movie but it is totally off from a great movie. One main problem with the movie is Sandler himself. He does a great job as Bobby except his characters accent (which is more of a stutter, whine, scream, and mentally retarded yelp rolled into one) makes your eardrums cringe every time he speaks. It gets so annoying after half the film that you just can't wait for the movie to pick up the pace and be over with. But if you really get past the voice and look beyond the dumb atmosphere, you fall right into the movie and really enjoy it.

Now Sandler isn't the only character that makes the film "dumb." Every character in this movie is like a rejected Bugs Bunny cartoon character refused to be shown on cable broadcast. First there's Bobby with his nails on a chalk board voice, Coach Klien who likes acting retarded every time he has a bad play thrown, evil Coach Red who is just a stupid jerk, Farmer Fran the assistant coach who is nothing but a dumb Amish farmer who can't even speak right, Mama Boucher who's devil hating persona falls to the ground only after three minutes of depth, Rob Schnider as his classic Townie character who shout's nothing but "You can do it!", and of coarse we have Vickie Valencourt, Bobby's love interest, but she isn't really needed in the movie. Sure she's a nice piece of cast decoration but her character is so annoying. She's a criminal, psychic, and murderer wrapped into one body and the only time she does anything good is to help Bobby at the big football bowl game in some stupid plot turn that only last a mere thirty seconds.

The jokes are real cornball but in a good way. With all the football moments and hard tackling, the jokes are pretty low tack. The special effects are just plane bad looking when Bobby pictures his anger on people's shoulders and the coach pictures babies and pooches. Also the whole football team are nothing but big babies wearing jerseys. One is a dumb playboy, another is a dim witted Frankenstein, another seems like a gay punter who likes to picture KKK members heads on his football before he kicks em', it just gets so stupid after a while. You even get tired of watching this movie all the way up to the big bowl game at the end of the film after seeing all the really bad jokes and seeing Bobby tackle so many people for some stupid reason. Like in one scene, he tackles his professor for saying his mama was wrong about what makes an alligator so mean

What the Waterboy is though is a good time slot filler. If you just want a slow paced dumb comedy, sure you will get a kick out of it. Like I said, it's not a bad movie but it's too stupid and corny just to take seriously. I enjoyed it a little so maybe you could too. I give the Waterboy a 6. If you want Classic Sandler, get Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison. If you want Sandler's second to rate cornball comedies, get this. I still say Happy Gilmore was his best. The Waterboy= C+

What can I say about Christmas with the Kranks? Here is a little holiday movie based on a classic holiday novel written by John Grisham which involves a grouchy couple planning on skipping Christmas to save money. Sounds like a good idea for a movie right? It made a good book so why shouldn't it make a good movie? Well director Joe Roth asked himself that question and decided to make Christmas with the Kranks a big screen movie. Bad idea Joe! Tim Allen plays Luther Krank who's daughter just moved away to join the Peace Corps. While shopping with his sad and dreary wife Nora, played by a depressed Jamie Lee Curtis, on a really rainy evening he see's a poster advertising a Caribbean ship cruise that is only half of their shopping bills. Luther springs the idea on his wife and she agree's, only their neighbors don't. While all the other neighbors put up Christmas lights and Frosty the snowman, we have Luther and Nora getting tans and buying swim ware. But when their daughter calls and tells her parents she's coming home with her foreign boyfriend to spend Christmas with them at their annual party, it's a race against the clock for the Kranks to have another happy Christmas with their daughter.

Here's the main problem with this movie. We have three great actors in this movie: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, and the late and great Dan Akroyd. They seem funny enough to be in a little holiday romp, but they do not exceed as their characters. Tim isn't as evil as his novel self, Jamie is nothing but dreary and out of shape to play her part, and Dan is just showing off his age and receding hair line rather then playing an annoying neighborhood snoop. The film is weighed down to a level of corny with tacky jokes and a gooey plot that keeps falling apart every minute. You just begin to ask questions as the film progresses. Why should the neighborhood be angry at the Kranks for skipping Christmas? Why doesn't Luther and Nora just flat out tell their daughter they are skipping Christmas? Why not even invite their daughter with them on the cruise? It's major plot holes that shuts this film down without it even taking off.

