In From Netflix: The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day

If you saw the first one then you know how much uber cool ass that movie kicked. Well guess what, the second one kicks more. This time around "The Saints" have been hiding out in Ireland for the past nine years, and after all this time someone wants to draw them out. A priest in their neighborhood was murdered in the same fashion they used to kill criminals. This pisses them off in a major way and brought them out of hiding, and back to Boston. One of the best lines in the film is "Whoever wanted to bring them out of hiding only had one small flaw in their plan, it worked." Boy did it ever because they hit Boston with the vengeance of God. This movie is not just as good as the first one, it's better. It uses the same formula that the first film had, which really works for the film because it switches things up on your expectations by doing the same thing in a different way. There's no doubt that this film will have the same cult classic status the first one did. Look if you saw the first one then I really don't have to convince you to see this, in fact you might have already seen it, but if you're not aware of these cult classics I strongly recommend putting them in your netlflix queue because they are totally awesome, adrenaline injected, testosterone filled movies.

5 out of 5

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In From Netflix: The Hurt Locker

A lot of people like The Hurt Locker, it was one of the most critically acclaimed films of last year, and probably will be nominated for an Oscar. I just can't seem to jump on that "great movie" bandwagon with this one, don't get me wrong, The Hurt Locker is a good movie, but not a great one. The setting is Iraq in 2005 and we follow a bomb squad who's mission is to find and disarm IED's in the field. That's pretty much it, there's isn't a real story to speak of except for maybe in the first scene the squad leader of the bomb squad gets killed in action and was replaced by a new squad leader who takes a cowboy approach to disarming bombs. He doesn't like using the bot and isn't afraid to get in there with the bombs and get hands on. These moments in the film are really intense and very well done, just great stuff because with every second until the bomb is disarmed you are on the edge thinking it will go off. The fact that director Kathryn Bigelow was able to do this over and over is amazing, and she came up with some pretty creative and unpredictable situations. My problem isn't with the bomb disarming scene's but with the scenes in between. There isn't any real character development, and it all just kinda felt like something to fill in time until we get to the next bomb. It's kind of a let down because I felt like if we got to know these characters better we would care more whether or not that bomb went off, instead we just got really cool action moments. So for me The Hurt Locker just felt like moments of intensity followed by moments of..meh. Overall though it's a pretty decent movie and I would recommend it, I just felt like there was something missing and it didn't turn out to be the great film that I was expecting. If it weren't for the great action scenes I don't think I would have liked this one, those scenes make the movie, so much so that I don't feel like I'm scoring the movie itself, but the action sequences. Oh well.

4 out of 5

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In From Netflix: Surrogates

There are only two reasons why I would fall asleep on a movie. One, I was really tired; Two, it was really boring. In this case Surrogates is the latter. Set in a futuristic world where humans no longer interact with each other, but through robot surrogates controlled by computers or their minds or something like that (think Avatar but the opposite of awesome) humans don't have to live with fear anymore. Surrogates give them the ability to live out their wildest dreams. The premise for this movie is pretty solid I must admit, I guess it tries to be a commentary on how we live behind our computers, and sure, it has some resonance, but the message doesn't really come across as intended. Back to the story, someone has found a way to kill humans using the surrogates through a device that fries the robots chips therefor frying the brain of the human using it. Since this has never happened before its kind of a big deal, and the person responsible has to be found. This is where Bruce Willis comes in, who tries his best to save this movie, but just cant. The thing about Surrogates is it starts out pretty interesting with some pretty cool ideas but after about maybe twenty minutes in I started to realize that this movie wasn't going anywhere and all the ideas of the film had been burned out. In a Sci-Fi film we constantly have to be introduced to something new to give us a sense of the world of the film. Sci-Fi movies that did that best in recent memory were Star Trek, Avatar, and District 9 there was always something to give us a sense of the world and ground the fantasy of the film in reality. In the case of Surrogates that's it, the surrogate robots are pretty much all we get and the novelty wears off pretty quickly. Another thing is about this movie is, in the end our character really had nothing to lose. If our hero gets to a point where he/she has nothing to fight for then everything the film has worked towards in creating suspense goes right out the window. It's a shame to see a movie with such potential be such a throw away film, but Surrogates just isn't worth the time. I'll give it some credit for it's potential, but if you missed out on this movie, it really wouldn't hurt.

2 out of 5

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