Movie Review: Rio

Brief Summary - One day, somewhere in the Amazon a bird poacher steals a baby Macaw, one short plane ride later and he ends up in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Linda finds the parrot names him Blu and they become best friends.Enter random bird specialist... he invites them to Brazil and offers Blu an opportunity to meet a female Macaw in order to save their species. Once they get to Rio, of course all hell breaks loose and a musical adventure ensues.

Rating - On a scale of 1 to 10 [10 being the highest] this colorful cartoon like flick gets a 6.8

Movie Strengths - Catchy musical moments

Movie Weaknesses - not enough laughs...George Lopez,Jamie Fox and Tracy Morgan were rather subdued :(

Final Thoughts - This film is a kid-pleaser even for those of us who are young at heart!

Movie Review: Insidious

Brief Summary - Josh [Patrick Wilson] his wife Renai [Rose Burn] and their 3 kids are your typical cookie cutter family, until their son Dalton slips into a coma after a minor incident. Everyone in the household becomes increasingly tense & scared as sinister occurrences begin to plague the family.

Rating - On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd say this thriller deserves a 7.

Movie Strengths - Constantly scary visuals will jolt you out your seat !

Movie Weakness - Loud, menacing, unnerving music = irritating and scary.

Final thoughts - Its been years since I have seen a decent horror movie hence the reason this movie is borderline good.

Movie Review: Hanna

Brief Summary – Hanna [ Saoirse Ronan] is not an ordinary teenager, she was raised & trained to survive by a ex- CIA agent  [Eric Bana]. Although she can outrun/outsmart any opponent and kill without remorse, she is socially inept.Bored with her life in solitude, she embarks on a mission to find out who she is and also to take vengeance on those who killed her mother.

Rating – on a scale of 1 to 10 [ 10 being the highest] this a solid 8.

Movie Strengths – Non-stop action & suspense.

Movie Weaknesses – If you have low expectations [like I did] you wont notice any.

Final Thought - The director paid a lot of attention to the finer details in this film, this made everything seem authentic. I love the clean composition of the montage[shot], the quality of filming made the action sequences painfully realistic.

Movie Review: Battlefield Los Angeles

Brief Summary – What seems to be a meteor shower heading for earth turns out to be a violent alien invasion. "Crash" the aliens land "Bang" they come out of their ships gun ablaze, shooting everything in sight. Sounds good right...WRONG!

Rating – on a scale of 1 to 10 [ 10 being the highest] this mess of a film gets a 3.5 !

Movie Strengths – good gun action, nice beach shot of LA

Movie Weaknesses – I had a lot of issues with this film, I was particularly disappointed by the one sided storytelling.Viewers were denied the aliens point of view for the entire movie!I barely got a good look at the aliens and every crappy cliche you could imagine made an appearance in this film, cheap thrills, corny lines, predictability you name it !

Final Thought - This movie was 'manure' the only people who could possibly like this are those who have never seen a a good alien invasion movie...FYI this movie went from #1 to #10 in the US Box office in record time in reality it should have never made it there it should have gone straight in the toilet !