Good Entertainers from Start 2 Finish!!!

Listed below are films which are quite good...but not quite good enough that i felt like watching them again.These films can be watched once,some exceptions can be watched twice at the most....good entertainment value included :)
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MOVIE COUNT :: 15
Minority Report
Vacancy
Crank
Bad Boys 2
Bad Boys
The Others
Fantastic Four
Mr.Bean's Holiday
Next
Spiderman3
Ghost Rider
Chicken Little
Night At The Museum
The Transporter 2
The Transporter



MINORITY REPORT:
We are in the future and crimes are predicted before their occurence,which are prevented by the pre-crime unit led by chief officer John Anderton(Tom Cruise).The predictions are made my three pre-cogs who are the remaining victims of a drug-experiment,which has adversely affected their minds,hence the predictions.The only drawback is that the pre-cogs are able to predict pre-meditated murders pretty early but not the one's of passion,as the latter occur in the heat of the moment.The pre-cogs predict the muder of a certain Ted Crowe by Anderton himself.Anderton is shocked as he does'nt know the victim at all and here starts his run,to prove his innocence.

The inclusion of time travel,wether human body or information always leads to plot-holes in the script and it certainly is present.But due to the entertainment provided,one can forgive the plot-holes.Tom Cruise is good and his best scenes are the run from pre-crime unit and the encounter with the 'spiders' after his eye-operation.Visually the film is stunning and coming from Speilberg,one cannot anything less.Some aspects of the future are well thought out and shown excellently on screen.The screenplay lags a bit at some places but overall,the films is a good entertainer provided the plot-holes are ignored.The concept of the pre-cogs is fascinating and Anderton's run with one of the pre-cogs is immensly enjoyable(the scene at the mall)!!!!

Director Lamar Burgess(Max Von Sydow) is commendable and the other cast is quite okay.A futuristic thriller from Spielberg with his favourite star that manages to entertain as well as intrigue the human mind.

My rating: 8/10
Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/
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VACANCY:
A couple get stranded at a lonely Motel due to their car's breakdown.They find strange Snuff videos in their room and to their horror,they realise that they are going to be killed!!There are cameras all around the room.Now,the couple must use their brains to get the hell out of the motel!!!

The premise looks quite promising and i wasnt entirely disappointed with 'Vacancy'!!I was just looking for some thrills and chills and i got what i desired here.If people are looking for some serious stuff,'Vacancy' cannot be that movie in my opinion.

The film is full of cliches with scenes i already saw in dozen other Hollywood movies.And plot-holes are quite a handful here...but if one is willing to suspend logic and step over the plot-holes,'Vacancy' is a good thriller for you!!!

I am really sorry if i discouraged people waiting to watch 'Vacancy',but i cant lie right!!!'Vacancy' is an enjoyable affair if one is ready to the conditions i mentioned earlier....

My rating: 7/10
Links: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0452702/
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CRANK:
Chev Chelios(Jason Statham) is a professional assassin who has been injected with a poison that will kill him in about 15 minutes(as stated by his arch-rival and the villain)!!To stay alive,he must keep his heart-rate kicking high...starting off on this premise,the movie is one helluva ride till the end.

Using numerous ingenious(??!!) ways to keep his adrenaline level high(indirectly keeping his heart-rate high wich keeps his alive),Chelios seeks out everyone responsible for his state.And of course,we meet his girlfriend Eve(Adam Smart) with whom he was planning to spend more time after quitting the crime syndicate job.

This film is definitely not for the faint hearted or the insanely decent persons as there are sequence of gore,violence and more stuff i cant even state in this blog.On the action side,there is no single dull moment & there is no single scene where one can sit back and relax.The action is mind-blowing and action lovers will adore this film.Though the ending seems quite obivous and 'finished-once-and-for-all',there is a slight indication that some things might have been hallucinations!!!Confused?Check out the movie and you will know what am referring to.....

