Al's Recent Reviews
Johnny Mnemonic
R
A sensational and wickedly cool cyber-edged sci-fi edge of your seat thriller with fantastic speacial effects and explosive action. A dazzelingly original and pulse-pounding ride that will blow your mind. It kick starts the senses and shows great set pieces in a high-tech world. A eye-popping and exhilerating science-fiction creation. It's big, dumb and really fun. It is a cult classic none the less but it has some really over the top acting from an incrediable mis-casted flick. Especially with Dolph Lundgren as a hitman preacher who looks like Jesus, which makes the film very laughable but he is not alone, Henry Rollins as a doctor, more to laugh at. Lundgren still gives an outragiously memorable performance. But its defiantely in the so bad its good category. But the film is still very entertaining and fun to watch.
1408
PG-13
An instant classic. A stunning, shocking and mind-blowing edge of your seat thriller. Even at the end you'll still be amazed. It runs on pure fear-fuel. It's terifying and unforgettable. It's gripping, original and riveting. It's one of the best supernatural thrillers in a long time and is also the best Stephen King adaptation in years. A bone-chilling, blood-curdeling and exhilerating. John Cusack is sensational, a tour-de force performance. Samuel L. Jackson gives a brilliant performance and yet he's only in a few scenes. A freightning and heart-pounding movie. A tremendous thrill and chill fest. It will knock you out and take your breath away. A brilliant and nerve-frying psychological mind-game that knows how to entertain. A till the end nail biter. An excellently well-crafted piece of satisfying excellence. An ingenious and adreniline-fulled rollar-coaster ride. Director, Michael Hafstrom's masterpiece, he carefully crafts most of this film in one area and makes it work. It's The Sixth Sense meets The Shining.
Al's Favorite Movies
Memento
R
A mind-blowing and electrifying thriller. A real classic. Stunning, breathtaking, mind-bending and exhilerating. It's stylish, witty, nail-biting, intoxicating and teriffically addictive. A great body of work. It works from all corners and pieces itself nicely. A masterpiece. It's amazing, astonishing and unforgettable. This film takes it's place as one of the finest crime thrillers ever created. An explosive and hard boiled plot that never let's up for a second. It gets richer with every layer. A real adreniline fuelled cocktail of a film. It will keep you on the edge of your seat then it will be blow you away. The suspense appears from every corner. Guy Pearce gives a brilliant and incrediable performance, he acts with such dedication and nobility to this character. Carrie-Ann Moss gives a strong and compelling performance. Joe Pantoliano is teriffic. Director, Christopher Nolan is an extroadinary new filmmaker of uncompareable talent. A unique and creative style that will only get better. You will want to watch it again and again and it gets better everytime.
The Departed
R
An excellent movie. A relentless, hard- boiled and engaging crime-thriller. A piercing bullet of excitment and head bashing fun. It's sizzeling, crackeling, intelligent, and breathtaking. It's tension-loaded and adreniline-pumping. An instant classic. Director, Martian Scorsese's masterpiece. A powerful, riveting and explosive film. A total powerhouse. It's just simply awsome. Remarkable, enjoyable and sensational. Stylish, slick, brutal, wickedly funny and magnificent. Plenty of twist and turns and relentlessly cool groove all on it's own. An incrediable all-star cast. Every performance strikes gold. Leonardo Dicaprio and Matt Damon are electrifying. Dicaprio has never acted with such fire or power as he does in this. Damon is charming, witty and sensational. Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin are brilliant. Mark Wahlberg is teriffic, he's sly, compelling and fantastic, giving a performance that stands out while being cool, confident and relaxed. Ray Winstone is marvelous. Jack Nicholson has never been better, his best performance in year's.
