Yes, I know, I’m kind of late with this the #11 installment of November’s Month of Movies, but I’ve got oodles of good excuses, lol. #11 is:

EAGLE EYE (2008)

Not really for those looking for heavy story, Eagle Eye is basically a big budget action thriller that delivers pretty much what it promises - explosions and car chases.

Eagle Eye follows adorable good-for-nothing ‘copy associate’ Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) is less than content with his life, though has no aspirations to better it. That life is derailed after the funeral of his twin brother Ethan (also LaBeouf) when Jerry tries to deposit a check into his formerly empty bank account and discovers an assumed error resulting in a balance of a small fortune which Jerry is only too happy to accept.

The money is the first oddity, the next is his return to an apartment full of guns, ammo and explosives which he barely has time to take in when he receives a phone call from a mysterious woman telling him to flee the premises. Of course Jerry’s not a shiny penny, and doesn’t take direction well which lands him in police custody under suspicion of domestic terrorism.

In the same town Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) has just seen her son off on the train and is taking some much needed down time in the form of a night out with her girlfriends. Her night out is cut short by a phone call from her son that turns out to be a call from the same woman who’d called Jerry earlier. The woman explains to both Jerry and Rachel that they have been ‘activated’, and that their lives and the life of Rachel’s son are on the line if they don’t do exactly as instructed.

Once again, not much in the way of deep plot and character thought, but the characters are well drawn and the action sequences are amazing if not a little far fetched. Go into this one expecting to be entertained, you’ll be disappointed if you’re looking for a very realistic use of technology. Well acted, well scripted, an easy 4 stars out of a possible 5!

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s film, which will be posted on Beautiful Sin!

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It’s time for the #9 film in November’s Month of Movies, which is:

THE WISDOM OF CROCODILES (1998)

Also billed as Immortality, The Wisdom of Crocodiles is maybe the best vampire film of all time, surpassing The Lost Boys, NonBio Bio and even Nosferatu. It’s about Steven Grlscz (Jude Law), a stunning and seductive man who just happens to be a vampire.

Grlscz’s story is different from other vampire stories in that while, like most vampires, he needs blood to survive, unlike most vampires he can’t just survive on any blood. Steven seduces and romances women in order to earn there love, and then he kills them for their blood - taking into himself their feelings for him. Which he’s content to do forever, until he meets a woman who stops him in his tracks.

Beautifully written, scary and romantic. Law’s preformance is stellar and very haunting. Don’t watch Twilight, kids, rent Crocodiles. A solid 5 out of 5 stars!

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s film, which will be posted on Shibuya 109!

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Why are my birthdays always boring, lonely and freezing? And why, today of all days, did my host go *explode* so that I had to re-install everything? I’m really not loving this layout - it’s very pretty, but I hate having layouts up that aren’t mine even if I couldn’t achieve this in my wildest dreams, lol. I’m just too sleepy and too busy to get my holiday layout up, but it is coming so just for now let’s pretend this isn’t bothering me, hmm?

I may head up to the gas station and get something spam-like to make gyoza with tonight. Birthday gyoza! With spam! Okay, maybe I’m the only one excited, lol.

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