Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 87: Looper 2012 (3 STARS)

In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent 30 years into the past, where a hired gun awaits. Someone like Joe, who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by transporting back Joe's future self.

This is a good time travel movie featuring a young assassin/Looper (Levitt who had his appearance altered to look more like a young Willis, freaked me out for a while until I realised) and his older self (Willis, still doing quality work) and their paths cross when the Looper tries to kill his older self but his older self is having none of it and has come back in time to stop a future killer by killing the killer's younger self.

It's a story of the future and past clashing and knowing what's going to happen but still not being able to stop it and the end can only go one way, it's a movie that has you thinking a lot about what will happen, who the target is and what both Loopers will do to change or keep the future the same, good performances from everyone including Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels but the kid Cid (Pierce Gagnon) was a great find and has a great future in the industry.

Good story, good performances, good action (not a lot of it but that was fine with me for once), well worth a watch!

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 75: Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol (3 STARS).

Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol and fourth in the series.......

The IMF is shut down after being implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin and Ethan Hunt and his new team go rogue to clear his organisations name and save the world from nuclear war.

For the most part I like Tom Cruise and his movies, this is no exception as it ticks all the boxes for action and humour, there's a new team (Simon Pegg is now a field agent) and Jeremy Renner (not bad) and Paula Patton (ok) are new but Simon provides the humour with the banter between him and Cruise. They are after a madman who wants to start a war between Russia and America and it does go down to the wire.

The opening sequence is very clever and well done (always liked Dean Martins "Ain't that a kick in the head") and that's what the movie is, it's a stunning set of action sequences switching from different parts of the globe where they end up with impossible situations (i know that's what they do but....) that are more demanding than the last with assassin's, Russian's, dodgy equipment and bad guys fecking it up even more and there's the little hiccup....

......the movie is a little over the top with some of the action set pieces and I found it just a bit too long but worth anybody's Saturday night with a big bag of popcorn!

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 74: Avengers Assemble 2012 (4 STARS).

Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, The Hulk, Captain America, Hawkeye etc (The Avengers)........what could go wrong.......nothing apparently!

Saw this last night and while I was not expecting much I was very pleasantly surprised as this is a romp of a movie with great action, effects and laugh out loud humour!

Don't know much about the Avengers as I never read them, I'm more your Batman, Punisher and Wolverine type of hero (no powers or very little) and little team work (I know the X-men but what can you do!).

I don't want to give away much but Loki is back and he's got an army, the Avengers exist but only as a plan and on their own essentially and the superpowers element are not good playing with others at all (funny), there's a lot of tension and anger issues before we see cohesion and harmony.

Loki tears most of the team apart with his sneaky shenanigans and plans, The Hulk (best thing in the movie as the Hulk and Dr.Banner), Iron Man (second best thing) is his usual arrogant self, Thor does the shouting and the hammer work, Captain America is at first out of sorts but gels the team together, Black Widow has her work cut out and Hawkeye really grew on me, a lot of other faces from the other movies as well make appearances.

The action is brilliant, you really can't see the CGI if that makes sense, the humour is brilliant with the Hulk causing the most with his attitude to his own team not just the enemy, the ending is good and all in all a damn good watch!

Captain America says to the Hulk at one stage to get angry and the Hulk responds by saying that's his secret.........he's always ANGRY!!!!! 

I also saw the movie in 2D deliberately!

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 69: The Three Musketeers 2011 (3 STARS).

Doesn't follow the book or the other movies that exactly but all the players are there and the tale has been given a fresh but slightly over the top new look....

I like a bit of a historical romp and this is another version along with it's predecessors of the characters from the classic book, this version is a little over the top with slow motion effects, airships (Leonardo Da Vinci blueprints (a botched mission to steal these at the beginning disbands the Musketeers) , damn good cast, implausible script and good action set pieces (a lot of CGI) but not enough of them...

D'Artagnan heads to Paris at the beginning to join the now disbanded Musketeers, he offends the three musketeers and duels are set, they fight the cardinals guards (good scene), get reinstated including D'Artagnan, try to stop a plot by Richelieu (Christopher Waltz) to take the throne, Milady (Milla Jovovich) is still double crossing everybody, Rochefort (Mads Mikklesen) is less a buffoon in this one, the French king and Queen are trying to fall in love with each other, Constance is the love interest, Planchet (David Corden) is back and still a slight buffoon, Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) is a scene stealing git and airships battling in the skies and I mean airships and of course the three musketeers themselves (Matthew Macfayden, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans ....

