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Hamburger Hill, a review by Rich

Last stop in the East...



A raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of America's bloodiest wars.
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all up hill... up Hamburger Hill.
14 war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat.

A guilty pleasure this one, I'll probably get pelters for giving this a higher mark than Seven Samurai, but this is what I believe this forum is about, the ability to express opinions and tastes that aren't dictated by tradition and hearsay.
I've seen the movie a few times before, love the gritty action and 'based on fact' plot, and consider it a half decent war film. No, it's not up there with Platoon or Apocalypse Now, but in the next quality tier down it satisfies. Rough around the edges and is now showing it's age, I'd still comfortably rate it a 6/10.

(From Around the World in 80 DVD's on March 7th, 2008)

Fracture, a review by Eric

Just finished "Fracture", wonderful, absolutely wonderul.  I was totally hooked from beginning to end. Hopkins brilliantly treats you with with a performance as good as Hannibal Lecter while avoiding the trap of giving you Lecter again.

A definite "Must have" in your collection.

(From Touti's Horror/Thriller Movie Marathon on September 3rd, 2007)

Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews, a review by Tom

VOY 6.09 The Voyager Conspiracy
Writer: Joe Menosky (Writer)
Director: Terry Windell
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Albie Selznick (Tash), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))

I completely forgot about this episode. On the page discussing "clip shows" at tvtropes someone mentioned this episode as in interesting twist on clip shows. This episode hardly has any clips from previous episodes, and the ones it got are only few seconds long. Seven malfunctions while downloading too much of Voyager's data into her brain during regeneration, and now sees conspiracies in past incidents and even gets Janeway and Chakotey riled up so much, that they almost start to distrust each other.
This is a nice little bottle episode, but the resolution to Seven's paranoia is too fast. She comes around after a short little pep talk by the captain.

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(From Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews on September 2nd, 2009)