It’s been ages since I’ve done any film reviews, so I thought that I’d better get my backside in gear. So without further ado...
The Mortal
Instruments: City of Bones ***** (5 Stars!)
I
loved this film and had to award it a mega 5 stars. I’m reading the book at the moment too and
whilst it’s very different from the book (aren’t they always) I thoroughly
enjoyed it. The story centres on a young
woman, Clary, whose world is turned upside down when her mother is attacked and
goes missing. As a result, Clary finds
out that her mum is a Shadowhunter, a secret group of half angel warriors to
keep the peace between humans and the Downworld. As she finds out more and more about her past,
she enters into a world of demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other
deadly creatures.
I
bloody love that stuff and thoroughly enjoyed it. I guess you could say that it was a bit of a
teen film, a bit of a cross between Harry Potter and The Hunger Games – so if
you like those kind of films, you love this too! Gotta be quick though, cos I don’t think it’ll
be on for much longer. Here’s the
trailer...
Riddick
**** (4 Stars)
I
really enjoyed this film (nothing to do with the fact that it contains the
rather gorgeous Vin Diesel you understand ... yeah right ... my enjoyment was in
direct correlation to the fact that the film was pretty much Vin the whole
way!) however, it didn’t get 5 stars because it didn’t really have too much of
a story (however, because it contained Vin with his bulging muscles out for a
good 99% of the film, I can overlook that!).
The
story ... at the end of the last film, Riddick was betrayed and left for dead
on the sun-scorched planet that film centred around. He finds himself having to fight for his life
against more strange alien creatures’ hell bent on killing him. He discovers a bounty hunter hut and triggers
some intergalactic alarms which alert some deadly bounty hunters to his whereabouts. He then has to pit his wits not only against
the bounty hunters but on the planet’s encroaching alien inhabitants.
If
you like the other Riddick films, no doubt you’ll like this too. Here’s the trailer...
Insidious 2
*** (3 Stars)
Hmmmmmmm
I don’t know what happened here. I did
really like the first one and I was really looking forward to this however, I
don’t think I was in the right frame of mind when I went to see it. I’d had some disappointing news and was in a
pretty bad mood (I very rarely do bad moods, but you really don’t want to be
around me when I do ... I don’t like being around me then either and I hadn’t
had time to ‘adjust’ my thinking before I left the house). To be honest, I don’t think anything would
have scared me when I was in that mood ... in fact, I think if you’d have
bumped in to me when I was on my way to the cinema, I would have been far more
scary than anything you could have seen on screen! I’d have given that kid in the Exorcist a run
for her money.
Anyway,
I digress, back to the film ... If you saw the last film, you’ll remember there
being an old witch that seemed to have returned from the dead. This film follows her story and her fight to
stay in the mortal realm. As the story
progresses, we find out her story and what she did to her son. We also find out the family’s father’s
relationship to the mad woman too.
It’s
defo worth a watch ... just don’t go in a bad mood – let the film scare you,
not the other way round!
By
the way, when I came out of the film, I’m happy to announce that I was back to
my normal self ... phew!
I
have watched other films lately, but they’re no longer on my local cinema, so
here’s a very quick rating:
Pain
and Gain * (1 Star) – shockingly bad – 2 hours I’ll never get back
Elysium
**** (4 Stars) – really enjoyed this one – Matt Damon was brilliant
Right
lovelies, until next time, be fabulous!
Lots
of love
Jx
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