Gerry Barnaby's Film Review: The Family

Genre:  Comedy Crime Thriller
 
Cert: 15 cert, I would say this is an 18 cert due to content of this film.
 
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
 
Sex & Nudity: No nudity is shown but there is a brief sex scene between a teacher and student up against a classroom door.

Violence & Gore: The movie is a about a family that is somewhat gangsters.
There is flashforward and scenes involving realistic brutal violence that are not considered to be comical.
A woman steals from a grocery store and then blows it up.
A girl beats a guy with the tennis racket.

Profanity:  A lot of usings of F-word, but it's mostly considered to be said for comic effect.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: few people seen drinking beer

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  Final shooting sequences are to be intense.
 
Story: A mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. Despite the best efforts of CIA Agent Stansfield (Tommy Lee Jones) to keep them in line, Fred Manzoni (Robert De Niro), his wife Maggie (Michelle Pfeiffer) and their children Belle (Dianna Agron) and Warren (John D'Leo) can't help but revert to old habits and blow their cover by handling their problems the "family" way, enabling their former mafia cronies to track them down. Chaos ensues as old scores are settled in the unlikeliest of settings in this darkly funny film by Luc Besson (Taken, Transporter).               

Likes : The actors were all first rate and seemed to really enjoy their roles. However, they were undone by a plot that made very little sense. I often wonder if the writers ever watch the movie when it is finished, it dose have it moment but the storyline & plot is very flawed, it has its moment that your find funny but this film is one film your find you Iver like or hate, it not going to be for everyone.


Dislikes : as I said this film as a lot of flaws, Top off a shaky premise and poor writing, there is a lengthy reference to "Good fellas," as if to slap the audience in the face with the reminder that DeNiro once starred in some of the greatest mafia movies ever to be starring in a plot line of a mafia family with poor writing with no sub plot to understand what's going on other than the fact the family was move every 90 days.
The actor done a pretty good job but the sadly let down by the storyline. The plot seemed to promise a good black comedy but it mostly fell flat. you find yourself ignore the screen to what's going on as it dose get boring. Another problem is the script hyperactivity creates more than it can service.
The problem is you probably won't remember seeing The Family an hour after you leave the cinema, this film was OK but it was far from brilliant & over rated.

Overall : Promise to be a good black comedy but fall short of that depending on you taste of film's.
 
Rating:  3 out of 5 for entertainment / 4.3 out of 10 for storyline/concept

 

 

Gerry Barnaby's Film Review: The Smurfs 2

Genre:  Animation  Comedy  Family
 
Cert: U - Universal cert
 
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
 
Sex & Nudity:  A husband and his wife kiss briefly and a Smurf calls out, "Hey, get a room!"
Valentine hearts appear above the heads of male Smurfs when they see a female Smurf and we hear that they love her like a sister.
A female Smurf asks a male Smurf to dance at a party when she sees that he is smiling at her.
A male Smurf smiles at himself in a mirror and blows himself a kiss.
A husband and his wife introduce their young son to visiting Smurfs.
A male "Naughty" (an anti-Smurf type creature) is shown shirtless throughout the film, but no physical details are evident on his chest or back.
A female Naughty has black hair with a blue streak and is flirty with Smurfs; she smiles and bats her eyes.
Many Smurfs are shown shirtless, with featureless blue bodies from the waist up above white tights that cover their feet like footed pajamas.
At a photo shoot, we see several women wearing long gowns that cover but outline large pregnant abdomens; they are wearing short angel wings pinned to their backs.
A statue of a woman in a dungeon reveals one full thigh.
On the roof of a building, a statue of a man reveals bared chest, shoulders and arms.
A human asks if a Smurf's butt is blue and the Smurf pulls down his waistband a tiny bit to prove that his butt is blue.
At a birthday party, a male senior citizen grabs a woman's pregnant abdomen and squeezes it, saying, "Hello!" to the baby; the woman looks shocked.

