HOME INVASION

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This movie is co produced by Natasha H herself and thats explain why she is the star of the movie. Gone are her "Spieces" hottie days or even "24" days. Now looking heavier. This also stars Scott Adkins as a bad guy. Jason Patric is also in as a supervisor of ecurity company overlooking the house. The other actors are unknown.

The set up of the movie is like some other movies involving house burglary. But in this one, they seem determined enough to kill people to do it. Even came with explosives too. They look professional and well planned indeed,even intercepting 911 call. 

The plot is about survival of Chloe (NH) and her step son from the bad guys in a very big well guarded CCTV house located on an island of sort where connection is by a one way bridge.

People are entertained when watching movies when the good guys finally came to the rescue and defeated the bad guys. You thought this would be the case for this movie until you realized its not that actually. Wont give up more as it will spoil the fun.

The movie has what it takes to make it entertaining. Ample bullets flying but unfortunately no Scott Adkins kick chops. To me, Home Invasion deliver what it is suppose to do. Teach you also about how Security firms function in case of emergency of this size.But then again, the level of security for this house in the movie may be high enough to let them paid attention to you when you are in distress.

Go see it as its worth the time to spend no need to think much about the on goings in this movie as the flow is easy enough to understand.  

BACKTRACK

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I see dead people.

This movie was unexpected. Didnt hope anything from it but it is one of the best film I've seen so far this year. And one of the best "Ghost" film I've seen. Perhaps on par with "Sixth Sense" !

Before elaborating any further this movie is about train. And the special effect which is sparse on the train looks very real not because that it was but because one is already webbed in the suspense before it.

This Australian production has 2 known names whom are Adrien Brody and Sam Neil. The rest are all Aussies actors, I suppose. This movie took place in Australia of course. It has the suspense, the mystery, the thrill, the scarry part and all that of a good ghost film. Don't think I would classify this as horror. Although the Ghosts did interact with the living unlike Crimson Peak, horror may still not be the right category. Rather than why they are still around Peter (AB). That is something like Sixth Sense's story line.

Now here is a movie where the music is being utilized the most. The music bring out the suspense and the thrill. Not too heavy and not too less either.

The plot is so thick that you think that it was based from a book. Actually its not, its done by the same director who also wrote this movie.  

Thumbs up for Backtrack ! This is how you make a ghost movie with all the right recipe in it. FullStop.

THE CONFINES

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$ELFIE SHOOTOUT

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Some movies you want very much to see and have high expectation that you will get what you hope for. Other movies you just see for fun and dont care much what the outcome will be. Well, this one fell in the 2nd category.

Its about 2 nerd moron, buddies Chubb and Bone, who tried to earn some money and some social life. They come out with a Selfie Shootout contest idea and they want to monopolize it. 

Both actors are not known and you know that they are on screen doing it and call it acting. They may as well be YouTube comedians trying to make it big time on screen. 

Whats interesting about this movie is how a simple idea was created, it become bad, ripped off and how they came out on top making money and get what they were dreaming of. 

This movie, thou how naive and dumb it seem to be, do bring the reality of Selfie. How people are possessed doing it. Worse when they want to share it with other people. Maybe for self recognition and self pleasure. The many selfies photos appearing in this movie may actually be found online and there are a plenty. Bottomline is, with the invent of internet and selfies, there are plenty of  beautiful creatures out there whom some are much more better than those we call as celebrities.

The movie also define what "donation' is and when it can become wrong. Something very familiar but in gigantum leap happening at home.  

See this if you dont expect much and you want to get away of the shootings and the actings of other movies. This one will take you back and relax you. How you wish life could be that simple as Chubb and Bone living it.

RIDE ALONG 2

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I cant really remember what went on in Ride Along. But I am sure its about the continuous disagreement of the two, James and Ben. They are going to be related as Brother in Laws but one is trying to put down the other one as being not cop material as he was merely a security guard. But after how the other one, Ben (Kevin Hart) proved that he was after all cop potential in RA, he became a probationary cop in this sequel. Now in RA2, both are still having the same issue and nothing seem to progress from the last movie. However, Ben is about to marry James's (ice cube) sister and they really will become Brother in Laws after all. 

This movie has its moments no doubt. With familiar faces like Ken Jeong (of Dr Ken), Olivia Munn (last time in Motedecai) and Benjamin Bratt who is now good in acting as bad guys in movies, what can go much wrong. But I think the climatic part where the crook was finally revealed and caught red handed got too late in the movie, about 10 mins before it ends. So the story line of the good trying to put the bad is too hasty and too easy. 

The action scene was nice like the car chases, explosions at the dock, crocodile etc. You know that this is quite a budgeted film by looking at the action scenes.

