Rogers' Thoughts: ACTION FILMS

Tron Legacy

Summary: Tron Legacy was the squeal to the original TRON movie made in 1982 and directed by Steven Lisberger. Jeff Bridges was the star in this one as well as Tron Legacy. Tron Legacy started off with Kevin Flynn "Flynn" telling his son Sam Flynn that he was going to change the world forever and that he had created the perfect system. 20 years later Flynn had not been seen. He was assumed to be dead and Sam grew up without a father. Alan Bradley was Flynn's work partner and he  had received a page from Flynn's old office. Alan told Sam that he wanted Sam to go see who paged him before he did. Sam did as told and he found his dads secret hide out where he had created the perfect system...The Grid. Sam turned on his dads old computer, cracked the passwords and codes when all of the sudden...WOOSH! He was transported onto the grid. He immediately gets captured by programs controlled by Clu. Clu is Flynn but a program that Flynn himself had created so that when Flynn is not on the grid Clu will create the perfect system for him. Sam was put into the Games which is where you fight to the death either with your "disk" which holds all memory you had received on the grid. Or with Speed bikes that release a colorful wall that if you run into it you explode and die. He survived because Tron figured out he was a user and he was pulled from the games before he was killed. Quarra took him and helped him escape Clu and his programs. Quarra is Flynn's Iso that he protects from death, she is the last Iso alive because Clu killed them all. She takes Sam to his fathers hide out way far outside of the grid boundaries. They meet again for the first time in 20 years and everything is good. His father then tells Sam he has been stuck on the grid for 20 years because the portal to go home shut. Sam, Flynn and Quarra rush to go to the portal and they get into battle along the way. On their journy to the portal they had to try their hardest to avoid any conflict. ***SPOILER ALERT*** Sam and Quarra made it to the portal and Flynn and Clu are fighting so that Sam and Quarra can go through the portal without Clu stopping them. Clu ran after them to go through to portal and mess up the real world. Flynn opened his arms really wide and all of the sudden Clu was getting pulled back towards him. It was almost like the force from Starwars (but not). Sam did not want to leave without his dad; unfortunately, he was forced to by his dad because he had to destroy Clu which ultimately will kill him as well. Sam then puts his disk toward the sky so that the portal will take him and Quarra to the real world. As they got sent back Flynn grabbed Clu and squezzed which then blew up the entire creation on the grid. All that was left a blue computer grid. Sam and Quarra were in the real world and it ended by Sam saying "Here, i wanna show you something." They got on his motorcycle and drove away.

Personal Opinion: Tron Legacy was an action packed movie with amazing visual effects. I was highly impressed with how they portrayed "the grid." It was mind blowing to watch them go into another world that Flynn had created. It was awesome thinking of Tron and if it were real today. With improvements in technology, we could be headed for something this amazing. I was slightly disappointed with some of the acting. Garrett Hedlund (Sam Flynn) fit the role; although, his acting on some parts (not much) was very noticeable that it was script read. This means-not into character, he was just saying his script lines out of character. Other than his acting I was pretty happy with his role in the film. I was very content with Jeff Bridges (Kevin Flynn) acting. For the most part he was in character and it made me want to keep watching. Olivia Wilde (Quarra) was fantastic in this movie (as usual) and she fit the part perfectly, and looked good.
          To me a movie keeps an audience more interested if the acting is more realistic. When acting is bad you begin to lose focus. The more realistic the acting is, the better the movie.
          Overall, I highly recommend this movie if you are interested in action films, or Tron itself. It was a very cool/good and exciting. Even though i did not like the ending, you may enjoy it.

Rating: 1 2 3 4 5 - I give this movie a 4 out of 5 Rating

For more information on Tron Legacy please click this link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/

Main Cast:

Jeff Bridges (Kevin Flynn) (Clu) ------------------------------------------------>

Garrett Hedlund (Sam Flynn) -------------------------------------------------->

Olivia Wilde (Quarra) ----------------------------------------------------->

Bruce Boxleitner (Alan Bradley/Tron) ------------------------------------------->

I highly recommend this film.