My rating: 7/10
Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479884/
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BAD BOYS II:
Detective Burnett and Lowrey are back in the second installment of the Bad Boys movie.This time we see more friction between the two detectives wherein,Burnett requests for a transfer to spend more time with his family and less with Lowrey.On the other other hand,Lowrey and Syd(Gabrielle Union) are in love.Before the two hip-hop detectives part their ways,their superior asks them to stop the baffling inflow of Ecstacy drug into Miami.

Will they be able to keep their personla feelings apart and bring the Cuban Druglord Hector Juan Carlos 'Johnny' Tapia(Jordi Mollà).Molla is quite good in his role as the Cuban Druglord.Coming back to the movie,the performance of both Will Smith and Martin Lawrence is good.This time,we have more adult-oriented Bad-Boys.The action is on a bigger scale and the final showdown is pretty nasty with lot of things being blown apart 'Schwarzenegger-style'.Yea babyyyy!!!!!

My rating: 7/10
Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172156/
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BAD BOYS:
Detective Marcus Burnett(Martin Lawrence) and Detective Mike Lowrey(Will Smith) are partners who are poles apart on the inside.When 100 million dollars in Heroin is stolen from the Miami Police Department,they are given 72 hours to reclaim the stolen goods.And added to the already confused situation is the protection of a witness,for which the detectives have to pretend to be each other!!!This lead to funny situations and like most other cop movies,we have guns-car chases-cool soundtracks during fights-women!!!!

Will Smith is good as always and Martin Lawrence is really very funny and without the humourous situations between the two,the movie would have been a damp squib.

A good entertainer with good action and enough humour to keep things moving at a reasonable pace...

My rating: 7/10
Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112442/
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THE OTHERS:
A spooky and chilling encounter onscreen.Grace Stewart played by Nicole Kidman is very convincing as the stubborn women that she is on screen.And for most of the part,one will be irritated at her behaviour but her stubborn nature is backed & suitably explained by the totally unexpected ending.

Set in the 1940's,Grace lives with her two young photosensitive children in a huge,old mansion in England.All the three await the return of Charles Stewart (Christopher Eccleston),Grace's husband who went off to fight the Germans in WWII. All of the house's curtains must be shut during the day and all the doors must be closed & locked to prevent any accidental light-exposure to the children because of their disease.A maid accompanied by a gardener and a teenage girl join the Stewart's as aids in the huge mansion.Soon afterwars,strange things begin to happen in the house.

The stubborn woman that Grace is,she ignores her daughters words intially.But later on,she will not have the same option again.Her closed wall of thought must accept things beyond her reasoning...and eventually all these lead to a shocking climax that will knock the air out of you!!!

A brilliant and original concept backed by a strong background music score has enough scares for everyone.I liked the movie but it was a tad slow and that biased my opinion about this film a bit.If the pace had been quickened a trifle,i would have certainly had made this entry in 'Awesome Entertainers' thread!!!

My rating: 8/10
Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230600/
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FANTASTIC FOUR:
Hey come on,this movie doesnt need any introduction at all.It is one of the famous comic creations of Marvel Comics.And exactly the same goes for my review as well....Fantastic Four is a typical 'no-brainer' super-hero movie laced with eye-popping visuals.The cool visuals is the only reason i tried this movie.I hold no grudge against FF as most superhero movies are about cool visuals and the heroes defeating the villain.This film was quite good...

When an experimental space voyage goes awry, four people are changed by cosmic rays. Reed Richards, inventor and leader of the group gains the ability to stretch his body, and takes the name, Mr. Fantastic. His girlfriend, Sue Storm, gains the ability to turn invisible and create force fields, calling herself the Invisible Woman. Her younger brother Johnny Storm gains the ability to control fire, including covering his own body with flame, becoming the Human Torch. Pilot Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong rock creature calling himself Thing.

The scenes involving 'The Torch' and 'The Thing' are quite funny...this movie is good for your eyes :) .By the way i havent checked out 'Rise of the Silver Surfer' ,i heard its got cooler visuals still.