Violence & Gore: All violence in this film is meant as family safe in comical ways

Profanity:  1 mild scatological term (poop), 7 mild anatomical terms (e.g. butt, Smurfberries (testicles), Gargamelberries (testicles) and 2 mild obscenities (Oh, the profanity! when a Smurf is stuck in a corndog puppet that smells; Son of a Smurf! said in anger),
Name-calling (moron, stupid, crazy, insane, imbeciles, simpleton, furball traitorous, Blondie, Narcissist, brat, knave, trolls, delinquents, candy man, ugly, pathetic, sucker, barbarian and Martin Luther Wing.)
Exclamations (Oh, gee! Oh, dear! Oh, Smurf! Are you Smurfin' kidding me? What the quack? I'm Meryl Smurfin' Streep!)
Stereotypical references to men, women, parents, grandparents, people who are different, heroes, villains, the French and Paris (both cheese-infested), Scots, the Irish and Goths.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A close-up of a cauldron shows a bubbling concoction and we hear a magic spell in a voiceover (we see two more cauldrons of the liquid.)
An evil wizard tries to capture Smurfs in order to get their recipe for a magic substance called Smurf-Essence.
A wizard wears a vial of a glowing blue essence on a chain around his neck and carries two wands filled with the substance.
A wizard cuts a female Smurf's hair to make additional magic essence.
A Smurf creates a set of magic crystals (for oral ingestion) that make teleportation possible.
A hotel room service waiter carries a bottle of champagne upside down in a silver bucket of ice.
A hotel patron orders ale.
Dozens of empty wine bottles litter an alley.
A cafe scene shows French men and French women with glasses of wine on their tables (we do not see them drink).
 
Frightening/Intense Scenes:  None
 
Story: The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence. But when he discovers that only a real Smurf can give him what he wants, and only a secret spell that Smurfette knows can turn the Naughties into real Smurfs, Gargamel kidnaps Smurfette and brings her to Paris, where he has been winning the adoration of millions as the world¹s greatest sorcerer. It's up to Papa, Clumsy, Grouchy, and Vanity to return to our world, reunite with their human friends Patrick and Grace Winslow, and rescue her! Will Smurfette, who has always felt different from the other Smurfs, find a new connection with the Naughties Vexy and Hackus or will the Smurfs convince her that their love for her is True Blue?               
 
Likes : The smurfs are back!!!!! as I seen a lot of reviews for this film haven't been good or avenge ratings, for me growing up on the smurfs as a kid I love the slap stick comedy this film has although im on the fence to say that which one is better the first film or the second, lot of people say it not as good as the first film was but this is still great family entertainment.
Although this mite not be a film for adults this is one of those films your kids will love & laugh over as the crazy antics of the smurfs to get back Smurfette voiced by the one & only beautiful Katy Perry back from the evil & clumsy Gargamel play Hank Azaria  with his crazy cat, this time we are introduced to two new smurfs called the naughty's Vexy voice by the beautiful
Christina Ricci & Hackus voiced by J.B. Smoove. together it just mayhem & chaos.
This film dose show an insight to Smurfette back ground as she use to be one of the naughty's sent by Gargamel to lure the smurfs to a trap but became one of the smurfs. If your look for great entertainment & funny laughs you cant get better than this film really as all family entertainment film go, this is one of the best of a long line family films around really dose keep the charm's of the smurfs from when it was a cartoon with brilliant performance from Jayma Mays, Brendan Gleeson, Neil Patrick Harris this is one film worth watch with the family.
I do believe this film is under rated because it worth more that what it been rated but it depend on the type of films you like. This is a recommend film for you kids
Dislikes : The only thing really it hard to say which was better the first film or the second, it kind of up to viewer to decide that.

Overall : Brilliant family entertainment, funny moments that will make you laugh, crazy antic of the smurfs that will make you kids laugh.
 
