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When Spencer goes back into the fantastical world of Jumanji, pals Martha, Fridge and Bethany re-enter the game to bring him home. But the game is now broken and fighting back. Everything the friends know about Jumanji is about to change, as they soon discover there's more obstacles and more danger to overcome. I thought the last Jumanji movie was pretty decent, not perfect, but definitely not bad. If you liked that one you will like this. It is very much just more of the same. The action is like last time, it's entertaining, but not mind blowing. The effects are overall good. They once again have fun with the fact that the characters "in game" represent characters in the movies "real life". All of the cast are brilliant. It seems they'll be another movie judging from the post-credits scene which will probably round up the trilogy. Can't wait for it!

4 years, 3 months ago

AKB48Fan rated Knives Out

 Knives Out 8/10

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When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey dies just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc arrives at his estate to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Thrombey's untimely demise. What a great whodunit this is that's unpredictable and extremely funny, skillfully playing with the tropes and conventions of a murder mystery. All of it's incredible cast are excellent but Chris Evans, Daniel Craig and Ana De Armas give the standout performances. Rian Johnson's direction is great and the movie is extremely well filmed. The music by Nathan Johnson is also fantastic. Many people (mostly Star Wars fans) have avoided this movie due to Johnson's awful directing on The Last Jedi but I say forget about it as you're missing out on a brilliant piece of filmmaking. This is a charming and satisfying mystery/comedy which is well worth watching.

4 years, 3 months ago

AKB48Fan rated 1917

 1917  9/10

4 years, 3 months ago

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During World War I, two British soldiers - Lance Cpl. Schofield and Lance Cpl. Blake - receive seemingly impossible orders. In a race against time, they must cross over into enemy territory to deliver a message that could potentially save 1,600 of their fellow comrades including Blake's own brother. This movie is downright amazing. Definitely one of the best movies of 2019 and one of the best war movies I've seen. It's thrilling, exciting, scary, shocking and heartfelt, all jam-packed into one beautiful movie. The biggest topic of this movie is probably how it looked as if it was shot in one single, continuous take. And there's good reason for it. The one-take format just elevated this whole movie with so much more tension and immersiveness. It's very well done from director Sam Mendes. The entire cast is superb especially George MacKay. His performance was just fantastic and I liked that the story didn't focus on the big names such as Benedict Cumberbatch and Colin Firth. All in all, this is an epic, visceral, stunning depiction of WWI. Buckle up cause once it starts, it doesn't stop. Highly recommended.

4 years, 3 months ago

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AKB48Fan rated The Pot Carriers

 The Pot Carriers 6/10

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James Rainbow is sent to prison for stabbing a man that was doing something with his girlfriend. He gets a job in the prison kitchen and makes friends with a couple of good-hearted career criminals in Bill Jenks and Mouse who keep an eye out for the newcomer. This nice comedy drama could only have been made in Britain. It focuses on the prisoners trying to get one up on the officers by stealing various bits of food, hiding them in places and when they think all is clear cook it up. The more serious theme is around the difficulties in going straight. The old hands have made a habit of coming back to jail, unable to survive on the money they are given on release, unable to resist the approaches of other criminals who recruit them when they learn they’re back on the streets, and unable to see honest work as a better alternative to some easy money. There are shades of what you see in this movie being used later in the hugely successful BBC comedy Porridge starring Ronnie Barker. Although Paul Massie plays the leading role as Rainbow, it's Ronald Fraser as the likeable scallywag Jenks (aka Red Band) who stands out among the cast. An enjoyable prison movie.

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AKB48Fan rated The Body Stealers

 The Body Stealers  3/10

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British paratroopers on a sky diving exercise suddenly disappear from the sky. Two investigators try to figure out what happened and uncover an alien plot to steal bodies of earthlings by snatching them out of the air. An extremely lacklustre and slow-moving British alien invasion movie. There were quite a few of these low-budget movies coming out around this time but this one is really dull because basically nothing exciting happens during the entire story. For the most part we're stuck with jut-jawed wooden leading man Patrick Allen, following him around as he romances blonde women and barking gruff lines of dialogue at anybody who'll listen. Sean Connery's brother Neil (who really does look like Sean as well) is there to support him. The budget for this movie is so small they even have to borrow the Dalek Saucer Ship from one of the Peter Cushing Dr Who movies! I wish there was something positive to say about this movie but there isn't. No action, no real dearth of imagination, and rarely any special effects make this a sci-fi movie to avoid.

