Cast: Charlie Sheen, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Madsen, Courtney B. Vance, Rip Torn
Disponibilità: DVD
Trama:
L’agente Saxon è un poliziotto dai metodi violenti e sbrigativi. È il tipo giusto per infiltrarsi tra i “Nomads”, una banda di teppisti-delinquenti che, forti del loro numero, spadroneggiano con le loro moto e controllano all trafficking in the area. Saxon is easy to become one of them has successfully established itself within the group for his quarrelsome and unbiased attitude. Then when the time comes to settle accounts Saxon will be harder and brutal opponents.
Comment:
Often the names of the most famous motorcycle club are linked with the illicit trafficking of weapons and drugs on the wastelands of the American desert, probably to the fact that given their number and their mobility, the hordes of motorcyclists become the perfect means to transport illegal goods from one state to another. And just one event of the news that Larry Ferguson was inspired to create the infiltration of small invoice biker movie, which tells the true story of Dan Saxon (born Dan Black), narcotics agent introduced in one of the most dangerous gangs Texas: the Jackals.
After starting a bit 'slow, had a duty to the presentation of the controversial character played by Charlie Sheen, the film takes off by the delight of fans of bikers in leather and studs and recording some typical moments of these fascinating club. The screenplay follows the most typical of the kind that will see the tea towels undercover agent have some personality problems, non riuscendo più a distinguere il bene dal male diverrà un tuttuno con la gang nella quale troverà la famiglia che non ha mai avuto, salvo poi risollevarsi per la risoluzione finale che lo porterà a scontrarsi con i suoi nuovi fratelli.
Oltre a Charlie Sheen, psicopatico all’occasione e ottimo nella sua parte, nel cast figura anche mister panzetta alcolica Michael Madsen che interpreta il capo dei Jackals. Consigliato a tutti gli appassionati del filone, un film che sicuramente non deluderà e che porta alla luce una realtà poco conosciuta dalle nostre parti.
Bologna, già tormentata dalla piaga del racket della droga, da un po’ di tempo è scossa per una nuova piaga criminale: alcuni negozi vengono fatti saltare con la dinamite. L’opinione pubblica reagisce allarmata e i negozianti ondeggiano tra il terrore e la voglia di organizzare in proprio una difesa contro il noto ma imprendibile Valli e la sua banda.
Commento:
Domenico Paolella approda al genere poliziottesco, dopo anni passati a dirigere peplum ed avventurosi, in un periodo non certo ridente della sua carriera. Dopo diversi anni senza work was hired by CAP for what in some ways looks like a remake of the apocryphal "Those of the Caliber 38". Although these products were used mainly to ride the commercial success of the loaf, Paolella, author and very little film on command, to customize their own way in the event this project providing ideologically and formally at least a basic social criticism that is well association with the unflinching script Bags made from.
Paolella focuses on the social unrest of the period, and nurtured by the people sull'amarezza increasingly suspicious and discouraged against the police. The Bologna filmed in "The Police and lost "is a neurotic city and conspiracy, where the quiet life is easily broken by thieves and thugs looking for easy money. These are the years of Marseille, the first big drug racket and the processing of innocuous and simplistic thief from a killer armed and dangerous. This new symbol of the underworld is masterfully embodied by the figure of Valli, unscrupulous extortionist who sow panic and terror among the people.
established the climate of fear to the police there is little time to find the villain and his gang. For the occasion is established a task force engine, the "special brigade", led by the energy commissioner Griffins, played in excellent way by Marcel Bozzuffi (The Violent Arm of the Law). Valli is instead played by a very young and the late Vittorio Mezzogiorno, in his convincing impersonation of a person lonely, dark and ruthless.
Many elements are quite atypical for the genre to discover while watching, from the many explosions that the mad bomber Valli is delighted to bestow on those who do not pay protection money, the virtuosity on motorcycles (including trips on Montagnola scales and a chase on the porch of St. Luke), reaching almost gore elements that follow the vein of a violent and cynical poliziottesco to be discovered.
The final hard does is mark exasperation with the aplomb of a compact and dry film surely be counted among the classics of the genre, which perhaps never had the visibility it deserves. Perhaps precisely because of its strong themes that draw on the facts of crime for the period was not well received by film critics who, on many occasions, did not scruple to destroy.
"Police and lost 'is available on DVD published by the Cecchi Gori, which also interesting to interivsta Dardano Sacchetti, here co-writer with the director.
Memorable Scene: "The law is like la minchia: si allunga e si ritira a seconda delle occasioni”.
Titolo Originale: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Regia: George Roy Hill
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones
Disponibilità: DVD
Trama:
Divenuto uno dei più famosi western mai apparsi sugli schermi questo film, vincitore di ben quattro Oscar, unisce avventura, amore e commedia per raccontare la vera storia del più simpatico fuorilegge del west. Nessuno è più veloce di Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) se si presenta l'occasione di fare soldi in fretta e Sundance (Robert Redford), il suo compagno d'avventura, è un mago con il fucile. Stanchi di sfuggire alla legge i due sprovveduti rapinatori di treni e di banche si trasferiscono in Bolivia con la ragazza di Sundance (Katharine Ross). Although their English is barely enough to say "this is a robbery" for the two boys this is just a minor problem.