Rating: 4.6 out of 5 for entertainment / 7.5 out of 10 for storyline/ comical moments

 

 

Gerry barnaby's Film Review: The Starving Games

Genre:  Comedy  
 
Cert: 12A
 
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
 
Sex & Nudity: these films typically contain cartoonish penises and/or penis jokes and/or cartoonish jokes

Violence & Gore: flagrant violence against humanity

Profanity:  hip slander like "beyotch" "twerk" etc

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: wacky jokes about the hip weed that pander to the hip kids that smoke the hip weed
 
Frightening/Intense Scenes:  Officially Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, comic violence, language and partial nudity
 
Story: Set in the most depressing corner of a postapocalyptic future, our heroine Kantmiss Evershot (Maiara Walsh) volunteers to take her manipulative younger sister's place in the seventy-fifth annual "Starving Games." In doing so, she must leave behind her smoldering just-a-friend Dale (Brant Daugherty) and team up with the geeky baker's son Peter Malarkey (Cody Allen Christian) in a fight for her life. But wait, there's more! She could also win an old ham, a coupon for a foot-long sub at a six-inch price, and a partially eaten pickle! In The Starving Games, Friedberg and Seltzer's sixth cinematic spoof of box-office hits, the prolific parody duo has its sights trained on the adventure blockbuster The Hunger Games! It's all the laughs and half the calories as they sling dozens of cock-eyed, barbed arrows at sci-fi, action and fantasy films from The Avengers and Oz the Great and Powerful to pop culture characters and celebrities like Harry Potter and Taylor Swift
 
Likes :  After reviewing this film, some part were ok & as spoof comedy go there like a hit or miss as some time they can be over the top & just not funny. It dose its best to really take the piss out of a few movies like wizard of Oz, avengers, hunger games, lord of the rings & a few other films ya some part are funny but it the type of film that really dose depend on your sense humour.
I didn't laugh once throughout the entire movie. It was only when the bloopers were running that I was laughing.
And as such, then "The Starving Games" was a failure and as far from entertaining as a movie almost could be.
The acting itself was good enough, but people had very little to work with. And there were some great talented actors to the casting list, but ultimately no one really shined on the screen.
This im afraid this is iver a void or watch film if you intend to watch this film, like I said it ok in part but it like the film disaster movie spoof that just doesn't come off funny, the only funny thing for me was the out takes.

Dislikes : The only thing with spoof movies is once you seen one the rest just become the same old jokes & there is nothing new to seriously make you fall out of your chair laughing. Personally I would avoid this film if you looking a laugh's.

Overall : Dose try to hard to be funny but it not side splitting laugh out funny, but it just slightly ok
 
Rating:  3 out of 5 for Entertainment / 3.2 out of 10 for funny moment/storyline

 

 

Gerry Barnby's Film Review: Gravity

Genre:  Drama Sci-Fi Thriller, Warning this film is extremely disturbing & extremely intense & is not suitable for any one under 15.                
 
Cert: This film was given a 12A, but I would say this film is not suitable for any one under 15 due to contents of the film.
 
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
 
Sex & Nudity: none

Violence & Gore: There are several lengthy sequences of destruction and action, with a few brief graphic images. Some of the details below reveal spoilers.

A group of astronauts are hit by debris. The space shuttle is destroyed and all except for two are killed. We briefly see two dead bodies floating in the shuttle. Very disturbing.

There are a few dead astronauts shown in a scene, with no blood, and they just appear to be frozen. Disturbing emotionally because of the loss of life, but not with the imagery.

An astronaut is seen with a large hole right through his helmet and head; this image is very graphic, but relatively blood-free, and subsequently not very disturbing.

Astronauts hit things in space with intense force, but wounds or physical consequences of these aren't seen, and it's not graphic at all, though they bounce violently off of various parts of the station and yell and scream in panic.

A woman inside a space station finds a huge fire. She tries to put it out with an extinguisher which throws her back into a wall, leaving a cut and bruise on her face.

