MOVIE: The Protector

For those who don't know Tony Jaa, he stared in the action packed Ong-Bak The Thai Warrior, which in my mind is a very a underrated film in 2003. To show no surprirse The Protector (Tom yum goong) is a story about a man who goes to Australia looking to find his elephant which was stolen, on the way he finds out the one who took his elephant is a mob, So he fights his way to get him back.

To many people if you told them about this story line they would just laugh and most likely not go and see it. There's much more that meets the eye. The film is about the passion a man can have for something and tries to honor that by doing the right thin, and in this case to get his elephant back.

The acting, is one thing that I must say brings down the film. Tony Jaa does an ok job. Though most of the supporting actors and actress, I really don't know it could have been my theater I was at, the sound and voice acting was not matching the mouths movement. I would say oh that is just dubbing, but then The Father of Tony Jaa character and Tony Jaa was talking in Thai so that's what I really disliked. Another thing that could have been my theater too was The presentation was not good at all the picture was at time not that clear which makes the experience not all that good.

Action is an amazing thing that this movie brings. Tony Jaa can kick some serious a** . The action at mind was very entertaining, I as many of the others in the theater laugh, cheered, ohh and awed and everything that was happening second by second. This is truly what makes is film good. This is showing Tony Jaa at his best.

If there is one Action film you intend to see this year this is the one to go and see. Its a great bone crushing action packed film that gives even a casual movie goer a great time at the movies.

DVD: United 93

As almost five years since the horrific day of September 11, 2001. I can go on and on about all the information, recordings, what or what not the government had known pre-9/11. But this film is not about that the film is about the brave men and woman who were on the United Airlines fight number 93. Many other might not now when the right time to even talk about that day. The one thin I admire is that everyone who was thinking about doing this film, talk with all the family member and made sure that they felt that it was ok for this story to be told.

The story of this film starts off from the early morning of September 11 up till plane United 93 Crash in Pennsylvania later that same day. As a person just watching a film I was very enticed scene to scene. I like the scenes of when in the control room trying to find out what is happening, and the military trying to stop who was attacking America. The scenes in the plane where the Courageous people on the plane and you feel what it was like for most of the people on the plane. That to me was very emotion. At times I wanted to cheer for the brave passengers who fought back, it really shows who our idol's should be and I really look up to them for that. I hope for those who watch this great film I hope you do also.

Many will say why would some one made a film that shows one of the worst days of American history, this film doesn't show that it shows a group of people be come United. If you ever get a film (DVD) this is the one to own I am very much proud to have this in my collection. So I'll never forget the brave passengers.

DVD

For this one I really just have to say that I'm not going to rate the DVD portion of this film. I will say I loved the family's and the Film Documentary about he real ones on the plan That I think everyone should watch.

DVD: Silent Hill

Based on the popular Playstation Video game, in the thriller/horror gaming genre. I played the Silent hill video game long ago and forgot all about it. The one thing I remember about it was a flash light, used to search around the environment. This film has that included. As I looked over the list of the cast I was very happy to see some great names, for one. Radha Mitchell I loved her acting in Man on Fire, directed by Tony Scott, and she brought that acting to Silent Hill. She really brought great emotion into the film. Another known actor, Sean Bean who is known for his role Boromir in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and many more.

The visual style of the film is outstanding, with the ash rain, to the sets the mark of detail was so great that The building, exterior and interior are both decaying, rotting, and just breaking apart. Another part that really was a great part in the film was the lighting. Lighting is a big part in both horror and thriller genres and the parts where the main character Rose was indoors and the only lighting you can see is the flash-light, which makes the scenes more intense.

The creature's in Silent Hill are some of the best I've seen in a horror, I liked how they pick to make the creatures more contorted rather that gory. Another thing I remembered from the Game was the Red Pyramid, who was one of my favorites. I liked the way the made him, from the costumes up to the way he walks which gave a sort of creepy vibe to the character.

Story wise, the writer and director decided to change the main character from a male to a female. I thought it was a good idea especially when I saw who was playing her and I knew she was going to do great. Overall the story was excellent in both to a fan of the Video game would understand what is going on and also to someone who might be seeing this but never played the game would be able to follow the story and know what's going on.

I give this film two thumbs way up. It as to be one of the greatest Video game to film adaptation I've ever seen. I recommend that you should see this film.

DVD

The Silent Hill Dvd is presented in English 5.1 (Dolby Digital) Sound, English Subtitles, Mastered in High Definition, Comes both in Fullscreen and Widescreen (2.35:1) Anamorphic and is Approx. 125 minutes. The Special Features include a set of Previews, and a 6-part Behind the Scenes Featurette: Path of Darkness: "Making of Silent Hill"

• Origins
• Casting
• Set design
• Stars and Stunts
• Creatures Unleashed
• Creature choreography

When I finished watching the Dvd, I went to the Special Features section of the disc and just by looking at what was there it didn't look like a whole lot of Features, only two features where on the disc. I was like What? But as I clicked to see the first one it expanded in to an all most hour long feature from start to finish of the making of the film. After all of that I liked the special features of this one, but I was sad not to see and deleted scenes if there where some, Maybe in a Special collector version? Overall I was satisfied by the Dvd material. I've give this DVD two thumbs up also, and its definitely a buy.