My rating: 7/10
Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120667/
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MR.BEAN'S HOLIDAY:
When i was through with this movie,i felt more relaxed and was beaming with joy.As the 'Mr.Bean Series' on television was so funny,i decided to check out this movie of Rowan Atkinson.And i must accept i was'nt disappointed at all.

We have got humour Mr.Bean's style and it will take all your energy to control yourself from not laughing through this movie.

Mr.Bean(Rowan Atkinson) wins a paid trip to Cannes and we follow him on his 'mis-adventures' where he loses his pasport,money and has his 'mini-film' unofficially premier at the Cannes Film Festival.He is joined in his mis-adventures by Lily Atkinson(am extra on the way to Cannes to watch her first movie appearance) and Preston Nyman(the bumbling Mr.Bean causes this kid to get seperated from his father).

William Dafoe(Carson Clay) is an entusiastic Director who's film is premiering at Cannes.It is a sight to watch his movie making the entire Cannes audience fall asleep...and his later tries at taking Mr.Beans handycam clip off the screen.

This is one movie i would watch everyday and still not get bored at all...good job Rowan Atkinson, but i missed TEDDY :( Laughs guaranteed for sure!!!!

My rating: 8/10
Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453451/
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NEXT:
Cris 'Frank Cadillac' Johnson(Nicholas Cage) is a magician who can predict things two-minutes into the future.The idea sounds pretty lame to me but luckily for Johnson,this idea sounds interesting to the FBI(pun intended)...but the movie was quite ok.The FBI need Johnson to predict where a nuclear bomb is to be planted by some terrorsits.And as in most movies,he meets his love interest on the way and he is pursued by FBI Agent Callie Ferris(Julianne Moore).

The basic plot is quite good and it could have been shown more brilliantly on screen.There is a twist at the end of the film,which i feel make most audience think they just waster their money on this movie.But the twist is good enough and makes up for all the shoddy stuff that happened earlier,no comments about that.

A time-pass movie.You can check out the cool hair-do of Nicholas Cage which is halfway between crazily-dumb and artistically-lunatic!!!!

My rating: 6/10
Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435705/
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SPIDERMAN 3:
Sam Riami is this film's director.And i strongly believe,he has a great future in India as either a Bollywood Director or a Kollywood Director(Tamil Film Industry).Man this guy seems to be so inspired by Indian masala movies,i think it might be coincidence that Spidey-3 is a movie-for-all film!!!!

What i actually meant was that Spidey-3 has all thee spicy ingredients that make up most tamil and hindi films.Of course,there were no songs.Barring that fact,we have romantic scenes,friendship tributes,great fight scenes,sentimental as well as tear-jerker scenes,patirotism(restricted to the cities involved),fight against one's own evil and blah blah blah!!!!

Peter Parker(Tobey Maguire) seems to have established a balance between his personal(Mary Jane) and Social life(Spiderman).When things seem to be going fine,we have the Green Goblin(Harry Osbourne) seeking revenge for his fathers death.Uncle Ben's killer is on the loose and he is now the Sandman!!!And to add to the chaos,we have a gooyee black stuff from space that converts Parker(and Spidey) into something more darker and sinister.Edward 'Eddie' Brock is out to get revenge on Parker for getting him fired.Will Spidey and Parker manage to ward off the evil thing from outer space as well as save the town from the Sandman & escape the Green Goblin???Spiderman 3 is all about that!!!!

James Franco(Harry Osbourn/Green Goblin)appeals more to the audience compared to Parker himself,because of the different shades that Osbourn portrays.I didnt zilch from this movie expect time-pass and hence i got what i had wished for.For people expecting a zillion things from this third installement in the series,i dont know what your opinions will be!!!Spiderman fans will love this movie and so will action fans.A potboiler movie that perfectly fits the Indian scenario :) .

My rating: 7/10
Links: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0413300/
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GHOST RIDER:
Only a time-pass movie IMO.Because:::
#1 the villains are pathetic
#2 the plot of the movie is not carried out well.

The DEVIL strikes a deal with Johnny Blaze(Nicholas Cage) in his teens who loses his father in the process and when the time is right,the Devil seeks Blaze's service.Blaze is now a famous stunt racer and he is asked to capture the Devil's own son.

