A movie that was produced by Bradley Cooper, so guess what? Its about Bradley Cooper. I really felt like none of the other characters were given a chance to fully develop. The story was essentially about Bradley Cooper's discovery of a drug that allows him to use the full mental capacity of his mind to fulfill his abilities to the maximum. It seems like that all he can manage to do with it is make some money.
The movie involves a sub plot of how the drug affects his mind, his relationships and potentially his health and well-being. There are some very trippy camera effects involving a travelling zoom that will mess with your mind.
Bradley Cooper is a favourite actor of mine right now, so a movie all about him is not such a bad thing. However, I felt short changed by the end. At least towards the end there is some attempt at redemption. Definitely worth a watch.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The Horde - French Zombies "zut alore!"
Sarah has a real penchant for Zombie movies. When it comes to horror she isn't usually the biggest fan, especially of anything paranormal. But zombies are obviously not real, so she likes them! Last night she brought home The Horde from work.
It started with a loose plotline to give us a reason why people with guns are in a condemned building in France. During the botched assault the cops and criminals find themselves in the middle of Judgement Day, surrounded by zombies, and watching there friends and neighbours who they just killed in the shoot out come back to get them.
There is some attempts to get a decent plotline in here, and perhaps if I spoke French I would have cared, but I didn't. As zombie movies go it managed to avoid quite a few clichés, building on the success of recent zombie-esque movies to avoid the usual tense moment build ups that are now common place.
It is violent, perhaps not in some aspects and in comparison to other zombie flicks, but watching one of the main characters flatten a zombies face on a pillar was pretty gruesome. One of the key features of this film was the hand to hand combat with the zombies. It suffers from clear editing and frame rate issues, but its pretty imaginative as you don't often see the humans squaring off with the undead. The movie has an overall arc, the beginning and the end essentially showing that everyone ends up dead, zombiefied or not.
If you are a zombie nerd like my wife and I, this is worth a watch. If you are casual on horror's, don't bother.
It started with a loose plotline to give us a reason why people with guns are in a condemned building in France. During the botched assault the cops and criminals find themselves in the middle of Judgement Day, surrounded by zombies, and watching there friends and neighbours who they just killed in the shoot out come back to get them.
There is some attempts to get a decent plotline in here, and perhaps if I spoke French I would have cared, but I didn't. As zombie movies go it managed to avoid quite a few clichés, building on the success of recent zombie-esque movies to avoid the usual tense moment build ups that are now common place.
It is violent, perhaps not in some aspects and in comparison to other zombie flicks, but watching one of the main characters flatten a zombies face on a pillar was pretty gruesome. One of the key features of this film was the hand to hand combat with the zombies. It suffers from clear editing and frame rate issues, but its pretty imaginative as you don't often see the humans squaring off with the undead. The movie has an overall arc, the beginning and the end essentially showing that everyone ends up dead, zombiefied or not.
If you are a zombie nerd like my wife and I, this is worth a watch. If you are casual on horror's, don't bother.
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