Stars: Jim Caviezel Greg Kinnear Bridget Moynahan Joe Pantoliano Barry Pepper
Plot: Academy Award nominee Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine, The Matador) and Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) head an all-star casr in this riveting psychological thriller in the vein of The Usual Suspects and Memento.
Five Strangers wake up in a locked warehouse with no memory of who they are or how they got there. As secrets are revealed and clues unravelled, they must race against time to figure out who is good and who is evil in order to stay alive.
Also starring Bridget Moynahan (I, Robot), Joe Pantoliano (The Sopranos), Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan), Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under) and Peter Stormare (Prison Break).
Extras: Scene Access Deleted Scenes Closed Captioned
My Thoughts:
Another one of those films with more twists than a giant pretzel. Excellent cast and decent action even if some (most!) of the story was quite implausible. I would have liked to have seen Jeremy Sisto with a more meaningful role in this one...he just hangs there, chained with handcuffs throughout the duration of the movie. Always felt he was an underrated actor who doesn't get enough big screen time. Very much enjoyed him in Six Feet Under. Greg Kinnear was a bit over the top in this one, which I didn't mind as you don't normally see his characters so wild and out of control.
My Thoughts: I thought I would start off my Gore-Fest weekend with one I have not watched in a very long time. The first time I saw this movie I was a teenager... maybe 16 or 17... and this could have been my first taste of a truly gory movie. One thing I like about this movie is it is not just gore for the sake of gore. The gore is actually vital to the storyline. I also liked how the characters in this movie was done. I liked the characters that were supposed to be liked... and I enjoyed disliking the characters that were not meant to be liked. Over-all an enjoyable movie with good effects. Even though by today's standards the gore isn't as plentiful as some of the current movies out there (not that there wasn't enough gore)... What is there is used well.
Synopsis: No, not that one. The Flash is a spin-off series of The CW's Arrow where it started as a sort-of backdoor pilot until it got an actual pilot episode. In Arrow's second season police lab technician Barry Allen visits Oliver Queen's home town Starling City and actually meets the vigilante. Back in his own town an experiment in a nearby research facility goes horribly wrong and puts Barry into a coma. When he wakes up, his body is going into overdrive, allowing him to move and heal at incredible speeds. But the accident changed other people as well and not all of them are such decent citizens as Barry.
My Opinion: They basically re-used the idea that Smallville had when Clark's arrival on Earth did not just bring Clark but also the meteor shower that caused mutations and gave Clark enemies to fight against. But that's not such a bad thing. This way you don't need to explain where suddenly all these people with weird powers come from, so that the Flash has something to do week after week. I also enjoyed the cameo casting of John Wesley Shipp who used to be the Flash in the 1990s (also Barry Allen*). To be honest I was a bit sceptical when Barry appeared in Starling City because I thought he looked a tad bit too young. But over the course of these two Arrow episodes and the pre-released pilot episode of The Flash he already grew on me and I will be tuning in when it actually begins.
*The person carrying the moniker "The Flash" is not always the same person, just like there are different Green Lanterns. There were at least for people who used that name: Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, Wally West and Bart Allen. Smallville's version of the Flash (who went by "Impulse" in the early days) was Bart Allen.
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