...is it better than 1993 and 1973 versions, no just different!

People have been hard on this movie but Netflix it if you can and it's popcorn of the highest order, nothing else!

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 68: Jackass 3 (4 STARS).

Now your telling yourself 4 STARS for these lunatics who have never grown up, you're right but neither have I and especially if you liked their shenanigans before and to me this was the best of the 3 movies......

Myself and my mate Vinnie watched this down the man cave and I must admit that I came close to peeing myself with laughter and he came close to throwing up in the garden from laughter but mostly due to his aversion to other peoples faeces (I know..strange right!).

It's full of juvenile stunts involving blunt force trauma, faeces, urine, dogs, bulls, faeces, boxing gloves, hitting people in the nuts and a portable loo on a bungee cord full of faeces etc....., there are scenes where you literally go "don't do that", a lot of pausing due to Vinnie heaving in the garden and having to clean himself up and a little sadness due to Ryan Dunn who you know is now dead but still making you laugh...

I know it's not everybody's cup of tea but it brightened my day up for a while.....and a short 56 second clip of a little safe to watch Jackass madness.

R.I.P 

Cavalier 2012 Show and Generation Kill Book.

The Rejects will be at Cavalier 2012 this Sunday and hope to see some fellow gamers and bloggers there, it's the first show we attend every year and it's a small but good show and we will do a few pictures and words next week!

Just finished this book (it only came out in 2004!) and it's a fantastic read of the authors time (rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright) with the US marines First Recon Battalion during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the insight into this elite unit within the marines (the details of their training is amazing), although the marine commander Major General James Mattis called them "cocky, obnoxious bastards".

What you get is a tale from Evan who was mistrusted at the beginning to say the least but gained their respect by riding in the lead humvee and sometimes reluctantly carrying a weapon, it's a tale of aggression, misuse of this unit, poorly supplied, sometimes poorly led but always ready for whatever came their way and looking out for each other but it's also a tale of sadness, no real overall plan, comradeship, lucky escapes, the death of civilians.......

The marines themselves are brutally honest in their opinions (some of them got into trouble later) and as aggressive as their Devil Dogs nickname (supposedly earned in 1918 from the Germans they fought at Bellau Wood during WW1 were they were called hounds from hell in German dispatches), they used to ambush each other at night whilst waiting to be deployed and nick each other with their combat knives on each others ribs.....

A great read and now to find the TV series.....

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 67: The Woman in Black 2012 (3 STARS).

Had to take a day off from blogging and work yesterday due to life and shenanigans.......

A grief stricken young lawyer (Radcliffe) with little choice heads to a remote village in the early part of the 20th century to sort out a deceased woman's estate to discover it's been terrorised by a vengeful ghost of a betrayed mother..........

Saw this Tuesday night for two reasons only because I was asked to and they were paying, this is not my sort of movie for cinema viewing but there was nothing else playing that we hadn't seen and would agree on.

This is a creepy movie and I heard that it was supposed to be quite scary with people screaming out loud in the cinemas and the opening scene is quite brilliantly done and sets the tone for the rest of the movie. A young lawyer who hasn't come to terms with the death of his young wife is given no choice but to head to the bleakest part of England to sort out the wills and sale of a house, the village is grim, the location is grim, the weather is grim and even the locals are grim.

Children have been dying in this village for years and mostly by their own hands and during his investigation of the house (incredible house and great grim location) we are thrust into a tale of betrayal, vengeance and the woman in black who Radcliffe sees and the story is set and running as he investigates the story behind the deaths.....

This is classic creepy and suspenseful stuff, close ups, chilling score, lighting, some genuinely good scares and shocks (there were some good screams from the female part of the audience but not the men obviously), it's got a short running time, worth a watch and the ending is grim but good enough once you think about it....

....did I say it was grim?  

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 66: Sherlock Holmes 2 (3 STARS)

Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson join forces to bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty.

I loved the first movie, 4 STARS of anybody's time but for some reason this isn't even though it's a romp at times, we know nearly all the characters apart from Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry), Sebastian Moran who is Moriarty's evil henchman (Paul Anderson) and Moriarty himself (Jared Harris, I only knew him as Dr.Ashford from Resident Evil: Apocalypse) but he's bloody well cast as the evil Professor.....

