Prince of Persia is one of the latest films from Disney. It’s about a Persian Prince (Jake Gyllenhaal) that has been set up for killing the king and his father. He manages to escape death with the princess of the city they had just conquered and a Mystical Dagger. The Dagger he carries has the power to control time, but only for one minute. The source of the daggers power is this special sand that has been blessed by the gods, and to use the dagger you must constantly refill it with this sand.

While on the run and hiding, the Prince must figure out who killed his father and why. Also, he learns that their recent invasion into a nearby city was done under false pretenses and who ever killed the King is also after the Dagger.

Overall, it’s a really good movie — lots of action and comedic relief. Good film to rent or own.

Budget: $150 million
Director: Mike Newell
Starring:
Jake Gyllenhaal
Gemma Arterton
Ben Kingsley
Alfred Molina
Steve Toussaint
Toby Kebbell
Richard Coyle
Ronald Pickup
Reece Ritchie

Iron Man is a 2008 film starring Robert Downey Jr. The film follows Tony Stark (Downey) as he goes to Afghanistan to try and sell the military deadlier weapons. After his demonstration, he’s kidnapped by a gang of terrorists. While in their custody, he develops the Iron Man, so that he can escape. When he returns home, he fine tunes the Iron Man, and begins to use it against people that would terrorize others. Soon he discovers that his kidnapping was the idea and plan of his partner Obadiah Stane (Bridges).

Overall, it is a very good movie, one to watch again and again. Soon, the sequel will b hitting the theaters, then the DVD market shortly after that.

Budget: $140 million
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring:
Robert Downey Jr.
Jeff Bridges
Gwyneth Paltrow
Terrence Howard
Clark Gregg
Jon Favreau
Leslie Bibb

Ghost is a 1990’s film, that when originally seen, left very few dry eyes in the room. I’m not sure what the response would be today, but at the time of it’s release, it was considered one of the best film. It’s still a really good movie. It stars Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, as a couple that were robbed. Only problem, Swayze was killed during the robbery and now has to figure out how to find his killer, adjust to being a ghost, and communicate with the woman he loves, all in a short period of time.

The main plot is about him finding his killer, when he realizes that the robbery wasn’t random. He also needs to protect Moore as the killers didn’t find what they were looking for and will be coming back.

Budget: $22 million
Director: Jerry Zucker
Starring:
Patrick Swayze
Demi Moore
Whoopi Goldberg
Vincent Schiavelli

Repo Men is a 2010 film that hasn’t done very well in the theaters. The primary reason why – it’s not a very good film. The film is about to men, friends, who repo body parts from people that can’t afford the excessive payments on their transplants. The repo men, having a long history, eventually start to fight each other about getting out of the business, until one of them requires a transplant himself to stay alive.

The rest of this boring film is about Jude Law trying to escape his old partner and the corporate man, assigned to recovering his body part.

Overall, the film was boring.

Budget: N/A
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Starring:
Jude Law
Forest Whitaker
Alice Braga
Liev Schreiber

This was an all right film, a remake of the 1981 version. I liked the story and the special effects, but if you have seen the earlier version, you’ve basically seen this film too. Are there differences? Sure, but there aren’t that many. The story is almost exactly the same.

Compared to 1981, the film has more action and more special effects, with several moments of comedic relief. It also has high production value. I just couldn’t get over the fact that it was almost exactly like the old film, which I have seen a 100 times, so there wasn’t anything new.

Budget: $125 million
Director: Louis Leterrier
Starring:
Sam Worthington
Liam Neeson
Ralph Fiennes
Jason Flemyng
Gemma Arterton
Alexa Davalos
Tine Stapelfeldt
Mads Mikkelsen
Luke Evans
Izabella Miko
Liam Cunningham
Hans Matheson

This is a really good 2008 film, starring Will Smith. It plays a new twist on our typical thoughts when it comes to superheroes or people with powers. Hancock (Smith) is a man that has almost everything, including super strength, the ability to fly, bulletproof, and so on. His only problem (flaw) is that he’s a drunk and has amnesia. Over time, people detest him, hate him even, until the day comes when he meets a PR guy, and he helps change Hancock’s image. Over time the reluctant Hancock starts seeing things a little more clearly, transforming into the super hero good guy we tend to expect.

The film is lead by an all star cast. Great film!

Budget:$150 million
Director: Peter Berg
Starring:
Will Smith
Charlize Theron
Jason Bateman
Johnny Galecki
Jae Head

This is the second film in the Twilight Trilogy. I recall watching the first one and finding the film interesting, but didn’t that same sensation watching this film. Though, it may be that way because I’m not the ‘target audience.’ When I watched the film, all I saw was a girl getting attacked by vampires, professing her love for her vampire boyfriend, and constant begging to be turned into a vampire. This type of film, while crafted well, isn’t my cup if tea. It’s main audience are the tweens and housewives, so that leaves me out.

Budget: $50 million
Director: Chris Weitz
Starring:
Taylor Lautner
Kristen Stewart
Robert Pattinson
Billy Burke
Ashley Greene
Anna Kendrick
Christian Serratos
Michael Sheen
Jamie Campbell Bower
Dakota Fanning

Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp star in Tim Burton’s remake of Alice in Wonderland. Alice (Mia Wasikowska), 19, returns to wonderland and meets up with her old friends after being gone for years. It’s quickly made known to the audience, that while Alice has been to Wonderland before, she doesn’t remember any of it.

Wonderland has been taken over by the evil Red Queen and it’s been told to Alice, that she is to fight and defeat the Jabberwocky. The film is loaded with all the characters from the original story – with a Tim Burton twist on most of them.

Overall, it was entertaining, funny, and a good film.

Budget: $250 million
Director: Tim Burton
Starring:
Johnny Depp
Mia Wasikowska
Helena Bonham Carter
Anne Hathaway
Crispin Glover
Matt Lucas
Stephen Fry
Michael Sheen
Alan Rickman

This 1999 film, starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment is awesome. I remember seeing it for the first time in theaters and how fascinated I was, trying to figure out what the relevance of the color red meant; then at the end, when the bombshell was dropped – or should I say the wedding ring. Quickly followed by the revealing shots.

The most memorable line from the film: “I see dead people. Walking around like regular people. They don’t see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don’t know they’re dead.”

Truly a great film!

Budget: $55 million
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring:
Bruce Willis
Haley Joel Osment
Toni Collette
Olivia Williams
Donnie Wahlberg
Mischa Barton

Where to begin with this one. First, if you find that you have an extra hour and a half, it’s highly recommended you do something that you have been putting off. This movie has a terrible plot, pretty much pointless, and holes the size of the grand canyon. So much so, IMDB has a running ‘1000 thousand things I learned from Legion‘ contest going on. In the negative sense.

Honestly, I didn’t finish watching it. There was no point in doing so and it didn’t entertain. The actors themselves did a good job. The film has plenty of recognizable faces, which kinda made me wonder how they read the script and then agreed to do the film. Strange.

The movie has already made it’s production money back, so I guess if I was the filmmaker, I’d be happy about that, but as for the film itself. To each its own, but I know my opinion is in the majority.

Budget: $26 million
Director: Scott Stewart
Starring:
Dennis Quaid
Paul Bettany
Lucas Black
Tyrese Gibson
Adrianne Palicki
Kate Walsh