Cowboys and Aliens

Cowboys and Aliens Poster

This is exactly what the film is about funnily enough…….. (Note the sarcasm in my writing). With a solid cast it was set up to be something of a bit of a blockbuster, and that is exactly what it is. With some ridiculous effects and some good performances, this is something of a dark horse for blockbuster of the year. (Realising the fact that transformers: dark side of the moon) wasn’t what it was cracked up to be.

Starring Daniel Craig (James Bond), Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones), and the beautiful Olivia Wild (House), it is basically about Jake (Daniel Craig), wakes up in the middle of the desert not knowing his name or where he is from, and so the story starts. He eventually has to team up with his arch enemy to overcome the alien invasion, but what is interesting about this story is the relationship between Ella (Olivia Wilde) and Jake (Daniel Craig) as not everything is as it seems, which makes a good twist in the story.

The whole movie cant help feeling like a B-movie, but a good B movie at that, I and my  fiancée both really enjoyed the film surprisingly, considering I wasn’t expecting much from it, and I had heard very mixed reviews about it. But I thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and I would recommend the film. Probably not worth a buy but definitely worth a rent.

The soundtrack is pretty good, typical spaghetti western  music.

Overall an enjoyable experience , and definitely worth a watch.

Enjoy!

Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto

Mylo Xyloto Album Cover

So this is the long awaited album from Coldplay after what I thought wasn’t a very good album in Viva La Vida, there was only one song that I enjoyed in that album. Luckily this album is much much better than the last and is a huge improvement.

It has some killer songs, and really uplifting vibe about itself, with songs like:

“Paradise”

“Every Teardrop is a Waterfall”

“Princess of China”

All of these songs are excellent, you may have noticed that these songs are or have been released as singles, but these songs really are the best on this album, sometimes you will find some songs that are really good but haven’t been released as singles on an album, unfortunately it is not the case with this album, however you wont feel short-changed as these 3 songs really set a high standard for the other songs on the album.

Like I said earlier the album is uplifting and is shown very well through the theme of love. Chris Martin and CO have done a really good job of getting a new record out that is really good and could have possibly broken the mould of having a really annoying voice (I have never supported people saying that he has an annoying voice).

Overall a really good album which I would be recommend to people who are fans of Coldplay and also new fans of Coldplay. Very good and worth shelling out the money for.

Horrible Bosses

Horrible Bosses

I wanted to see this film in the cinema, and completely forgot about it until it appeared out on DVD about 4 – 5 weeks, I was very quick to snap it up and see what it was like. With a good cast like Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston and the brilliant Kevin Spacey, I thought this was going to be a brilliant film. Don’t get me wrong it’s a good film but it’s not brilliant.

The story goes that 3 men all have “Horrible Bosses” but when one of them takes another ones joke too seriously it ends up with the 3 of them planning to kill their “Horrible Bosses”.

The 3 Horrible Bosses are portrayed very well by Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell. Kevin Spacey plays the egotistical, know-it-all boss who only promotes himself in the organisation. Jennifer Anniston plays the sexy boss who wants to wind her colleague up, and she tries to persuade him to sleep with her even though he is engaged, this story comes with some hilarious consequences and finally Colin Farrell plays a boss who is hell bent in just laundering money out of his deceased father’s company to pay for his drug and prostitution habits.

The 3 colleagues are played by Jason Bateman (Kevin Spacey’s employee), Charlie Day (Jennifer Anniston’s employee) and Jason Sudeikis (Colin Farrell’s employee), all 3 of the actors play the parts of the disgruntled and harassed employees very well, and I can imagine that some of the situations unfortunately, are realistic. (Fortunate if you were Charlie Day’s character).

Throughout the film you feel like something is missing but you quite put your finger on it? It is a good film but I don’t think there are enough funny moments through out the film to keep you thoroughly entertained. Rather than being one great big great film, its broken up into small moments, and they do just enough, but never excel your expectations, which brings me to whether or not I thought it was funny.

I will leave that verdict up to you; I would recommend it purely based on it being quite realistic in some of the situations you can be put in the work place.

Overall, good film but only worth a rent.