The story revolves around Moriarty's attempt to start World War 1 a lot earlier than it officially did and it's a damn good attempt, the story is fast paced (the set piece in the forest in Germany is particularly well done) but things don't get going until quite a bit into the movie, good action, good humour but the new lead actress is distracting (Noomi Rapace) but not in a good way but Holmes and Watson perform brilliantly together and it's a good ending but at times a little far fetched. Hoping for more though......

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 65: Underworld 4 (3 STARS).

I saw Underworld: Awakening  in 3D (my first 3D movie experience), the glasses were a bit of a pain but I think only as I wear glasses as well and I believe that only parts of the movie were in 3D, some scenes especially explosions were quite good but after a while the effect was less appealing, I would quite happily watch this in 2D and not really bothered about seeing another 3D movie .........

This movie is set 12 years after the last movie (Evolution), the humans declared war on both the Lycans and Vampires and now both races are pale shadows of their former selves and both are on the verge of extinction but sinister plans are under way, Selena and her hybrid daughter with Michael (the original actor is not in the movie and the character has a very brief appearance, this is quite a loss to the movie?). There is a brief flashback at the beginning to clarify previous events!

Anyway herself and her young daughter who she was unaware of escape from their prison/lab facility with assistance and are pursued by mangy lycans, humans, vampires, not so mangy lycans and Stephen Rea having a great time as a bad guy (technically), the movie is rated 18 and it shows with a lot more gore and blood, it's only 88 mins long but it rarely lets up with the action (good and bad), the budget was more than the last movie but doesn't show but Selena (Kate) is still as great as ever and as the last death dealer goes through the opposition like a dose of ducolax. The story is based around a Lycan plot to re-emerge back into the world but in an improved way.......

It's over the top, a little ridiculous but well worth the watch for Selene still at her best and kicking ass in her still well fitting costume.....

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 64: Haywire 2011 (3 STARS)

Beautiful freelance covert operative Mallory Kane is hired out by her handler to various global entities to perform jobs which governments can't authorize and heads of state would rather not know about. After a mission to rescue a hostage in Barcelona, Mallory is quickly dispatched on another mission to Dublin. When the operation goes awry and Mallory finds she has been double crossed, she needs to use all of her skills, tricks and abilities to escape an international manhunt, make it back to the United States, protect her family, and exact revenge on those that have betrayed her.

Gina Carano.

This is an action movie which starts half way through and goes back and then continues on, the lead actress (Gina Carano, former MMA and was ranked third in the world in her weight category at one stage, was the Gladiator "Crush" on American Gladiators and currently trying acting in this Stephen Soderbergh movie), the movie is a little slow at times but is made up for by the fight scenes which while not Bourne quick are good all the same and she prefers the close combat way out most times, it's a double cross movie with a some revenge thrown in, she's been given a good cast around her with Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender etc......

Gina doesn't do too bad with the role and I hope she's given more in the future, the locations are good especially Dublin as she was running by places I did bouncer on the door and places where I was a chef (memories), the action when it came was good, the story was a little weak but it's well worth a watch especially if you like Gina (she's very beautiful).......

The one word ending made me smile.........

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 63: The Guard 2011 (4 STARS).

...it's gets 5 STARS if you're Irish because there's some things you understand better......

Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.

Brendan Gleeson plays Gerry Boyle, a garda sergeant in a small village in Connemara outside Galway who to put it mildly is a bit of a git but a funny git, this movie made me laugh quite a lot because maybe I understood it by better by being Irish but it's over the top with it's storyline but maybe nothing else, a very enjoyable movie and with a good ending.

There are good performances from Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham and Don Cheadle and from the the Irish cast but Brendan who taught at my secondary school before acting got him is brilliant and on top form.

Like Gerry says "Like the fat man said, if you have to be careful not to drink too much, it's because you're not to be trusted when you do". 

The guard in the title refers to the national police force of the Republic of Ireland who are called Garda Siochana which literally means "Guardians of the Peace".

Playing Favourites or Favorites.........put the bloody kettle on!

This has been going around the wargaming blogs, it shows what gets fellow bloggers ticking and not just about wargaming and our hobby.........

Wargames Period :- The Sengoku Samurai period is my favourite and I have a reasonably large collection of figures, scenery and books and followed closely by WW2 in several scales and several times....

Scale :-  For me it has always been 25/28mm but finances can dictate the hobby now but the injection of quality 28mm plastic figures has helped a lot......

