Movie

Under Siege (1992)


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Under Siege (1992)

Director:

Andrew Davis

Starring:

Steven Seagal

Tommy Lee Jones

Gary Busey

Plot:

A former S.E.A.L., now cook, is the only person who can stop a gang of terrorists when they seize control of a U.S. Navy battleship.

Review:

I am not a Steven Seagal fan, but my husband likes some of his movies, so I end up watching them as well.

 As far as action movies go this one wasn’t bad. I thought the knife fight looked like a slap fight, but I’ve been informed that’s how it’s supposed to look. Also, I’m very grateful that when Seagal was doing his “kung fu” the camera was focused so close you didn’t see much.

Tommy Lee Jones was fun to see as such a crazy bad guy.

Bouillabaisse.

I feel incredibly sorry for Erika Eleniak and I hope that she got a better boob job later in life. Seriously, it was like looking at a plastic Barbie doll. It was sad. Plus her whole character was just a trophy for Seagal to kiss at the end.

The movie was Die Hard on a boat, only not really. Seagal was a SEAL that got demoted for punching some dude. The big guys sending help weren’t idiots and were actually competent, except the CIA. The bad guys were after money though.

This movie did not really paint the Navy in a good light since just a handful of terrorists took down an entire battleship. Overall, though, the movie was alright.

3/5

Two Weeks Notice (2002)

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Two Weeks Notice (2002)

Director:

Marc Lawrence

Starring:

Sandra Bullock

Hugh Grant

Alicia Witt

Plot:

A lawyer decides that she’s used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him.

Review:

Sometimes you just feel like watching a romantic comedy and this certainly fits the bill. I love Sandra Bullock. Hugh Grant isn’t so bad himself. This movie ticks all the boxes. Bullock’s character is smart and funny and just the right amount of vulnerable. Grant is an amusing man child that knows when to be an adult.

There’s nothing ground breaking here, but it’s comforting and I like it.

4/5

Sabrina (1995)

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Sabrina (1995)

Director:

Sydney Pollack

Starring:

Harrison Ford

Julia Ormond

Greg Kinnear

Plot:

An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.

Review:

Harrison Ford plays Humphrey Bogarts character perfectly. Neither man is any good at romance and it’s actually kind of funny to watch them try.

I like this version more, I think, than the original. Mainly because she doesn’t try and kill herself over a boy. She does mope and generally act like a love sick cow, but she matures and seems to recognize that she’s being ridiculous.

I do not agree with the plot synopsis that she was an ugly duckling, cause she wasn’t. It was the 90s, that’s how teenagers dressed.

Good movie, I like the story, and I like that the side characters have a little bit more going on in this one.

4/5

Sabrina (1954)

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Sabrina (1954)

Director:

Billy Wilder

Starring:

Audrey Hepburn

Humphrey Bogart

William Holden

Plot:

A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family’s chauffeur, but it’s his more serious brother who would be the better man for her.

Review:

I don’t remember the first time I ever watched this movie but I loved it. When I saw that Amazon had it available I had to watch. For whatever reason I don’t own this on Blu Ray or DVD, at one point I did have it on VHS.

Watching this now, older and not through the eyes of a teenager, I kind of think Sabrina, Audrey Hepburn, is an idiot. She has a huge crush on a boy and tries to kill herself because her father is sending her to Paris to go to school. Over dramatic much? It takes her years and she still doesn’t get over him, she just starts to feel like an adult, only she isn’t. Honestly it’s not until Linus, Humphrey Bogart, takes an interest in her that she actually starts to mature. Naturally, she falls in love cause that’s what she knows how to do.

Oh well. I like the movie a lot. Will watch it when I see it available and one day I’ll pick it up.

3.5/5

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

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Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

Director:

Richard Donner

Starring:

Mel Gibson

Danny Glover

Jet Li

Joe Pesci

Chris Rock

Plot:

With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with a deadly Chinese crimelord trying to get his brother out of prison.

Review:

Jet Li with a rat tail is not something anyone needed to see. It is nice to see Mel Gibson with his hair cut though.

Order wise I think I’d rank this one 3rd in order of what I like. It goes 1st, 3rd, 4th, 2nd for me. It would have been nice to have a fifth movie because the decline in quality was a lot less than other franchises.

Excellent car chase.

I liked the fact that Jet Li only lost because of bad luck, he was kicking ass and would have won if the movie hadn’t been about the other guys.

I loved the fact that all the side characters were played by the same actors throughout the series, that was awesome and never done.

Overall, it’s an excellent franchise. I don’t know if the TV show quiet lives up to it, but it’s one of the better adaptions out there.

3.5/5