Profanity:  One use of the 'f' word, (One actual usage, and one implied, under-breath cut out where we can see mouth movement but do not hear it), some uses of the 'shit' word, and various other scatological terms. No religious profanity.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A character briefly drinks from a bottle of vodka.
The aforementioned vodka is mentioned.
 
Frightening/Intense Scenes:  The sequences involving the destruction of the space stations are very intense.
The whole film has a very tense, disturbing atmosphere. After the first 8 minutes, the action and intensity is constant. Some scenes can also be very emotionally intense and difficult to watch. There are many claustrophobic scenes that could upset viewers.
A frozen dead body with a large hole right through his space helmet and head is seen in graphic detail, though without blood (or anything really) in the cranium, so despite it being potentially very intense under normal Earthly circumstances, is much less scary and disturbing than would normally be. This film is not suit for any one under the age of 15 as some scene are extremely disturbing & intense for the younger viewers.


Story: Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness
 
Likes : This film is a one of a kind, I don't think ive left a film emotionally drain, I think I left my jaw on the ground when I left, this film is seriously intense, emotional & frightening from the get go, what's makes this brilliant is it start off with this beautiful visual Cinematography of the earth with stunning effects everything is claim then it hit you in the face with a roller-coaster of intense frightening nail biting moment & emotions.
George Clooney as Matt Kowalsky bring an outstanding performance with some emotional scene that will shock the hell out of you this is exactly what you'd come to expect from the Oscar-winning producer and actor like George. He utilizes his wit and charm to be a lighter force of our dark tale, and is a perfect balance to Bullock's frantic demeanor.
Sandra Bullocks character you start to feel sorry for as you learn about her past but what her character is put through in this film is beyond shocking & a feet of courage against all odds to survive in space, I believe that this acting in this film she should get a Oscar for best supporting actress or best actress award for this film alone because her performance was outstanding really dose bring you to tears.
The intensely of the film alone seriously pulls you to the edge of your seat you find your self in shock as you witness the action on screen that bring a cold chill down your spine & really dose bring you to cry your eyes out because the intense emotional dark concept that this film brings. It also has that tragedy feel to the film which also adds to the emotional side, which is why this film is one of the best film ive seen in a long time that you will not be disappointed with, I highly recommend you go watch this in 3D at the cinema because its one of the most spectacular film ever this year.

Dislikes : Only one slight mistake which is a movie mistake, it only noticeable if you watch carefully but other wise you would notice that all, which is easy to over look because the film is brilliant

Overall : Emotional, extremely intense & frightening outstanding film you ever watch, a must to watch in 3D at the cinema.
 
Rating:  5 out of 5 for entertainment / 9.7 out of 10 for concept & storyline

 

 

Gerry Barnaby's Film Review: How i live Now

Genre:  Action Drama Thriller , Warning this film is shockingly disturbing & dose contant scene that may disturb some viewer
 
Cert: 15 cert, close to an 18 cert
 
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
 
Sex & Nudity: There a brief sex scene, nudity

Violence & Gore: There is a potential rape scene, boy is seen getting shoot, a pile of dead body's, nuclear explosion, gun fire.

Profanity:  Mild to strong language in part of the film

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: pile are take as medication
 
Frightening/Intense Scenes: The dead body's & the nuclear explosion may be disturbing for some viewers
 
Story: An American girl sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives finds herself fighting for her survival as the UK turns into a violent military state

