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Perrier's Bounty, a review by Silence_of_Lamb

Summary:
Michael (Cillian Murphy) is having a bad day. He owes money to Perrier (Brendan Gleeson), a local thug. When two enforcers demand payment by nightfall, Michael does a burglary with two others but won't be paid till morning. All he has to do is stay away from the thugs until he can get the money then give it to Perrier. But the lads catch Michael and start to deliver a beating, but Brenda (Jodie Whittaker), Michael's suicidal neighbor, shoots one. Now they must run for their lives, accompanied by Jim (Jim Broadbent), Michael's estranged father who claims to be dying and has come to reconcile with his son. Will any of the trio see the sun rise? And can Michael become enlightened, become a better man?

My Thoughts:
I bought this movie because the trailer looked very promising.
And that's exactly what this flick is: Promising. Sadly it's not willing to keep it's promises.

The movie is a mix of three genre-classics ("Lucky # Slevin", "In China They Eat Dogs" and "The Boondock Saints"), it's taking parts of these three and tries to create something new out of it. While this "Sampling" might work in music, it definitely is no good idea for movies. You find too much plagiarism to make it a hommage.
On the positive side this flick creates several good laughs (intended!) and is sufficiently thrilling to keep you entertained for the roughly 90 minutes it takes to bring this movie to it's foreseeable ending.

Nothing special, but entertaining.

My Rating: (out of possible 5)

(From Michael's random reviews on April 1st, 2011)

Young Sherlock Holmes, a review by addicted2dvd

Young Sherlock Holmes (1985/United States) Paramount Pictures (United States) Director: Barry Levinson (1942) Writing: Chris Columbus (Writer), Arthur Conan Doyle [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle] (Original Characters By) Length: 109 min. Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: Subtitles:

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Stars:
Nicholas Rowe as Sherlock Holmes
Alan Cox as John Watson
Sophie Ward as Elizabeth
Anthony Higgins as Rathe
Susan Fleetwood as Mrs. Dribb

Plot:


Extras:

• Digital Copy

I always enjoyed the Shelock Holmes films that I have seen in the past. Happy to say I ejoyed this one too. I saw it on Vudu and hope to add it to my physical collection before to long. I thought the cast did a fine job and it was fun to see Holmes and Watson in their younger days. Recommended.


(From Young Sherlock Holmes on July 31st, 2023)

Farscape Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: Moya and what remains of her crew can't return to the asteroid field as long as the Command Carrier is there. But she wants to go back to her son who is still hiding there and is now under the command of Crais. Fortunately Aeryn has found D'Argo and John floating in space and has brought them to an asteroid that has an atmosphere. There they're biding their time in the hope that they will somehow get out of there.

My Opinion: Until short before the end of the episode it remained unclear where Crais's loyalties really lie and whether Aeryn's loyalties may have shifted (it's a new season after all). I also liked how John taught D'Argo rock-paper-scissors and how the latter insisted that rock should defeat paper. But at the end if the episode everything returned to the way it was before the Gammak story. Ok, not everything, Crais and Talyn will go their own way but they will cross paths with Moya and their crew again, but not for a while.

Synopsis: D'Argo has the great honour to meet an Orican - a holy woman of the Luxans. She's the only one of their race there and she will die soon. After Ka D'Argo has proven his strength he's allowed to participate in the Ritual of Passing. But when she senses how powerful he is she changes it to the Ritual of Renewal and is suddenly young and strong again. But something must have gone wrong because Moya's systems begin to break down and Pilot is dying.

My Opinion: A rather uninteresting story. And it didn't happen much either.

Synopsis: Chiana was just informed that her brother has died but no one takes the time to comfort her. In her grief she leaves the ship and flies to a planet. John and Aeryn follow her but when they find her she seems to be a different person. And there seem to be no elders there, nobody older that 22. As it turns out everyone participates in a ritual of "taking the stone" where one jumps down an abyss and is caught by a sonic net enabled by one's own voice. But that's a trickery business and if one fails, one is dead. And Chiana is planning to make that jump herself.

My Opinion: I really like it how John tries to keep the crew together and how he tries to care for each and every one of them - this time for "Pip". That's of course because he's the main character, but I still really like it. Everyone contributes their strength and his strength is to keep them together even if that means that he has to eat weird drug mushrooms.
But sometimes I wonder where the Australians find so many strange people to let them be seen on Mad Max or Farscape.

(From Farscape Marathon on March 29th, 2009)