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (IV)



Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol



So here we are again, Mission Impossible 4, yes! 4 is finally out. After the last 2 instalments I was a little hesitant to see this one, however my beloved young lady wanted to see it, so I decided to take her and see what it was like, well I can say that I was surprised to say the least. Mission Impossible 2 wasn’t that amazing and number 3 wasn’t all that great either, so my expectations were naturally low.

Tom Cruise returns as the ever elusive and charismatic “Ethan Hunt”, Simon Pegg plays the loveable idiot (as usual) ”Benji”, Jeremy Renner plays the secretive and deadly “Agent Brant” and finally the beautiful Paula Patton plays the sexy part of “Agent Carter”.

This time around, the group of agents are trying to stop an international terrorist before he starts world wide nuclear war. This is the crust of the story and I don’t really want to go into to much detail about the storyline because there are so many on the edge of your seat moments and brilliant pieces of acting that you wont want me to spoil them for you.

It literally is on the edge of your seat action. It is absolutely brilliant, and I am not going too far by saying that it is one of the best action films of the year, if not, the last 5 years. It completely and utterly eclipses the last 2 instalments of the series, if not, the first as well.

Tom, Simon, Jeremy and Paula’s chemistry is excellent, and as an audience member you want them to get to their target and complete the mission. They are an excellent cast and have even better balance between them, one being from a comedy background, one of them being a serious character, one of them being sassy and sexy and last but no means least, Tom Cruise, well he is just himself.

The soundtrack is excellent and really helps to give off the non stop vibe. Orchestrated by Michael Giacchino, whose previous works include the likes of “Lost” (one of my favourite soundtracks of all time) and previous instalments of the series, he certainly does a grand job of setting the pace.

BMW i8 is the feature car!

Unlike other films there are several things that this film gets to show off like, some new weaponry and a brand new BMW concept car, which could possibly be the most beautiful car in the history of all cars (Yep! I just said that). It also shows some environmental effects by being in places like Dubai. Brad Bird (the director) has done a wonderful job with putting in different elements. I.e. not just having to worry about the ability of your enemy but also the huge sand storm coming towards the tallest structure in the world (Currently).

So it is an un-missable film. Absolutely brilliant and definitely the best Mission Impossible (So Far!).

Would I pay £8.55 to go see it again ? Hell Yeah! (Thank You Ebony!)

Drive

Drive Poster

I cannot begin to explain how excited I was to see this film, the trailer was gripping, plus it had won awards at Cannes Film Festival. I was lucky to be able to view an American copy of the film as it has already been released in USA. The film stars Ryan Gosling as “Driver” and Carey Mulligan as “Irene”, and is basically about Ryan’s character who is a by day a stunt driver for Hollywood films and by night, a driver for people that want a getaway.

This film is literally all about the atmosphere, before you think you are going to see the new “Fast and the Furious”, make sure you think again, it’s about loving someone, it’s about sacrifice and it’s about the relationships between people.

Ryan Goslin probably says about 100 words throughout the whole film. He doesn’t have much dialogue; however he really makes the character stand out among characters of the same stereotype. Irene is the drivers love interest and you basically watch their relationship flourish until the story really kicks in, when the husband of Irene comes out of prison and moves back in with her and their child. Driver and Standard (Irene’s Husband) strike up a friendship as he realises that he has looked after Irene and his son.

The Finale of the film is all about Standard and Driver doing one final job to help Standard pay off a debt to someone important in jail which is connected to one of the characters that is close to the driver’s life. I won’t tell you who it is, because you should really watch the film and I don’t want to spoil it for you.

The one thing I will warn everyone about is that in the second half, when Driver decides to take revenge and clear up the mess that has been provided by certain characters in the story it gets extremely violent, the expression Ultra-Violent comes to mind. When I first saw people writing about it, I just thought that they must have been over reacting. They really weren’t over reacting. It makes the like of Human Centipede look like the teletubbies. Some people said it was over the top, I say its necessary because it’s about time that people start to realise you cannot hit someone over the head with a hammer and for them to continue on living. This shows the true portrayal of violence and I applaud the director for having the balls to do this, so well done!

The soundtrack is very good, with 80’s music blasted all over the presentation. It fits the film very well with the clothing, but with modern day cars you can tell that it is set in the present day. But it works completely, a very gutsy move that works.

Overall it is a good film, some will appreciate the artistic side of things concerning the film, others won’t fair to well with it (Like my fiancée). Definitely worth watching.