Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

Hansel & Gretel are bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. As the fabled Blood Moon approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil that might hold a secret to their past.

Director: 

Tommy Wirkola 

Writer: 

Tommy Wirkola 

Stars: 

Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Peter Stormare

Story:

These are dark days. The Oscars are over, and now morale doesn't get any lower, as the very worst films are dumped ignominiously into cinemas like a vanload of cook-chill equine lasagnes delivered to schools and hospitals. This movie is a case in point. It's a film which is so demeaningly bad, so utterly without merit, that there is a kind of purity in its awfulness. There is a Zen mastery in producing a film which nullifies the concept of pleasure.The idea is that Hansel and Gretel, having evaded a horrible fate as children in the witch's candy cottage in the woods, are now all grown up, and they have become super-cool kick-ass witch hunters – in a weirdly regressive sibling partnership – roaming the vaguely Germanic countryside armed with steampunky shotguns for the purposes of blasting witches with maximum violence. They are played with very little discernible talent by Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. Peter Stormare phones in a bad-guy performance as some sort of a tyrannical mayor, and Famke Janssen plays an evil witch whose face is always turning into that of a hyper-real crone, a digital effect that succeeds in being uninteresting and depressing at the same time.
Watching this film, it is incredible to think that only recently I was raising niggling little objections to some minor things I wasn't sure about in Argo or Beasts of the Southern Wild. I feel like a billionaire who has become poor overnight, remembering when I was not entirely happy with a certain type of champagne. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is so uncompromisingly rubbish that it is impossible to watch it without your rage and despair doubling with every minute that passes. You'll feel like making all the Hollywood executives responsible stand up, like naughty schoolchildren, while you rage: "Which one of you greenlit this unspeakably bad film? We're not going home until someone owns up."
It manages to be nasty as well as dismal. There is a great deal of brutal violence, and people getting their noses broken and heads squished. Women are punched and kicked all the time. People also have an unpleasant habit of registering their surprise at something by saying things like: "You've gotta be shitting me" in a charmless way I haven't experienced since the Matrix sequels.
How did Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters get to be this terrible? I suspect that it may possibly have started life as something rather different. Two of its executive producers are Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and I wonder if the film was not originally conceived as some sort of high-concept comedy with the grownup witch hunters perenially squabbling among themselves? Oddly, the movie does begin with a halfway-decent gag: bottles of milk have crude line drawings of missing children on them, like milk cartons in modern-day America. It seems to belong to a rather different film. (And I can't help remembering that Owen Wilson's character in Zoolander is called Hansel.) Perhaps the film got changed somewhere along the line, comprehensively rejigged as a humourless fantasy action adventure.
Well, I'm clutching at theoretical straws here. Maybe it was just always like this. Basically, Hansel & Gretel is a film that does not neglect any opportunity to be abysmal. Gemma Arterton – who can be very good in the right part – has to play Gretel with a fantastically irritating, phoney, swaggering American accent, to match Jeremy Renner's; baffling since everyone else has a sort of mittel-Europa-ish peasant voice, given that they live in somewhere called Augsburg. She is someone else who has this sadistic infatuation with violence, smirking at one of her victims that "it won't be an open casket".
The oddest thing about this movie is how it feels it has to give both leads some kind of romantic interest in order to nullify the creepy, incestuous impression. Hansel gets to go nude-bathing with a comely white witch, but all Gretel gets is a bizarre and platonic "beauty-and-the-beast" relationship with an ugly giant called Edward with a huge, misshapen head. Why? It doesn't develop the plot in any interesting way whatsoever.
Well, there is something salutary about a film as appalling as Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters: it demonstrates the gravitational pull of terribleness that the good films heroically resist and rise above. The Oscars now seem a very, very long time ago.

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Summary:

A children fairy-tail meets horror shocker. Nothing for people with a tender mind. 3 Stars for action and a fast cut. I like action, thriller and horror, so my tip .......

