Week 5: End of Watch

      This week we watch the movie End of Watch is a 2012 American Thriller drama film written and directed by David Ayer. And this movie is one of the best Police movies we  have seen. This movie is about Jake Gyllenhall and Michael Pena are Taylor and Zavala, two Los Angele's street cops that bend a few rules. And as the movie begins Taylor is filming a video documentary about his job. But then they discover a secret that makes them the target from the most dangerous drug cartel. They've been partners for years and are so close that Zavala's wife, Gabby, and Taylor's girlfriend, Janet, have become like sisters. But the two cops are transferred to a tough Mexican American district where their the scent of a Mexican cartel operating in Los Angeles. This is a work for a detective but they don't care and take the risk, but they have become so dangerous to the cartel that a hit is ordered against them.

                                                                                                         

Week 4: World War Z

Just about every zombie movie I can think of is set, for the most part, in tightly spaces where groups of survivors huddle to fend off the flesh-hungry hordes outside. World War Z, which may be the most entertaining and accomplished zombie movie since George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1979), has touches of that suspenseful high-tension claustrophobia. Yet it's a very different sort of zombie feast (far more than, say, The Walking Dead). It's vast and sprawling and spectacular; it's the first truly globalized orgy of the undead. The director, Marc Forster, is a filmmaker whose work I've never particularly cared for (he made Bond dud Quantum of Solace). Here, though, working from the 2006 Max Brooks novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, he shows a new audacity and flair. World War Z is epically scaled, but it's not a messy, noisy, CGI-bogus, throw-everything-at-the-audience sort of blockbuster like i originally thought it was going to be. It's thrillingly controlled, and it builds in impact.
The film opens with music that's meant to remind you of the chilling theme music from The Exorcist, and that's followed by a collage of actual TV news snippets cleverly edited together to suggest a world already tilting toward rock bottom. In Philadelphia, where Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), his wife (Mireille Enos), and their two daughters (Sterling Jerins and Abigail Hargrove) are driving from their home toward the center of town, we're plunged into the first disquieting evidence of the zombie virus, the warning signs of breakdown: giant traffic jams, a street-corner explosion, cops whizzing by, and, finally, a zombie — or is it just an angry, desperate civilian? — crashing up against the windshield.
When people in World War Z get bitten and turn into rabid undead freaks, the conversion happens frighteningly quickly, without a lot of fuss. They lie on the ground for a moment, then get all twitchy, as if they're receiving an electroshock treatment, and their eyes bulge up to the heavens in rage. Gerry, a former U.N. investigator, spends most of the film traveling around the world, searching for the origins of the virus (and a possible cure), yet metaphorically speaking, we're already cued to see what has brought about this onslaught. World War Z is rooted in the current mood of economic panic and terrorist fear and impending chaos. It presents the zombie army as a culmination of what it's going to look like if and when the bottom falls out of our society.
An early scene set in South Korea, where Gerry looks over the dusty remains of Patient Zero, has a hushed creepiness, but World War Z finds its own unique atmosphere of large-scale disorder after Gerry arrives in Jerusalem, where the Israelis have erected a wall around the city to keep the zombies out. The wall doesn't work. As the zombies — and there are thousands of them — shimmy up the side of it, in a squirmy hill of bodies that spill over the top of the edifice, the action hits a raw nerve of peril, a feeling that nothing can keep them out.
World War Z lifts some of its vérité-apocalypse mood, as well as the terrifying speed with which the zombies move, from Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later (2003). Yet this is a much more varied and surprising movie, built around a calm commanding performance by Pitt as the family man who must leave his wife and daughters on a U.N. command ship as he hops from one trouble spot to the next. As Gerry, Pitt is cool, fearless, tense, compassionate, and brutally tough (at one point, he chops off the hand of a soldier to save her from going zombie). He's feral grace under pressure.
The stakes for survival keep getting raised. A zombie attack aboard an airplane has a nightmarish "this is really happening intensity" (though it does give the film a semi-preposterous moment, when the plane starts to go down). Then Pitt arrives at a World Health Organization facility, where he must brave sterile white corridors dotted with zombies to get inside a lab vault. The film lets us linger for a bit on what the zombies look like — one's a gnashing Miles Davis clone, one clicks its teeth in close-up like a demented gopher — and the story's blend of terror and ingenuity attains an intoxicating, jittery finesse. World War Z turns the prospect of the end of our world into something tumultuous and horrifying and, at the same time, exciting. It's scary good fun.