Now the writer of this film has never seen really good comedy's. This movie never shows a real funny moment. And if it does, it's usually a joke that's been reused over a thousand times. Throughout half the film, the plot just goes from corny, to tacky, to flat out dull. It's all about the neighborhood calling for a battle with the Kranks. Here we see Luther spraying his icy stairway path with a hose to topple carolers and freeze a white kitten to death. Is that really the only good joke the movie can offer? It's goofy twists like that is what sends the film into a spiral of wreckage. The neighbors do nothing but wine, smacking signs into the Kranks property, putting wreaths on their doors, neighborhood children shouting "Free Frosty!" at the top of their lungs. What else can we expect? Luther and his wife flee to their basement with their Frosty statue looking at them with an evil snarl of pain and hate.

I expected better from Tim and Dan while watching this film. It shows how old they have become and what age does to your personality. It sucks the energy from you! The film begins slow with stupid wine jabs and rain humor, soon dishing out tacky neighborhood pranks involving stealing Christmas tree's and having the police come to the rescue, and it ends with a tragic note of sour bitterness and the happily ever after moment that makes you cringe with the thought of "That never happens in real life." Christmas with the Kranks is nothing but a tragic miscalculation turning a wonderfully written novel into a predictable flick that shows off actors age and slamming your head against doors. Christmas with the Kranks gets a 4 for being nothing but predictable. I say you should skip this train wreck and see another holiday movie fun for the whole family. This sure wasn't.

Mean Creek is about a young boy named Sam who has gotten beaten up by a fat bully named George. Sam and his older brother Rocky set up a prank to pull off at Sam's river birthday party so they can trick George into strip and run home naked to get him back. Sam and his brother along with Rocky's friends Marty and Clyde and Sam's girlfriend Millie pick up George and set off for the river prank. But along the way the friends discover that George might not be all that bad. But they will have to learn at a price.

I first heard of Mean Creek because I am a Josh Peck fan. I saw he made a movie called Mean Creek and I decided to check it out. This movie had a simple plot that has been reused hundreds of times, each one with the same old corny hip happy ending. But Mean Creek delivers something different, and more cooler then the other prank movies. The acting is done fabulously. The actor who played Marty had some of the most powerful lines in the movie and Clyde made you fell sorry for his life. Even Josh proves he can do drama's rather then comedy's. The directing though is a tad strange. Due to the low budget it must of been filmed with a hand held camera, you can tell by a lot of scenes in the film. The middle of the film leaves you guessing what's going to happen next after the big Truth or Dare scene and you feel as though the ending plummets with a long dreadful groan, which gives good questions making this film superior. Mean Creek is both powerful and lesson giving. While not perfect, it has a lot of potential. Mean Creek gets a 9 out of 10, I suggests you go pick up a copy. Though I must warn there is a lot of language and drug humor in the movie so be warned for the younger viewers. Enjoy!

Freddy got Fingered is about a slacker cartoonist named Gord, Tom Green, who finally moves out of his parents basement to work at Hollywood in a cheese sandwich factory and try to sell off his cartoons for them to become a TV show. But when a big time Hollywood producer, Michael Anthony Hall, tells him he will never make it in life, Gord moves back home with his sleazy father played by Rip Torn. Gord's life is then turned into a big contests where he and his dad try to settle an age old battle between whether Gord should suck up and become a man or be a complete loser for the rest of his life.