Likes : I can honest start of by saying wow Extremely strong movie, A remake of an award-winning book, the movie covers a world that could very easily become a reality, but hopefully only under exceptional circumstances this would ever happen.Saoirse Ronan's performance is outstanding as usual as she play a teenage who lost her mum at birth, she trouble by this with having ocd as well life for her is tough,.
Despite its genre, the movie was actually remarkably artistic - not just in the beautiful countryside that is so tragically spoilt by the outbreak of a massive global conflict, but also in its portrayal of the nature of war. Notably, the enemy is not identified once, beyond the fact that they are "terrorists." Our only interactions with them in the movie could imply that they are anarchists, but this is mere speculation. And it is not told from the military point of view, who might be used to threats like this, but rather from the point of view of the civilians, whose lives have been torn apart.
This film really push's the boundaries of being disturbing & haunting in place as you see a country being throw in to a war zone & the bodies are piling up, as we are taken on a journey of two girl trying to get back home but along the way it becomes a fight for survival.
I will warn you tho that this film is extremely disturbing in parts it will make you cry in other, it is beautiful made although a little slow you can look past that. The love making seen is brilliant done as well to show a tasteful loving moment, there are some scene that are highly disturbing & shocking but you have to expect that from the film concept. This is a film I recommend you watch as it a beautiful made film that you wont be disappointed in watching.
Dislikes : Nothing wrong with this film.

Overall : hauntingly disturbing & shock master piece of a film that a must to see.
 
Rating: 4.6 out of 5 for entertainment / 7.4 out of 10 for concept/story

 

 

Gerry Barnaby's Film Review: Red 2

Genre:  Action Comedy Crime                 
 
Cert: 12A
 
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
 
Sex & Nudity: A Penthouse Magazine cover shows a woman from the waist up wearing a bikini
A woman criticizes her boyfriend for another woman kissing him and says, "She was cleaning your teeth with her tongue" and the man smiles.


