Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)

The flick has great action scenes
but that’s just about it. In this 2003 action film, starring Jet Li and rapper
DMX, an intelligence officer must join forces with a thief so they can retrieve
some diamonds all while saving the thief’s daughter and saving the world from a
lunatic who plans to sell the diamonds that have the power to be used as
weapons.

Cradle 2 the Grave offers a
few good jokes, great action scenes and a few other things that can remind you
of the classic exploitation features from the 1960s and 1970s. But the rest of
the movie is just plain ol’ bad. The acting in the picture is awful, the plot
is even worse, the music is terrible, the dialogue is even more terrible than
the plot and don’t even let me get started on the cinematography. Everything in
the flick is just poor the only good things are, like I said, the few jokes,
the action scenes and the few scenes that pay somewhat tribute to the
exploitation genre.

Rating:
1.5 stars out of 5.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

Okay so I hadn’t seen this movie
because it didn’t grab my attention, but now that I have seen it I must say it
was good but not perfect. In this 2005 adaptation of C.S. Lewis popular children’s
novel we get the story of Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy for siblings who have
found a passage to the magical world of Narnia a land which is inhabited by all
sorts of fantastical creatures including talking animals, dwarves, mermaids and
even Santa Claus himself. But the thing is that Narnia is currently being ruled
by the evil White Witch, so now the four children must now fulfill a prophecy
which will get the magical land out of its current state and back to its normal
happy filled way.

I must say this film is very, very
imaginative with all its characters. I never would have imagined creating such
magical place for a feature. Okay, so this flick as far as stories go is very
good, its character are very detailed and simple all at the same time leaving
everybody to enjoy the picture in a better much easier way. Now, although the
story is simple and whatnot it can get a bit boring which is I think the thing
that kind of slows it up. The things that really make this film are its
wardrobe, visuals, setting and its vast roster of very imaginative characters,
not to mention that it is very colorful for this type of movie. Overall the
movie is good but I can’t say that it is perfect because it had me yawning for
quite a while.

Rating:
4 stars out of 5.