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NO NEW OPENINGS … TIME TO
CATCH UP!!
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1. FINAL DESTINATION 5:
Couldn’t be all that final because the first of these movies was released in 2000 and has had a sequel every other year since. The premise of this one is the same as all the others … a group of young people cheat death – in the original, it was a premonition of a plane crash that had them exit the aircraft before it crashed on takeoff – but Death does not like to be cheated, and it comes to get its due … one by one. This time the teens are on a bus on the Lion’s Gate Bridge when a cataclysmic event has the bridge come unwound in a great special effect … and then, have escaped, they are hunted down one-by-one. Rated 14A.
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2. APOLLO 18:
This is another of those we-found-the-lost-tape stories not unlike the Blair Witch Project or the Paranormal Activity movies. This time the story has us believe that Apollo 17 was not the final moon mission, but rather that there was one more in which something terrible happened on the surface of the moon. The mission was kept secret, and the terrible things that happened on the Lunar surface have been classified … up until now, when the found films and tapes are spliced together to offer an explanation as to what happened. Not very well done, not very believable, and not very satisfying at its conclusion. A no-name cast is used to perpetrated the thought that this really happened. Rated 14A.
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3. BLACKTHORNE:
Here’s another story I’m not buying. Mexico is the locale, and the subject is Butch Cassidy, having escaped from the law, and having survived the gunfight that ended the original movie in 1969. Played by Sam Sheppard, Butch want to see his home again, wants to go back to the States where they all think he’s dead. It doesn’t take him long to align himself with a young robber where the adventure begins again. This one is non-theatrical having gone directly to DVD. Rated 14A.
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4. FINAL DESTINATION 5
Worth watching just for the extended disaster sequence in which the bridge twists and turns and eventually falls into the water … the locale is Oregon, but the setting is the Lion’s Gate Bridge … and it’s very, very realistic.
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TAKERS:
Despite some serious plot holes, this is a pretty good thriller. Will you see the ending coming? Probably!
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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
Graphic and tough, gritty with sexual violence, but for those who read the book or saw the original movie, very satisfying depiction
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THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN
Outstanding animation – clearly Oscar material for Steven Spielberg
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WE BOUGHT A ZOO
Matt Damon is excellent in this based-on-fact family drama
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WAR HORSE
Saving Private Ryan meets The Black Stallion, but a beautifully-told story
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THE DARKEST HOUR
A serviceable sci-fi thriller!
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