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This weekend there are five new films out for you to choose from: The past goes to pot in Pompeii, then there’s a Brit-flick heist in Plastic, action in Brick Mansions, comedy in Bad Neighbours, and one for the kids in Tarzan.
Pompeii
A slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.
Pompeii stars Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and at first I was really looking forward to this, as Paul WS Anderson really knows how to make an engaging 3D film, the last Resident Evil outing being particularly entertaining.
However, the distributors have seen fit to allow this film to be censored from a 15-cert to a 12. And that’s why I won’t be seeing this film, and why I’m having to give this film a miss.
It’s a great shame because it’s another example of a film which will be upgraded to a 15-cert for home viewing, yet the place to see Pompeii going to rack and ruin will, undoubtedly, be on the big screen!
EPIC FAIL!!
Hit or Miss? Verdict: Miss!
Plastic
Plastic is based on a true story where a gang of friends managed to infiltrate one of the biggest credit card companies in the World and pull off one of the biggest and most audacious Diamond Heists ever committed in British History. Plastic is Catch Me If You Can meets The Italian Job.
Starring Ed Speleers, Will Poulter, Alfie Allen, Sebastian De Souza, Thomas Kretschmann, Graham McTavish and the stunning Emma Rigby and looks like a great Brit flick, so this is a…
Hit or Miss? Verdict: Hit!
Brick Mansions is the first film to be released featuring Paul Walker since his tragic death in November last year and a second trailer has now been releaed.
In the criminal underworld of Detroit, the streets are overrun with violence and drugs and the hand of corruption reaches into the lives of everyone; well almost everyone. For Lino (David Belle) every day is a fight to live an honest life. But when a drug lord kidnaps his girlfriend, Lino is forced to team up with Damien Collier (Paul Walker), an undercover cop who’s been tracking this king pin’s involvement in something even more sinister — a plot to devastate the entire city. Together they uncover a trail of corruption that leads all the way to the top. Brick Mansions features thrilling parkour stunts paired with gripping intrigue in this explosive must-see action film.
As before, to my surprise, this film actually looks well worth a watch.
Directed by Camille Delamarre and written by Bibi Naceri and Luc Besson, who also produces, it stars Paul Walker, Robert Maillet, David Belle and RZA and is released in the UK on May 2nd.
Hit or Miss? Verdict: Hit!
Bad Neighbours is a new comedy starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as a couple with a newborn baby who face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house, which is led by Zac Efron.
The film also stars Dave Franco, Jake Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Lisa Kudrow, and looks a superb comedy so comes highly recommended from me, and below you’ve got two trailers for your delight and delictation, the first one being the International trailer, and the second one being a US trailer, since over there it’s called Neighbors. Obviously, they’ve avoided calling it that (even with a ‘u’) over here, so as not to make some people think it’s a feature-length spin-off of the Australian soap opera.
Tarzan
In a 3D motion-capture movie that sounds like something we didn’t need, Tarzan (Kellan Lutz) and Jane Porter (Spencer Locke) face a mercenary army dispatched by the evil CEO of Greystoke Energies, a man who took over the company from Tarzan’s parents, after they died in a plane crash.
Hit or Miss? Verdict: Miss!
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