The animation is prety neatly done and that is the sole reason for watching this movie.Marvel Superhero movies always have cool CGI to back a weak storyline.I dont want to too much into the films plot(actually theres nothing in it actually)!!Grab your popcorn and sit back & enjoy :-)

My rating: 6/10
Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259324/
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CHICKEN LITTLE:
It is the same old 'boy-who-shouted-wolf' story, but with a twist.The wolf does come,the boy escapes unharmed and he eventually becomes a Hero.Translation:::::
>>Boy-Chicken little
>>Wolf-Aliens

Quite an interesting premise for an animated movie.Because the people in the graphics department have anexcuse to indulge in lot of animation as related with aliens and their technology.And moreover,as all the characters are fairy tale-ish animals.

Though a tad slow,it was entertaining stuff from Walt Disney Pictures.It has a good number of messages for parents of the current era and fun included for kids too.

The combination for this movie could be:::
UFO+Animated movie+Spoofs of numerous movies(for laughs) gave the makers themselves enough fun while creating the movie...a good entertainer for the entire family.Nothing more,nothing less(Of course lessons for parents included)!!!

My rating: 8/10
Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371606/
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
Larry Daley(Ben Stiller) is the newly recruited Musuem Security Guard.He has the night shift at work and he comes to know that an ancient curse makes all the exhibits come alive at night.Intially afraid and confused amongst all the chaos,Teddy Roosevelt(Robin Williams) helps Daley out be giving some valuable advice regarding the museum.Of course,all this happens after Daley loses the List of Things-To-Do given to him by the former Guards.Daley finally manages to bring peace in the museum with some innovative thinking and a study of American history!!!He brings his son in for the night to show him all the magic and thus rebuild their relationship.But the three guards return to steal the prized treasures of the museum and Daley must use all his wits and all the cooperation from the museum exhibits to restore peace and order!!!

The animation is good and Daley's sequences with the monkey are really rib-tickling.The acting is quite okay..its not a big role for Robin Williams but he has performed well in the limited screen-time that he has.A perfect kids movie and a treat for a family outing...for all the adults out there,time to relaxxxxxxxx!!!!

My rating: 7/10
Links: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0477347/
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TRANSPORTER 2:
Statham is back and this time,it is time for bigger stuff.Frank Martin(Jason Statham)or The Transporter substitutes for his friend,as a chaffeur for a Narcotics Control Policymaker's family.His boy is kidnapped and Martin is implicated for the kidnapping.

Items on the Transporter's agenda now are::
#1 Rescue the boy
#2 Find the real Kidnapper/Kidnappers
#3 Save the DrugFighting community(who are also part of the bigger plan)...Will Martin make it in time?Will he be able to prove his innocense?Well check this movie to find out....more stunts,more adrenaline,more style and loads of gun-fights.

Statham is cool as he always is....!!Kate Nauta as Lola scorches the screen with her 'almost-always-wet' body blazing away machine guns.An able foil for our Hero Martin!!

Caution:
Suspend most laws of physics as well as reality.And of course,being an action movie..one must always forget the plot-holes!!!

My rating: 7/10
Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388482/
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TRANSPORTER:
A Very stylish movie with some extremely cool acting by Jason Statham.The action is adrenaline-rushing and the pace of the movie ensures that no one falls asleep in between.

Jason Statham is a Frank Martin a.k.a 'The Transporter' who is a self-employed 'delivery boy'.He delivers any package with no questions asked.He has set himself some rules and when he breaks them,he is in for the ride of his life.He has save himself as well as the package he peeked into to go back to his normal life.Jean Reno is very good as the inspector who later joins hands with Statham to help the latter out

The CGI and stunts are really neat in this movie!!And i must admit that some tamil movies have really copied these stunts and i realise them now.The stunts looked cool in those tamil movies,but after watching the professional stuff in Transporter i was awed.Check out the movie if you are either a Statham Fan or a die-hard action fan.

My rating: 8/10
Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293662/
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