Jun. 12: I saw this movie on Jan. 10, 2014 and I’m writing my review for it now. I used to write movie reviews for the Golden
Vanguard. Their website, Facebook page,
and one of the founder’s email isn’t working.
I did find an email that did work, so I sent an email to him. I haven’t written a review in over a
year. I had to check a word count on my
old review to see how long it’s supposed to be.
The last one was about 250 words.
Resident Evil: Afterlife: Well here’s my movie
review. I saw the first Resident
Evil in 2005 with my friend Leslie when she came over to my house. I saw the second one Apocalypse on TV.
Resident Evil: Afterlife movie review
By Tracy Au
For people who aren’t familiar with the Resident Evil
franchise, it’s about Alice (Milla Jovovich) who fights zombies and wants to
destroy the Umbrella Corporation who is responsible for it. Alice
hunts down the bad guy Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts) and there is an epic fight
scene and shoot out in the beginning.
It leads to Alice
in the Arctic and she finds her friend Claire (Ali Larter). They fly to LA and land on a prison where
there are survivors. They are NBA player
Luther (Boris Kodjoe), a movie producer Bennett (Kim Coates), his intern Kim
(Norman Yeung), an aspiring actress Crystal (Kacey Barnfield) among them. There is prison cell for Chris (Wentworth
Miller) and he says he’s a soldier. The
zombies were everywhere so the inmates were released to fight the zombies. However, he was jumped and is now locked up
here.
The others don’t trust him.
He says he knows a way out of the prison and onto Arcadia
which is safe ship on the sea. He will
tell them the way out when he’s released.
The situation proves challenging when the plane that Alice
and Claire flew in can only take two people at a time, and can only make one
trip. The zombies are coming and the
prison can’t keep them safe for much longer so must they escape.
I would describe this movie as mediocre and pointless. I watched it for the horror and action. There are scary surprises and action, but it
seems like this movie was made to make money first, and tell a story second.
I Am Legend: I saw this movie on Jul. 9, 2013.
I Am Legend movie review
By Tracy Au
This is a movie based on a book by Richard Matheson. It’s about a man named Robert Neville (Will
Smith) who lives with his German Shepherd Sam in a post- apocalyptic New
York City. The
city is overrun by zombies or known as the Infected. It’s very scary because it’s realistic how a
disease can wipe out humanity and turn humans into creatures that lose all
their senses and become raging monsters.
The majority of the movie is Robert by himself as he
scavenges over people’s things and broadcast himself on the radio to find other
survivors. I was skeptical at first if
Smith can carry most of the movie himself and not interact with too many
people. Can this movie still be
entertaining? Yes. There are flashbacks of Robert interacting
with his wife Zoe (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) and his daughter Marley (Willow
Smith) as they escape the city that has recently experience the outbreak.
Isolation and desperation are everywhere as Robert struggles
to find the cure to reverse the effects.
He works tirelessly everyday in his lab by testing on animals and other
humans. He struggles to live a normal
life by talking to mannequins.
Fellow survivors do appear, played by Alice Braga and
Charlie Tahan. There is a very scary,
dangerous, and suspenseful action sequence at the end. It was an unpredictable, well- written, solid
movie. I recommend you all watch it.
Jun. 14 Death Race: I saw this movie on Jun. 2, 2013.
In the future, prisoners race to death on TV for
entertainment. It reminded me of the
movie Gamer and The Fast and the Furious. It’s about a man named Jensen (Jason Statham)
who is framed for murdering his wife. He
is thrown into prison and is separated from his baby daughter.
He is forced to race by the prison warden Hennessey (Joan
Allen) because he used to race back in the day.
If he wins 5 races, he will be released from prison. Jensen has a team to help with his car played
by Coach (Ian McShane), Lists (Fred Koehler) and his navigator Case (Natalie
Martinez).
There is 45 minutes of set up and 1 hour and 15 minutes of
the race. The dialogue isn’t very strong,
but then again you don’t watch this movie for the dialogue. There is a good story as Jensen tries to
figure out who killed his wife and why he was framed for the murder.
There is lots of tension in prison as Jensen has to face off
inmates like Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson.)
This is an exciting, dark, gritty, and violent action movie. There are explosions, and intense obstacles
that leads to gruesome deaths. It’s
filled with creative and aggressive driving.
If you like action movies, you’ll enjoy this.
District 9: I saw this movie on May 9, 2014.
I thought this was going to be an action movie with massive
shoot outs, explosions, and death. There
was that, but there was actually a very strong story with characters that you
can connect with.
This movie looks like a very smart and realistic documentary. In Johannesburg,
South Africa, a big space
ship hovers over it in 1982. The aliens
look like prawns and live in a military ghetto called District 9. Wikus (Sharlto Copley) is a government agent
who works at MNU, Multi National United and he is to enforce that all the
aliens move to another part of the city.
Wikus goes in there and tells the aliens they will be moving
them. He then gets infected with a black
liquid. He slowly becomes an alien and
becomes a science experiment. He
will be killed and have his organs harvested to be
studied. Wikus fights for his life and
escapes to District 9. He calls his wife
Tania (Vanessa Haywood), but the relationship can not be saved.
He becomes an ally to the alien Christopher (Jason Cope) and
his young son who are trying to get back home.
There is a cure for Wikus’s condition on the ship. First, they must get that black liquid that
is in MNU’s lab.
There is a lot of suspense, action, and drama, especially in
the exciting finale. This movie actually
has heart to it and you feel for the characters.
Jul. 17 The Den: I got this media release email sent
to me:
“After receiving a grant for her graduate thesis, Elizabeth
Benton (Melanie Papalia) logs onto a video-chat site known as THE DEN, on a
mission to explore the habits of its users. During one of her random
video-chats, Elizabeth watches in
horror as a teenage girl is gruesomely murdered in front of her webcam. While the police dismiss it as a viral prank,
Elizabeth believes what she saw is
real and takes it upon herself to find the truth. Her life quickly spirals out
of control as she gets pulled deeper into the darkest recesses of the internet.
And eventually, Elizabeth finds
herself trapped in a twisted game in which she and her loved ones are targeted
for the same grisly fate as the first victim.”
Here’s the trailer:
Scream Queen B: I was reading the Edmonton Journal
business section. They have “Capital
Ideas” about Edmonton entrepreneurs
and their tips on how they run their business:
“Scream Queen of the B Scene is written by Lindsey
McNeill, actor-writer-director and former radio journalist. Capitalizing on her
characteristic wit and unfortunate potty mouth, she gives an honest account of
working in a male-dominated industry and how to embrace your inner B to get
shit done.
Her feature film "Truckstop Bloodsuckers" is available on BiteTV.”
Her feature film "Truckstop Bloodsuckers" is available on BiteTV.”
The Golden Vanguard: It’s been 2 months and one of
the editors finally emailed me back from the Golden Vanguard. He’s ending the website because of life
changes and he’s really too busy. That’s
fine. I still have my blog to post my
movie reviews among other topics.
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