Keith's Recent Reviews
Live Free or Die Hard
PG-13
OK, we've sort of seen most of it before, but this 3rd sequel is an entertaining enough film to be worth watching in its own right, and Bruce Willis does them so well. I initially had trouble recognising Timothy Olyphaunt without his Deadwood Cowboy hat and WITH the hair he didn't have in Hitman, but I think he did a good job in the (necessarily recast) villain role. I had even more trouble finding it in the database until I found that the clever Die Hard 4.0 title was used just in Europe.
Operation: Daybreak
Unrated
Hadn't seen this for years, until it turned up on Channel 5 last night. Great (true) story, which looked like it was mainly filmed in the actual locations in Prague. Interesting also to see Martin Shaw and Anthony Andrews in a movie from before they both found their iconic roles in The Professionals and Brideshead Revisited respectively.
Keith's Favorite Movies
Thunderball
PG
Vulcan Bombers, scuba diving in the Bahamas, hydrofoils, great gadgets and some great best practice suggestions on how to deal with underforming staff. My favourite Bond. They don't come better than this!
Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo. (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
R
I used to think "A Fistfull" was the best of the dollar westerns, because the action is tighter and more intense,but over the years I've got to appreciate the full grandeur of The Good The Bad & the Ugly much more and realise that it really is the pinacle of Leone's trilogy. Having re-watched it last night I was gob-smacked it was a UK certificate "18" though.
