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Yesterday, I went to the cinema to watch Vantage Point and the movie was great! The format of the movie is quite interesting because it gives a different perspective or angle of the movie based on the characters. To watch this movie, you really have to concentrate on the details because they will actually ‘rewind’ a scene and play it back again with another character and another angle.

This one of the best action movies that I like…definitely BETTER than Mission Impossible

Brief Synopsis:
A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 is ensnared in a political conspiracy which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Eastern Europe hired by a group known as “The Agency” to kill targets for cash.

Detailed Synopsis & Review:
The opening scene bursts with classic instrumental music with a feamle voice singing in harmony. As the opening credits slide in and out view, you see small excerpts of what appears to be the birth of the assassins. Acknowledged by numbers and not names, they are the necessary evil, required to wash the bad from this Earth.

This was the movie adaptation of the video game, Hitman, starring Timothy Olyphant as our main character, 47. The first thing to strike me during the film was 47’s ability to turn down even the most beautiful of females. He acts almost machine-like and is only focused on his occupation and the task at hand. The storyline may also confuse some as the scenes skip rather quickly in certain places. This can make watching the movie a chore but careful concentration can eliminate this. During the introduction to 47’s character and the story in hand, we can see that our hero is plagued by his upbringing as he endures flashbacks when carrying out daily tasks.

Hitman features some of the greatest action scenes I have seen to date. You’ll find that you are constantly peering down the sights of a rifle as if you are the one taking the shot. Incredibly, the creators of the movie have included realistic blood and gore which is a reminder of real life assassinations.
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“The Bourne Ultimatum” is the latest and final movie in the “Bourne” trilogy. Matt Damon plays Jason Bourne, a super-agent built up through tough times, and rough training. Bourne goes rogue as he no longer feels following assassination orders is the right thing to do. After months of running from the CIA and various other organizations, Bourne pops back onto the radar as he starts to try to reveal his past, all he knows is that he is a member of “Treadstone” and he was the only agent created in it.

Jason Bourne is determined to find out his true roots. He notices a newspaper editor has been writing about him, so Bourne comes out of hiding to meet him and discovers that his journalist is already on the CIA’s hit list, mainly due to the fact that he knows too much about Bourne and Treadstone.

After much action and many explosions, Jason Bourne will find out who he really is. You come to know his real name, the intentions of “Black briar” mentioned in The Bourne Identity and how Jason Bourne is killed… not During the movie we find out that Bourne is actually a human, and he does have feelings for everything that he does. He even mentions that he can’t remember the faces of those he has killed, and that he regrets killing them - He admits this to Nicky, an old friend from Treadstone.
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Pirates of The Caribbean 3 may lack the freshness of its first predecessors but Pirates of The Caribbean: At World’s End still has plenty of wind in its sails, thanks to another winning performance from Johny Depp and the return of Geoffrey Rush. This is the third installment of the amazing tale of Pirates. The film picks up after the events of Dead Man’s Chest (Pirates of The Carribean 2) as Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) find themselves allied with the resurrected Captain Barbossa (Rush) in their quest to free Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from his mind-bending fate in Davy Jone’s locker.

But while darker and more self-important there’s still plenty in its locker to keep audiences entertained in spite of a running time that approaches three hours. Once freed, the pirates mist unite against the might of Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) and The Flying Dutchman now allied to the East India Trading Company and its treacherous leader Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) in a bid to protect their freedom loving Pirate way. But there are some shortcomings such as the relationship of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are particularly exposed as they lack the charisma needed to keep their on/off relationship interesting. While new characters such as Chow Yun-Fat’s Chinese pirates Sao Fen don’t really add anything to proceedings and just to add to there forever going story.
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Fifty years into future, our sun has starting to die, but there is hope, a small team is sent to the sun to re-ignite the star by detonating a massive stellar bomb at its center. After the failure of a previous mission, the crew of the “Icarus II” are the last and only hope to save humanity.

While it may sound like it, this is no Armageddon. Sunshine has a lot more in common with such intelligent sci-fi as 2001:A Space Odyssey or Solaris, but with the added tension and claustrophobia of Alien. We are as trapped in this small, confine spacecraft as the eight astronauts are, hurtling towards the sun, their only protection a massive heat shield that deflects away the sun’s rays whilst enveloping the ship itself in near darkness. Sixteen months into the mission, everything has so fat gone to plan, but while passing Mercury the crew pick up a distress beacon. Could the signal be from the missing “Icarus I”, which disappeared seven years earlier whilst attempting to complete the same mission?
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