'Avengers Assemble'
It has been a long time leading up to The Avengers movie, which has been known about for absolute ages. Everyone stayed behind of the credits of Ironman, Thor, etc. To be see little clips of new elements which would lead up to one big star studded movie, including some of the biggest superheros in one single movie, that's a lot of Egos on one screen! I wondered if their would be too much to handle to be the movie what everyone would be expecting. We have been waiting a very long time, and it needs to be nothing short of brilliant.
Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) of S.H.I.E.L.D. a universal peace keeping agency, is threatened by Loki, half brother of Thor, and an army, the exiled Norse. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is after the Tesserect, which is an energy source of unknown quantity, to the advantage of him and the Norse. Fury calls upon his band of big ego-ed but likable superheroes consisting of Ironman (Robert Downey Jr.), Hulk (Mark Ruffarlo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans) to help from immanent disaster.
Well take a bow Joss Whedon, he has done a fantastic job of making such a brilliant comic book movie. With so many elements to juggle, the balance is just right. With a good story to tell, that includes each of the superheroes, sharing the limelight. Making good use of each respective 'power' to good use, makes for exciting and unpredictable action scenes. Which are brilliant.
Playing the likes of the very cocky Ironman off of the humble Captain America is very good, and I was expecting. Kind of gives it the ying/yang factor, but fighting for the same cause. Tom Hiddleston is still one of the best new talents about, he makes Loki such an evil, but at the same time of weasel of a bad guy. Also newcomers Mark Ruffarlo as the Hulk and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye both are a very good bit of casting. Of course you get the same thing from Downey Jr., that does work and is not stale.
I will say though, probably a good idea to catch up with all the previous Marvel movies, as you may get a little bit lost, not too much though.
If you love comic book movies, this satisfy your hunger until The Dark Knight Rises or The Amazing Spider-man appears on the scene. A very well made Comic book movie, appealing to the masses with an all star lineup and action to fill your boots up with.
4 out of 5
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Thursday, 22 December 2011
A Wicked Game.
'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows'
At the end of 2009 we all fell for the Guy Ritchie's imagining of probably the most famous fictional private Detective, created by of course the late Arthur Conan Doyle. So famous that in fact, that on the underground in London's Baker Street station, you can see the outline of the Holmes everywhere and he is donning what he is famous for, the deerstalker hat and a pipe, in Ritchie's film you just get the pipe, no hat, thankfully. You got a fun, cool and sharply written and directed film, which showed the great on screen chemistry of Robert Downey, Jr and Jude Law. It was a hit, so it was logical to have another visit.
Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr) is on the hunt to find out about about some seemingly unrelated murders, in which he suspects the great Professor Robert Moriarty (Jared Harris) is connected to. When the professor realizes that Holmes is on the scent of Moriarty's wrong doings he summons Holmes to say dare you take me on? Holmes fearless takes up the challenge. He teams up with his old friend Dr. John Watson (Jude Law) again, after Watson and his new wife are nearly killed by some of Moriarty's henchmen on the train on there honeymoon. We follow them both to unravel on what the evil Moriarty's plans are, and how Sherlock has met his match physically and mentally.
This is basically more of the same thing as the first film, but still very brilliant, and very funny as well. Downey' Jr is a funny man, and can deliver a comedy performance with some of the best comedy actors out there. He is a very game actor, with some of the disguises he is put in. Jude Law serves as the friend, who whatever Holmes throws in his path, he sticks by him through thick and thin. Jared Harris, who is Holmes Arch enemy Moriarty, a very serious man, who is a perfect match for Holmes wit and skills. I want to see a lot more of his acting in the future
Guy Ritchie has done it again here, with his wonderful vision of a smoked filled dark and dirty London, which looks very cool. The only thing, which I would say though is the over usage of the slow-motion fight scenes, which used more then a couple of times. Still doesn't deter the fact that he has made a sound sequel, which stands up and gives you a one, two jab of pure entertainment.
Oh yeah, watch out for Stephan Fry as Sherlock's brother Mycroft in one scene which made the famous actor,writer, film maker and Twitterer, blush a bit when he filmed it. Incredibly funny.
Bored on the Christmas the season or got noisy, moaning teenagers? Take them to see this, and let it excite you for a couple of hours. Can We have another please Sir Guy? Wicked Stuff.
4 out of 5
At the end of 2009 we all fell for the Guy Ritchie's imagining of probably the most famous fictional private Detective, created by of course the late Arthur Conan Doyle. So famous that in fact, that on the underground in London's Baker Street station, you can see the outline of the Holmes everywhere and he is donning what he is famous for, the deerstalker hat and a pipe, in Ritchie's film you just get the pipe, no hat, thankfully. You got a fun, cool and sharply written and directed film, which showed the great on screen chemistry of Robert Downey, Jr and Jude Law. It was a hit, so it was logical to have another visit.
Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr) is on the hunt to find out about about some seemingly unrelated murders, in which he suspects the great Professor Robert Moriarty (Jared Harris) is connected to. When the professor realizes that Holmes is on the scent of Moriarty's wrong doings he summons Holmes to say dare you take me on? Holmes fearless takes up the challenge. He teams up with his old friend Dr. John Watson (Jude Law) again, after Watson and his new wife are nearly killed by some of Moriarty's henchmen on the train on there honeymoon. We follow them both to unravel on what the evil Moriarty's plans are, and how Sherlock has met his match physically and mentally.
This is basically more of the same thing as the first film, but still very brilliant, and very funny as well. Downey' Jr is a funny man, and can deliver a comedy performance with some of the best comedy actors out there. He is a very game actor, with some of the disguises he is put in. Jude Law serves as the friend, who whatever Holmes throws in his path, he sticks by him through thick and thin. Jared Harris, who is Holmes Arch enemy Moriarty, a very serious man, who is a perfect match for Holmes wit and skills. I want to see a lot more of his acting in the future
Guy Ritchie has done it again here, with his wonderful vision of a smoked filled dark and dirty London, which looks very cool. The only thing, which I would say though is the over usage of the slow-motion fight scenes, which used more then a couple of times. Still doesn't deter the fact that he has made a sound sequel, which stands up and gives you a one, two jab of pure entertainment.
Oh yeah, watch out for Stephan Fry as Sherlock's brother Mycroft in one scene which made the famous actor,writer, film maker and Twitterer, blush a bit when he filmed it. Incredibly funny.
Bored on the Christmas the season or got noisy, moaning teenagers? Take them to see this, and let it excite you for a couple of hours. Can We have another please Sir Guy? Wicked Stuff.
4 out of 5
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