MacGruber

Director: Jorma Taccone

Running Time: 99 minutes

Stars: Will Forte, Kristen Wiig and Val Kilmer

The Movie MacGruber is about an Ex-Special Operative named MacGruber. He is retired, but the military needs him to steal the X5, which is a nuclear war head that MacGruber’s arch enemy, Dieter Von Cunth, is planning to use on an American city. MacGruber decides to help so he tries to get his old team back. He does get most of them to agree to come along on his newly assigned mission.

After MacGruber manages to get a team together, he is talking to the officer who had convinced him to help, when his van, with his whole team in it blows up because it was packed full of c4. MacGruber felt pretty dumb. After the accident he begged to get to work on the case, because he wanted revenge on Cunth, who had killed MacGruber's wife. They do allow him to be a part of the mission to stop Cunth, and disable the X5. However, since he accidently killed his old team, a new team is created. This group includes a guy that MacGruber was very rude to throughout the movie, a girl that who MacGruber made do all the dangerous work, and of course MacGruber.

This movie was pretty good, it was Rated R for violence and Sexual content, and also vulgar language. If that sort of thing bothers you this may not be the right movie for you to watch. It is not very serious, it is a comedy and a lot of stupid unrealistic things happen.

Case 39

Directed By: Christian Alvart

Stars: Renee Zellweger, Ian McShane, and Jodelle Ferland

Approximate Running time: 109 minutes

Case 39 is about a social worker named Emily, Renee Zellweger, who gets involved with a child abuse case. A ten year old girl appears to be abused by her parents. Emily is able to rescue the girl from her parents who are attempting to bake her in the oven. The little girl’s parents get arrested and the girl begs Emily to take care of her, at least until a suitable foster home is found.

While the little girl is living with Emily, odd things happen and Emily starts to realize that the parents may not have been crazy after all. The little girl has a super natural way of playing with people’s mind and making them think that the thing they are scared of the most is attacking them. For example Emily has a friend who was talking to Lilith, the little girl. The man who was questioning her was asking about her fears and various questions that she had answered in a test, she was being difficult and she asked him questions, he told her he was terrified of hornets to help her realize its ok to be scared.

Later that night he thought hornets were crawling gout of his body all over the place and he broke his neck. The crime scene had no evidence of any bugs, so one can infer that he only imagined them because that little girl was playing with his mind.

This is a pretty good film; I found it to be easy to follow though it was pretty suspenseful. It is rated R so you may choose not to watch it because of violent deaths and some blood, though it is not a “slasher” film at all. But it is sort of creepy and I do recommend it.

The Devil's Rejects

Warning: this post will reveal the ending of the movie. Starring: William Forsythe, Danny Trejo, Lew Temple, Brian Posehn, and Daniel Roebuck. Directed by: Rob Zombie Produced by: Michael Paseornek, Peter Block, and Andy Gould Summary: This movie is about the firefly family, they are a family who likes to kill people; they do some disturbing things with them such as: cutting them apart and removing body parts, keeping the body parts in jars, and then sewing up the body. One morning they wake up to Sheriff Wydell’s attempt at capturing them, there is a huge gun fight, the only two members of the family that are able to escape this mess are Otis and his sister, Baby. Later on in the movie while Otis and his sister are hiding out at a cheap motel, their father Captain Spaulding meets them to hide out as well. They kill several people in their stay at this little hotel. One of their plans is an ambush, in which Baby convinced a middle aged man to take her to his room. The man agrees but is soon met by Otis who escorts him to the room at gun point. In the room they eventually hold several people hostage and they kill all of them. In the end of this movie Otis, Baby and Captain Spaulding all get killed. I liked this movie, but I don’t recommend it to people who don’t like seeing a lot of blood or violence. Remember, this movie is rated R for sadistic violence, strong sexual content, language, and drug use. So it is probably not a good movie for everyone. But I do recommend it.

The American

Directed by: Anton Corbijn

Starring: George Clooney, Paolo Bonacelli, and Violante Placido

Running time: 105 minutes

This movie is about an American assassin who hides out in Italy to finish one last assignment. George Clooney plays as the assassin in this movie, his character's name is Jack. While Jack is in Italy he is assigned to build a very accurate weapon for a Belgian assassin. After he constructs the weapon he meets the woman who is buying the gun that he built, she tests its accuracy by shooting the tops of reeds that are growing out of a pond. She then hands the gun to Jack, who built the weapon, and tells him to shoot the top of a cat tail that is growing next to her. She does this to see how well he trusts his weapon. After the test is passed she tells him what types of ammo she wants for it and she buys it. Later on in the movie the lady assassin who bought the gun that Jack built, was killed. George Clooney's character dies in the end also. He was shot, and just as he arrives at the meeting place him and his lover set up he dies in his car.

I really did not like this movie. I thought it was really confusing because it gives no background information to George Clooney’s character at all. I really don’t recommend this movie at all, it was explained in the end, but it was very confusing until it ended and it doesn't seem like anything is really happening, so it is a pretty dull movie until about the last 5-10 minutes of the film.

Introduction

I have recently been watching a lot of movies, so this blog will be a summary and opinion of various movies that I chose to watch.