Box Office:

Domestic Total Gross: $55,703,475
Distributor: Paramount	Release Date: January 25, 2013
Genre: Action Comedy	Runtime: 1 hrs. 28 min.
MPAA Rating: R	Production Budget: $50 million

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After Earth (2013)

A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.

Director:

 M. Night Shyamalan

Writers: 

Gary Whitta (screenplay), M. Night Shyamalan (screenplay)

Stars:

Jaden Smith, David Denman, Will Smith

Story:

He's done it again. M Night Shyamalan has done it again. Again. Done it. Again. He has given us another film for which the only appropriate expression is stammering, gibbering wonder that anyone can keep making such uncompromisingly terrible movies with such stamina and dedication. This one is a sci-fi drama of such incredible boredom that your synapses will be turned to Bostik, featuring a triple-whammy of abysmal acting, directing and story.
It is released in ample time for Father's Day, and is all about an intergalactic general, unfortunately named Cypher and played with baffling dullness and solemnity by Will Smith. In the role of Cypher's headstrong, troubled teenage son, Kitai – an army cadet who idolises his old man – the director happens to have cast Will Smith's son, Jaden Smith. He plays the role throughout with a face like a smacked bum.
Earth has been destroyed by climate change, pollution or whatever, and now humans exist in exile on other planets, but a space-flight with dad and son on board crashes on Earth, injuring Cypher badly, and now Kitai must win his respect by recovering a vital distress flare, which he can only do by vanquishing a horrible beast that feeds on human fear. So Kitai must be like his dad: show no fear. Or any emotion. Or any acting talent of any sort.

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Summary:

Boring, boring, boring. No action, no content, less story. The only plus are the actors, but thats only enough for 2 stars and not for a WATCHit, so for me .....

Box Office:

Domestic Total as of Aug. 18, 2013: $60,522,097
Distributor: Sony / Columbia	Release Date: May 31, 2013
Genre: Sci-Fi	Runtime: 1 hrs. 40 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13	Production Budget: $130 million

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Oblivion (2013)

A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself.

Director: 
  
Joseph Kosinski

Writers: 

Karl Gajdusek (screenplay), Michael Arndt (screenplay)

Stars:

Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough

Story:

Only recently, Tom Cruise looked as if he was attempting to grow twelve inches to play tall tough guy Jack Reacher; now his role-model appears to be Wall-E, the diminutive cartoon automaton left behind on a wrecked planet Earth to clean up. Sadly there's none of Wall-E's spark in this bafflingly solemn, lugubrious and fantastically derivative sci-fi which serves up great big undigested lumps of Total Recall, AI, Planet of the Apes – with little snippets of Top Gun.
Cruise plays Jack Harper, a tough and self-reliant soldier in the late 21st century, after a victorious but catastrophically destructive battle against alien invaders. He has been tasked – along with the sleek and adoring Victoria, played by Andrea Riseborough – to monitor what remains of Earth prior to humanity's final emigration, and to supervise a fleet of pilotless drone craft which hunt down hostile "scavs", or scavengers, hiding out on the surface.
His immediate memory has been wiped in order to prevent hostile forces getting intel from him, in case of capture, but his orders are clear in what remains of his mind. The human race is to evacuate the planet (having farmed what hydroelectric energy it can from the oceans) and then decamp to one of Saturn's moons – of all the unattractive places. But Jack is plagued with weird mental images of a romantic encounter in pre-war New York and when he finds a beautiful human survivor, Julia (Olga Kurylenko), she stirs intense memories, and it is clear that there is something the authorities are not telling him.

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Summary:

Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman, what a combination. A sudden turn at the end of the story makes the movie very interresting and amusing. But unfortunately no big cash in the box office.

Great entertainment, in that case .....

Box Office:

Domestic Total Gross: $89,107,235
Distributor: Universal	Release Date: April 19, 2013
Genre: Sci-Fi Adventure	Runtime: 2 hrs. 5 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13	Production Budget: $120 million

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The Smurfs 2 (2013)

The Smurfs team up with their human friends to rescue Smurfette, who has been kidnapped by Gargamel since she knows a secret spell that can turn the evil sorcerer's newest creation - creatures called the Naughties - into real Smurfs.

