'The Invisible'[2007] Review

This is the story of Nick Powell(Justin Chatwin is also filming for Dragonball he will be Goku) a student raised only by his mother, a woman with a "perfect" life that never shows her feelings. Nick is a senior student who dreams at leaving USA and going to London to become a writer. The other character, important to this story is Annie Newton(Margarita Levieva) a child with a short temper who lives in a broken home. Nick and Annie both lost one of their parents at and early age.
Nick's dreams are shattered when he is betrayed by his best friend Pete(Chris Marquette) in order to save his skin and when beaten to death by Annie, who though that Nick turned her in to the police. Abandoned in the woods Nick shortly realizes that he's "invisible" the others. Trying to get the attention of those who are searching for him he is confident that he is dead. Only he finds out he's not dead he's near death, but how can he lead the cops to his body if nobody hears him. Nobody? No. There is only one person who can hear his voice, Annie, the same person that almost killed him.
His quest is now to persuade Annie to tell the cops where she left his body. Will he succeed? Will he find his body? It worth seeing for yourselves.

'The Invisible'[2007] Trailer:

'Harsh Times'[2005] Review

I've seen this movie a few months ago, it was made in 2005, but I haven't heard of it until 2007, lack of publicity. This movie is directed by David Ayer the creator of: Training Day(2001) and the one who made the screenplay for: S.W.A.T.(2003) and The Fast and the Furious(2001). Some people told me that Harsh Times is "Training Day 2", because of the style and those who enjoyed Training Day sure will like to see Christian Bale(ex-Ranger Jim Luther Davis), Freddy Rodríguez(Mike Alonzo) and Eva Longoria Parker(as Sylvia).

The story starts with ex-Ranger Jim Davis who mets his best friend Mike "Miguel" Alonzo in order to have a few beers and to cruise around Los Angeles. Jim is hopping to be recruited in the L.A. Police Department. Jim seems to lose his minds, not being able to make distinction between reality and his memories from war. He becomes mad when he finds out that he was rejected from Los Angeles Police Department due failure of psychological test. He starts acting violent, gets involved in a few fights, robs some gangsters and drug dealer. Good news come fast and Jim finds out that he will be recruited by the Department of Homeland Security for a job in Columbia against a drug lord.

Because of Jim, Mike gets into a fight with his girlfriend Sylvia and tries to get a job to prove that he's not "good-for-nothing". The line that I like the most is: "You're crazy and you're dangerous! And my biggest nightmare is you with a badge!" when Sylvia is having a fight with Jim. So basically Jim is begging to lose his mind when he tries to kill his girlfriend, the same woman he wants to marry, because she told him that she is pregnant.

This drama is one of the best movie in which Christian Bale performed since Equilibrium(2002).

Trailer 'Harsh Times'[2005]:

'The Nines'[2007] Review

A few days ago John told me about "The Nines" and made me curious, so today I've saw it. And for 3/4 of the movie I was like: "What the hell is this?" I was not getting anything from the movie, although John told me the plot. First I thought it was the wrong movie, it was not the one that John was referring to. But soon pieces came together and at the end I could say: "It was a good movie!".
The main character is interpreted by Ryan Reynolds and actually this character is in three different roles. The main idea of the movie is that there are beings more powerful that humans, from a scale from 1 to 10 humans are number 7. God is the supreme being so it will be 10, and below God there are the nines, beings with a lot of power and that can travel between dimensions, and Gary/Gavin/Gabriel(Ryan Reynolds) is one of them. Only G is a junkie, his drugs are humans, he likes to spend time between them to make sure that they are ok. But this drugs turns against him, when the other nines come to take him back, in order to remember what he was. So because he spent so much time with the humans he started to feel something for one of them. But in order to become what he has forgotten he decides to live the humans behind.

Trailer "The Nines":

'I Am Legend'(2007) Review

What would you say, if you will turn to be the last man on Earth? What would you do, knowing you are the last chance humanity has? Would you go crazy, if after three years of struggling your only friend is you dog and you can exit your house only from dawn till dusk? At this questions must answer Robert Neville(Will Smith), a high ranked military, who wants to find a cure for the virus that has corrupted the world. The virus was initially created to cure cancer and soon spread into the whole world transforming the infected ones into zombies. After three years of loneliness Dr. Neville and his dog Sam are fighting their way through what's left of 2012's New York City. Neville is among those 1% of Earth's population immune to the virus. After three years from the outbreak he's lost all of his hope because of not coming close in finding the antidote for the virus, always reviewing the time he lost his wife and daughter during the evacuation of New York City population Neville seems to be near losing his mind when his best friend, the dog, Sam dies in his arms.

After losing Sam, the only thought that Neville has is to die taking with him as many zombies he can. In his attempt of "suicide" Neville is rescued by a young girl Anna(Alice Braga) who heard Robert Neville's radio broadcasting and came to New York City. Although Neville considers the zombies are not human and the only thing that matters to them is providing food, they seem to be extremely well organized and lead by the most powerful of them.

Because Anna was careless when she rescued Neville, zombies followed her home, they are ambushed by zombies and when everything seemed worthless Neville realizes that he found a cure for the disease, but he sacrifices in order others to live.

In 'I Am Legend' Will Smith performed a beautiful interpretation of his role, a very dramatic one, and although there have been several movies made on the subject of global infestation and zombies this was the one i liked the most. With a hand of actors, the film director Francis Lawrence(the creator of Constantine) succeeded in making an outstanding movie.

*And because it's 24 of December:

"Merry Christmas to all! Wherever you might be..."

'This is England'(2006) Review

As it was expected, it's movie time review.
'This is England' made in 2006 directed by Shane Meadows. The time of the story is placed in England, year 1983, main character is a small boy named Shaun(Thomas Turgoose), a 12 year old boy that lives only with his mother and who's father died fighting in Falklands War. One day when the schools were breaking for the summer holiday, after Shaun has a fight at school with a kids that picks about Shaun's dad, he meets Woody(Joseph Gilgun) - a teenager charismatic Skinhead - who seems to like Shaun and take him under his wing. Woody and the rest of the gang embrace Shaun and treat him like one of their own. Shaun also likes his new friends and shortly after joining the group he becomes one of them by adopting the same haircut, same clothes and always hanging around with his new friends.

The situation changes when one night at one of their parties recently prison released Combo(Stephen Graham) - an old Skinhead - returns home. Once best friends Combo and Woody now divide the gang in two. Blaming England's economic woes, growing unemployment and post-war grievances on the influx of foreign minorities, Combo persuades Shaun and other members of the pack to make a stand, preserving England for the English. After attending a meeting of right-wing nationalists, Combo takes his new found gang of hooligans to threaten the local Pakistani community.

The end of the movies reveals Combo's emotional battles with loneliness and isolation. Combo's hate and envy overflows when one night, he turns his rage against the only black member of the gang, Milky(Andrew Shim). Combo's explosion of fury ends tragically with Milky's death which changes Shaun's viewpoint.

For those interested in more details about this movie:
- pictures from making "This is England";
- trailer for "This is England";
- imdb page for "This is England";
- official page for "This is England";