The Next Three Days

Stars:
3 3/4 stars

Lose who you are to save what you love.

Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks
Released: 2010

Megan's Movie Review:
Stress Fest. Intense. At times in the movie I couldn't keep watching because it stressed me out so much. I felt so bad for the husband & son because the wife was in prison. But I couldn't believe that he would murder, lie, and steal for his wife just to get her out of prison? Didn't he think about his child?! And then making his child a part of his crimes.. What if they got caught? There were so many moments in the movie that were close calls. He was pretty thorough in his research and making sure that his plan was successful. Ugh it stressed me out so much. And it wasn't a scary kind of stressed, it was just plain stressful. "Is he going to get away?" "Everything seems to be going wrong." Those were my thoughts. In the end, it was good and (*Spoiler*) she was innocent. I thought for sure she had done it but she really didn't. Well, I would recommend watching this movie. It was intense.

What'd you think of this exciting movie?

Wild Target

Stars:

3 1/4 stars

They said 'Take her out'. He got the wrong idea.

Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose. He spares her life, unexpectedly acquiring in the process a young apprentice, Tony. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint
Released: 2010

Megan's Movie Review:
The reason why I put this movie on my Netflix list was because Rupert Grint was in it. I am a Harry Potter fan and I think he is a good actor. I love his humor. So this movie.. It was pretty good. It did have some sexual comments in it that I didn't like and we did fast forward through a scene in the movie. It didn't show anything but it was inappropriate. I laughed a lot at Rupert Grint, especially when he kept shooting this guy and apologizing for it. He shot his ear off and it was rather funny. It had some dry humor in it and it also had some British humor in it that I didn't understand. If I was British maybe it would've been funnier. I couldn't believe that she fell in love with the guy because he was not attractive. Overall though, it was entertaining.

Thoughts?..

Taken

Stars:
4 1/2 stars

His daughter was taken. He has 96 hours to get her back.

Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Liam Neeson
Released: 2008

Megan's Movie Review:
Wow. This movie was pretty awesome! It is super intense and full of action. I loved Liam Neeson in this movie. He was phenomenal. Very cool! His fighting scenes were awesome, like Bourne Identity awesome. I loved how he was so determined to find his daughter. One thing I didn't like about this movie was how you see all the women being sexually abused. Well you don't actually see it, but you know what was happening to them. It bothered me because I hate to see that. You know it really does happen in this world and it makes me sick. I wish at the end of this movie he would have somehow saved all those other women from the torture they were in. But since the government knew about it and didn't care, I'm pretty sure he probably couldn't have done too much. And another thing that bothered me was how Maggie Grace (she plays the daughter) over acted all her parts. She always had to be running somewhere like she was 5 years old. It drove me crazy. But I loved this movie and how he was so smart and could just do anything.

You have to like this movie...

Red

Stars:

4 1/2 stars

Aims To Please.

Frank (Bruce Willis) is retired, bored and lonely living off his government pension in a nondescript suburb in an equally nondescript house. The only joy in Frank's life are his calls to the government pension processing center when he gets to talk to his case worker Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker). Sarah is as bored and lonely as Frank and marks her conversations with the unknown Frank and her spy novels as the only things fun in her life. When something in Frank's past forces Frank back into his old line of work and puts an unwitting Sarah in the middle of the intrigue, Frank and Sarah begin a journey into Franks past and the people he used to work with. Like Frank they are all RED ... Retired Extremely Dangerous. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman,  John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker

Released: 2010

Megan's Movie Review:
Funny movie! Bruce Willis was great in this movie - as always! He is a good actor and he does great action films. John Malkovich was super hilarious in this film too. I loved his crazy character and it made the film all the more enjoyable. This was a great action film and it had a good story to it. I want it definitely.

What do you think?

Salt

Stars:

3 3/4 stars

Salt Kills.

