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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)

Kill Bill: Vol. 2, a review by Antares

Kill Bill Vol. II





Year: 2004
Film Studio: Miramax Films, A Band Apart
Genre: Action, Suspense/Thriller
Length: 137 Min.

Director
Quentin Tarantino

Writing
Quentin Tarantino ...Original Characters By
Uma Thurman ...Original Characters By
Quentin Tarantino...Writer

Producer
Bob Weinstein (1954)
Harvey Weinstein (1952)
Erica Steinberg
E. Bennett Walsh
Lawrence Bender (1957)

Cinematographer
Robert Richardson (1955)

Music
Robert Rodriguez...Composer
The RZA ...Composer

Stars
Vivica A. Fox as Vernita Green AKA Copperhead
Ambrosia Kelley as Nikki
Michael Parks as Earl McGraw
James Parks as Edgar McGraw
Jonathan Loughran as Trucker
Michael Bowen as Buck
Kenji Oba as Bald Guy
Yoshiyuki Morishita as Tokyo Businessman

ReviewKill Bill Volume II to Kurosawa, he has the character of Pai Mei (Chia Hui Liu), the wizened Shaolin priest, stroke his beard repeatedly, just as Kambei, the samurai leader rubbed his shaved head in Shichin no samuraiThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly or Once Upon a Time in the WestSplashAttack of the Fifty Foot Woman to himself.

       Finally we come to David Carradine as Bill. There is a genuine reason why David Carradine made all those B-movie drive in films back in the late 70's and 80's. He has been stuck in his Kwai-Chang Caine character ever since Kung FuBound for Glory or Cole Younger in The Long Riders It once again begs me to ask Tarantino fans one question, what do you find so great, so original or so moving in his films? I am at a loss as to what it could be.


Ratings Criterion

(From Kill Bill Vol. II (2004) on December 10th, 2009)

Smallville Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

EPISODE 20: FADE
Now you see him, now you don't. A hitman who has the power of invisibility decides to help Clark reunite with Lana by making Lex disappear... permanently. Plus: Is the Fine-Lex conspiracy taking shape?

My Thoughts:
This is a good episode... but again one that is nothing very special. Just another basic good episode.

EPISODE 21: ORACLE
He looks like Jonathan. But his message perplexes Clark: Would his father's ghost really send him on a murder mission? Fine obtains the vaccine he seeks. And Kryptonian symbols spell out a warning.

My Thoughts:
This one was good episode... it really set up the season finale well. It was nice to see John Schnider in an episode again.

EPISODE 22: VESSEL
Meet superpowered Lex, the host vessel of ZOD! Clark can stop Zod's vendetta...if he's willing to kill Lex. Lana stands by her man, Fine releases an electronic virus, and Clark - well, see it for yourself.

My Thoughts:
Once again a season of Smallville concludes with a really good cliffhanger episode. I am really looking forward to the season 6 release next month now!



(From Smallville Marathon on August 12th, 2007)