Blitz

Blitz is a very entertaining movie starring Jason Statham. Who, not surprisingly, is a bad cop. He beats the crap out of his targets. The movie is directed by Elliot Lester who did a great job at his second directed movie. It's inspired by Ken Bruen novel of Nathan Parker.
The movie is oscillating between thrilling and calm parts, not to say boring. Brant is the bad cop, he beats the crap out of one felony one night in a pool bar, but he never thought that the felony will ever become the Blitz. Now this felony is starting killing every cop that he fined him. Now that's cool hitting the police, but we all know that the police is stronger than any organized mafia, nothing to say about a meaningless felony.
As already discussed, the intrigue is that fight in the pub that triggered the Blitz. At some point in the movie Nash comes in as a replacement of Brant boss Roberts. Nash is a good guy something like Brant maybe worse. He killed a guy instead of investigating him. He makes a good team with Brant and thus they both end up with investigating this cop killer.
After some shifts they almost get to finally prosecute the felony. But he escapes, due to the lack of proofs and a good facebook community that paid him the bail out.
So the movie gets to the point of Roberts funeral, one of Blitz already dead targets. And who do you think gets there? I tell you who, Blitz dressed as a cop ready to make his last victim: Brant. Anyways, because they already know who Blitz is, the cops expect the attempt. So Brant leaves early from Roberts funerals and of course is followed by Blitz.
So I let you to uncover the rest of the story because is one of those thrilling moments that shouldn't be spoiled.
It's a movie made around Jason Statham and the main character Brant. Statham cover the role perfectly in every aspect. He's rough, he has that eyes of a killing hawk, he's also gentle when the movie needs him to be, every aspect of a rough, correct cop is found in Statham's acting. As an average action movie - I say average because it's doesn't make you stare at the movie the whole time eager to see more and more actions - the starring actor makes a great role. In fact I was let down by the many reviews I read before seeing the movie, saying that it's a poor movie, but Jason Statham made me watch this movie.
Also I was impressed by Zawe Ashton, she plays the cocaine addicted cop. She's one of Blitz targets and is under Brant guidance in the police station. She also is trying to help a kid she knew to flee from the felony path he took on.
No more to say about the movie I fled from the theater entertained if somebody asks.
Enjoy the trailer.

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

So what do we have here, Peter Jackson directing another epic story from J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit. I for one never read the book, but read all Lord of the Rings story and I find it fascinating. However Peter Jackson is familiarized with the story as he is former director of Peter Jackson and he also keeps Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellen and  Ian Holm (sorry if I missed somebody) from the former trilogy of Lord of the Rings. From this collaboration only a movie as good or even better than Lord of the Rings can get.
The Trailer indicates that beside fun the characters are creating a lot of mysterious and thrilling moments. From what I could peek out is that the story is told to Frodo by Bilbo in great detail so it's like a framed movie. As I know(could be wrong though), The Hobbit was written before Lord of the Rings so is not a framed story, however I think that the whole movie is set to be linked with Lord of the Rings even if the action within has it's action before the great Frodo's adventure.
I just can't wait for the new adventure to begin, enjoy the trailer.

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The Rum Diary

I don't want to spoil this movie. I want it to offer you the same as it offered me, a wonderful and enjoyable evening.
Instead of giving snaps from the movie I want to say something about Deep (in this movie of course). He is great, from the morning to the evening he is great. His acting is improving on the course of the movie. Even though I hail him for the role he played in Pirates of the Caribbean, honestly he made the movie by himself. This happens with "The Rum Diary" too.
The movie is based on the novel with the same name from Hunter S. Thompson (yes, he is the same writer who wrote "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", also starring Johnny Deep). It can be seen as a resemblance between this movie and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by removing drugs and adding alcohol and removing Las Vegas and adding Puerto Rico.The movie is full of funny quotes and scenes, I for one laughed my heart out. And I recommend Bruce Robinson's movie to everyone.
Enjoy the trailer.