Freddy Got Fingered, should have been named Animals Got Fingered. I'll admit that I'm not a big Tom Green fan but by the way the trailers for the film worked it looked life it would be an okay movie. I was wrong! Tom Green proves right here in this movie that he can not act or direct. This film losses effort on every film making level but it succeeds in being a master in every bad level of film making. This film is a complete waste of talent and time with animal masturbation and blow job jokes. Plus the title, what is with the title? Sure Gord says that his father fingered his younger brother Freddy but that subject is only in the film for eight minutes top! Now the main character Gord must be mentally retarded. In one of the most sickest scenes in the movie, Gord finds a dead deer in the middle of the road. He remembers the words of Mr. Davidson telling him he needs to get inside his cartoon animals so they can be more lively. But to Gord he thinks he should literally get inside the deer! He cuts the animals stomach open and rips out it's insides. Then we see cute little animals roaming the forests to the sweet melody of a female singer only to be interrupted with Gord running around, shrieking like a retard and wearing the deers bloody body as as a coat. I was about to blow chunks after I saw that scene. Maybe this movie might be funny to some of you people if you like Tom Green licking bloody wounds, playing with animals privates, or swinging a dead baby around a hospital by it's cord you may laugh till you die! But people like me will just be disgusted by this movie. I only chuckled a few times in this movie, like twice! Freddy Got Fingered gets the low 1, if I could though I would give it a zero. Tom Green, you sicken me.

Hood of the living Dead is about a young scientist named Rick who lives with his brother in the town of Oklahoma where drug dealers and prostitutes fill the streets. Then one night, Rick's brother gets shot by a gang driving down the street who fought with him earlier. Desperate, Rick calls his scientist partner to bring over the latest formula they've been working on that brings sick blood cells to health. The formula hasn't been tested on a human, or even a dead body but Rick is determined to bring his brother back to life. He gives the body a double dose of the formula but nothing happens. So Rick calls 911 and the body is carted away only for it to come back to life and feast on human flesh. Now Rick must find his zombie brother before the whole hood is transformed into a neighborhood of the dead. Hood of the living Dead is one piece of trash. The plot is a direct rip off of Resident Evil, the acting is just horrible especially with Rick' s fake crying for his brother, the guns are so fake because every time the weapon is fired it sends sparks out, and the make up is just lame. It's only fake blood covered over the actors face. The zombies are also modified. They run, growl, and must be shot in the heart to die! Zombies should only scuffle, moan, and must be shot in the brain to die! This film is so horrible, the outtakes is the only true good moment of this film. Hood of the Living Dead gets a 3 out of 10, a little entertainment here and there but it only succeeds as a low budget cringe fest.

O. Henry's stories interest me with the greatest thought. His stories always have that secret twist at the end of the story to make you wonder, that's why I like his stories. I liked his stories about the safe cracker Mr. Valentine or two friends meeting each other twenty years into the future, but then there was the story the Ransome of Red Chief. Boy did I hate that story, it was so confusing and bleak. Then I saw the short movie based on the story and I knew it would be lame. And I was right. The story is exactly the same as the book, except for a few scenes either added in or modified a bit, the dialog is mostly the same, and the setting is the same. The characters are just like the characters in the book, the two leading bad guys were played perfectly but boy was Red Chief annoying! The movie just kept getting bleaker and shallower. The acting was low tad, the camera direction was pretty pathetic, and over all the film was Major cheesy! Talk about some movie, two dimwitted bad guys and a little brat held up in the woods. And the big twist at the end, boy was I disappointed with O. Henry's twist. The whole thing was bad. The Ransome of Red Chief gets a 3 out of 10, it's a lame duck.

