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Walking Tall: The Payback (2007)
Stands On Its Own
Saw this movie and loved it. Without the use of big actors and actresses this movie definitely stand on its own. By now one thing the viewers must realize that this movie has nothing to do with the other walking tall movie. AND YES the walking tall movie with THE ROCK was also changed, which has nothing to do with the original walking tall. so please stop complaining.
Kevin Sorbo definitely does an exceptional job. The one thing that helped the movie is using not so famous actor and actresses other than Sorbo of course. This brought out better acting skills and more, which this movie needed. It wasn't just a hack n slash movie. There was good story, good drama, good action and good acting. AJ Buckley plays one of those perfect bad guys.
This is one of those movies that you can watch many times.
Mercury Man (2006)
beyond the ABCD grading scale. "H" for Help Them & "K" for Kraptastic
I hate giving movies low ratings. Makes me feel like one of those professionals who bash movies. In fact if a movie is bad, I don't write reviews. But I had to write one for this movie.
Story was absolutely, needlessly, mind numbingly bad. I guess they couldn't decide on what plot to make the movie on. There's everything in this movie from thugs to terrorists who not only hate thailand but the whole world.
The movie had a budget of 60 million baht ($1.6 million), which is quite a lot for their currency. I guess they spend most of the budget on the fx. All the FX redering was very well done considering the budget. Probably the only positive thing in the movie.
The director mentioned that the goal of the movie was to appeal to the international movie audience. Well..... FX isn't just enough to appeal to audience. With FX one needs good acting. "Good Acting" this movie does not have. Even if you are watching this movie in thai, you can tell that the actors are quite bad.
The movie's crew involved a lot of people from the crew of Ong-Bak and Tom Yum Goom. Ong-Bak was good. Tom Yum Goom sucked but Mercury Man is better than that. Maybe their next movie will be better.
Constantine (2005)
dark, a little misguided, but does a great job
Even though John Constantine is English and blond, thats not what Constantine is all about. Keanu Reeves did a great job portraying the character, emotions and feelings of Constantine from the comic book. Constantine's dark, don't give a crap humor was portrayed well, but the movie could have had a little more of that.
I was very glad that director Francis Lawrence didn't make Constantine a CGIfest movie, but used it just enough to enhance the story and feelings of the movie. Last but not least a superb soundtrack by Graeme Revel.
And I would like to request moviegoers, viewers and reviewers to stop comparing every single Keanu Reeves movie to The Matrix. Lets get over The Matrix and judge the movies by themselves. Shall we?