Final Verdict: 8.5 out of 10

Week 3:Insidious 2

  For my 20 percent project we have  decided to do it on movie reviews, we are going to be  reviewing  on new movies  that come out, for example the last new movie that came out and I saw was Insidious 2. We are going to be uploading every movie that comes out every month and we are going to comment about the movie  and you can comment too about the movie. Every month we are going to be commenting about a movie and uploading another movie that we review.
                                                                            



  
This goes a long way in a film where characters constantly explain why and how supernatural happenings occur."Insidious: Chapter 2" starts where the last film left off. The Lambert family is still haunted.
The body of Josh Lambert Patrick Wilson is possessed by the spirit of a mysterious bride in black, and his wife Renae Rose Byrne   doesn't know it.

         

Week 2:Pacific Rim review

Working on his biggest budget to date, the director of Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth introduces an entirely new world to audiences with a robots-versus-monsters scenario that includes the same sort of nerdy details and Sci-Fi jargon as its over-complicated brethren, but under del Toro it all makes sense — and even better, he makes us care about it.The film takes place in the not-too-distant future, where a portal unexpectedly opens at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, unleashing a wave of monstrous, building-sized beasts called Kaiju upon the world. In order to combat the Kaiju , humankind overcomes its geographic and political differences to create Jaegers, robots of equivalent size that are piloted by two people via a sort of mindmeld called a “neural bridge.” The fraternal bond between Raleigh Becket  and his brother Yancy  makes them the best monster killers in the Jaeger program — that is, until Yancy is killed in battle, prompting Raleigh’s early retirement.Five years later, the Jaeger program lives on as a shadow of its former self: only a handful of the machines remain, and even fewer pilots. But when commanding officer Stacker Pentecost  turns up to re-enlist Raleigh for a final all-out assault on the portal in the hopes of saving humanity once and for all, the disillusioned soldier finds himself paired up with ambitious novice Mako Mori , whose own past traumas may prove to be the key that unlocks the program’s greatest partnership yet. Now for my opinions.The film is great, in fact it's my second favorite movie of the year, but it doesn't have the greatest story or the greatest dialogue, but it does have a very interesting world and likable characters and some great action scenes. Now speaking of the action scenes, here comes one of my only complaints about the movie is that two specific "characters" die to fast. My other minor complaint is i wanted this movie to be longer, but that's just me craving more. Now i hope that the film gets a sequel since it made over $407 million worldwide. Now that the Blu Ray is out, i recommend that everyone go out and buy it, you will not regret it, unless your inner child is dead.

Score: 9.5 out of 10 

Week 1:Grand Theft Auto 5 Review

            The Grand Theft Auto franchise might be the most lauded, yet also the most divisive of all time. GTA V is no exception to the precedent. Any game where you play as a criminal and earn points by breaking the law is going to come under scrutiny. Yet Rockstar has, so far, balanced the aggressive (and sometimes psychopathic) aspects of its anti-hero protagonists with enough back story and supporting cast that players feel at ease. Even when mowing down pedestrians or murdering people on the flimsiest of pretenses.

               This time around we have three characters, and the ability to jump between them. Each brings something different to the overall story while maintaining secondary storylines of their own. One question for me to answer, then, was "could Rockstar pull this off or would it be a mess?"

              The short answer is yes, Rockstar could pull it off, in fact they  even surpassed my expectations with the game. It doesn't feel like its just an improvement on Grand Theft Auto 4, it feels like Rockstar took all the good mechanics from their previous games, Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3 stand out the most in games they borrowed mechanics from, but it is also a giant improvement in every mechanic from GTA 4. The story is also great. Almost everything about it is great except the bugs in GTA online.

       My score: 9.5 out of 10