Violence & Gore: Two men lie on a floor, unconscious; a woman steps on the throat of one of them, making him gag; the camera cuts to the door of the bathroom, where another man's legs hang over the end of a tub and while talking to a friend on the phone, she pours in two bottles of acid that smoke as the legs convulse, she pushes them into the tub and she adds another bottle of acid to end the scene.
A man makes an origami figure with a sharp point and kills another man by jamming the point quickly up the nose or under the chin; the second man falls forward onto his face from a kneeling position (no blood is shown).
A man slaps a woman in the face at a bar, another man comforts her and she kidnaps him at gunpoint; in the man's office, another man enters and knocks the woman onto a couch with a heavy slap, she shoots and kills him and we see a little blood, and then opens a safe by using smoking acid; at the entrance to the building, a man disguised as an elderly man with a walker asks for asylum and a woman knocks out a guard; the "elderly" man blows up three toilets and three sinks in a washroom and we see gushing feces and water; in another room, a scientist stabs two male agents, killing them both.
A CIA boss enters a government building and with a silenced gun, kills the receptionist and her supervisor (we see no blood) with dozens of killings without blood to follow; the CIA boss and increasing numbers of military men fire automatic rifles at civilians, dropping bodies to the floor; a gunman shoots a metal door off a room, kills an interviewer and tells a political prisoner that he will kill the man's girlfriend after torturing her (filleting her from head to toe); the gunmen chase a man into a records room, firing weapons and creating hundreds of large holes in walls without hitting their quarry and he dispatches all of the shooters by using a variety of weapons (e.g. a metal box and a piece of a table for striking, a rifle gun-strap for hanging); a man breaks through a wall and helps the prisoner escape by shooting several military men (no blood) and he holds a machete but does not use it; the two men escape and a soldier looks under a fallen friend to see a grenade that explodes and fills the room with fire and smoke.
Two men and a woman chained to wooden posts wear canvas hoods; the hoods are pulled off to show them a firing squad as another woman uses automatic cannon-fire on a hill to shoot the firing squad (no blood is shown) and frees the captives by shooting their chains.
A scientist pulls a gun on several people, shooting a woman who falls, convulses slightly and dies while a man crosses himself; a CIA boss enters and cuffs the scientist, taking him away to soldiers and a plane; on the plane, the scientist uses an antidote in a hypo on himself and releases nerve gas before randomly shooting convulsing soldiers and CIA members on the plane; he stabs and kills a final CIA agent once they land (we see no blood).
An SUV explodes and flips into the air, landing with a loud bang and in flames; the camera cuts to a funeral with mourners wearing black, where a friend gives a man in an open casket a short, tearful eulogy after first poking the corpse in the back of the hand with a corsage pin twice to ensure that he is dead and a woman gasps at this.
A Jeep containing two men and a woman approaches a bridge and stops and a woman soldier stands at the other end with a rifle in hand; she points it at the Jeep and the camera cuts to a scene of the Jeep on the embankment of a river, burning while she shoots into it (the people in it are safe).
A van door opens on a street where two men walk and a man in the van fires a cannon at the men, not hitting them but cutting other vehicles in half; the two men lie on the street and we hear that dynamite will be thrown into the van, and we see the van explode with a lot of smoke and flames.
Two men break into the Kremlin after bribing a guard with a pizza, they break a hole in a brick wall, place a quiet plastic-explosive that creates a bit of dust, and then enter a control room; they steal a nuclear device, escape, and blow up the entrance they created with a loud grenade activation.
As a man and a woman walk outside a diner, the trash barrel explodes into flames and smoke.
Helicopters and cars chase another car containing a man and a woman; dozens of handguns and rifles are fired, the woman points handguns out the two front windows as the car drifts sideways and she shoots several drivers dead (she has a dot of blood spatter on her forehead); cars drive off the road and crash loudly and two semi-trucks roll over, explode and miss hitting the car when the car's driver is able to drive under the midsection of one truck; an SUV behind the car flips high into the air, catches fire and lands off-screen.
Inside a helicopter, a man tries to disarm a nuclear bomb as other people yell; the vehicle crashes in smoke and sparks, skidding on grass and the pilot dies from a gunshot to the chest (no blood) while two other men hang upside down in their seat belts but escape unhurt; one of the men carries a nuclear device onto a private plane and gains the release of a woman held by an elderly man; the plane takes off and explodes (presumably all the people on board die).
A man catches a thrown knife between his palms just as it approaches a woman's face in a café and a foot chase begins, changing to two cars and a motor bike, whose occupants shoot at one another; one car is hit by six other cars (no one is hurt), that car gets stuck between buildings in a narrow alley, while the another car intercepts the motorbike at the other end, knocking the rider off the bike (the biker's face is very bloody, with open cuts from this and a previous fall) and the camera cuts to a hotel room where a special agent slaps the biker's face several times, a woman puts a knife to his throat and he shouts loudly in anger "For God's sake!"
Police cruisers rush along a street in a background scene with their lights flashing and sirens sounding; the camera cuts to a car containing two men and a woman and the woman looks at a glass jar filled with tarantulas; we hear moaning from the trunk and hear that an Army officer has been held captive for three days, dosed with LSD while surrounded by rats and the tarantulas; we see the car stopped at the side of the road and the trunk opened as one of the captors alternately slaps and hugs the other man three times, shows him tarantulas to scare him, and then listens to information about a bomb.
A man fistfights with a gunman using kicking and punching in a warehouse room; many shelving units fall over with a crash and they both end up with bloody faces, but agree to work together against a mad scientist.
A woman fistfights with her supervisor knocking him down and escaping from an interrogation room.
A woman pretends to be a psych patient wearing a costume and straightjacket in a sanitarium and screaming that she is the Queen of England; she kicks a doctor out of the frame and jams a hypodermic into the chest of a male nurse, drawing a stream of blood; her colleagues appear dressed as medical staff and we see the real staff bound and gagged with duct tape while in an isolation cell, and we see an elderly scientist babbling over walls full of math equations; he tricks a man and a woman into the center of the cell and exits through the door, locking it behind him; they shoot their way out, but armed SWAT members capture them.
In a convenience store, a man is accosted by a dozen police officers, but he fights them all off with spinning kicks and punches; he finds himself handcuffed to a cooler door, he yanks the door free and uses it as a shield and a striking weapon until the glass shatters and the door frame breaks, but the man uses pieces of the frame as short-staff weapons and pounds another dozen shooting police officers unconscious before escaping.
A man collapses on a tabletop, apparently from a substance put into his wine, though we don't see him drink it; the camera cuts to a hotel room, where a woman slaps him in the face a dozen times to rouse him and they argue briefly.
At a Paris bank, soldiers arrest a woman, who tries to kick two of the soldiers unsuccessfully; inside the bank vault where they found her, we see a severed hand in a plastic bag, without blood.
A woman handling a handgun for the first time, accidentally shoots past a friend and alarms him.
A man consults an iPad to view surveillance as another man on the other end jams a rifle butt into the camera lens.
We hear a villain called The da Vinci of Death for inventing a nuclear device, nerve gases and other WMD; he is said to have killed over 1600 people by poisoning a water supply with Amazonian frog venom and another 11 million people will die if he is not stopped.
In a meeting with Russians, an American woman asks a colleague, "Can't we just kill her?"
A woman extracts information from a man being interrogated and she tells another woman to "suck it."
A man pulls a handgun on his friend, but then puts it away.
Two men argue, one shouting loudly; the shouting man demands $30 million for a stolen plane and $2 million for not killing the other man, and then he walks away.
A woman dancing on a platform fires a rifle into the air while laughing.
Animated figures of men from a comic book shoot and move in slow motion in a dim setting, while empty shells and bullets spew from handguns.