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Contraband

Summary: Contraband was an incredible movie to watch. This movie was about a group of people smuggling certain things into the states undetected. When Andy (Caleb Jones) and his friend has to drop a package that he is smuggling for Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi) he gets angry because he did not do his job as told. Tim and his gang ram Andy's car and rip them out and pulverized them almost to death. Andy owed Tim a lot of money for messing up his smuggle job and not getting him his money and drugs before. If Andy did not get what he wanted he would kill him. Chris (Mark Wahlberg) used to be a top class smuggler. He quit because he got married to Kate (Kate Beckinsale) and didn't want to risk what they had. Andy is Kate's brother so when andy is told he will be killed, Chris goes to talk to Tim Briggs about what he can do to get his money and to not hurt Andy. Chris then plans to smuggle $15 Million dollars in which he will keep a lot of money and give some to Tim to pay off what Andy owed. During the job Andy left to go get drugs for Sebastian (Ben Foster) because Sebastian is friends with Chris and Tim. Chris does not want to smuggle drugs because it is detectable by drug dogs. So if they were to be searched they would not be able to find anything wrong. So when he finds out he is furious. Chris and his crew collect the money needed. He hides it in the boat behind a huge wall. Sebastian was angry because he wanted cocaine to be smuggled but Chris did not want to smuggle drugs. Sebastian is angry with Chris so calls Andy and convinces him to get the cocaine for him and Tim. Meanwhile Sebastian is watching over Kate while Chris and Andy are gone because Tim is trying to kill them. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We find out that Sebastian is telling Tim to go hurt or scare Kate so that Chris will bring the drugs like he wants eventhough Sebastian is pretending that he does not like Tim and is protecting Kate. Sebastian has a lust for Kate so when she trys to get her things from his house he traps her in. She hides in the bathroom and Sebastian busts open the door and this forces Kate to hit her neck on the side of the counter initially "Killing" her. Chris arrives home safely and gives the drugs and money to Tim as told. When he tries to go find Kate he goes to see Sebastian at his work. Sebastian had wrapped her body in plastic and put her in a hole that was going to be filled with cement. Chris goes and beats Sebastians ass because he couldn't find Kate and for setting him and his family up. He tries calling her and hears her phone ring in the hole. He jumps in and sees her lifeless body wrapped up with cement drying over her. He took her out and called the ambulance. It then showed a close up of her fingers and they twitched. She did NOT die! Sebastian and Tim go to jail and Kate, Chis and Andy survived and were very happy.

Personal Opinion: I felt myself at the edge of my seat throughout the whole movie. It was action packed and it kept me highly interested. I am a huge Mark Whalberg and Kate Beckinsale fan, so to see both of them in the same film I was super excited to watch it. It had a very serious plot that hooked you into the story really fast. It starts off with a death that makes you interested right off the bat. Also the acting in this movie was 100% realistic. I love when movies have great acting. I cannot stand it when a movie has bad acting. You felt so close and so into the movie the entire time. There was not one single moment when i felt bored or distracted. I could watch it three times and still love it. The ending was a shock to me because the audience thought she died but really she was just knocked out. I think they could have ended it a little bit differently but it wasn't too bad. I thought it would have made the viewers leave the theatre thinking "Holy Crap" Kate actually died. Im excited for the DVD version with hopefully a good alternate ending.
Overall this was a fantastic movie that should be watched by action lovers everywhere. I 100% recommend this movie for anybody who likes action and suspensful movies.

Rating: 1 2 3 4 5 - I give this movie a 4 out of 5 Rating.

For more information on the movie Contraband please click this link- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1524137/

Main Cast:

Mark Wahlberg (Chris Farraday) ---------------------------->

Kate Beckinsale (Kate Farraday) ------------------------>

Ben Foster (Sebastian Abney) ----------------------------------->

Giovanni Ribisi (Tim Briggs)- ------------------------------>

Caleb Jones (Andy) ------------------------------>

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The Avengers

Summary: Joss Whedon's "The Avengers" is about world super heros. The Avengers are a team of super heros that are from the Marvel collection comic books. They have made movies based on all of the Marvel super heros within the last four years. Those movies were the introduction to each hero. In this film All of the super heros were teamed up together to stop the world from getting destroyed. The Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow and Hawkeye were the heros that were gathered together to stop the world from being overcme by aliens controlled by Loki (Thors Evil Brother). He open the portal from the universe to the earth. Millions of aliens came down from the portal and started destorying the whole city (New York). At first the team of heros have tensions with eachother. Most likely becasue they have different powers and thing all think they are better than one another. They fight a lot but nobody ever gets really hurt. They settle differences for the fate of the world. They all work together to destroy Loki and his army of evil aliens. The Hulk smashed everything and Thor shoots lighting at everything. They work really well together. Nothing can defeat them when they are a team. Loki sends these huge alien ships through the portal which destroy every building in its path. The Hulk smashes it and it gets destoryed with one "HULK SMASH!" After hours of fighting the team is worn out and Loki is becoming more and more powerful by sending in more enemies thorugh the portal. The team realizes that they need to close the portal in order to stop Loki's control of the world. The governmet was so desprate to destroy Loki that they send a nuclear missile to New York to kill everybody there. The team realized that they dont need to destroy the city to stop the attack. By then it was to late and the missile was 5 minutes away from the city. **SPOILER ALERT** Iron Man decides that he is right for the job to try and steer the missile into the portal. This would explode every alien ship in space and potentially stop the attack. They know how to close the portal but they need to closeit right as the nuke blows up in the portal. When Iron Man goes through the portal with the missile Black Widow destoryes the beam to the portal. The nuke explodes and destorys everything. Iron Man was floating downward back to earth slowly but the portal was closing fast. He passed out. The potal closed and Iron man slipped thorugh and fell towards the earth. Loki is defeated and everyone is happy.

