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DVD Specs

Release Date: September 6, 2011

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1

Rating: R (violence, sexual content, nudity, brief drug use, language)

Running Time: 84 minutes

Audio: English 5.1 Dolby Digital

Subtitles: English for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Spanish

Special Features: None

The Set-up

A gang war breaks out in Boston, leaving a small-time hood (Matthew Marsden) and his friends caught in the middle.

Directed by: Rob Marcus

Screenplay by: Chris Bertolini

The Delivery

When a Boston mob boss goes missing, a power struggle breaks out among the remaining crime bosses. It sounds like a pretty generic plot, which is why Madso's War is a pretty generic movie. There is nothing you haven't seen before, and plenty that you have,all in much better mob films.

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Director: Jonathan Liebesman.

Writers: Christopher Bertolini.

There have been a couple of science fiction entries, in recent history, that involve an attacking alien force, taking Los Angeles. Skyline released in November of 2010, to tepid reviews. Now, Battle: Los Angeles comes in, not with a ho-hum but with a holy s^%^! Released in theatres March 11th, this second film takes an intimate view of a platoon of Marines, in the thick of an alien invasion. This unit is led by Staff Sergeant Michael Nantz (Aaron Eckhart) and not since James Cameron's Aliens, has a science fiction film looked at the Marines with such detail.

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