 

Profanity:  1 not fully enunciated F-word, 4 scatological terms, 1 anatomical term, 7 mild obscenities, exclamations (shut-up, For the love of Mike!) and 6 religious exclamations (e.g. For God's sake, Thank God, Oh my God, My God, Oh God).
Name-calling (crazy, stupid, bozo, skanky, slutty and pariah.)
Stereotypical references to the French, Russians, Iranians, men, women, CIA, mad scientists and mental illness.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A man says that another man used LSD for over a decade.
A man admits to giving an Army officer three hits of LSD to make him reveal secret information.
A man says that a certain woman is affected by a particular male friend as if he is Kryptonite (immobilizers her like a drug.)
A Russian offers Americans suicide pills from a medication bottle (they decline).
Several cafe and restaurant scenes feature tables where people drink glasses of wine.
Several scenes on a private plane feature men or women drinking wine or champagne.
A dozen people toast with vodka.
A CIA boss drinks wine calmly between beatings that he inflicts on a prone and unconscious man.
A man performs a tasting on an expensive wine in a restaurant while two Iranian men become impatient and angry with him and his slurping.
A spy lures a wine taster and bidder to a hotel over an iPad by offering an extremely rare wine for sale.
A posh restaurant has a floor-to-ceiling back-bar filled with expensive bottles of wine and liquor.
Two men drink fruit drinks at a bar where we can see bottles of liquor and beer.
A man finds a tobacco pipe in a vault (he does not smoke
 
Frightening/Intense Scenes: Many intense car chases, some lengthy. Sudden explosions.
 
Story: Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
 
Likes : Red 2, a sequel to the popular Red, has Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Mary Louise Parker, and John Malkovich back in the saddle, with Willis, Mirren, and Malkovich again dragged into their old jobs. Parker, who became Willis' girlfriend in Red, insists on going along. John Malkovich brilliant actor dose a good performance in trying to be funny but just came off a little weird, Anthony Hopkins is great; his role as Bailey is almost like Hannibal Lecter on happy pills. Helen Mirren is excellent yet again as the vicious Victoria and Mary-Louise Parker does well again as Sarah.
Watching this film you kind of notice Bruce Willis does, at points, come across uncomfortably & unconvincing; yet he's good in other parts of the film which your notices. The action scene are pretty good & its an enjoyable film although I found the first film better to be honest so it going to be one of those film you Iver like you don't like, it very rare for a sequel to excised the first film but it dose an OK job at that.
Helen Mirren is simply brilliant as usual managing to look elegant and be so dangerous at the same time like she was in the first film. The storyline was ok although a little flawed & messy in places it ok to watch for an afternoon film, which you mite like, be depends on your taste of film's.
 
Dislikes : To be honest it didn't have the same feel as the first film, I just found the first film better.

