Stephen's Short Video Reviews
Ocean's Thirteen
Drama (V). Brad Pitt & George Clooney 2007
" Danny Ocean rounds up the boys for a third heist ".
Moral of the story: Thirteen was originally a lucky number, I guess it doesn't hold for movies.
Rating: Ejected it
Rent it? No
Buy it? No
Pulse
Drama (V). Kristen Bell & Ian Somerhalder 2006
" A hacker accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal ".
Moral of the story: There has to be a hook and the hook has to be in the first scene. However here they chose for the first scene to be absolutely meaningless.
Rating: Ejected it
Rent it? No
Buy it? No
Shooter
Drama (V). Mark Wahlberg & Kate Mara 2007
Government uses sniper, later rich guys abuse sniper. Good sound. Good special effects.
Moral of the story: " You don't understand, they killed my dog. "
Rating: Eye popper
Rent it? Yes
Buy it? Yes
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(N) Nudity, (S) Sex scenes, (V) Violence
The opinions expressed here are just that, opinions.
Ratings in descending order:
Eye popper
Entertaining
Average
Quite average
One yawn
Two yawns
Three yawns
Ejected it
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Stephen's Short Video Reviews
A Cinderella Story
Comedy? Hilary Duff & Chad Michael Murray 2004
Cinderella with IM. Slow to start and long at one hour 35 minutes.
Moral of the story: Sometimes the title says it all.
Rating: One yawn
Rent it? Yes
Buy it? No
Shooters
Drama. Adrian Dunbar & Andrew Howard 2002
He got out of gaol and he wanted to go straight. His friend didn't give him a chance.
Moral of the story: Some movie plots are so good that no viewer can describe them.
Rating: Ejected it
Rent it? No
Buy it? No
The Contract
Drama (V). Morgan Freeman & John Cusack 2006
Goodie leads a captured badie out of the wilderness. Good sound. A good crash. A little predictable. Long at one and a half hours.
Moral of the story: One government paid mercenary is better than four.
Rating: Average
Rent it? Yes
Buy it? No
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(N) Nudity, (S) Sex scenes, (V) Violence
The opinions expressed here are just that, opinions.
Ratings in descending order:
Eye popper
Entertaining
Average
Quite average
One yawn
Two yawns
Three yawns
Ejected it
The video review repository is at http://videorev.blogspot.com/
And the RSS feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/ShortMovieReviews
. . . . . .
Stephen's Snaps
http://photo.ebearweb.net/
Simply nice photos, Landscape, Seascape, Underwater, The Northern Beaches Sydney.
Updated regularly.