Rules :-  I hate rules especially complicated rules unlike some of the rule addicts I've come across through gaming and blogging but my favourite are Games Workshop's Lord of the Rings rule set. I got into these when the young fellow started collecting the figures and I helped him out by painting the good guys (Saruman and the Urak-Hai) so he had an opponent and loved the easiness of the rules and I have used them for dark age skirmish, pirates, samurai and possibly modern......

Board Game :- Don't get to play boardgames any more but my favourite to this day is Shogun but I do get in the odd game of chess.....

Figure Manufacturer :- I used to be an awful Wargames Foundry whore in the day but they went to hell in a hand basket but I had figures from every range they did at one time or another, I used to decide a range to paint by what they made at one stage...... my favourites now are Perry Miniatures, Peter Pig and CP Models (I buy quality rather than the cheapest and most suitable, I will avoid periods if there are no good figures for the period).

Opponent :- Who else could it be at this time but the lunatic Ray over at his blog (I start a blog and he copies me, most of my ideas have ended up on his blog because you can't tell him anything but he's a good lad and got me into the Rejects all those years ago.... I feel nauseous for some reason). We compete in some way over anything and I mean anything.......

Books :- I read a lot of books (one year at a security gatehouse I went through several hundred, there was a library right next to site and things were quiet.....)

Tom Clancy: Anything with Jack Ryan and Red Storm Rising.......

David Gemmell: Anything the man wrote really but Druss will always be my favourite.....

Antony Beevor: Brilliant and interesing military author...

James Clavell: Shogun and his others are good also.....

Jack Higgins: Quality easy fiction with a lot of Irish shenanigans going on at times....

Robert Jordan: The wheel of time series but it's dragging on a bit....

Terry Pratchett: Anything from Discworld.....the man's a genius!

There are lots more but the quality of a book to me is the ability for it to make me want to read it again....

Movies/TV :- Now I love a good movie or TV show so I'll keep this short if I can...

Band of Brothers: The best and most watched....

Kingdom of Heaven : The directors cut version only....

Lucky Number Slevin: A movie about revenge....

Dead Man's Shoes: A movie about revenge.....

I love old movies like Freebie and the Bean, The Wind and the Lion or popcorn like Taken, Rambo, The Expendables or foreign masterpieces like The Killer, Yojimbo, Ran, Seven Samurai, A Better Tomorrow, anything with Laurel and Hardy, of course a bit of zombie with Dawn of the Dead (original) , Zombieland and 28 days later,  diversity is the name of the game......

 Art :- I love a lot of military prints especially anything by Angus McBride but once while wandering  round an art gallery in Ireland (I was dating...ok) I found a painting by an Irish artist Francis Danby called the Opening of the Sixth Seal, I have a copy at home hanging on a wall but the original is huge and needs to be seen up close.......

PS3 :- I am a PS3 whore and love FPS shooters but I am currently banned from using a mike by SWMBO and the neighbours 3 or 6 doors down usually know when I'm playing as I have been known to let my feelings be known......currently wandering around MW3 causing mayhem!

This is me.......

Miscellaneous :- I love A-10 Warthogs, Pamela Anderson, Tiger tanks, Apache helicopters, the charge of the Scots greys in the movie Waterloo, the helicopter scene from Apocalypse Now, SWMBO, good cleavage (women only), sad music, loud music, burgers, Johnny Cash, Ireland, good chips (fries to the US readers), drums and percussion, coca cola (no substitutes or diet), american football (Chicago Bears fan since 1985), decent porn, truth and the smell of napalm in the morning.......

Rant :- I hate liars and hypocrites, the way some figure manufacturers treat us the customer like we're dopey fuckers with the quality of product they send out and expect us to bodge it together and expect holes and excessive flash to be a worth challenge (it's not,it's like McDonalds with their pictures of the burger as in not what you end up with and wonder what the fuck happened), politicians (if you say you want to be one you should be culled), most lawyers, bankers, stock traders.........

....there's a lot more but I'll leave it at that!

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 62: Fast Five 2011 (3 STARS)

or Fast and the Furious 5.

You will like this if you liked most of the others, you will like this if you like "The Rock" Dwayne Johnson ( he has bulked up to the size of a brick shit house), car chases, explosions, gun fights, beautiful cars, ridiculous story line, beautiful women, bikinis, overacting, incredible stunts, humour, defying the laws of physics and torque, etc......

