The Expendables (2010)

I had to go see this movie which might have single handily resurrected the career of Sylvester Stallone, which he has been trying to do with Rocky Balboa and Rambo. This might have been the trick but there is an indefinite reason for that and it's because of the fact that the movie stars Jason Statham (The Transporter Series), Dolph Lundgen (Rocky IV, Showdown In Little Tokyo), Jet Li (Kiss Of The Dragon, Cradle 2 The Grave), Randy Couture (UFC Legend), Terry Crews (The Longest Yard), Steve Austin (The Longest Yard, The Condemned), Mickey Rourke (Iron Man 2, The Wrestler), and Eric Roberts (The Best Of The Best). The movie also features cameos from the governator himself Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator Series) and Bruce Wllis (Die Hard Franchise). As you can see this movie is jammed packed with almost every action star of the last twenty to thirty years and the movie is well done. I really enjoyed watching this film for the little comedy bits it mixes with high octane action. How much more do you really need out of an action film. Not much! I give this movie an A because I'm hoping that Steven Segal, Jean Claude Van Damme, or Chuck Norris will be involved in the second film.

Legion (2010)

So lets imagine this for a second, God is fed up with humanity, he sends his lead angel Michael (played by Paul Bettany) to kill a girl whose baby is the savior of mankind, and they live in the middle of nowhere. Another problem for god is that Michael doesn't want to do the job and in fact, he wants to save the child. The mother, Charlie (played by Adrianne Palicki) isn't sure about her situation being pregnant and isn't appreciative of Jeep (Played by Lucas Black) and everything he does for her. But that is the least of their problems when they figure out something is seriously wrong when the scene I was waiting for happens. Jeanette Miller plays the old woman that comes into the diner and crawls up the ceiling, you remember that one from the trailers, well they deal with it and Michael arrives to try and save the day from Gabriel (Kevin Durand), apparently, he's the next angel in line to do the job. Can Michael help these hicks and stranded strangers in a diner or will Gabriel succeed? The movie also stars Charles S. Hutton (Rudy), Dennis Quaid (Great Balls Of Fire), Jon Tenney (The Stepfather), and Tyrese Gibson (Transformers). I give the movie a B+ because it's somewhat entirely original, not really believe able that a trailer trash girl would have the baby who will save the world, and at least it's not a remake.

Daybreakers (2009)

Now, I thought this was way better than Survival Of The Dead and didn't see what people were talking about it not being good. Imagine a world where humans are farmed for their blood and are going extinct. The Vampires are running the world and there trying to find a blood substitute so that when the human supply does run out, they won't be starving and turning into weird creatures. So, Ethan Hawke (Brooklyn's Finest) is a hematologist looking to discover a cure because he's unhappy about being a Vampire. Until one day he runs into some humans on the run and they change his life forever. The only consequence is that Ethan is also on the run from his boss (Played By Sam Neill) and his brother (Michael Dorman) whose a human hunter. Can Ethan find a cure or will the world become hell? The movie also stars Willem Dafoe (Boondock Saints), Isabel Lucas (Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen), and Claudia Karvan (Star Wars: Episode III) in this interesting new take in the Vampire genre. I give the movie a B+

Survival Of The Dead (2010)

Out of all the George Romero zombie flicks this has to be by far the worst of them all. I mean the acting was bad and I think the overall story just sucked. The kills are pretty good but you can tell the cg and it seems that this might have been low budget. That's the feel you get from the movie anyways. Apparently, there are four soldiers that are on the run from zombies and there looking for that safe from zombies place. Then there's the battle on this island named Plum Island, which apparently is off the coast of Delaware but they all have Irish accents and two families rule this island (The O'Flynns and Muldoons). The O'Flynn patriarch gets kicked off the island and runs into this soldiers, who in turn help him get back for revenge. Whatever, the movie does have a sort of message it's trying to give but unfortunately i have to give this movie D+ because Romero should have known better.

Death At A Funeral (2010)

This is a comedic gem starring some of the funniest men in Hollywood. The movie stars Chris Rock as Aaron, a aspiring writer whose holding his father's funeral at his house and has to deal with a lot of fiasco's. He deals with the fact that everybody lives his author brother Ryan (Played By Martin Lawrence), he's 37 with no kids yet, and his father turned out to be secretly Gay when his gay midget lover shows up. He's no the only one with problems though as we see Tracy Morgan is obsessed with finding out what the rash on his hand is, Zoe Saldana has to figure out a way for her father to like her boyfriend (James Mardsen) whose been accidentally given acid, and Luke Wilson is obsessed with her. The movie has a lot of great moments in it and the fact that the movie also stars Danny Glover as a miserable old man in a wheelchair is classic. So I give this movie an A-