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Monday, Oct 06, 2008
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Two movie blockbusters that really get the adrenaline pumping and provide a few laughs too |
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| Two movie blockbusters that really get the adrenaline pumping and provide a few laughs too | ||
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By Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid Live Free Or Die Hard Starring: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Maggie Q Directed by: Len Wiseman Now playing Transformers Starring: Shia LeBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Anderson Megan Fox, Rachael Taylor, John Turturro and Jon Voight Opens July 4th I think if I had a personality type that I drew from film, I'd have to say I'm a 'John McClane' type. The type that doesn't necessarily feel comfortable with a lot of geeky gadgets, but goes right for the gusto and gets the job done, saving the innocents along the way. Probably why I've always thought of the 'Die Hard' movies as a guilty pleasure that I love to wallow happily in. And the latest, 'Live Free Or Die Hard' is certainly no exception. This one starts off on the high adrenaline curve I like films to start off on, with McClane confronting his daughter's (Mary Elizabeth Whitsed) 'sort of' boyfriend, who is going a little further with the physical stuff than either father or daughter are comfortable with. Still daughter, Lucy, has to stand her ground and tell dad off for meddling and so the stage is set for McClane's 'human troubles' to at first be on the front burner in his life. This changes quickly when a computer hacker starts a three phase attack on the East coast that shuts down major communications and travel networks, causing massive accidents and snarling everything from buses and computers,.to satellites and cell phones. So McClane is sent to get a young computer wizard (Justin Long), and bring him to D.C., to try and find a solution to the beginning mayhem. Oh, and other computer nerds have all been 'eliminated', read killed, to keep them from finding a way around the hacker/terrorist's plot to stick it to those who fired him from his CIA job, after he shows them how just what he's doing would be possible. So it becomes the job of McClane and his nerdy sidekick to track the hacker, foil his plot to ground the computer network on the East Coast, and also save Lucy (who's been kidnapped by the hacker as a way to get McClane to back off). Lots of great action scenes and plenty of the stuff that made Bruce Willis famous for his portrayal of anti-hero John McClane, who is pretty much an average Joe, who happens to work for the CIA. Also I loved the little jokes between Willis and Long, and the constant excitement when McClane gets closer to nailing the terrorist hacker. Something any true 'Die Hard' fan will love, 'Live Free Or Die Hard' delivers the good and keeps the audience on the edge of their seats, while making them laugh a little too. And if you're looking for even more action and humor, then 'Transormers' is just what you're gonna love. Based on the eighties comic series and toys, 'Transformers' keeps to the established plot of the cartoons and tweaks things with a bit of humor and some seventies/eighties type of silly, but fun, romance stuff that'll keep everyone laughing, even as they're being thrilled by all of the action. And if you're not familiar with 'Transformers', the basic plot's this. Two warring robot races come to earth after they've battled for centuries and destroyed their own world, to look for a special 'cube' which will restore balance, or give the evil robots ultimate power. The two groups are also able to 'transform' from robots to anything from cars, diesel trucks and planes to toasters and 'boom boxes', using their 'technomagic' (my word for what they do), to change ordinary objects into whatever the robots want them to be. Standing between earth's anihilation and the defeat of the evil robots is a young nerd, Sam Witwicky, whose grandfather had found the first visitor of these 'bots, 'Megatron' when he journeyed with a team of explorers to Antartica a century before. On the elder Witwicky's glasses, left at the scene of h is discovery and willed to his great grandson, are the coordinates to find the cube-which he has to do before the evil 'bots find it, so earth can be saved by the good 'bots. Ah yes, and in the middle, and throuhout the younger Witwicky is also trying to win the affections of a hottie from school (Megan Fox). A really fun joyride of a film, 'Transformers' will make you remember the fun of the original series, if you were there at the time, and just make you love films about giant robots if you weren't. Trust me, this is one you want to see on the big screen, with an audience, as that's half the fun of the experience. |
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