Comment:
The combination of Paul Newman-Robert Redford is immediately any one of the most beautiful and successful of American cinema. Butch Cassidy is the baptism of fire (and their director), since the entire team will then be anointed with this undisputed masterpiece is "The Sting."
This film has shaped the history of American western movies because, given the period, has radically changed by introducing a grain comic (never infantilistica) that goes willingly with the topics addressed. It was then destroyed the stiffness characteristics dictated by the characters of John Wayne and were in turn create two additional templates. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are two very different icons - the first collegiate and rowdy, dark and moody the second - but they find their reason to exist in complement each other.
This box-office success owes part of its success to a well-balanced and brilliant writer, able to dictate the pace and moments of high wanted to stand by in sepia tones that give an aura to an epic dream-like light-hearted but that in certain situations also touches on moments of high drama. Elements that satisfy both the public and in extraordinary critical, as a rule almost always divided. Another key consideration is the impeccable photography by Conrad Hall (who deservedly won him an Oscar) makes the fund a visual feast for the eyes. From the arid lands of Colorado all'incontaminata Bolivian natural scenery as a background plays a major role for the duration of the film, giving picturesque paintings of landscapes that have as their only limit the sunset.
Newman and Redford are both temperamentally and physically perfect for the role of the two robbers, and so one wonders how the effect will be to see Travolta and Cruise play in the remake Butch and Sundance going to be realized. George Roy Hill succeeds in its intention to review key carefree in the western world, which had been chained to a canonical too formal and strict, signing a masterpiece to be reviewed every time.
Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Silvia de Santis, Joe Montana, Gary Daniels, Joe Sagal, Ken Samuels
Availability: DVD
Plot: In
a not too distant future, a team of men and women, led by John Foster, a terrible start to the mission: to go back in time to avoid impact with the earth in a meteorite containing a deadly bacterium, which will bring humanity on 'edge of extinction. Unbeknownst to John, a rebel official name of Dalton has his own plan for a new life in the past. The time travelers soon discover that their return from the past set in motion an incredible spiral of terror and death, totally unpredictable.
Comment:
Retrograde is an unusual production Luxembourg / Italian / English and starring the immortal Dolph Lundgren and statuary ever, behind Gary Daniels, another veteran of action movies 80 years.
The lowness of the funds allocated from the production falls like a sword of Damocles on a charge of film to travel on rails sci-fi and consequently on cutting-edge environments and systems at least. The advanced solutions for the catalog were a found footage smart and functional and an abominable use of graphics certainly not abreast of the times that make ridiculous this feature by placing even below at any particular episode of a serial some American medium-low invoice.
Terrifcanti, then, the interior of the ship of our fearless time travelers, appears to be a modern version and a little more detailed than that worn by in Ed Wood Plan 9 From Outer Space , with its colored lights, the walls of cardboard and preposterous purple door. action there is very little, and the few moments of adrenaline resulting from very short and too resolute shootings that, in most cases, are used to give movement and implications of a standard plot pedantically.
Dolph Lundgren, then 50 years old, still shows off a physique and a perfect and enviable hairstyle that would dwarf even the Nino D'Angelo in its heyday. The Swedish actor, despite his 160 IQ and his bachelor's degree with highest of the votes in chemical engineering, not denial here in direct-to-video series that the z devote irrevocably to the Olympus of the die-hard action hero.
Cast: Robert Madison, Kasia Zurakowska, Gyorgy Szabados, Anna Marcello, Angela Ferlaino, Hugo Barret, David Brass
Availability: DVD
Plot:
Mexico, the ancient Mayan city of Tehuantepec, 2000 years ago, the supreme priest Tatamackly prepare the sacrificial rite to revive the cruel goddess Coatlique. Seven virgins, naked and painted blue, have been minors by priests in the temple. But suddenly the king's guards stop the ritual. In furious battle the cruel priest loses his life. Mexico, city of Saint Isidro, the present day: a group of archeology students are taken by a strange woman to visit the Temple of the Goddess Coatlique. After two thousand years of waiting Tatamackly will wake up from his limbo to complete the rite of the goddess Coatlique: serve only the sacrifice of young lives by ...
Comment:
The late Bruno Mattei, who died in 2007, will forever be recognized as a master of low budget and found footage. With small sums of money could take out small film productions that winked at America's most emblazoned. In his filmography, ranging between various genres, from action erotic, but always putting a focus on sull'horror, his eternal passion.
Tomb can be easily identified as a sympathetic mockmuster the film The Mummy with Brandon Fraser as bearing a plot and an almost identical development. shot entirely in digital, improvised with actors or fiction (except Madison) and actresses who appear to have been rejected by the casting of porn movies, this film is to operate with the trash, not so much arrogance in the Olympus for its carat weight technique ( the shot digitally would seem, even the best amateur Ford) or for special effects narrow (which still operate discreetly), but for a mix of factors such as the dialogues deficient supported by a hard film dubbing, the obvious homages / not obvious that the director sips during the development and, above all, the absolute seriousness with which this film was shot.
