Taken 2

In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter

Ok remember how Liam Neeson killed all those guys in Taken?  Turns out they had families.  Said family are now out for revenge.  Basic plot.  So far so good.
  So Liam is heading to Istanbul to work security for some dude, they don't really say and he invites his ex wife and daughter to join him.  See his ex wife is getting divorced from her current husband and he canceled a romantic vacation they had planed.  So you know nothing says romance like Istanbul. 
Once there The bad guys show up and TAKE Liam and his ex wife, so he has to call his daughter to help him escape, and save the day.
  First issue, when the group of bad guys show up the first time Liam is beating the crap out of them until they bring out his ex wife with a gun to her head.  He pulls out his phone and calls his daughter.  Yes they let him talk on his phone.
  Then his daughter finds him and they have a huge car chase scene.  Problem is, is his daughter keeps flunking her driving test in the states.  Yet somehow she can weave in and out of traffic during shootouts in a foreign country.
  Plot twist aside the film is ok.  I say ok because of the way the fight scenes are filmed.  It looks like it was filmed by an epileptic on a trampoline.  
If you can handle shaky cam fight scenes your fine.  The plot is exactly what you expect, and it has a nice 90 minute run time so its hard to get board.  Not as good as part one, but a good way to kill an afernoon.

Overall 3 out of 5 stars

Crawlspace

A special forces unit sent, to infiltrate Pine Gap Australia's top secret underground military compound, come under attack from unknown forces

Ok, let me say this before I start, the last good Australian film I saw was Dead End Drive In.  That was about 25 years ago.  So needless to say I was interested to give Australian cinema another chance after years of crap.  Crawlspace, suffice to say peaked my interest in Australian Horror once again.
  Set inside an underground facility, a group of soldiers go in to investigate a security breach.  What they find is a facility that is doing experiments on people. 
  They set off into a giant maze of "Crawlspaces" looking for various escapees, and instead encounter at first a giant razorback type monster, random crazy's an evil scientist, because you have to have one of those in every good film, and a bizzar girl named Eve who has telekinesis.  Seem she was heavily experimented on and can now make people see things via her mind.
  The title fits as the film does take place mostly in a crawlspace.  Its done quite well.  It has the same claustrophobic feel that the original Alien film had.  Followed that up with good special effects, both practical, and CGI, and a very good cast and you have yourself a hell of an entertaining suspense filled ride.  I should note I did get a few jump scares. 
  Overall I would highly recommend checking this out.  In the world of remakes, this is a fresh, and new concept.

Overall 3 out of 4 Stars!

Dredd 3D

In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO

  Not to be confused with the Stallone Judge Dredd (Which I actually liked) this one is much more true to the comic.  Violent, over the top, action packed, and cheese as all hell.

  In the future, law enforcers are Judges.  Judge, as in Jury and Executioner as well.  There cops who can give sentence to the criminals they go after.  Life, parole, warning, death sentence.  Judge Dredd is the most feared Judge in Mega City One. 

  The plot is simple, Dredd and his new partner, a really hot psychic rookie judge are investigating a homicide at a block in a slum area.  The block is actually a giant high rise building that is being controlled by a crime lord named Ma Ma.  She is producing a new drug called Slow-Mo which gets you so high it makes you think time is slowing down.  Dredd and his partner take a suspect in for questioning, but before they can leave Ma Ma, who doesn't want the perp giving up any info on her organization has the building locked down, and orders Judge Dredd and his partner killed.

What follows in about 70 minutes of over the top action as Dredd must make his way up the Block to get to Ma Ma (Bad guys are always on the top of the high rise) amid chain guns, thugs, dirty cops, and random Block Dwellers.  Violence galoer, with over the top gore make this not only a winner for fans of the book, but for action lovers as well.

Highly Recommended!

3 out of 5 Stars.

The Feed!

Plot Synopsis: Having secured what appears to be the ultimate venue in the form of the historic Brenway Movie Theatre, the Ghost Chasers, a team of reality TV paranormal investigators, are confident that their annual live broadcast will be one of their best shows to date. However, when the sleepy Central Pennsylvania movie house turns out to be a bit more active than they had anticipated, the prospect of record-breaking ratings quickly takes a back seat to the basest of all human instincts: Survival.