The Cave is about a cave diving team going into an ancient cave a mile under ground to explore it's remains after a team of explorers vanished inside it thirty years ago. While inside the cave a fellow team member is attacked by a large creature, having the diver's water scooter crash into a rock making the whole cave entrance collapse. Now the team members must find a new way out of the cave before what ever is down there kills them and before they're batteries run out to they're equipment. Boy did this movie suck! It's amazing how the director makes the trailer look so good and when you see the movie it's a huge disappointment. First off, the acting is laughably bad. The actors seem more like mediocre B-Movie body doubles shouting and running around. The characters are to stupid to like. Here's one character going down a long water cave with no air and another character running along a cliff to grab onto a distant edge to escape from the creatures. Plus when a character dies, you don't even know who it is because all the actors act and feel like the same person! The writing is also horrible. Bad dialog between actors and the plot is just stupid. It's nothing but five different stories from other movies like Resident Evil, Alien vs. Predator, Darkness, etc. molded into one idea. Also there are stupid comments said between characters and pointless hitting and fights that don't matter for the story. Then there is the creatures in the cave, they look horrible. The effects are so cheesy, this movie should of been straight to video release. The real creature that looks like a bat looks like a melted rhino fixed up to look like the alien from Aliens. The directing also reaches a new low. The director must of loved The Blair Witch Project because the camera shakes so badly you can hardly make out what's going out. For instance when the team is falling down some rapids, the camera shakes between close ups. The final show down at the end of the film, the cave now looking like hell, is a little interesting but still is doesn't make up for the rest of the film. This film had a good idea but was made totally wrong. The Cave gets a 2 out of 10 and let me tell you I'm being generous. This film doesn't even deserve any stars but there are some camera angles that are really great looking like under water diving shots and flying over some mountains but that's about it. Don't bother with this film, I'm still trying to get it out of my head.

Serving Sara is about a Process Server named Joe who is given the biggest job of his life after all the other projects he screwed up from his boss Ray. Joe is sent to serve divorce papers to a Mrs. Sara Moore but Sara runs away from Joe after Joe's rival partner Tony warns her about him cause Ray didn't give Tony the job. Ray is stripped from the job and Tony gets it but Joe doesn't give up. He finds Sara, serves her papers, and gets beaten up by two crime lords henchmen. Sara hitches a bus to find Joe on it and she tells him if he helps her serve her greedy husband she'll give him 1,000,000 bucks. The two then go on a long distance race for the prize fallowing Gordon through airports, cow ranches, and work out clubs while being hunted by Tony and Gordon's head servant Vernon. Now Serving Sara starts off slow showing how Joe messes his jobs up. As soon as he starts his serving job looking for Sara, we all know this is how the movie is. When Sara and Joe join forces, the film goes down hill with the same old idea. The characters are all different and that's good but they get really pathetic near the end. My props to Bruce Campbell as Gordon. This movie though succeeds as a chick flick and not a real comedy. Joe makes bad tasting wine, Joe must reach inside a cows bum for prostate, Tony gets shots at, Sara show's her breast for a free room in a motel, all fairly amusing. Then comes the big chase scene at the ending which we already witnessed in the beginning with Joe and Sara but this chase involves motocross, monster trucks, and cows. Serving Sara is a dull piece of work with no real core story, a total 4 out of 10. See it only if you like Matthew Perry or Elizabeth Hurley, and some Bruce Campbell fans might be disappointed in his role. Try to enjoy it if you can.

Kings Ransome is about a billionaire named Malcome King who devises a plan to get himself kidnapped so he can get his money back from his wife who is going to get themselves divorced. Malcome's friend Peaches has her convict brother Herb pick up Malcome but he picks up the wrong guy, some dude named Andre. Malcome is then kidnapped for real by a low life bum named Corey who lives in his grandma's basement where Malcome teaches him the ropes of kidnapping thinking Corey is Herb. Meanwhile his wife is on the run looking for him as so is Malcome's large secretary who is raving on with lazy policemen on the trails of two other groups of people who want Malcome dead. But when Malcome's wife is kidnapped as well by Corey who suddenly goes crazy, Malcome's life is all up for grabs. King's Ransome now is a movie that had a really good plot but it was wasted. The characters are all sleazy, especially Grandma, and the story keeps getting twisted around with character plots. The writing is pretty choppy and lame in some areas but sometimes it's really funny like when Malcome describes how big a mans balls are to really be a true man, hilarious. The ending though is where it all goes down hill where we have freeze frames of all the characters and captions going across the screen telling about what happened to them. The last caption with Malcome and his wife throws the story out the door which means I just sat through a boring movie that never made a difference. But that doesn't mean the movies all bad. Charles Murphey, Eddie Murphey's bro, is hilarious as Herb and the guy who played Anre is good. Peaches is a little annoying and Anthony Anderson is really wasted as Malcome. Jay as Corey though gives an alright performance. This movie though succeeds in bringing back and forth good ideas. The ending fight scene is alright till the police arrive where Mrs. King throws in some bad dialog so fast we loose interest in the timing. Kings Ransome gets a 5 out of 10, good but made totally wrong. See it only for Charlie. Try to enjoy it if you can.

