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The third installment of the resident evil film series see’s the survivors of the Raccoon city incident travelling across the Nevada desert in an effort to get to Alaska, supposedly the only place not to suffer from the infected. Alice has separated from the group and is travelling on her own, so as not to be a liability to her friends, eventually she meets up with them and attempts to bring down the umbrella corporation. This film again makes more links to the video game series introducing both Wesker and and Claire Redfield. This film isn’t as good as the second one, there are some very good action packed moments and the virus has spread to birds another new danger however, there are some really long dull parts of the film. It feels liked this film attempted to become more like the video games but failed immensely. They add in all these references and back story and it loses what the previous films succeeded in. The first two films were quite good zombie films but this film doesn’t even feel like a zombie film. Obviously there integral to the story but it doesn’t feel like a horror film, it probably doesn’t help that it’s set in a bright well lit desert. Ali Larter who plays Claire Redfield puts in a good performance amongst a lackluster cast. The scripting is a poor attempt compared to the previous films it just seems to lose it’s spark. 

It’s an okay film, it’s nothing special and probably the least memorable out of the three thus far. I wouldn’t recommend going out to watch this however, Asda is selling the box set of four films for a tenner which isn’t bad for four films. So I reckon that if you got a box set like that you might aswell watch all of them despite it being not as well written as the previous films. 

So there was a sequel to the first Tomb Raider film and believe it or not its even more ridiculous and over-the-top than the last one. To illustrate my point within the first 10minutes of Lara Croft being on screen she punches a shark in the face. I mean what on earth, not even James Bond would do that stuff it’s stupid so yeah. One of the most fatal flaws with these films is her character, nobody likes the person who can do everything. has everything, gets everything. Plus Angelina Jolie totally cannot act. The story is again totally pointless and in no way riveting. It’s like anytime Hollywood has a chance to do a good script or an opportunity to create a good film franchise they just totally undermine that with unecessary, unrealistic action.

So whats the terrible story to uncompany this terrible sequel, well Lara Croft finds a map to pandoras box something she uncovers from a buried underwater temple. Unfortunately the orb ends up in the hands of Jonathon Reiss, a scientist who deals in biological weapons, he intends to use the map to find pandoras box and sell it too the highest bidder.

The film is just totally dull and sometimes downright laughable, but never during the comedic moments. I just find it hard to believe that the first film even deserved a second. Another film to avoid if it’s on the telly.

Omg this film is so ugly. I seriously did not want to review it. The only time the animation looks good is in the flashback sequences the rest of the time its just ugly like seriously ugly. It was totally unecessary to distinguish between the flashbacks and the presents because the characters clearly established that they were talking about past events. It just ruined the film completely. It’s not a good film it’s really terrible. I expected it to be okay after watching the other dead space film but no this is just terrible. Don’t bother to watch it. It was all really pointless, granted it filled in some information between Dead Space 1 and 2 but seriously your better off just checking out the internet for the information because the internet will not scar you. I didn’t bound with any of the characters, I wasn’t interested in the story. It’s just a terrible film. It has so many flaws, the first major flaw is one of the characters daughter vivian, in the flashback sequences she’s white yet in the rest of the film she clearly isn’t like what on earth happened there she just kept switching ethnicities. This film just confuses me, like who worked on this film and thought that they were making something good because it’s clearly terrible. This review is starting to just feel like a culmination of insults but unfortunately thats all I can say about this film. You make a crappy film, you’ll get a crappy review.

