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One Shot (2021)
PEOPLE MISSED THE SCENE ON THE CCTV
This movie is legit great, but I can see a lot of reviews complaining about the truck and its capacity, but theres literally a scene in the coms room where you see the gate re-closing after the bad guy lets in a load more men.
Its just as the camera goes across the CCTV and we see Ryan Phillippe shooting a dude in the back, then Adkins goes "who's this guy". It kind of looks like the film makers thought of the truck situation and added that in to show more bad guys have arrived.
Its a small beat but missing it seems to have wound up loads of people, and while it shouldn't matter, there's LITERALLY a scene in there to counter balance the truck having an infinite amount of space.
Regardless, great fun watch. Adkins doing what he goes better than anyone in the world.
Rollin' with the Nines (2006)
For once you'll be cheering for the good guys!
I saw Rollin' with the nines in Newham Showcase Cinema on Friday, and I was very pleasantly surprised! The first maybe 20-25 minutes was extremely hard to get into. It was a bit of a barrage on your senses getting thrown into this world at the deep end. However the film changes direction at the half hour mark and goes from strength to strength.
The best bit of the whole film was the first raid on the yardies. It was as good if not better then the Hollywood film Narc, which I love. It was really excellent, got the heart racing and was filmed brilliantly. Another nice scene was the tale of the Sawn off 12 gauge, original and clever.
Me and my mates who went to see it all agreed Rollin' was best when following the coppers. Weird I know, because after most gangster films it kind of makes you want to be a gangster, but the film shows those characters life's so brutally that after the film it kind of makes you want to a hard arse detective, even though they were 'corrupt' cops! The best performance is from Terry Stone, he has a real screen presence, stealing scenes away from seasoned Brit flick actors like Vas Blackwood and Jason Flemyng.
A really brilliant effort for a low budget British film, I hope it gets the cinema time it rightfully deserves, especially when their is rubbish like Scary Movie 4 out there clogging up our theatres! It may start very heavy for the average cinema goer but stick with it, because by the end you don't want it to end.
Howling VI: The Freaks (1991)
Guy, Freaks, no werewolves, thats it, WHY?
Why ever did some fool follow up this werewolf series with a film that had nothing to do with werewolves. He had obviously seen the film 'Freaks' and thought he was on to a winner. He was not! Because the film that he made was the sequel to a werewolf franchise, which usually means there should be copious amounts of WEREWOLVES! In this final there was a lead character with a German Shepherd inspired transformation, from which nothing exciting or fun developed from. To some it all up, worst werewolf film ever!. Can anybody please tell me why some idiot made this film? Why they thought it necessary to continue this hopelessly lost franchise? and why oh why we are considering Hellraiser II to be an adequate cure for our eyes?!?