Jawbreaker is about three girlfriends who plan a kidnapping on they're best friend for her seventeenth birthday. They tied her up, smack a jawbreaker into her mouth, tape her lips shut, and close the lid of they're trunk with her in it. Later when they pop open the trunk to find the jawbreaker is stuck in her throat from swallowing it and she's dead. The ring leader Courtney makes her two best friends not to tell but when a mousy little geek finds the dead body, Courtney transforms her into a teenage beauty so she won't talk about the murder while one of the murderers leaves the group to tell the police about the murder but if she does Courney vows to pin the murder on her. Now Jawbreaker is a simple idea that anyone could think of. The characters are all the same and yet differently. Courtney is a teen witch who cares about herself and so do her friends but they all care differently about themselves and other people like parents or guys. But Jawbreaker is really weak. The opening scene where they find they're friend Liz with the candy in her throat will make you feel like you want to throw up, from ripping the tape off of her mouth to see her mouth empty is just gross. The plot is lame, simple as that. The characters as I have said are all the same, girls are like the other girls and that goes for the same as the guys only with they're personalities tweaked a bit to be a new character. Also Marolyn Manson is in this, weird. I didn't see him, I must of blinked. While Jawbreak tries to be a smart little dark comedy it fails in everything it brings. Jawbreaker dishes out a low 2. It's a simple idea greased with a bad plot, the same mediocre characters, and the ending is really stupid! Spoilers: Cournety's voice is amplified over the intercom during the school's prom revealing she killed Liz and to deal with it. So what does the crowd of angry prom goers do? They pelt her with flowers and boo at her. No jail or police men waiting for her, yawn. Not recommended for anything except for some flashy backgrounds, that's all.

Whose Line Is It Anyway is the American version of the exact same version from Britan that is ten times better. We have four performers who do different games for a live audience for points which don't matter. We have games like Props, Living Scenery, Hoedown, and Sound Effects in which we get suggestions from the audience. Drew Carey hosts the show with hilarious results and the coolest thing about this show is it's all improve. Whose Line succeeds in everything it does. It's fun for the whole family. The regular cast includes Wayne Brady, Greg Proops. Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles who happens to be my favorite. Usually we have a different improver in other episodes taking over Greg's spot. The show fires hilarious jokes and mind burning moments like Ryan smashing Drew's neon light on his desk with Ryan's own head, Wayne lifting up a girls skirt during a game, Colin doing horrible impressions, and so on. We also get to ponder great performances from real life superstars like actors Robin Williams and work out instructor Richard Simmons. But there are a few things that get annoying, mainly pointing to Wayne. Wayne does a great job singing and dancing but his singing games get so boring. Whose Line though achieves greatness. We need this show on everyday 24/7. It needs it's own network, 10 out of 10. The perfect game show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? Check it out, you won't be disappointed.

The Green Screen show is show that is related to Whose Line Is It Anway, the best game show ever. The Green Screen show is just like Whose Line except with a few twists. First off no host. That's right, Drew Carey is here but he's a performer. Second off, the games are performed in front of a green screen. The cast (Old members from Whose Line and a few new members) play games in front of the screen with suggestions from the audience. The twist is that the show is shipped off to artists who draw in the background. Now while the show gives you belly laughs, it fails miserably. The show suffers from one main thing, no Ryan Stiles! That's right, the great Ryan Stiles is absent. We have Colin Mochrie who strangely has silver hair, but even he suffers with no Ryan. Wayne is absent as well, which isn't that bad. The show fails in most of the games, especially sound effects. The backgrounds though are marvelous. The audience you have to feel sorry for because they have to watch the performers with no background and they must be bored to death. On Whose Line they got a cool retro background with different watercolors but here they get a head ache green screen We have new games like one word syllables and that's quite humorous with or without a back drop but that's about it. This show is not even half as funny as which Whose Line was. My rating for Green Screen show, 5 out of 10. Sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's not. Bring back Whose Line please. If we still have to watch this, make the show more fun.