Mattei will always remain unforgettable in the eyes of fans of Italian genre cinema, and this outburst is the Tomb of his stubbornness that leads him to the venerable age of 70 to get still under discussion. Among the cult scenes ever forget the sequence stolen from the Rodriguez film "From Dusk Till Dawn", which emulates the bewitching comely dancer Maya Salma Hayek nelle vesti di Satanico Pandemonium; oppure l’esorcismo ad opera della stessa danzatrice davanti al quale il professore universitario esprime tutto il suo scetticismo con un diretto e sintetico “Ma va!”.
Al di là degli elementi autopunitivi a me questo film è piaciuto. Nonostante sia un prodotto post 2000 richiama molto da vicino le fascinose e tamarre produzioni ottantiane, e l’apparenza amatoriale dona carisma a quello che è l’ultimo degli horror matteiani giunti fin’ora in Italia (visto che Zombi: La Creazione e L’isola dei Morti Viventi risultano, quì da noi, ancora inediti). Pubblicato in DVD da La Perla Nera con master decisamente buono e audio 5.1 but, unfortunately, zero extra if not the trailer.
Memorable Scene: too much, but when I saw Anna Marcello do Salma Hayek died.
military service a recruit has been targeted by his lieutenant (the guy who believes, wrongly, because of his lack of promotion). But the soldier does not bend. (Deastore.com)
Comment:
Before the youth language Italian cinema was crapped by various Moccia Muccino and was a director in the eighties which, for better e nel male, nei suoi film cercava di riproporre determinati spaccati di vita. Sto parlando di Marco Risi, figlio di Dino e regista di alcuni “classici” come Mery Per Sempre e Vado a Vivere da Solo, ma anche di film difficili e insidiosi come Maradona – La Mano de Dios e Fortapàsc. Marco con Soldati – 365 All’alba è alle prese col raffigurare con dedizione e fermezza il mondo della naja obbligatoria.
Visto con gli occhi di ora può sembrare un film decisamente anacronistico ma che riserva ancora un suo perchè nella rappresentazione dettagliata e veritiera delle situazioni che un ragazzo chiamato alle armi doveva affrontare. Protagonista del film è un giovane romano interpretato da Claudio Amendola, surely its functional role, despite her will in the eye of the storm. Scanna Claudio (this is the character's name) will in fact deal with the merciless hazing of some congedanti led by an unlikely (but in a way, guessed) Alessandro Benvenuti and with the evil and injustice riservategli free from his lieutenant iron. With Lieutenant Wires (maximum Dapporto in great dusting) will be established as a rival because of honor and testosterone, a competition to see who breaks first based on a dualism rather learn where the soldier will soon confront.
This conflict is being carried out throughout the film in a excellent managing not boring and, sometimes, to reassess the role of villain in legitimate executioner justifiable.
comparison that leads to an end rather harsh, but convincing in his closing with the advent of dawn.
Despite the hardness of the issues there are moments of comedy features a cast of excellent character and very good. How can we forget Ugo Conti in the role of Sergeant Gallo (Forza! Force Come on!), Peter Ghislain in his interpretation of Madonna, Ernesto Lama in the role of the truest of all jokes and smiles and Neapolitan Angelo Cabiddu, improvisational actor, noted the same Risi lavorara while as a waiter in a restaurant in Rome and cast without any specimen.
The choice of grafts comic strength as it is assumed the producers were not confident in making a serious film about naja, counting, too, that in those years were often the news about suicides in their barracks because of hazing. Expedient for the controversy, then. The courage to Risi was awarded as the film had some success and also inspired a television series that many will surely remember: Class of Iron. A bittersweet film of a certain thickness, a portrait of a reality ignored by the younger generation today that despite the years and its old-fashioned theme still manages to captivate.
Del film as well as the movie version normally distributed on DVD There is also a television longer than that. The long version contains almost an hour more of footage, and was passed not long ago on the digital channels of Mediaset. Small cult.
Memorable Scene: an initial Dapporto speeches to his platoon: "Because with me you will not only cleaned, sorted, graded, efficient. No sir!" This is not enough. You set yourself apart. You will be absolutely , wonderfully, amazingly, SOLID is pissed. "
David, un reduce dal fronte iracheno, parte per l'Europa per mettersi alle spalle la tremenda esperienza della guerra. In un affascinante quanto misterioso luogo di montagna incontra Angeline. Muniti di biciclette e tende, i due giovani esplorano un luogo incantato dove aleggiano antiche leggende. Presto il contesto naturale si trasforma in un incubo, con due cacciatori che li inseguono per ucciderli e un nemico ancor più oscuro ad attenderli. Per David è il brusco risveglio in una realtà che voleva dimenticare. (comingsoon.it)
Commento:
Federico Zampaglione dopo il suo esordio nel mondo del cinema con Nero Bifamiliare si rituffa in questa avventura confezionando un film horror (con l’aiuto di Roy Bava, nella speranza di invocare lo spirito del nonno), genere di punta della produzione nostrana negli anni ’70 e ’80 ma non propriamente in voga al giorno Today, supplanted by commediucole and fiction from peanuts. Magazines, film buffs and cinemini have trust and hope in a revival of the industry with this film Zombiglione (a term coined by the comparison made between the leaders of Tiromancino and Rob Zombie) who did so much to talk about when abroad.