Personal Opinion: I absolutely loved this movie. It had action throughout the whole thing. I watched all of the superhero movies before this came out so i knew that it was going to be interesting and action packed. I had no problems with this movie. I was fully focused on the movie the entire time. It followed the comic books failry close which is hard to do in a movie. They had all the huge actors in this film which made it a lot more fun to watch. Great actors together equals the best movie ever made involving super heros. I saw this movie twice becasue I couldnt get enough of it. The only problem i have with most action movies involving super heros is how badly the city gets destoryed. It gets completely flattened by explosions and stuff but everyone is perfectly ok. I know its just a movie and all but I cant help it when a building gets demolished and then noone is hurt and nobody seems to care or anything. Then in the next movie it is ok again. Thats just my opinion. Also if i was a citezen and this was happeneing i wouldnt be watching it on tv in New York. id be getting the hell out of there. But its a movie and it was extremely well written and directed.
In the end it was one of the best action films i have ever seen. The ending was fantastic and im pretty sure they set it up for a second movie. I cant wait for that.

Rating: 1 2 3 4 5 i rate this movie on the action film scale a FIVE of FIVE!

For more information on this movie please click this link --> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/

Main Cast:

Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man) ------------------------------->

Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America) -------------------->

Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/ The Hulk) ----------------------------->

Chris Hemsworth (Thor) ------------------------------------------------>

Scarlett Johansson (Blakc Widow) ------------------------------------>

Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) --------------------------------------------->

Tom Hiddleston (Loki) ------------------------------------------------->

Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Furry) -------------------------------------->

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Face Off:

Summary: Face off was directed by John Woo. This was about Sean Archer a government agent who for six years has been trying to apprehend terrorist, Caster Troy, who tried to kill him but ended up killing Archer's son instead. When Archer corners Troy, Troy tells Archer that he has planted a bomb that will go off, unless he lets him go but Archer thinks that Troy is bluffing so a fight erupts that leaves Troy comatose. But later when they go through some of his brother, Pollux's things, they discover that Troy was telling the truth. All that they need now is to find out where it is and the only person who knows is Pollux. And the only person that he will talk to about it, is his brother, Caster but unfortunately he is a vegetable. A government official then suggests to Archer that he assume Caster's identity and ask Pollux about the bomb. So she brings him to a doctor who has perfected a method wherein the face of one individual is removed from him and placed on another. Archer agrees. The operation is a success so Archer as Troy goes to the prison where Pollux is being held and successfully gets him to tell him where the bomb is. Meanwhile, Troy who was believed to be comatose awakens and forces the doctor who operated on Archer to place Archer's face on him. After the doctor plants Archers face onto Troys face Troy then kills the doctor. Who is the only doctor who knows how to do this tyoe if sugery. He then goes to the prison as Archer and taunts Archer (Troy) by telling him that he has destroyed all documentation of the operation and eliminated everyone who knew about it. He then takes his brother out and leaves Archer in prison. But Archer somehow manages to escape and is now trying to find someone who will believe and help him, while Troy is plotting something. Archer get out of the prison and lives at Caster Troys house where there are drugs, girls and parties going on. Meanwhile the entire police force things the Archer is reall Troy because the only officers that knew about the Face-off operation were killed by Troy himself. In the end **SPOILER ALERT** after many gun fights and bullet wounds later. Archer tells his wife (in troys body) that it is really him. She believes him and helps him get rid of troy. During a fight between Caster and Archer, Archer grabs a Harpoon gun trying to kill Troy. (Cater and Tory are the same people BTW) and BOOM! Archer shot Troy in the stomach with a harpoon gun. Troy slowly died as Archer felt a thousand pounds lift off of his shoulders because he had been trying to kill him for over ten years for killing his son. They find a bunch of speicial surgons to operste on his face to get him back to normal. At trhe very end of the movie It shows Archer walking as a shadow outside of the window and his wife smiling looking at the frint door waiting to see him again. He opens the door with a smile. He exlpains what happend and he then told his wife that they were going to start taking care of another kid. It was Caster Troys kid that Archer found out was Troys when they switched faces. They are okay with that plan and they live happliy ever after and free from Caster Troys plans to destroy the world.

Personal Opinion: To be honest i loved Face Off. At first i wasn't too excited to watch this film because I absolutley HATE Nicholas Cage with a passion. He is an awful actor and doesn't deserve to have any parts in movies.. Moving on...He was actually pretty good in this movie considering how terrible he is. John Trivolta is good in every movie he plays in. He is an all around great actor. He actually made me think that he was someone else through the entire film. Caster Troy was a sick man and when he was in Archers body John T. really turned from an innocent, loving man into a horny evil mass muderer. It was a movie that everybody needs to see because it is sort of a classic John Trivolta Film. It was an origional idea and the director made it seem legit in so many ways. Switching faces is still sort of impossible today to do so perfectly but this movie made it seem like it was possible. This movie showed love, action, drama, mystery and comedy. It fits into every category of films. I couldn't keep my eyes off when i started to watch this movie.
I reccomend this movie to everyone no matter what age. It is a classic movie and it is necessary for everybody to watch at some point in their lives.

Rating: 1 2 3 4 5 I rate this movie a 4 out of five on the scale

For more information on Face Off please click the following link --> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/