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A Perfect Getaway is a 2009 thriller film : A Perfect Getaway starts as young couple Cliff Chris Hemsworth and Cydney Milla Jovovich , are celebrating their honeymoon by hiking to a remote beach in Hawaii that they saw from a helicopter trip they take. They meet up with another couple they run into on the trail and head for paradise. They get news of a grizzly murder on another island and wonder if they should turn back. The other couple is Nick a former Special Forces operative, and Gina his girlfriend. ...
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 2009 action movie ... Nanotechnology yes little tiny robots that can eat anything in their path, good guys , bad guys , lots of cool vehicles and massive lairs for them to perfect their training. This sounds like a 70’s James bond film but that’s what this movie offers us, a world of absolutes and money was no object gadgets. I’ve seen shows of the discovery channel were all this stuff is just a year s off in the future. Here the way the story starts there is this nanotechnology-based weapon capable of destroying an entire city. ...
Orphan: movie review 2009 . Orphan is a horror film about a family that adopts a 9 year old girl into their family after Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John Coleman (Peter Sarsgaard) try to have a third child and fail. Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) is the new addition to the family seems so nice, she has polished manners and like to paint. But, you guessed it there is a dark and sinister secret. After some so-called accidents and weird things start to happen. She gets kind of creepy and you all know how we love scary kids in movies, its been a theme that Hollywood has use for decades. ...
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In the Loop : 2009 In the loop is a very funny British political satire, roughly based on the lead up to current situation in Iraq. The story of a low level minister who has a way of saying the wrong thing, leads him into the loins den, as he is quoted as saying accidentally that a proposed war in the Middle East is "unforeseeable" is that "unforeseeable" or was "in-foreseeable". This is a very funny film it’s like an R rated version of the west wing, but using the English approach to comedy. ...
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen The war between Autobots and Decepticons continues with Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox retuning to help the automotive robots save the world from Evil. Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) heads off to college to continue a normal life, l he soon is caught up were the other movie left off , in an over the top battle of giant robots that can masquerade as regular automobiles .OK, well as you probably have guessed I am really late on this review because, I don’t like to write negative reviews and this movie was below pair and too long, about 20 minutes too long. In the first film 2007’s Transformers there was a innocence to the film, a sense that even older viewers were ok watching a film with a child like plot and this film with its bigger, longer and louder storyline lost in my opinion that whole vibe. Megan Fox looked like an angel and is almost upstaged by her new nemesis Isabel Lucas who plays yes you guessed it a Decepticon that can change shape and just happens to be a drop dead gorgeous blond. ...
The Proposal: movie review year:2009 The Proposal starts as Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) is entering his office were he works as an editor’s assistant for Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is the executive editor-in-chief of a book publishing company. She is his boss and when she is asked to leaves the country because of visa problems she Demands that Andrew marry her so she came stay in the country. With a deal to make him a full editor, publish his book and a warning from the INS, they head off to Alaska when Andrew is from to tell his family. The first thing I’d like to say is this movie is well cast, every actor in this film just seemed to me to right for the part. ...
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Orphan: movie review 2009
Orphan is a horror film about a family that adopts a creepy 9 year old girl into their family Read my review here

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Transformers Revenge of the Fallen . Transformers is back in an all new movie with Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox Check out our review

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Public Enemies 2009: The story of John Dillinger starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale read our review

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The Soloist is based on the true story of Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx) , a musician that los Angeles times reporter Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) encounters in downtown playing a violin with 2 strings. They start to talk and Nathaniel starts mentioning names of people in an offhand way, Lopez asks who they are, he replies that they were classmates at Juilliard; Lopez realizes that he means The Juilliard School of music in New York City. Interested in the possibly of a story, he calls Juilliard and the school calls back and he finds out that Nathaniel was really there and dropped out. So he starts a series of articles on Nathaniel that lead to a cello being donates to him and Lopez then tries to get him off the streets. There is a scene were Ayers is first playing the cello and Lopez is watching on the side of the road by a tunnel, that is truly magical. This is based on a true story and I didn’t read the book or any of the articles so I can’t comment to the truthfulness of these betrayals. I was really thinking that this was going to be the year’s best picture after the first 20 minutes, but despite moving and Oscar caliber performances by both Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. there are some slow spots in the story. The sound effects that try to explain what Nathaniel is hearing in his head is cool as an effect once but the second time became burdensome and distracting for a film that is biased on classical music and the beauty of a full symphony in full concord and just of dropped it down a notch or two. Don’t get me wrong there is magic just not as much as I would have hoped for and the use of wild camera angles and lighting just didn’t bring to life the slow pace of the center of the film.

The whole homeless in Los Angeles issue and the need to reform the welfare system is a touchy subject, as like Nathaniel there are allot of really smart people with talent that end up, living outside and/or addicted to drugs. I wish this film have of had a side story of Lopez and his ex-wife that would have added some depth, and I was interested as to what lead to their situation and that was never really explained…

Directed by Joe Wright
Produced by Gary Foster, Russ Krasnoff
Written by Susannah Grant, Steve Lopez (articles and book)
Starring Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener
Music by Dario Marianelli
Studio Working Title Films, Participant Productions
Distributed by DreamWorks Pictures (US), Universal Pictures (international)

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