Sorry for the late posting I had completely forgotten about uploading this review yesterday. So for this week tanya tuesdays is now tanya wednesdays. I shall however, make sure that next tuesday there is definately a review up for the site. Even if I upload it a day early and put it in a queue. Anyway enjoy the review

Dead Space Downfall (2008, Chuck Patton) is an animated prequel to the Dead Space game. Crew members of the Ishimura, a mining spacecraft, discover an artefact called the marker. The artefact is moved onboard the spaceship and a series of disturbing events occur. Crew members exploring the planet where the marker was uncovered, become violent, suicidal and mentally unstable. All hell breaks loose as one miner brings his dead wife, who commited suicide, onto the Ishimura unaware that an alien, a necromorph lies attached to her dead body. This necromorph then spreads throughout the ship and the body count and alien infestation rapidly rise. Vincent a crew member and her security team attempt to save members of the ship from the outbreak, slowly her team falls prey to the necromorphs and Vincent learns there is no hope for her or anyone on board the Ishimura.

The film is really quite enjoyable. There isn’t a lot of story of character development, the film is just essentially a gory bloodbath. It’s enjoyable though because the gore is not approach in a tacked on way. There are some quite gruesome moments within this film, you see peoples jaws ripped off and the like. The animation is well done, I wasn’t expecting the film to be so well animated.

It was quite unusual watching this film, firstly because Jim Cummings does the voice for one of the characters and unfortunately for me I will never be able to separate Jim Cummings and Tigger. I know he does a lot of voices for films besides Tigger and he is a good voice actor. Unfortunately throughout this film which was obviously supposed to be a horror film I kept seeing Tigger. That’s something more personal for me though. Secondly knowing the ending of the film because I was aware of the games ruined it slightly for me also. There was no climatic moment because I knew they were all going to die, I wasn’t concerned as to whether the characters would make it through the film because I knew they wouldn’t. The film is actually quite good though, I believe you can get it pretty cheaply and you can also watch it on netflix (like I did). It’s definitely worth a watch if your a Dead Space fan, or a fan of gore and violence. It’s even a film that now I’ve seen it, I’d go out an purchase myself actually.

This film is shit. Seriously. I have no idea what anyone was thinking when they worked on this film. Erm I’m not even sure about the narrative with this film. It something about a pendant one gives you mind powers and the other moire body focused like strength. Anyway this evil guy Shuko (Robert Patrick) wants both the pendants unfortunately he only has one. Now if you check out the picture you can totally see where Jedward get their style from. Now this distracted me from the actual film. I found discussing Jedward and the hair was much more riveting than the actual film. I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking this. Anyway the guy wants the other half of the pendant to rule the world, I assume.

The other half of this pendant is with two brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee (Mark Dacascos & Scott Wolf) who clearly have two different mothers, possibly fathers can’t rule that out. The rest of the film then involves the two brothers trying to learn how to utilise the power of their pendent whilst keeping it safe from Shuko. Eventually the brothers get both of the two pendants and unite them so they receive the skills or powers from both pendants. Get these “jazzy” outfits and defeat Jedward-in-ten-years-time Shuko.

The narrative is really cheesy, everything about this film is cheesy, the lines are lamer then the stuff I come out with.

The graphics in this are surprisingly worse than those in Super Mario Bros film. There’s many scenes which depict video games and the graphics in those are a billion times worse then the graphics of games from 10 years before the film. Like how is that even possible, many their intentionally made to look horrible. Whatever the reasons may be it certainly wasn’t a good move.

Now the soundtrack of this film is again horrendous what on earth was up with the song choices for the end credits. It makes no sense, seriously its like having krusty the clown turn up in My Sisters Keeper. It’s wrong, just wrong. It just feels that everything that is involved in this film is just wrong. Nothing appears to go right with this film.

You’d have thought that with this film action would be well thought out. No no no! The punches blatantly don’t make contact. It almost like watching two people try and fight each other from opposite ends of the room.

Just I dunno I feel wrong for even telling people such a film exists. Hopefully I can use this as a warning to tell you to avoid this film. I remember spending half the film talking about Indiana Jones, for your information I was obviously watching this film with someone else not just talking to myself. So yeah go watch some Indiana Jones films there good, heck I would even recommend watching some Jedward videos above this film.

I can’t believe I just recommended Jedward *sigh*