The Bogus Whitch Project is a prime example of pure Grade A trash. This film which has a number of short parodies of the movie The Blair Whitch Project is not funny. The films opening with someone running through the woods to be stopped by some bodyguard saying "You need a pass to enter" was a good start. Right when the first parody started, the film reached a new low. I turned the film off right in between the second parody. Now between parodies is the same guy running through the woods and a few fake t.v show placements like zombie chefs and other crap that is not funny and never will be. Then there's Pauly Shore, ha you pathetic fool. Skip this film, it will rot your brain and make you dumber. Good thing I didn't watch it all, Bogus Witch project gets a 1. To horrible for words, just horrible. Not recommended at all!

Rambo: First Blood Part 2 is about Colonel Trautman releasing Rambo to join his army in a top-secret mission to go to different country where American POW's are being held up as prisoners. Rambo is told by his commander to only take pictures but Rambo disobeys orders and rescues a live POW only to have his commander betray him and leave him behind enemy lines. Now it's up to Rambo as a one man army to save himself and a whole load of innocent people. Now Rambo II is just as good as the first film. The idea though is that it has the same characters but it is thrown into a different background with a new objective. Stallone and Creena give solid performances as Charles Napier is perfect as the slime ball commander who betrays Rambo. The plot feels confusing at first but ounce Rambo starts to kick butt, you understand right away. Now the action is top notch. Ramob blowing heads off with explosive arrows, a duel between helicopters, leech torture, knives in bodies, etc. That is what Rambo is all about, he's an action icon. Though the film is flooded with blood, the film falls low in some scenes. The so called love scenes with Rambo and his accomplice is boring and the briefing scenes take to long. Though the film is challenged a few times, it's very entertaining. Rambo 2 gets a 7 for being a great action film though it is slow. Recommended for action nuts and fans of the original First Blood. Enjoy.

Rambo III is about Colonel Trautman who goes to a monk monastery where war veteran John Rambo is working to ask him to join Trautman's army in a mission to go in and spy on enemies in Afganistan. Rambo refuses saying his war is over but when Trautman is captured, Rambo decides to suit up for one more mission as a one man army to save Trautman. Now Rambo III is the worst Rambo film so far! Stallone gives an utterly embarrassing performance as Rambo and Crenna is tasteless. The plot is weak with Tratuman being captured and the idea of Rambo as a one man army which has already been used in part 2. There are a lot of explosions and killing but that's about it. It may catch a few eyes of excitement but really falls short. This film is just slapped together with big explosions and lousy acting you loose your thought of focus on the movie and start to fall asleep. The fighting is okay and the explosions are nice but it's only the real core of excitement in the movie, the meat in a lame sandwich. Then there are the villains, horrible! This film looked like it was made in under a month with a budget of one hundred bucks. Rambo III the weakest link gets a 4, totally lame and lousy. Stay away from this Rambo at all cost unless you want something to sleep at.