It's a good movie, pure popcorn but made me smile and not in a bad way and make sure you watch through the bloody credits for an old face from before......

And I'm out of here (Anne has been bullying motivating me to paint more!)......

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 61: Immortals 2011 (3 STARS)

Wasn't expecting a lot from this but it wasn't too bad with Theseus (Henry Cavill) a stonemason who witnesses his mothers death at the hands of Hyperions forces, has been chosen by Zeus to fight against the ruthless King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke, plays it well with lots of scenery chewing but I like him) who is searching for the long lost Epirus bow that can free the Titans who were imprisoned in a mountain by the Gods (seen at the beginning).

This movie has Greek mythology all over it with Oracles, a Minotaur (a different twist on that legend), Titans, Gods (Poseidon, Athena......), the bad guys are great (cruel) especially the lackeys, good action when it comes, traitors and some good effects and some over the fecking top effects but all in all worth a watch.

It's a different take on Greek mythology as I discovered when I referenced some of the main characters in this film but that's movies and directors for you.....

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 60: Cowboys and Aliens 2011 (3 STARS)

A man wakes up in the desert in Arizona in 1873 with no memory and a strange device on his wrist and wanders into the town of Absolution during the start of an alien scouting mission to colonize Earth.

Finally got to see this even after most reviews were not that positive about it, I never read the graphic novels that it's based on either but it's a western with a good cast and Aliens in it (it can't be bad...right!).

I'm not a great fan of Daniel Craig (except for Bond) and Harrison Ford will only ever be Indiana or Han but they work well as people who are not that nice but band together to save the people who have been abducted and stop the aliens from  leaving the planet before they bring back more friends.

The action is quite good, the CGI is good, the aliens are not bad and have a serious Midas addiction, there are a host of supporting actors who you will know, cute kid and dog (some things we have to bear) and did I say indians?

Worth a watch as I said but could have been much more but cowboys and indians fighting aliens with bullets, spears and dynamite in the desert is not something I had seen before or likely to again.

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 59: Conan the Barbarian 2011 (3 STARS)

...and a short review as someone at work has gone sick and I'm being forced to actually work!

Ok, it's not the original and has very little to do with it but it's an enjoyable romp with our new Conan (Jason Momoa from Stargate Atlantis and Game of Thrones) playing the Cimmerian with a penchant for aggression and hacking limbs off and his quest to revenge himself on Khalar Sym (Stephen Lang) for the death of his father and destruction of his village. Khalar wants to resurrect his dead wife with the help of his sorceress daughter, he needs to find the pieces of a mask and the blood of true blood who falls into Conan's hands.

The action is plentiful, good set pieces with a lot of fighting on the screen, great and bizarre costumes, weird bad guys and weirder dialogue but he's no Arnold but it's not that much of a problem, it's a popcorn movie that won't have you bothered about a sequel.

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 58: Killer Elite 2011 (3 STARS)

When his friend is kidnapped, a retired assassin/hitman is forced back into action. His job to kill 3 members of the S.A.S for their part in a mission many years ago in Oman.

The movie is based on a supposedly true story and book written in 1991 by Sir Ranulph Fiennes called "The Feather Men" whose character appears in the movie and who also was seconded to the S.A.S and served in Oman (The Dhofar Rebellion 1962-75) about which the book is mostly about and the reason for the contracts.

Set in 1980, Danny (Jason Statham) is a mercenary who has retired due to a mission which we see going wrong for him, his friend Hunter (Robert de Niro) is kidnapped by a Sheik who believes the S.A.s murdered 3 of his sons in the fighting in Oman years before, he forces Danny to take out these 3 men and make it look like an accident so as not to raise suspicion.

Along with 2 mercenary friends Davies (Dominic Purcell, brilliant in the role and great sideburns) and Mieir (Aden Young) they set out to do so but a society called the Feather Men (ex S.A.S members who protect and look after ex-S.A.S members) learn of the plot and set their man Spike (Clive Owen) plus others to find out and protect the targets.

I won't go into much more other than to say this is a good movie with a lot of action, moustaches, gore, sideburns and car chases. There is conspiracy and dodgy dealings all over it but it's not bad and Yvonne Strahovski (Sarah from Chuck the TV series) is in it.

Ranulph Fiennes has always been very vague about the book and story and was even confronted by a daughter of a character killed in the movie to which he admitted the story was fiction?

