Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Jackson films, Crank lead Gaisano releases
SAMUEL L. Jackson film festival.
Two films of the Hollywood 's highest grossing actor get its Gaisano Mall cinema debut today. The first is the much-talked action/horror/thriller Snakes on the Planes and the other is the crime/mystery/thriller Freedomland.
But the bald-headed Jackson will surely get a stiff competition from other shiny head action star, Jason Statham, whose Crank will also open Wednesday.
Lost City, Andy Garcia directorial debut in which he also stars, is the fourth film up for the viewers' tickets.
Extended are You Are The One and Monster House.
Snake On The Plane
The enjoyable US number one movie is sadistic, ruthless and graphic. And Samuel L. Jackson holds everything together with a performance that effectively parodies himself in one of his many badass roles.
As world-weary FBI agent Nelville Flynn, he has been entrusted to escort Sean Jones (Nathan Phillips) from Honolulu to Los Angeles where he is the key witness in the murder trial of mobster Eddie Kim (Byron Lawson).
Kim's crime boss doesn't want him to get there, and so arranges for a crate of poisonous snakes to be released in mid-flight.
The flight has plenty of colorful characters, all ripe for the tribulations ahead. These begin when 500 snakes escape from the cargo hold, but not before they are sprayed with a pheromone that turns the normally docile reptiles into ferocious killers.
Freedomland
A carjacking, missing children and a race riot made up this provocative and interesting psycho-forensic drama.
A distressed woman, Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) arrives severely injured in the hospital, telling the police that she got carjacked, and the delinquents have kidnapped her four-year-old son.
Lorenzo (Samuel L. Jackson), a black police detective, hears Brenda's story and take the case, during a night when is taking place a silent protest of mothers, whom have suffered in the past the disappearance of their children.
The police are blaming a black man of the kidnapping, which causes a big-mass protest of the black community. The task is though for Lorenzo, who must deal with the case and with the pressure of the protest.
But something is missed in the story told by Brenda and after having received the help of the group of mothers in the search, it seems that Brenda is ready to confess a disturbing truth.
Crank
Arnold, Sly, and Bruce are too old. Tom and Brad are not the guys for this kind of movie. So why not British actor Jason Statham as Hollywood 's next action hero?
We know the star of The Transporter and its sequel can fight impressively, and drive and charm his way through action-packed drama.
Stathan is an L.A. hitman named Chev Chelios who wakes up and discovers he's been poisoned. The catch is if he can keep his adrenaline levels high he can slow the poison long enough to track down his killers. Now he must exact his revenge on the people who injected him and saves his girlfriend before he takes his last breath.
There are car chases, fight scenes and gunplay, more than enough to deliver a non-stop action.
Lost City
Andy Garcia stars and makes his directorial debut in a passionate and historical tribute to his native Cuba. Havana in 1958 is a place of pleasure for many, but others are not happy under the rule of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
As the revolutionary forces of Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara prepare to move on the city, Fico Fellove (Garcia), owner of the city's classiest music nightclub, El Tropico, struggles to hold together his family and the love of a woman (Ines Sastre), not knowing that his club will become more than just a stage for popular entertainment.
Observing all is The Writer (Bill Murray) an ex-patriot American who sees Fico being drawn into events as the revolution changes everything. Though Fico watches a culture vanish and a people transformed, it is his love of Cuban music that keeps his memories alive.
The high profile cast includes Dustin Hoffman, Benjamin Bratt, and Bill Murray.
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