It was a classic Knight in Shining Armour story. Boy wins girl, girl gets kidnapped, boy leads rag tag team to rescue girl.
Except this movie was far from Medieval. It was pre-historic.

The story begin possibly somewhere in Europe, where the Hero’s tribe is facing some difficult times. A seeress predicts the coming of great doom on their people, and sure enough many years later, it happens. A band of slavers come and take many men from the tribe as slaves, and also the Woman of our Hero. So our Hero forms a small party and goes off in chase, taking him to Africa and a fictional version of Egypt.

The actors in the movie are relatively unknown to me, but they held their roles quite well and weren’t corny or cheesy and etc.

The movie was also quite short, only an around 1 hour 30 minutes. Story pace was good, though some characters were introduced too late to properly be established by more than a simple narration. There wasn’t enough fighting too, and the fighting scenes, though cool, were somewhat sub par.

It was a good movie anyway, somewhere around 3 stars :)

Hitman Codename 47, the silent modern day assassin, is a popular Anti-Hero from the Hitman game series. And now he has come to the big screen.

Hitman the movie did a good job coming up with a realistic approach to the background of Agent 47 and the organization and giving it a real world feel. But story wise, the movie, kind of lacked (easily understandable) depth and the attempt to give it depth by throwing in so many things kind of failed although did make it a fun no brainer movie. 47’s relationship with the main actress was also kind of weird and corny.

The action sequences were awesome, lots of blood, realistic looking blood, not that fake ass 300 blood, lots of awesome firearms sending bullets flying around and cool stunts and even some cool hand to hand combat. Oh oh, and explosions! :D However I was very disappointed that 47 did not kill anyone using his trademark strangling wire, and the only time it was used was to capture someone and not kill. That cost the movie the most for me.

Overall it was an entertaining movie with fulfilling action sequences (except for the wire part)
3 out of 5 for me :D

p/s - i dont know why, but i was laughing a lot during the movie, it was annoying to others XD

An epic poem of epic proportions, an epic poem that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien to write Lord of The Rings.. Another epic Hollywood flop?

But lo! It is not so! :D

While other medieval fantasy movies flunked (Eragon), Beowulf was an attention grabber that did not dissapoint. Ok maybe I was a wee bit disappointed that there was only two fight scenes, instead of three which I’ve come to expect after reading the wikipedia entry of the poem. I mean, who wouldn’t want to see Angelina Jolie brawl to the death with some hairy muscular dude?

The movie is in full 3D using motion capture technology, with awesome lighting and textures which made the whole movie actually look almost (well not really) real. It was all very well rendered and the characters looked real and almost like their real life counterparts. The music in the movie also adds to the atmosphere and its epicness.

The storyline and characters were deep and involving, providing great atmosphere where the movie actually seemed like something that was historically accurate, depicting the growing influence of Christianity at that time. It might have even implied the Christianization of the Scandavians, or at least depicted the growing influence of the Christian Rome. The story was a little shorter than I would have liked, but at almost 2 hours long it was well worth it.

Great fights, great believable characters, great story which moved at a wonderful pace, great music, great visuals.

Great movie. 4/5 for me :D