The Rundown
Overview: Beck is a bounty hunter collecting debts for a man named
Walker. Beck wants out but agrees to one more job,
go to the amazon and bring back Walker's son, Travis.
My Rating: Great movie, lots of action and laughs. The Rock stars as
Beck. Seann William Scott plays Travis. Christopher
Walken and Rosario Dawson also star.
More Detail: Beck's true passion is cooking. He wants to open a small
restaurant. To do that he needs financing and
starts working for Walker collecting debts. Beck wants out and Walker
asks him to do one more job. Go to the Amazon
and bring back his son Travis.
Travis is in the Amazon looking for the Gato (ga-toe), a priceless
artifact. The town is run by a man called Hatcher (Walken).
Hatcher also wants the Gato and is looking for Travis as well.
Beck arrives in El Dorado and visits Hatcher. He gives Hatcher
$10,000 for Travis. At a bar Beck catches up with Travis
but is double crossed by Hatcher. After a brief scuffle Beck gets
Travis and they take off in a jeep. Travis grabs the wheel
causing the jeep to go off road and them to be thrown a long distance down.
Beck and Travis constantly butt heads. Travis tries to fight but gets
knocked down every time. In the jungle they come
across some rebels. One of the rebels is Mariana (Dawson). She also
works in a bar and is Travis's girl. Hatcher's men
kill most of the rebels. Mariana, Beck and Travis escape in a boat.
Travis leads them to the Gato and they get it.
Mariana wants the Gato to sell it and get the town back from Hatcher.
She uses some fruit that paralyses Travis and Beck
and makes off with the Gato. Beck and Travis get back to the plane
and hear Mariana was captured by Hatcher.
Travis and Beck team up to take Hatcher and his men down. In the end the town gets rid of Hatcher and keeps the Gato.
Beck delivers Travis and also helps him escape from his dad.
Looney Tunes Back In Action
Overview: The human race is in danger of being turned into monkeys by
the evil chairman at ACME. To the rescue come
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, a Security guard named DJ and the VP of
Comedy at Warner Brothers, Kate.
My Rating: If you're a looney Tunes fan, I think you'll like this
movie. A lot of cameos from your favorite tunes and real life
actors.
More Detail: Kate (Jenna Elfman) is the VP of Comedy at Warner
Brothers. She is looking to cash in on the popularity of
their number one star, Bugs Bunny. However she can do without Daffy
Duck and has him fired. She escorts Daffy out to
security guard DJ (Brendan Fraser). DJ is also an aspiring stunt man.
His dad, Damian (Timothy Dalton) is one of Warner
Brothers big action heros, playing a spy.
With the help of Bugs, Daffy gets away from Kate and DJ is in
pursuit. Daffy tries to escape in the bat-mobile but DJ pulls him
out. The Bat-Mobile drives off into the WB water tower causing it to
fall and drench Kate and Bugs in her car. DJ is fired.
At home DJ is followed by Daffy. DJ finds out that is Dad is a real
spy and is in trouble. DJ has to go to Las Vegas and find
clues to get the Blue Monkey. DJ with Daffy's unwanted help leave for Vegas.
Back at the Studios, things aren't working well for Kate. Without
Daffy, Bugs is forced to be shot by Elmer. The Brothers
Warner threaten to fire her if she can not get Daffy back.
In a great scene, Kate goes to DJs house looking to see if he knows
where the duck is. She walks into the bathroom and pulls
open the shower curtain to reveal Bugs. The scene showcases the great
shower scene in Psycho. Bugs screams, in black and
white, and pulls down the curtain. Then a shot of the shower head and
chocolate syrup being used as blood down the drain.
Bugs tells Kate that Daffy is in Vegas.
In Vegas Daffy and DJ meet Dusty Tail (Heather Locklear). She is a
singer and co star of Damian's. She is also an assassin.
She gives DJ a Queen of Diamond Card with the Mona Lisas face on it.
DJ and Daffy are chased out of the club by Yosemite Sam and his
goons. The run into Kate and Bugs and the chase is own.
Bugs and Kate are driving Damian's Spy Car which allows them to
escape Sam and his Jeff Gordon Car.