Because of a troubled post-production the film was, in fact, initially distributed in a foreign land, enjoying some success, and after having made a name made landfall in Italian soil, though choked in the theatrical release of Robin Hood, Iron Man and Prince of Persia 2, the blockbuster U.S. dollars from millions of tourists and certainly wide appeal.
Those who expect a film bloody slaughters and will always remain very disappointed that Shadow is a pretty smart film in its own way, which is not to seek effettaccio from torture-porn splatter but using it as a vehicle channeler, bringer of anguish and anxiety. The tension is certainly not to the stars, and few are the moments of real terror will reign supreme, but the curiosity generated primarily by living and Swimming Arquint that effect, compelling and true star of the film with his mimicry of the whole body and his Choir physical expression that led him to approach the collective representation of death that you, ready to grab his scythe with the unfortunate duty.
The film begins in the best possible way, about the indisputable panorama of Tarvisio, a mountain resort on the border with Austria and Slovenia, who with his thick gray mist tinged with this film. And it is the gray color most representative of a film is not trapped in some of the stylistic 'horror, but that is interposed between the thriller setting (the hunting of prey between the two hunters and tourists refers to no frills That Quiet Weekend Fear) el'horror atmosphere. In fact after the initial block from pursuing marked among the winding paths of the location and charm, is followed by a central part made entirely in an enclosed space, base of operations Swimming Arquint which is not exactly a villain, the killer or the monster of the moment, but rather an entity that has its own logic. The reason of his presence is the unknown that pervades the entire duration of the movie that will do the strangest conjectures. Unknown which is then resolved in a final, in my opinion, rather hasty. Considered by many as a touch of class but that I know have already seen (Jacob's Ladder).
The film loses depth and pathos in its final resolution, which relegated all (I do not want spoilers that much) to a trivial, and at least misplaced criticism of the war and its ambassadors. But Carina a specific sequence filmed in the house Swimming Arquint: Zampaglione ago through a series detect the darkness of the wall paintings of characters like Hitler, Stalin and Bush. honestly do not understand why the directors of modern horror nell'après final coup are always looking for the most bizarre and incomprehensible, changing the entire log and trying to effect the shot that works once in a thousand, and that often jeopardize the entire product.
Apart from this narrative lightness Zampaglione Fred does a great job: although a bit 'naive Shadow seems almost an international production, filmed in a very good and with a mounting an excel and a photo sublime. The , though, small cast is still level and beyond the already plurimenzionato Swimming Arquint I would note is the fine performance of Ottaviano Blitch, speaker of Virgin Radio, perfect in the role of the hunter hicks sputazza that when he speaks.
The soundtrack refers in many respects to that of classical settantiani of our production of the thrill of the mold, therefore, markedly Goblin. And in addition to these atmospheric original songs out of order are some musical moments with "Come on, there is a road in the woods ..." by Bixio, made up some old scratchy gramophone and used in an exceptional way in some particular scene. Evocative.
In closing the accounts of the board and fans do not go to see Shadow with the acceptance of the clause "you may be disappointed because this film certainly Zampaglione is absolutely not for everyone and can undoubtedly disappoint but the same way, with surprising honesty.
Memorable Scene: Swimming Arquint licking the frog in a psychedelic sequence, the combination of the Swiss actor and death.
Rating: 3 / 5 rating
Trash: 1 / 5 .... just because it appears in the opening sequence of the beer Coop.
Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Leonard Nimoy, Simon Pegg, Bruce Greenwood, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Ben Cross
Availability: DVD / Bluray
Plot:
Star Trek film is an explosion of euphoria and an irresistible invitation to fun. The impudent and rebellious James Kirk (Chris Pine) and the equally outspoken half Vulcan, half human Spock (Zachary Quinto) are among the younger crew members of a fledgling Starfleet, about to embark on the most advanced starship ever created: the USS Enterprise. During their incredible journey of galactic exploration and discovery, will find the villain Nero (Eric Bana), whose mission of vengeance threatens all humanity.
Comment:
Yet another Hollywood reboot a conspicuously short of ideas that this time it touches one of the mythical landscape of the entire sci-fi: Star Trek. Star Trek is not just a TV series, novels or films, but a true religion for lovers of science fiction. This saga, perhaps even more than Star Wars, is literally the bible of infinite space, narrative paradise universally recognized by an amazing fandom.
Star Trek stands for orgasm of galaxies and interstellar travel and free-range lives of many and varied alien races and all incredibly well characterized. Each ethnic group has its own culture, their customs and places. Over time and with the advance of the episodes (about 705, adding up the various series) has gone well to form a veritable encyclopedia extraterrestrial in all its rich historical pieces.
