Rules of Engagement


Sunday, May 11, 2008 | Labels: , , , |

Synopsis:
Colonel Terry Childers is a 30 year career Marine. When he is ordered to go the American Embassy in Yemen, when it's learned that things there are starting to unravel. After evacuating the Ambassador and his family, Childers orders his men to fire at the crowd cause he believes that they are armed. Back in the U.S., certain officials fear that there'll be a backlash against other embassies and Americans, if Childers claim is proven to be true. So they have decided to make Childers a scapegoat. Childers asks Colonel Hayes Hodges, a man whom he knew and saved in Vietnam to defend him. And while there is no evidence or witness that can back Childers' claim, Hodges feels that he owes it to Childers to do what he can.



My Review:
A heart touch movies which able to raise the nationalism. This is what a true friend for; helping each others when someone need it, no matter what and when. With combat zone backgrounds, Rules of Engagement strength it’s position as a drama action typically. Meanwhile, the Yemen natives which appeared on it feels too stiff and not as real as shown on Black Hack Down. Anyway, without the existing of Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson as the main actors, this movie feels dull. Thus, the ending of the story looks to be completed and satisfied everyone. Well, I give it 4 of 5.

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Director: William Friedkin

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Armageddon


Saturday, May 10, 2008 | Labels: , , , , , , , , , |

Synopsis:
It is just another day at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a few astronauts were repairing a satellite until, out of nowhere, a series of asteroids came crashing into the shuttle, destroying it. These asteroids also decimated New York soon thereafter. Then, NASA discovered that there is an asteroid roughly the size of Texas heading towards the Earth, and when it does hit the Earth, the planet itself and all of its inhabitants will be obliterated, worse, the asteroid will hit the Earth in 18 days. Unfortunately, NASA's plans to destroy the asteroid are irrelevant. That is when the U.S. military decides to use a nuclear warhead to blow the asteroid to pieces. Then, scientists decide to blow the asteroid with the warhead inside the asteroid itself. The only man to do it, is an oil driller named Harry Stamper and his group of misfit drillers and geologists. As he and his drill team prepare for space excavation, the asteroid is still heading towards the Earth. When the crew are launched into outer space, they are determined to destroy this asteroid.



My Review:
Armageddon means end of world, the time which scared everybody in earth. The judgment day in Armageddon comes with story of a huge comet impacts the world. It is a make sense thinking since there are possibility of space things drop in it but no one know when it be happened in a real world. Anyway, this is a great movie with fine animation simulating about it. It’s a similar kind by Double Impact but with an existing of various famous actors as heroes. Overall, I give it a perfect score!

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Director: Michael Bay

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