4 years, 3 months ago

AKB48Fan rated Raising the Wind

 Raising the Wind 3/10

4 years, 3 months ago

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Mervyn, Malcolm, Alex, Miranda and Jill are music students at a London music school, the (fictional) London Academy of Music and the Arts. They decide to share a flat to pool their meagre grants and to find a place to practise. They suffer the put-downs of the acerbic Sir Benjamin Boyd, who conducts the student orchestra, and the antics of the other talented but eccentric teachers at the school. Below average Carry-on style comedy. I thought with Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas producing and directing it might have been good but it is awful and devoid of laughs. The only person that's any good is James Robertson Justice who has screen presence as the irascible professor who disguises his real opinions of his students by being offensive. It has a great cast that's wasted on a crap script with Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Frazer and Sid James all appearing. Overall this was a pretty big disappointment. The plot doesn't engage but that wouldn't matter if I'd laughed at least once or twice - but I didn't.

4 years, 3 months ago

AKB48Fan rated Beyond the Time Barrier

 Beyond the Time Barrier 5/10

4 years, 3 months ago

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Major Bill Allison flies the X-80 experimental aircraft to sub-orbital spaceflight successfully, though losing radio contact in flight. When Major Allison returns to the airbase it appears abandoned, old and deserted. Mystified, he sees a futuristic city on the horizon and heads toward it. The major is rendered unconscious and captured. He then discovers he has gone forward in time - 60 years in the future where a plaque has more or less wiped out mankind. This movie could have been so much better if it had a bigger budget. Much of the movie is cheesy, and many of the sets are very simple. There's not enough action and too much talking. Darlene Tompkins makes for some nice eye-candy as a mini-skirted mute girl from the future. The highlight of the movie is near the end when Major Allison has successfully come back to the present day and his superiors are shocked that in breaking the time barrier twice he has aged into an old man. This may be no classic of the genre but it does entertain. Fans of low budget sci-fi movies from the 50's/60's might like it.

4 years, 3 months ago

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An impoverished preacher who brings hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for the FBI, and the FBI plans on turning him into a criminal by fueling his revolutionary dreams. I usually enjoy anything by Chris Morris but this movie is a misfire by him. Many will probably watch it because of their enjoyment of Four Lions which was really good but sadly this movie doesn't live up to it. It's got a paper thin plot and a very undeveloped story, the characters are thinly drawn, the laughs are few and far between and it's so far from the satire and sarcasm of Chris Morris at his best. It's not a bad movie but it's not really a very good movie either. I expected more and it didn't really deliver.

4 years, 3 months ago

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AKB48Fan added 2 items to A New Decade! A New Year! Movies Watched In 2020 list

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AKB48Fan added 1 item to A New Decade! A New Year! Movies Watched In 2020 list

Kazuo is an angry young man, especially resentful of the power and snootiness of the rich. But at the same time he's obsessed with Saeko, the daughter of a rich businessman. He tries twice to stop her wedding to a young man from her father's company but fails. Hooking up with a mentally disturbed young prostitute called Canary, the pair steal a car and go on some midadventures together. This is one weird obscure Japanese movie. On watching the first 10 mins you'd think it's just your regular Nikkatsu pinku movie but it's not. It's much more than that and yes, you could call it an art house movie as such due to the photography. As the movie goes on, it gets more strange and surreal and it finishes at a wedding in which 2 "brides" face off and one commits suicide by throwing herself into a window and the broken pane slashes her neck. It's one of those movies where you can hardly believe what you are seeing. Totally bizarre!!

