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Brick Mansions “Totally Preposterous”
May 8th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Hotshots Movie Reviews
(“Totally Preposterous”)
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
BRICK MANSIONS is an action movie that might be of interest only to very huge fans of Paul Walker, the star of the FAST AND FURIOUS movies who was killed in 2013 in an auto accident.
The reason is that it is probably the last movie that Walker completed before he died.
The movie takes place in 2018 in Detroit, and it is a remake of the French film, DISTRICT B13, which was written and directed by Luc Besson.
The title refers to a precinct in Detroit that is walled off and become a lawless zone inhabited entirely by hoods and criminals, and Detroit itself is called the most dangerous city in America.
Walker plays Damien Collier, and undercover policeman in the narcotics division who says, “I handle what needs to be handled,” and at the beginning of the movie we see him break up the drug operation of a notorious drug manufacturer and distributor that involves a massive shoot-out and an incredible car chase with Damien performing some unbelievable stunts.
Speaking of stunts, the movie also stars David Belle as Lino, who invented a training technique known as parkour, which, according to the notes, “uses vaulting, flipping, swinging, rolling and above all bodily momentum as a means of overcoming physical obstacles.”
The main story is about how the mayor of Detroit wants to restore the city to its former glory, and that means cleaning up Brick Mansions and getting rid of its undesirables.
Well, unfortunately, the top Bad Guy in Brick Mansions, Tremaine Alexander, had hijacked a government truck with a neutron bomb in it, and he accidentally started a timing mechanism that will cause the bomb to explode in 10 hours.
So, Damien is charged with infiltrating the dangerous district, avoid being discovered and identified by the undesirables, find the bomb, and disarm it.
No problem, right?
As his partner, Damien teams up with Lino, who knows Brick Mansions like the back of his hand and who also has a personal interest in bringing down Tremaine, as does Damien.
Unfortunately, when they start out, Lino doesn’t know who or what Damien really is, which makes for some intense fighting between themselves.
And as if that isn’t enough, Tremaine has done something with the bomb that endangers all of Detroit.
BRICK MANSIONS is ridiculous and totally preposterous.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
“Non-Stop” The Name Says It All
Mar 5th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Hotshots Movie Reviews
“Name Says It All”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
NON-STOP stars Liam Neeson as Bill Marks, a U.S. Federal air marshal assigned to an overnight flight from New York to London.
I know what you’re thinking. What could possibly happen on an airline flight that could keep the audience’s attention for a whole movie, right?
Well, how about a threat that someone on the airplane is going to die every 20 minutes unless a ransom is paid, people do start dying, and then finally a bomb is discovered. Does that get your attention?
The movie begins with Marks waiting at the curb of JFK Airport before boarding his flight to have a cigarette, and a man approaches him to ask for a light.
Without being asked anything, the man says, “I’m headed to Amsterdam.”
Once he is on the airplane, Marks is constantly looking around, checking out all the passengers, and evaluating them for any possible trouble they might cause.
He comforts a little girl on the airplane who is flying by herself for the first time and is a little bit frightened. Then he calls someone on his cellphone and says that he can’t stay in London for three days and whoever he is talking to has to get him back to New York on the first plane available.
A woman named Jen, played by Julianne Moore, gets the man sitting next to Marks in the window seat to trade seats with her, and Jen and Marks start talking to one another.
Even though Marks flies all the time for his job, he hates flying and especially has trouble during takeoffs.
Then Marks gets a text message on his cellphone over the secure line on the airplane, and the message says that in exactly 20 minutes someone on the plane is going to die unless $150 million is transferred into a particular bank account, and if it isn’t confirmed, someone dies again in the next 20 minutes.
Sure enough, someone does die from unnatural circumstances, and now Marks has to find whoever is sending him the messages, prevent the next death, and use the help of only two people on the plane he can trust, Jen and a flight attendant he knows from previous flights, Nancy, played by Michelle Dockery, who plays Lady Mary in the “Downton Abbey” TV series.
NON-STOP lives up to its name.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Non-Stop – Movie Trailer
Mar 4th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Movie Trailers
Global action star Liam Neeson stars in NON-STOP, a suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the government to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every 20 minutes. NON-STOP, which reunites Neeson with UNKNOWN director Jaume Collet-Serra and producer Joel Silver, co-stars Golden Globe Award winner Julianne Moore and will be released by Universal Pictures on February 28, 2014. The StudioCanal production is also produced by Andrew Rona and Steve Richards.