Definitely worth a watch and they should make a movie about Ranulph Fiennes (turned down by Cubby Brocolli for the part of James Bond for having hands that were too big and a face like a farmer!).

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 57: Drive 2011 (3 STARS)

A Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that his life is in danger when a heist goes wrong.

"I drive for you, you get your money. That's a guarantee. Tell me where we start, where we're going and where we're going afterwards, I give you five minutes when we get there. Anything happens in that 5 minutes and I'm yours, no matter what. Anything a minute either side of that and you're on your own. I don't sit in while you're running it down. I don't carry a gun. I drive."

What to say about this movie, I didn't know what to expect and even now I don't know what I really feel about this movie. Nearly the first half is a slow stroll through neon lights, moody looks, his (Ryan Gosling) day and night job but done with real detail on lighting, scenery and affection with a next door neighbour and her kid (nicely done but out of character?).

The second half is another movie with his employer (Bryan Cranston, good and sleazy) at a garage who dreams of a race team with our hero getting involved with the wrong people again you'll understand when you see him (Albert Brooks who is brilliant and Ron Perlman who for once is lost in his role), our hero agrees to help his neighbours husband who is just out of prison and owes the wrong people money so right out of character he gets involved in a heist which is already been screwed up by others (his employers old friends) and then the second half of the movie is a violent road crash that heads to an ending which nobody wants but you know is coming.

It's still a watchable movie, very well shot, the action (the movie was mentioned for the violence being very graphic and it is but that's what really happens to the human body) what there is good (Albert Brooks and his love of blades is shocking and disturbing especially in one scene) and for once because the pace is quite slow at times the music and lyrics made sense and were well chosen and that worried me.

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 56: The Dead 2010 (3 STARS)

When the last evacuation flight out of war torn Africa crashes just off the coast, an American air force engineer Lieutenant Brian Murphy (Rob Freeman) is left to survive in a land where the dead are returning to life and attacking and eating the living.

This movie is like a video game at the start where you start off with very little including information and must find food, water, shelter, supplies etc......, this is where it's strongest in the case of what any of us could do in the same situation, the landscape and environment are beautiful but ultimately deadly, the zombies are everywhere (the nice slow types) and are relentless, you don't don't know where you are and there is literally nothing out there but wide open terrain and the odd village but always zombies.

Our lieutenant meets up with a soldier who is searching for his son after his village erupts in violence and zombies and they journey together initially reluctantly and head towards where the soldier believes his son has been taken by locals, the journey is the story but the environment is the killer here (you actually feel hot just watching the movie), the effects and gore are quite well done, the movie is grim, could have been better but I believe it's a zombie movie you need to see but will leave you feeling cold unlike the location.

The main character is quite likeable and acts exactly like anybody probably would and if you're wondering where you saw him before he played the old Ryan in Saving Private Ryan.

Would I watch it again like some other zombies movies I would have to say no but I'm glad I saw it though. Grim. 

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 55: Captain America 2011 (3 STARS)

It is 1942, America has entered World War II, and sickly but determined Steve Rogers is frustrated at being rejected yet again for military service. Everything changes when Dr. Erksine recruits him for the secret Project Rebirth. Proving his extraordinary courage, wits and conscience, Rogers undergoes the experiment and his weak body is suddenly enhanced into the maximum human potential. When Dr. Erksine is then immediately assassinated by an agent of Nazi Germany's head of its secret HYDRA research department, Johann Schmidt aka the Red Skull, Rogers is left as a unique man who is initially misused as a propaganda mascot. However, when his comrades need him, Rogers goes on a successful adventure that truly makes him Captain America and his war against Schmidt begins.

This appealed to me only through it's WW2 element and it's option for gaming and a bit of What If? thrown in but the lead actor (Chris Evans) is not bad as the Captain and plays the role well and Hugo Weaving plays the Red Skull with complete enthusiasm. There are legions of German Hydra troops, Hydra equipment (lovely stuff and cool uniforms) and eye candy, humour and plots to take over the world. The action is good, some cringing crap when he's a mascot for war bonds but the love interest Hayley Atwell is very good and quite beautiful, Tommy Lee Jones is a bit miscast but still likeable because he's who he is, it slows in a few places but overall worth a watch especially for the WW2 element to the movie and The Avengers element especially at the end.

...but you know me I was rooting for the bad guy at times.