The film definitely stand up from the works of Kevin Hart's antics. Ice Cube is stiff no one thinks he can carry heavy acting and his character as James in the movie fit him just fine. Olivia Munn played a good part. So did B Bratt. Ken as usual doing his stuff and playing sparring partner with Hart.

To me the film did not live up to its expectation by repeating the same old stuff but this time in another town. Ride Along was 2 years ago and you would expect things to have improved and progressed in this one but kind of a letdown to see that it repeated the same thing all over again. In movie time line, RA2 could have been just a few months after RA.  But the movie goers had to wait 2 years to see what happen.

Like I said in terms of comedy it did not fail when they are at it. Plus the action is also great cause you dont see this type of actions in comedy movies.

If you want to have a good time, RA2 did not fail you. Only that if you think back on RA and wanting this to be at a higher notch, that would not be the case.

Shortening of download URL

GeeWhizzzz.... we can do this ?

Effective from RideAlong2 onward, all download link's url whill be shorten with BookMax. This would help more or less not to allow spiders to crawl to this blogspot to detect where are our donwload links are located which could result in them being deleted on instruction by the owner to the server. Or even this blogspot being ordered to close down. :(

Furthermore, it helps the post to look more neater. On the management side, it helps us to determine the number of downloads each link had and when the last download were.

A bit on how the shortening is done.
Take Ridealong2 for example. Its actual download link is openload co with url https://openload.co/f/P-8HBnDX_Cg/www.filmikz.ch-HC.WEBRip.x264-STUTTERSHIT.mp4  ... quite a mouthful.

We would shorten the link to be only  http://bm.cx/MKGu  which is shorter and also practical to remember if you put just a little effort. Here's how - the main url will always be http://bm.cx/  the unique link will depend on the 4 alphabets after that which could be in any combination either capital or small letters which is imperative for the links to work. In this case MKGu. If you can remember the main url and just associate the 4 alphabet then your download link is in your head. Not that this is necessary, but it can come in handy if it need too. 

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JARHEAD 3

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How different has the Jarhead franchise become. This is its 3rd outing. Can't remember if I've seen the 2nd one but I remember the 1st one with Jake Galleyhall. Well it was a classic war sort of movies. Cant remember much as it was quite sometime ago. But it was about this marine that was posted to safeguard Kuwait oil fields after Iraq pulled off. Not much fighting, just surveillance kind of movie.

But this one is something like "Black Hawk Down", a lower ranking achievement of a movie of course, about a rescue mission and with shots fired all over the places non stop after 1/4 of movie had passed. Familiar faces was Scott Adkins who did show his martial arts stuffs and Dennis Hysbert who came in too late to join the action.

This movie has got nothing to shout about. On the education side of it, you may know one or two things on what a US embassy would do whenever something like this happen. This one showed that they must safeguard or destroy the IT material before it fell in the wrong hands. But I wonder why there are so much of it contained in servers and in hard disk drives. In this day and age, dont they use Clouds ?{"What cloud?" Rocky in Creed whilst looking up at the sky!)

Now one very glaring flaw I see was the Helo that came for the rescue with Hysbart in it. I am pretty sure that was a toy or perhaps a drone of some kind. Could be because of budget issue maybe. The other thing is why will it take 1 hour for a safe rescue to come and with only 1 Helo ? That to me is bad protocol.

The shots fired are much too much. And the flow of ISIS guys are non stop which is a wonder where they came from in the first place. The ratio of ISIS got killed compared to the US personnel and marine is something like 1:20 ? Which is very high indeed. One good message being delivered was right before Security guard Mohammad being shot. What he said that Khalid (?) cause is wrong in the eyes of God.

Like my comment on the recent war movie "Hyena Road" which is about Canadian soldiers, this one has all the over the top action and USA is great and invincible stuff they are the hero and the foes are the villains.

Perhaps if the director have put some slow mo and freeze action once in a while in this movie, it would have been better. Also let the music be current and not orchestra performed and also not all the time. Just to keep the pacing slow or freeze for a while. But if one is looking for some mindless shooting and each blood spurt excites, this is one for you. It will not fail to excite.

Be sure to watch the closing credits. It shows what happened to a few of those involved in the seige.

FREEHELD

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This is a moving powerful acting and serious subject movie. Its a true story happening in 2002 about gay equality of two lesbians, Laurel and Stacie. Their fights change history for the county and eventually the whole of USA.

However this review is based on what we see in the film not based on what we saw as montage at the end of the film where the real Laurel and Stacie are not that fragile or having noticeable age difference as they were in the movie. No matter what, as a true story, what transpired should be appreciated and deserving as it should be.

