Surrogates
Although it felt immensely parallel to Mark Neveldine’s Gamer, Surrogates explores the scarier side of avatar life when people opt for living through robots instead of their own bodies. With the charisma and macho swagger that Bruce Willis brings to the screen and the talents of Ving Rhames, James Cromwell and Boris Kodjoe, what really ended up disappointing me was the unimpressive... [Read more]
9
A dark but beautiful offering of CGI about a post-apocalyptic world and 9 humanoid robots with a mysterious mission to carry out. Shane Acker directs this movie although the trailers and signs all point to the more popular Tim Burton. To top off this confusion (Burton produced it) we are shown creatures that play more than a little homage to A Nightmare Before Christmas. But even though Shane... [Read more]
Gamer
What’s cool about Gamer is that it holds elements that are true to the Sims, MMORPG, Second Life experience. Every FPS player, MMO dabbler and anonymous degenerate can feel at home in the world of Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). We are given the ultra-futuristic computer experience where the 3rd dimension pushes into the 4th and polygons are replaced by real, living, breathing human beings.... [Read more]
Push (2009)
The timing of Push seemed to muddy it’s appeal even more than it’s tired story. Color me jaded but after three Matrix movies, three X-Men movies and four really bad seasons of Heroes, I am no longer impressed with human beings using telekinesis and psionics to move inanimate objects and see into the future. For a movie to present the same formula of “special human beings”... [Read more]
District 9
District 9 is sci-fi perfection. There is a satirical human parallel to it (for those of you who are really itching to find one), there is nothing forced with it’s direction and there is no clear-cut good or evil. What we are shown is a documentary about one Wikus Van De Merwe (Sharlto Copley) and his work, going from being promoted to being the central focus of a huge episode in human... [Read more]
Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
The blood looks thin, yet flows with a crimson that is akin to fruit punch or cranberry juice freshly poured from the bottle. The volume of it seems endless. In the world of the Tokyo Gore Police an Engineer’s wounds can shoot a stream of blood so powerful that it could be used as a form of transportation. Just imagine a man with no legs flying around in the air all from the force of... [Read more]
Gi-Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Although the ending action sequence seemed a bit on the lengthy side, GI-Joe The Rise of Cobra was an entertaining but abstract version of the 80′s cartoon. Sienna Miller was delicious, Marlon Wayans was human, and Ray Park was dangerous. Director Steven Sommers has never impressed me with his past works (The Mummy series and Van Helsing) so when I learned that he was behind a Gi-Joe... [Read more]
Moon
Duncan Jones has captured the term Sci-Fi in this tiny film that lacks all of the laser shootouts, stunning phasers and starfighter battles that the genre is known for. Notably fans of Sci-Fi will tell you that Science Fiction is beyond the action of the Star Wars and much more than the drama of the Battlestar Galacticas. Sci-Fi for true fans is a bit of everything but mostly the “what... [Read more]
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
A film for hardcore Transformer fans and 13 year old boys. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is what you probably expect it to be; no surprises, no real let-downs and nothing amazing. If you watched the first movie, this one will feel like a beefed up version of it sans the serious tone. Since it is quite evident that film critics dislike this loud and lengthy movie, I will try and take... [Read more]
Terminator Salvation
I really, really wished someone else would have written this movie. There were a lot of things wrong with Terminator Salvation, but this is coming from a person who has watched the prior three installments and the television series. To the average young movie watcher who doesn’t know the entire cast of characters in John Connor’s story, this film will come off as a mediocre sci-fi... [Read more]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
There’s one thing that has always struck a good note with me about Hugh Jackman in movies… the man seems to actually give a damn about his performance. He seems to do his homework, assumes his role and bring across a genuine performance whenever he is working. It is this type of actor that can make a mediocre movie great. When Hugh is happy, you want to laugh with him, when he... [Read more]
Knowing (2009)
When I finished watching Knowing, I turned and stared at my friends in disbelief at how ridiculous I found the ending to be. Starting out strongly, Knowing shows a father and son struggling with the loss of his mother as they carry on their daily lives. After an hour and a bit more, the main underlying plot of it all is revealed to be a loaded religious tale hidden in a nice shiny thriller... [Read more]