Overall : Action, guns, comical moments, if you like the first one you mite like this film.
 
Rating: 3.2 out of 5 for entertainment / 5.7 out of 10 for storyline.

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Gery Barnaby's Film Review: Thor 2: The Dark World

Genre:  Action  Adventure  Fantasy Warning this film dose contain some scene unsuitable for younger viewers due to the dark tone of the film. 
 
Cert: 12A cert
 
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
 
Sex & Nudity: Thor is seen shirtless, kissing scene, man running around naked.

Violence & Gore: There is a lot of action scene that you seen people being cut down, you see a blade through a creature's chest. Once scene with thor something happens cant give a away spoilers but it violent. Loki gets punched in the face, a death scene

Profanity: Few profanity like ill kill you, dam

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: professor drink a drug from a bag of medical drugs.
 
Frightening/Intense Scenes: Official MPAA Rating: PG-13 For sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence, and some suggestive content. Along with the Marvel Phase Two films, The Dark World will have a deeper and darker tone.
 
Story: Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
 
Likes : ok ill start by saying I have a positive review to tell you but I have a negative one as well, as this film is slightly overrated. Marvels director Alan Taylor has done a good job with this as its enjoyable to watch, it has it (WTH) funny moment that you do find yourself laughing at because it was funny special some of the thor & Loki moments in the film.
 This film does have a dark tone which might be disturbing for younger viewers, visual effect were brilliant as we see lot more of Asgard after the first film, I will say it more of emotional storyline to be honest this time I did find myself tearing up in some parts.
 There isn't as much character development as the first film, and Thor's friends are nowhere near as interesting as the Avengers. I guess they simply needed these characters to all remain as they were so as to keep continuity within the Marvel universe, but it's noticeable how little impact the storyline will have on anybody.
Christopher Eccleston played as Malekith the Accursed dark elves leader played a some what insane bad guy that wanted to turn all the worlds to darkness, there isn't much in the way to say why he was doing this other than the backstory of the darks elves & this world destroying energy.
There is a bit at end of the credit but there is a bit mid credits that seems to lend toward Thanos possible for some reason, it was just that one scene that had that mysterious feel to it like something bigger was going on behind the scenes but we don't know yet, as we've heard Avenger 2 or 3 will have Thanos appear so it could be a link but its unclear at this moment.
With the character of Loki I did think it was going to be a little repetitive since he been 3 films now but I believe he's character has more of a big part to play in coming events I think he's still working for the dark forces of Thanos for some reason because of he behaviour or it just Loki being Loki. What I did notice was a bit of a jealously Starr from Sith (Jaimie Alexander) to Jane (Natalie Portman) because from what you can see Sith has a thing for thor even in a moment of the film a scene with thor & Odin seem to suggest that.
This film in the way of fighting scene dose have a few battles but not much, probably the most important character in the film showed just what he can do even tho he a gate keeper but from what I saw he can seriously kick ass Heimdall play brilliant actor Idris Elba I through it about time some one write him in the storyline doing something awesome instead of just watch the gate & the universe because he has such a style in he acting he stands out with an on screen presence.
For me the comical moment were ok but some people mite find this ruins the dark tone of the film because it become less of a serious film at times & more of a comedy film of thor, but it enjoyable to watch.

Dislikes : The negative side of this film, is the slight humour I did find that it wasn't really need but Disney being Disney they want a film that kids can watch as well, I think Malekith character as to why he want to turn the worlds into dark could of been explain in the back story but it wasn't real much explained .
My only real complaint about this film was the way it ended the last 5 mins of the film You could see what was going on but there was curtain elements as to why & what the hell is happening.
It leave you with an open ending with no closure with you wanting to see more to see what is going on in that scene but that where the credits role. This main is why I feel this film is slightly overrated .

Overall : Not a bad film, better than the first film by far but still not brilliant, but worth watching.
 
Rating: 4.6 out of 5 for entertainment / 7.5 out of 10 for storyline/concept