All 4 main characters gave an impressive performances. Why not, as 1 of them (Juliane) is an oscar winner whilst the other 3 (Ellen, Shannon and Carrel) are oscar nominees.

Its hard to imagine how loving they were even if they are of the same gender. They could had make the process of having Laurel's pension to Stacie easy but in an unconventional way as suggested by Dane (MS) when he spoke in front of the FreeHolders, but did not as Laurel's had principle. Nor Stacie bother that much on getting the pension as if she was alone she would be OK when life was without Laurel. Its the love of these 2 that showed that were commendable even many straight husband and wives do not have. How young was Stacie and having to cope up with a loss of a love one whom was not based on any bond or matrimony just the feeling of being together.

Very commendable was Dane as Laurel's working partner. How he stood by her and find ways and means to help her cause in any which way he could. 

Not forgetting how a tragedy of terminal illness (not only cancer) effect loved ones and those we know around us. 

A good moral film for us to ponder. Glad to have seen it and what it shown especially on Lesbian's love for one another which can be very intense. BTW, Ellen Page herself is gay in real life.

CRIMSON PEAK

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This film is directed and co wrote by Mr Guillermo Del Toro (any relation to Benfico?) who also had directed Pacific Rim and Hell Boys movies.The film was reviewed by my favorite Youtube movie reviewers Jahn and Stuckman. There is something I have to differ from them which will be explained below.

The film has very nice sets and costume of the 1800's era both in US and England. Looks authentic and from a well budgeted movie. The house in England where most of the action took place was simply a classic and eerie too. As the director had directed high special effects budgeted movie before this, you wonder what is real what are cgis.

No complain on the acting particularly from J Chaistain (The Martian) and T Hiddleston (Loki of Thor). As this movie rely much on the acting and sets but less on special effects to make it stand out.

As expected you see two familiar faces from Pacific Rim here. And a switch of American playing British and British playing American.

All right here's my take of the movie.

It is not a horror or ghost movie as wrongly spelt out by the reviewers. Even Stuckman main complaint (or was it Jahn) was why didnt the ghost showed up ? My opinion that it is not that kind of movie rather than its a supernatural one something like Sixth Sense. The ghosts or spirits to be exact are not real as it is the imagination or rather intuition of Edith as she can see Ghosts (emmm.. this is familiar tagline) right from when her mother died when she was 12 (?)). The Ghosts came to her to help, like her mother warnings, or asked her help to reveal the truth on what happened to them. Because if you are expecting a horror movie that will shit your pants, this aint one of em.

The film is good if you are prepared to see it not as a horror film. If not you will be utterly disappointed. Read one review in imdb saying that this is the most directionless ghost movie ever. Hmmm how wrong can that be.

HARBINGER DOWN

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Some movies do not make it to the cinema and without want to waste the money spent, they released it on BlueRay like this one. Clubs or small digital cinemas are fine to broadcast these at their venues as they know that no big film companies will be banging at their door for showing illegal movies.

One would be tempted to watch this because of what written on the cover "Alien vs predator" and " "stormtroopers" . But why in German (?) Perhaps it was released in German ? Ok many questions but let just leave it that way and go straight to the movie.

The other crowd puller is Lance Heriksen. The android (he was younger then) who got ripped off in Aliens. And he had acted in one of the AvV series before. So this cant be that bad.

In terms of suspense its not that bad also. Only that when the alien appeared  you could be exclaiming WTF or OMG ! The concept of the alien is great thou - that it fell to earth in the early 80's in a Soviet capsule and had been freezing in the Behring Sea all this while untile a crab fishing vessel by the name of Harbinger (so thats the title) happened to got it on board and things (as expected) got squassy. But theres a sub plot to this thou I wont spoil the "fun" of watching this. Back to the concept - so this alien has been absorbing all the DNA it was in contact with when it was in the water. As you know fishes, crabs, plankton, whales, bacteria etc etc. And of course human DNA too. It can change form from liquid to solid and vice versa. So its very mobile.  

My problem is that the Alien become undefined. What the F** is it ? To me its more like a creepy plant thing rather than animals. So when you have an alien who could be anything anywhere and everywhere in the movie, that scary part fails. I wish it was like Alien or any other even cheap skate monster movie where you know how it looked like and you are entertain through out the movie being frightened by the sight of it. 

The other thing that bugs me was why the Russian wants just to test how bad the Alien is even deciding to destroy if its that bad. And why the crew of Harbinger have no thought to do mankind a favour - destroy the alien for god sake before it spread to the main land. And the final treatment with the Harbinger at the end is also in doubt. Can it eliminate the thing (a better word) ?? Maybe a sequel for the next one ? Hope not.

So thats my thoughts. Expect the expected.