Ok, let me start off by saying I hate ghost stories.  The Ring, The Grudge, they suck.  I hate Paranormal films.  Paranormal Activity 1 & 2 are two of the dullest films ever made.  And lastly I hate Ghost Hunter shows.  There lame.  They usually consist of a group of nerds who go into a house, act like there bad asses, and never find a thing.  With that said I loved The Feed.  Which is strange because its a Ghost movie, sort of, let me explain.
  The Feed is a bout a group called The Ghost Chasers.  There going to do a live television broadcast from a supposedly haunted theatre.  See years ago there was a fire in the theatre when a projector was loaded wrong causing the film to ignite.  See old film is highly flammable.  Its how Brad Pitt was able to kill Hitler.  Anyway the guy running the booth died in the fire.  Over the years strange occurrences began happening, concluding with a family being murdered in the theatre basement.  The theatre is still open to this day, and the new owner allows the Ghost Chaser TV show to do a live broadcast.  The usual stuff happens, like in all those shows.  Reading off the charts, noises, flickers here and there, really ghost showing up.  Yes turns out the place is really haunted by vengeful ghosts.
  See here is why the film works.  For starters the movie is actually the live broadcast of the show, complete with commercials.  My favorite commercial is for a shady lawyer played by Lloyd Kaufman from Troma fame.  You are actually watching the live broadcast. Interviews with staff, full back story on the theatre, the team acting cocky, everything.  What really sets it apart is how they all act when everything turns out to be real.  Like I said I don't want to spoil anything, but personally I would be scared if a ghost came after me.
  The acting on this film is quite good for an independent film.  You can tell the cast really enjoys, and believes in what they are doing.  The production levels are also very slick, it has the look and feel of a live broadcast, but at the same time you know your watching a movie. It gave my wife and I a couple of good jump scares, and trust me when I say that does not happen very often. And finally it takes some of the old familiar cliches and adds realism to it, not an east task.
  Overall I highly recommend it to all fans of Indy Horror, and Supernatural films.  Very cool.  Here's the link to purchase.

http://www.thefeedmovie.com/

Overall 4 out of 5 Stars.

The Big Boss a.k.a. Fists of Fury

Plot Synopsis: A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear

  Ok, before I get started let me get this out of the way.  I like this film, a lot.  With that said its original title should have been Sum-Dum-Fuk-Family.
  Its about a guy (Bruce Lee in his first big film role) who goes to live with his cousins, in search of work.  They get him a job at the local ice factory.  Once night a couple of the cousins notice heroine in the blocks of ice.  They go and tell there boss.  He has them killed, as he is a drug smuggler.
  The rest of the genius's cant figure out what happened to them, they know they went to see the boss, the big boss I should say, so they go see him too.  They also get killed.
  Bruce Lee decides to go see him as well, but as hes the star of the film the boss offers him a Foreman job.  He finds out the ice factory is a smuggling operation, then finds his dead family.  He goes home and finds the rest of them dead as well, see they went to see the boss to.
  So Bruce goes back to see the boss.  But hes Bruce Lee, he strolls in eating his lunch, then calmly kills everyone, then get arrested. 
  Yes I know it sounds awful, if you've never seen it, but it is fantastic.  Yes its dumb as all hell, but the fighting scenes are light years ahead of there time.  And Bruce Lee has gallons of charisma, making the film that much more enjoyable.  Check it out

Overall 3 out of 5 Stars

Recoil

Synopsis: A cop turns vigilante after his family is murdered, exacting vengeance on the killers - and then on all criminals who have slipped through the system

You know whats great about Stone Cold Steve Austin films?  They have no plot, and little dialogue.  In this one Stone Cold plays a former cop whose family has been killed, so he does what any cop whose family has been killed in a movie does.  He drives from town to town killing bad guys.
  He pulls up into a small town ran by Danny Trejo's biker gang.  They sell dope, shakedowns, t=gun trafficking, the usual bad shit.  So Austin kills all of them, then drives off.
  Yes, that's it.  His fight with Trejo is very dark, but I'm assuming that's to try and cover up the fact that when you see them standing side by side Trejo looks like a midget. 
  Violent, naked women, short sentences make this everything you want in a low budget action film.  Just beware.  Seeing Danny Trejo in 1080P Blu Ray can be frightening

Overall 3 out of 4 stars

Burning Moon

Plot Synopsis: The Burning Moon centers on two bedtime stories that a delinquent brother reads his kid sister. These disturbingly morbid stories focus on a serial killing blind date and a murderous, psychotic priest

  So Burning Moon is finally out on DVD, and worth every penny.  Looks and sounds great.  Its a bout a fat, psycho drug addict who's parents make him baby sit his sister on night.  What kind of parents are these people?  So he does what any psycho drug abusing ass would do.  Shoots up some heroin and decides o tell the little girl a few bedtime story's.
  The first is about a guy who breaks out of the looney bin and terrorises some chick he goes out on a date with.  Pretty cool story, he wipes out her whole family.  The 2nd is about a priest who is really a devil worshiper going around killing people.  Whens the towns people (As I have said before towns people are always stupid) blame some big off and murder him, vigilante justice style he comes back for revenge.  Full on revenge. 
  This film is very violent, and gross.  Decapitations, guts ripped out, stabbings, drills to teeth, you name it.  Its like an X Rated Tales From The Crypt.
  Check it out!

Overall 3 out of 5 Stars