Nothing too special about this movie... just some Vin Diesel eye candy. Diesel plays Sean, a cop who busts a big drug lord down in Mexico. Then his wife is murdered, and he makes it his personal mission to bring down whomever is responsible. Sean and his wife lived in a house on the beach. I couldn't help but wonder... [A Man Apart continued]
Giovanni Ribisi is a college aged kid who's running an illegal gambling business. He's making pretty good money, but his dad sure is mad at him. His dad's a judge and looks just like Arvin Sloane from "Alias." Trying to be respectable and please his dad, he gets a job at a stock brokerage firm or whatever it's called. He's... [Boiler Room continued]
Matty (Barry Pepper) is the son of a mobster. He wants to be a sports agent, but no one will hire him because of his father. He decides it's time to really get into his father's organization. His first assignment is to make sure a bag of money gets from Washington to New York and into his father's hands. He... [Knockaround Guys continued]
I liked it. It wasn't extremely suspenseful, and I didn't like how it was almost arbitrary how some of the people would get attacked and some wouldn't. I guess I couldn't figure out how the monster aliens instincts or minds or whatever worked. Like why they started attacking each other at one point. But I thought the planet was really... [Pitch Black continued]
I'd heard this sequel to Pitch Black wasn't very good except for the special effects. I liked it, though. There were only two parts that irritated me: when Riddick (Vin Diesel) was fighting off an army of Necromongers by simply putting his arms out as they approached and clothes-lining them. when the characters were able to survive on the surface... [The Chronicles of Riddick continued]
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