This blockbuster directed by King Midas of recent times (or JJ Abrams) aims to rejuvenate a franchise, perhaps a bit 'too austere set because of her, now, old age. The formula for achieving this goal has been to start this new series as a prequel to the original series (as has already happened with Star Wars), putting at the forefront of the small screen stars and starlets who, alas, is so much audience per day today. It has now almost lost the culture of a movie serial, preferring to put up with yet another American.
You will then see a scene relating to the infancy of the rebel Kirk, which steals a Corvette Stingray and rambles with the Iowa Sabotage by the Beastie Boys as background music, and that of Spock and his years in 'academy in the past to fight with his dual nature of human-Vulcan. The two will meet then, almost casually, the Kobayashi Maru test where Kirk, a cheat, structured crumble all the traps from Vulcan surprisingly passing the exam. Abrams gives great importance, as indeed it was a must fare, al rapporto quasi dualistico tra i due personaggi simbolo della saga, sottolineando oltremodo la loro complementarità.
Utilizzando l’escamotage del salto temporale (che permette anche a sua maestà Leonard Nimoy di ritornare a vestire i panni dell’autentico Spock) sono state fatte scelte, a mio avviso, parecchio discutibili che vanno a mutare profondamente lo spirito e la caratterizzazione dei soggetti-bandiera. Quindi – e quì mi riferisco sostanzialmente ai fan della saga – preparatevi a vedere un Kirk versione ubriacone ribelle de provincia sempre in cerca di figa, sfrontato e, per molti versi, presuntuosamente irritante e ad accettare il fatto che Spock si incazza, fa a pugni, è dubbioso ec'ha well as the chick (Uhura) to return to after you complete the mission. Elements, then, going to totally distort a very complex character, worthy of extensive psychological reflections, indeed very commonplace here.
But Spock is not only to be regressed, but in some ways even the whole spirit of Star Trek through the forcing of some elements, such as good-bad contrast child who has never played a role found in the series, breaking the typical static replaced by so much hyper-kinetic and the introduction of a distinctly comic vein which would mobilize the masses of non-specialists, as that Star Trek has not properly targeted to the medium of film, going so but in an almost blasphemous to upset the hard core consisting of the aficionados.
Forget even the dear old Enterprise, totally different from the original, here resembling so flush with the plagiarism of Commander Shepard of the Normandy Mass Effect. The director is not exactly smiling (Abrams split the long balls with his insistence to the hand-held camera, a technique used on this occasion in a truly disproportionate) but compensate with special effects and a script to scream that sketched a brisk pace aimed at the growing thanks to a classic concatenanti series of events. I myself, disappointed and saddened by the criticism above, towards the end I found a little 'involved in what, however, is the most classic of science fiction towels. In fact the enemy is to fight an alien race that gets rid of the planets through the use of so-called red matter, with which they can generate some real holes blacks (those who know the saga will surely understand that I am speaking of the Romulans).
As for the cast anything to say about the skill of the actors but do not have quite the charisma to hold a candle to the glories of the past. This is evident in one of the final sequences where there is a face face between the new (Zachary Quinto) and old (Leonard Nimoy) Spock. Despite years of gap between the two players the difference is abysmal. Overtime, however, Karl Urban (The Chronicles of Riddick) as a credibilissimo McCoy and just passable the almost cameo by Simon Pegg (Dawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), an actor who deserves more roles well and quite another matter. Other appearances to signal that spread like Winona Ryder in the role of Spock's mother and Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Cameron House) who plays one of Kirk.
In conclusion this free personal vision of the universe trekkie Abrams (need arises almost made him die of Star Wars, of which J.J. è dichiaratamente nerd) non è malvagia. Il film in tutta la sua durata (due ore belle piene) si lascia guardare, merito soprattutto della realizzazione patinata, ma che lascerà certamente con l’amaro in bocca colui che si aspettava una riproposizione basata sugli standard dettati 40 anni orsono. Certo è che se fosse uscito con un altro titolo sarebbe stato meglio. Crisi d’identità.
Scena Memorabile: sicuramente la maggior parte delle scene d’azione, in primis quella sulla piattaforma. Spettacolare.
Cast: Lydia Alfonsi , Venantini Venantini, Maurice Poli, Claudio Undaria
Availability: VHS
Plot:
New York . An important mob boss is assassinated. His wife, Lady Constance, will leave for Sicily in search of revenge and its principals.
Comment:
Filmaccio Italian production that seeks to build on the success of the very classic Coppola (mentioned several times in the film through the film posters displayed around the city) offering a mafia movie starring a character women. Despite the great cast of characters stuffed like the film captivates.
illusion with a promising start but tired and tedious, due to a central block rather anonymous and arrogant, then rebounded in the last fractions, characterized by rapid string of killings, declaring the fulfillment of the revenge of the widow and will put an end to a disappointing work.
Although the subject is attractive, the film does not capture probably because of Lydia Alfonsi, inappropriate and certainly not up to the party. Nothing particularly significant to report except some sequences of strong impact that winks at a masterpiece with Marlon Brando (a severed hand in a cake, the equivalent of the horse's head in bed), the job of Maurice Poli and some solutions that poveristiche could well be compared to those adopted in some (s) Turkish cult (the final attack with the rocket launcher is very reminiscent the Serdar of Korkusuz).
forgotten and, indeed, forgotten.