Director: 

Raja Gosnell 

Writers: 

J. David Stem (screenplay), David N. Weiss (screenplay)

Stars:  

Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Katy Perry

Story:

Brand Smurf retains its plasticky novelty throughout this overstuffed, Paris-set outing, which packages its funny gags between enough daddy issues for all the world's children, and occasional reaches for sincerity, undermined by the fact this is basically stone-cold Sony product. The interplay between animated and live-action elements remains a selling point: Hank Azaria again gives exemplary pantomime as Gargamel, and there's a welcome appearance from Brendan Gleeson, second only to, say, Liam Fox as the person you'd least expect to see in a Smurf movie. A painless holidaykiller, if not terribly worthwhile.

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Summary:

A nice and lovely family movie, for grandparents and children. A combination with real actors and animation and if you love "Barney" from "How I met your morhter" you will love this film also. Not very great, but all in all OK.

Box Office:

Domestic Total as of Aug. 26, 2013: $63,009,484
Distributor: Sony / Columbia	Release Date: July 31, 2013
Genre: Family Comedy	Runtime: 1 hrs. 45 min.
MPAA Rating: PG	Production Budget: $105 million

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Grown Ups 2 (2013)

After moving his family back to his hometown to be with his friends and their kids, Lenny finds out that between old bullies, new bullies, schizo bus drivers, drunk cops on skis, and 400 costumed party crashers sometimes crazy follows you.

Director: 

Dennis Dugan 

Writers: 

Fred Wolf, Adam Sandler 

Stars:  

Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock

Story:

Grown Ups 2, the new comedy from Adam Sandler, is set in the same universe as the 2010 film Grown Ups. Yet somehow, the word ‘sequel’ doesn’t fit: it would be like describing three months of agonising spinal surgery as the sequel to falling off a cliff.

The original Grown Ups made £104 million worldwide, of which £7.8 million came from the UK, and now humanity must face the consequences. In the first film, Sandler played a wildly successful Hollywood agent, who was reunited with his high school cronies and rediscovered the simple pleasures of small-town life. Now he has moved back home for good, although the absurd McMansion, shrieking trophy wife (Salma Hayek) and gurning, stage-schooly offspring suggest you can never take the Los Angeles out of the twerp.

So, what happens in Grown Ups 2? Almost absolutely nothing. Early in the film, Sandler’s character borrows a school bus. He picks up his buddies, who are played by Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade, and they go to the supermarket. They spend a very long time in the supermarket, and during this time we see a lot of the supermarket’s logo. When they finally leave, James’s character performs a new style of flatulence he calls the ‘burpsnart’ in the car park.

The men then go swimming, where they meet some younger men, who include Taylor Lautner. (You wouldn’t think a film could squander the comic ability of Taylor Lautner, but Grown Ups 2 somehow manages it.) An argument ensues. Your head starts to swim. You clench your teeth and fantasise, with increasing derangement, about things such as plots and ideas and jokes, and what Grown Ups 2 might be like if it had any. You steel yourself and look back at the screen. The men are still arguing. Kevin James burpsnarts. There is still more than an hour of the film to go.

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Summary:

Adam Sandler, you can love him, or you hate him. His ribad humor splits the cinema visitors. This movie is the sequel to the first part, nearly the same points and story, but amusing and in the dark of a cinema you can laugh without shaming about. So for me its a ....

Box Office:

Domestic Total as of Aug. 26, 2013: $129,018,525
Distributor: Sony / Columbia	Release Date: July 12, 2013
Genre: Comedy	Runtime: 1 hrs. 41 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13	Production Budget: $80 million

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Live Free or Die Hard - Die Hard 4.0 (2007)

John McClane and a young hacker join forces to take down master cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel in Washington D.C. 

