Pete's Write

Apart from the smattering of original screenplays, the rest are rehashed from older plots. Quite a few movies are just almost carbon copy remakes, others add some current affairs or new technology but essentially the plot remains the same. Some perform as well as the older, others bomb and yet others make far more. So will smith took his real son and made a movie about crashing landing on earth and taking a perilous journey to escape a few years back and we'll say it wasn't exactly a success.. So Adam driver decides to make a movie about him crashlanding on earth 65 million years ago and finding another survivor, then they must journey across a landscape strewn with dangerous dinosaurs to find the escape craft. Sounds familiar ? There's a paternal child angle here too and apart from the action scenes which are decently executed, the director tries to add this extra emotional dimension to give the movie some depth and latitude. It is interesting that they...

Guy Ritchie and Jason statham are one of those combinations that seems to keep striking cinema gold. With a string of hits under their belts can they conjure up another hit and make their fortunes? The concept and plot are hardly new. Jason plays an action man of mystery working for yet another agency for the UK government to stop a rogue AI program from causing global meltdown. The movie is very much by the books, he first assembles his team, a motley crew of individuals with 'skills' and there's is of course a rival team to make the job at hand more difficult. The villain here is our versatile and reliable hugh grant who has mastered the transition from the debonair romantic leading man to playing likeable or funny antagonists who are bad but not vile, or at least don't terribly cruel. It's almost impossible to not smile at his antics and mannerisms as he plays a good counterfoil to Jason and his team. Josh hartnett has been given a reprieve but there i...