Sylvestor Stallon gives one of his greatest performances ever as war vet and green Barret soldier John Rambo. The story is told that Rambo walks around to the middle of the mountains to meet up with an old war buddy who he finds out died of cancer. When he is picked up by a small town sheriff, the sheriff mocks him and tells him not to come to his town again because it's his job to keep drifters like him out of it. Rambo is dropped off but he goes back to the town. The sheriff arrests him and takes him to jail. After being assaulted by officers and having horrible war flashbacks, Rambo goes nuts and destroys anything in his way. He escapes the station and goes into the hills for a war of his own. Now Rambo is a action icon! He is rough and tough, all violence. Richard Creena is just as great as Colonel Trautman, the man who trained Rambo. Brian Dennehy is superb as Sheriff Will, the mean law man who mocks Ramob. The story is both depressing and powerful as you see Rambo fight for his life for something he didn't do. The acting is not perfect but it succeeds in tension. The explosions are excellent from Rambo destroying the whole towns power grid to Rambo crashing cars. If you love hardcore action, you need to pick up a copy of Rambo. Rambo gets the big 7, depressing and sometimes slow but it works up a sweat to perform an excellent film. Recommended, enjoy.

Sylvestor Stallon is back playing a hard edged cop named Joe who's life is turned upside down when his sweet mother Tuti comes to visit. While not only embarrassing her son, Tuti buys an illegal gun for Joe and see's the dealers get killed. Joe and Tuti are then on the run together and must find out the mystery of the murders before they are killed. Wow, this film was bull crap! This has to be Stallons worst film ever and Estelle Getty is nice as Joe's mom but she is so unlikeable! First she seems sweet when we are introduced to her but later in the film she shoot at guys with guns and says bad words, nothing like her at the start of the film. The villains in this film are numbskull's and the mastermind isn't seen or talked about till the last half hour of the movie! The story is goop and nonsense, thinking you can have a blast with this idea but it turns on you and becomes pure trash. The only good laugh you can get from this wreck is when Tuti finds Joe's old pistol and starts to clean it in the sink. Stop or My Mom Will Shoot is a real tragedy, it's gets a 1. Not recommended at all. Just stay away at all cost!

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is about a baby who see's his parents get killed by a mysterious warrior. The baby escapes danger only to return years later as an adult to get revenge on his parents murder. He takes refuge with a wise teacher named Master Tang, a group of dimwitted karate students, and a beautiful woman named Ling. The man known as the Chosen One finds out that along the way to revenge lays perils of ninjas, a fighting cow, and metal claws of death to destroy the evil Master Pain. Kung Pow first off is not a serious film, it's down right funny! Steve Oedekerk who wrote and directed the film plays the Chosen One perfectly, and dubs all of the other actors voices hilariously! Master Tang's and Master Pain a.k.a. Betty's voices are fabulous! The story is very out there and mystical that works very well. The special effects are cheesy but they work for a film like this. This spoof is funny if you like the stupid out there slapstick stuff. The way Steve wiped the soundtrack clean and dubbed the voices in badly was great! But the film gets really bad near the end. The story falls short with an evil tribe revealing themselves as French Aliens and stuff that's really confusing but the film packs in a few good laughs with The Chosen One fighting Betty and avenging his family and friends. Kung Pow is a great funny bone tickler that gets an 8 for being hilarious but stupid. Fun for everyone if you like this kind of comedy. Enjoy!

Twins is about the perfect human being who was made in a lab from the sperms of ten men and one woman who finds out he has a twin brother. He sets foot off the tropical island he was held on where he grew knowledge and learned to defend himself from violence to find his brother who turns out to be the exact opposite of him. Though not leaving him, the brother steals a car and finds out it holds a machine that is worth for five million dollars. But when he tries to cash it in he must face the truth about his past, defeat evil loan sharks, and not be killed my the mysterious villain Webster. First of all this is a really good film. Arnold is perfect as Julius and Danny does a good job as Vincent. The brothers love interests are nice except for Danny's girlfriend, she was a little annoying. The villains are menacing to from the evil Webster to the dealer Mr. Beetroot. The plot is rough though. First the viewers are thrown into the plot of Julius looking for Vince and then they tie in the plot with the loan sharks and then they set out for five million dollars and then they look for their mother and it's back to the five million...the whole plot is clunky! The relationships are heart warming and will make you care. This is a good family film and you'll enjoy it. And believe me, it's ten times better then Junior! Though the plot is clunky and over ridden, Twins gets the big 7. A funny film that deserves a lot of respect. Enjoy!