Director:   

Len Wiseman 

Writers: 

Mark Bomback (screenplay), Mark Bomback (story)  

Stars:  

Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant

Story:

There are times when you think he really will - expire, that is, at the climax of an almighty shoot-out, with an unsightly penile engorgement like the victim of some auto-erotic strangulation fetish. The granddaddy, perhaps the great-granddaddy, of the Number One cut is back. Before Phil Mitchell, before Nick Hornby, there was Bruce Willis. As Detective John McClane, he first did a complete forward-roll-plus-handgun-aim onto our screens in 1988 in the action classic Die Hard, taking on "terrorists", which in those innocent days meant our very own Alan Rickman with a comedy German accent. Now, paradoxically, as so often in the post 9/11 era, the "terrorist" is a cautiously chosen apolitical American, no other nationality being deemed worthy of the contest.
In that first film, Bruce was 33, receding a little, but basically playing exactly the same part as now: the worldly, old-school tough guy. John had discovered his estranged wife was hurtfully using her maiden name, which triggered some macho displacement activity on a monumental scale. In this fourth movie (quatrequel? tetrequel?), his grown-up hottie of a daughter does the same thing. DH fans know that there's a testosterone squall on the way. Thankfully, fiftysomething Bruce does not strip down to his vest this time. This is action, after all, not horror.
That postmodern "4.0" alerts us to the fact that McClane is taking on some new-style terrorists. Timothy Olyphant plays a sinister ultra-hacker who wants to bring all US computer systems to their metaphorical knees ... and then, erm, take everyone's money out of their bank account. Or something. McClane is going to stop this hi-tech bad guy with nothing but a beat-up automobile, a couple of guns and a pair of old-fashioned American cojones, which, to quote Sylvester Stallone's sentimental description of his father Frank, "damn well almost clang together when he walks".
It's pure action silliness, and often enjoyable, with some tremendous free-running stunts at the top of the film. Olyphant starts by jamming the traffic-light computers, which causes an appalling gridlock right in the middle of Washington, DC. Perhaps he was inspired by that very hi-tech film The Italian Job, where the crooks do something similar to the traffic lights in Turin. That's just the beginning of his global domination plans, however. Top of his to-do list is taking out a nerdy good-guy hacker, who alone has the brainpower to challenge him. This is Matt, played by likable Justin Long, fondly remembered from the fratpack comedy Dodgeball. McClane has to protect this guy amid crashing cars, helicopters and planes, which rain blazingly to the tarmac all around him like hailstones.
I have to admit I laugh at the traditional cute punchline that the action hero ridiculously tags to the end of a fight - cheerfully sent up in Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz earlier this year. After a terrifying shootout, McClane smashes a French villain out of a window, and the man plummets about a dozen floors to crunch onto a car roof, setting off the alarm. There's a split-second pause while we all wait for Bruce's smirking remark: "That's gonna wake the neighbours!"
Arf, arf. Sometimes the action mayhem has a kind of Zen quality to it, entirely detached from narrative logic. At one stage, Bruce attacks Olyphant's icy lieutenant Mai Lihn (Maggie Q) by driving a car into the office where she has Matt at gunpoint, and bulldozing her into ... an empty liftshaft. Huh? What? How? Where? Why? Did he drive his car along the corridors until he found the right door? At the wheel, McClane is elsewhere threatened by a low-flying helicopter. So what does he do? He judges the trajectory of a certain off-ramp, drives straight for it, and at the last moment jumps out of his vehicle, which is flung upwards and turns the helicopter into a fireball. Whoa! Later he will jump from an airborne truck onto the tail of an F-14 fighter plane - or perhaps he jumped from the F-14 onto the truck, I can't be sure. All the time, his smirk is in place, which at moments of extreme pain morphs into a wince.
There is one smart moment. One of the villain's nerdy apparatchiks sends a resistance-is-futile video message out to America by splicing together fragments of speeches by US presidents, from Eisenhower to George W Bush. Its techie-henchman author is congratulated by his colleagues, and he shruggingly replies: "Yeah, I wanted to use more Nixon ... "
It's quite a thought that Willis has been plying his trade during the tenures of so many of the presidents featured: Reagan, Clinton, Bush Jr. His career has survived the turkeys; he has shown he can play comedy and drama too. He was entitled to one more kick-ass action outing. But please, let this be the last. Anything more would be dying soft.

