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Iron Man 3 starring Robert Downey Jr, Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley: Fun, Fun, Fun

Posted on August 26, 2013 Written by ripitup

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If I had to choose just one word to describe Iron Man 3, it’d be fun. It’s a fast-paced, action-packed, and highly entertaining superhero movie. It could use some more rock numbers that made the first 2 awesome, but overall it is the right type of film for the series.

Of course like any movie, Iron Man 3 isn’t without its haters or discontent viewers. But given that you know what to expect, you shouldn’t be disappointed – especially if you like director/co-writer Shane Black’s more mainstream work (the action classic Lethal Weapon, for instance).

In addition to the usual cast of Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle (who took over from Terrence Howard after the first Iron Man), we get Oscar-winner Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler’s List, House of Sand and Fog), and Golden Globe nominees Rebecca Hall (The Awakening, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and Guy Pearce (Memento, Lockout, LA Confidential).

Keeping in mind Robert Downey Jr.  has 2 Oscar nominations, Don Cheadle has one, and Paltrow has one Academy Award, we can add the cast of Iron Man 3 to the superhero movies that casts critically acclaimed actors who also happen to be box-office draws – e.g. check out the cast of Man of Steel.

Some viewers weren’t happy with the twist, but I found it quite fun- it was one of those laugh-out-loud moments for me, and it was perfectly acted and directed.

It was also fun to see our beloved cheeky hero Tony Stark to be suffering from anxiety attacks after everything they went through in The Avengers. Alien attacks can get to a guy, apparently…

And yes, there are clichés in the movie.

The Story:

In 1999, at a Christmas part in Bern, we meet the ever-cheeky Stark hooking up with an intelligent hottie (Rebecca Hall), and ignoring anyone who is not his date. Among the ignored and humiliated is Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), a geeky scientist adoring Tony’s work and wanting to work with him.

Fast-forward to now, Tony is with his former assistant/current managing partner/acting CEO Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow). While she is busy running the firm, Tony is obsessing over creating back-up Iron Man outfits, paranoid that there can be other alien attacks he will need to protect Pepper from.

In the meantime, the recent terrorist leader The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) who is hacking satellites and distributing scary messages and threatening the president (William Sadler).

When a different kind of bomb badly injures Tony’s friend/head of security Happy (Jon Favreau, director of the first Iron Man) and puts him into hospital, he openly threatens The Mandarin, and Mandarin responds more openly and violently than anyone could have predicted.

With his house and lab pretty much destroyed, Tony has his intelligence, Jarvis on zero battery and smart kid he runs into to deal with Mandarin, as well as the weird Terminator-like human/robots who just don’t get killed easily…

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Have fun!!!

 

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Death Defying Acts starring Guy Pearce & Catherine Zeta-Jones

Posted on September 21, 2012 Written by ripitup

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Death Defying Acts starring Guy Pearce & Catherine Zeta Jones.
Death Defying Acts starring Guy Pearce & Catherine Zeta Jones. Image via 2snaps.tv.

Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) is already a legend with his death-defying acts and amazing tricks, even though the way he pushes himself drives his manager/friend Sugarman (Timothy Spall) crazy with the risks and challenges he takes.

Mary (Catherine Zeta Jones) is a Scottish woman who earns her living with her looks, ability to deceive and her assistant/daughterBenji (Saoirse Ronan.)

So when Mary hears that the great Houdini, who gets a kick of exposing scamming mediums, is challenging all mediums to tell him what his mother told him on her deathbed, she jumps at the opportunity to win against Houdini, and win $10,000 as well.

When the two meet, they manage to impress the other with their charm, unique outlook on life and passion. Her daughter also seems quite taken with Houdini, although Mary seems quite certain that Houdini might be more cunning than naive and might be playing her.

But no matter who’s playing who, things get very complicated when the attraction between them get stronger by the minute…

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Death Defying Acts is a weird little drama/romance with no exciting scenes, apart from the couple of stunts Houdini pulls. Guy Pearce makes a perfect Houdini, but then that’s not exactly surprising since he easily becomes any character he plays. And Zeta Jones is gorgeous as always, but two good-looking, good actors don’t count for much when there isn’t much of an interesting story, the movie is PG and it takes ages to get to the romance.

The movie suffers a lot from its slow pace, and it never quite picks up. It’s not unwatchable, but I enjoyed the interviews, featuring comments about Guy Pearce impressed everyone by how he ended up more skilled than the stuntmen while he was doing Houdini’s stuff.

5/10.

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Lockout starring Guy Pearce & Maggie Grace

Posted on August 1, 2012 Written by ripitup

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Lockout starring Guy Pearce & Maggie Grace: Fun, Fast, Cool Action
Lockout starring Guy Pearce & Maggie Grace: Fun, Fast, Cool Action. Image via evrenselfilm.com.

Snow (Guy Pearce) is a highly efficient, smartass CIA agent who gets setup during his last operation. Secret Service agent (Peter Stormare) is convinced that he killed a fellow agent and was selling state secrets. Snow’s only ally is another agent, who seems to believe in his innocence. But Snow eventually gets sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Emilie (Maggie Grace) is the president’s daughter on a humanitarian mission, visiting the world’s most secure prison-the first and only prison in space.

It holds the most dangerous criminals, who are kept in a sleeping state. She thinks that this increases aggression and can even cause dementia, but the guards just can’t wait to send her back off after giving her an interview with one of the criminals. But when the interview goes awry and the criminal manages to break out, she finds herself held hostage with the other employees and her one guard.

Of course there is only one guy who is good enough to get her out of there alive, and it is Snow. Not that he is willing to risk his own butt to fight against a prsion full of psychos, bu he accepts it when he learns his partner Mace has been sent there. And hey, it is the only way to get around his own sentence.

From that moment on, Snow uses all his skills to save himself and Emilie, and find Mace- while teaching a her a few thing or two about being tough. And both Snow and Emilie find out that there might be more to the other one that meets the eye…

Unfortunately, the Secret Service just might be more concerned about saving the world from an infiltration of convicts than saving one woman, even though she is the first daughter…

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Lockout is one of the funniest, most entertaining and exciting sci-fi/action movies out there. Actually, a part the prison is the only sci-fi element, but then again, it doesn’t seem that much of a stretch for 2079. And it is not funny because there is comedy, but because Snow delivers hilarious oneliners with perfect timing. And it is fun to see your well-built, effective and attractive agent deliver all the comedy with a straight face.

See Lockout- it is fun action at its best, and was co-written by Luc Besson. Make the action here Guy Pearce and you have a cool movie at your best, without an unneccessary love story attached.

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