Memorable Scene: The final attack with rocket launchers, and some dialogs in a very narrow Sicilian dialect.
Cast: Tom Sizemore , Steven Seagal, Dennis Hopper, Jaime Pressly, Peter Greene
Availability: DVD
Plot:
In San Francisco hunts down a fanatical terrorist (D. Hopper), ace explosives. Two of the hunters - an explosives expert (S. Seagal) and a cop (T. Sizemore), eager to surrender - they discover that there is a client, a widow (J. Pressly) Ecology and vindictive. (Source: corrieredellasera.it)
Comment:
Ticker is a small little film of Action signed by Albert Pyun, a master of science fiction b-movies and kickboxerxploitation, starring actors like Tom Sizemore navigators, Dennis Hopper and Steven Seagal. Pyun certainly takes its typical elements and features of his repertoire, with its unmistakable hand of the track segments that border on melodramatic visibly out of context quite the farce. Sequences that, as already demonstrated in some of his earlier work as a Cyborg, be carried out strictly in slow and, with flashbacks, they form the background of the main characters.
Thus, in this way, the disruptive Sizemore turns out then, according to the color of his colleague who died in the first ten minutes, "plagued by his demons", and Only the encounter with the blaster / mystic / wise Seagal (in record time that has taken over the 20 kg lost Wounds ) put an end to his inner conflict. Epica the final sequence where the two, intent on detonating two bombs simultaneously in several separate locations, instead of worrying about which wire to cut talking on the transience of life and the fragility of human suffering (from fear eh?). Dennis Hopper, practically reduced to a marginal role, embodies the schizoid villain who turns out to then turn at the mercy of the beautiful and deadly Jaime Pressly (DOA , My Name Is Earl).
Hopper shot her scenes in a single day and has never met the other stars of the film. Easily understand the situation in some sequences assembled ad hoc, visibly cobbled together show that in some ways a technical approaches adopted in the past with films such as Double Impact Van Damme.
Despite some questionable choices, such as those mentioned above, the film has a good pace and although it is definitely a product of poor quality of the Action that does not annoy the fans would definitely appreciate the various explosions Pyun gives us during the course history.
Small note on Steven Seagal, and mummified imbolsito, which plays a role on the desk, but in the last quarter of an hour Final sbaraglierà hordes of terrorists with his deadly aikido in some scenes and turn mounted as best as possible, given that the superstar is no longer booming "er na de Vorta cheetah."
Ticker, finally, is a product to spend an hour and a half empty, an action that typically nineties dall'appasionato leave quietly look like that.
Cast: William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, James Best, Dabney Coleman
Availability: VHS
Plot: When the Major
Rane, who spent eight years in prison in a concentration camp for prisoners of war, comes home all the città lo accoglie come un eroe. È problematico invece il rinserimento nella vita familiare. La moglie Lisa è innamorata di un altro uomo, il figlio Mark non lo riconosce come padre. La notorietà che circonda il maggiore Rane attira su di lui anche l’attenzione di un gruppo di teppisti. Questi, dopo averlo pedinato, irrompono nella sua abitazione e cominciano a seviziarlo nel tentativo di fargli rivelare il luogo in cui sono nascosti i risparmi della famiglia. Le torture a cui è stato sottoposto durante gli 8 anni di prigione l’hanno reso un duro e pertanto nonostante il dolore Rane non rivela il nascondiglio. Sfortunatamente rientrano in casa la moglie ed il figlio...
Commento:
Rolling Thunder is certainly one of the revenge movie more successful blacks and American cinema. Positioned in the mainstream post-Vietnam (we are in 1977) becomes apparent the same highlight all the problems of reintegration of soldiers into normal life. Major Rane is designed as a character who has now lost all emotion, no reaction when his wife reveals his treachery, let alone when your child has doubts about his father figure. His only smiles are limited to plastic public appearances, picking up the helpless embrace of the Texas community of joyful return of a war hero.
William Devane (substitute Kris Kristofferson, originariamente contattato per interpretare il ruolo del maggiore Rane) è sotto tutti gli aspetti perfetto per la parte con la sua monoespressività apatica ed atona che calza alla perfezione la personalità di un soggetto che, ormai, ha già subìto tutto dalla vita ed è freddo e distaccato da tutto ciò che lo circonda. Il maggiore Rane, dopo l’assassinio della moglie e del figlio da parte di alcuni banditi messicani, ritroverà la sua ragione di vita nella ricerca della soddisfacente vendetta. Uscito dal coma, indotto da uno sparo a bruciapelo, raccoglierà tutta la sua esperienza e la sua capacità d’assalto per porre fine all’esistenza degli uccisori dei suoi cari. Armato del suo fucile a off shotgun and his right hand - mangled during the abuse experienced by bandits, became a hook in which the largest can be relied upon in difficult times - will rely only on himself and his comrade in arms, the veteran Johnny Vohden ( Tommy Lee Jones) who escape from the sterility of his reinstatement will marry with the firm because of his brother in arms.