Evelyn Salt is a CIA agent and highly respected by all, including her boss, Ted Winter. Out of the blue, a Russian spy walks into their offices and offers a vital piece of information: the President of Russia will be assassinated during his forthcoming visit to New York City to attend the funeral of the recently deceased U.S. Vice President. The name of the assassin: Evelyn Salt. Concerned about the safety of her husband, who she cannot contact, she goes on the run. Winter refuses to accept that she is a mole or a double agent but her actions begin to raise doubts. Just who is Evelyn Salt and what is she planning?

Starring: Angelina Jolie

Released: 2010

Megan's Movie Review:

This was a pretty good movie and it had an interesting twist in the movie. *Spoiler Alert* I can't believe that she was actually a Russian spy. I think normally, in a movie like this, she wouldn't be a spy and she would prove that she was being framed. In this, she really was a spy and that made it really good. I was very impressed with how she looked like a boy at the end of the movie for this one part. It was pretty good, but she did look like an ugly boy lol. The action and fight scenes were pretty cool. One thing I disliked and wished they would've changed was her husband. He was ugly.

What did you think of Salt?

Losers

Stars:

2 stars

Anyone Else Would Be Dead By Now.

A tale of double cross and revenge, centered upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team-Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar -find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Presumed dead, the group makes plans to even the score when they're joined by the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with her own agenda. Working together, they must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans

Released: 2010

Megan's Movie Review:

They really tried WAYYYY too hard in this movie to be cool. It made it so stupid and absolutely ridiculous to even watch. I was surprised to see Zoe Saldana in this movie because she has played in some major big movies, such as Star Trek and Avatar. This made her look bad. This movie was just plain stupid and super cheesy. I wouldn't recommend it.

Any action pack thrillers that liked this?

Date Night

Stars:

2 1/2 stars

One ordinary couple. One little white lie.

Phil and Claire Foster are a couple who have been married for several years. Their days consists of them taking care of their children and going to work and coming home and going to bed. But they find time to have a date night wherein they go out and spend some time together. When another couple they know announce that they're separating because they're in a rut, Phil feels that he and Claire could be too. So when date night comes Phil decides to do something different. So they go into the city and try to get into a new popular restaurant. But when it's full and still wanting to do this, Phil decides to take the reservation of a couple who doesn't show up. While they're having dinner two men approach them and instructs them to stand up and go with them. They think the men are with the restaurant and want to talk to them about taking someone else's reservation. But it appears the couple whose reservation they took crossed someone and the two men work for this person. The men are after something, but whatever it is they don't have it. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg

Released: 2010

Megan's Movie Review:

Well... let's say I was rather disappointed. I really don't like sexual comments or innuendo in my movies. This could've been a really funny movie if they didn't put all that crap in it. Don't get me wrong, there were some pretty funny parts in the movie. For instance, the boat scene and taxi scene. I died laughing in those parts! If they had more clean, hilarious parts like that, it would've been an even better movie. I love Steve Carell and Tina Fey and it could have been soo hilarious. There was just too much sexual comments in this movie for me to enjoy it.

Your movie review??

The Bounty Hunter

Stars:

3 1/2 stars

Milo Boyd, a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly. He thinks all that's ahead is an easy payday, but when Nicole gives him the slip so she can chase a lead on a murder cover-up, Milo realizes that nothing ever goes simply with him and Nicole. The exes continually one-up each other - until they find themselves on the run for their lives. They thought their promise to love, honor and obey was tough - staying alive is going to be a whole lot tougher.(Source: IMDB)

Starring: Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston

Released: 2010

Megan's Movie Review:

I had heard mixed reviews from people about this movie. So I was rather curious to watch it and see if I liked or disliked this movie. Well.. I liked this movie! I thought it was cute and funny. Very typical romance film, and it did have some parts in it that I wouldn't recommend for kids. But this wasn't a terrible movie like some people had told me it was. One major thing I did like about this movie was that it didn't consist of them constantly fighting and then at the end of the movie, they were all of a sudden in love again. The couple did fight a little in this movie, but not the serious fighting, more of the comedy fighting. They also had some cute moments together where they talked and started to understand each other. You got to see how their relationship grew back together. It wasn't like one day they hated each other and then they all of a sudden were in love again. It was good! Not sure how people disliked this movie.

Movie reviews from you??