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Movie Rating (max. 5 Stars):

Summary:

I am a great Bruce Willis fan. I like him in action or comedy. 5 Stars forever, so.....

Box Office:

Domestic Total Gross: $134,529,403
Distributor: Fox	Release Date: June 27, 2007
Genre: Action	Runtime: 2 hrs. 10 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13	Production Budget: $110 million

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World War Z (2013)

United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.

Director: 

Marc Forster

Writers: 

Matthew Michael Carnahan (screenplay), Drew Goddard (screenplay)

Stars: 

Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz

Story:

Another day, another zombie flick – albeit a bigger budget one with A-list bells on. In this adaptation of Max Brooks's cult novel, Brad Pitt plays an ex-UN investigator sent to seek out the source of an undead plague that has ravaged the Earth, causing the warm-blooded to scuttle to sea, or flee to the remote wilds of Nova Scotia.
Unlike George Romero's lumbering corpses, these zombies boast the fleet-footedness of Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead reboot, and the shaki-cam craziness of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later... There's some cross-infection too from Steven Soderbergh's Contagion, with which this shares its fears of accelerated global transmission. The opening is bravura fare, as the running (rather than walking) dead take unexpectedly to the streets, swarming like ants across a landscape littered with fragments of the source novel's socio-political satire (Israel protects itself with a massive wall, North Korea starts pulling out teeth).
Yet somewhere the film loses its nerve – and its bite – settling for disparate grand-scale set pieces (every time director Marc Forster shouted "Action", presumably a producer shouted "More action!") and episodic globe-trotting plot-points, before finding its way to a medical centre in Wales (really) for an oddly old-fashioned third act replete with men in white coats and glowering British TV stalwarts. Amid all the tales of spiralling budgets and extensive reshoots, it's hard not to conclude that whatever heart the project may once have had has been bypassed, leaving a raggedy assortment of body parts; expensively assembled, but lacking a sustaining pulse.

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Summary:

I like this film. Not a typical Brad Pitt movie, but anyway not bad. Many amazing special effects, without them and the famos actors, I think, it will be a flop. But they are there, so .....

Box Office:

Domestic Total as of Aug. 25, 2013: $198,854,941
Distributor: Paramount	Release Date: June 21, 2013
Genre: Action Horror	Runtime: 1 hrs. 56 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13	Production Budget: $190 million

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Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)

After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.

Director: 

J.J. Abrams

Writers: 

Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman

Stars:

Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana

Story:

Once again JJ Abrams boldly goes where many others have boldly gone, with yet another generation manning the USS Enterprise bringing peace to the universe, even if this means doing again to San Francisco and London what the 1906 earthquake and Luftwaffe did in the 20th century. Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) has the usual rows with Bones (Karl Urban), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and Scotty (a Simon Pegg in a black hole) as they take on board a party of cryogenically preserved Jonahs up to no good. This batch of maledict encumbrances is under the command of Benedict Cumberbatch, a neo-Nazi advocate of the superman who puts Nietzsche before nurture with the aim of ruling the world.
The film is short on the provocative ideas that Gene Roddenberry's original TV series had plenty of, but offers bangs for bucks on a prodigious scale in a succession of repetitive battles that will have the 3D glasses bouncing on everyone's nose. Alice Eve plays an extremely sexy ordnance expert, and the film brings back that "I'm a… not a" verbal formulation once so popular among screen scientists and professional men when confronted with inappropriate requests: "For God's sake man, I'm a doctor, not a torpedo engineer," says an exasperated Bones.

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Summary:

A great piece of science fiction movie got a new dimension. A praise to the casting crew. It is believeable for me to see this young actors in the older versions of the characters in the original movies 30 years ago. The hole package of this movie is perfect. Action, story, pictures and actors - great cinema.