John Flynn said of the slow and heavy as a boulder, but never stuffy and boring, to give a sort of critical verve and a serious appeal to the film, which runs on tracks laid down by a decision by a solid screenplay and signed P. Schrader. The violence there, but never explicit or gratuitous, and serves to emphasize the male and harsh tone of this neo-western stack brutally fascinating. The two veterans for the last time wearing their uniforms for a memorable final: direct, dry but with applause.
This film had a limited distribution in our country, released on VHS by Stardust in 1987.
Memorable Scene: Johnny , visibly nervous, the more before landing at the airport: "I'm not going to address all those people" then refer the glasses "The Major and Johnny" I found them "" Who? "" murderers my son ..... "I take my stuff" were all in the brothel Quarez earlier, the four that came to my house and a dozen "" go to clean up. "
Cast: Donald Owen, Queenie Yang, Mike Tien, Morna Lee
Availability: DVD
Plot:
The golden statue of an important warrior Ninja must be reported, in deference to an ancient and important tradition, a town in China. The Golden Ninja, its caretakers, are about the position, but the Red Ninja, mortal and irreconcilable enemies, they tend a trap. Michael and Sheer Will to win?
Comment:
" Thousands of years ago, the statue of the golden ninja warrior posed to anyone who possessed the supreme power of ninja technique. The golden empire empire red ninja ninja fought and fought long and hard battles for possession. Finally, the golden ninja empire won the coveted trophy but the desire for revenge did not give peace to the descendents of the red ninja. Long and bitter struggle went on to win the coveted statue. "
It is on these sentences, and some pictures from recycled Ninja Terminator, which opens one of the best films of Godfrey Joseph Lai & Ho (not here accreditato). Con molta probabilità questo è uno dei pochi casi in cui un loro film ninja (o meglio, ninjà!) ha un nesso logico. La trama, seppur con qualche inceppo, è lineare e progressivamente comprensibile. I canonici due film si fondono perfettamente dando vita ad un ninjà pieno di combattimenti (non solo cinesi) che non annoia mai. Infatti viene da chiedersi se il film sia stato effettivamente girato adottando la solita metodologia truffaldina dell’unione delle due pellicole, oppure non sia stato frutto di un unico girato, seguendo appositamente un solo plot.
La storia, come avrete già capito, ruota ancora una volta attorno alle terribili faide delle varie fazioni ninja (in questo frangente i Red e i Golden) che si contendono senza esclusione di colpi l’ambita e millenaria statua. A difendere l’onore della casata rossa questa volta c’è la bella Sherri Lee (Queenie Yang) fotomodella di successo che, appresa la morte del padre, vola ad Hong Kong per fare giustizia. Si troverà a combattere un traffico di prostitute messo su dal terribile gangster Eagle e dal suo socio Lee, mandanti dell’assassinio del padre di Sherri. Sherri dovrà fare i conti anche con Sakura (o meglio, Sakùra!), red ninja al soldo dei suddetti mafiosi che non solo serve fedelmente il suo padrone ma mira anche a conquistare il Golden Ninja. Ad aiutare la nostra ninja-top model ci sarà Michael (Donald Owen), suo old classmate of the golden ninja academy, who rushed to retrieve the statue with a view of an important ceremony to be held in the city (things to ninja!).
As mentioned earlier scenes of the fighting, despite the brutal use of the increased speeds are not too bad: short, concise, effective and never soporific as often happens in several movies honkonghesi. Obviously there will be scenes involving topical changes ninja, our heroes fighting over a number of times will change their uniforms for no apparent reason. Just as it will limit the paraphernalia of science fiction here is naturally vent the Remotely daggers used by Sakura (the red ninja bad), and ninja star with rope embedded. Even the most zozzone will be satisfied because the film is full of sex scenes totally free rape and revenge in style & Eastern Europe. Not to be missed.
memorable scenes: the opening credits specially fitted to bring up Richard Harrison in the cast.
Cast: Steven Seagal, Treach, Sarah Buxton, Mari Morrow, Nick Mancuso, Robert Miano, Kevin Tighe
Availability: DVD
Plot:
Scott desperately needs money and agrees to the driver for a mobster. During the robbery of an armored car to the casino, a guard is killed and the situation falls .. Scott has to drive a truck with a gun to his head and the police in hot pursuit, until the explosion of a bomb dropped by the police put an end to the race. Woke up in hospital, surrounded by the FBI to figure out where the loot is over, but Scott does not talk and ends up in prison. He suffers from amnesia or really wants to hide the secret of the disappearance of 20 million dollars?
Comment:
Towards the beginning of the 2000 Steven Seagal, now aged and heavily greased, he found himself in trouble with Hollywood producers, who no longer considered him a bigwig del mainstream. Esiliato dal cinema che conta, i primi tempi decise di arrivare a compromessi (vedi Ferite Mortali ), ma evidentemente non era quello il suo modo di fare visto che, poco dopo l’uscita del suo come-back, ritornò sui suoi passi intraprendendo la via dell’auto-produzione. Iniziò così a sfornare (dal 2003 in poi) con la media di 2-3 all’anno una sequela di direct to video.
