Showing posts with label Piper Perabo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Piper Perabo. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Black Butterfly (2017)



Outside a mountain town grappling with a series of abductions and murders, a reclusive writer, struggles to start what he hopes will be a career-saving screenplay.

Well-played intense psychological thriller that disappoints with two twist endings - one on top of the other.

Sunday, January 18, 2015

The Cave (2005)



Bloodthirsty creatures await a pack of divers who become trapped in an underwater cave network.

Despite some production value and s fair cast this is an uninspired sub-standard monster movie with an Alien rip-off with wings.

Maltin*1/2: "Good-looking production tries to float a fully foreseeable plot and to buoy its endlessly bickering characters, but it's a pretty underwhelming cross between JAWS and ALIEN."

Monday, November 24, 2014

Looper (2012)





In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back his own future self for assassination.

A time travel thriller as convoluted as the plot sounds, a bit silly and with a disappointing ending, although the cast does their best to hold the story together.

Maltin**1/2: "Writer-director Johnson's intriguing, very clever sci-fi concept has fun with the many paradoxes involved in time travel movies (and science fiction in general), but, at a certain point, the plot takes a turn from which its momentum never quite recovers. Cast is good, although Gordon-Levitt's face is distorted by prosthetics (presumably so he can resemble Willis) that are very distracting."


Monday, March 5, 2012

The Lazarus Project (2008)



A former criminal is drawn into a criminal endeavor and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a psychiatric facility.

Unspectacular, but atmospheric thriller, which presents quite a disappointing twist ending.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

10th & Wolf (2006)




A former street tough returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military and once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.

Bleak gangster character drama, nothing really new, but a well-told story.