Along the way, they make stops at Area 52, Area 51 is just a cover
for the real secret place, Area 52. They go to Paris and
using the card find a map to Africa. In Africa they find the Blue Monkey.
The ACME Chairman (Steve Martin) is also there and takes them hostage
and back to the ACME building. ACME wants to
use the Blue Monkey to turn all humans into Monkeys to make Acme
products and then turn them back to humans to buy the
products.
DJ and Kate are able to save his dad, who was tied to dynamite on
train tracks. Daffy is the hero in space. As Duck Dodgers,
he stops Marvin the Martian from setting up the Blue Money on the satellite.
Good Cameos in this movie. Bill Goldberg (Pro wrestler) stars as The
ACME Chairman's muscle. He never says a word.
Near the end he zips of his "human skin" and is a female
Tasmanian devil. Matthew Lillard, Shaggy from the Scooby Doo
movies, also has a small scene. He is in the Warner Brothers
Café having lunch with a cartoon Scooby and Shaggy. Shaggy is
very upset at how Matthew portrayed him in the movie and he better
not do the same in the sequel.
Gothika
Overview: Dr. Miranda Grey is bright psychologist. Her world is
turned upside when her husband is found brutally
murdered and all the evidence points to her. Now she is the patient
trying to come to grips with what happened and
why.
My rating: Loved it. Great movie, good ending
More Detail: After a long day at work, Miranda Grey is on her way
home. She gets detoured by police because of a
sink hole. As she cross a bridge on a dark and stormy night she sees
a girl standing in the road. She crashes her
vehicle and gets out to help the girl. The girl is in a nightgown and
bloody. The girl reaches out and Miranda sees a flash
of fire.
When she awakes she is at her physcatric ward of her hospital in one
of the rooms, three days later. A fellow doctor,
Dr. Graham (Robert Downey Jr.) is treating her. She tells him the
story about the girl and that she remembers seeing
her husband Doug (Charles Dutton). Graham tells her that Doug is dead
and all the evidence points to her as killing him.
In the hospital she comes across one of her patients, Chloe (Penelope
Cruz). Chloe was raped by her step dad and
killed him. In recent sessions she talks of the devil raping her.
Miranda assumes she is embellishing her story. In the shower
with the other patients, Miranda sees the girl she saw at the bridge.
The girl attacks her cutting "Not Alone" in her arm.
The doctors assume she did this to her self, no one else saw anything.
Miranda continues to see images from the night her Husband died. She
meets with Dr. Graham and another Doctor, Phil
Parsons. Miranda sees a picture of the girl in Dr. Parsons office. It
is his daughter Rachel, who committed suicide
4 years ago.
With Rachel's help, Miranda is able to escape her cell. She makes her
way to Dr. Grahams office and gets the keys. On
his computer, she sees the article about Rachel. Then a security
camera opens and it shows Rachel in the Solitary
ward. This is where Chloe is. Miranda rushes to the ward and sees
Chloe is cut on the head, she also sees a tattoo of
a women in flames on a mans chest. She rushes to get help and is
stopped by security. Dr. Graham tells her Chloe
caused the bump on her head and was not raped, no man was there.
In a new cell, Miranda is violently tossed around by Rachel. The
guards see this and assume it is a suicide attempt. They
rush to her cell and she is out cold. As the reach down to give her
some medicine, she springs up and takes the nurses'
keys. With the help of another guard she is able to get completely
out and drives home. At home she sees the events of that
night, she kills her husband with an axe.
She decides to go to another house her husband was working on. There
she finds a hidden room. In the room is a bed
with restraints and a video camera. On the camera she see her husband
attack a girl. The police arrive and find Miranda
plus another girl in the house that is in bad shape.
Miranda believes she was possessed by Rachel. Rachel was also killed
by her husband and another man, Not Alone. The
same man that is raping Chloe at the hospital, a man with a tattoo of
a burning woman on his chest.
Spoiler:
The other man is Doug's best friend, Sheriff Ryan. At the jail,
Miranda learns this after talking to the Sheriff about the
facts. He tries to kill her but with a distraction from Rachel,
Miranda is able to kill him.
The movie ends with Miranda seeing a ghost of a missing boy, possible sequel?