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The Saint, a review by DJ Doena

Val Kilmer    ...    Simon Templar
Elisabeth Shue   ...    Dr. Emma Russell
Rade Serbedzija   ...    Ivan Tretiak
Valeri Nikolayev   ...    Ilya Tretiak
Henry Goodman   ...    Dr. Lev Botvin

Synopsis: He is a man who has no name. And if he has then it's one of a catholic saint, like Thomas Moore. But he is a thief and a good one at that. If it can be stolen and someone pays for it, he can steal it. But his life changes drastically when he steals the chemical formula to create cold fusion - a clean and basically unexhaustable power source. Now he's not also on the run from Scotland Yard but also a russian oil magnat who wants to putsch against the russian president and he's fallen in love with the scientist who discovered the formula.

My Opinion: This is also a movie one can't take too seriously. Even the whole cold fusion affair aside it has quite a number of ridiculous moments. For example: He's already at the 20th or so floor when he climbs out of a window, and uses his extendable aluminium ladder to climb vertically upwards - with no hold whatsoever. But since I've never watched the original Simon Templar series I still enjoyed this movie because I knew what to expect.

(From DJ Doena's movie watchings 2009 on January 4th, 2009)

Night of the Living Dead (1968), a review by addicted2dvd

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The plot (nuclear radiation awakens the dead) sounds silly, but more than one generation has had nightmares after seeing this landmark tale of flesh-craving corpses. While an endless army of rotting zombies prey on the living, a group of survivors desparately try to hold them off during one horrifying night. But no matter what they do, the dead just won't stay dead...

My Thoughts:
This is from a 3 movie DVD I have called Great Scary Movies it includes this one... House on Haunted Hill and The Terror. A true horror classic. One that I enjoy very much. But... and I may get flamed for this... but I for one prefer the remake to the original. Not because this one is a bad movie... I really do enjoy it a lot... but I just can not stand Barbara's character in this version! What a scared whining.... good for nothing character. I am so glad they fixed this only problem with the original... and made her a strong woman willing to fight for her life in the remake. I know this is a difference of when the films were made... but I always liked a strong female character in movies.

(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Oldies but Goodies on March 29th, 2008)

"Due South" marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

Witness

A decent... but standard episode. It was like itwas just there. Felt like nothing more then filler to me.

My Rating:

(From "Due South" marathon on August 12th, 2009)