There are a lot of good movies coming out this summer, especially from the comic genre. Most of these movies can’t be watched in Kuwait’s cinema because they are going to be chopped up one way or another. I love watching movies in the theaters, its just different then at home so hopefully we will be able to catch most of them in theaters. Any movies to do with comics are always at the top of my list, they have been doing justice to a lot of comic movies over the years so I have high expectations for Iron Man, The Dark Knight, The Incredible Hulk, HellBoy 2, and Iron Man.
Hayden Christensen pulls of this role perfectly, an heir to a multi-billion dollar family fortune with his mother in New York, but the one fault he has is a weak heart. He leads a tough life of a powerful business man still living with his mother who is equally powerful and sly. Hayden is faced with an issue and realizes that he has to have a heart transplant and they have found the perfect donor after a year and a half on the list. While this is going on Hayden has been romantically involved with Jessica Alba for sometime but he only has to admit this to his mother which is a harder task then could be expected. Before going for his surgery, he admits it to his mother that he is in love with her as well as wanting to get engaged to her. The surgery is about to go underway, when he is put under he is still aware of whats going on but unable to move. The pace picks up and each actor plays their role perfectly, it was a good movie to start but just kept on getting better and better. Pieces come together towards the end and you are shocked to what was originally thought out. A very good movie which throws an unexpected twist towards the end, and there is a part which makes is a bit difficult to watch the screen but you still do.
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Guy Ritchie also seems to make interesting movies and when it comes to British Crime movies he always has a different taste to his movies. Jason Statham is also one of my favorite actors, he is good at what he does and he sticks to it. This time he plays Jake Green a gambler who plays a deadly game with the wrong people, Macha is the dangerous casino owner who Jake Green insults and steps all over. The movie is filled with twists and turns, keeping you on your toes with guns blazing, connecting all the parts and being inside his head requires your full attention. I thought it would be better then expected, but it is different then most movies and has a specific taste to it.
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This is a bit odd for a movie that had so much hype. The movie was a bit confusing to start and I was left more confused with a minor headache at the end of the movie. If you suffer any form of seasickness, motion sickness, headaches, migraines, or medical ailment please avoid this movie for health reasons. For the rest of the people, if you have any expectations for the movie then you will be sorely disappointed. I was hoping for something, anything, but no I was left unsatisfied with a minor headache. JJ Abrams didn’t think this one through.
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I’m not the biggest Nicholas Cage fan, over the years I think twice before entering a movie he is in. With National Treasure 2 I wasn’t sure what to expect,and after Ghost Rider I thought it would flop. Turns out I was completely wrong, I enjoyed the first movie and it is rare a second movie surpasses the first one but this did. The clues were fantatstic, you were kept on your toes throughout the movie. Its action packed and I liked the character Cage played as well as the others. The storyline is great,the pace is good, and overall a great movie.
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I enjoyed the original Step Up and I enjoyed the trailer of Step Up 2 The Streets. This time around its the little girl who grew but she lost her mom and she is being raised by her mom’s friend in the same neighborhood. Dancing in her crew is what she knows, but to stay in Baltimore she has to go to school and the MSA is her only chance in, so she goes to this prep school. Andy thought that she would just go to school to stay in Baltimore but she discovers something about herself and dancing. The story is good, the dancing is great, if you even remotely like RnB & Hip Hop music then you will love this movie. I don’t know how many times I just wanted to jump out of my seat while in the movie, its a great movie for those who love dancing and hip hop. They were dancing in ways I can only imagine, its nothing short of mesmorizing.
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The President is in Salamanca Spain for a an important conference against terrorism, Barnes (Dennis Quaid) & Taylor (Matthew Fox) are on the President’s Secret Service Duty list. Things start going wrong very quickly when an attempt is made on the President’s life. Lewis (Forrest Whitaker) is standing the crowd with his camera when all this takes place, and he plays an important role to put the pieces together. This event is told from different perspectives of all the people involved and from all these different perspectives you can piece the whole event together. It does get a little repetitive but because of the quality of the actors they keep you enticed throughout the movie, you get more and more clues as to what is going on. The action is non-stop throughout the movie, towards the end you are curiousty is quenched when you have all the pieces in your hand. Its a very well made and thought out movie, the possibility for this movie to flop was high but the director and the team pulled it together perfectly, really worth seeing.
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Two men leading very different lives, one is a family man who has dedicated all his life supporting his family being a mechanic, and the other man is a self absorbed billionare involved in the making hospitals profitable. Carter (Morgan Freeman) is the family man who discovers he has Cancer and he goes into treatement, he ends up in the same room as Cole (Jack Nicholson) who does nothing but complain about things and makes people’s lives miserable.
Men who don’t have anything in common decide to do the things that they have never done based on this list, the bucket list. Its called the bucket list because its before the list they want to complete before kicking the bucket. Cole and Carter find the middle ground and get to know more about each other, learning more about themselves and about how to live life. A very touching movie with two my favorite actors, I couldn’t help but love the movie because of the story and the characters that they played perfectly.
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I have been looking forward to this movie for some time now, I thought it would just be a regular horror movie but turned out to be a little more then that. David Drayton is living in this town with his family, next to the town is a military base. They had an electrical storm so they had to go into town to get some supplies, when they were in the store a strange mist covered the area around them, some people came screaming from the mist. Something was in the mist and they didn’t know what, creatures were lurking in the mist and they didn’t know what to expect. This turns out to be a good horror movie with an interesting twist, I thought it was going to be ok but it was entertaining with a very good ending. I didn’t know it was based on a Stephen King’s book until the movie finished.
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Adam Brody leads an interesting job an LA, then his girlfriend breaks up with him. He feels that he needs to finish something he started over 11 years ago and he needs to get away from where he is, the break up didn’t help either so going away is a solution. He decides to go stay with his grand mother since she is feeling a bit down, he expects to finish writing all that he has wanted to write as well as take care of his grand mother. He gets pulled into the lives of Megan Ryan and her family. Its a heartfelt simple movie that you do like watching and touches people on different levels, its a nice movie which is meant to be connected on an emotional level, not really a Oscar type movie.
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