Today You Die è del 2005, anno in cui il caro ciccio Seagal era impegnato contemporaneamente in ben 3 set diversi (girò in contemporeanea questo film, Black Dawn e Mercenary for Justice), situazione che gli creò molti problemi sia a livello legale (fu messo sotto accusa because they arrived late on set), of course, logistically. Chaos of this production is affected also the film in question, quite poor, patched and irreparably away from the work of the best Seagal. Today You Day is the essence of illogic, everything happens by chance and there is no rational explanation for the actions taken by the characters on the screen.
The plot creates a character unusual in the stereotype that Seagal is used, leading to long-time fan like me to maintain a minimum level of curiosity in the epilogue narrative. But patience, in this case, it pays off to wait because our desire and hope to see a ciccio Seagal pissed and there will be a bad end at the edge of pathos, a wall of morality made in the USA so dear to this production of low caliber. The action sequences are small, with a few well-designed and constructed sequence (the initial chase with the truck) we sganascerà with laughter trying to distinguish Seagal (here at historic lows) from the true stand-in scenes of combat.
A shoulder to make our hero will be just another rapper color that will show off the classic repertoire gangsta. It will waste the "son of a bitch" as you will waste the various despicable jokes that the two protagonists will be exchanged in the course of the film.
cost 15 million dollars (and then not even be considered as strictly low budget) Today You Die is one of the most reprehensible films ever made by the former tail.
Cast: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Ben Gazzarra
Availability: DVD
Plot: In 1977 of disco and punk of enzymes, a maniac by the media dubbed "Son of Sam" kills couples in parked cars, taking them to gunshots in short time, in the district you create the psychosis of a serial killer, the police do not know how to get on the local mafia - disturbed in their business - unofficially puts a bounty sull'omicida. (Fonte: repubblica.it)
Commento: Spike Lee dipinge un sensazionale affresco della New York del 1977, mettendo i puntini sulle i a quell’estate contraddistinta da un caldo insopportabile, dal blackout che provocò saccheggi, vandalismi e tafferugli nel Bronx e nel Queens, ma soprattutto dal clima di terrore instaurato da David Richard Berkowitz, più noto come “Il Figlio di Sam”, l’assassino della calibro .44 . Lee, nonostante il titolo esplicativo, non pone l’accento sugli avvenimenti del serial killer ma ci gira sempre in tondo. Non gli ascrive un ruolo di rilievo, ma lo utilizza come capro espiatorio per la creazione di a fabulous excursion multi-ethnic city. In the summer, Sam will find themselves Italian-Americans from the morality that are only apparently incorporates increasingly venting their frustrations in the tendering for the different, and then to challenge it openly and without light to go on gays, blacks, Puerto Ricans and punk . 77 Why, gentlemen, is the year of punk. The punk part by Britain and the United States comes up expanding visibly up to create a real movement that will materialize in places like CBGB, the local historian, which marked the debut of Talking Heads and the Ramones, who in a sequence of the film is meticulously reconstructed. Spike Lee tells the story of an Italian (John Leguizamo) who, driven by intolerance and dall'ottusità hatched by his friends, ever betray his brother played by Adrien Brody in punk anarchist suspected of being the serial killer. Do not think you are dealing with a thriller in the strict sense, but to enlarge the sense of the word and enjoy a job that tries to describe a society easily influenced by prejudices and phobias. The crux of the matter (murder) are only mentioned and shown, almost, in a didactic and journalism while trying to give prominence to the behavior dictated by uncertainty and fear of difference. The film, in all its length, it is pulled and enjoyable thanks a lot al repentino cambio del registro stilistico adottato dall'uomo dietro la macchina da presa che, in base alla circostanza, accellera o decellera l’andamento globale dello sviluppo. Un po’ pleonastiche le parentesi sentimentali del personaggio interpretato da Leguizamo, anche se trovano la loro ragione d’esistere nell’interpretazione perfetta di un cast decisamente sopra alle righe (parecchie le scene improvvisate e decisamente riuscite). Oltre ai già citati Brody e Leguizamo (forse troppo legato ad una determinata tipologia caratteristica) da segnalare l’ottima Mira Sorvino nei panni della moglie dello stesso e Ben Gazzarra nel ruolo del boss mafioso difensore della città. Ruolo rilevante è svolto anche dalla musica che accompanies it, often evocative sequences such as, for example, in which Adrien Brody seeks schitarrando rebellion and destroying his Fender Stratocaster and the son of Sam continues to claim victims while in the background stands the immense Baba o 'Riley historians Who. The screenplay although rich in implications and subtleties is quite solid, so applaud the good that Imperioli shows certainly have talent as a scriptwriter and not just as an actor (perhaps many will remember him as the grandson of Tony in the series "The Sopranos "), among others present in a small part in this film. Definitely a good movie.
Memorable Scene: as described above, with the song by The Who, a dialogue between a policeman and Ben Gazzarra who plays the boss: "You must help us" and what you want me to do? Arrest me alone? ".