4 years, 3 months ago

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The mighty Long Wu Tian leads a gang of notorious killers known, quite appropriately, as "The Notorious Five of the Dragon Valley." They rape and pillage at their leisure and during one attack leave a pair of children orphans. Years later, Long Wu Tian is after the last 2 techniques in the Mighty Creed book which will make him invincible. The two orphan children who have been separated and are now adults reunite to take down Long Wu Tian. This great Shaw Brothers movie has a female heroine in Ivy Ling Po who could deliver a really solid performance based on the script and hold her own with the boys in martial arts. This fantasy laden movie is one of Ivy's best. I'm not sure if many people will notice this but those with a keen eye will see that some of the stuff pulled by the heroes are very much like Jedi tricks in the Star Wars movies. I wonder if George Lucas was influenced by some of HK movies when he made the original trilogy? There are many great martial arts sequences with some villains having some cool weapons such as a pair of two large rings which can hover in the air like flying saucers. A lot of the fights involve some wire-fu so if you enjoy seeing people flying through the air you'll like this movie. The climax which sees the two orphans take on Long Wu Tian's lackeys, his lieutenants and then the man himself are in for a treat in this extended sequence. The martial arts are very well-choreographed and exciting. All in all, this may not be one of the top Shaw movies, but it’s consistently entertaining and a joy to watch.

4 years, 3 months ago

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Atsuhiro Hiyama is the chief mechanic and an engineer at Supika Racing Factory. He is well regarded by his peers. His younger brother is Naozumi. He is an extremely gifted driver for Supika, but he is also a troublemaker. They continually argue because of Naozumi's reckless racing style. You don't get to see many car racing movies from Japan which is odd given there are many petrol heads in the country. This is a full-throttled movie about speed set in the world of rally car racing. A lot of the movie is centred on Naozumi's fractured relationship with Atsuhiro. Atsuhiro as a mechanic is dedicated to giving his brother the edge in his car but fiercely resents his brother’s egotism and arrogance. The backstory for their relationship is shown in a flashback. A love triangle that ended tragically. This part of the movie didn't really interest me as such. The racing scenes are the highlight with cars zooming, skidding, flying and crashing with adrenaline-pumping impact. Those that love fast cars and racing will enjoy this movie but in the end it didn't do anything for me.

4 years, 3 months ago

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Vineyard owner Marquis Philippe de Montfaucon is asked to return to his chateau after another disappointing season. Although he requested them not to, his wife and children soon join him at the remote rural estate. Every employee there acts mysteriously and even the loyal Philippe all of a sudden seems to keep secrets to his beloved wife Catherine. Intrigued by the strange behaviour of her husband and the odd people wandering around the estate, Catherine starts her own investigation and discovers that Philippe's bloodline always followed bizarre and old pagan rituals (even involving blood sacrifices) in order to save the crops. This movie has the ingredients for a decent shocker. Spooky chateau. Eerie shrouded monk-like figures. Paganism. Black magic. The movie has a sinister feel and several haunting/extremely atmospheric sequences. The themes of witchcraft and devil worship are well used and at the forefront at all times. The siblings played by David Hemmings and Sharon Tate make for a creepy pair. David Niven and Deborah Kerr take the lead roles, and the pair are given excellent support by a young Donald Pleasance. The only area that the movie falls down on really is the writing; as it is often difficult to decipher exactly what is going on, and there is, perhaps, a little too much plot for a movie of this nature. There's still a lot to recommend it though so give it a go.

4 years, 3 months ago

AKB48Fan rated The Anonymous Heroes

 The Anonymous Heroes 6/10

4 years, 3 months ago

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Two vagabond brothers, Meng Kang and Tieh who, in the search for fame and fortune, join in a rebellion against a provincial general. They are recruited by a local rebel leader who promises them a glorious adventure. The rebels plan is to steal a huge cache of new rifles set to be delivered to the barracks of the local army. This Shaw Brothers favourite is another collaboration between the two biggest Shaw Brothers stars of the era, Ti Lung and David Chiang, and director Chang Cheh, Shaw's number one action director. It's a typically action-packed adventure, filled with the brim with the frenetic fight scenes that Shaw are known and loved for, and a movie that's very easy to like. The movie's also got a surprising lightness of touch, with plenty of comedy and humour thrown in along the way, although of course things develop into a deadly serious climax which is inevitably the highlight of the whole movie. It's solid Shaw; not one of the studio's absolute classics, but a thoroughly entertaining movie nonetheless.

4 years, 3 months ago