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Limitless

Have you ever thought about having superpowers? Do you know that we all have superpowers?
Our brain is our superpower and how we use it depends only on us. We can train to use our brain to 100%, or we can take pills to use it. However such overcharging of brain activity is dangerous for our body and life. Like anything we can buy using it to full power over a long period is exhausting and weakening the product. The same happens with our brain, if we use it to 100% over a long period of time it can break and we can loose our control.
Same thing happens to our main character.
The movie tackles the deepest of our human questions what if I use 100% of my body? The answer is exhaustion. Now the movie is not teaching us how to use our 100% of our brain is about a cynical world in which we are just slaves to the one who use it to 100%, but they are not trained to do this they use the brain due to a pill, which like an pill has great side effects. Let's get back to the movie shall we? The main character is a lazy son-of-a-bitch that it's trying his buts out in order to make a living and write a novel. Everything in his life is arranged until his girl-friend leaves him. Now since he has nobody to take care of him(he doesn't receive part of her money) he decides to go out and find a job, but he meets an old buddy in fact wasn't such an old buddy he was mos likely the brother of her ex-wife(so you can see why I called him a son-of-a-bitch), at this point in his life his life changes. That buddy gives him the pill, so he finishes the novel and wins loads of money... yeah if it was that easy. He runs out of pills so he gets back to his buddy, but finds him dead, he calls for the ambulance and you know the time that an ambulance needs to come for a call... he searches for the pills and finds them. Of course he hides them and takes them away. You can guess the reason for his buddy death? The pills of course. The rest of the movie should be for you to view>:).
The crew of this movie really does it. Neil Burger the director knows a little about the world of the movie, assassins, murders, evil guys, good guys. The scenario is familiar killing everybody else so he does a great work the story blends with the real world witch doesn't know about the mere existence of the pill.
Just to make the movie great we introduce to you the main actor, Bradly Cooper a star from the big and lousy Hollywood. He does a great piece of acting and blends with the rest of the crew. Most of them all he's handsome enough to be an artist who writers novels. A great pick for this movie he is.
Another great piece of add for this movie... interesting how to pick the cast in oder for peoples to see the movie, I only watched it for... Robert De Niro. All my respect to his work, I felt in love with his acting since Taxi Driver. He is great, he is phenomenal, and I don't think I am here to judge his work. So I will like you to evaluate it.

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Sherlock Holmes

It's a great and enjoyable adventure with a little bit of everything. It's a great movie directed by Guy Richie. I don't know why, but I like this director's movies; RockNRolla is a movie that just doesn't get out of my mind and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels also.
Now talking about Sherlock the great detective, the kind of person who comes up with conclusions even from your smell, or your clothes' smell. He is ingenious and he truely deserves the say "Good work Sherlock". The fictional detective was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and he soon became the most famous fictive detective of our times. Surprisingly or not, the movie is not based on one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. The writer prepared the famous detective for saving England.
The story is good, special effects are great and lot of work has been done inducting the viewer into the specific times. I was really impressed by the final battle that took place on the London Bridge scaffolding. The detective rose up to his name and solved the magical puzzle set up by Lord Blackwood, who meant to destroy the England House of Lords and the House of Commons.
Robert Downey Jr. is a one of the most respected actors in Hollywood, he also played in Zodiac and Iron Man. He is the one that carries this movie along, his interpretation of the obsessed detective is absolutely fabulous. You need lots of nerves to play in imaginary playgrounds and notice every detail of them.
Jude Law is not as remarkable as Robert, but he is worthy of appreciations in some scenes. I remember the look on his face when Sherlock tells him a lot of intimate details about his wife, and I really felt his anger in that scene.
All in all, Guy Ritchie has done, as before, a great job. And he also brought the Sherlock Holmes sequel into post production. As for me, I am dying to see the sequel.

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London Boulevard

The director and writer Wiliam Monahan created a twisted movie based on the novel of Ken Bruen. Together with Colin Farrel, he created a cold blood gangster movie. What surprised me from the beginning of the movie was the lack of smiling on Colin Farrel's face. In fact, the only time he laughs, is at his friend's funeral.
From the beginning, the viewer is induced in a cool transition that captivates him and prepares him for the story to come. Mitchel is a former prisoner who is released again on the ruthless streets of London. He has a good criminal reputation so he is haunted by some big criminals in order to do their job. However, he looks pretty decided to being a good guy life and to give up on his life of crime. But the trick is that nothing goes the way it's planned.

Colin Farrel is making a terrific acting. He is a piece in the puzzle. I can't think of a better actor who could be the lead role of this movie. He is cold when he needs to be, he is warm and acts like it, he is very confident in every aspect of his playing. He turned into a great actor and you can clearly see this.

Another thing I want to say is about the former Pirates of Caribbean star, Keira Knightley, who is playing Charlotte, a cinema star, who hires Mitchel for keeping paparazzi away from her. She is doing a great job even if she appears in very few but essential scenes and she does it with great grace and confidence.
The movie has everything a gangster movie needs, brutal deaths, lack of humanity and mercy and most of all, the element of surprise, which is present all around the movie thanks to it's great director, Wiliam Monahan.
I challenge you to see this movie no telling the very last important scene, but I will spoil something... you won't know what hit you after the last scene.

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