Box Office:

Domestic Total as of Aug. 20, 2013: $227,217,750
Distributor: Paramount	Release Date: May 16, 2013
Genre: Sci-Fi Adventure	Runtime: 2 hrs. 3 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13	Production Budget: $190 million

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Jack the Giant Slayer

The ancient war between humans and a race of giants is reignited when Jack, a young farmhand fighting for a kingdom and the love of a princess, opens a gateway between the two worlds.

Director:

Bryan Singer

Writers:

Darren Lemke (screenplay), Christopher McQuarrie (screenplay)

Stars:

Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci

Story: 

The fairytale reboot is one of Hollywood's newest and most unwelcome inventions: children's tales ramped up and complicated with added PG action and lite sexiness, and mostly with their charm and psychological insight stripped out. The recent Hansel and Gretel reimagining was about as pleasurable as adult chicken pox. But I have to admit that against the odds, this new version of the panto fave Jack and the Beanstalk is watchable in a ridiculous way, and director Bryan Singer supplies quite a bit of entertainment bang for your buck.
Nicholas Hoult is Jack, now a young-adult hottie rather than a mere lad, and what he has to sell is a horse, rather than an undignified cow. The five beans he gets create a beanstalk that leads to a mysterious land of giants. The sinister and treacherous Prince Roderick (Stanley Tucci) plans to get up there and subdue them with a magic ring, and use these colossal brutes as a private army to impose tyranny back in Olde Albion, and thus betray good King Brahmwell (Ian McShane), his trusty courtier Elmont (Ewan McGregor) and the lovely Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson), with whom Jack naturally falls in love. It's very different from, say, Terry Gilliam's magic-beans riff in The Brothers Grimm (2005), which glanced at the darker subtext. Bryan Singer isn't interested in any psychological Bruno Bettelheim stuff; anyway, it's boisterously silly and enjoyable.

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Summary:

After five minutes I knew the end of the story and then began the fight against the sleep. Very boring, less action and unprofessional actors, expect Ewan McGregor. Better to  make an animation movie for children then this shit.

Box Office:

Domestic Total Gross: $65,187,603
Distributor: Warner Bros. (New Line)	Release Date: March 1, 2013
Genre: Adventure	Runtime: 1 hrs. 54 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13	Production Budget: $195 million

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Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

The costumed high-school hero Kick-Ass joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume. Meanwhile, the Red Mist plots an act of revenge that will affect everyone Kick-Ass knows.

Director:

Jeff Wadlow

Writers:

Jeff Wadlow (screenplay), Mark Millar (comic book)

Stars:

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Story:

Dave Lizewski has retired from fighting crime, but inspired other ordinary citizens to become super heroes. He asks Mindy to train him so he can become a proper hero. His girlfriend Katie Deauxma notices his odd behaviour and frequent absence and thinks he is cheating on her and breaks up with him. Mindy Macready is caught crimefighting by her guardian Marcus, and promises to try to live an oridinary life. Not wanting to work alone, Kick-Ass joins a team of heroes called "Justice Forever". The team, led by Colonel Stars and Stripes, includes Dave's friend Marty as Battle Guy, and Night-Bitch. Chris D'Amico, upset at his mother's apathy towards his father's death, accidentally kills her with a tanning bed. Chris uses his inheritance to become a supervillain, calling himself "The Motherfucker".
Justice Forever serves the community, at first by helping poor people and patrolling the streets, then taking on the larger task of shutting down an illegal brothel. After patrols, Night-Bitch and Kick-Ass begin a sexual relationship.
Mindy tries to lead a normal life, and Marcus arranges for her to go to a slumber party with the popular girls in her class, led by Brooke. Brooke suggests Mindy try out for the dance team at school, but when Mindy wows the audience with her audition Brooke is not pleased. Dave tries to get Mindy back to crime-fighting, prompting her to ask a boy to take her out on a date. When Mindy eventually allows the boy to take her out, it all turns out to be a cruel prank, and Brooke and her friends abandon Mindy in the forest to walk home alone. Mindy goes to Dave for sympathy and he encourages her to beat the mean girls at their own game. The next day Mindy takes on the girls, first with verbal put-downs, then using a crowd control shock baton to induce sickness. Mindy is suspended from school and Marcus is disappointed.
The Motherfucker uses his wealth to assemble a gang of supervillains, and establishes a lair, complete with shark tank. He tracks down Colonel Stars and Stripes and has his gang murder and decapitate him, publishing taunts and threats on Twitter saying that this is only the beginning. He continues his quest to destroy anything Kick-Ass loves, tracking down Night-Bitch and attempting to rape her. When the police are called to the scene, Mother Russia, a massive Russian ex-con, kills several police officers. This results in a police clamp down on all costumed villains and vigilantes, and the police arrest anyone dressed as a superhero. When the police come to Mr. Lizewski's house, he takes responsibility for being Kick-Ass.
The Motherfucker learns from Dave's friend Todd that the man arrested for being Kick-Ass is Dave's father. He has Mr. Lizewski killed in jail and sends a photograph to Dave. Dave vows to never put on the Kick-Ass costume again. The other members of Justice Forever attend the funeral in sympathy with Dave, but the funeral is ambushed by the Motherfucker's gang and Dave is kidnapped. Mindy pursues the van, killing all its occupants and rescuing Dave. Mindy convinces Dave to become Kick-Ass again and confront the Motherfucker.
They assemble their superhero friends and go to the Motherfucker's lair for a final confrontation. While Kick-Ass fights the Motherfucker, Hit-Girl struggles against Mother Russia. Fighting on the rooftop, the Motherfucker falls through a skylight, but Kick-Ass grabs his arm. The Motherfucker refuses help and falls, but lands in the shark tank. He survives the fall but is mauled by the shark. Mother Russia has nearly beaten Hit-Girl. She laughs at the syringe Hit-Girl is holding, believing it to be poison, and instead injects Hit-Girl with it. The "last resort" contains adrenaline, rejuvenating Hit-Girl so she can kill Mother Russia, stabbing her with shards of glass.
Mindy takes Dave home, and says she is leaving New York, to protect Marcus from police inquiry as she is wanted for murder. She tells him he is now the superhero that the city needs and kisses him before departing. Dave accepts the responsibility and begins training and upgrading his equipment.

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Summary:

The sequel of the Comic Movie  was a disappointed experience. A boring story, Too brutal and bloody for this kind of story. Stupid dialogs and naive scenes. The only positive aspect and reason for zwo stars are the fighting scenes even though they are brutal but with nice coreography.

 

Box Office:

Domestic Total as of Aug. 18, 2013: $13,332,955
Distributor: Universal	Release Date: August 16, 2013
Genre: Action Comedy	Runtime: 1 hrs. 53 min.
MPAA Rating: R	Production Budget: $28 million

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Elysium (2013)

Set in the year 2154, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.

Production year: 2013

Country: USA

Cert (UK): 15

Runtime: 109 mins

Directors: Neill Blomkamp

Cast: Alice Braga, Diego Luna, Jodie Foster, Matt Damon, Sharlto Copley

Story:

In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. The people of Earth are desperate to escape the planet's crime and poverty, and they critically need the state-of-the-art medical care available on Elysium - but some in Elysium will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve their citizens' luxurious lifestyle. The only man with the chance bring equality to these worlds is Max (Matt Damon), an ordinary guy in desperate need to get to Elysium. With his life hanging in the balance, he reluctantly takes on a dangerous mission - one that pits him against Elysium's Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster) and her hard-line forces - but if he succeeds, he could save not only his own life, but millions of people on Earth as well.

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Summary:

Matt Damon in a not unknown playrole and it fits to him - like last seen in the Bourne Trilogy . Partly very spactacular and far away from deadly dullness. An interesting story, with a little political statements. All in all an ordinary science fiction fairy tale.

Box Office:

Domestic Total as of Aug. 18, 2013: $55,914,000 (Estimate) Distributor: TriStar Release Date: August 9, 2013 Genre: Sci-Fi Runtime: 1 hrs. 49 min. MPAA Rating: R Production Budget: $115 million

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